200 Collateral Damage
The messaging app showed that Qiao Ying was typing, but Qiao Yue still didn’t get a reply after a long time.
It was probably because Qiao Li and his wife had been reluctant to let Qiao Ying see a doctor. After all, parents of that generation didn’t think that mental illnesses were illnesses.
“I can help you if you need it.”
Qiao Ying looked up at Qiao Yue, her eyes full of gratitude.
“Can I really recover completely?”
“I’m not sure about full recovery, but your condition should improve significantly.”
“Thank you, Fifth Brother.”
Qiao Ying looked at Qiao Yue with a face full of admiration. Her fifth brother knew more than she had imagined. He was not like what her parents had said, an impolite country boy. Qiao Yue arrived at the exam hall. Since this was her first official exam, she was assigned to a seat in the last row.
Her good friends, Xu Hao and Sun Bin, were all in the same exam hall.
She had just sat down when Xu Hao leaned over. “Brother, are you confident about the exam?”
Qiao Yue shrugged. “I barely passed the last time. What do you think?”
“I’m just worried about your bet with Sun Bin. When you answer later, can you move the test paper closer to me?”
“You want to copy my answers?” Qiao Yue looked at him and revealed a playful smile.
Xu Hao scratched his head and laughed in embarrassment. “Let’s discuss…”
“No.” Qiao Yue shook her head and refused decisively.
Xu Hao sat back down. Before the exam, he had heard the dean mention that the tests would be extremely difficult, especially for advanced mathematics. He was not sure if he could pass.
Sun Bin, who was sitting in front, was still studying the practice questions seriously.
Soon, it was time to hand out the exam papers. The first test was advanced mathematics.
Qiao Yue looked through the test paper. The questions were more difficult than the notes and practice questions that Qiao Yu had given her. This might be a bad thing for the other students but not for her.
Just like the last time, she wrote the correct answers to all the questions on the draft paper and then picked a few to answer formally on the actual test paper.
She could probably get 80 or 90 points by answering this way.
She looked at the last question. It was the most difficult question on the paper, and it was also the question she chose not to answer formally.
She just needed a normal score.
Sun Bin wasn’t a good student. He had always been at the bottom of the class. Even if he studied hard during this period, it would still be difficult for him to get full marks.
If Qiao Yue answered all the questions, including the difficult ones, and got full marks, it would be too suspicious. Even though she was serious about her bet with Sun Bin, she didn’t want to expose herself so quickly.
After she finished copying her answers over, she started solving the last question on the draft paper.
This question was quite interesting. There were traps everywhere, and the design was very clever. It was almost an Olympiad-level question.
In the past, in order to improve her academic ability as soon as possible, she had worked on countless Olympiad questions day and night.
She felt a sense of familiarity seeing such a question now.
If it wasn’t for her mother’s dying wish and her promise to the Godfather, her ideal life would be to become a professor and devote herself to research every day. This kind of life seemed pretty good.
After solving all the questions, there was still half an hour before the test ended. Qiao Yue flipped over her test paper and slumped over the desk to take a nap.
The invigilator saw that Qiao Yue had fallen asleep and walked over. Just as he was about to wake Qiao Yue up, he saw Qiao Yue’s draft paper.
His eyes widened as he looked at the answers on the draft paper.
He was the teacher who set the advanced mathematics paper this time. The last question was specially set by him to identify students for the Math Olympiad. He had assumed that no one would be able to solve it.
However, not only were the answers written on the draft paper completely correct, but the workings and formulas were also more elegant and ingenious than the answers he had written.
Zhang Cheng’s eyes lit up. This kid could be taken to the competition. Why was he taking the exam here?
Why didn’t he notice such a genius at Harvey?
He glanced at the name on the admission ticket: Qiao Yue.
Zhang Cheng frowned. Wasn’t this the kid that the Qiao family recently acknowledged?
When Zhang Cheng checked Qiao Yue’s results previously, the kid had barely passed. How did he become so good now and could even solve such a difficult question?
Zhang Cheng held his chin and pondered. It must be that his results from last time weren’t good enough so he’s taking things more seriously now…
If that was the case, this student was too amazing, to be able to solve such a difficult, Olympiad-level question in such a short time.
He decided that he would bring this student to the Math Olympiad.
Such talent must not be wasted!
