Why did you make me reincarnate?

The crowd erupted in commotion, with some even giving Xu Chaoyang a thumbs-up.

Brother, you've got guts! You actually embarrassed the school beauty to her face. I admit you're a sigma man worthy of admiration.

"Xu Chaoyang, you're really making people lose their minds!"

The girl next to him, who seemed to be Jiang Banxia's companion, labeled Xu Chaoyang with a look of disdain.

"Xiaxia even went to argue with Gu Wendong this morning because of you, and this is your attitude?"

At this point, even with his poor memory, Xu Chaoyang understood the other party's identity. The dead Black Moonlight revived and began attacking him again.

He replied coldly, "Then I should feel sorry for you, for affecting your relationship with Gu Wendong."

Upon hearing Xu Chaoyang's response, Jiang Banxia looked slightly surprised, then blushed and waved her hand.

"Chaoyang, don't misunderstand, I have absolutely no relationship with Gu Wendong."

Zhao Shijun's eyes widened upon hearing this, and he viciously elbowed Xu Chaoyang's arm.

Holy crap, this looks promising!

The school beauty is about to be won over by Yang Ge.

Sensing the commotion from the side, Xu Chaoyang felt helpless, realizing it was just a feint by the other party.

"I don't really care what your relationship is. The mock exam is coming up soon. Did you even study last night?"

Jiang Banxia stood there, her expression filled with disbelief. Could a boy really change his expression so quickly?

"And what you said to me last night..."

Xu Chaoyang said matter-of-factly, "They've had too much to drink. You know we're graduating soon, so everyone's in high spirits. You can't take anything they say when they're drunk seriously."

"But……"

Before she could speak, Xu Chaoyang raised his hand to interrupt her, saying, "Okay, even if I confessed to you last night, did you say yes?"

A barely perceptible smile flashed across Jiang Banxia's face. What was that? It turned out to be a ploy to play hard to get.

They're putting on quite a convincing act.

She seemed to have regained her composure, replying in the same tone as last night: "I haven't agreed yet because I don't want to think about those things right now. I already said I'd give you a definite answer after the college entrance exam."

Zhao Shijun was so excited that his knuckles turned white, and he squeezed Xu Chaoyang so hard that Xu Chaoyang grimaced.

Dude, can't you be a little more ambitious? You're acting like a background character right now, making me feel embarrassed too.

He just wanted to get rid of Jiang Banxia as soon as possible, so he kept it brief and said, "Then come find me after you finish your college entrance exam."

Jiang Banxia was completely speechless. You were the one who confessed to me, and now I have to go to you?

This is utterly upside down!

"Xiaxia, ignore him and let's go to the exam hall. There's no need to pay attention to this idiot."

Jiang Banxia was dragged away by her friend, and before leaving, she only suffered a complete defeat at Xu Chaoyang's hands.

Zhao Shijun was the first to explode, "Yang-ge, are you serious? Didn't you understand Jiang Banxia's hint?"

"I understand."

"Then why..."

"Don't worry about such trivial things. If you don't pass the first-tier university entrance exam this time, see how your dad deals with you."

Zhao Shijun's gossipy nature was extinguished by reality, and the topic was easily steered in another direction by Xu Chaoyang. It can only be said that the little fat boy is still too young.

"Sigh, there's nothing I can do. I'm not as smart as you, Yang-ge."

Zhao Shijun's grades were indeed a disaster. Even though he chose humanities, mathematics was still a huge obstacle for him.

I've been hovering around the passing mark for years, and if I'm lucky, I barely make it to the first-tier university cutoff score, but most of the time I fall short.

For reasons he was reluctant to discuss, Xu Chaoyang's grades remained consistently above the cutoff for top-tier universities.

He glanced in the direction Jiang Banxia had left, a deep self-mockery playing on his lips.

Calling her a "dark moonlight" is a bit of an exaggeration, after all, she studied hard so that she could go to the same university as him and live happily ever after in the future that Jiang Banxia described.

But as it turns out, a simp will always just be a simp.

Jiang Banxia used an ambiguous, elusive attitude to keep him hooked for a whole year, and then, in her sophomore year, she turned around and started dating someone else.

The object of her affections was not Gu Wendong, but another senior from the Finance Department of Hangzhou University. He came from a top-tier university and drove a Mercedes-Benz to school.

If Gu Wendong is a backup plan, then Xu Chaoyang is nothing more than a backup plan maintenance agent.

So he later worked desperately to make money, rising from a poor student to a tycoon, becoming a grassroots legend in Zhejiang Province.

But by then Jiang Banxia had already married and moved to America, and the two had long lost contact, leaving Xu Chaoyang's youth with nothing but a mess.

The past is too painful to recall under the bright moonlight; the most urgent task now is to get through the exam first.

As a genuine graduate of a prestigious university, a mere mock exam is a piece of cake for me.

……

Given vectors α = (3, 4), b = (1, 0), and c = (a + tb), if <a, c> = <b, c>, then t = ______.

"Was I that smart back then? That I could actually understand this thing?"

Xu Chaoyang held the math exam paper, which seemed like a book written in heaven, and looked at it over and over again. A feeling of admiration welled up in him as he looked at his former self.

He tried writing down the coordinates of vector c on a piece of scrap paper, then pursed his lips and pondered for a moment before his mind wandered off.

A full ten minutes passed before he finally came up with an idea, though not a solution to the problem.

He decided to give up on this mock exam.

Let whoever wants to take the exam take it; Xu Chaoyang is not going to put up with it anymore.

Then, amidst the shocked gaze of the proctor and the admiring expressions of his classmates, he shoved his desk aside and walked out of the classroom without looking back, leaving only a blank exam paper on the desk.

Xu Chaoyang took a deep breath of the fresh air on campus and began to stroll leisurely in the corridor, freely observing the students writing furiously in the classroom.

Ah, so this is Old Zhang. His face looks much better now than it did twenty years ago when he was all overweight.

Comrade Wei is not bad either. With his looks, why would he need to take any exams? He could totally debut in Korea.

Xu Chaoyang searched for familiar faces, hoping to recapture the past and help him recover more of his memories.

Xu Chaoyang stopped when he walked to an empty classroom and his eyes met those of another curious person.

A girl sat in the center of the classroom, wearing a pale white dress adorned with light red floral patterns and black patent leather Mary Jane shoes. Bathed in the warm yellow sunlight, she seemed to be draped in a dazzling shimmering coat, so bright that one dared not look directly at her.

The girl rested her chin on her fair hand, flipping through an unknown book, reading intently, her long eyelashes fluttering.

If it weren't for some nasty fellow who suddenly appeared and blocked the sunlight streaming in through the doorway, the girl would probably have maintained this serene and perfect posture until the sun disappeared.

She looked up and observed the tall, handsome young man at the door. She showed no surprise, only a polite smile.

Xu Chaoyang looked at the other person, feeling as if he had been hit hard in the heart.

Just as I was about to say something, my thoughts were interrupted by shouts coming from behind.

"That's him! He ignored exam rules and left the exam room midway through. Arrest him right now!"