aircannonsinc Chapter 28 I thought I could finally avenge my previous defeat.
Chapter 28 I thought I could finally avenge my previous defeat.
"Pan Xun, don't be nervous, take your time."
Young Pan Xun sat in a chair in the hospital examination room and calmly accepted a thick stack of test papers.
He turned the pages one by one, the rustling sound of the paper seeming somewhat monotonous in the quiet room.
His expression was so calm, so calm, that he didn't seem like a child in an unfamiliar environment at all.
Looking at this scene through the one-way glass, the doctor in charge of the assessment turned his head slightly and whispered to the parents behind him:
"Children usually get very nervous in this kind of high-pressure testing environment, and crying is the norm."
But Pan Xun was truly composed; his emotional control was beyond his years.
Upon hearing the doctor's words, a smile involuntarily crept into the corner of the mother's eyes—a micro-expression that only appears when one is extremely proud.
"Yes, sometimes I feel that this child is too smart, and as parents, we are even a little worried!"
You don't know, just recently..."
"Cough...cough cough."
The doctor tactically cleared his throat, interrupting the mother's long boast that was about to begin.
He rolled his eyes inwardly and shook his head inwardly.
"All parents are the same; they always feel that their child is a one-of-a-kind Einstein..."
He casually turned his gaze back.
Looking at the child's tightly closed lips and the way he stared at the exam paper, it was like a cold knife that had just been sharpened.
That was absolute concentration, exuding a sense of pressure that shouldn't belong to someone that age.
Half an hour later.
clack.
Pan Xun put down his pencil and pushed the test paper forward: "I've finished writing it all."
"What?!"
The doctor standing nearby suddenly widened his eyes and stared incredulously at the clock on the wall.
"So fast?! This set of questions usually takes adults over an hour!!"
Pan Xun simply shrugged casually, as if it were all perfectly natural.
A few days later, the family of three returned to the hospital to hear the results.
The doctor, who had previously appeared casual, was now staring intently at the medical record in his hand, his Adam's apple bobbing with difficulty as he let out a gasp of surprise.
"Pan Xun's intelligence level... is unusually high."
The couple, who had been so nervous that their palms were sweating, instantly beamed with joy, their features almost squeezing together.
It was as if I could already see the billowing smoke rising from my ancestral graves.
"Is that really how it is? Doctor, just how skilled are you?"
"IQ is a relative indicator with an average value of 100."
A reading between 85 and 115 is considered normal. 68% of the total population falls within this range.
"And our child..."
"155." The doctor looked up, his gaze intense.
"It belongs to the top 0.01%. Simply put, it's one in ten thousand."
"Really? Really?" Pan Xun's mother covered her mouth excitedly.
"Usually, a score of 130 or above is considered a prodigy in the eyes of ordinary people, while a score of 145 or above is considered a genius that transcends social classes."
The doctor looked at the parents with a complex expression.
"But Pan Xun's score was even higher than the threshold for genius."
Next, the doctor patiently explained the meaning of high intelligence and the psychological interventions that needed to be considered during the couple's development, but their eyes were already wandering, and they couldn't hear a single word.
For them, there was only one important thing left in the world:
My own son is a genius among geniuses!
From that time on, even at a young age, Pan Xun felt that life was nothing more than a low-difficulty game full of boring fun.
She is pampered wherever she goes and handles everything with ease.
He could memorize formulas that others had to study late into the night to learn, with just a glance.
I can learn anything in one go and understand everything at a glance.
He's tall and handsome.
Life has simply entered an easy mode with no challenges whatsoever.
Just when Pan Xun felt that there was nothing he couldn't do in this world, and even felt that it was lonely to be at the top of life, he met her.
"What? I came in second place?"
In his first year in the gifted youth program, his previously flawless resume showed him second place for the first time in his life.
But unexpectedly, he did not feel any tearing pain in his chest, and the impact was minimal.
He still retained the superiority complex that comes with genius.
"That's normal. With a one in ten thousand chance, there must be hundreds of thousands of geniuses like me across the entire country."
He comforted himself inwardly.
Since the talents are comparable, it is only natural that the one who works harder will win, which is the law of the world.
but……
Are they really equally talented?
Pan Xun sneered.
He and the other person are completely different!
He sleeps in class and plays games after class every day, and almost never studies!
The girl who won first place, Lin Shuwan, was simply an emotionless, competitive machine!
Her draft papers could be piled up into a small mountain, reaching a morbid level that ordinary people could not even begin to comprehend!
Despite this, the two did not have a significant difference in their total scores, so Pan Xun still felt that life was very easy.
He stubbornly believed that as long as he was even slightly serious, he could easily crush Lin Shuwan!
"Hey! Pan Xun! You got first place again this semester?"
He recalled how his best friends surrounded him in his elementary school classroom.
"The week before the exam, you stayed up late every night to play games with me!"
How come you're still in first place? What's wrong with your brain?
"That's exactly what I meant." Pan Xun smiled, but a hint of arrogance lingered in his eyes. "I was just taking the test casually."
He felt that the way people strive so hard for grades wasn't cool at all.
With minimal effort, you ruthlessly defeat those who struggle desperately and study late into the night, and then look down on them as their values crumble, their spirits shattered, and they question the meaning of life. That feeling...
This was absolutely awesome!
Because this is the ultimate privilege that God has bestowed upon those with intelligent minds, and they are entitled to enjoy it!
However, the gears of fate will eventually turn.
Until he stepped into that math Olympiad selection competition that brought together all sorts of geniuses.
His old ways of making a living shattered like porcelain hitting an iron wall.
When he watched as Lin Shuwan overtook him and was selected as a member of the national team, his proud composure crumbled, and he felt no joy at all.
And so another year passed with that pent-up frustration.
After countless sleepless nights and a period of intense, even frantic, effort that he himself felt was worthwhile, he arrived at the National Mathematics Winter Camp.
I thought I could finally redeem myself, but...
Hehehe!
In the quiet dormitory.
Su Hao was bending over, placing one bright yellow duck figurine after another on the windowsill next to his bed.
One.
two.
Three.
Those were three adorable ducks with different expressions and endearing clumsiness.
It's unclear what bizarre thing they've touched on that made them so funny, but Su Hao rested his chin on his hands, staring at them with bright, sparkling eyes.
Every now and then he would let out some inexplicable, silly laughter, like the foolish son of a landlord.
"I fucking... I actually lost to this kid who's still playing with ducks?!"
She was even forced to accept the fate of being chosen by him?!
Pan Xun sat on his bed, watching this scene, his fists clenched so tightly that his nails almost dug into his flesh, and his teeth were about to break!