Yang Yi felt pretty cool at that moment, confident he could talk Su Na around.
But who would have known... Su Na refused to humor him at all.
"You?
How are you going to leave this university? By scoring zero on your exams?
Without me, you'd probably be eating nutrient paste every day and sleeping in the corridors, then getting locked into a chair in the Admissions Building once your enrollment period ran out!"
Su Na seemed furious enough to spill everything she had been holding inside.
"Uh..."
Yang Yi actually had no answer. He realized that the reason Su Na had no intention of leaving... seemed to be him.
She had concluded that he couldn't graduate and was trapped in this university for good.
"It'll be fine."
"There are always more solutions than problems."
"No wall in the world is completely airtight. Worst case, I'll dig a hole and crawl out. There's bound to be a loophole somewhere!"
Yang Yi kept explaining, but in truth, he wasn't confident either.
Then, suddenly, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind, opening up a new line of thought.
"Wait! Maybe taking first place... doesn't actually have to happen inside the exam room. Outside it, or even right at the entrance, I could achieve the same result-or an even better one!"
"What?"
Su Na looked puzzled, and even a little worried. She wondered whether Yang Yi's temperature was too high and, with only half a brain left, he had already cooked his wits away.
Unfortunately, however.
At critical moments, Yang Yi always had a clear goal and a coherent line of reasoning.
It was mainly his experience of taking first place with zero points that had inspired him.
"All I have to do is keep the other candidates from entering the exam room,