Age of Legends

Chapter 172: Looking Sad

(I have some writer's block, so I deleted and rewrote. I will update it first and make up for it tomorrow.)
On September 1st, Yude School officially opened and classes began. The third year of high school was here.

The blackboard at the back of the classroom will start to say "only XXX days left" until the college entrance examination. This behemoth, the college entrance examination, the final boss of the past twelve years of study and education, and the expansion pack of the ultimate battle of the Earth Online students in July, is now online.

The fear of living in Yude in a daze came back again. Zhang Chen, who had a nightmare, opened his eyes and went to wash up and report. He could still feel the blood buzzing in his head.

Back then, I was at most a cannon fodder. I went to a third-tier university with much difficulty. In college, I realized my mistake slowly and started to work hard. Occasionally, I would wonder what would happen if I woke up and returned to my senior year classroom.

Now, returning to the turning point of the information age, the college entrance examination that used to stand in the way and make life confused now seems like a level-breaking game in Zhang Chen's eyes.

Winning or losing is no longer important. Even the confusion he had before has disappeared. Zhang Chen looks in the mirror and thinks about the dream he had. In the dream, someone points at Zhang Chen and says, "I'm so anxious. How come my grades are only 400? What kind of school are you going to go to? What are you going to do after you graduate? What can you do?"
Now seeing himself in the mirror, Zhang Chen feels that life is as lonely as snow.

Carrying his schoolbag, Zhang Chen walked out of the house and passed by the dormitory area of NanGuang Company. He met a few middle-aged men and women gathered together. He nodded and waved to them, "Miss Li, Uncle Huang! Miss Ruolan!"

Several people responded with some surprise, "Oh, Zhang Chen!"

"You're a grown man now!"

"The results are good again..."

Such sounds faded away in the background.

Li Jieyun, who was called Miss Li, worked in the same office as her mother. It was said that she had a bad relationship with Huang Huifen. Her husband was Ding Shenghua, who worked in the new company. She had a son, Ding Hao, who had good grades. Her family also had a good relationship with the company's top management, so Li Jieyun was usually quite proud.

NanGuang Company is now divided into classes. Those who can join the new company are those who have a good relationship with the leaders and can get through to the upper levels. This represents good energy and is superior to others.

Those who are forced to work in the backward industries of old companies are basically lower-class people with no future.

The reality is that a chain of contempt has formed within the company. Those who join the new company look down on those who stay in the old company. Although those who stay have no means and connections, they verbally hate and envy those who join the new company, but in reality they still praise people like Li Jieyun.

Li Jieyun now walks in the community with a husband who has been entrusted with an important task in the new company. He is praised and admired by everyone in front of and behind everyone, and even in the finance department, he is the center of attention. Originally, she looked down on Zhang Chen's family, but who knew that his family's fortune suddenly changed. They borrowed money before the New Year to buy the shop of Hexianju, which was in a popular spot. According to rumors, it was sold for millions.

Look, Zhang Zhonghua has started his own business, and Huang Huifen somehow made friends with the beautiful TV host Chen Xuran. The stabbing of Chen Xuran became a big news in Rongcheng. After the incident, the former executive director of the city TV station was arrested in a criminal case, and Chen Xuran's name became known to everyone. Now, in the discussions on the streets of Rongcheng, who doesn't look up to this beautiful host who took evidence to report the director and risked her life!
Soon after, the benefits of making friends with Chen Xuran became apparent. Huang Huifen took a leave of absence from her job and founded a real estate company with Chen Xuran to undertake the park renovation. This may not be news outside, but within the NanGuang Company, everyone was shocked by Zhang Chen's family.

The restructuring of a company is a reshuffle of the internal structure. Those who can go to the new company and connect with the new management are the top people in the company. Those who stay in the old system are the losers in the competition and those who are eliminated by the times. And a small number of people who are suspended from work and go out to find work on their own and start businesses are called immortals, and they will be respected to a certain extent. Zhang Chen's family is almost a more conspicuous family among this kind of people.

There were also many people in the company who were secretly waiting to see the Zhang family make a fool of themselves.

Isn't it Huang Huifen's temper that she wants to start a company with others? What about Zhang Zhonghua? Is he trying to get a loan from a company that was abandoned by the company? This couple made a fortune by reselling real estate, but they don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is. Sooner or later, they will lose it!

The three of them were actually talking about these things just now, so they felt a little guilty when they saw Zhang Chen coming over.

In the past, Zhang Chen was the type who didn't talk much to people in the neighborhood, not to mention that these adults didn't have a very good relationship with his family. They didn't expect that Zhang Chen is so cheerful now and would take the initiative to say hello to them.

So they were all very surprised just now.

Everyone in the company knew about Zhang Chen's rumors. He was a dark horse in the key high school Yude. His grades suddenly improved by leaps and bounds. Many families envied him. Now it seemed that this kid had really grown up. After all, such a good student was a representative of a good brain. For a person with a good brain, no one would look down on him, and even respect him a little.

If Zhang Zhonghua and Huang Huifen fail in their business, it will be a pity for Zhang Chen...

Oh, Zhang Chen has good grades, that’s okay.

At least he can get into a good university and get a good job after graduation. If his parents' business fails, so be it. As long as they don't leave any debt to their children, his family will be able to have a good inheritance.

Therefore, in such a large unit, one can see that families whose children are ambitious and have a promising future are more or less afraid of being looked down upon, and may even be envied.

Li Jieyun felt very upset. Why couldn't her child be like Zhang Chen, who suddenly burst out and passed the key line? She used to praise her son for being smart and judge the children in the company. Who knew that Zhang Chen's appearance made Li Jieyun dislike her son recently. This kid has been stuck on the first line for so many years. Is there something wrong with his intelligence? I don't know who she is targeting!

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In the morning, people usually take the bus to go to school. There are several buses outside the Nanguan Company that pass by Yude High School. Zhang Chen squeezed into the bus when bus No. 131 stopped. Most of the people on this bus are students. The morning mist is wandering in the city outside the window. There is a bit of noise in the bus, and the air is not well circulated. The atmosphere is stuffy.

Just in this environment, I could hear people whispering.

"Have you heard? Shen Nuoyi actually has someone he likes?"

"Huo, who is it? This is big news! Could it be Liu Zhixian?"

"Bullshit! You mean Liu Zhixian from Class 8? He's the top student in the grade in comprehensive science, but he fails English because he sleeps all the time. He just likes Shen Nuoyi, but he doesn't dare to say it. Several girls who like him have noticed it, but he still won't admit it!"

"It's not our Yude's..."

"It's not from Yude? Could it be from the No. 10 Middle School next door?"

"The one from Rongcheng Foreign Language School! The one from Foreign Language School who was in Rongcheng Metropolitan News last time, the one who was shortlisted for the history award in the JL essay competition, the color section, his photo was cut out, and we said he was pretty handsome..."

"Oh oh oh! Pei Yan!"

"It's him!"

"They were classmates in junior high school. According to reliable information, Shen Nuoyi has a good relationship with him. It is very likely true!"

"Damn... so awesome, if it was Pei Yan... then it wouldn't be surprising..."

"What a talented man and beautiful woman..."

Listening to the rustling of these young and ignorant high school students over there, Zhang Chen, who had not slept well to begin with, looked at his face reflected on the acrylic board of the platform in the morning light.

It's an expression as if he had eaten shit.

(End of this chapter)