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  Chapter 15: Demolition in Progress

  TL: Etude

  Time flew by quickly in the following days, like a swift horse passing through a gap.

  On Juh, the results of the college entrance exam were released, stirring the hearts of tless families.

  Jiang Qin’s score was exactly the same as in his previous life: 653 points (TL: sidered good; 750 is highest). Admission into a top uy was a certainty, leaving no room for doubt. He felt very calm about it, but had to show enough excitement in front of his parents, which was quite a test of his ag skills.

  Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Yuaruly thrilled.

  653 points!

  This score was 20 points higher than Jiang Qin’s mock exam results!

  Mrs. Yuan Youqin immediately went to Baiyun Mountain to burn inse and fulfill her vows at Baiyun Temple.

  rade Jiang Zhenghong was so overjoyed that he could hardly tain himself. He paced restlessly, his fists ched and shaking, aually took Jiang Qin downstairs to run three full ps around the neighborhood.

  Jiang Qin uood his parents’ feelings well. In their geion’s view, the college entrance exam ringboard to success, a major turning point in life, the only opportunity to ge one’s destiny, and a stepping stoo glory ah.

  But what he couldn’t have anticipated was that in a few years, the world would be teeming with PhDs and overrun with Masters.

  Three days after the annou of the exam results, the demolition process began to take shape.

  On the m of Juh, the offices of Fanhuali, Rongg, Xingfu unity, and Hongyun unity called Jiang Qin, briefly discussing the demolition and inviting him to a meeting with the special demolition team.

  Although the official demolition dots had not yet been made public, the demolition was almost a fone clusion.

  To save time, all the streets affected by the old town renovation project began early preparations.

  This was not a widely publicized matter.

  In fact, apart from the homeowners of the buildings to be demolished, no one else knew about it, which saved Jiang Qin a lot of trouble.

  In the following days, Jiang Qi bad forth betweereet offices, listening to the higher-ups’ directives and pensation cuses, which he had heard many times.

  Even though the information from each street office was repetitive, it was still thrilling to hear each time.

  Ohe official demolition notice was issued, the process ehe iation phase.

  This stage was almost the most time-ing, as many people were greedy, especially the residents who had lived in old and decrepit houses for many years. Their lives were not satisfactory, so they wao ask for as mupensation as possible.

  However, Jiang Qin knew when to stop.

  He proposed a figure to the street offices based on the highest estimated pensation ratio and told them to call him if they agreed.

  His rexed attitude stemmed from an important reason: during the sed phase of the demolition, those who sighe tract first could choose their resettlement houses early, aing a good location was far more important than haggling over ara thirty or fifty thousand yuan.

  If iations dragged on and all the good locations were chosen, what would the remaining people do?

  Sorry, they would have to draw lots.

  The tracts were already signed; no one would cater to these teers.

  Additionally, he had an urgent reason.

  He o repay a debt.

  Although the money for buying the house was borrowed from Feng Nanshu, it was still her father’s mohe fact that nothing had gone wrong so far meant her father hadn’t noticed yet, but the longer he deyed, the higher the risk. Jiang Qin didn’t know what kind of person Feng Nanshu’s father was, so he didn’t want to take the risk.

  Getting the pensation early and filling the gap would make it as if nothing had ever happened.

  After dealing with the preliminary demolition matters, Jiang Qin took a day off to rex at home, responding to various messages on QQ.

  Guo Zihang said he scored 472, while Feng Nanshu announced she got 671.

  Guo Zihang’s score wasn’t surprising; that was simply his level of ability. Sg even a point higher would have been difficult for him. However, Feng Nanshu, known as a genius and a top student, sg below 700 was quite ued.

  Of course, the css teacher also couldn’t accept this score and believed there must have been a mistake. He went to the city to check the papers on the day the results were released.

  However, there was no mistake; it was indeed 671. The problem was with the ese essay. Out of a possible 60 points, Feng Nanshu only scored 12.

  What was this year’s essay topic again?

  Jiang Qin, having been reborn, had almost fotten this memory. So, he went oo ched couldn’t help but burst into ughter.

  An essay on friendship?

  She didn’t even have friends, and she was asked to write about friendship?

  Wasn’t that like asking a mouse to write about its experiences in cat-petting?

  Not a bad result, really. The 12 points were probably just for handwriting.

  “Stop ughing,” said Feng Nanshu.

  Sitting in their usual spot on the sed floor of the Jizhou City Library, Feng Nanshu looked utterly dejected. “I’ve thought about it, and this is actually your fault.”

  Jiang Qin uzzled. “We didn’t even know each other during the exams. How are your lost points my fault?”

  “But if I had known you earlier, maybe I would have been able to write something.”

  “Since you say that, let’s assume for a moment you’re taking the exams now. How would you write this essay?”

  Feng Nanshu raised her head solemnly: “I met a friend in the library. He’s a puy who loves looking at… ”

  “Stop!”

  Jiang Qin interrupted her impromptu essay. “Is that really how you see me?”

  “Isn’t it…?” Feng Nanshu’s eyes flickered with fusion.

  “If you really wrote that, you wouldn’t evehe st twelve points.”

  Feng Nanshu hung her head low, returning to her state of despair. “Did I make friends with someone I ’t be proud of?”

  Jiang Qin’s face twitched. “Anyway, the exams are over. There’s no use thinking about this now.”

  “That makes sense…”

  “As a little rich dy like you, why did you even bother with the college entrance exam? Why not just study abroad?”

  Feng Nanshu lifted her head, her delicate, curly eyeshes quivering. “A lonely girl who ’t socialize would die if sent abroad.”

  Jiang Qin hadn’t sidered this. He had simply thought of her as an ordinary rich girl. But from Feng Nanshu’s perspective, studying abroad was indeed a precarious idea.

  Fn tries stantly promote freedom and democracy, but the social enviro is chaotic. There’s the so-called nd of liberty, America, with shootings every day. Despite having a popution of only 370 million, there are 390 milliistered firearms. That’s an average of funs for a family of three. Are they preparing for a sed child? (TL: Damn author roasting the US of A)

  Sending someone like Feng Nanshu, naturally naive and socially anxious, into su enviro would be like throwing a mb into a wolf pack.

  “It doesn’t matter anymore. Actually, uies here are pretty good too. Whie are you pnning to attend?”

  “Where are you going?”

  She asked back expressionlessly, her dense eyeshes turning golden in the scattered sunlight.

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