Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

I lifted the plastic curtain of the restaurant; the rain had stopped. Like a child crying, the rain came quickly and stopped just as fast.

The streetlights were scattered around, and the two tacitly avoided walking together. Lu Mingfei followed behind, while Xiaotian walked alone ahead.

It seemed like this was the first time he had ever stood behind Su Xiaoqiang like this to observe her, but Lu Mingfei suddenly had a strange feeling that he had always been standing behind Su Xiaoqiang to observe her like this.

Perhaps it wasn't Lu Mingfei's imagination. Whether in her past life or this one, Xiao Tiannv was always like this, always walking alone, ahead of everyone else, like a knife cleaving through the night.

She's that kind of Super Girl; even if she breaks up with her boyfriend in front of everyone, she doesn't need to wait for anyone to save her.

No matter how difficult the level, she can complete it all by herself.

……

The next day was Tuesday, and the entrance exam was on Wednesday, so the time for review was quite tight.

Although Lu Mingfei only selected a few subjects and a few past middle school entrance exam papers to work through, it was not easy to finish all of them in two nights.

So when Lu Mingfei came to class on Tuesday, he brought some of the test papers to school and wrote them during the break between classes.

Seeing Lu Mingfei diligently working on his practice problems, Liu Miaomiao's mood blossomed like a flower. Unlike before, she didn't come over to chat with Lu Mingfei every now and then.

Instead, they devoted all their time to Lu Mingfei's review.

As a prestigious private high school, Shilan High School's research team consists of top-tier teachers recruited from renowned schools at great expense, resulting in a remarkably high level of question-setting ability. The difficulty level is almost identical to that of the national college entrance examination (Gaokao).

Basically, by referring to the rankings of previous years' results at Sze Lan Secondary School, you can estimate the approximate range of your own grades.

Excluding those who went abroad to study, a total of 9 students from the previous graduating class of Shilan High School were admitted to Tsing Hua University and Imperial College London. Therefore, students whose grades are ranked 1st to 20th in the grade all have a chance to get into Tsing Hua University and Imperial College London.

Students like Zhao Menghua, who entered the university with the highest score in the entire school, and Su Xiaoqiang, who entered the university with the top three scores in the entire school, are both considered top contenders for admission to Tsinghua University and Imperial University.

Liu Miaomiao's grades are around 40th in her grade. This is a bit far from Tsinghua University, but if her goal is a top-five university in China, then she is quite confident.

Liu Miaomiao also calculated for Lu Mingfei that the first-tier university admission rate of Shilan Middle School in the previous year reached 70%, and the minimum score for Shanghai University of Technology was 52 points higher than the first-tier university admission line.

If Lu Mingfei can rank in the top 45% of his grade in his senior year of high school, he will be pretty much guaranteed admission to Shanghai University of Science and Technology.

In 2006, the first-tier university admission rate of Shilan Middle School reached 70%, which was actually a rather terrifying achievement.

It's important to understand that at this time, there hadn't been any expansion of higher education enrollment, and many universities hadn't been upgraded yet. The number of students admitted to top-tier universities was far lower than in later years.

Lu Mingfei's entrance exam scores were in the bottom 10% of the entire school, so Liu Miaomiao didn't criticize him too much for his grades.

She would be quite satisfied if Lu Mingfei could get into the top 80% of his grade this time.

After all, learning isn't something you can master overnight. There's still a long time in high school, so progress takes time!

Once Lu Mingfei's grades improved to around 70%, Liu Miaomiao planned to try to persuade her father to let Lu Mingfei come to her weekend tutoring sessions with her.

The reason she didn't bring this up now is because Liu Miaomiao felt that the gap between Lu Mingfei's and her own foundational knowledge was still too large. Lu Mingfei was likely unable to digest the course content she was currently taking.

It would be better to wait until Lu Mingfei reaches a level similar to that of a first-year university student before taking classes with him.

……

Of course, different people will have different feelings when they see Lu Mingfei studying.

For example, Liu Miaomiao felt happy when she saw Lu Mingfei studying.

Seeing that Lu Mingfei had completely dropped his pretense and was even doing practice problems during the ten-minute break between classes, Su Xiaoqiang had mixed feelings.

When the other students saw how hard Lu Mingfei was studying, they secretly praised him as the "King of Exams," but that was about it; they didn't have any deeper feelings about it.

When Zhao Menghua saw his "elementary school classmate" Lu Mingfei studying, he felt a deep sense of disdain.

Even when some classmates around him were praising Lu Mingfei's good paper, Zhao Menghua deliberately snorted disdainfully and said that someone who entered the high school entrance exam at the very bottom of the class could not possibly get good grades even if he studied harder.

Of course, Lu Mingfei simply shrugged at Zhao Menghua's mockery and continued doing his own thing.

Actually, when you think about it carefully, Zhao Menghua and Lu Mingfei don't really have any real grudges. At most, Lu Mingfei blocked Zhao Menghua's romantic interests during the graduation trip and even used Zhao Menghua as a background figure to show off in front of everyone.

However, this very point made Zhao Menghua very unhappy.

Who is this Young Master Zhao? He was born into privilege, born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Of course, it would be fine if he were just rich, but the problem is that not only is Young Master Zhao's family rich, but he is also very intelligent. He can read and write at the age of three, and he can fight at the age of four. At the age of five, he became the leader of the children in the elite kindergarten.

Besides these gifts from heaven, Young Master Zhao also worked exceptionally hard, consistently ranking among the top two in his grade from elementary to junior high school.

This kind of arrogant protagonist, who treats everyone else as background figures, is like a character from a domineering CEO novel. Among all the high schools in the city, only Chu Zihang from Shilan High School can probably outshine Young Master Zhao.

In his third year of junior high school, Zhao Gongzi inadvertently learned from a classmate the name of Chu Zihang, who was ranked first on the list of "Deserving of Punishment" at Shilan Middle School.

Perhaps because he had been a lone wolf in his old high school days for too long, when Zhao Menghua heard the legend of Chu Zihang, he actually felt a sense of camaraderie among heroes.

The feeling was like Ye Gucheng, who had been invincible for a long time, suddenly hearing about Ximen Chuixue, and his lonely, long-dormant heart finally began to throb again at this moment.

Chu Zihang is his Ximen Chuixue, a new NPC that appears in the next story chapter after he completes one chapter of the story. He is another version of himself and the destined opponent he is about to challenge.

To put it bluntly, he filled in Shilan Middle School as his college entrance exam choice specifically because he wanted to be with Chu Zihang.

He wanted to see for himself who this dream boy of all nine thousand girls in the six grades of Shilan High School was. At the same time, he set surpassing Chu Zihang as his goal for the three years of high school.

Young Master Zhao will not allow anyone in the city to be more powerful than him.

However, before Zhao Menghua could even meet Chu Zihang, he was first defeated and his lover cut off by Lu Mingfei, a notorious loser from Shilan Middle School.

It felt like he had mistaken himself for Ye Gucheng and barged into the territory of Ximen Chuixue and Chu Zihang, whom he thought were his nemesis, only to find that he couldn't even beat Lu Mingfei, a loser sent by the other side.

Upon closer inspection of the sign, it became clear that this was not Shilan Middle School at all, but Xia Ke Dao (侠客岛).

And he himself was not Ye Gucheng, but Bai Zizai, who was arrogant and considered the best in the world.

He thought he was invincible and powerful, but he couldn't even beat a random henchman on Xia Ke Island.

However, this time, Zhao Gongzi's chance to turn things around has arrived.

In terms of physical strength, he might not be able to beat Lu Mingfei, who could take down the instructors, but when it comes to academic performance, Young Master Zhao has never been afraid of anyone in his life.

……

I was busy with my resignation procedures today, so the update is a little late. Sorry. The next chapter will be posted at midnight. Starting in May, I will gradually adjust the update schedule to one chapter at noon and one chapter in the evening.

Chapter 104 is another ABB name.

There are nine subjects in total: Chinese, Mathematics, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Politics, History, and Geography. The exams are held over two and a half days.

Although it was just a simple entrance exam, the invigilation was still quite strict. Both the exam room setup and the invigilation process were basically in line with the college entrance examination model.

Each candidate has a seat, with a considerable distance between seats, and teachers walk around the examination room one in front and one behind.

"Mingfei, don't be too nervous, just play normally."

On the way to the exam venue, Liu Miaomiao was worried that Lu Mingfei would be too nervous, so she gave him some encouragement.

She and Lu Mingfei were not in the same examination room.

"Don't worry, even if the sky falls, this guy won't be nervous. He might even have the leisure to go to an internet cafe and play a couple of StarCraft games."

Before Lu Mingfei could answer, Su Xiaoqiang, who was walking with him, said sarcastically.

"What is StarCraft?" Liu Miaomiao asked, puzzled.

"An online game."

"Is it fun?"

"You'll have to ask Lu Mingfei; he likes to play."

Liu Miaomiao, walking between Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang, seemed to be deep in thought. She realized that her best friend and the boy she liked seemed to have some shared experiences that she was unaware of.

……

The exam room arrangement was determined by the entrance exam scores. The top twenty students in the entrance exam were in the first exam room, students ranked 20th to 40th were in the second exam room, and so on.

Su Xiaoqiang, the "Little Fairy," was in the first examination room. Liu Miaomiao was in the last seat in the second examination room.

Lu Mingfei, on the other hand, was in examination room number forty-seven. He wasn't even in the same building as Liu Miaomiao and the others!

One advantage of this arrangement is that it helps to prevent plagiarism among students to some extent.

In the days before the internet was widespread, cheating methods, besides exchanging text messages between students, mainly relied on cheat sheets and sneaking glances. By placing students of similar academic ability in the same exam room, even if they wanted to cheat, they couldn't find much to copy.

After parting ways with Liu Miaomiao and Su Xiaoqiang at the foot of the teaching building, Lu Mingfei followed the crowd to the building where his exam room was located.

The students in this building were all unfamiliar with each other, and Lu Mingfei hadn't run into any of his classmates along the way. He walked to the last floor and found his exam room.

Since the exams haven't started yet, students are still allowed to talk and chat during this period.

Some people in the exam hall were already getting close to their classmates, talking about the subjects they were good at, and half-jokingly and half-seriously saying that they would "exchange ideas" more during the exam.

This phenomenon is quite common in exam rooms where students are at the bottom of the class. Although everyone is at the bottom, they all tend to have some subjects they are weak in.

If we have this "exchange," our ranking will jump a little higher next time.

Like Lu Mingfei in his past life, in this kind of bottom-ranked exam hall, he was a genius at Chinese language. A score of over 120 on the college entrance exam was enough to make him stand out from the crowd. This was all a result that Lu Mingfei had painstakingly obtained in order to get closer to Chen Wenwen.

Simps don't get houses.

……

However, whether it was just his imagination or not, the moment Lu Mingfei stepped into the examination room, he felt that the "conversations" in the room seemed to pause briefly. Everyone's eyes were focused on him for a moment.

It shouldn't be an illusion, because the pause was very obvious, so obvious that for a moment, Lu Mingfei even thought that the little devil had jumped out from some corner again.

However, Lu Mingze did not jump out. This time stop only lasted for a second or two, and then everyone resumed their previous actions.

Lu Mingfei immediately realized why everyone was looking at him. After all, military training had only just ended, and he had inexplicably caused some trouble during the training, so these people probably all recognized him.

However, as the military training ended, the aura of these "influential figures" gradually faded.

After all, military training is just a very short memory of high school. Once you enter the real high school life, who cares whether you defeated the instructor or hit the bullseye every time during military training?

The only ones who could truly become the talk of the town throughout high school were the talented, rich, and beautiful Chu Zihang, Xiao Tiannv, and Liu Miaomiao. Even Chen Wenwen paled in comparison.

However, Lu Mingfei didn't really care whether others valued him or not.

After all, they were all saviors who had been around the world several times. They were surrounded by learned people and no commoners. The least attractive person in their circle was a stunning beauty like Susie, who was almost at the top level. Well, the least attractive person should be Fingel, the number one good-for-nothing in Kassel. But even so, why would they care about such a small matter?

Lu Mingfei sat quietly in his seat, ready to wait for the exam to begin. But no sooner had he sat down than someone poked him on the back with a pen.

Subconsciously turning around, I saw a girl with quite good looks, only slightly less attractive than Chen Wenwen and her peers, smiling and greeting me.

"Long time no see, class monitor."

The moment Lu Mingfei heard the word "class monitor," he immediately remembered where he had seen this girl before. She was the class beauty from the next class, someone he had spent time with during military training.