The Most Random System

With Wang Ziyan by his side, Lin Li felt especially at ease and immediately delved into writing his exam paper.

While keeping his eye on his own paper, he also managed to watch Feng Kai.

An hour and a half flew by in no time.

Wang Ziyan looked a bit smug.

You like provoking me, don't you, Lin Li? Now you're seeing the consequences, aren't you?

Now Lin Li started writing the essay, but on the answer sheet, the earlier questions, the ancient poetry dictation part, and the in-class classical Chinese part were all blank.

It's obvious that these are the parts Lin Li intended to cheat on, but now, because of my surveillance, he can't write them.

However, Wang Ziyan grew a bit serious—why was Lin Li still so confident, without a trace of anxiety? Could he have another trick up his sleeve?

No, he can't pull anything under my watch!

Whatever trick he might have, I'll deal with it as it comes.

Honestly, this little interlude during invigilation...Wang Ziyan found it quite amusing, adding much fun to the usually boring monitoring process.

The senior teacher directing the patrol earlier even nodded and smiled at me when he saw me invigilating from the back row.

Sitting on a small stool for a long time, my buttocks were a bit sore, so Wang Ziyan got up, ready to take a walk around the classroom.

Lin Li and Feng Kai both noticed his move.

And when Lin Li noticed his mischievous peer preparing to pull out a cheat sheet from his pocket, he acted immediately.

So just as Wang Ziyan took a couple of steps, he heard the rustling sound of test pages being turned behind him.

Wang Ziyan swiftly returned to his original position, and saw Lin Li frustratingly put the test paper back under the answer sheet and resumed writing his essay.

Got it! He wasn't really confident, he was just pretending to have time, trying to bluff to make me let my guard down!

Realizing this, Wang Ziyan felt relieved, sat back down with a smile.

For the next hour, he didn't plan to move a muscle.

No way he can lose now.

After another twenty minutes, Lin Li had finished his essay.

Then he turned back to the unwritten parts of the ancient poetry section, eyeing the questions, occasionally glancing at Wang Ziyan.

"Teacher, can I submit early?" As soon as it was eleven, a student asked.

Nansang Middle School allowed papers to be submitted up to half an hour early, with some students just waiting for this moment.

"Yes, put your answer sheet on your desk." Wang Ziyan stood up and nodded upon hearing this, then immediately sat down to continue watching Lin Li.

Language arts is a subject where there's no going back once you write—the answer sheets are limited in space, so as Wang Ziyan spoke, nearly half of the students who finished writing rushed to submit their papers.

Lin Li remained unmoved.

Wang Ziyan also remained unmoved.

But Feng Kai was anxious.

He still hadn't figured out why the invigilator kept sitting beside him, even when people were submitting papers, he didn't even move to sort the papers on the podium.

He left several lines blank in the ancient poetry section, and the answers were all in his pocket.

So near, yet so far.

"Teacher, can I go to the bathroom?" Feng Kai suddenly clutched his stomach and asked.

This was his only option.

"Didn't I just say you can't go to the bathroom during the exam?" Wang Ziyan turned to look at the right side, not agreeing immediately.

"My stomach suddenly doesn't feel well." Feng Kai lowered his voice, pretending to be in discomfort.

"Sigh, well then…" Wang Ziyan, being young, was a very agreeable teacher.

"Teacher, I need to use the bathroom too!" Lin Li said seriously, immediately interrupting.

This couldn't end in failure.

"You can't go." As for Lin Li, Wang Ziyan didn't even think before refusing.

"Why? My stomach doesn't feel great either. If he can go, why can't I? I can go later, at a different time than him." Lin Li analyzed earnestly.

"Who said he could go to the bathroom," Wang Ziyan stood up, glanced at both of their papers, and said seriously: "Your essays are all written, it's already past eleven, if you two want to go to the bathroom, submit your papers!"

Feng Kai: "?"

Feng Kai realized he was stuck.

He had already claimed a stomachache, but now abruptly not submitting his paper would seem strange.

Oh well, just a few points, it's not important.

"Teacher, I'm submitting my paper." Feng Kai sighed.

"Alright, put it up here." Wang Ziyan nodded, then smiled at Lin Li, seemingly also challenging him: "How about you, Lin Li, are you submitting your paper?"

"I'm not submitting, I can hold it in, I'm not done yet." Lin Li naturally refused.

"Heh." Wang Ziyan sneered.

Lin Li started concentrating on checking the other subjective questions, seeing if there were any gaps he could fill in.

For instance, this blank.

He could totally add a line like "expressed the author's homesickness."

Time ticked away, and in this examination room, there was no student who insisted on writing until the very last moment and wouldn't submit early; maybe there were some in the first exam room.

"Go on."

After placing his paper on the podium, Bai Bufan signaled with his eyes.

"Not going."

As soon as Lin Li responded to this signal, Wang Ziyan immediately stood up: "Leave the exam room immediately after the test, don't linger! And definitely don't pass infor

mation!"

Bai Bufan was startled.

Why so reactive?

But he still swiftly made his escape.

Gradually, the entire classroom was left with only Lin Li and Wang Ziyan.

With only five minutes left until the end of the exam, the students outside in the corridor were already dispersing.

"Lin Li, you lost." With only the two of them, Wang Ziyan didn't lower his voice, he said with a smile.

"Oh, really?" Lin Li smiled upon hearing this, looking at Wang Ziyan, with a bright smile.

Wang Ziyan felt unease from this smile.

"You have no chance! Only five minutes left, and I'll keep watching!" he emphasized.

"I captured my chance long ago!" Lin Li suddenly took the answer sheet from under the test paper, smiling at Wang Ziyan: "Sorry, Teacher Yan, you're the one who lost!"

"Little exam paper, let me show you my mighty penmanship!"

Lin Li wrote rapidly, those blank spaces as if he had a mental draft, without even needing to look at the test paper, he filled them in swiftly.

After checking it over once more, Lin Li capped his pen and placed it on the table, declaring loudly: "Teacher Yan, I—am submitting my paper!"

"What! Impossible! When did you cheat?" Wang Ziyan was shocked.

"Was it just then, with that classmate of yours? I knew it! You guys must have been exchanging answers!" Wang Ziyan regretted, he should've punched Bai Bufan earlier.

"No." Lin Li denied.

"You kept looking out the window just now, was someone outside giving you the answers?" Wang Ziyan continued to question.

"No." Lin Li's expression was enigmatic, "Teacher, give it up, you won't figure it out."

"I'll go check the surveillance now!" Wang Ziyan pulled out his trump card.

Yet Lin Li remained unfazed.

Wait a minute.

Hold on.

Wang Ziyan suddenly realized he was stuck in a thought loop, squinting his eyes: "Lin Li, did you not cheat at all?"

"What a joke, Teacher Yan, do you have any evidence to prove I didn't cheat?" Lin Li, having submitted his paper, stood up, opened his arms, enjoying his victory, sounding anxious upon hearing this.

Wang Ziyan: "..."

What kind of reverse strategy is this?

What student asks a teacher, "what evidence do you have to prove I didn't cheat"?

"Then do you have any evidence to prove you cheated?" Wang Ziyan retorted.

"Everything I just wrote is one hundred percent correct." Lin Li confidently said, "I didn't know it before, but I do now; how is that not cheating?"

Wang Ziyan: "..."

Something's off.

How am I supposed to know what you knew before!

"Lin Li, are you just tormenting the teacher without actually cheating?" Wang Ziyan grew more convinced, this kid didn't cheat!

Senior Xue's introduction of this kid to me was definitely lacking!

"No, I cheated!"

"You didn't cheat!"

"Teacher Yan, you're slandering me, I obviously cheated!" Lin Li got angry after being questioned.

"Fine! You cheated! I'll tell the school and have your scores canceled!" Wang Ziyan was also angry.

"Hey? Wait. No. No, no, no, sorry, I didn't cheat, Teacher Wang, sorry, I memorized these, just didn't write them down; I'm sorry." Lin Li confessed.

Wang Ziyan: "..."

You son of a bitch.