Chapter 1570 — A Chance Encounter Once Again
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"Wei Zhao?" The voice carried a note of pleasant surprise, yet it was also familiar.
Wei Zhao turned his head and was astonished to find that seated across the aisle from his own seat was none other than someone he knew!
"Wang Xinyan?" Wei Zhao could not help but feel the world was truly too small, to be able to run into Wang Xinyan here! Come to think of it, the two of them were genuinely fated to cross paths - on the train they had sat side by side; on the plane they had sat side by side; and now at the college entrance examination, they were seated side by side once again!
Wang Xinyan had evidently thought of the same thing. She smiled faintly. "What a coincidence, truly."
"Yes, and we were even assigned to the same examination room!" Wei Zhao too marveled at how small the world was!
Generally speaking, the chances of encountering an acquaintance inside a single examination room were slim. When candidates were being assigned, it was quite rare for classmates to be sorted into the same room - but Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan were not even classmates, nor did they attend the same school, yet here they were, meeting in the most improbable of circumstances.
"Good luck!" Wang Xinyan gave Wei Zhao a shy smile.
"You too!" Wei Zhao replied, then settled into his seat.
Though the examination had yet to begin, the room was already hushed, and Wei Zhao did not wish to speak too much.
He laid out his stationery on the desk without fuss, then waited for the examination to officially commence.
After a short while, a commotion arose outside the examination room door. Wei Zhao assumed the exam was about to begin, but the person who walked in was not an invigilator - it was a bald man with a cigarette dangling from his lips, accompanied by a yellow-haired youth carrying his bag!
"Young Master You, after you..." The yellow-haired youth made a respectful, deferential gesture and ushered the bald man called Young Master You into the examination room.
"What kind of shoddy place is this? Why assign me such a wretched examination room?" The young man called Young Master You frowned, wearing a thoroughly displeased expression.
The classroom, which had still been murmuring, fell silent at once. Some students showed expressions of disgust, others adopted an indifferent, hands-off stance, and those seated closer to the newcomers felt a measure of fear.
"You're right, there is not even air conditioning here!" The yellow-haired youth echoed. "But Young Master You, it is only for a few hours - do make do?"
"Hell of a thing - if the family didn't put such stock in grades, I wouldn't have come to this dump!" Grumbling and cursing under his breath, Young Master You strode into the room, heading straight for Wei Zhao's side.
"Here it is!" The yellow-haired youth led the way and arrived at the seat behind Wang Xinyan, pointing at the note on the desk. "Young Master You, take your seat. If there is nothing else, I will head back to my own examination room?"
This yellow-haired youth was not in this examination room - he belonged to a different one and had come here solely to curry favor.
Young Master You nodded and followed him over, but instead of sitting in his own seat, he stood before Wang Xinyan's desk, casually picked up her admission ticket from the desk, glanced at it, and said, "Not bad, little lady - No. 2 Middle School, so you must be a good student! Once you finish writing, copy your answers onto the note and pass them over to me!"
Songshan City No. 2 Middle School was also a key high school, though not a private one but a public institution. Its teaching quality was not much inferior to No. 1 High School - the difference lay in admission: getting into No. 2 High School was actually more difficult than No. 1. Every student there had earned their place by sitting the regular high school entrance examination. Unlike private schools such as No. 1 High School, there were no self-funded students.