Reborn in 2004: Giving Up on the College Entrance Exam

Let me share my personal opinion: First of all, I don't think writing about giving up the college entrance exam is particularly wise. If a reborn person doesn't understand the implicit resources that the college entrance exam or university brings, then that's a huge failure.

It's ridiculous that there are so many people bragging in the comments section. At 17, he risked his life with some thugs, won a 100,000 yuan prize, went into the catering industry, and now wants to start a stone quarry. He's all over the place, trying everything, and now he's getting a 600,000 yuan annual salary. 😅

Haha, the author writes so realistically! I graduated from school almost twenty years ago. If I were to go back to high school and relive my senior year, I probably wouldn't be able to stay. Of course, I might not be like the protagonist, lacking money, but I definitely couldn't handle the high school life of flirting with girls and competing with boys. I'd probably enter the workforce and start earning money much earlier.

After reading two chapters, I felt a lot of negative emotions. The author was aggressive, impatient for quick success, and lacked the perspective that a reborn person should have. With a single sentence, the author dismissed the excellent 12 years of basic education.

If you really had the ability to make money, who would waste their life hanging out with a bunch of kids? Make some money, go to Hong Kong or America, study abroad, why bother taking the college entrance exam? You're just an ordinary person competing against a bunch of students on a single-plank bridge, and you're guaranteed to get into Tsinghua or Peking University!

Here's a joke: an annual salary of 600,000 yuan means a monthly income of 50,000 yuan.

University is the only stage in a person's life where they can naturally interact with people from different social classes. As a reborn individual, setting aside lottery tickets and stocks, the most convenient and efficient approach is to strive to get into a better university, actively befriend those second-generation individuals who entered university through financial means or their parents'…

Sometimes, having a college degree can be a protective shield; at the very least, college students have access to some excellent resources when starting their own businesses.

Honestly, it's not that he didn't read books; it's that reading is incredibly useful. With the protagonist's insecure yet arrogant mindset, without reading, he wouldn't even be a marginal figure at the factory, barely acquainted with the foreman. Forget about being a secretary in the CEO's office; he'd be the kind of factory girl everyone else rejected.

I've seen many people be surprised and think it's irrational that the author arranged for the protagonist not to go to university. But in my personal opinion, one's identity is self-given when one is away from home. The protagonist has enough practical experience, so whether or not he goes to university is irrelevant.