Reborn as a high school freshman with an awakened system, a fat boy transforms into a male god.

"So, how much difference is there in the accuracy rate between having a theoretical basis and making baseless guesses?" Lin Bei asked.

Wang Jun thought for a moment: "Maybe... I just need some psychological comfort."

"What if the answer is A?"

"Then I'll accept it." Wang Jun shrugged. "Life is always full of regrets. Let's go eat in the cafeteria."

As soon as he finished speaking, Su Wantang walked over.

Wang Jun glanced at Lin Bei, then at Su Wantang, and a slow smile spread across his face.

"Brother Bei, don't you two get tired of eating together every day?"

Lin Bei glanced at him: "Don't you get tired of eating in the cafeteria every day?"

"It's greasy. But I have no choice," Wang Jun said, then he shouted at Zhou Ziheng, "Old Zhou, let's go, let's go, don't keep them from eating."

Zhou Ziheng stumbled as he was dragged along: "I have legs! Why are you dragging me like this!"

The two voices faded into the distance.

Su Wantang shifted her gaze elsewhere, the tips of her ears turning slightly red.

Wang Jun and Zhou Ziheng walked out of the classroom.

Su Wantang watched their departing figures before turning her gaze away.

"How did the exam go?" she asked.

"I'm fine. How about you?"

Su Wantang's lips curved slightly: "I wrote the essay a bit hastily, and spent too much time on the beginning."

"What topic did you write about?"

"Between Advance and Retreat," she said.

Lin Bei was taken aback.

Between advancing and retreating.

We're on the same path. It's not about either/or, black and white. It's about finding your own path between persistence and giving up.

"Good topic," he said.

Su Wantang glanced at him, but didn't ask what he had written. She simply said softly, "Let's go eat first. You have a math exam this afternoon."

Mathematics is his weak point, and it's also the key to whether he can get into the top ten in this monthly exam.

I have a math exam this afternoon.

Lin Bei received the test paper.

He wrote down the questions he knew how to do first, leaving the ones he didn't know blank. When he looked back, he was unsure about two of the multiple-choice questions and guessed wrong. He left one fill-in-the-blank question blank. By the time he got to the last big question, he only had ten minutes left.

He couldn't continue working on this problem after writing only half of it. The steps kept piling up, and the scratch paper was almost full, but he still couldn't prove it.

When he handed in his paper, he roughly estimated that he had probably gotten both of the two multiple-choice questions wrong, lost five points on the fill-in-the-blank questions, and only completed the first part of the last essay question. He estimated that he would score a little over 120 out of 150 points.

The English test was on the morning of the second day.

English was originally Lin Bei's weak point, but with the help of the memory palace, he had no problem with vocabulary and grammar. Moreover, he could hear the listening comprehension section quite clearly, he could quickly locate the original text in the reading comprehension section with the help of the memory palace, and he guessed most of the cloze test questions based on his sense of language.

Essay writing is the easiest. Writing a letter should get you a good score.

After the exam, Su Wantang asked him, "How was your English?"

"It's alright. It's mainly because Teacher Su teaches well."

Su Wantang smiled slightly but didn't ask any further questions.

The afternoon exams were for physics and chemistry, taken consecutively with only a ten-minute break in between.

Physics was also Lin Bei's weak point. He always struggled with problems involving acceleration and displacement. He guessed on two multiple-choice questions and left one part of the essay questions blank. When he handed in the paper, he estimated he only scored around eighty points.

During his ten-minute break, he drank some water, shook his hands, and prepared to face the chemistry challenge.

Chemistry was a little better than physics. His memory palace technique allowed him to memorize all the chemical equations and experimental phenomena, but calculation problems still gave him a headache. He got stuck halfway through the last calculation problem, drawing three pages of scratch paper without finding the answer.

As Lin Bei walked out of the examination room, he let out a long sigh.

"Physical chemistry doesn't seem too good either," he told Su Wantang.

Su Wantang glanced at him: "I couldn't even solve the last chemistry problem."

The two looked at each other and smiled.

That kind of laughter wasn't happiness, but a helpless feeling of "shared misfortune".

The third day's exams were in biology and geography on the morning of the third day.

Biology is Lin Bei's forte. His memory palace contains all the knowledge points from the textbook, so he only needs to "search" when solving problems. Each question is like an open-book exam; the answer is right there in his mind.

Geography was no exception. He remembered latitude and longitude, climate types, and ocean current directions perfectly. He answered multiple-choice questions quickly and filled out comprehensive questions thoroughly as well.

After finishing the biology and geography exams, Lin Bei finally felt a bit better.

The afternoon exams are for Politics and History, the last two subjects.

Politics and history are also domains of the memory palace. He flipped through the textbook twice, storing all the knowledge points in his mind. When doing exercises, seeing a question would bring up the corresponding knowledge points, and seeing a knowledge point would bring up the original words in the textbook.

He wrote smoothly, the pen tip scratching across the paper, filling each question completely.

As he handed in his paper, Lin Bei leaned back in his chair and let out a long sigh.

The monthly exams are over.

Nine subjects, three days.

Next, we just have to wait for the results.

After school, Lin Bei rode his electric scooter and took Su Wantang home.

In the early evening of October, the osmanthus flowers bloomed. A faint, sweet fragrance filled the air, gently wafting into the nostrils.

Su Wantang sat in the back seat, her hand on his waist.

"Lin Bei".

"Um."

Do you think... you can make it into the top ten in your class?

Lin Bei thought for a moment.

"I didn't do very well in math and physics. But I should be able to pull it up a bit in politics, history, geography, and biology." He paused, "Maybe... I'll be on the borderline."

Su Wantang remained silent for a moment.

"I didn't do very well in math either," she said. "I didn't finish the last big question."

Lin Bei glanced at her in the rearview mirror. Her expression was calm, but the corners of her mouth were slightly pursed.

"It's okay," he said. "Keep trying and do even better next time."

Su Wantang nodded and said nothing more.

Lin Bei parked the electric scooter downstairs in the residential area, and Su Wantang jumped off the back seat.

"Tomorrow morning..." she began.

"As usual," Lin Bei said. "Run at six, eat at seven."

Su Wantang smiled slightly, nodded gently, and turned to go upstairs.

Lin Bei locked his car, stood at the entrance of the building, and looked at the lights that came on on the fifth floor.

The system's voice suddenly sounded.

[Monthly Exam Task "Monthly Exam Breakthrough" Progress Update: Results pending. Please wait patiently.]

Lin Bei's lips twitched: "Isn't that obvious?"

[The system is merely reminding the host not to relax just because the exams are over. The diet continues, the novel still needs updating, and Su Wantang still needs to eat breakfast.]

"understood."

He turned and went into the stairwell.

The following Thursday, Lin Bei went to class, ran, ate breakfast made by Su Wantang, and wrote his novel as usual.

Life went on peacefully.

But everyone had a weight on their minds; the report cards hadn't come out yet.

On Friday afternoon, the last period was a class meeting.

When Lao Gu walked into the classroom, he was holding a stack of papers.

The classroom fell silent instantly.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on the stack of papers—the monthly exam results.

Old Gu placed the report card on the podium and adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses.

"The results are out. The top student in the grade is from our class."

He picked up the first card and read aloud, "First place, Shen Qingzhi, total score 1001."

A murmur of surprise rippled through the classroom. 1001 points, three points higher than the previous year's top scorer of 998.

Shen Qingzhi sat in her seat, her expression unchanged, as if this result had nothing to do with her.

Old Gu read them out one by one. Su Wantang scored 983, ranking sixth in her class.

The class had almost finished reading out the grades, with only one name remaining to be called.

Old Gu glanced at Lin Bei.