We agreed not to date, so why are you crying now that I've become the richest man?

Lin Wanqing stood there, feeling her face burning.

The gazes that had been watching the spectacle now fell upon her, making her feel incredibly stung.

She took a deep breath, forced back the tears welling in her eyes, turned around and ran quickly out of the classroom.

"Holy crap, Chenzi, you're amazing!" Zhao Peng jumped up, his face full of admiration. "Playing hard to get! You've mastered that trick! Look how pale Lin Wanqing's face is, tsk tsk."

Ye Chen shook his head helplessly: "You're overthinking it. I really don't have time to play along with this kind of melodramatic youth literature."

"Keep pretending." Just then, the homeroom teacher, Liu Haifeng, walked into the classroom with a stern face.

He held a thick stack of test papers in his hand and slammed them heavily on the podium.

"Quiet down!" The classroom fell silent instantly.

Liu Haifeng looked around, his gaze lingering on Ye Chen for a moment, his brows furrowing slightly.

Ye Chen's confession last night caused quite a stir, and he naturally heard about it too.

"The college entrance exam is in seven days! Some people don't focus on studying; they're just doing useless things all day!"

Liu Haifeng tapped the blackboard, his tone stern: "Today's class is our final mock math test!"

"This set of exam papers is a secret test that was just issued by the province, and it is extremely difficult."

"I'm putting this out there: whoever passes this test is basically guaranteed a spot in the college entrance exam in math!" A chorus of groans erupted from below.

Liu Haifeng snorted coldly: "What are you howling about? Get your hair permed and start answering the questions immediately! Two hours!"

The exam papers were delivered quickly.

Zhao Peng glanced at the test paper and his face turned ashen: "I'm doomed, I can't do the first multiple choice question, Chenzi, help me..." He turned to look at Ye Chen.

But then they discovered that Ye Chen had already picked up a pen.

Ye Chen looked at the questions on the test paper, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

In his eyes, this so-called "provincial secret exam paper" was full of flaws.

Because... this set of papers is a modified version of the 2010 National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) mathematics questions!

He remembers the exact punctuation marks from the college entrance exam math questions from that year perfectly.

Ye Chen took a deep breath and began to write with lightning speed.

The only sound in the classroom was the soft scratching of writing.

After half an hour.

Ye Chen put down his pen and let out a soft breath.

Get it done.

Just as he was about to lie down and take a nap, Liu Haifeng on the podium suddenly stood up, put his hands behind his back, and walked down.

Liu Haifeng paced back and forth in the classroom aisle, finally stopping behind Ye Chen.

Looking at Ye Chen's exam paper, which was filled with writing and hadn't even been touched on the draft paper, Liu Haifeng's face instantly darkened.

"Ye Chen, stand up," Liu Haifeng said coldly.

Liu Haifeng walked to Ye Chen's desk with a sullen face and tapped the tabletop twice with his fingers.

"Ye Chen, stand up."

The classroom fell silent instantly as dozens of eyes turned to look.

Li Hao, sitting in the back row, laughed gleefully, while Lin Wanqing turned her head slightly, her brows furrowed.

Liu Haifeng looked at the test paper on Ye Chen's desk, which was covered with writing, and then glanced at the draft paper next to it, which was even cleaner than a face. He couldn't help but laugh in anger.

"You finished writing it all in twenty minutes? You didn't even need scratch paper, are you just drawing talismans like the teacher?"

Ye Chen stood up, smiling brightly and revealing a set of white teeth: "Teacher, this question is too easy, I can do it mentally."

"Mental arithmetic?" Liu Haifeng nearly had a stroke from anger. "Give me the test paper! I want to see what kind of rubbish you came up with in mental arithmetic!"

Liu Haifeng snatched the test paper, took out a red pen, and slammed it onto the desk to begin grading.

The whole class craned their necks to watch the spectacle.

Zhao Peng, standing nearby, scratched his head anxiously and muttered in a low voice, "Chenzi, at least think before you brag! This is definitely going to backfire..."

Looking at Ye Chen's calm and composed demeanor, Lin Wanqing felt inexplicably irritated.

He wasn't like this before, so why did he become so attention-seeking after his confession failed?

"Swish!" Liu Haifeng wrote quickly, marking the first multiple-choice question with a crisp red checkmark.

Then the second, the third...

"Swish, swish, swish!" The sound of the red pen was particularly clear in the quiet classroom.

Liu Haifeng's brows furrowed into a deep frown, but his pace of grading papers slowed down considerably.

All multiple choice questions were answered correctly.

All fill-in-the-blank questions were answered correctly.

When Liu Haifeng got to the more challenging questions, he froze completely.

He stared intently at Ye Chen's clean and efficient problem-solving steps, rubbed his eyes, and checked the standard answer again.

The steps are ridiculously concise, but every step hits the scoring point precisely, even smoother than the standard answer!

Liu Haifeng spent a full three minutes looking at the last, most challenging question.

"Sizzle—" The red pen slashed heavily across the top of the exam paper, writing down an extremely glaring number.

147 points!

Liu Haifeng gasped, abruptly looking up at Ye Chen, his voice trembling: "You...you've done this test before?"

Ye Chen shrugged, looking completely innocent: "Teacher, this is a practice test you just handed out. Where am I supposed to do it? It's all mental arithmetic."

"Holy crap!!" Zhao Peng was the first to exclaim, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets. "147?! Chenzi, are you fucking cheating?!"

The class instantly erupted in chaos.

"Really? 147 points?"

"Ye Chen usually barely passes math, how is this possible!"

Lin Wanqing stared at the bright red exam paper, and her brain completely shut down.

She found this test paper very difficult, and had no idea how to approach several of the more challenging questions.

Ye Chen, the boy who used to be around her every day and whose grades were average, actually scored 147?

Liu Haifeng took a deep breath, holding the test paper, and looked at Ye Chen as if he were looking at some rare animal.

"Ye Chen, come to my office after class."

……

Two hours later, Liu Haifeng collected all the exam papers and returned to his office.

Ye Chen followed him inside. The test paper with a score of 147 had already been passed around among several teachers.

Several teachers sat behind their desks, some holding teacups, others looking at the exam papers, all marveling at the results.

In the senior year office, the news that spreads fastest is always about a student's grades suddenly skyrocketing.

Liu Haifeng held the exam paper between his fingers and flipped through it twice.

The steps for the major questions are clean and concise, without a single unnecessary word.

Even the final question that stumped a group of top students was only penalized three points because of the abbreviated calculation in the last step.

This score is definitely not something you can get by luck.

"Ye Chen, tell me the truth," Liu Haifeng raised his head, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"Did you do this test paper somewhere beforehand? Or have you been hiding it from Laoshi all this time?"