Chapter 1394: College Entrance Examination 1

In these three years at First High School, you have had brilliant smiles and wonderful memories, and you have also had setbacks and frustrations, but no matter what, this will be a precious part of your past on the long road of life ahead.

Three years to forge a sword, a thousand days to train troops, ten years to grow a tree, a hundred years to cultivate a person.

There are only three days left until your College Entrance Examination now; this year I will not pour chicken soup for the soul, and I will not say any motivational words to you.

What I want to say is that while the College Entrance Examination is certainly important, the exam is not the entirety of life, and scores cannot determine a person's life; entering which school is merely a waystation in life, and it absolutely cannot determine the brilliance of your life.

Your true brilliance lies in your ability to endure the heaviness and loneliness of giving your all while preparing for the exam, in the resilient qualities, enterprising spirit, and rigorous study methods you have honed during this process, and in maintaining a curious attitude toward the unknown... these are all temperings of the heart and mind, and these temperings will benefit you for a lifetime!

"Whoosh—"

The applause was thunderous, and many students had tears in their eyes.

This was not chicken soup for the soul, but it could soothe people's hearts more than any chicken soup could.

In an instant, everyone felt that everything was worth it.

June 7th.

The day of the annual College Entrance Examination.

Four-thirty in the morning.

Shi Youxuan woke up before the alarm went off; in summer, the sky brightens early, and it was already beginning to grow light outside.

Although it was still early to get up, she couldn't fall back asleep, so she simply got up.

Her husband turned over in dissatisfaction and muttered, "Why are you getting up so early? Sleep for another two hours, there's still time."

"What do you mean there's time? The drive to the exam site alone takes an hour and a half..."

Halfway through her sentence, she realized that this wasn't home; they were in a hotel room.

Zichen and Litian were in the same exam site, and coincidentally, Moli was also in the same exam site as them.

But the exam site was not close to home, so after the exam sites were assigned, Shi Youxuan made a prompt decision to find a hotel near the exam site to stay in.

She told her husband her idea, and her husband said expressionlessly, "Very good, we thought of the same thing, but if we book now, there won't be any hotels left."

The College Entrance Examination is a major life event, and parents take it very seriously; of course, they weren't the only ones who could think of booking a hotel.

"Let's try, how will we know if we can't book one if we don't try."

Shi Youxuan hurriedly picked up the phone, prepared to try her luck.

After all, the exam sites had just been announced, so not everyone would be that fast, but her husband was right; Shi Youxuan asked about a dozen large and small hotels near the exam site—all full.

Never mind high-end hotels, even small inns were fully booked.

"What should we do? What can we do?"

Shi Youxuan, who usually had plenty of ideas, couldn't think of a solution now; she was so anxious she couldn't sit still and paced back and forth in the living room.

Her husband still had that calm tone and said, "Stop pacing, I've already arranged the hotel."

Shi Youxuan:...

She was first pleasantly surprised, then furious, and lunged over to punch her husband: "You wretch, what time is it, and you're still teasing me? Why didn't you say so earlier..."

"I was wrong, I was wrong, my dear wife, I won't tease you in the future!"

Sheng Hanyu apologized with a smile, but he was only saying it; he didn't feel he was truly wrong.

In fact, he had already told her, but she had just forgotten.

Three years ago, after their son's high school entrance exam, Sheng Hanyu said they should build a hotel near every major high school exam site; when the annual College Entrance Examination came around, the room rates would definitely be sky-high!

At the time, his wife mocked him for only having his eyes on money; it was their son's high school entrance exam, why talk about the College Entrance Examination?

In the blink of an eye, three years had passed; the children were taking the College Entrance Examination, right?

Sheng Hanyu said: "If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand; I have already arranged the hotel room, you don't need to worry about this part."

The day before the College Entrance Examination, the family moved in.

Shi Youxuan and her husband, Zichen and Litian.

The remaining children at home were left to the nanny.

"Wow—"

Zichen exclaimed: "There's actually such a big kitchen in the hotel? Isn't this too thoughtful?"

The kitchen was large, and the cookware was complete.

A wok, a soup pot, a rice cooker.

A steamer, an oven, and a microwave; although it didn't reach the standard of a restaurant kitchen, it was enough to make a few nutritionally balanced meals.

"Wow—"

Litian walked in and also exclaimed, but the brothers were looking in different directions.

In front of Litian was a gym; the treadmill, dumbbells, and fitness equipment were almost all there.

Additionally, this suite had three bedrooms, a Study, and a living room.

A hotel across from the school actually had a Presidential Suite?

Shi Youxuan asked: "Can anyone even stay in a room like this normally?"

Her husband replied: "The occupancy rate isn't important; as long as our son can use it when he takes the exam, that's enough."

There were two Presidential Suites, and Sheng Zerong's family of three lived next door to them.

Shi Youxuan couldn't fall asleep once she woke up, and she didn't dare make too much noise for fear of disturbing the children's rest, so after washing up, she started picking out clothes.

"Husband, which one do you think I should wear?"

Her husband didn't look up and said offhandedly: "You look good in whatever you wear, you look the best."

This answer.

Taken literally, there was nothing wrong with it.

But it was just so perfunctory; he hadn't even looked, so how could she look the best?

Shi Youxuan simply stopped asking and decided to choose for herself.

A row of cheongsams in various colors hung in the closet, all prepared for the College Entrance Examination; it is said that when children take exams, mothers should wear cheongsams, symbolizing "victory upon the raising of the banner."

Back during the high school entrance examination, there were quite a few parents wearing cheongsams, and today is the College Entrance Examination, which is even more important to one's life than the high school entrance exam, so Shi Youxuan prepared to wear one.

She couldn't just wear one herself; she also prepared a mandarin jacket for her husband—"immediate success upon arrival"!

When Sheng Hanyu got up and saw the mandarin jacket, he immediately objected: "I am not wearing this thing, and you had better not dress in such a strange way either."

Shi Youxuan was unconvinced: "For the sake of the children, what is wrong with making a little sacrifice? Why can't you wear it? Also, how am I dressed strangely? It is just a cheongsam, after all; people wear them normally too."

As for the mandarin jacket, indeed, not many people wear it normally, but today is different from other days; there are quite a few fathers in the parent group saying they will wear mandarin jackets.

Sheng Hanyu gave his explanation: "Wearing this thing to send the children to the exam hall makes no sense at all; rather than saying it has a good meaning, it is more like parents seeking psychological comfort for themselves."

"You don't usually wear a cheongsam, so besides letting the two children feel something different and sense your nervous mood, thereby affecting them, what other use is there?"

Shi Youxuan:...

She thought about it carefully and then felt that her husband made a lot of sense.

It seemed that was exactly how it was.

But other parents are all wearing them; if she doesn't wear a cheongsam, will it make her two sons feel they are not being valued?

Her husband explained again: "They are already eighteen years old and are adults; whether we value them or not, they can feel it with their hearts, and it does not need a cheongsam or a mandarin jacket to prove it!"