Bai Lian aimed to get into the Tongfeng class, she naturally hoped others could also make it.
Yang Lin's ambition lay in biology, not within the class range, she considered Ning Xiao, but she was a bit worried about Tang Ming.
Bai Lian wanted to say something more when her phone on the side moved. Xu Nanjing had sent her a bunch of exclamation marks and shocked pig emojis.
Realizing she had spent quite some time outside, Bai Lian smoothed out her sleeve and stood up, glancing at Jiang Fulai, "Let's go inside first."
She walked ahead, while Jiang Fulai habitually stayed a step behind her.
Jingjing watched her indifferent figure walking ahead.
She gifted him with jade, and he returned her favor with a jade hairpin.
**
Inside the private room.
When Bai Lian returned, Chief Chen was drinking with Dean Ji Hengjian.
"That was someone from the Academy of Sciences," Chief Chen was talking about Academician Ma with Ji Heng, aware of the commotion Bai Lian had caused, "Is Miss Bai, being booked by them?"
Chief Chen was also a native of Jiangjing, and although he had taken the military official path, he still understood a thing or two.
"With her talent so high, she should be turned over to the country," Ji Heng held his glass, pouring himself another round and also filling up those for Dean Ji and Chief Chen, "It's only right."
When he said it was only right, there was always some sort of melancholy in his tone.
Pride mixed with an inexplicable sense of solitude.
Chief Chen nodded, raising his glass to speak with Ji Heng, "Miss Bai, this is just the beginning..."
As he spoke, he glanced toward Ji Shaojun, whose expression seemed a bit off, "Brother Ji?"
Ji Shaojun snapped back to reality, "It's nothing."
He picked up his chopsticks and said slowly, "Alian will probably come back often, look at Xiaojiang to know."
As they were talking on this side.
Meanwhile, Xiao Bingwen and Xu Nanjing were still motionlessly staring at Bai Lian, "Sister G said you were the top scorer of the college entrance exam?"
"Yeah." Bai Lian casually sat next to Pu Xiaohan and asked Ning Xiao about the exam questions.
Xu Nanjing opened his mouth, "Why didn't you ever mention this?"
"Why mention such things?" Bai Lian leaned back and looked up slightly, those deep black eyes making Xu Nanjing's words come to a halt.
To her, it seemed that scoring full marks on the college entrance exam was no more than an ordinary event, just one goal in her path through life, so there was no need to bring it up.
Xu Nanjing fell silent, thinking that if his mother knew she was the top exam scorer, she would definitely hold a grand banquet at Jiangjing University.
Despite how long the Xu Family had been around, the family shrine only had one top scholar from hundreds of years ago.
Bai Lian tapped on the table and looked at Ning Xiao and Tang Ming, "Have you guys roughly reviewed the questions?"
Ning Xiao raised his head to answer, "I've skimmed through them, the overall difficulty is alright."
He and Tang Ming had already huddled together to discuss the questions.
Bai Lian occasionally chimed in with a few words, while Jiang Fulai quietly leaned on the armrest beside her, occasionally lowering his head to glance coolly at Ning Xiao's test.
Pu Xiaohan was beside her, looking at the footage from the camera.
Yellow Hair and Hong Mao couldn't understand, so the two took out a board game to play Gomoku, and after losing, Hong Mao would bring Jiang He over to command his moves.
Xu Nanjing pressed down the lighter, blew a smoke ring, and his peach blossom eyes slightly squinted.
Pu Xiaohan had just mentioned that four people got into Jiang University, and one of them was Yang Lin.
In a situation where she was losing a lot of blood, she managed to calmly lay out the scene—Yang Lin, who had the resolve to take her father's life with a knife. Xu Nanjing didn't know what drove her, but the resilience of someone who broke free from such a family was just like that "good guy".
Listening to this, Jiang Fulai personally going to prison for tutoring, and Chi Yundai? The top legal team in Asia's legal circle?
He tapped his knee, his gaze fixed on Bai Lian and the others.
Jiangjing sure had become lively.
**
8.29.
The day Jiangjing University freshmen reported for enrollment.
Shanhai Apartment, first floor.
Ji Heng was watering the succulents and cabbage with one hand and holding his phone in the other, talking to Ji Shaojun, "No rush, I live right by Jiangda, there's plenty of time to get there."
On the other end of the phone, Ji Shaojun hung up.
He grabbed his package and was about to leave. Shen Qing rarely stayed here anymore, often going to Bai Lian's place instead.
He opened the door to see the building's butler and Xiaojie.
It was Sunday, a day off, and the butler knew Ji Shaojun was always disciplined, so he came to discuss banquet arrangements.
Seeing him with the package, the butler was curious, "Where are you heading? Let us drive you there?"
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