ATLAS TRANSLATES

The language arts test paper had a certain level of difficulty. Bailian wrote very quickly, her handwriting clear and neat.

This Guange style calligraphy with her own flair, when the invigilating teacher saw the characters she wrote on the answer sheet, they didn’t want to leave.

They stood beside her watching for a full five minutes.

When they realized, the teacher hurriedly left, afraid of putting too much pressure on the student.

After walking to the podium, only then did she look towards Bailian—

This student was still sitting properly, unhurriedly turning over the answer sheet. Even though the teacher had just stood beside her for so long, it didn’t affect her speed at all.

This mental fortitude made the invigilating teacher secretly amazed.

Although Lu Lingxi had already given Class 15 a heads-up, at noon, the students of Class 15 still sat together complaining about this joint exam.

“This time I didn’t understand the poetry appreciation at all,” Zhang Shize shoveled a mouthful of food and started grumbling. “And the essay, what was it trying to say? Telling us to study well?”

The essay consisted of several lines of classical Chinese that they had to write about based on the theme. Zhang Shize had no clue.

“Idiot,” as soon as he said this, Wen Qi mocked him. “It’s telling you to be a decent person!”

Zhang Shize thought Wen Qi was messing with him, until Ning Xiao nodded at him. Zhang Shize: “…”

“I heard,” Lu Xiaohuan frowned and told them the news she overheard the teachers chatting about during the exam, “we won’t have joint exams anymore after the final exam.”

“That’s great,” Zhang Shize’s eyes lit up. “But why?”

Ning Xiao calmly interjected, “The ten schools of Northern City don’t want to bring us along anymore.”

Hearing this explanation, Zhang Shize was stunned and frowned, “I admit I’m dumb, but you guys aren’t.”

Wen Qi, who had wanted to mock Zhang Shize again, also quieted down. He rubbed his head, “Is it because we’re dragging everyone down?”

They knew about the school’s training classes.

Everyone in there was very impressive.

“It has nothing to do with you guys.” Ning Xiao shook his head.

At noon, the guilty Zhang Shize was rarely seen holding a math book and reading it.

Of course, he couldn’t understand any of it.

(Smiley face)

**

In the afternoon, math.

When they got the test papers, not to mention the others, even Ning Xiao and Chen Zhu couldn’t help but wail.

Northern City made the questions “either difficult enough to kill you or make it even more deadly difficult”.

The difficulty was probably like this—

[Please state how many stars are in the Milky Way, calculate their quantity, and mark their positions]

Many people were brought to tears by the difficulty.

The last question was a rare function problem, two simple small questions, both asking for the range of values for a under different conditions of the function. The question was very short.

The shorter the question, the harder it was.

Of course, for most people, they didn’t even have time to glance at the last three big questions.

Bailian finished the math exam with ten minutes to spare.

She checked the test paper from beginning to end, then handed it in.

The invigilating teacher was sitting at the podium with his legs crossed. Seeing Bailian turn in the paper, he thought she didn’t know how to do it and lifted his chin at her, telling her to put the answer sheet up there.

After Bailian left, only then did he glance at the test paper.

When he flipped to the second page, he was a bit stunned. This student had actually finished writing everything?

But he was a history teacher. Even if Bailian had finished writing, he couldn’t understand it.

After turning in the test paper, there were no students out yet in the school.

Bailian took her pen and test paper to the milk tea shop.

Through the glass, she saw Jiang He and Jiang Fuli sitting facing each other. There was still a laptop in front of Jiang Fuli, his lashes lowered as he browsed files on the computer. Even through the window, his cold side profile could be seen.

His pale white fingertips tapped on the computer keyboard, exuding a careless and aloof air.

He must have sensed her gaze, glancing out the window, raising his eyebrows.

“You haven’t been very busy these past two days.” Bailian lifted the beaded curtain and entered, the melodious sound of wind chimes ringing. She casually sat beside Jiang He and leaned back.

Jiang Fuli pushed the four books beside his hand to Bailian, his tone light, “Isn’t that because I wanted to congratulate you in person.”

Bailian then remembered the “Congratulations” he had replied with yesterday.

She nodded and looked down at the four books.

Two were chemistry and biology books from Jiangjing University, and the other two were problem sets from Jiangjing Affiliated High School.

“I’ve done the two problem sets before,” Jiang Fuli tapped the table absentmindedly with his fingertips, “The quality is decent.”

For him to describe them as decent, the problem sets must be quite good.

“How was the exam?” He casually asked about this joint exam.

Bailian propped one hand on the book and took the unopened milk tea on the table with the other, lazily, “Easy.”

Using the laziest posture to say the most arrogant words.

The math questions only reached the difficulty of the Jiangjing University app in the last question.

Jiang Fuli was well aware of her recent domination of the math and physics questions on the app, otherwise how would someone come knocking, “Did you turn on blocking on the app?”

“Yep.” Bailian inserted the straw and took a sip, her voice unhurried.

“There’s a quantum mechanics teacher who wants to find you.” Jiang Fuli guessed, looking like he didn’t really want to say it, but he knew where Bailian’s interests lay, “He’s very good at physics and quantum mechanics.”

Bailian’s eyes were bright, “Compared to you?”

Jiang Xiaoniao listening on the side felt her head throb. In the whole world, only she dared to use Young Master Jiang as a measuring tool.

“Second only to me.” Young Master Jiang smiled.

After getting Bailian’s agreement, Jiang Fuli opened his phone and tapped on a chat window.

It still showed the other party’s messages: [She’s ignoring me]

[She’s still ignoring me]

[Damn it, she’s still leaving me on read!]

Jiang Fuli looked at it for a while, then slowly replied to him.

Young Master Jiang: [Is that so]

Dean Ma: [Yep, you don’t know, she’s even more aloof than you (sobbing)]

Young Master Jiang: [No way]

Young Master Jiang: [[Image]]

Young Master Jiang: [Look, she even followed me]

Dean Ma: [……………]

Young Master Jiang enjoyed it fully before arrogantly pushing Bailian’s card over.

Dean Ma on the other end of the phone: “……”

Jiangjing Affiliated High School.

The principal thought about it all night but still couldn’t figure it out.

At this moment, he called the biology and chemistry teachers to have a meeting together, “Did you not set the questions well? Were there any mistakes?”

The teachers all looked like he was talking nonsense, “The questions were all reviewed by us, how could there possibly be mistakes?!”

Those who could teach here, which one didn’t have ability.

They naturally wouldn’t allow the principal to slander them like this.

The answers were very confident.

“I thought so too,” the principal put his hands on the table and slowly raised his head, “But last night, Steward Jiang asked me for the chemistry and biology problem sets, Young Master Jiang requested them by name.”

The cup in the hand of the teacher who just spoke shook a little. He held his glasses with difficulty, “…Wait, it’s possible there really were mistakes, we’ll go back and check.”

** North City No.1 High.

The students here were not relaxed even after finishing the math exam.

Bai Shaoqi ranked three places behind Song Min, sitting three seats behind him. After the bell rang, she had just finished the second to last big question.

The teacher was collecting papers. Seeing that she was still writing, he skipped her and collected the others’ first, only gently reminding her at the end, “It’s time to turn in the paper.”

Bai Shaoqi handed the paper to the teacher.

Only then did she pack up her things.

Song Min waited for her at the door. Bai Shaoqi sighed, “Did you do the last question?”

“No,” Song Min shook his head, “The previous calculations were too much, I had just finished reading the last question.”

If given enough time, he should have been able to do the last question.

The joint exam questions were always very difficult. The question setters were hired by North City at a high price from the college entrance exam team and olympiad team. Although difficult, the knowledge points involved were extensive.

Each question taken out was a classic.

“You two are really abnormal,” someone beside them muttered, “I didn’t even get a clear look at what the second-to-last question was like. But now that the exam is over, how many points do you two think you can get? Let me say first, Young Master Song, this time I bet on you being first.”

“I bet on Shaoqi!”

“……”

“Anyway, it’s either me or him,” Bai Shaoqi found it amusing, “Do you guys want to open betting every time?”

“This is the fun part.”

“……”

Song Min went with Bai Shaoqi to the Bai family to get the jade pendant.

Bai Qiming was burning incense in the ancestral hall. Hearing that Bai Shaoqi was back, he hurried out from the ancestral hall, “Shaoqi, I’ll accompany you to Jiangjing tomorrow.”

“No need.” Bai Shaoqi refused.

Beside them, an elder uncle of the clan objected, “No, Shaoqi, this is a big deal for our Bai family. That is Dean Jian, you passed his first interview, Qiming must go with you.”

Bai Shaoqi was not surprised by their attitude.

Steward Bai returned Song Min’s jade pendant to him. It was half of a white jade dragon and phoenix pendant.

Seeing the familiar jade pendant, Song Min breathed a sigh of relief.

Beside them, Bai Qiming and the clan’s elder uncle knew what this jade pendant was. The two of them sat on the sofa and picked up their tea cups, pretending not to see.

Compared to Bai Lian, they wanted Bai Shaoqi to take over this engagement more.

Only Steward Bai hesitantly spoke, “I heard that the eldest miss’ guzheng playing seems to be very good, and also, it seems she transferred to the science stream.”

This was what he saw on Ji Mulan’s moments.

“Transferred to science?” Bai Shaoqi gave a laugh that wasn’t quite a laugh.

Song Min was also very silent.

Bai Qiming thought of Bai Lian being kicked out of Class 1 and frowned.

Uncle smoothly changed the subject with a chuckle, “Oh? Is her playing better than Shaoqi’s?”

Steward Bai gave an embarrassed laugh.

How could they compare?

“Alright,” Bai Shaoqi turned to go upstairs, “Don’t compare just anyone to me.”

“Of course, Miss, you passed the first round of Dean Jian’s interview, how can they compare.” Realizing he spoke too much, Steward Bai hurriedly changed the subject.

No one present was interested in Bai Lian’s current life.

Behind her, Bai Qiming watched Bai Shaoqi’s back, the more he looked the more satisfied he was. He said to Song Min, “You two have joint exams these two days right? Last year Shaoqi’s older brother was North City’s top scholar, this cohort it’s up to you.”

** Thursday.

In the morning was the science comprehensive exam.

Bailian looked at the large science test paper. She first skipped chemistry and biology and finished physics.

The physics difficulty was the same as math.

But she still did it very quickly.

After finishing, she slowly started looking for the biology questions. Her genetics was the best in biology. She also did practice questions that day. Encountering particularly tricky ones, she could still do one or two.

When she finished all the ones she could do.

Only chemistry was left.

She fell silent for a moment and looked at the first question–

[The high-performance polymer material polycarbonate isobutanol ester with excellent optical properties is prepared by the following reaction…]

Bailian: “……”

What the heck, goodbye.

There was still time, she couldn’t hand it in so early.

She simply put the science paper aside, took out some scratch paper and started writing out the chemical equations she had memorized last night. Jiang Fuli said there was no need to do practice questions when starting chemistry.

First memorize all the equations.

She wrote out all the chemical elements, and wrote reactions from sodium chloride and sodium hydroxide all the way to passivation phenomena.

After writing, it was time to turn in the paper. She went up and turned in the answer sheet.

In the afternoon, after the English exam.

The students of Class 15 didn’t leave, they all stayed in the classroom, waiting for Lu Lingxi to come back and lead them to eat hotpot.

** At the same time.

In the principal’s office.

When Lu Lingxi came, the principal was meeting with someone from the Education Bureau.

“Teacher Lu, you came at the right time,” the distressed principal saw Lu Lingxi and immediately stood up, “Tell Director Pan, how is student Ning Xiao’s estimated score this exam?”

Director Pan also looked at Lu Lingxi full of hope.

Lu Lingxi thought briefly. She had asked Ning Xiao, “He didn’t do the last math question, probably only around 122 points. The other subjects are also average.”

Director Pan was the director of the Ministry of Education’s general office. He was in charge of education in Xiangcheng. He also received a report on North City’s big move this time.

It would be the last joint exam.

Hearing that Ning Xiao got 122 in math, he was very worried, “That’s quite a big gap, it will be tough for him to make the top twenty in North City.”

There was no way around it, the difference in educational resources did exist.

Here, wanting to get a spot on Jiangjing University’s app was harder than ascending to the heavens. North City No.1 High had ten spots even if they did nothing.

“What about Chen Zhe?” Director Pan remembered him.

The principal shook his head, “No, his total score this monthly exam was lower than Ning Xiao’s.”

In an instant, the atmosphere in the office fell silent again.

The principal picked up his teacup and took a sip. The cold tea slid down his throat and he calmed down, “Looks like we can only withdraw from the joint exam.”

Lu Lingxi looked out the window, “Doing our best is enough.”

She said goodbye and left the office.

Director Pan’s energy and spirit instantly withered. He got up, “I’ll also…”

“Wait,” the principal suddenly thought of something, “Actually there’s one more person.”

“Who?”

“Student Bai Lian, in the past two monthly exams, she was first in math and physics, with perfect scores.” The principal put down his teacup with a “clack”.

“150?” Director Pan’s eyes lit up.

“But Student Bai Lian…” the principal paused slightly, “Her chemistry is not very good.”

Director Pan instantly felt something was off and hesitated, “…How much is her chemistry?”

“0.” The principal said bleakly.

“Ah, this…” Director Pan’s heart instantly felt like a few leaves blown away by the autumn wind, chilled to the bone, “Then it’s useless, can she beat those few from North City No.1 High in just math and physics?”

“You have a point.” The principal sighed.

The two fell silent again.

Of course.

They all felt that the Xiangcheng monthly exam questions were much simpler than the joint exam.

Bai Lian getting perfect scores in just math and physics wasn’t very special, after all Ning Xiao and Chen Zhe had also gotten perfect scores before.

But once it came to the joint exam, the gap between Ning Xiao, Chen Zhe and North City No.1 High became very obvious.

Of course they didn’t know, the joint exam questions were indeed very difficult, but could they be harder than the Jiangjing prep app?

Bai Lian’s monthly exam math 150, physics 110…

That was just the limit of the paper, not the limit of someone surnamed Bai!