I Turned My Life Around Through Good Luck

1. Just how lucky can one person get? You might not believe my story even if I told you. My name is Chen Jing, and I work as a security guard for my residential complex. The year I graduated from vocational school, I planned to go work on an assembly line. By chance, a classmate asked me to join him in a math competition. I wasn't interested in math. But since the competition lunch was McDonald's, I went. Naturally, I picked my answers at random. But on the day the results were announced, my friend didn't place, while I won first prize. I'd guessed every answer correctly. Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, and the other prestigious universities naturally didn't come looking for me. But one decent vocational college sent me...