Chapter 1570 — A Chance Encounter Once Again

"Wei Zhao?" The voice carried a note of pleasant surprise, yet it was also familiar.

Wei Zhao turned his head and was astonished to find that seated across the aisle from his own seat was none other than someone he knew!

"Wang Xinyan?" Wei Zhao could not help but feel the world was truly too small, to be able to run into Wang Xinyan here! Come to think of it, the two of them were genuinely fated to cross paths - on the train they had sat side by side; on the plane they had sat side by side; and now at the college entrance examination, they were seated side by side once again!

Wang Xinyan had evidently thought of the same thing. She smiled faintly. "What a coincidence, truly."

"Yes, and we were even assigned to the same examination room!" Wei Zhao too marveled at how small the world was!

Generally speaking, the chances of encountering an acquaintance inside a single examination room were slim. When candidates were being assigned, it was quite rare for classmates to be sorted into the same room - but Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan were not even classmates, nor did they attend the same school, yet here they were, meeting in the most improbable of circumstances.

"Good luck!" Wang Xinyan gave Wei Zhao a shy smile.

"You too!" Wei Zhao replied, then settled into his seat.

Though the examination had yet to begin, the room was already hushed, and Wei Zhao did not wish to speak too much.

He laid out his stationery on the desk without fuss, then waited for the examination to officially commence.

After a short while, a commotion arose outside the examination room door. Wei Zhao assumed the exam was about to begin, but the person who walked in was not an invigilator - it was a bald man with a cigarette dangling from his lips, accompanied by a yellow-haired youth carrying his bag!

"Young Master You, after you..." The yellow-haired youth made a respectful, deferential gesture and ushered the bald man called Young Master You into the examination room.

"What kind of shoddy place is this? Why assign me such a wretched examination room?" The young man called Young Master You frowned, wearing a thoroughly displeased expression.

The classroom, which had still been murmuring, fell silent at once. Some students showed expressions of disgust, others adopted an indifferent, hands-off stance, and those seated closer to the newcomers felt a measure of fear.

"You're right, there is not even air conditioning here!" The yellow-haired youth echoed. "But Young Master You, it is only for a few hours - do make do?"

"Hell of a thing - if the family didn't put such stock in grades, I wouldn't have come to this dump!" Grumbling and cursing under his breath, Young Master You strode into the room, heading straight for Wei Zhao's side.

"Here it is!" The yellow-haired youth led the way and arrived at the seat behind Wang Xinyan, pointing at the note on the desk. "Young Master You, take your seat. If there is nothing else, I will head back to my own examination room?"

This yellow-haired youth was not in this examination room - he belonged to a different one and had come here solely to curry favor.

Young Master You nodded and followed him over, but instead of sitting in his own seat, he stood before Wang Xinyan's desk, casually picked up her admission ticket from the desk, glanced at it, and said, "Not bad, little lady - No. 2 Middle School, so you must be a good student! Once you finish writing, copy your answers onto the note and pass them over to me!"

Songshan City No. 2 Middle School was also a key high school, though not a private one but a public institution. Its teaching quality was not much inferior to No. 1 High School - the difference lay in admission: getting into No. 2 High School was actually more difficult than No. 1. Every student there had earned their place by sitting the regular high school entrance examination. Unlike private schools such as No. 1 High School, there were no self-funded students.

Of course, there were still day students enrolled from outside, but they did not hold official student records at No. 2. When they sat the college entrance examination, their original school was always noted on their admission ticket. So when Young Master You saw that Wang Xinyan was a student of No. 2, he naturally assumed she belonged to the top tier of students.

"This..." Wang Xinyan was startled by Young Master You. She looked at the bald man before her with some alarm, not knowing how to respond!

Having Wang Xinyan help him cheat was something she flatly refused. Setting aside the fact that she loathed cheating in the first place, even if she reluctantly agreed, what would happen if an invigilator spotted them passing answers? She would be implicated too!

"So, can you or can't you? Say something!" Seeing Wang Xinyan stammering and faltering, Young Master You grew impatient.

"Dammit - don't refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit, little lady. Do you know who Young Master You is?" The yellow-haired youth slammed his hand on Wang Xinyan's desk and barked, "I'll tell you this - if you do as Young Master You says, we'll have no trouble at all. Otherwise, once you walk out of this examination room, any little accident that befalls you... well, it's hard to say! I hear there's been a serial rapist lately - one who goes after young girls!"

"Pfft..." Wei Zhao had been wondering where this Young Master You had suddenly materialized from, when he heard the yellow-haired youth abruptly drag the topic onto fake Wei Zhao. He could not hold back a laugh! It seemed this fellow did not yet know that fake Wei Zhao had already been captured - and was still using that incident to threaten people!

"What are you laughing at?" The yellow-haired youth had been looking for someone to make an example of. After all, Wang Xinyan was a girl - he could threaten her, but he could hardly beat her up in a classroom. And just then, someone with "no eyes" had practically delivered himself to the door. The yellow-haired youth's eyes lit up as though he had been injected with a stimulant. He turned and pointed at Wei Zhao with a furious shout: "On your feet! What are you laughing at? Don't want to live? Believe it or not, I can have you killed!"

It was no wonder the yellow-haired youth was so brazen, for Young Master You was a scion of the hidden You family. The hidden You family ranked among the top-tier families in Donghai City, standing equal to the likes of the hidden Zhao family - indeed, even a shade above them!

This was not because the hidden You family harbored a great many formidable fighters, but because the hidden You family was a renowned medical and pharmaceutical lineage, boasting many masters of healing. Most importantly of all, the hidden You family possessed an alchemist!

This was what secured the hidden You family's exalted standing. And rumor had it that the hidden You family was a branch of the ancient sect Xuandan Sect - a detail that only added weight to the family's prestige before the other hidden clans.

Of course, this was merely a legend. Whether the hidden You family truly had any connection to the Xuandan Sect, no one could say for certain, and the patriarch of the hidden You family had never addressed the matter directly. In short, everything about them was shrouded in mystery!

Because the hidden You family's primary field of study was alchemy and the refinement of medicines, its members did not frequent the secular world - for they were generally not high-level cultivators. The Mystic Tier was the best they could achieve at most!

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