“It’s time. You can’t enter.”
The invigilator grew even more displeased seeing her disheveled appearance. While speaking, he grabbed the bicycle handlebars and attempted to push the bike back through the gate gap.
“Teacher, please let me in. I didn’t mean to be late.”
Lin Xiyu grew anxious, also gripping the handlebars as she argued with the teacher: “On my way here, I rescued two people from the river, which delayed me…”
Rescuing people?
Why don’t you make up an even more outrageous story?!
The invigilator clearly didn’t believe her, snorting derisively. Just as he was about to mock her, two sets of hurried footsteps approached from behind.
“We can confirm that she did indeed rescue a mother and child who fell into the water.”
The two television station staff members appeared like timely rain, rescuing her from the awkward situation.
“Thank you.”
Overjoyed, Lin Xiyu instinctively turned around to express her gratitude.
“Oh my…”
The next second, seeing a dark camera lens pointed directly at her face, she felt her heart leap again, reflexively jumping back two meters.
“Heh.”
The cameraman carrying the equipment was amused by her horrified expression and couldn’t help but laugh.
“Hello teacher, we’re staff from the Jinan Television Station’s Spring Water Family Program Group. We were filming by the moat earlier and happened to witness this student’s rescue. We have video evidence…”
A female reporter holding a microphone produced her work credentials, identifying herself as she tried to communicate with the invigilator.
“Are you certain she was the one who performed the rescue?”
Seeing they were reporters, the invigilator’s tone noticeably softened.
“We followed her all the way here…”
The female reporter glanced at Lin Xiyu, raised her eyebrows, and smiled teasingly: “This student rides incredibly fast—almost as quick as Nezha’s Wind Fire Wheels. Our program vehicle nearly lost her.”
“Alright.”
Facing the camera, the invigilator straightened his posture and opened the school gate with solemn authority: “Since you can vouch for her, let her in. Just this once—no exceptions.”
The college entrance exam—isn’t this literally once in a lifetime?
As a miserable high school senior, even if given another chance, I wouldn’t retake it.
Lin Xiyu silently complained to herself. Meeting the invigilator’s scrutinizing gaze, she immediately switched to an expression of profound gratitude, bowing in thanks.
“Student, you may enter.”
“Good luck on your exam. Do your best.”
The female reporter found this amusing and raised a fist in encouragement.
“Thank you.”
Facing the reporter, Lin Xiyu’s smile became much more genuine.
She deftly straightened the handlebars and rode into the campus like a gust of wind.
Examination hall, classroom.
Lin Xiyu arrived at the classroom just before the invigilator finished distributing test papers, unsurprisingly drawing sidelong glances from other examinees.
Gu Bin’s eyelids twitched violently as he disdainfully averted his gaze. Yet his restless mood from the entire morning miraculously calmed at this moment.
Lin Xiyu glanced at Gu Bin and, seeing he wasn’t looking at her, secretly sighed in relief.
Gu Bin was the school heartthrob at their high school, her classmate.
Both had excellent academic records and competed intensely, neither wanting to lose to the other.
She didn’t want Gu Bin to see her in such a disheveled state—partly due to some indescribable, ambiguous feelings between them.
Who told that guy to look so devastatingly handsome, like a human-shaped spotlight with a built-in generator, so dazzling that she couldn’t help but pay attention to him.
The proctor, upholding professional integrity, didn’t give her a hard time and pointed to the only vacant seat in the classroom.