A piece of Japanese incense

The sunlight shone through the cracks in the window onto Nanyin's bed. She stretched, changed into her blue and white summer school uniform, then got up and walked into the bathroom. She habitually picked up a hairpin to clip up her thick bangs, tied her hair into a low ponytail, rubbed her bloodshot eyes, turned on the faucet, and the cool water washed over her cheeks, instantly waking her up.

She smelled a faint fragrance. It must be that her grandmother was afraid that she would be nervous about the exam, so she lit some incense for her. Since she was a child, her brain was often flooded with too much information at once, which made her mind confused, unable to concentrate, and her thoughts chaotic.

Grandpa's family was a medical family with a large number of medical books. Grandpa took great pains to find a secret recipe and prepared this incense for her. Every time she smelled this fragrance, she could calm down and slowly integrate effective information. She took a deep breath of the fragrance and relaxed her nerves. Her lips slightly raised, and her slightly chubby cheeks were sunken into shallow dimples, "Keep it up! You are awesome!"

After she cheered herself up, she walked out of the bathroom and saw her grandmother busy preparing breakfast in the living room. Nanyin was raised by her grandparents. After her grandfather passed away, Nanyin and her grandmother depended on each other. Although her parents were still alive, for Nanyin, her grandmother was her only relative.

"Grandma, good morning!" Nanyin greeted her grandma with a smile.

"Yinyin, come and have breakfast. You fainted again last night, and you had a lot of nosebleeds. Ouch, you were lying on the table, motionless. I was scared. I must have been memorizing the lessons very hard. I told you that your brain can't remember so many things, so don't memorize them! Don't work so hard. If something happens to you, what will I, an old woman, do? Here! I put your admission ticket, paper and pen in your file bag. After you finish eating, check it quickly to see if there is anything missing..."

Listening to her grandmother's constant chatter, Nanyin walked to the dining table and sat down. After a while, her grandmother brought a bowl of hot porridge and some light side dishes. Nanyin chatted with her grandmother while enjoying the delicious breakfast.

Nan Yin looked at her grandmother and felt relieved. It turned out that she fainted last night. No wonder she had no memory of when she went to bed. But she knew that with her grandmother around, she didn't have to worry about anything. After breakfast, Nan Yin began to check the things she was going to bring. She checked her admission ticket, ID card, stationery, water cup... She checked everything to make sure nothing was left out. Then she put on her schoolbag and prepared to go out.

"Yinyin, I believe our Yinyin is the most outstanding and will have a bright future no matter what. It would be best if you can return home safely every day. Grandma is waiting for you at home!" Grandma encouraged.

Nan Yin nodded and walked out of the house with a smile. The first day of the exam was Chinese and math. She had forced herself to finish reading all the Chinese and math notes from her three years of high school last night. On the way to the exam room, Nan Yin took out her notes and looked through them. Because there was too much content, she still had to read it in detail before the exam. She quickly scanned every page. She wanted to review and remember this knowledge as quickly as possible. The notes recorded in detail the key points of each formula, problem-solving skills and common methods...

Finally arriving at the examination room, Nan Yin saw many familiar faces, all gathered here for the same goal. She took a deep breath, and the exam began. Nan Yin got the test paper and read every question carefully. Well, very good, the content in the notes I read last night can match the answers. She quickly got into the state and wrote furiously.

The originally bright sunshine seemed to hide behind the clouds, covered with a thick gray veil. "Tick, tick...", I don't know when it started, the sky began to drizzle, mixed with the warm summer breeze. The sky darkened, the students were still concentrating on answering the questions, the invigilator silently turned on the lights in the classroom, and was about to close the windows, but found that the heavy rain was pouring down.

A flash of lightning streaked across the night sky, illuminating the world in the rainstorm. The thunder was deafening, and the raindrops, against the backdrop of the lightning, became like a silver bead curtain. The thunder roared continuously, accompanied by lightning across the sky, and each time it made the students scream. The wind rustled the leaves and swayed outside the window. The originally peaceful and quiet classroom was suddenly shrouded in a storm.

"Just answer the questions! It's just a thunderbolt."

Nan Yin was also startled by the thunder, and immediately lowered her head to look at the test paper. Her vision gradually blurred, and the raindrops hitting the classroom glass blinded her. She could not see anything clearly, as if there was only a vast white fog left in the world...

"Teacher, she seems to have a nosebleed..."

"Ah! Really? Why is her ear bleeding? It's so scary!"

"Quiet! This is none of your business! Hurry up and answer the questions! There's only half an hour left. Check your answers carefully!"

"Student, how do you feel? The teacher will call 120 for you... Don't be afraid..."

My consciousness gradually became blurred, accompanied by a crackling tinnitus.

She raised her hands and covered her ears tightly, trying to block out all the noise from the outside world.

She seemed to smell the fragrance of the house again. She took a deep breath desperately, trying to calm her mind, but what followed was an insurmountable sense of disorder. She felt dizzy and as if the world was spinning...

She seemed to hear her own rapid breathing, accompanied by the beating of her broken pulse, pulling at herself again and again.

"Oh no! I must have overused my brain again. Grandma will definitely be so worried that I won't be able to eat..."

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no sound

In a daze, she seemed to have walked a long way.

It was dark in front of me, with no end in sight...

"It's nothing serious. It's probably because of the exam that he was too nervous. He can be discharged from the hospital when he wakes up."

"Thank you, doctor. I'm sorry to trouble you!"

Nan Yin tried to open her eyes, but her eyelids felt like they weighed a thousand pounds, and her whole body felt as soft as cotton and she couldn't move. The smell of disinfectant hit her nose and mouth, and she finally squeezed out a crack in her eyes, trying to see the surrounding environment clearly. The sky was spinning, the earth was spinning...

She wanted to call grandma, but she only made a coughing sound and couldn't say anything...

Her consciousness flickered, and she seemed to see her grandmother walking towards her...

"Yinyin, Yinyin, wake up..."

"He'er! He'er, you're awake!"

Her vision gradually brightened and she smelled the familiar fragrance again.

My senses gradually became sharper, my vision became clearer, and I could see the people and things around me clearly.

"He'er, you finally woke up, you scared me to death!" Yunhe took a handkerchief and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said to the maid beside her: "Quick! Go and call the master and the mistress, the girl is awake!"

A maid ran out...