Before the College Entrance Exam Results: I’m Anxious

Twelve years of hard study, all for the sake of one exam paper. Everyone said the college entrance exam was the most important turning point in life, and Fudu believed them. The top student at City No. 1 High School, a promising candidate for Tsinghua or Peking University, the “other people’s kid” parents always talked about: he lived up to everyone’s expectations, and in the depths of depression no one knew about. Fudu thought that once he made it through June 7, everything would be fine. But that day never ended. Just before the final question on the math exam, his consciousness plunged into a blank void. When he opened his eyes again, the alarm was ringing. It was still the morning of June 7. Again and again. He thought he was going insane, until, in a crack in time, he glimpsed the Gate of the End. Beyond the gate lay the truth of the Five Paths of Reincarnation: the Heavenly Dao used happiness as a cocoon, trapping all humanity in a false sense of fulfillment. The college entrance exam, success, the pinnacle of life… They were all just threads woven into a dream. Behind every “dream of passing the imperial examinations” lay another descent into the abyss. His memories were a flaw in the world, a crack through which it leaked. The Five Paths are a cage, and all living beings are dreaming. Fudu is searching for the cause and effect behind this world. If humans were created by gods, then who created the gods? A boy trapped on the day of the college entrance exam must become the one who wakes everyone up. Keywords: college entrance exam; Sanxingdui; The Classic of Mountains and Seas; Five Paths of Reincarnation; Gate of the End; cause and effect