Astonishment

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  The painful scene after the failure of this final exam is still vivid, and soon after the family's change, it made this originally wealthy family face a broken home situation.

  Li Yihua still remembers very clearly the scene of his parents' overnight whitening due to family affairs, his own academic performance and the troubles at home. The scenes of the past are like hot coals burning in Li Yihua's heart.

  Failed the final exam, suffered a change in family, surrounded by people's white eyes and faces, plus the humiliation suffered a few days ago, accompanied the youth through what should have been the most beautiful summer of life.

  Now let's start again. Li Yifan had secretly sworn in her heart that such a thing would absolutely not be allowed to happen once more, never!

  He had just turned the corner, when suddenly someone quickly approached from behind and slapped Li Yifan's shoulder. Years of professional instinct almost made Li Yifan turn around and punch him.

  But when he turned around and saw the smile on that young face, his heart couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and the fist he had just clenched relaxed again.

  "Hey kid, I heard you were quite fierce yesterday? You even slapped Gao Junzhe?"

  Chen Peng, with his small head and big eyes, was one of the few friends Li Yihua had in high school. They lived close to each other and had been classmates since Chen Peng moved to Bin City to attend elementary school at the age of 10. They remained classmates from elementary school to high school until they went their separate ways after the college entrance exam. However, they continued to keep in touch afterwards.

  Chen Peng's grades were slightly better than Li Yihang's, but not by much. After the college entrance exam, he also attended a second-tier university and later became what people called an "IT migrant worker", drifting from one big city to another, working for various major IT companies. Although he earned a decent income, his life was just as exhausting as a dog's, and he often called Li Yuanhang to complain about his life.

  This guy can say that it was at that time that Li Yifan became a special agent, and after experiencing too many dark sides, he became the only one who adjusted his life.

  Every time he hears this guy complaining about housing prices and the cost of his child's milk powder on the phone, Li Yifan can't help but feel a sense of envy towards the busy life of ordinary people.

  "News travels fast?"

  Yesterday, I slapped Gao Junzhe twice, and unexpectedly, after a night of fermentation, it spread to the ears of my good friend. You know that this guy was absent from self-study yesterday because he had diarrhea and asked for leave from the teacher. If not, when I was pulled out by Gao Junzhe and others yesterday, I wouldn't have been isolated and helpless.

  "You don't know that our classmate Li Xiaoli is a big mouth? I received her call last night."

  Li Yihong's mind flashed with the image of a petite, doll-faced girl with a surprisingly stunning figure. Li Xiaoli was known for her kind heart in class and had organized several high school reunions after graduation, although he himself hadn't attended any of them.

  "Oh no! It's her again!"

  Li Yifan let out a sigh of relief, indeed good news never goes beyond the door while bad news travels for thousands of miles.

  "Hehe, it's nothing, don't mind it. Gao Junzhe and his gang got taught a lesson this time, they definitely won't dare to come bother you again." Chen Peng comfortingly advised Li Yifan, thinking that he was worried about Gao Junzhe seeking revenge, after all, someone like Gao Junzhe wouldn't let things go without retaliating.

  "I've already hit him, what's there to be afraid of?"

  "Right, who cares about him! Let's go to school. By the way, there's a new PS game hall opened at the corner of Da Rong Street, let's play a few rounds after the exam."

  In the summer of 1999, internet cafes were not yet widespread. Even if there were a few occasionally, the cost of surfing the web was exorbitant, and at that time games couldn't be played online either, so you could only play stand-alone games like Red Alert or The Legend of Sword and Fairy.

  At that time, the most popular game was still Sony's PS1 generation. The most playable game was Resident Evil, and there was also Winning Eleven. Li Yifan and Chen Peng liked Winning Eleven football game the most.

  When Li Yifan was young and naive, his greatest life dream was to have a PS game console of his own, so that he could play the winning eleven game freely at home every day.

  As soon as the game was mentioned, Chen Peng became energetic and started chattering excitedly about the new awesome players and teams he had discovered in the past two days. He would definitely let Li Yifan witness them soon. The two of them were chatting happily while walking on the road, with sunlight sprinkling gently on their faces, and the aura of youthfulness radiating from their bodies.

  A golden sign that has dominated the education circle of Bin City for decades is located in the central part of the city, with a good geographical location and teaching environment. After years of maintaining the highest university enrollment rate in the city, it has become a sacred place for every high school student's parents to send their children.

  In the past two years, society has quietly entered the era of "拼爹" (where parents try to get their children into good schools by any means necessary). All sorts of officials and businesspeople have tried every trick in the book to get their kids into this high school. This is why Li Yifan's class is a mixed bag, with some students being extremely talented and diligent, while others are spoiled rich kids who skip class and get into fights.

  For the quietly rising unhealthy trends, the school is also very vigilant. After all, the principal and teachers of the school know that to ensure the golden signboard of No. 1 Middle School, they must work hard on academic style.

  Thus, this unusually important final exam for first-year high school students came into being. This exam will undoubtedly become a turning point in many people's lives.

  There are three days left until this semester's final exam. The school and students attach great importance to it, because today is the last day of classes before the exam.

  The teaching building of Yizhong has a history of about 40 years. In the past, it was almost used as an examination room for the college entrance examination every year. However, this year, during the assessment by the superior department, it was found that the teaching building of Yizhong is seriously old and dilapidated, with some floors and even floor slabs showing cracks. After consultation between Yizhong and the Education Commission, Yizhong will not be used as an examination room this year.

  And in this semester, the school will try to compress class hours. After the exam is over, the main teaching building will be demolished and rebuilt. In three months, a new 12-story teaching building will rise here again.

  So two days before the final exams, they don't have to come to school for classes. After the final exams, Li Yifan and his classmates will have a three-month summer break, and as for the missed homework, it will be made up during the winter break.

  Three months of day and night construction, a new teaching building was built. This task is really not easy, but after three months, this miracle was actually completed, of course, the quality of the building...

  Looking at the old school gate of Yizhong, Li Yuanhang couldn't help but recall that period of history in his mind.

  As soon as they entered the school gate, they rushed to the main teaching building. Their class was on the fourth floor of this building. As soon as they arrived in front of the building, Li Yifan felt that many people were looking at him with strange eyes today, and some people even pointed at him behind his back. He knew it was all because he had slapped Gao Junzhe twice yesterday, but he didn't care. He knew that as long as he remained calm, these rumors would not affect him.

  After all, humans are the most forgetful animals. Such news will be gone in a month or two weeks, and it will disappear without a trace.

  When I arrived at the classroom, most of my classmates had already arrived. Since our class was also a key class, there were more than 70 students packed into the classroom, making it seem a bit crowded. The classroom was divided into three rows, with each row having three seats. Li Yifan sat in the second-to-last row at the back.

  The classmates in the class looked at Li Yifan with strange eyes, but he didn't care at all. He walked to his seat and sat down, while Tang Tian, who was sitting diagonally opposite Li Yifan, also took a glance at him unconsciously.

  Just then, the sunlight outside at 8 o'clock shone on the young and innocent face of the boy. The dazzling light suddenly reminded Tang Tian of those beautiful spinning kicks last night, as well as his eight white teeth.

  It seemed that she also felt Tang Tian's gaze, Li Yifan showed her snow-white teeth and smiled slightly, then sat down very naturally. Tang Tian felt her heart beating a little faster, she shook her head, turned around and left.

  As Li Yihuan's deskmate, Chen Peng quietly poked Li Yihuan.

  "You little rascal, Tang Tian was just sneaking a peek at you!"

  "Don't talk nonsense!"

  Li Yifan said calmly, at this time the class bell rang, and Class Director Zhou Yu walked into the classroom with teaching materials, and his classmates also withdrew their gaze.

  "Alright, classmates, now let's take out the homework that was assigned two days ago. I'll announce the answers and explain them to everyone."

  Zhou Yu, who is not very tall, is a well-known national-level physics teacher and a treasure of the school. He has taught many generations of students and would have become one of the school's main leaders if it weren't for his physical condition. His attitude towards students has always been kind and approachable, and he is also humorous when teaching, so he is very popular among students.

  Before the final exam, the teachers' main task was to explain the mock exams that had been distributed earlier. If there were any questions, they should be asked immediately. The classmates all knew the importance of this moment, so they quickly began class seriously and shifted their attention away from Li Yifan, the new celebrity.

  Li Yifan took out the exercises he had done yesterday, and unexpectedly, Chen Peng, who was sitting next to him, let out a soft cry. This soft cry instantly attracted everyone's attention.

  Chen Peng awkwardly stuck out his tongue, because he was stunned to discover that Li Yifan's mock exam paper was filled with answers. To think that this set of exercises had taken him half a day's brain power to solve only half of them yesterday, and yet Li Yifan's grades were usually not as good as his! How did this kid do it?

  The originally quiet classroom suddenly had many classmates casting their eyes over to Li Yifan and his group, including Guo Chuan who was sitting next to Chen Peng.

  Kuang Chuang is one of the top five students in the class, a star student. Although he's not tall, his appearance is quite regular. His family conditions are average, even a bit poor. In the class, what makes him stand out among his classmates is his good academic performance.

  He was originally seated with Chen Peng and Li Yifan, two deskmates he wasn't too pleased about. In his opinion, good students should sit together, while trash like Chen Peng and Li Yifan belonged in the garbage dump.

  At this time, Chen Peng's soft cry made him somewhat unhappy. He turned his head to look and also saw a surprising scene. It turned out that Li Yifan's test paper was filled with answers, which surprised him too. This mock exam was very difficult, even he only scored around 90%.

  But on the test paper of that guy who usually looked down on him was filled with answers, which made him feel extremely surprised!