Since then, Wen Zhichen has targeted Tang Duan and chased him with difficulty.

However, after every exam, the ranking on the list is unshakable.

First place, Tang Dui.

second place, Wen Zhichen.

……

First place, Tang Dui.

second place, Wen Zhichen.

……

First place, Tang Dui.

second place, Wen Zhichen.

……

Every time, I was second every time.

At first, the questions on the exam were relatively simple, at most the difference between your full score and my 99 points. But as they grew in grade, their grades began to be thrown farther and farther away by Tang Duan.

Although he is still second on the list, the stark score gap seems to be just a foil under his brilliance.

His mother, who used to be kind and kind, became more and more impatient with him. Every time the results are issued, I will keep complaining: "You are really not angry, look at other people's Tang Dusk." ”

When he was growing up, Tang Duan was the standard "other people's child".

His existence is just a testament to how failed he is.

At the gate of the college, he can still often see his mother and Aunt Tang chatting side by side. But as soon as she saw herself, her mother's smile would become embarrassing unconsciously, and in front of Aunt Tang, she didn't seem to even be able to lift her head.

Originally, for a mother, the child should be her pride. But she has become her shame.

Year after year, Wen Zhichen grew up in the shadow of Tang Dusk.

That year, they were already in the third year of the elementary school. In the graduating class, they were recommended by their mentors to participate in an arithmetic competition.

This competition is very important, if you can get the ranking, you can get a lot of extra points in the future assessment of the higher department. Moreover, since the candidates who participated were not only from one college, these people represented the honor of the Heavenly Sage.

The tutor attaches great importance to this, specially opens classes for them to practice, and recommends a lot of tutorial books. Although Wen Zhichen once saw that after Tang Duan walked out of the classroom, he directly threw those books into the trash.

Arithmetic is one of the courses that Wen Zhichen is best at. However, this does not mean that he is talented. He was able to achieve his current results, almost all of which were piled up with tutoring books. If there is a slight change in the type of question he has done, he can also draw inferences. But if it's an extension question that he's never seen before, it's tricky for him.

If the usual exams focus on the basics, then these competitions are the most off-topic and strange questions. Wen Zhichen was not completely sure, in order not to lose to Tang Dui, he spent a lot of hard work during that time. Often until midnight, there was still an oil lamp in his room.

Finally, he gnawed down all those competition coaching books. You can calmly walk into the examination room with Tang Dui.

That day, Wen Zhichen got up early in the morning, drank a bowl of preserved egg and lean porridge prepared by his mother for him, and set off for the competition venue.

After the test paper was issued, his confident mentality had quietly collapsed.

The race ...... It's harder than he thought!

Perhaps because it is related to the extra points of the higher education assessment, it is necessary to screen out real talents, and the whole test paper, except for a handful of basic questions, most of them are IQ questions that start from real life and transform thinking. And this is exactly what Wen Zhichen lacks the most.

It has been three years in the primary department, and this is the most difficult exam paper he has ever done!

Relying on a solid foundation, Wen Zhichen struggled to use the knowledge points he was familiar with. The scratch paper was filled with two sides before the first page of the test paper was completed.

Immediately afterward, he was completely stumped by the next question.

Habitually looking up at Tang Duan, if that genius was also rare, maybe Wen Zhichen would be balanced. Then he can adjust his mindset and concentrate on solving the problem.

However, the first thing that caught his eye was Tang Dui sleeping on the table.

Like every exam he had done in the past, he finished the exam papers in the shortest possible time, and spent the rest of the time sleeping.

Even in this competition, which is rare and makes him loveless, it is still so easy for him.

Even after he lit the lamp and boiled oil, he studied day and night for more than half a month, but he just threw away all the tutorial books.

Perhaps it was at that moment that he realized that no matter how much he put in, he could not compare to a true genius.

At that moment, Wen Zhichen's mentality completely collapsed.

For the rest of the competition, he couldn't concentrate on solving the problem. I just wrote and drew on the test paper in vain, and I didn't even remember what I wrote.

When they came out of the examination room, when his mother saw his wilted face, she immediately understood everything.

In her eyes, there is a disappointment that hates iron but not steel.

Later, the results of the competition came out. Tang Duan is still the first place on the top, but this time, he is no longer the second place behind him.

In that competition, he played so poorly that he didn't even make it to the list.

However, although he lost the competition, with his usual results, it was not difficult to get into the higher department with a high score. The mentor was not particularly worried about him.

However, when filling out the assessment registration form, Wen Zhichen made a choice that surprised everyone.

He gave up his direct promotion and chose to apply for the Boundless Vocational College.

It is not for nothing that there are students who used to study in the Tiansheng Primary Department and transfer to Boundless halfway, but those are all those who failed in the direct promotion assessment and can only choose the second choice, and among those people, there is definitely no good student like Wen Zhichen.

The tutor was very puzzled by his behavior of "giving up his future", so he specially asked his parents to come to the principal to talk.

After all, in terms of teaching level in all aspects, as well as career development after graduation, Tiansheng is definitely far superior to Wuyan. What's more, what kind of place is Wuya, that is a gathering place for gangsters, a good student enters that kind of academy, and follows those gangs all day long, and this life will be ruined directly!

However, Wen Zhichen had already made up his mind. The opposition of his parents, teachers, and all relatives and friends did not shake him.

He was real, and he didn't want to live in the shadow of Tang Twilight anymore.

Having such a person who can never be surpassed in front of him, maybe his parents will think it is a role model, but for him, it is just a burden.

If you want to say that vocational colleges are different from ordinary colleges, in fact, it is just that vocational colleges are more pragmatic and will carry out more professional skill training. In ordinary colleges, there are too many subjects to be examined, and a lot of knowledge will be invalidated after graduation, which will only distract the students.

So he chose to enter the boundless, devote himself to learning arithmetic, become a top celestial arithmetic master in the future, and then come back to defeat Tang Dui!

Wuyan, it's really chaotic over there. It is said that nine out of ten of the student bosses are from Wuyi. But now, because Wuya is a few rounds, he can't compete with the Heavenly Saint Rongxiao, so even the only point that Wuya is better than the Heavenly Saint has been completely suppressed.

On the first day of transferring to Wuya, Wen Zhichen felt that the learning style here was really poor.

During the class, the students are doing everything underneath. Smoking, sleeping, playing cards, making the whole classroom smoky. And the tutor basically doesn't care about them, mechanically talks about his own books, and walks away with the textbooks as soon as the time comes, which is very different from the atmosphere of the previous heavenly saints.

There was a lot of noise in class, and he couldn't concentrate on the lecture at all. During the lunch break, he went to the office with the tutoring book, but the tutor just smoked a cigarette, glanced at him lazily, and persuaded him: "Why are you working so hard?

As he spoke, he slowly exhaled a smoke ring and sprayed it in his face.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, the meaning on his face was clear: "What kind of good student are you pretending to be? If you are really a good student, can you still come to Wuyi?"

In an environment where the whole is "mixed", if you don't mix, you will become an outlier. Therefore, there are many students who were originally down-to-earth, but after only one month of entering Wuyi, they have completely "joined the same stream".

It's a place where everyone just wants to mess around, and it's a place where even the instructor doesn't want to teach well.

Such a place is simply hell for a student like Wen Zhichen who follows the rules.

Gradually, he began to change some of his principles.

Instead of hating cheating as he did at the beginning, he began to know how to use his excellent grades to make deals with the overlords in the academy.

However, he didn't have the patience to curry favor one by one. What he did was to directly establish a good relationship with Wu Jiyuan, the boss of Boundless, help him pass the exam, and at the same time use his power to exchange for a stable life for himself.

He spent three years in such an environment.

It is not easy to maintain his original heart in the quagmire, and what is even more rare is that he can be self-taught here.

Now, he has enough self-confidence that he has become a powerful celestial arithmetic who is not weaker than Tang Duan!

Under his manipulation, the formation of functions in mid-air buzzed and swirled, spreading out like a spider's web, and falling towards Tang Dui.

Tang Dui, who was below, listened to Wen Zhichen's intermittent nagging, and his expression was always calm. It wasn't until the other party's words came to an end that he sighed softly, and the seal in his hand overturned, filling in the defensive formation set up by him. The light flowed, and the power of a submerged law was also suddenly flourishing at this time.

"Wen Zhichen, you are just thinking too much!"

Wen Zhichen was suddenly stunned. What he expects is to show his efforts over the years in front of Tang Dui, so that he admires and makes him regret it. But the other party's casual words made him feel the collapse of his faith again.

This sentence...... What does that mean? He never took my efforts seriously?

When you try your best, what you get in exchange is only a disdain from the other party, and the gap is probably like this.

Tang Duan shook his head, and a spiritual power shot out from his fingertips, and the array disk suddenly doubled, and the transparent ripples like thunder radiated from it, sweeping towards Wen Zhichen on the opposite side. Under such a powerful pressure, the free elements in the air all gathered and merged into the golden formation, contributing to his counterattack.

"Do you have to live as a copy of me, and do you have to copy my path in every move?"

"Do you have to listen to whatever your mother says?"

"Will what I say decide your life?"

"Since you don't want to follow the path your family has arranged for you, it's good to be bold and refuse!"

"You have your own dreams, then work hard to achieve them!"

"Don't you want to be a celestial arithmetic?

Every time he said a word, the energy fluctuations in the array disk would increase sharply again, impacting Wen Zhichen step by step.

In this series of "soul interrogations", the positions of the two seem to be completely reversed.

Until the last sentence fell, Tang Dui's hands were suddenly clasped, and the erupting array broke through Wen Zhichen's enchantment in one fell swoop, and the aftermath that did not dissipate, like waves at high tide, "boom", lifted Wen Zhichen off the spot, flew upside down for a few feet, and smashed heavily outside the ring.

Although he was lying on the ground stiff all over, Wen Zhichen at this time was surprisingly not jealous.

The knot in his heart that had been entwining him all this time seemed to have finally been completely untied under Tang Duan's few words of questioning.

Yes, why do you have to compare yourself with him, why do you have to live as a copy of him?

Is the path my parents have laid for me necessarily the right path? Why did I always just choose to go with the flow, and I didn't even have the courage to talk to them and tell them what I really thought?

If I really want to compare, there are so many excellent people in all walks of life in this world, do I have to compare them one by one, and live in vain inferiority forever?

Not to mention, it is those geniuses who are now participating in the assessment, Mo Gucheng, Yan Lilin, Feng Boliang, these names are shining so brightly that people can't open their eyes, even if they are lagging behind, how can I ever be jealous?

It's all just because Tang Duan is the first friend he knows, the neighbor's child, and the object that his mother uses to compare himself again and again.

Jealousy is an emotion that always arises against the person closest to you. If you score 55, you won't be jealous of a distant genius's 100, but you'll be unhappy with your friend's 60.

Yes, all along, it has been his own cocoon.

Tang Du is right, he is a person who "thinks too much".

There are many paths to success, as long as you identify the one that suits you most closely and follow it firmly.

Becoming a celestial arithmetic is my dream. In the future, I will work hard for this wholeheartedly.

"Tang Dui......" Wen Zhichen looked at the figure standing in the ring, still dazzling, and pulled the corners of his mouth with difficulty, "Since you think so...... Why couldn't you have told me earlier?"

If he could have said it earlier, he wouldn't have spent so many years gambling on it.

In the future, they are no longer rivals, and they are just real good friends when they take off that cruel coat of competition.

And, too, best friends.

(End of chapter)