Overbearing Immortal Doctor Chapter 1719 - 1818: A Hint of a Smile
Previously on Overbearing Immortal Doctor...
Looking at Tang Mo’s on-the-verge-collapse expression, Su Zhe was completely at a loss about what to do?!
He really couldn’t stand seeing girls cry, especially a girl this pretty.
But in the end, Su Zhe didn’t say anything. He just drove Tang Mo toward the city.
Tang Mo’s self-control was actually pretty good.
She cried for less than a minute before the sound stopped. She wiped her face with her hand, then, a bit embarrassed, forced out a faint
smile: "Sorry, I said I wouldn’t cry, but I still couldn’t hold it in!"
"It’s understandable. Anyone in your shoes would be like this!"
Su Zhe shrugged on purpose to look relaxed. The Tiger Head was already driving into the county, but Su Zhe didn’t know which test center Tang Mo was at.
So he just kept wandering around blindly.
"Let me get off. I can go on my own. If I delay your exam, that would be bad!"
"I really troubled you too much today. I’ll pay back the medical fees as soon as I can..."
Tang Mo took out a sheet of paper from her backpack and wrote down a string of phone numbers and an address: "This is my home address and phone number!"
Seeing how serious this girl was about it, Su Zhe couldn’t help but laugh: "Alright, which test center is it? I’ll take you there!"
"Really, you don’t have to—"
Tang Mo swallowed the rest of the sentence, because Su Zhe’s gaze had already swept over to her, that look carrying
a kind of unquestionable force.
That made Tang Mo have no choice but to open her mouth: "No.9 Middle School."
"Hm? No.9 Middle School?"
Su Zhe grinned: "What a coincidence, I’m also at No.9."
"Looks like even heaven doesn’t want you getting out of the car!"
Su Zhe deliberately cracked a joke. Tang Mo didn’t know what she suddenly thought of, but her pretty face reddened slightly.
Obviously, Su Zhe didn’t see it, because he was in the middle of turning the car around, heading toward No.9. There was still plenty of time right now,
a bit more than an hour before the math exam would start.
It was obvious Tang Mo was worried about her grandpa, so Su Zhe didn’t feel right joking around.
So they stayed silent the whole way. Half an hour before the exam began, Su Zhe and Tang Mo arrived at their respective test rooms.
The test rooms were right next to each other.
"Tang Mo!"
Just before Tang Mo entered her test room, Su Zhe suddenly called out to her.
Tang Mo turned around, a little Mang Ran. She had no idea why Su Zhe, who hadn’t spoken the whole way, was suddenly calling her now.
"Don’t overthink it. Do your best on the exam. I’ll be waiting for you at Qinghua!"
After saying this, Su Zhe walked into his test room, leaving behind a completely at-a-loss Tang Mo.
She stood at the door of the test room, staring at the empty test room next door. That sentence Su Zhe had thrown back as he turned to leave
felt like a kind of encouragement, opening up a belief she’d held on to for three years.
Qinghua!
The university she’d been working toward for three years.
Right at that moment, her eyes gradually grew clear.
"Thank you, Su Zhe!"
A glint of fighting spirit showed on Tang Mo’s face. Looking toward the county hospital not far away, it was as if she could see her grandpa being resuscitated:
"Grandpa, you’re definitely going to be okay!"
With her lips pressed tight, Tang Mo walked firmly into the test room.
Su Zhe took the exam paper and started answering at high speed, while many students who had just roughly skimmed through the paper already looked
a bit pale.
The very first multiple-choice question had stumped them.
Then some people moved on to the second question, but to their despair, the second question was even harder.
Then the third question...
Only half an hour had passed, and already Su Zhe could hear heavy breathing in the test room.
It was the sound of people on the verge of breaking down. Many candidates were drenched in sweat and still hadn’t finished the first big multiple-choice section.
Hard!
Way too hard!
The math paper they had in their hands right now was simply beyond their imagination in difficulty, dozens of times harder than the second and third mock exams, probably comparable to Olympiad level.
Under a test of this degree of difficulty, a lot of students’ mentality began to crumble.
But Su Zhe was flying through it. In just one hour, he finished the last big problem—this question, according to official statistics later, only a bit over a thousand people nationwide got full marks on.
Because it involved some calculus in the solution.
Comparing it with the answers in his memory, Su Zhe spent another half hour checking, then finally stood up.
Swoosh!
Countless eyes snapped toward Su Zhe in unison.
Once again, Su Zhe handed in his paper 30 minutes early.
And this time, the shock it caused was undoubtedly much greater than yesterday’s early hand-in for Chinese.
Finishing Chinese early wasn’t a big deal, but math—most people had only done half the paper—handing in early was a bit over the top.
"This guy finished?"
"How’s that possible?"
"He just doesn’t want to do it, right?!"
Many people raised their heads in disbelief, watching Su Zhe walk out of the classroom, and couldn’t help but have this
doubt bubble up in their hearts.
Walking along the corridor, this time Su Zhe subconsciously glanced into the next classroom. Tang Mo was sitting very far back, working hard on her
problems, with a faint sheen of sweat on her forehead.
"I wonder how many points Tang Mo can get on this paper?"
In his previous life, Su Zhe didn’t even need to guess; she probably got a zero.
In this life, to be honest, he was really looking forward to Tang Mo’s score, because this math paper really tested people’s thinking.
Standard solution templates and set approaches clearly didn’t apply.
It tested mathematical fundamentals and problem-solving ideas, with many very novel ways of thinking.
If someone only did rote learning or was trained by problem-drilling into a top student, they obviously couldn’t adapt to this paper; many of its questions took very tricky angles.
At least, that was what Su Zhe thought.
"Hm?"
As she was bowing her head over the problems, it was as if Tang Mo felt someone watching her. She turned her head slightly and saw Su Zhe in the corridor.
Their eyes met, and Tang Mo’s expression instantly turned to shock.
This guy already handed in his paper?
Su Zhe smiled at Tang Mo, pointed downward with his finger, then walked toward the stairwell.
Tang Mo understood this gesture perfectly. It meant: I’ll be waiting for you downstairs.
"Could it be... he really is that amazing?"
"He really did self-study university textbooks?"
As for Su Zhe, in fact, Tang Mo knew of him.
What he did in the days leading up to the college entrance exam had shocked Su City No.3 Middle School so much that even Tang, who usually didn’t care about anything outside her window,
had heard many stories about Su Zhe.
She had originally thought Su Zhe was just like the classmates said, a little Wu who randomly filled out his college application, but right now she suddenly realized she
might... not understand this person at all.
That was why she’d been so surprised this morning when Su Zhe said his name.
All along, she had thought... he was just some unreliable guy. "My daughter, you’re really stupid. The Lin Family treats us very well. This is the right thing. This is the debt they owe. You can’t give up your lifetime of happiness
for its emotions!" Li Xiuzhu urged anxiously.
But what he’d done today, and the way he’d acted since they met, had dramatically changed Tang Mo’s impression of Su Zhe, even leaving her a bit stunned.
He simply didn’t seem like a high school student. The steadiness with which he handled things and the little details were completely unlike what a boy his age should have!
Tang Mo was already considered precocious, but she found that in terms of how he did things and the way he talked, Su Zhe seemed even more mature than she was!
"Maybe... he really can get into Qinghua!"
Thinking this, Tang Mo calmed herself down and started working on the last big problem.
She’d already been thinking about this problem for a long time!