As word spread further and further, the news that Yan Xiao had been admitted early to Jida University also came to light.
Those who had been speculating about where he would go lost interest in gossiping.
Even some prestigious universities
gave up their plans to woo Yan Xiao.
After all, a top scorer who was already enrolled was like a dream girl who was already married.
There was no point in pining after him.
When people followed the score sheet down the rankings, they discovered something else that was rather interesting.
The top three were associated with two schools.
And the honors were evenly split.
The first- and second-place students came from Jida Affiliated High School.
The third-place student came from Railway No. 2 Middle School.
This left quite a few people stunned.
When they dug into just who this "Guan Zhiyuan" was,
they were astonished to discover
that he was a prodigy who had spent two years and eight months straight at the bottom of the rankings.
Going from the bottom of the district to first in the district in two or three months was nothing short of legendary.
Reporters flocked to him.
Guan Zhiyuan immediately became the focus of public attention.
As interview videos and articles were published one after another, people gained a new understanding of Yan Xiao, Ji City's top scorer.
He was someone who had mastered learning itself.
Leaving everything else aside,
when it came to studying alone,
he could be considered a genius who came along only once in several thousand years.
The reporters planned to interview Yan Xiao.
But when none of them could reach him, they used every connection they had to contact his friends.
"Yan Xiao, this is the fifteenth call I've gotten today. Why don't you just give in?"
"Yan