ATLAS TRANSLATES

To Xu Wenyao’s shock, the car had a Jiangzhou license plate.

It stopped smoothly in front of the two of them, and the passenger window rolled down.

Xu Wenyao finally saw clearly who was sitting in the driver’s seat. The person was wearing a Bluetooth earpiece, seemingly talking to someone just a second ago. The black shirt sleeve at their wrist was loosely rolled up once, and long fingers rested on the steering wheel. They only slightly turned their head to glance at Xu Wenyao.

There was an inherent coldness radiating from their bones.

Just one look felt piercingly cold.

“Goodbye,” Bailian opened the car door and nodded slightly to Xu Wenyao, her attitude neither cold nor warm, maintaining perfect balance.

By the time Xu Wenyao came to his senses, the window had rolled up, and the blue car was already far away.

“Wenyao,” Ji Mulan inside the courtyard saw Xu Wenyao standing dazed at the door and called out, “Why are you still standing outside?”

“Ah,” Xu Wenyao snapped back to reality, hiding the doubt in his heart, “It’s nothing.”

As he walked into the house, he looked back in the direction the car had left.

He felt like he had seen that person somewhere before.

In the car, Bailian routinely took out her English materials to listen to the original audio.

“That guy just now,” from the driver’s seat, Jiang Fuli’s voice came casually, “is he the one who’s good at physics?”

He emphasized the words “good at physics” heavily.

“His name is Xu Wenyao, he’s also from Jiangjiang University,” Bailian looked up at Jiang Fuli.

Jiang Fuli: “Hm, never heard of him.”

Bailian was surprised, “I heard the Xu family say he’s very capable.”

Jiang Fuli spared her a glance, “You heard?”

“So you’ve heard a lot, what else did you hear?” he asked politely.

Realizing this topic wasn’t going anywhere, Bailian decided to drop it and asked about the special training camp instead.

Bailian didn’t have much expectation for Xu En and Ji Mulan’s wedding, but Ji Heng, Ji Shaojun, and Shen Qing were going to Jiangjiang, which made Bailian a bit worried.

“January 19th?” When Jiang Fuli heard the date, he seemed thoughtful. He looked at Bailian, “That’s close to the New Year, the training camp will be on break. Are you going to Jiangjiang?”

“Probably,” Bailian leaned back lazily against the seat, turning off the English audio, “My grandfather and the others are going.”

“Oh.”

In the northern city, at the Song family home.

Mrs. Song received Ji Mulan’s wedding invitation.

Ji Mulan was once very famous at Northern City University. Mrs. Song didn’t get into Jiangjiang University back then and studied at Northern City University, where she was Ji Mulan’s roommate.

Back then, Ji Mulan married into the Bai family, while she married into the Song family. The two could be considered close friends.

Later, when Bai Qiming had an illegitimate son, Ji Mulan left the northern city in disgrace, becoming the subject of gossip behind her back.

Now that Ji Mulan was remarrying, and to someone from Jiangjiang no less, Mrs. Song naturally received an invitation.

“The Xu family?” Mrs. Song was also quite surprised by this invitation, “Her luck…”

To marry so well for a second marriage.

She had married down from Jiangjiang to the Song family, while Ji Mulan, after leaving the Bai family, turned around and married into Jiangjiang. Looking at the grand wedding arrangements at the famous hotel in Jiangjiang, it was clear that the Xu family valued Ji Mulan highly.

Mr. Song wasn’t from Jiangjiang and didn’t know much about the Xu family, “Does this mean we were hasty in breaking off the engagement last time?”

Hearing this, Mrs. Song looked towards Song Ming and Bai Shaoqi sitting on the sofa not far away.

“It’s not exactly hasty,” Mrs. Song weighed the pros and cons, “She’s still a stepdaughter to the Xu family, whether they’ll let her enter the ancestral hall is another matter. Besides, Bai Shaoko has reportedly successfully entered a lab, and Shaoqi is valued by Dean Jian. After the final exams, she’ll be going to Jiangjiang Conservatory of Music for early studies…”

The Xu family alone wasn’t enough.

Bailian’s problem was fundamental. With her qualifications, she couldn’t even stand firm in the Bai family, how could she stand firm in the Xu family?

Hearing Mrs. Song’s analysis, Mr. Song looked at Song Ming and Bai Shaoqi in the distance, also feeling that Mrs. Song was right.

Bai Shaoqi was following in Bai Shaoko’s footsteps to enter Jiangjiang, their own abilities were very strong. As for Bailian, that really wasn’t enough.

On the sofa, Song Ming and Bai Shaoqi were discussing a math problem from an app.

They no longer did problems from Northern City No.1 High School, focusing instead on problems from the app. If they didn’t understand something, they would ask Bai Shaoko. Their math scores had improved greatly over the past two months.

“Why hasn’t the God of Picking done this problem yet?” Bai Shaoqi looked at this difficult math problem.

On the phone screen, a bunch of people were wailing.

[Liang God said he can’t do it either!]

[Who on earth set this question? It’s too brutal]

[Calling the God of Picking…]

[The God of Picking hasn’t been around for 800 years, what’s the great god been up to lately?]

[…]

“Probably busy in the real world,” Song Ming didn’t know either. He opened his phone’s background apps. He had been sending Bai Jian a few messages every week, sending dozens of messages, but the other person hadn’t even looked at them.

Lately, they weren’t even logging into the app.

“That’s true,” Bai Shaoqi nodded, “He must be a member of some lab, why would he care about our small-time stuff.”

Just don’t know which lab this prodigy came from.

“Is Jiangjiang setting the questions for this joint exam?” Song Ming returned to the page, his voice cold.

“I heard it’s very difficult.” Northern City No.1 High School always had advance information. Bai Shaoqi had also heard teachers mention it. She smiled, “But this exam is testing comprehensive content, math isn’t like last time, leaning towards functions. Don’t worry, it’s your specialty.”

Of course.

The two of them couldn’t imagine.

This time, what they needed to worry about was far more than just math.

Xu En returned to Jiangjiang a week later to prepare for the wedding.

After Lu Xiaohan’s video was posted, it went viral again, reaching 10 million views. The Yiyi Martial Arts Gym also gained some fame because of this, with many old masters coming to apply for jobs, and they took in a wave of students.

Meanwhile, Ming Donghen practiced his fist techniques on the plum blossom stakes day after day.

The final exams at Xiangcheng No.1 High School finally arrived.

Every year, students were both excited and nervous about the final exams.

“Everyone, be quiet,” Lu Lingxi stood on the podium, speaking seriously, “Tomorrow’s exam will be very difficult. If you encounter something you don’t know, just skip it and don’t let it affect the next subject. This relates to whether you can have a good year, understand?”

“Understood,” the students of Class 15 dragged out their voices.

Without Zhang Shize, Class 15 had indeed lost some vitality. Wen Qi and the others didn’t even go play ball anymore.

Lu Lingxi’s gaze fell on Bailian and Ning Xiao. Both were quietly doing problems. She gradually calmed down.

The final joint exam still followed the college entrance exam system.

On the first day, Chinese was in the morning.

After the exam, the people in Class 15 instantly wilted.

“Who on earth set these questions?” Lu Xiaohan complained to Bailian during lunch, “Who could understand that classical Chinese passage?”

Bailian, eating beside her, lazily looked up and glanced at Lu Xiaohan.

Lu Xiaohan: “… Huh? You understood it?”

Bailian raised an eyebrow.

Lu Xiaohan felt somewhat devastated. No way, you actually understood that?

Ning Xiao opposite her and Tang Ming, who had joined them, were used to this. After all, have you seen someone who treats the Jiangjiang University APP exam questions as a problem set to practice?

Math was in the afternoon.

This time, the questions were truly difficult. Even Ning Xiao, who had been specially trained by Jiang Fuli, seemed absent-minded after the exam.

In the backyard of the Zhang family, only Bailian, who was trimming iris flowers with scissors, looked normal.

“Was your exam that difficult?” Mrs. Zhang, holding a watering can, asked the only normal person, Bailian, in surprise, “Why are they all like this?”

“Huh?” Bailian trimmed the iris flowers methodically, arranging them one by one in a vase. She was going to visit Yan Lu tomorrow, “It was okay. As for them… I don’t know.”

She didn’t feel it was particularly difficult.

At least she finished it.

Tang Ming, who accidentally overheard nearby, turned back and patted Ning Xiao’s shoulder expressionlessly, “Study god, did you see the last question?”

Ning Xiao looked up at him: “…”

Tang Ming let out a sigh of relief, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead: “Thank goodness, at least I have you with me.”

Mrs. Zhang quietly watched Bailian arrange flowers. Unlike Zhang Shize, Bailian trimmed them very well, showing some skill in flower arranging.

Had she learned this?

Mrs. Zhang was surprised.

The next day.

Science comprehensive exam in the morning.

Bailian looked through the paper from beginning to end, first completing physics, then biology, and finally picking up her pen for chemistry.

She had been studying chemistry for the past month.

After finishing, she still handed in her paper early, but this time, she was only twenty minutes early.

On the school’s main road, several teachers who weren’t supervising exams were chatting with the principal. From afar, the principal saw Bailian, “Student Bai, how was the exam?”

He asked with a smile.

Bailian, carrying her schoolbag, stopped and greeted each teacher and the principal: “I wrote what I could.”

Today, her collar was embroidered with elegant lotus flowers, and her light blue skirt resembled clear waves. The green lotus leaves rolled with waves as she walked, with faint lotus flowers hidden in between.

“This time the questions were very difficult,” the physics teacher had just received the sealed questions and could tell the difficulty level at a glance, “It’s normal if you didn’t finish. Don’t feel pressured.”

He thought Bailian meant she hadn’t finished, including physics.

“Okay, thank you, teacher.” Bailian lowered her eyelashes and nodded.

The principal found Bailian more and more pleasing to the eye, his voice becoming extremely gentle, “Student Bai, go rest for now. There’s still the English exam in the afternoon.”

After Bailian left, the group of teachers started discussing her grades.

Throughout this semester, in every exam, Bailian’s math and physics scores were always perfect.

Only biology and chemistry were her weak points.

But biology was better than chemistry.

Now she was slowly catching up in chemistry too. Not just the students, but the teachers were also curious about how well she would do in the final exam.

“Do you think she might surpass Ning Xiao this time?” someone asked.

The principal pointed at the chemistry teacher, “You’d have to ask him about that.”

The chemistry teacher shook his head, looking completely cold: “Chemistry is difficult this time, she doesn’t have an advantage. In chemistry… she might get around 40 or 50 points, passing would be tough.”

In the last monthly test, the questions were very basic, and Bailian only got 40 points.

This month, the chemistry teacher knew Bailian had made great progress, but for some reason, the final joint exam questions were extremely brutal. He and Ning Xiao had similar thoughts – this kind of question didn’t give an advantage to Bailian, who was just starting to learn chemistry.

He was now very humble, not daring to have high expectations for Bailian.

“That’s already very high!” The physics teacher knew the intensity of these questions, “She has a chance to compete with Ning Xiao!”

Forty to fifty points would be considered an average score.

“So,” the principal grasped the key point, “in this joint exam, we might have two students ranking in the top 30 of the province?”

Of course, the physics teacher and chemistry teacher based their analysis on Bailian’s performance this semester, thinking that at most, Bailian might be on par with Ning Xiao this time.

But how could they know?

Bailian had now put aside everything else and started seriously studying chemistry and biology. She had even stopped practicing math and physics problems on the app for the sake of these two subjects…

You ask how well Bailian could learn these two subjects?

She was the only female disciple that the millennial imperial tutor Liang Zewen had ever accepted as an exception!

Back then, when she attended school in place of Bai Chongyu, she also learned martial arts from the teacher, multitasking in a way that made later generations exclaim that she was owed a top scholar title. Only by personally experiencing such a scene of extraordinary talent could you feel…

Just how shocking Bai Xiangchun was to be able to break through the encirclement among such a group of geniuses in the prosperous era of Da Yong.