In the end, Guan Zhiyuan wasn't forced to repeat his final year. After discussing it with Yan Xiao all night, he settled on his university application.
Jida University.
Business.
The reason was actually very simple.
When it came to science,
Guan Zhiyuan knew he didn't have much talent.
Although his Gaokao results had squeezed him into the ranks of the top students,
still,
he felt that was only because he had performed far above his usual standard during those few days.
He had come to this realization
because, after the Gaokao, he had worked through several more sets of past papers.
He discovered that he was back to barely scraping into a first-tier university.
At first, he thought it might be because he hadn't drunk any milk.
But when he tried again with milk, strictly following the Gaokao schedule, the results were the same.
With business,
he had an advantage over many of his classmates.
That advantage came from the fact that his father, Guan Houyi, ran a company.
Even if that company looked an awful lot like a shell operation,
compared with most of his classmates, he still had more of a head for business.
Early the next morning, Guan Zhiyuan left Yan Xiao's place and went home to discuss his university application with his father.
Meanwhile, Yan Xiao carried on with his grand study campaign.
He realized
that after spending so long getting used to the system,
he had started to fall in love with studying.
Of course,
that was mostly because studying really had earned him a lot of money.
Someone had once calculated
that true financial freedom,
in a major city like Ji City, required around nineteen million.
If you wanted the kind of financial freedom that let you live it up, you would need around