Chapter 44: The Country's Top-Tier Review Materials

Chapter 44: The Country's Top Review Materials

After the first period ended, Lu Yang went somewhere.

Meng Jin-yang walked over to sit next to Gu Mang. "I looked over last week's weekly exam papers. My score is still quite a bit behind the student ranked last in Class 1."

Gu Mang rested her chin on her hand, wearing an earphone in one ear while on a phone call. She said into the phone, "I'm busy with something. I won't be taking any orders lately, so stop bothering me."

She pulled out the earphone and stuffed it into her pocket along with her phone.

She looked at Meng Jin-yang, her voice clear and carrying a nine-tenths chill. "Is it really that hard?"

Meng Jin-yang nodded. "Although the curriculum content is the same, every school has different levels of difficulty for their test questions."

Gu Mang had spent millions on private tutors for Meng Jin-yang over the years, so she had a pretty good grasp of Meng Jin-yang's academic level.

Are the exam questions at Mingcheng High School really that difficult?

She said casually, "It doesn't matter. Just score whatever you can."

Meng Jin-yang took a deep breath. "If only I had the exam papers and internal review materials from Qingshui High School. Their school's practice tests and internal review materials are the absolute top tier in the entire country."

Gu Mang narrowed her eyes.

"But their materials are only given to internal students and are strictly forbidden from being leaked outside. The school holds patents and copyrights for them," Meng Jin-yang said with a sigh of regret, before comforting herself, "Never mind, I'd better just focus on reviewing properly. There are only three days left."

...

At night, Gu Mang returned to the dormitory for the first time. Meng Jin-yang had already helped her clean and arrange her entire bed and desk.

Shen Huan was also in their dorm and got along quite well with Meng Jin-yang.

The two of them often went together to fetch hot water and buy meals.

As soon as Gu Mang climbed onto her bed, she opened her laptop and started playing a game. In the intervals, she switched to a web page with a completely black background to reply to a message.

This web page was created by the top ten hackers internationally, serving as a private gathering place exclusively for hackers.

Gu Mang's appearance in it was like dropping a deep-sea bomb.

The chat instantly exploded.

Another hacker from Shadow Alliance exclaimed, "Holy shit! White Fox! I haven't seen you in over a year. What are you up to?!"

Gu Mang replied, "Going to school, preparing for the national college entrance examination."

The web page fell silent for more than ten seconds.

One hacker sneered, "Cut the crap. If you're taking the college entrance exam, I'll hang myself with a mouse cable!"

Gu Mang didn't say anything further.

Well, it was you guys who refused to believe it.

...

The next day.

After morning self-study, Gu Mang picked up an express delivery from the guard's office—a rectangular box.

She dismantled the cardboard box at a roadside trash can, revealing it to be packed entirely with test papers and summaries of difficult and key concepts for review.

There were no watermarks; they looked like very ordinary test papers.

She cradled the papers and materials and walked toward the classroom.

Lu Yang was busy reciting classical Chinese. Seeing Gu Mang walk in carrying a stack of papers, he was startled, and then said with a complicated expression, "Sister Mang, cramming at the last minute like this is hardly reliable."

Gu Mang shoved the papers into her desk drawer, glanced sideways at Lu Yang, and said in a flat tone, "Go sit with Shen Huan and swap places with Meng Jin-yang."

Lu Yang's face instantly fell into a mournful expression. "Sister Mang, what did I do wrong that you're casting me aside?"

Gu Mang looked at him with her cold, clear eyes. "When the monthly exam is over, you can come back."

Realizing this wasn't a permanent exile to the frontiers, Lu Yang readily agreed, "Alright, then I'll be off."

Meng Jin-yang and Lu Yang swapped seats, and Xi Yan didn't raise any objections.

Gu Mang still maintained her devil-may-care attitude, though she was surprisingly attentive during class and didn't sleep. But as soon as class ended, she would put on her earphones and sleep.

Occasionally, she would pull out a set of problems from her desk and have Meng Jin-yang solve them.

Meng Jin-yang obeyed Gu Mang in almost everything and obediently tackled the problems.

Or during morning self-study, Gu Mang would pull out a thin booklet of materials and tell Meng Jin-yang to read it.

Whenever Meng Jin-yang encountered a problem whose solution steps she couldn't figure out, the next day, the blank space beside that problem would feature brilliant, near-flawless solution steps that made it instantly clear at a glance.

She glanced at the sleeping Gu Mang beside her, then shifted her gaze back to the paper, blinking in puzzlement.

...

Soon, the day of the third-year high school division's first monthly exam arrived.

The school attached great importance to this monthly exam, and a heavy sense of urgency permeated every single classroom.