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After Zhou Ye left, Wang Zian stayed in Beijing for an extra day.

He went to ByteDance to return the car.

Zhang Yiming took the car keys in the office and asked him how the exam went.

Wang Zian said it was alright.

Zhang Yiming glanced at him, but didn't ask any further questions. He simply said, "Just leave the car keys here. I'll have someone drive them back later."

Then he escorted Wang Zi'an to the company entrance and patted him on the shoulder.

Good luck on the college entrance exam! Come to Beijing as soon as you're done.

Wang Zian nodded, turned and left.

On his way to the high-speed rail station, Wang Zian received a message from Meng Ziyi.

"Junior brother, junior brother, are you there?" Before he could reply, she sent another message, "It seems you did very well on your third exam!"

Upon seeing this message, Wang Zian didn't know how to reply.

"Guess how I knew?" Sister Meng sent another message.

Before he could speak, Sister Meng continued to send messages.

"One of your examiners in the third round was my academic advisor; I secretly asked her about it!"

Prince An raised an eyebrow.

What a coincidence?

It was such a coincidence that one of his examiners was He Xuanlin, the one who stood up to read out the exam rules, and also Sister Meng's advisor.

"Really? Thank you, Sister Meng!" Wang Zian replied.

Meanwhile, in the dean's office of the Department of Performing Arts at the Beijing Film Academy, Meng Ziyi was sitting on the sofa, holding her phone, with a nervous look on her face, as if she had done something wrong.

Sister Meng looked up, read Wang Zi'an's reply aloud, and then asked, "Teacher Wang, Dean Wang, what should we do?"

She was called to the dean's office in the afternoon, and she thought it was because the dean disagreed with her request to take leave to record a variety show. She had been mentally rehearsing her response the whole way.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a conversation with that handsome junior brother, a way to subtly inquire about the situation.

Dean Wang and Teacher Wang exchanged a glance and shook their heads together.

"Ask him what he's doing? Just say you invited him to dinner?"

Sister Meng's eyes flashed, she nodded, and quickly sent out the message.

"I'm on my way home~!"

Sister Meng looked at the dean; now she was just a ruthless messaging machine.

"In that case, just tell him to study hard, and hopefully we'll see him at the Beijing Film Academy this September!"

"Ah~!" Sister Meng's finger paused on the top of the screen, and her expression suddenly became somewhat hesitant.

She glanced at Wang Jinsong, then at Wang Chunzai, pursed her lips, and spoke:

"Isn't the dean being a bit inappropriate? It's a bit too ambiguous! She has a boyfriend!"

The office fell silent.

It wasn't just ordinary quiet; it was a silence as if all the air had been suddenly sucked away.

Wang Jinsong and Wang Chunzai were caught off guard by Sister Meng's sudden words.

Wang Chunzai closed his eyes speechlessly, his eyelids twitching slightly.

Wang Jinsong had no choice but to pick up his teacup, blow on it, and take a small sip.

The two of them had the same thought pop into their minds at the same time.

"They're all my students, my own students!"

When Wang Zian saw the message from Sister Meng telling him to study hard, the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

Compared to the possibility of failing the art exam, there's no way I'll make a mistake in the college entrance exam.

However, Sister Meng meant well, and he replied with "received".

However, when he exited the subway station, he received another message from Sister Meng.

They popped up one by one.

"Junior brother, those messages were sent by the dean! They really like you!"

"Your passing the art exam is absolutely a sure thing!"

"If you're going home, have a safe trip! When you come to Beijing, I'll treat you to dinner!"

"Oh, and don't forget to boost my viewership! I'm going to be on a variety show soon, so remember to watch it!"

Sister Meng spoke the truth so frankly and directly, and chatted with me without any hesitation.

That's a really great personality!

All her thoughts were laid bare; she couldn't hide them even if she wanted to, and it seemed she had no intention of hiding them anyway.

He leaned against a pillar in the waiting hall and sent her a message.

"Okay, if I come over in September, let's get together again!"

After replying to the message, Wang Zian thought for a moment and then sent a message to Zhou Ye.

"Get on the bus!"

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Luocheng Experimental High School.

Class 1, Grade 3

Prince An has been back for a week.

On his first day back, he was surrounded by his classmates who asked him all sorts of questions.

When class ended, the aisle next to his seat was surrounded by several people within two seconds.

However, things calmed down afterward.

After all, as the top students in the school, everyone still has to face the college entrance examination.

Only his closest friends were secretly excited for a while.

However, the ducks he brought back were all eaten up by everyone.

Secretly sharing roast duck during self-study class was probably the most undisciplined thing our class did during the entire senior year sprint.

If he hadn't left the two ducks he'd saved for his parents in the rented room beforehand, they probably wouldn't even be left now.

As for the homeroom teacher and several subject teachers, he secretly gave them to them when there were fewer people in the office during lunch break.

When Wang Jianguo took the brown paper bag, he glanced at him, didn't mention the roast duck, but instead pulled him to a secluded corner of the corridor and said in a low voice:

"I know what you're thinking. Now is the most crucial time for you. Don't forget your original path just because you went to the capital and saw some new things."

Don't let your heart wander!

Wang Zian nodded seriously to his old teacher.

His gaze was as steady as ever. The homeroom teacher patted him on the shoulder and sent him back to the classroom.

Life settled down, and after the initial excitement of "Wang Zian went to take the Beijing Film Academy entrance exam" wore off, the students were quickly overwhelmed by exam papers and mock exams again.

No one asked him about the art exam anymore.

But Zhou Ye wouldn't do that.

The two contacted each other almost every day, but they mostly talked about everyday life.

Every day after school, when Wang Zian returned to his rented room and turned on his phone, he would always see a red number hanging in the upper right corner of her profile picture.

He read them one by one, and then replied to them one by one.

On the day the results of the third test were released, Zhou Ye made him many phone calls.

Unfortunately, Wang Zian never brings his phone to class.

When I got back to my rented room that night, all the missed calls on my phone were from the same name, and all the WeChat messages were from the same name.

The latest messages read: "Results are in!"

"I passed!"

"I checked for you using your exam number, and guess how it went?"

"Why aren't you replying to my messages yet! Did you forget your phone again?!"

"Okay! You probably forgot your phone again."

Wang Zian glanced at the clock on the wall; it was already past ten o'clock.

He leaned against the desk, opened his contacts, and dialed the number.

The phone was answered after only three rings, as if she had been holding it in her hand the whole time.

"Hey~! Wang Zian, why didn't you answer your phone during the day~!"

Zhou Ye's voice boomed from the receiver, crisp and bright, with the sounds of clinking cups and plates and distant shouts of ordering food in the background.

She's probably celebrating outside.

Moreover, I told her a few days ago that she couldn't bring her phone to school, and she still asked that question.

Fortunately, Zhou Ye was just asking casually, and then he heard her excitedly shout, "We both passed the third round of testing, did you know that?"

"Really? I understand."

Wang Zian pulled up a chair and sat down, holding the phone in one hand and pressing the power button on the computer with the other.

Today his novel finished, and he needed to write an author's note. He originally planned to write it when he got home, but he was interrupted by Zhou Ye's message.

"Tch! You're not excited at all. This is clearly the Beijing Film Academy!" Zhou Ye's voice carried a hint of resentment as he complained.

Then her tone suddenly lowered and softened, changing from her previous excitement to a quieter, gentler tone, as if she were talking to herself.

"I was hoping to go to school with you."

These past few days, the girl has been talking to him about what she'll be doing after she goes to the Beijing Film Academy, and she keeps hinting that he should come with her.

Including Sister Meng, this is the second person who encouraged me.

Wang Zian's fingers paused on the keyboard for a moment, but he didn't respond.

When Zhou Ye heard that Wang Zi'an remained silent, he realized that he might have gone too far.

"Coconut, are you going to eat it or not?"

A muffled female voice came from the other end of the receiver; it was probably Zhou Ye's classmate calling her.

"Oh! You guys eat first, I'll come over later!"

Zhou Ye held the phone a little further away and shouted something, then brought the receiver back to his mouth, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that; I might have been a little too excited."

"It's nothing~!" Wang Zian opened the computer's editing page, and the cursor blinked on the blank document.

What are you doing right now?

"I'm going to write something!" Wang Zian answered truthfully.

"What are you doing? Homework?" Zhou Ye's voice was full of curiosity. "You do your homework as soon as you get home from school. You love studying too much."

The two chatted privately for many days and got to know each other's daily lives.

Zhou Ye knew that Wang Zi'an liked reading and had excellent grades, while Wang Zi'an knew that Zhou Ye loved food and enjoyed cooking.

"No, it's just writing a reflection."

"Huh?" Zhou Ye didn't understand, but he didn't ask any further questions.

Zhou Ye thought to himself, "He's probably going to write some kind of speech by an outstanding student representative!"

"Then you write it! I'm going to get something to eat!"

"I came out to celebrate with my classmates today. They specially found a dessert shop and ordered a huge ice cream cake. It's going to melt if we don't eat it soon."

"Hahaha~!" Wang Zian joked with a laugh; "Then you'd better hurry up and go! They'll eat all the good food in no time!"

"Knowing that, why don't you hurry up and hang up!" Zhou Ye suddenly became arrogant.

"Beep beep beep~~!"

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