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Every year, this period of time would be extremely stressful for every high school in Yun Cheng.

First came the days of the college entrance examinations, then the day of the results.

On the 23rd, the first and second-year students werent on vacation yet. In Heng Chuan First Middle School, several teachers of the third-year students who were originally on vacation came back to the teaching building early in the morning.

The college entrance examination results would only be available at nine or ten oclock. Unable to endure the wait, they sat in their office seats, trying to calm themselves.

Those more restless wandered around the office with a thermos cup.

Gao Yang also came early. He held a teacup in his hand and was smiling merrily as always.

It was the college entrance examination results, after all, so other than all the teachers in the school nervously awaiting the results, even the first and second-year students were privately speculating this years examination results.

Heng Chuan First Middle Schools teachers had made a bet on who would get first place.

The competition was basically between Qin Ran, Pan Mingyue, and Xu Yaoguang.

Majority bet on Xu Yaoguang, while Pan Mingyue had fewer bets. As for Qin Ran she was too unpredictable, especially with her Physics. None of the teachers had seen her have a breakthrough in her Physics results.

The teachers who bet on her even hesitated a little.

Teacher Gao, how did your student Qin Ran do in the exams this time? At half-past eight, the teachers were chatting idly. Most of them were discussing the top students in Heng Chuan and Yun Cheng First Middle School. I heard that the Math and English exams were especially difficult. Many students cried when they left the exam room.

Gao Yangs expression remained unchanged as he held his cup and smiled. It was fine, she performed as normal.

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This sentence made the other teachers feel the urge to beat him.

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While they were talking, Li Airong sat by the side herself. Her lips were pursed as she stared in the direction of the computer.

At nine oclock, the educational administration system was updated.

The results would be refreshed on the college entrance examination query system and would include rankings as well.

This year, Heng Chuan First Middle School had a thousand candidates for the college entrance examination. It would take at least half an hour for the scores of so many to be retrieved from the system database and then ranked. Naturally, the headteachers couldnt wait.

Almost all of them were picking up their phones at the same time to call their favorite students.

After thinking about it, Gao Yang took out his phone to call Qin Ran.

The phone rang twice before being connected.

Old Gao? Qin Ran climbed up from her bed and cleared her throat. Whats the matter?

Her voice was very low.

Cheng Juan had asked his teacher to send some medicines over. With the medicines from him and the medical organization, her hand injury had recovered very quickly and she had already removed the plaster a week ago. Last night, she even played games with Lu Zhaoying and Qiao Sheng until four oclock in the morning. They had only been willing to stop reluctantly after Qiao Sheng reached the Supreme level with two stars.

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As soon as Gao Yang heard her slightly hoarse voice, he knew that she had just woken up. He was silent for a moment before asking, You do know that the college entrance examination results are released today, right?

Today? Qin Ran squinted and remembered that today was the 23rd, the results day. Oh, thanks, Ill check it later.

Gao Yang was speechless.

Why arent you checking now that you know?

He didnt know what else to say, so he just muttered, Okay, go back to sleep a little longer.

He didnt tell her to check her grades and then inform him after she woke.

For some reason, he felt like by the time she woke up, the schools grades would have already been tabulated.

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Putting down his phone, he walked over to where a guy was processing the data.

Old Gao, how did the students in your class do? The other teachers also finished their phone calls, smiling widely. Their favorite students had obviously done well this time.

Glancing at the computer page, Gao Yang shook his head. I dont know, I couldnt find out.

Hearing this, they exchanged glances, wondering what he meant. Why couldnt you find out? Were the results blocked?

This was a possibility. Last year, the results of Song Lutings college entrance examination results in Yun Cheng First Middle School couldnt be found. His headteacher had been so anxious until several major universities informed him that his results had been intercepted.

Gao Yang remained silent and dared not say that Qin Ran was still sleeping.

This kid was too arrogant.

Lets take a look at the results first. He pointed at the computer.

According to the statistics, most peoples results had already been released.

It was a very long list. The technical guy refreshed the database according to grades. The top ten were basically students from class 3.1.

One or two students from class 3.9 were mixed in.

The data was displayed in order.

Chinese, Mathematics, English, Science Comprehensive/Arts Comprehensive, Total Score, Provincial Ranking, and School Ranking.

Pan Mingyue was ranked first at this time.

141, 135, 146, 277, 719, 5, 1.

Due to her bonus point policy, her final total score was 719.

This bonus point policy was really terrifying. She had bridged a gap of 20 points all of a sudden.

This years papers were very difficult. Generally speaking, given the exams difficulty, a score of 719 was enough to become the provincial top scorer.

She was only fifth place, so how terrifying were the ones before her?

With so many high schools in the province, Pan Mingyues achievement as the top ten scorers was considered a great accomplishment.

Li Airong finally heaved a sigh of relief after seeing this.

In previous years, Heng Chuan First Middle School rarely had students who managed to squeeze into the provincial top ten scorers, much less the fifth place.

But the bottom of Li Airongs eyes was still gloomy. In the past, other than Xu Yaoguang, all the top ten students had been students from her class, but now, two students from class 3.9 had mixed in.

Lin Siran and Xiang Wanzhou were sixth and seventh place respectively.

Most importantly, Qin Ran and Xu Yaoguangs results had yet to come out. No one knew how much Qin Ran was going to score in Physics, but it was certainly no problem for her to enter the top ten scorers in school.

Their results havent come out? At this time, the other high school students results had already been inputted, all except for Qin Rans and Xu Yaoguangs. The other teachers took the transcripts of their classes and glanced at the overview of their favorite pupils.

They had yet to study the other results.

They didnt leave the office either, and gathered around the computer, waiting for Qin Rans and Xu Yaoguangs results.

Not yet. The technician guy minimized the data on the excel sheet and returned to the first page. He refreshed the page, but their results were still not updated.

At this scene, the other teachers froze for a moment before looking at Gao Yang. Teacher Gao, it seems like both your students have performed well this time.

Otherwise, why wouldnt their results be updated?

Gao Yang smiled calmly. Maybe the system has delayed it.

Though he appeared calm on the surface, his hands were actually sweating.

It seems like it wont be out for a while. A teacher returned to his seat, smiling. Lets sit and wait.

They all faintly felt that Qin Rans Physics results really might be good.

They waited absentmindedly in the office.

All the results of class 3.1 had already been released.

But Li Airong didnt leave either. She saw the results of Meng Xinran, who was in the last place. All her scores were zero, and her ranking was more than 400,000th place in the province.

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She pursed her lips and sat in the corner of the office with the report card, her emotions unpredictable as she waited for Qin Rans and Xu Yaoguangs results.

They waited for another ten minutes.

The staff refreshed the web page as usual and the page finally changed from none to a display of the results.

Its out! The results are out! The technical guy spoke quickly before even looking at it.

When the other teachers heard this, they stood up immediately and surrounded the computers.

It was Xu Yaoguangs results.

Because it was a web page and not an Excel sheet, the results were displayed in a different format.

Chinese: 145.

Mathematics: 146.

English: 150.

Science Comprehensive: 291

Total Score: 732

Provincial Ranking: 2

There was silence in the staff room.

Even Li Airong, who had come over to look in curiosity, had yet to react. Pan Mingyues and Xu Yaoguangs results had always been about 20 points away from each other, but because of the bonus points, Pan Mingyues results were basically the same as Xu Yaoguangs.

Who knew that Xu Yaoguang would directly score full marks in English?

This time, the English paper was basically at the same level of difficulty as the Mathematics paper. Many people hadnt done well at the listening test, so how could Xu Yaoguang have scored full marks?

The other teachers gave Gao Yang a dumbfounded look and murmured, Teacher Gao, hes the provincial second-place, your class

Gao Yang wasnt very surprised. During the class gathering, Xu Yaoguang had also estimated that his score would be between 725 to 735.

But the ranking had really shocked him.

Xu Yaoguang didnt have bonus points like Pan Mingyue and had scored 732 with his own abilities. Gao Yang felt like even he himself wouldnt be able to score 146 in Mathematics.

He wasnt at all surprised that his results had been intercepted by major universities.

Qin Ran, Qin Rans results are left! The teachers surrounding the computer finally reacted.

At the thought of how Qin Rans results were still detained, they urged the technical guy to quickly retrieve her results.

The technical guy finally reacted. Oh!

In a flurry, he opened another web page with shaking hands and refreshed it.

Everyone stared at the computer page without blinking.