CHAPTER 495: CHAPTER 494: DOUBLE INCREMENT!

After the evening self-study session, on her way back to the dormitory, Han Mingyue stealthily slipped a cassette tape into Zhen Yu’s school uniform pocket under the cover of night.

No sooner had her hand moved away than Zhen Yu immediately covered her pocket and secretly curled up the corners of her lips.

However, once back in the dormitory, she did not rush to listen to it. Instead, she first placed the item in her space.

Busy until nearly lights-out, Zhen Yu finally hurried to wash up and climbed into her bed.

The moment she lay down, she flipped out the little recorder and the cassette tape from her space!

Despite her efforts to control her facial expression, Zhen Yu couldn’t help but feel like bursting into laughter even before she started listening...

After putting on her headphones, Zhen Yu was ready to dive into her space to laugh...

She took a deep breath first, and then pressed the play button.

After a brief silence, the voice uniquely belonging to Han Mingyue echoed.

"I am Han Mingyue, known as the darling of the masses, one whose presence makes flowers bloom and cars stop, renowned for moving heaven and earth, omnipotent, handsomely suave, standing tall like a pine, chic and dashing, with a visage comparable to Pan An, possessing towering wit, immensely learned, powerful and majestic, fainting thousands of young girls yet only fancying you, goodnight."

"..."

Zhen Yu blinked in astonishment, staring at the bunk above and thought, "This tone... it’s different from Mr. Xing’s! And the lines seem changed too..."

At this point, silence had returned in the headphones. Zhen Yu was just about to stop the tape when suddenly everything went dark—the lights were out.

"...Xiao Yu, I don’t know if you will keep listening. But if you do hear this bit! Then I want to tell you, that in my rant just now, the last ten words came from the heart."

"No matter what I am in your heart, I am who I am, goodnight, Xiao Yu."

Zhen Yu was at first smitten by Han Mingyue’s last deep-toned sentence, and then she caught onto the key point.

"The last ten words?!"

Curious, she took out a small flashlight from her space, turned its light on, and rewound the tape in the recorder back to the beginning, then listened to it all over again from start to finish.

And then... she buried her face in her pillow!

!!! Who did he learn from?! Such a smooth talker!

It’s over, it’s over! I feel the flutter of excitement! How am I supposed to deal with suddenly liking him even more...

——

And just as Zhen Yu’s romantic bubbles were barely forming, they were ruthlessly popped by [6781]!

[80! Beijing University!]

"!"

Zhen Yu instantly raised her neck like a striking snake!

During the day, she specifically went to the seniors to find Zhen Yan! Only then did she learn that the historical highest score in the college entrance examination at First High School was 638 for the sciences! And there haven’t been any humanities students who even passed 600!

Regrettably, the science student who scored 638 did not get into Qinghua University due to a miscalculation in the predictive scoring!

Over the years, First High School had only one fortunate girl who barely made the admission cut-off to be accepted by Qinghua University! She is the only Qinghua student in the school’s history!

As for Beijing University students, there were simply none!

[What’s your plan?]

"Don’t even talk about it! Hurry up and add some points!"

Zhen Yu’s goal is Beijing University! She must score over 600 in the college entrance exams, or even 638!

Although this year Beijing University’s humanities admission cut-off was only 577 points in her province, what about three years from now? Who knows what it will be?! She, who had been reborn, couldn’t remember!

All she remembered was that it seemed like the admissions cut-off scores increased year by year!

So she must start working hard from now!

[OK!]

"Add Memory to 100!"

[Detected that your remaining ability points are 343, you can only increase Memory to 85 points! Increase?]

"What? Isn’t it ten ability points to increase by one?"

[That’s for going from 80 to 81!]

A bad premonition suddenly flashed through Zhen Yuxin’s mind! "What about after that?"

[It doubles each time!]

Zhen Yu immediately felt there was a trap here!

"Little Liu’er, make yourself clear! Who’s base value is doubling?!"

[To go to 81=10 points, 82=20 points, 83=40 points, 84=80 points, 85=160 points, 86=320 points... Understand?]

"Man, that’s just too much! I’d die before I could add up to 100!"

[That’s the pyramid principle of human society!!]

"Got it, got it! I’ll settle for 85 then!" Zhen Yu gritted her teeth and nodded!

[Your decision is correct! Only with effort comes reward!]

Zhen Yu: "...I’m not sleeping! Let’s get up and thrill!"

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The consequence of staying up late was that she almost couldn’t get out of bed for the Sunday morning run.

Luckily, Zhen Yu had set an alarm.

But you see... on the way to the track field, she just kept yawning! She wasn’t spirited at all like she used to be!

Han Mingyue, seeing Zhen Yu like this, suddenly felt a bit amused!

After running a full lap, Zhen Yu finally woke up.

Han Mingyue then ran to her side and started chatting with her.

"Didn’t sleep well last night?"

"Yeah! Slept late." Zhen Yu honestly said, she had studied until two in the morning last night.

Han Mingyue’s handsome face blushed slightly, "The cassette, you listened to it?!"

"..." Zhen Yu finally caught on!

She said pointedly without changing her expression, "Yeah! I’ve ’listened’ to it!"

After Han Mingyue heard this, he suddenly looked down at the ground, "...What are you planning to do today?"

Zhen Yu knew he was embarrassed, so she didn’t make it hard for him and simply changed the subject.

"Let me think... go to the internet café and check on our serialized novel!"

"Sure! How about we just go out for breakfast after this?" Han Mingyue suggested.

"Sounds good! I’m really craving soy milk and deep-fried dough sticks!" Zhen Yan ran up from behind and said loudly.

Because she had been busy for nearly a month, Zhen Yu only got to see Zhen Yan during their morning runs!

She had something to ask him yesterday, but after speaking for just a few minutes on the main topic, he was in a hurry to get back to class! Now she couldn’t help but ask with concern, "Bro! What have you been busy with recently? Can you keep up with your studies?!"

The speaker was unintentional; the listener was intentional! Guilty Zhen Yan almost immediately said, "What could I be busy with! Just studying! I can keep up! Don’t worry!"

His reaction was a little nervous, but because Zhen Yu was drained from staying up late, she didn’t notice.

Han Mingyue, on the other hand, quietly took a couple of glances at Zhen Yan, but ended up getting caught and glared back fiercely!

He could only touch his nose and give up on probing.

After they finished running and had breakfast, everyone went their separate ways.

The three students still in their freshman year of high school went to their respective specialty classes or to learn musical instruments.

And Zhen Yan, quietly embarked on a journey to visit his mother.

He did as Li Si’er said, first taking a ride to the Rich District, then transferring to a bus to Fujiang Village.