If flowers bloom, youth will naturally follow.

After finishing the English exam, Xiao Pang was very satisfied with his performance over the past two days. Even if we take a step back and consider last year's cutoff scores, his score would be high enough to get into Zhejiang University.

The bonus for getting into Zhejiang University must be more than 5000 yuan, right? But due to the law of universal gravitation, Xiao Pang reluctantly rejected all universities outside of Beijing. If he couldn't get into Peking University, he would go to Beijing Normal University.

Anyway, the school has already received 5000 yuan, the education bureau will give another 5000, and the community... isn't the community equivalent to the village committee? The village committee will give another 5,000, making it 15,000 yuan in total.

Hehehe, Little Fatty couldn't help but laugh out loud, but he didn't know if he needed Xia Donghai's approval from the village committee, which gave him a bit of a headache.

However, these are all external things. Which university to apply to and how much scholarship money to receive are things to be done later. Right now, the most urgent task is to deal with that bookworm, Qiao Tianyi.

Will this guy confess his feelings today? Little Fatty wondered as he walked out of the exam hall. Sigh, if you want to wear the crown, you have to bear the weight. If I like his refined manner, I have to accept his old-fashioned ways. Maybe I'll have to take the initiative.

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"Sigh, Shiliu, I'm doomed. How did your exam go?" Liu Xing asked as Xiao Pang's former best friend, the skinny Liu Xing, and the chubby Shiliu walked out with their heads drooping.

"I'm thinking about whether to repeat a year or just go to any school," Shi Liu said with a bitter face. "What about you?"

"Sigh, let's talk about it when the scores come out. The questions were too hard this time, I guess others didn't do much better either," Liu Xing looked around, wanting to find someone he knew for some comfort, but unexpectedly saw a familiar figure in the distance, a tall, slim-waisted, full-hipped woman with a yellow ponytail: "Hey, Sister Pomegranate, Princess, look, isn't that Princess?"

"It's true! Wasn't she off singing? How come she's taking the college entrance exam?" Sister Pomegranate called out enthusiastically to Little Fatty, "Princess, Princess!"

Perhaps because of the noise around him, Little Fatty didn't turn around and walked straight out.

"Come on, come on, keep up!" Shi Liu tugged at Liu Xing, wanting to follow the little fat boy.

"Let's not, what would we say if we met them? They were wronged back then, and neither of us helped them," Liu Xing said reluctantly, being a bit too shy.

"Hey, what are you afraid of? We haven't said anything bad about her, have we? Come on, let's go say hello. I've never met a celebrity before." True to her nature, Sister Pomegranate, who loves making friends, even forgot about her college entrance exam scores and enthusiastically walked towards Little Fatty.

They watched as the chubby boy walked up to a very tall, incredibly handsome guy and said something with a smile.

"Xingxing, what...what...what is he holding?" They were still some distance away from Xiaopang, so they couldn't see Qiao Tianyi's stunningly handsome face or what he was taking out of his clothes. But Shiliu had imagined countless times the way Qiao Tianyi held the object in his hands—it was a ring, the gesture of giving a diamond ring.

"Brother Tianyi, what about the gift you promised me last year for the Lantern Festival?" Little Fatty made up his mind and asked with a shameless grin when he got to Tianyi.

"Hehe, you little rascal, always in such a hurry, can't you slow down a bit?" Qiao Tianyi smiled broadly, her bright eyes sparkling with laughter, her spirits soaring. She took out a small box from her pocket, opened it, and presented it to the chubby boy with both hands: "Ziwei, will you marry me?"

The most common yet most sacred gift: a diamond ring.

"A...a ring? Marry...marry you?" Which girl hasn't dreamed of being presented with a diamond ring by her sweetheart? Xiao Pang's heart stopped beating. Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her stomach. She was prepared to be Qiao Tianyi's girlfriend, but not his fiancée.

Clever Fatty was caught off guard by love and stammered, "You... why aren't you following the script? This... I didn't expect this... I... I was just thinking... weren't we supposed to be boyfriend and girlfriend first?"

"Because in my heart, you've been my girlfriend since the Lantern Festival," Qiao Tianyi said with a smile, without blushing or panting, proving that when it comes to serious matters, honest people are much more reliable than show-offs.

"You...your family is so rich, have you...have you asked your family for their opinions on such a big matter?" The shameless fat man finally showed a hint of girlish panic and stammered.

"I want to spend my life with the girl I love," Qiao Tianyi said with a doting smile, "all I need is her consent, what do you think, little darling?"

(Experience AI creation, hahaha)

Hearing this, Xiao Pang's eyes reddened. She knew that the man in front of her was sincere towards her. After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Pang slowly reached out her hand and whispered, "Okay." Qiao Tianyi's face instantly lit up with a bright smile as he carefully slipped the ring onto Xiao Pang's finger.

Just then, a cheer erupted from behind. It was Shiliu and Liu Xing who had arrived. "Congratulations!" Shiliu exclaimed excitedly. Liu Xing also offered his congratulations. Little Fatty lowered his head shyly.

Afterwards, Qiao Tianyi took Xiaopang to meet his family. His family already knew of Xiaopang's existence and adored this clever and lovely girl. Xiaopang felt the warmth of family and was filled with happiness.

The bonus and other things that Xiaopang had been worried about no longer mattered. She and Qiao Tianyi planned their future together, to travel together, to spend every beautiful day together. Hand in hand, they walked towards a hopeful tomorrow, a sweet atmosphere filling every corner they passed.

"I agree," Happiness came too suddenly. The chubby girl was quite the little girl, and surprisingly, she was reserved for once, acting very coy and shy, which was not typical of her.

The onlookers were getting impatient. They thought the girl wasn't very pretty and had this awkward, timid manner. They felt she wasn't good enough for the young man.

In matters of the heart, both of them were naive. Qiao Tianyi had rehearsed the plan many times in her mind before choosing to launch her final offensive against Xiao Pang at the time when the college entrance examination was over, completely forgetting that there was a problem with the location of the decisive battle.

This was the main entrance of the college entrance examination site, with more than a thousand parents and children present. Even though the two were located in a remote area, the diamond ring on Qiao Tianyi's hand, which shone brightly in the sunlight, had already attracted the attention of those around them.

More and more people gathered around. The old man from Northeast China was the most enthusiastic. Even though his own child hadn't done well on the exam, he couldn't resist his warm heart and couldn't help but laugh and scold, "You naughty girl, if you're willing, why don't you just hold out your hand and let him put the ring on your finger!"

The enthusiastic Sister Pomegranate witnessed this Qingcun idol drama from beginning to end, and was so engrossed in it that she shouted, "Princess, Princess, marry him!"

Everyone burst into laughter, and someone teased, "Young man, do you think we girls from Northeast China are so easily fooled? You'll have to kneel down to propose!"

Qiao Tianyi could tell from his accent that he wasn't a local.

"Oh my god!" Love Fatty realized that a crowd of onlookers had gathered around them, and the two of them were being watched like monkeys. Embarrassed, she grabbed Tianyi's hand holding the ring and ran away, giggling as she squeezed through the crowd: "What are you all looking at here? Such a good thing, everyone disperse, disperse."