Generation Z Artists

Chapter 33 The Pulse of the Times: An Essay to Peking University
The recent good eating and drinking and hard exercise have been very effective. Fang Xinghe has gained a little bit of weight, mainly in height, which is now 1 cm.

In addition, immunity also increased by 1 point, which is not bad.

Considering that he would take the high school entrance exam soon and that he would go out to do something important afterwards, Fang Xinghe finally decided to first raise all his attributes to 79 points, make up for his shortcomings, and then focus on improving coordination.

After making up his mind, he spent a huge amount of 5400 million star points, raising all attributes to 79 points, an outstanding level.

【Properties Panel】

Appearance attributes: Appearance 99, Body 79
体质属性：力量79、速度80、耐力80、灵敏79、柔韧79
隐藏属性：协调81、感知79、恢复79、免疫79、健康79
Artistic attributes: Writing 79
【Starlight Panel】

【Number of fans: 275w】

【Star value: 650w】

[Star value: 3]

The new attributes are really beautiful, and not only do they look good, they are also very practical.

79 points in all attributes is already impressive among adults, but it is outrageous for a 14-year-old teenager.

Feeling the power surging in his body, he had never felt so good.

It's like a second life!
Having been lying in bed for a long time, Crispy Fang can especially appreciate the preciousness of every bit of improvement.

He is not greedy. He thinks that he will win if he can maximize his coordination and get all attributes to 85 points before going to college.

It’s not difficult. With another 8000 million Starlight points, you can raise the coordination point to 89, and then use the Star Glory points to increase it to 92 in one go.

Then again, where do those 3 star points come from?

It is definitely Mr. Ba Jin's credit for eliminating all the impossibilities.

As the pinnacle of today's literary world, Mr. Wang possesses both reputation and prestige. His sincere praise can bring fans a huge sense of honor and accomplishment.

Extremely strong and pure positive emotions, large in quantity and high in quality, can be extracted to produce 3 star points, which is not an exaggeration.

It might even be a little less, maybe because the old gentleman's praise was not particularly formal?

So Fang Xinghe came up with a new conjecture - if he could win a heavyweight award and make his fans proud, then he would most likely be able to extract more Star Glory Values.

In this case, we need to be more careful in the future. Our works should be refined, but it is best not to strike a balance.

It's not that it's impossible to have everything, but it's difficult to achieve perfection in any one aspect.

In the future, we should continue to clarify our goals, give full play to the advantages of our high level of thinking, and aim at the right goals.

It takes time to balance the desire to attract fans and the general public, rather than rushing for quick success and becoming a big fat man in one go.

Be wild in behavior, have a strong momentum, and keep a stable core. In this way, it will be easy to reach the peak.

……

Time goes by day by day, and the date of the high school entrance examination is getting closer.

The cultural community's attacks on Fang Xinghe temporarily subsided, giving him enough time to prepare.

But before the exam, the horn of the times finally blew loudly, catching everyone off guard.

On June 6, Chen Jiayong received the admission letter from Peking University, number 20, the fourth one in Shanghai.

The very next day, a press release titled "One Essay to Get into Peking University" instantly went viral across the country.

This time, it was a real explosion, much bigger than the commotion Xinghe had caused before.

Because of the different nature, no matter how good Fang Xinghe's composition is, it is just a composition after all, and has nothing to do with the most practical things.

His good looks, his talent, and his arrogance, all put together, cannot compare to the status of those two words in the hearts of Chinese people.

Peking University.

It is a myth that Budding and the Seven Schools Alliance succeeded.

Oh, now it is an alliance of fourteen schools. Tsinghua University and other universities have also announced that they have joined the organizing committee of the second New Concept Composition Competition, which has added fuel to the fire.

For a time, the whole society was discussing it, with people pro and con, envious and angry, and in endless confusion.

No. 3 Middle School was not spared either.

Fang Dadan's eyes sparkled with excitement: "You bastard, if you participate in two more sessions, can you be admitted to Peking University or Tsinghua University?"

Ever since she was spanked by her own mother for the second time because of Fang Xinghe's "messing around", she kept calling him "bastard" whenever she spoke to him.

But from another perspective, she would rather call him a bitch than take the initiative to talk to him, which shows that it is true love. Fang Xinghe glanced at her lazily: "What does it have to do with you? As if you can get into Tsinghua or Peking University and become my alumnus."

"I!"

Fang Dadan was angry for a moment, but replied with a guilty conscience, "As if no one wants to be your schoolmate!"

Fang Xinghe ignored her, so Fang Dadan waited for a while, stamped his feet and said angrily: "Don't look down on me, just wait and see, my thirteenth sister and I will definitely pass the exam!"

Lu Tingting was so shocked that she waved her hands hastily: "Don't bring me along with you when you brag. I don't dare to think about Tsinghua or Peking University."

But he suddenly had an idea: "It seems that I have to practice writing essays. Who wouldn't want to go to Peking University easily?"

This is outrageous enough, but what's even more outrageous is the crotch grabbing.

He looked at Lu Tingting eagerly and vowed: "Study hard. If you can't get into Peking University or Tsinghua University, then take the Fudan University or Jiaotong University. I will recommend you to go to the university you are admitted to. We can live together and leave your big brother behind..."

What awaited him were a dozen pairs of white eyes and an unnecessary "bang" of a punch.

"If you betray your eldest brother, you will be punished according to the family rules! Someone, lift it up, and wait for the door frame!"

So he was lifted up by a group of little eagles, with his legs spread apart, and launched a fierce charge towards the door frame.

"Oh, I'm so sloppy..."

The sounds of crying chickens and pissing echoed throughout the classroom, and everyone's joyful laughter embellished Fang Xinghe's last happy youth.

……

Although it is wishful thinking, at the current stage, parents, teachers and students across the country have indeed been inspired to have a new desire - to write good essays and be admitted to prestigious schools.

It has been hotly discussed in newspapers, and in reality, the new concept has also become a hot word.

If there was a Baidu search index at this time, then New Concept Composition would undoubtedly be ranked first in the whole year. The second place would not be Chen Jiayong who was admitted to Peking University, but Han Han who suddenly "collapsed".

On the 26th, Fang Xinghe quietly took part in the high school entrance examination. He performed steadily and did not lose any points.

On the second day after the high school entrance examination, on the 29th, the news that Han Han failed seven out of eight subjects and would be held back appeared in two major newspapers in Shanghai.

As the wheel of history rolls forward, Big Brother suddenly becomes popular.

A mere case of repeating a grade has triggered a heated discussion in the whole society about quality-oriented education policies and a series of educational issues such as "should schools cultivate generalists or specialists?"

No one except Fang Xinghe could have predicted this.

When they arrived at Fang Xinghe's house with a pile of newspapers, they were particularly indignant: "Recently, the newspapers have been reporting on Han Han every day. Damn it, even holding back a grade can cause such a big fuss!"

He was very excited and said, "But I think he's pretty cool!"

Fang Xinghe frowned, suppressed his anger and said: "You have to see the different environments we are in."

"Ah? What the hell?!"

The younger brothers looked at each other in confusion, not understanding at all.

"Shanghai has hundreds of newspapers and a population of over ten million. Han Han can be interviewed anytime and anywhere. After the report is written, millions of local people are willing to read it. But here..."

Fang Xinghe stretched out his arms and slowly opened them, as if he was embracing his hometown, but there was also an indescribable heaviness.

“This small city where we live has nothing, no people, no media, no factories, no high-rise buildings or bustling commercial centers, not even Starbucks or KFC.

My story can only be spread among tens of thousands of people at most, but no one cares about your bravery and sadness.

If we can't get rid of all this, when we reach our parents' age, the sky will not become more vast, but will become more oppressive and restrictive, pressing us firmly to this barren land, unable to leave.

Our children will still have nothing.

Get rich quickly, grab crotch, black guy, Zhang Qi...you have to get out and don't rot here, do you understand?

I will go ahead and then extend my hand to you. When the time comes, I hope you will be able to grab it, and we will continue to be brothers instead of going our separate ways. "

The heartless teenagers finally began to think and for the first time had a deeply touched reaction.

Fang Xinghe, on the other hand, wrote a new essay that very night, which was completely aimed at the topic that had suddenly become popular recently.

He concluded by writing:
Everyone's ultimate mission is to find oneself and then be sincerely true to oneself.

We are not trying to escape from this homeland, but we need to hit the road, to see different scenery, to cleanse our souls with the wider world, from hating everything to loving everything, from disdaining everything to respecting everything, and finally to happily discover that this world is not what I imagined when I was young, but I still love it.

There are many such paths, and I chose to do the questions.

(End of this chapter)