A parallel world.
750 points on the college entrance exam or ten million yuan, which would you choose?
Only kids make choices.
Qiu Chen wants both.
In his senior year of high school, while watching Yu Jie’s videos, a university admission reward System popped up on his phone.
Get a perfect score on the college entrance exam, and you’ll receive ten million yuan, plus a knowledge node.
There’s no penalty for failing.
Figuring he had nothing to lose by giving it a try, Qiu Chen bound himself to it on a whim.
Then he really did get the first perfect score in the country.
Reporters crowded his door, Tsinghua and Peking University fought over him, and the whole internet went wild.
But he came downstairs in his boxers and said, “I haven’t decided what to major in yet. Maybe I’ll take the exam again next year.”
The whole country was dumbfounded.
The second year, then the third, he got perfect scores again.
When he said he was a little tired, he infuriated the exam setters, who slapped the Riemann Hypothesis onto the college entrance exam.
He finished the exam and left as usual, leaving behind a draft proof.
The mathematical world exploded.
Western universities came to poach him with astronomical offers.
Qiu Chen said, “Thank you for thinking so highly of me. I’ve never even left my province, so I won’t be going abroad.”
At last, the country couldn’t sit still.
Qiu Chen proposed, “If there are tough problems, put them on the college entrance exam. I’ll take it once a year.”
And so, that year’s exam featured controllable nuclear fusion, materials for ultra-high-temperature cannon barrels, and breaking the light-speed barrier.
Students across the country broke down. Qiu Chen solved them all.
He realized every knowledge node granted by the System addressed exactly what the country needed most.
In an underground facility in the uninhabited reaches of the Northwest, a video sealed away for twenty years told Qiu Chen that he wasn’t the first person chosen by the System. The last one hadn’t made it to the end.
On the back of an old photo taken in a classroom, someone had written a single line: Good luck on my college entrance exam.
