If Lin Meng Qiu's total of 721 on this Monthly Exam was the limit of what a human could score;
then Chen Shi'an's 741 seemed more like a casual display of power from the Star of Literary Eminence himself.
The gap between them seemed to be not twenty points, but an uncrossable dimension-
Who on earth scored in the seven hundreds and still came first with a full twenty points more than the runner-up's 721?!
This week, all of Senior Year Two-no, the entire school-was enveloped in the shock waves of something called "741
points."
Between classes, in the corridors, in the cafeteria, students' incredulous discussions could be heard everywhere.
The excitement of Class Five's subject teachers was beyond words. First in all six subjects, a total score that towered over everyone else-my student! Three months ago, he was still a Nine-Leak Fish. I taught him!
When his homeroom teacher, Old Liang, spoke at the year group's weekly meeting, even his voice trembled as he scratched his head and struggled to squeeze out some so-called "teaching experience."
Every subject teacher looked at Chen Shi'an as though he were some priceless treasure. Never mind him "skipping class" every day now to do experiments in the laboratories-even if he wanted to sit up on the teaching platform to listen, wouldn't they have to accommodate him?
Yet Chen Shi'an himself remained as calm and unruffled as ever. Instead, he started "skipping class."
Just as his subject teachers had said, Chen Shi'an had recently applied to Principal Lin for access to the school's various laboratories. Whenever he had nothing else to do, he stayed there, testing the various basic experiments he had encountered in physics, chemistry, and biology textbooks.
The laboratories were over in the Laboratory Building. Apart from serving as exam rooms during