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Upon seeing him, Chen's mother immediately smiled and said, "You're back? Did you have dinner with your daughter tonight?"

"Yes."

Chen Cheng carefully observed his wife's expression and saw that she seemed to be doing nothing wrong.

He then asked, "Honey, have you checked your phone today?"

"Cellphone? No. I've been so busy today, I haven't even touched my phone much."

fortunately!

Chen Cheng then said, "Can I borrow your phone? I can't find it. I need to make a call to see where I left it."

Chen's mother, without suspecting anything, handed over the phone directly.

Chen Cheng pretended to make his own phone call, and when he heard his own phone ringing in his study, he chuckled awkwardly:

"It seems to be in the study!"

Chen Cheng went into the study and immediately checked the text messages on his wife's phone.

Sure enough, there was also good news.

He deleted the congratulatory message immediately before leaving the house and returning the phone to his wife.

"I'm getting old, I even forget where I put my phone."

"What's so great about it? It's because you work too hard all the time. I've told you not to work so hard, but you never listen."

"Yes, yes, thank you for your concern, my wife."

Chen Cheng hugged his wife tightly, silently thinking to himself:

My dear daughter, this is all the help your dad can give you.

You absolutely mustn't give yourself away!

……

The next morning, although they had just participated in a fierce competition.

Lin Chen got up early as usual and met Chen Xiaoxiao at the entrance of the residential area.

The two walked side by side, chatting and laughing, toward the school.

"So...they agreed to let you skip the training camp?"

After listening to Lin Chen recount what happened after she left yesterday, Chen Xiaoxiao smiled and said...

"Of course, if I participate in the training camp, how can I prepare for the math olympiad selection?"

"Just preparing for the math olympiad selection?" Chen Xiaoxiao blinked.

"And of course, you too! I'd rather give up than spend all my time in the training camp without seeing you!"

As Lin Chen spoke, he took Chen Xiaoxiao's hand.

Chen Xiaoxiao struggled for a few moments in a mock struggle, then gave up.

"Don't give up! You're Principal Lin's hot commodity right now. Besides him, many people are counting on you!"

Chen Xiaoxiao blushed and tried to calm her racing heart by speaking.

"I heard from Wang Heming yesterday that Principal Lin sent a congratulatory text message to all the parents in the school. Did you see it?"

"My mom saw it! She even called our relatives several times!"

Thinking of how happy his mother was last night, Lin Chen couldn't help but smile.

He only won a city-level sports meet championship.

But my mom was just as excited as when she found out she got into Tsinghua or Peking University.

As they were talking, the two had already arrived at the school gate.

Lin Chen was dumbfounded when he saw the huge banner at the school gate, which must have been hung up overnight.

"Warmest congratulations to Lin Chen, a student from Class 1, Grade 12, for winning the U18 Boys' 100-meter championship at the city's middle school games!"

A long, bright red banner stretched across the school gate and hung high above!

The lettering on the banner is huge; you can clearly see it even from across the street.

"Holy crap! Our school actually won the championship at the sports meet?! Awesome! Awesome!"

"Our school's sports ranking has finally turned around!"

"Lin Chen from Class 1 of Senior Three? Isn't that the top student who got first place in the last monthly exam?"

"A top student can win a sports championship? Are you kidding me? Are you trying to leave no way for us ordinary people to survive?"

The students who were at school couldn't help but discuss it when they saw the huge banner.

"See, I wasn't wrong, was I?"

Chen Xiaoxiao looked at the banner and smiled.

Lin Chen was speechless, never expecting Principal Lin to have such a quirky move.

The joint entrance examination will be held at the same time as the national college entrance examination.

The exam will start at 9 a.m.

Before that, everyone must gather in the classroom to collect their admission tickets.

When Lin Chen and Chen Xiaoxiao entered the classroom, there were already quite a few people inside.

Why is everyone here so early today?

Lin Chen muttered to himself as he sat back down in his seat.

But as soon as he sat down, Lu Han walked over with a resentful look on his face.

"Don't you know? This is all your fault!"

Why blame me?

Lin Chen was completely bewildered, but after a while, he understood why.

By eight o'clock in the morning, everyone in Class One had arrived.

Class teacher Han Yu walked into the classroom, greeting Lin Chen with a big smile.

As Lin Chen stood on the podium, Han Yu said:

"Classmates, in yesterday's citywide middle school sports meet, our classmate Lin Chen achieved the outstanding result of winning the 100-meter race championship."

"Let's give Lin Chen a warm round of applause!"

Thunderous applause erupted!

Lin Chen was completely bewildered, only then realizing why everyone in his class had arrived so early today.

It turns out he was celebrating winning the championship.

He thought that was the end of it, but he was wrong.

Just as everyone received their admission tickets, Principal Lin's voice rang out over the loudspeaker again.

"Students, in yesterday's citywide middle school sports meet, our Donghai No.1 Middle School won a great victory!"

"Lin Chen won the championship in the boys' 100-meter race, achieving a breakthrough for Donghai No.1 Middle School in the municipal sports meet!"

"Today, Lin Chen's senior year will face a new challenge: the citywide joint examination for senior high school students!"

"I hope all senior high school students can learn from Lin Chen's champion spirit and achieve excellent results in this senior high school joint examination!"

Listening to Principal Lin's passionate speech on the radio.

Lin Chen could only feel helpless.

This is just a city-level championship, is it really necessary to make such a big fuss?

What would you do if he won the championship at the provincial games, Principal Lin?

Shall we set off firecrackers?

All I can say is that Principal Lin has been waiting for this championship for far too long.

He was so excited that his school had finally made a breakthrough in sports that he wanted the whole world to know.

Finally, Principal Lin's pre-exam pep talk ended, and the exam was about to begin.

Almost everyone left the classroom and headed to their respective exam rooms.

However, Lin Chen's exam room was in Class 1.

He simply changed seats and that was it.

A moment later, a teacher from No. 3 Middle School walked in with the test papers.

Although the students were studying and taking the exam on their own, this exam was still part of their studies.

However, the proctors were rotated.

The proctors for No. 1 Middle School were from No. 3 Middle School, and the proctors for No. 3 Middle School were from No. 1 Middle School.

The proctor from No. 3 Middle School, with a stern face, checked everyone's desks before returning to the podium.

Soon, the exam began.

Watching the students below begin answering the questions.

The proctor picked up a spare exam paper and started looking at it.

The proctor is a Chinese language teacher at No. 3 Middle School.

He heard that this joint entrance exam was very difficult, and the city spent a lot of money to invite several university professors to set the exam questions.

So he was also very curious about just how difficult this exam paper could be.

Then, the teacher was dumbfounded.

Because he discovered that the difficulty of this exam paper had reached an unprecedented level!

Even he, a Chinese language teacher, had questions he couldn't answer!