After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved

Lin Yan came specifically to proctor the exam today.

Generally, the students from rural areas who end up in Shengjing mostly end up in her E class. Very few make it to class D.

That's why she personally came for the entrance examination today, wanting to strictly control the quota for E class.

E class is originally made up of those students with the worst grades at the start of the school year, and now every exam's average score is always at the bottom of the entire grade.

This Lu Sheng isn't even a top student, and she had average grades at that run-down rural school. If a person like her enters her class, wouldn't she just be dragging down the class's average score?

Lin Yan hardly wanted or regarded Lu Sheng; she didn't want Lu Sheng in her class at all.

Since it's a liberal arts student, the subjective questions on the exam don't have standard answers, meaning there's a large margin for manipulation in scoring.

If she said to admit students with scores not too far off from the passing line into Shengjing, scoring would be up to her discretion; whether to give more or less was her call.

Give barely three hundred points, and the Lu Family wouldn't dare force her into the class, right?

Moreover, she's just an illegitimate daughter, not someone worth paying attention to. Unlike Lu Youye, the young master, who needs currying favor.

As the students gathered, Lin Yan directly took the dozen or so students to a classroom, letting them prepare here first.

To speak of it, Shengjing's exam rules were extremely harsh.

Chinese, Math, English plus Social Sciences or Natural Sciences, these four major subjects were not taken separately but concentrated on one exam paper, totaling eight pages and sixteen sides.

That is to say, it's a continuous exam. The upper limit of exam time was six hours, from ten in the morning to four in the afternoon, during which students couldn't eat.

If they're done early or can't endure, they could submit the paper early.

So earlier at the Lu Family restaurant, Lu Qianrou told Lu Sheng that she would be testing all day today.

To keep students' spirits tense for six hours, Shengjing called it selecting the most promising talents under brutal rules.

They said that the higher the pressure, the more it could highlight personal ability.

But in reality, it was all pompous nonsense.

For young masters and mistresses like Lu Qianrou, their normal entrance exams lasted two days. These harsh rules targeted those outstanding students from impoverished backgrounds with annual admissions eligibility.

After all, wealthy families' children entering Shengjing brought profits to the school, and the school's various infrastructures were funded annually by the parents' committee, while these impoverished outstanding students only consumed school resources.

The only exploitable value was their ability, so Shengjing insisted on selecting the most capable among them, ensuring resource expenditure wasn't in vain.

After Lin Yan left, the classroom remained silent.

Basically, every student was seated reviewing their books, looking tense as though they could hardly breathe.

Among everyone, only Lu Sheng, seated at the very back, wasn't flipping through books, alongside the boy she previously focused on.

Lu Sheng leaned beside the boy and asked, "...What is your area?"

The boy furrowed his brow, suddenly looking at her, seemingly not understanding what she meant.

"I mean K.A," Lu Sheng pointed to his bracelet, asking again seriously, "What is your area?"

Upon hearing this, the boy paused, his pupils slightly shrinking as he looked at Lu Sheng, "...You know K.A?"

The K.A club was founded sixty years ago by Wells, a UK physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics at just twenty-five.

Few knew of this club because most never had contact or even heard of it.

But in reality, K.A club members were spread worldwide, though the total membership globally wasn't even two thousand.

To become a K.A member, one must meet three conditions simultaneously: First, be under eighteen years old; second, possess an IQ above 150; third, excel in a specific field far beyond ordinary people.

Meaning only absolute genius youths were eligible for K.A membership invitations, going through online testing, and those who pass could become K.A members.

Upon joining, each member received a custom gift from the current K.A chairman with K.A's logo and a star mark.

The number of stars represented the fields in which they excelled.

When Lu Sheng reached 6 stars, the gift received was a ruby ring. The ring's center was engraved with a rose pattern, with three stars on each side of the rose pattern.

This ruby ring was always favored by Black Bean, who specifically brought it over a few days ago.

Just as Lu Sheng was about to nod, she saw Lin Yan walking into the classroom, clutching a stack of thick exam papers.

"Alright, everyone put away your books. I'll hand out the exam papers two minutes early."

Unable to continue chatting, Lu Sheng returned to her seat, while the boy couldn't help but turn to look at her.

Once everyone was seated, Lin Yan began distributing the exam papers in order to each student.

However, when she got to Lu Sheng, Lu Sheng glanced at the exam paper, then raised her hand to stop her.

"Excuse me, teacher, I'd like to take the science paper," Lu Sheng said.

"What?" Lin Yan looked surprised, "You want to take the science paper? Aren't you a liberal arts student?"

Lu Sheng tilted her head, "Does Shengjing regulate that liberal arts students can't take science papers?"

The surrounding students heard this and all looked over, except Huo Yu, all showing surprised expressions.

Lin Yan felt this girl in front of her had a screw loose.

The science paper's math was much harder than the liberal arts math, and the natural science tests of physics, chemistry, and biology were also difficult. If you couldn't solve them, they'd remain blank; guessing was impossible.

Unlike the subjective questions in social science's politics, history, and geography, there were always ways to fill up answers, scoring points as long as answers were written.

A liberal arts student from rural areas wanting to take Shengjing's science paper?

Either oblivious to her limits or completely uninterested in entering Shengjing.

No matter what, this was good for Lin Yan.

This way, there was no need to suppress Lu Sheng's scores; based on her average rural high school level, scoring even two hundred points on Shengjing's science paper was unlikely.

"Fine," Lin Yan sneered disdainfully, directly pulling out a set of science papers and placing them in front of Lu Sheng, "Then take the science paper."

Finished, Lin Yan turned and returned to the podium.

At ten clock sharp, the classroom bell rang on time, and the exam officially began.

The examinees in the classroom started writing furiously, while Lin Yan leaned back in her seat, sipping the tea she brewed, opening a novel to kill time.

These students were to take the exam until four in the afternoon, giving her enough time to read two novels.

However, just as she had reached page eighty of the book, a "report" suddenly echoed from beneath the podium.

Lin Yan raised her eyes to see Lu Sheng in the last row raising her hand.

Lin Yan instinctively frowned, glanced at the clock—it was only 10:40.

The exam had just started for forty minutes, what was Lu Sheng doing?

Lin Yan put down her book, furrowing her brows and impatiently asking, "What is it, what are you reporting?"

"Nothing," Lu Sheng lifted her eyes, calmly saying, "Just that I'm finished, I'd like to submit my paper."