[Congratulations to our school's Xia Xu for becoming the nation's Gaokao Top Scorer, and to Tang Youxin for placing second by a single point. Both have broken the historical record!]
After finishing Little White Flower's makeover, Xia Xu and Tang Youxin had only just arrived at school when they saw the enormous banner stretching all the way around the school's perimeter wall.
The scene at the school gate was even more exaggerated. Business vehicles and camera vans lined the street, while a crowd of reporters and some police officers who had come to maintain order packed the surrounding area, barely leaving a passage for people to enter and exit.
"Looks like we overdid it."
Having just gotten out of the car, Xia Xu's mouth twitched at the sight.
A perfect score of seven hundred and fifty had indeed broken the Gaokao record.
It was not as though no candidates in the Xia Kingdom on Blue Ocean Star had ever scored seven hundred and fifty. On the contrary, one or two cropped up every couple of years, and even in the worst years, someone came infinitely close. After all, it was a vast country rich in resources.
But those perfect scores had almost all included bonus points, such as points awarded for Mathematical Olympiad competitions. The highest score without bonuses had only been seven hundred and forty-eight. Not just him—even Little White Flower's score would have made her the nation's Gaokao Top Scorer.
Mostly, he had never expected this year's Chinese exam graders to let him down so badly.
The scores of those ranked near the top nationally and provincially were always tightly clustered, basically all above seven hundred and forty. With bonus points included, a score of seven hundred and forty would not have made him particularly conspicuous.
Who could