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The days leading up to the college entrance exam are passing by faster and faster.

How fast?

The countdown timer in the upper right corner of the blackboard dwindled from two digits to single digits without Shen Ye noticing.

The chalk writing changes every morning, like fine sand constantly leaking from an hourglass, and no one can stop it.

Every day is a repetitive cycle of doing practice problems.

I brushed up during morning self-study, afternoon self-study, and evening self-study.

Shen Ye was so excited that he wanted to play around with it.

A few days before the exam, the school gave students a break early so they could go home to adjust and familiarize themselves with the exam venue.

Of course, students who live far away can also choose to take the school bus to a hotel near the examination venue, where teachers will take care of their meals and accommodation.

Shen Ye and Lin Chunuan naturally went home, as their home wasn't far from either of the exam centers.

On the last day before the holiday, the teachers did not assign any homework. Instead, they did psychological counseling.

"Students, there's nothing to be afraid of in the college entrance exam. Just relax and treat it like any other exam."

"If you treat every monthly exam like the college entrance exam, then the college entrance exam will just be a monthly exam."

After the math teacher finished speaking, someone whispered, "But you've said before, treat everyday classes like the college entrance exam, and treat the college entrance exam like everyday classes... So, which one should we listen to?"

"All correct!" the math teacher waved his hand. "Listen up!"

The whole class burst into laughter.

The homeroom teacher came in last to wrap things up, and stood on the podium for ten minutes to speak.

From ensuring you get enough sleep and food before the exam, to checking your documents and stationery, and then to saying, "No matter how you do on the exam, you will always be the teacher's pride."

He says the saying "The camp remains, but the soldiers come and go" every June.

The students' reactions varied.

There is joy.

The hard times are finally over. After the exam, I'll sell my study materials by weight to the scrap collector.

There is something to look forward to.

Looking forward to summer vacation, looking forward to university, looking forward to a brand new life without a countdown timer.

Only a minority of people are reluctant to part with it.

After all, senior year of high school is just too hellish.

An alarm clock at six in the morning, a desk lamp at eleven at night, and endless test papers—who wouldn't want to give these up?

Even if I'm a little reluctant to part with them, it's only my close friends whom I spend every day with.

Shen Ye felt a little melancholy.

After the college entrance exam comes university. Will Nuannuan and her "good friends" who have practically grown up with me still be able to get together every day like they did in junior high and high school?

......

The first day of the college entrance examination.

At 6:30 a.m., a steaming hot breakfast was laid out on the tables in the Lin family restaurant.

Xu Muwan got up at five o'clock to prepare, one fried dough stick and two eggs, saying it symbolized getting a perfect score on the exam. Whether it worked or not, she wanted to have a lucky start.

Lin Chunuan buried her head in her porridge, her eyelids still a little swollen, having tossed and turned all night without a good night's sleep.

Before leaving home, Xu Muwan checked her admission ticket and ID card one last time. She opened her stationery bag and counted out her 2B pencils, black ballpoint pens, erasers, and rulers, going over each item twice.

"Everything is here."

Lin Jianye and Xu Muwan divided the work: one was responsible for Shen Ye, delivering him to the Experimental Middle School examination site; the other was responsible for Lin Chunuan, delivering her to the No. 11 Middle School.

"Xiaoye, let's go."

The two cars left the residential area one after the other.

On the way, Lin Jianye kept talking to Shen Ye while driving, trying to calm him down.

Don't feel pressured, just perform normally.

"It's okay if you don't do well on the test. Even if you really fail, the sky won't fall. Uncle has plenty of ways to cover for you. Just think of it as going to school to do a practice test. After you finish, come home for dinner."

Even without Lin Jianye saying anything, Shen Ye remained completely calm.

Aside from the novelty of taking the college entrance exam for the first time, he felt no particular excitement or nervousness.

"Okay, Uncle."

At the Experimental Middle School examination site, almost the entire street outside the school gate was blocked off.

Traffic police set up a cordon and stood at the intersection directing traffic. Even vehicles picking up or dropping off examinees had to stop briefly and leave immediately, not even for a minute longer, to avoid causing congestion. Honking was strictly prohibited, and the entire road was monitored and captured by cameras.

Shen Ye got out of the car.

The school gate was packed with people.

Mothers in cheongsams stood in a row; fathers holding sunflowers stood on tiptoe, peering in; teachers in red T-shirts gave each student a high-five at the school gate...

There were also volunteers handing out free bottled water at the entrance of the exam center, security guards maintaining order, and candidates squatting under the shade of trees doing their final memorization.

Shen Ye, carrying a transparent stationery bag, followed the flow of people into the school gate.

Behind him, Lin Jianye moved the car away.

He was not allowed to stop, so he drove two blocks away to find a parking lot and planned to wait there.

The Chinese exam began at 9:00 AM.

......

The difficulty level of the college entrance examination papers and the practice papers that No. 1 High School usually uses is not much different.

Many of the questions were even simpler than the ones we usually practiced.

After receiving the essay, Shen Ye glanced at the materials, spent ten minutes brainstorming ideas, forty minutes writing it, and even left time to check the entire paper.

Apart from a few novel and unusual science questions with a lot of calculations, the other questions were all standard and covered all the required knowledge points.

After finishing the last stroke, Shen Ye put down his pen and glanced at the hanging clock.

There are still twenty minutes left before the exam ends.

He lay on the table, listening to the rustling of exam papers turning in the exam room, and suddenly felt that this exam was somewhat unreal.

So, after this, it's really over?

So, do universities go over college entrance exam papers at the start of the semester...?

June 7th to June 9th, those three days went by extremely fast.

It was so fast it felt unreal.

The first day was Chinese and Math, the second day was humanities and science, and the third day was Biology.

As the last biology exam came to a close, the bell rang to signal the end of the exam.

High school is over.

There was a two-second silence in the examination room when the bell rang.

Then, from some unknown direction, came the sounds of a chair being moved, a pencil case zipper being zipped, and long and short breaths, all blending together.

Shen Ye capped the pen and put it in the pencil case.

He wasn't the first to set up an exam site.

After the bell rang, some people handed in their papers early and ran away, some were taken directly to a celebration banquet by their teachers, and some were presented with huge bouquets of flowers by their parents at the entrance of the examination hall.

Shen Ye simply carried his bag and drifted along with the surging crowd.

To be honest, I didn't have any special feelings after the college entrance examination ended.

There was no roaring to the sky, no tears streaming down my face, and no classic scene of scattering review materials into the air. After all, this isn't our school, so where would we get books to throw at us?

It felt like just an ordinary afternoon.

After finishing the exam in the afternoon, I went home for dinner, just like any other day in the past three years.

The only difference is that there will never be another afternoon like this.

Outside the examination center, the setting sun cast a warm orange hue over the sea of ​​people at the school gate.

Lin Jianye had been waiting there for a long time.

He stood on tiptoe and peered into the crowd, soon spotting a conspicuous figure.

"Xiaoye! Over here!"

Shen Ye followed the sound.

"How's it going, Xiaoye? Is the biology difficulty alright?"

"It's pretty simple, about the same as usual."

"No mistakes, right? The answer sheet is all filled in?"

"I've applied it, and checked it twice."

"Hahaha, good, good, good!"

Lin Jianye grinned from ear to ear, took his schoolbag, and patted him on the shoulder.

"Come on, let's go home! Your auntie has stewed some pork ribs and is waiting for you!"

The two chatted as they walked before getting into the car.

Lin Jianye started the car and merged into the traffic. The cheers outside the examination center gradually faded away, and the car became quiet, with only the soft sound of the air conditioner.

It was at this moment that Shen Ye finally had time to check his phone.