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Chapter 1163 The Value of Winning by Half a Move Against Heaven! (Day 71, Saturday, Requesting Monthly Tickets!)

"That's not what I meant. I just think I'm very ordinary."

Xie Qiao quickly explained, "I've never been very confident, I didn't mean anything by it."

"Hehe." He Chen revealed his Lu-style smile, no longer treating Xie Qiao the same way he treated Yang Cheng and Wang Ying: "If you say so, I believe you."

She did not, after all, cause He Chen to develop a class-based fastidiousness.

Even if her actions implied this, she probably didn't know it herself.

In the original story, she was never a very confident person, otherwise she wouldn't have had a crush on He Xiaozhou for so many years. She worked hard because of this crush and took the entrance exam for Tsinghua and Peking Universities twice. However, before she could confess, her roommate beat her to it.

Instead of becoming a scholar of the Bai family, she became a die-hard fan of Xiao Qianxi and He Xiaozhou's relationship, always shipping them and believing that they were the epitome of true love.

Even at the very end, she couldn't believe they had broken up and refused to accept that Xiao Qianxi had betrayed her little brother. Because of this, while Xu Lin and the others easily forgave Xiao Qianxi, she held back her anger and refused to talk to Xiao Qianxi, who had become a big star.

Dating Yang Cheng made her feel extremely inferior, and there was absolutely no sense of being in a relationship.

Perhaps she is truly insecure, rather than confident.

Especially in this time and space.

After all, none of those outstanding idols, like Xiao Chuan Ge and He Chen Ge, are within her reach.

This is very telling.

Compared to them, she, who barely managed to get into Tsinghua or Peking University after two years of trying, has no right to say she is outstanding.

In terms of beauty and figure, she felt that she was far inferior to Xiao Qianxi, who was played by Huang Yimei.

Even Xiao Qianxi, who was stronger than her, failed miserably against Xiao Chuan Ge and He Chen Ge, which made her lose confidence in everything. She probably genuinely felt that way.

But even if it wasn't intentional, when He Chen looks at her behavior from a higher-dimensional perspective, that is, from the audience's God's perspective, she finds it disgusting.

Because she is a student from Tsinghua and Peking Universities, an absolute prodigy in the eyes of ordinary people, and a symbol of how ordinary people can change their fate through education.

In today's world, where the value of degrees from ordinary non-985/211 universities is depreciating and upward mobility is becoming increasingly rigid and narrow, Tsinghua and Peking Universities, as the top universities, represent almost the only legitimate path for ordinary people to change their fate through talent and hard work, with minimal cost and maximum return.

However, this TV series uses the female lead Xie Qiao's words to say that such a proud and privileged person feels very inferior to a good-for-nothing second-generation rich kid who spends all his time eating, drinking, having fun, going to bars and nightclubs, and feels that he is not good enough for the other person.

Aside from Xie Qiao's devoted admirer, almost everyone else in the show felt the same way.

What message is this promoting?
Xie Qiao isn't just a top student from Tsinghua or Peking University; she's also incredibly beautiful, has a Beijing residency permit, and both her parents work—her mother is a bank manager. Any one of these qualities is unattainable for most people. Yet, despite having it all, she's so insecure, so incredibly humble. This is the ultimate version of the "education is useless" argument!
The key point is that she is not the only one who is intentionally or unintentionally promoting this idea through words, actions, and results.

He Chen's preemptive action in severing the seemingly genuine love between Xiao Qianxi and He Xiaozhou is the ultimate version of the show's subtle promotion of the 'ultimate version of the uselessness of studying' theory!
Two top students from Tsinghua and Peking Universities, both gifted and hardworking, and truly in love with each other, ended up with one becoming a slave to capital, a plaything for club owners, while the other, because of true love, also became a slave, turning his life's hard work into a joke.

When viewers see such an ending, when the female lead Xiao Qianxi dies but the boss who ruined her life by making her earn money and have her child continues to make money by holding a memorial service, while the so-called true love He Xiaozhou takes over raising someone else's child, comes to see her off, and has to bow to the boss who acts like family, only to be coldly reprimanded by the boss for not being worthy to be there, and He Xiaozhou silently accepts and leaves, how many viewers will feel that reading is useful?
Most people subconsciously no longer believe that reading is useful, right?
Because people subconsciously avoid risks and are unwilling to spend half their lives working hard only to get this frustrating result.

If this is the best we can do, then we might as well have just given up in the first place!

If that happens, who will ultimately benefit?
It's not like Yang Cheng, a good-for-nothing who can't do anything but eat, drink, and have fun, who can rise to power much more easily!
In the end, Yang Cheng, who was good for nothing, went abroad to study and became a typical good-for-nothing. Then he returned to China and became a senior executive in investment banking, easily becoming a billionaire. The contrast is too stark.

In the key part, it wasn't just these four main characters in the teenage protagonist group who were unscrupulously promoting this idea.

The same applies to the others.

For example, Wang Ying, who was a top student at Tsinghua and Peking University, had to rely on washing dishes to supplement her family's income after her family ran into problems and she went abroad to study.

Having worked in the art world abroad for quite some time, I returned to China to do related work and could only earn 7000 yuan a month. I had to take the subway every day, just like any other ordinary worker. My income barely covered my expenses, and I couldn't save any money at all.

This guy was able to get into Tsinghua and Peking University, and he was well-informed from a young age, had seen the world, and had gone through thick and thin. And this is what he got?
The last one, Xu Lin, also worked as a paparazzi. He only achieved success thanks to my famous female classmate, and then he came to accept Xiao Qianxi's idea that it wasn't easy for him to sell himself into prostitution.

The only sycophantic guy without a degree, Liu Xing, didn't go to university and worked as a dishwasher abroad, but his family was very rich. Although his father lost the family fortune in the stock market, there were still debts to collect, and with his older sister's help, he relied on his family's capital, caught the wave of the times, and rose to become a big boss, doing better than even top students from Tsinghua and Peking Universities.

One by one... the entire main cast was shouting: "Studying is useless! Ordinary people, stop trying! Wealth, beauty, all the beautiful and precious things—you can't hold onto them. Let us, the pleasure-seeking geeks, have them! If you stop struggling, we'll have it even easier!"

Imagine He Chen, who has the God's-eye view of the audience and is also in the thick of it, seeing this useless parasite who not only doesn't keep a low profile but also dares to be arrogant in front of him, how could he not be furious?

He's half a move ahead of Heaven!

The complete victory over Heaven!

Shengtian's son!

Even if the entire world of the crossover movie is openly or secretly supporting and recognizing Young Master Yang Cheng, He Chen still wants to challenge and fight him!
Xiao Qianxi and his ilk, despite being top scorers in the humanities and graduates of Tsinghua and Peking Universities, have forgotten the question that was uttered in textbooks more than two thousand years ago: "Are kings and nobles born with a special destiny?"

"I really think I'm just ordinary..." Xie Qiao didn't listen to He Chen's words at all, and racked her brains to try to explain. Finally, she thought of something and said weakly, "Besides, Yang Cheng is also a student from Tsinghua and Peking University."

"Haha!" He Chen seemed amused by Xie Qiao, laughing heartily like Cao Cao in the new Three Kingdoms: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Yang Cheng: "..."

(End of this chapter)