On the day when Peking University's guaranteed recommendation quota came down, the third class became a little restless.

There is only one recommended place for liberal arts.

Although you can self-recommend yourself through the Internet, everyone knows that only the school recommends that you can directly enter the written test.

The selection criteria are very balanced, with 60% of the usual scores weighted and the remaining 40% depending on the results of the qualification examinations held in early November.

"Hey, you say, who will spend this guaranteed quota in the end?" As soon as the news reached the third class, Chen Yao couldn't wait to discuss it with the people around him.

The pressure of the third year of high school was too great, and if she didn't gossip about it, she felt like she was going to die of dehydration.

"Anyway, it has nothing to do with us ordinary people."

"Che, do you expect this spot to fall on your head? If you want me to say, He Tian, Ling Xiangqian, and Yu Zhouzhou must be one of the three of them. ”

Along with the news, there is also a piece of data, and the usual results add up.

The sum of the results takes into account the results of the first year of high school, and the results of He Tian, Yu Zhouzhou and Ling Xiangqian are relatively tight.

"And who do you think would like to be bigger?"

"I think He Tian, He Tian's exam mentality is perverted, every time he takes the exam, he is very stable, and he has never fallen out of the top three. I've heard that if you want to get this guaranteed place, you have to pass the guaranteed exam, which is a great advantage. ”

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"No, no, no, you'd be naïve to think that. According to me, Zhou Zhou hopes to be a little bigger. The guaranteed places in our Zhenhua Liberal Arts have all been obtained by girls, and we must believe in historical inertia. ”

"Then why don't you say Ling Xiangqian, isn't Ling Da's squad leader also a girl?"

"Are you stupid? The squad leader's grades are good, but Zhou Zhou is stable. You see that no one in our class is sad every day, and everyone is bitter and hateful. But Zhou Zhou is still the same as the sophomore in high school, she looks like the clouds are light, watching the flowers bloom and fall, watching the clouds roll up, except for He Tian in the class, she is in the best state. Who will she vote for if she doesn't vote? ”

Chen Yao's chaotic analysis frightened others, and everyone was almost persuaded by her.

"But... Don't you think Xin Rui also has hope? "Objections were raised.

Chen Yao and the others were silent, and their eyes all looked in one direction.

Xin Rui sat in place, and the people next to him were chatting with each other, laughing from time to time, but Xin Rui turned a deaf ear, his eyes never left the textbook in his hand, his lips turned slightly, and he knew that he was reciting at a glance.

In the first exam of the second year of high school, Xin Rui was the second to last in the class, and the first to last was Xu Zhiqiang.

But in this semester, Xin Rui has already rushed into the top three of the class twice.

The speed of progress in grades made many people in the class fall through their glasses.

There are also many people who are sour and suspect Xin Rui of cheating.

Chen Yao and the others are no exception, their achievements seem to be powerful people who are running for the penultimate throne, originally there were Xin Rui and Xu Zhiqiang to help them at the bottom, but now Xu Zhiqiang has reported for military service and left, and the remaining Xin Rui is soaring under their noses, how can they not be jealous?

So they once discussed with a group of people to study Xin Rui's learning methods, wanting to see if she was playing any tricks.

But the result left several of them speechless.

They weren't sure if Xin Rui cheated or not, but they were impressed by Xin Rui's hard work and persistence.

The first person to step into the classroom every morning is Xin Rui.

While others were participating in various activities, Xin Rui was reading a book.

During physical education class, she always hid in places where the physical education teacher didn't find out and memorized the materials.

During recess, they almost never saw Xin Rui playing with others, except for discussing problems with Yu Zhouzhou, in addition to playing the water toilet during her recess, she was brushing questions.

Even when I saw her occasionally in the cafeteria, she always had a history or geography textbook in her hand.

The most terrifying thing is that just after the exam, even Yu Zhouzhou and Ling Xiangqian would think about relaxing, going to the playground for a walk and chatting in the commissary, only Xin Rui, fixed in his seat, buried his head and continued to memorize and brush the questions.

Xin Rui has been in Zhenhua for almost a year and a half, but except for Yu Zhouzhou, she doesn't even have a friend, and she spends all her time studying.

Sometimes they wonder if Xin Rui is crazy about learning, they don't know, they study to learn, Xin Rui learns to survive.

The college entrance examination is the only lifeline she can grasp, and the only hope for her to get rid of that muddy, dark and cold family.

“.... To be honest, I admire Xin Rui's perseverance. However, although she has made great progress, if she really wants to compare with He Tian and the three of them, the hope is still too slim. ”

"yes, if there are three places, she can still compete for them."

Yu Zhouzhou and He Tian are too competitive, and in their eyes, Xin Rui's most promising thing is to defeat Ling Xiangqian.

The results are very objective, the data is there, Xin Rui rushed into the top three twice, but he was in third place, squeezing Ling Xiangqian down, but Yu Zhouzhou and He Tian's rankings have not been shaken.

In addition, the results of the second year of high school are not very satisfactory, and although Xin Rui ranks fourth, the gap with Ling Xiangqian in third is still quite obvious.

Unless she can win the qualification exam with an absolute advantage over He Tian and the others, it is impossible for this quota to fall on her head.

And counting on her score in the escort qualification exam is far ahead, it is better to expect He Tian and the three of them to have an accident, abandon the exam or play abnormally in the exam.

.....

What Chen Yao's group of scumbags can analyze, Xin Rui naturally knows.

After silently reciting the knowledge points related to the people's democratic dictatorship in her heart and making sure that she had memorized them all, she put down her textbook and looked at the small group in the left front of the classroom.

He Tian, Yu Zhouzhou, and Ling Xiangqian gathered together, not knowing what they were talking about, but judging from the expressions on their faces, it should be something happy.

Dedicated:??? Am I that big a person? Can you not ignore me?

A trace of envy flashed in Xin Rui's eyes, but there was only a hint of it, there were too many people she had envied in her life, and she was almost numb now.

When she was in junior high school, someone said that she always thought that others must be better off than her.

She reacted calmly at the time, because in her opinion, the place where she lived now was hell.

Is there anything worse than a person living in hell?

Someone passed by, Xin Rui retracted his gaze, lowered his head and pretended to be reading, but his thoughts still drifted forward.

This exam is crucial for her, because students who are eligible for guaranteed admission can receive scholarships, which can cover her future university tuition and living expenses.

She is very aware of her parents' virtues, they are money-hungry and short-sighted, and the tuition fees for four years of college plus living expenses are a huge amount for them, and it may not be enough to empty the family's savings.

Even if she gets into a good university, the money might dissuade her parents.

But....

Xin Rui subconsciously clenched his fists, and he didn't even notice that his nails were embedded in the flesh.

She couldn't imagine what the rest of her life would be like if she couldn't go to college.

Just thinking about this thought made her feel chills all over her body, and goosebumps stood up.

She doesn't, doesn't, absolutely doesn't!

She wanted to escape from that home, as far away as possible.

She wants to live a happy life like other classmates.

"Xin Rui, you have to pay attention to the drawing method of the auxiliary line for this problem, like this..."

A familiar voice sounded in her head, and a figure appeared in her mind, her smile as warm as the sun, blooming with light to dispel the shadows in her heart and let the dampness fade.

Jojo...

She raised her head and looked at Yu Zhouzhou, and when Yu Zhouzhou turned her head to talk to Geng Geng, she happened to see Xin Rui as well.

Stunned for a moment, Yu Zhouzhou waved his little hand at Xin Rui and gave a big smile.

Xin Rui subconsciously smiled in response, but the hand shrunk in the drawer tightened.

She was a little confused about Yu Zhouzhou's position in her life.

In Zhenhua, Yu Zhouzhou is her only friend.

Although very early on, He Tian, the squad leader, helped her once, but that time was like a passing chivalrous man who drew a knife to help him when he saw injustice, and after doing a good deed in a dashing manner, he retired and drifted away, and there was not much intersection.

If Lin Yang is Yu Zhouzhou's sun, then Yu Zhouzhou is her sun.

She was grateful to Yu Zhouzhou.

But she is very jealous of Yu Zhouzhou, Yu Zhouzhou is good-looking, has excellent grades, teachers and classmates like her, and there is an equally excellent person who has always liked her.

What she doesn't have, Yu Zhouzhou has.

Even if she vaguely knew that Yu Zhouzhou's family life was not happy when she was a child, it also made her even more jealous of Yu Zhouzhou.

She is jealous, why are they all miserable childhoods, but now Yu Zhouzhou can live so calmly.

She is jealous, and Yu Zhouzhou is proud and confident from the inside out.

She was jealous of why she had to put so much effort and calculation into what she wanted, but Yu Zhouzhou didn't fight for anything, but she had so much more than her.

Hate because of jealousy, evil thoughts because of jealousy.

She wants to defeat Yu Zhouzhou, and she wants to trample Yu Zhouzhou's pride under her feet.

So Zhou Zhou, I won't give you the escort quota this time.

Xin Rui's gaze finally fell on He Tian's back.

.....

The classrooms for the qualifying examination were arranged in two empty classrooms on the top floor of the Senior One Building.

One in science and one in liberal arts.

The guaranteed quota has nothing to do with most people in Zhenhua, and this is a game that only top students are eligible to participate in.

Choose a classroom, throw in dozens of top students, play a game of PUBG, and in the end, only one winner will have the last laugh.

When He Tian was passing by the science classroom, he saw Yu Huai, Lin Yang, and Chu Tiankuo sitting inside through the glass.

Lin Yang was still as calm as ever, as if this was just an ordinary exam.

Yu Huai and Chu Tiankuo's faces were very solemn, Yu Huai kept turning the pen in his hand, Chu Tiankuo sat in place and seemed to close his eyes to recuperate, but his chest with obvious fluctuations revealed his uncalmness.

Without disturbing them, He Tian walked into his examination room with a pencil case.

His seat was in the first row, Ling Xiangqian on the left, Yu Zhouzhou on the right, and Xin Rui in the third row behind.

When Xin Rui saw He Tian coming in, his eyes shrank slightly, and his eyes were a little dodgy, but he quickly calmed down again, and looked at He Tian with a shallow smile.

He Tian nodded in response, sitting in place, his eyes drooping.

The escort qualification exam is too important for Xin Rui, and he is sure that Xin Rui will do whatever it takes to win this exam.

He, Yu Zhouzhou, and Ling Xiangqian are all Xin Rui's competitors.

There are many ways to win a match, but in this kind of personal challenge, there are only two ways to strengthen yourself or weaken your opponent.

There was less than a month between the midterm exam and the escort exam, and Xin Rui, who only took the third place in the midterm exam, made progress in just one month, but it was difficult for him to make progress by leaps and bounds to be able to beat them.

Moreover, Xin Rui must achieve a big victory in order to make up for the gap between her usual results and the three of them in terms of the sum of her usual results.

It's too hard, it's too hard to be true.

Therefore, what Xin Rui can take is to weaken He Tian and the others.

Thinking of this, He Tian made an excuse, got up and found a reason for not bringing a pen, and asked Ling Xiangqian and Yu Zhouzhou to go through the stationery box to confirm that there was no problem with the things they brought, and then put their eyes on their table.

When He Tian put his hand into the table, Xin Rui's face suddenly turned a little pale, and his gaze couldn't help but look in another direction.

Under the inexplicable gaze of Yu Zhouzhou and Ling Xiangqian, He Tian, who had rummaged through the table holes, found nothing, he smiled at the two of them and sat back in his place.

Something is wrong, he deliberately chatted with Ling Xiangqian in the morning, observed her expression in his words, and confirmed that although Ling Xiangqian was a little nervous about the exam, he had no idea of cheating, and there was no such action as making a cheat sheet.

In the plot, Xin Rui's method of framing Ling Xiangqian was to go to the hole in her exam desk and put small notes, and then use his eyes and small actions to guide the invigilator to find these notes, so that the teacher could determine the fact that Ling Xiangqian was "cheating".

That's why he flipped through Ling Xiangqian's table hole, and for insurance, he also flipped through Yu Zhouzhou's.

Could it be that Xin Rui has changed sex? Or did she give up?

He Tian shook his head and threw these thoughts out of his mind, impossible, Xin Rui at this time would not give up any opportunity that might allow him to "turn over".

After thinking for a while, He Tian was suddenly stunned for a moment, and put his hand into the hole in his desk.

Looking at the small paper ball in your hand, you don't need to open it to know what's inside.

He Tian didn't expect Xin Rui to target him in the end.

It's right to think about it, if he is caught red-handed for "cheating", then he will be insulated from the recommended quota.

Ling Xiangqian's discerning eyes on He Tian's mind can see a few points, plus Ling Xiangqian's mentality is indeed relatively poor, if He Tian has an accident, it is a matter of course that she will perform abnormally in the exam.

As for Yu Zhouzhou, Xin Rui knows more about her character, seeing her friend in distress, if Yu Zhouzhou can sit in the examination room and pretend to care but remain motionless, then it is not the Yu Woman that Xin Rui knows.

Killing three birds with one stone, what a strategy.

A small action can help you eliminate three opponents, without these 40% of the test scores, no matter how high the usual scores are, Xin Rui can win.

What He Tian didn't know was that Xin Rui hesitated between the three of them.

The first one she excluded was Yu Zhouzhou, and she couldn't say the specific reason.

Between Ling Xiangqian and He Tian, she finally chose He Tian because, as a girl, it was easier for her to speculate on Ling Xiangqian's thoughts.

Besides, although Ling Xiangqian was proud, her scheming was too shallow, and her emotions were always written on her face, so Xin Rui was very sure that if something happened to He Tian, Ling Xiangqian would definitely not be able to stay out of it, and it would be delusional to play normally in the exam.

But what the heavens......

Xin Rui couldn't grasp him well, she once approached He Tian on the grounds that He Tian had helped her, He Tian treated her like an ordinary classmate, and after that, the two had no intersection, and they couldn't talk about friendship.

In addition, He Tian's personality is very different from a high school student, and he is known for being maverick and eccentric in the third class, she is not sure, if Ling Xiangqian has an accident, He Tian will be affected.

That's why her final goal was on He Tian.

He Tian squeezed the note in his hand and squeezed it into a small paper ball, He Tian stood up and threw the paper ball into a trash can in the corner in the surprised eyes of everyone.

Three-point shot from distance.

Without any other movements, He Tian sat down, closed his eyes and rested, waiting for the exam to begin.

Xin Rui, who witnessed all this, lost all blood on his face, and his head was blank.

It wasn't until the invigilator walked up to her side and reminded her that she came to her senses, spread out the paper in front of her, picked up a pen and wrote her name on it, grade class.

She struggled to control her trembling hands, but the ink from the tip of the pen still drew curved lines.

After taking a few deep breaths, she forced herself to focus back on the question.

Small means are useless, and she can only try her best to play normally or even beyond the norm now, to fight for that faint hope of victory.

But she looked at the first question, and the poem was written silently.

The scope of the question is beyond the scope of the Chinese textbook, but she is sure that she memorized this one when she was preparing for the exam.

But the information she had memorized was like an eraser erased from her mind, and she couldn't even remember a word.

Skipped this question in a panic, Xin Rui looked at the next big question, revised the sentence, and when she finished this big question hard, the clothes behind her back were already wet with sweat and clinging tightly to her body.

In the next question, Wen Yanwen, she looked at the familiar words lying on the paper, and suddenly two tears came out of her cheeks, wetting the scroll.

The handwriting, which had not yet dried, was wet, blurred, and gradually became illegible to the naked eye.

The invigilator sitting on the podium with nothing to do was a little sleepy, and the students sitting below were Zhenhua's most elite students, there was no need to invigilate, she felt that she was just here to be an ornament.

But thinking of the vice principal who was patrolling outside, she cheered up, stood up and looked around the examination room.

He Tian, Yu Zhouzhou, and Ling Xiangqian are all famous figures in Zhenhuali, and they are all working hard to write.

She nodded in satisfaction, then her eyes fell on a sobbing figure on a table in the third row.

She looked down at the seating chart attached to the podium, Xin Rui.