I Got Every Answer Right, and the Nation Hired Me as an Adviser!

Ye Hua is reborn on the day before the college entrance exam, with an absurd ability: he gets every multiple-choice question right. The moment he touches a sheet of paper, the answers pop straight into his head. Sounds useless? Turn a fusion reactor design into a multiple-choice question, and one touch tells him which option is right. List seven possible lithography machine designs, and he’ll know the answer as soon as he touches the page. That day, he calls the national security department. “The exam is tomorrow. I’m only answering the multiple-choice questions. If I get them all right, give me a chance.” When the results come out, he has full marks on every multiple-choice section, but his total score only barely clears the cutoff for a vocational college. No one at school gives him a second glance, but an encrypted call from national security has already reached the admissions office. Advanced mathematics, theoretical physics, cryptography... Paper after paper is handed to Ye Hua. He picks each one up, answers it, then walks away. An elderly professor repeats, “Impossible,” three times. From then on, his codename is “Zero.” The nation’s most challenging problems are turned into multiple-choice questions and sent to him without end. His job is to choose the answer; the country’s job is to make the breakthrough. Until, across the ocean, someone writes a memo: “Someone is giving them the answers.” Assassinations and infiltration follow one after another. The other side is determined to physically eliminate this “Zero.” But Ye Hua has seen a squad leader stop bullets on a five-thousand-meter border, and an old engineer revising blueprints at a hospital bedside. Years later, when Huaxia enters the space age, some say it all began with one of his questions. Ye Hua says, “No. It began with that coin when I was seventeen.”