Who would study psychology if they didn't have some kind of problem?

Chapter 591 Psychological Assistance Group
During the period following the first month of the lunar calendar, Nan Zhuren spent almost all her time alone.

Li Lingling did not come to consult again during this period. Nan Zhuren learned through online communication with Mo Kai that this was because Li Lingling's hospital only maintained the minimum on-duty rate, which made it impossible for Li Lingling to get away. She herself could not ask a colleague to switch shifts, so she had to give up.

Nan Zhuren had considered setting a short-term counseling goal for Li Lingling first, to change her interpersonal relationship patterns.

However, during later consultations, Li Lingling's underlying personality logic that affected her social interactions was too solid and closely linked to her childhood trauma. Therefore, the approach was changed, and they decided to explore it more deeply.

Apart from Li Lingling, there will naturally be no other visitors during this period.

Nan Zhuren wandered back and forth between his dormitory and the company, doing the work of maintaining the house like a housekeeper.

The reason why Nan Zhuren is said to be "almost always alone" is because he has intense online communication with another person in Jiangdu every day.

Summer shared almost every detail of her life with Nan Zhuren during this period.

She sent photos of the retired police dog she adopted, shared her graduation thesis design, and expressed her anticipation for graduate school life after the start of the semester in the second half of the year...

There are many other things, including the weather: "Teacher Nan, I heard it's been raining a lot in the north lately. Is it inconvenient to go out?"

Nan Zhuren glanced out the window: "It's been raining for a long time. It's really troublesome during the New Year... but it doesn't affect me much."

"I was thinking that you must be busy with work, Teacher Nan." During a break in the conversation, Xia Tian explained, as if unintentionally, why she rarely contacted Nan Zhuren.

"He is quite busy." Nan Zhuren nodded in agreement with Xia Tian's guess.

The person on the other end paused for a moment, then chuckled. Then it was Nan Zhuren's turn to share the "busy" things that didn't involve confidentiality clauses.

In this situation, the Lunar New Year holiday passes quickly.

Chonghui was the first to return to Beidu, giving Nan Zhuren at least some company in the dormitory. At this time, the gym hadn't opened yet, so Chonghui started leading Nan Zhuren in bodyweight training and running around the track when they had free time.

Subsequently, visitors began to come to the company one after another.

Yes, visitors came right after the Lunar New Year holiday.

Some people may have found healing during this holiday, while others have actually exacerbated their problems.

At this moment, Nan Zhuren looked at the visitor who was almost 30 years old and listened to the other person pouring out his grievances.

“At first, it was just some relatives,” the visitor said. “I could handle them, after all, my education is decent, and now I’ve established myself in Beijing and my salary is acceptable.”

"But once the relatives left, it was my parents' turn—they were urging me to find a partner."

Nan Zhuren gave a professional, empathetic look and nodded slightly.

“When I told them that I should focus on my career, they said that other people’s children have both careers and are married and have children at the same time; when I told them that girls in Beijing have high standards, they said that there will always be beautiful and rich girls who will marry for love, and that I should work hard.”

The visitor sighed, "Sometimes I just don't understand. Shouldn't it be that young people like to dream and old people are realistic? How come it's the other way around in my family?"

"They even firmly believe that their dream is reality, and they insist that I make it come true!"

The visitor sighed heavily.

Nan Zhuren also exhaled forcefully, making a sound similar to a sigh.

"Towards the end of our conversation, they even suggested that I stop struggling in Beijing and just go back to my hometown to find a decent job and get married..."

The visitor's voice quickened: "But I'm very happy working in Beidu, it's not hard at all. But they just don't believe me, just because I'm not married yet... It seems like that's their only standard of evaluation!"

"In the end, all I could tell them was that I was busy with work and had to go back to Beidu to work overtime. But actually, we still have a long annual leave ahead of us; I just wanted to avoid them..."

The visitor picked up the teacup in front of him, took a sip, and then slumped heavily into the sofa.

The visitor in front of us was quite interesting; he was the same Mr. Xue that Nan Zhuren had encountered during his intervention with Nan Zhihao.

At the time, Mr. Xue's mentality was ruined by his employees. After Nan Zhuren provided counseling and intervention, he even wanted to poach Nan Zhuren to be his company's psychological consultant.

However, Boss Xue was clearly no match for Bai Qinghua, and was even intimidated by Judge Meng when he came to visit. So he compromised and said he would introduce his company's employees to Nan Zhuren for consultation, and also wanted to invite Nan Zhuren to his company to do EAP projects.

The EAP program was not implemented, but Mr. Xue did introduce his company's employees to the program later.

The visitor in front of us is an employee of Mr. Xue's company.

Half an hour later.

The visitor walked out of the consultation room looking relaxed, and Nan Zhuren also returned to his desk with a satisfied expression.

It gets dark quickly on rainy days; there's no light left outside the window.

This visitor was also Nan Zhuren's last consultation of the day.

After quickly organizing the materials, Nan Zhuren slumped onto the table, not because she was tired, but because—

[This month's goals have been achieved]

The piecemeal inquiries finally allowed me to achieve my first monthly goal today.

[Note the breadth +1]

Nan Zhuren blinked at the sight of the reward.

Attention is one of the important research areas in basic psychology. Its basic characteristics include four aspects: attention stability, attention shift, attention allocation, and attention span.

【Attention span】In layman's terms, it is the scope of attention—that is, the number of objects that an individual can clearly grasp at the same time.

"It seems that [Micro-expression Analysis - Intermediate] enhances my [Attention Span]," Nan Zhuren pondered. "Does this mean that [Attention Span] is also one of the attributes that affects my [Micro-expression Analysis] ability?"

"Strengthening this attribute will, in turn, enhance my [micro-expression analysis] ability?"

That is indeed a skill that needs to be taken seriously.

However, considering the current volume of inquiries, Nan Zhuren is not optimistic about the potential improvement in "attention breadth" over the next month.

After tidying up his desk, Nan Zhuren returned to his dormitory, following his usual routine of going between three points.

Today, Chonghui didn't change into his sportswear and wait for him as usual.

He wasn't the only one in the dormitory.

"Senior Sister?" Nan Zhuren looked at Shi Qianqian, who had inexplicably appeared in the room. "Why are you here?"

This is a rare visitor.

Then I saw Chonghui put his hands on his hips and, unusually, adopt the air of a senior brother: "Why are you only getting back now?"

Nan Zhuren blinked: "Me...working?"

Shi Qianqian crossed her arms: "Do you remember what day it is today?"

Nan Zhuren blinked: "What...day is it?"

Chonghui and Shi Qianqian exchanged a glance, displaying tacit understanding at that moment, and said in unison: "The preliminary test results are out today!"

……

Upon hearing this, Nan Zhuren smiled.

These two senior students seem to care more about their grades than they do about themselves.

Seeing the anxious looks in their eyes, Nan Zhuren quickly began to explain.

It's not that Nan Zhuren doesn't care about the preliminary exam; he stayed up all night last night to improve his scores.

Unfortunately, the website for checking scores was down. It's a traditional program.

Nan Zhuren spent an hour refreshing the page last night, but it didn't work; he tried several more times in the morning, but still failed.

In the end, I decided to go to the company for a consultation first, and then check it out when I got back in the evening.

Unexpectedly, they were caught red-handed by Chonghui and Shi Qianqian.

"If it were me, I wouldn't even feel like going to the gym today, let alone going for a consultation," Chonghui said to Nan Zhuren, shaking his head.

"I can't get in touch with you for your consultation. My teacher has been calling me non-stop, and my senior sister keeps messaging me to ask about your situation." Shi Qianqian looked exhausted.

The two of them found it hard to understand why Nan Zhuren insisted on going for a consultation today.

Is this person really that calm?
Nan Zhuren chuckled lightly, and was then practically forced down to the computer desk by the two men.

— Open the "China Graduate Admissions Information Network" and log in with your account.

Nan Zhuren felt that the two breathing sounds behind him were as rough as those of oxen.

—Enter the “Results Inquiry” interface and enter your examination admission ticket number.

Nan Zhuren felt the two people behind him pause for a moment, probably holding their breath.

Click "OK".

The webpage went blank for a moment.

This time, however, no network error was detected.

With a "whoosh," a table appeared in the center of the light-colored webpage, with only four short rows containing numbers.

All three people's attention was instantly focused on it.

Chonghui couldn't help but read it aloud: "Politics... Holy crap, 92!"

Shi Qianqian followed up: "English... I'll take 85!"

Then, in unison, they read out the third line: "Major course... 294?!"

Nan Zhuren softly read out the last line: "Total score 471."

As the actual person involved, Nan Zhuren nodded slightly: "Hmm, not bad, getting into the second round shouldn't be a problem."

……

There was a moment of silence in the room.

Subsequently.

"Fuck!!"

Chonghui exploded: "Not just good, junior brother, you're awesome! You're not just good, you're absolutely number one in your major!"

His enormous lung capacity made Nan Zhuren's ears ring.

"I just took the exam back then... oh, my postgraduate entrance exam was a long time ago." Chonghui's face turned red, looking like he wanted to vent his emotions but couldn't find an outlet. "Qianqian, what score did you get back then?!"

Shi Qianqian's face was even redder than Chong Hui's, and her voice was even higher because of its sharpness: "I got a guaranteed admission to graduate school!!"

The scoring system for postgraduate entrance examinations is quite different from that for undergraduate and even earlier subjects.

Before undergraduate studies, the passing grade for exams was 60% of the total score.

However, the postgraduate entrance examination is different. The postgraduate entrance examination will first set a national score line based on the number of applicants and the number of postgraduate places available that year. The national score line includes three lines: total score, single subject score (out of 100), and single subject score (out of 300).

Among them, the [single subject (full score = 100 points)] refers to English and Politics, while the [single subject (full score = 300 points)] refers to the Psychology major course that Nan Zhuren took.

If a candidate passes the minimum score for each subject, but their total score does not meet the minimum score, that is not acceptable.

Similarly, if a candidate has a particularly high total score, but is weak in some subjects and fails to pass the cutoff score in any single subject, that is also not acceptable.

Only when an individual's grades all exceed these three thresholds can they be considered eligible to participate in the postgraduate admissions system. Even if they are not admitted by the school they applied to, they can still seek transfer opportunities, which is commonly known as "the possibility of having a place to study."

Shi Qianqian said softly, "If I remember correctly, last year's national cutoff score was over 330, the individual subject cutoff score was over 40, and the professional cutoff score was only around 150..."

In addition to the national minimum score, some schools also have their own "college minimum score," which is usually higher than the national minimum score. If a student applying to these schools has a score higher than the national minimum score but lower than the college minimum score, they will not be able to enter the re-examination and will have to seek transfer to another program.

Chonghui gasped for breath, "What was our school's cutoff score last year?"

Shi Qian swallowed lightly: "I don't remember the exact score, but the total score was around 400, with a minimum of 60 points in each subject and a minimum of 220 points in the professional course."

Shi Qianqian added, "I participated in the admissions work last year, and I remember the highest score was over 430."

This is an unimaginable score for a top student. Keep in mind that most 985 and 211 universities only set their cutoff scores at around 350.

They only dared to score 20 or 30 points higher than the national cutoff.

Beijing Normal University is a top choice for postgraduate entrance exams because of its superior location, school level, and professional expertise, which allows it to set a score more than 60 points higher than the national cutoff.

Let's look at Nan Zhuren's scores: English 85, Politics 92, Professional Course 294, Total Score 471.

Only those involved in the postgraduate entrance examination know how incredible this score is.

……

"...The highest score in history?" Shi Qianqian murmured to herself.

Chonghui, like a puppet on a string, brushed Nan Zhuren's hand away and refreshed the webpage.

The cutoff score remained unchanged.

"Yes, he's definitely first in his major this year, and it should also be the highest score in history," Chonghui concluded.

Before the two could vent their overwhelming emotions to Nan Zhuren,

Buzz-buzz-

Shi Qianqian's phone vibrated.

"Hello? Senior Sister!" The person who called was Weng Pingting.

Shi Qianqian's first reaction was to scream loudly, then she immediately pressed the speakerphone button: "Senior sister, Zhu Ren's score is out, do you know how many points he got...?"

"Did you pass?" The voice on the other end paused slightly before asking.

"I passed, I absolutely passed, and I'm definitely number one in my major this year!"

“…That’s good.” Weng Pingting did not give Shi Qianqian and Chonghui the reaction they expected.

Before the two could say anything more, Weng Pingting's next long speech stunned them once again.

"I just contacted the teacher, and I'm letting you all know now—pack your things, I'm going on a business trip in the next couple of days."

"The weather's been weird lately. It's been raining heavily in Beidu, hasn't it?"

"It's more serious over there; something's happened."

"A friend of mine in the medical system contacted me this afternoon saying that our psychological support team for the disaster area might be deployed..."

(End of this chapter)