Chapter 505: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 505: Heaven's Favored Children Are Merely the Lowest Threshold to Enter Here

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Xiaohua had just finished making his bed when another roommate arrived.

That roommate was named Wan Zhiyuan, and he actually knew Wen Lingyun.

He had also entered through the competition channel; they had met during national team training camp.

Moreover, Wan Zhiyuan was only sixteen years old, two to three years younger than them; he could be called a genius youth.

The last roommate, Wei Qian, arrived late; like Wang Xiaohua, he had tested in.

However, his family conditions were very good; his parents both worked in a big city, unlike Wang Xiaohua who had come from a rural area.

The roommates got to know each other, then Wang Xiaohua went to the cafeteria to eat with his eldest brother Wang Dashan.

After eating, his eldest brother left the school; he had bought a nine o'clock tonight flight back to Guangzhou, so he came in a rush and left in a rush — having managed to make a trip to Beijing, he didn't stay to play for a few days.

But he was also helpless; nowadays the Shanhai Real Estate in Guangzhou was managed by him alone; his second brother Wang Erhai was busy with the county branch company's business, so him being able to squeeze out one day to accompany Wang Xiaohua to school for registration already counted as very good.

After Wang Dashan left, Wang Xiaohua returned to the dormitory; in this unfamiliar environment, he felt somewhat constrained, and coupled with being poor with words, he didn't know how to communicate with the other roommates.

Wen Lingyun and Wan Zhiyuan hit it off at first sight; the two quickly started playing together; that very evening, Wen Lingyun took out the Journal of the American Chemical Society periodical to discuss with Wan Zhiyuan.

This periodical is the flagship journal of the American Chemical Society, covering important research achievements across all fields of chemistry, possessing extremely high influence in the global chemistry community; the papers published in it represent the most cutting-edge level of the chemistry field.

Such a cutting-edge journal naturally could not have a Chinese version, so what these two genius youths were reading was the full English version.

Wang Xiaohua watched them discussing heatedly; his thirst for knowledge made him want to join in, but he only glanced over and discovered it was the full English version; many specialized English words inside, he didn't recognize at all.

This immediately dealt a blow to his self-esteem; he didn't know how to open his mouth.

In front of Wen Lingyun and Wan Zhiyuan, he felt he was simply a worthless academic scumbag.

He couldn't help but feel ashamed of his own inferiority.

Feeling the enormous gap between himself and them.

In this place Tsinghua, no matter how much of a heaven's favored child you once were, once you enter, you start from zero; here, heaven's favored children are merely mediocre existences.

Because gathered here are the most genius geniuses among the nation's 1.4 billion population.

Because heaven's favored children are everywhere here; heaven's favored children are merely the lowest threshold to enter this place.

Wang Xiaohua knew in his heart that with his true strength, he originally could not have tested into Tsinghua; it was only by a fluke that he performed exceptionally on the college entrance exam, which allowed him the fortune to be together with these true geniuses.

But this also ignited his fighting spirit.

As the saying goes, a slow bird flies early; being together with geniuses, just fly a bit harder; he didn't believe that if he put in one thousand percent effort, he still couldn't catch up to those geniuses.

Only now, seeing the two geniuses discussing full English paper journals, Wang Xiaohua couldn't help but feel apprehensive, because English was precisely his weakest subject.

And to access the most cutting-edge research results, one had no choice but to use English this tool well.

In a blink it was the next day; the counselor convened the whole class for a meeting, to elect class committee members and such.

Many students eagerly participated; they were very sunny and confident.

Wang Xiaohua knew he had no leadership ability, so he didn't actively participate in the election.

At noon when eating, Wei Qian actively came over to go to the cafeteria with Wang Xiaohua.

Wei Qian worked hard participating in the election, and in the end he became Vice Class Monitor.

While eating, Wei Qian suddenly asked Wang Xiaohua:

"Classmate Xiaohua, you should be someone who tested in from a rural area, right?"

"How do you know?" Wang Xiaohua asked in surprise and doubt.

Wei Qian smiled:

"Looking at your image, this temperament, this poor-with-words and slightly inferior personality, one knows you tested in from a rural area."

Wang Xiaohua gave a dry bitter laugh:

"Before at the county middle school, I was a heaven's favored child; after coming to Tsinghua, I discovered I'm nothing; you know, yesterday that journal Wan Zhiyuan and Wen Lingyun were discussing, I not only haven't read it, I've never even heard of it; compared to them, I'm just a frog at the bottom of a well."

Wei Qian however said:

"Don't be so inferior; you should be confident."

"I should be confident?" Wang Xiaohua was puzzled, "I don't know what else could support my confidence."

Wei Qian at this moment asked an inexplicable question:

"Have you read cultivation novels? The recently hottest A Mortal's Journey to Immortality and such."

Wang Xiaohua shook his head: "I'm not interested in that; I've never read web novels."

Wei Qian then said:

"If we put all of us into cultivation novel roles, you are a cultivator who fought his way out of a mountain village; you have no resources, no equipment; while Wan Zhiyuan and Wen Lingyun, they are heaven's favored sons and daughters from a great sect; from childhood they've been soaked in all kinds of resources; under such disadvantaged innate conditions, you can now stand on equal footing with them, together enter the Tsinghua Great Immortal Gate, together cultivate this Chemistry Great Immortal Law; don't you think you're awesome? If you had their resources and conditions, I dare determine that your current achievements would definitely be even more awesome than theirs; there's a thing called aptitude; aptitude displayed under resource-rich conditions isn't true aptitude; aptitude that can still be displayed under extremely resource-scarce conditions, that is truly awesome aptitude!"

Wei Qian finally also said a sentence:

"So, among the three roommates, the one I admire most is you, not Wen Lingyun and Wan Zhiyuan; you are the strongest one, not only stronger than me, but stronger than them too."

Wang Xiaohua was stunned, for a moment not knowing what to say.

Have to admit, Wei Qian's reasoning also has a certain principle.

His innate conditions are not only far worse than Wen Lingyun and Wan Zhiyuan, even compared to Wei Qian they cannot be mentioned in the same breath; Wei Qian, though also tested in, his parents are middle class, have stable income in the city, unlike him who from childhood lived in a barren land.

Even buying a tape recorder to learn English was strongly opposed by his ignorant father.

Under such conditions, he could still test into Tsinghua; he really is already very awesome.

He shouldn't be inferior.

He should be confident!

Isn't it just a paper from the cutting-edge chemistry journal?

Not having been exposed to it before and not understanding it now doesn't mean there won't be a chance to be exposed to it in the future, nor does it mean he'll never understand it.

He's just been exposed to this information relatively late.

It's the information gap that made him fall behind, not his aptitude or his strength.

"Wei Qian, thank you for saying all this to me. Let's both work hard, surpass Wen Lingyun and Wan Zhiyuan, and don't let those competition students look down on us college entrance exam students!"

Wei Qian truly lived up to being someone who could run for Vice Class Monitor; he had a great presence and excellent eloquence. After saying all that, he actually helped Xiao Hua shed his inferiority and regain his confidence.