#4 - Whose youth is not crazy?

高考 Countdown: Week 8, Sunday

This is one of the few rest days in a senior high school student's life. Fang Yuan sat at his desk, recalling his three years of high school.

The first two years of those three years were spent in indulgence. He achieved nothing in academics. Perhaps the only achievement he could boast about was the first prize in the BH City Youth Painting Group!

This was all thanks to the influence of Fang Yuan's father, Fang Zhiguo. Before "diving into the sea" of business, Fang Zhiguo was a nationally renowned designer, arguably the number one designer in Beihai. Fang Yuan had been learning design from his father since he was a child, which is why Fang Yuan's painting skills far surpassed his peers.

Back then, Fang Zhiguo was the most outstanding father in Fang Yuan's eyes. If he hadn't abandoned the path of design and become a businessman, he might always have been the person Fang Yuan admired most.

When Fang Zhiguo gave up design and turned to business, Fang Yuan's inner world collapsed. The tall and mighty father in his heart turned into the profit-driven businessman with a sly smile he saw now. This made Fang Yuan, who was in the midst of his rebellious phase, feel the hostility of the world towards him.

Even the surprise he had just prepared for his parents felt dull and uninteresting. He ranked in the top 20 in the city in the high school entrance exam. Although he wasn't the top scorer, he surpassed the vast majority of candidates. That's right, it was from that time that Fang Yuan developed an aversion to studying.

The more his parents worried about his studies, the less he wanted to study properly. In the first two years of high school, he smoked, drank, spent nights at internet cafes, skipped classes, he did everything except study.

Thus, a student who ranked in the top twenty in the city in the high school entrance exam fell into depravity. From being in the top 200 in his grade in the first year of high school to being at the bottom of the grade list in the second semester of his second year, it only took two years.

Of course, compared to the three years of high school, two years is already two-thirds of the time. If he hadn't overheard his parents' conversation that one time, if he hadn't received the help of the system, Fang Yuan couldn't imagine what his life would be like in the future.

Just as the third year of high school was about to begin, Fang Yuan inadvertently overheard his parents talking late at night when they had just returned home.

"Lao Fang, do you think we made a mistake? If you hadn't insisted on going into business, our Yuan Yuan might still be the child we were proud of!"

"Ayu, it's all my fault, I disappointed Yuan Yuan!"

"Don't say that, the child is still young, he doesn't understand anything! He doesn't understand your good intentions in doing this!"

"Ah! It's okay, after I finish this project, I'll buy a few properties for Yuan Yuan by the river, so even if we're really gone in the future, Yuan Yuan will have something to rely on!"

"Don't say that, we still have to support the child for a while. We just let him live a good life, we can't let him be disappointed again."

"Yes! We can't let him be disappointed, I've already disappointed him once! Can't let him be disappointed again..."

Hearing the whispered conversation outside, Fang Yuan knew that his father had not given up his persistence, but had changed his strategy for Fang Yuan's sake.

He knew that his actions in the past few years had disappointed his parents. Yes! He had also disappointed himself.

He suddenly thought of what Xu Qiang had said to him when he skipped class to go online.

"Yuanzi, don't blame me for being nosy, but if you continue like this, your youth will be full of regrets."

Yes, in order not to leave regrets in his youth, in order not to disappoint the friends who cared about him, for the smiles on his parents' faces. He couldn't continue to degenerate. He should catch up and draw a satisfactory conclusion to his high school career.

Coincidentally, just as Fang Yuan made up his mind, he accidentally obtained the "Exchange System". For a student who was not yet an adult, such a coincidence strengthened his determination.

Although the functions of this system were relatively simple, it was more in line with Fang Yuan's requirements. When he was very young, his grandfather, who had passed away, had told him that there was no such thing as something for nothing in this world.

For Fang Yuan, the arrival of the system was like sending charcoal in the snow. It allowed his restless heart to calm down, and at the same time, it allowed him to understand himself to a greater extent.

In the more than half a year that followed, Fang Yuan stayed away from those "fox friends and dog companions" who spent their time drinking and having fun, and picked up the textbooks that had been silently gathering dust in the corner again, picking up the knowledge from the beginning of high school little by little.

We all know that science courses are not very difficult for a teenager, especially for a boy like Fang Yuan whose foundation is not very bad. Except for English, it is not very difficult for him to catch up with other students in other courses. Although in the first few weeks, Fang Yuan could only sit at his desk and constantly force himself to study, even if he didn't learn anything, Fang Yuan knew that this process was necessary.

In the first two years of high school, Fang Yuan, who had always indulged himself, knew that it was very unrealistic to immediately get rid of the relaxed state of eating, drinking, and having fun and enter the tense study state of the third year of high school. So he could only use this method to force himself to regain his study state.

Those of us who have experienced this period know that a good study state is very important to us. It can even be said that the learning efficiency in a good state and the learning efficiency in a bad state have a world of difference.

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During this period, Fang Yuan only did one thing besides studying, and that was to study the specific uses of the system. After a long period of research, Fang Yuan discovered that the system only had the effect of helping him become more excellent, and would not directly make him excellent.

In this way, from the 500th place in the grade with a total score of more than 370 in the first "Comprehensive Science" exam when he first entered the third year of high school, to the more than 350th place in the grade with a total score of more than 450 in the first midterm exam of the third year of high school, to entering the top 300 in the grade with a total score of more than 510 in the first final exam of the third year of high school.

In this process, Fang Yuan received praise from teachers, and also received surprise and doubt from classmates, but he did not receive encouragement and praise from his parents. It was not that his parents were indifferent to his studies, but that he felt that his current grades were far from enough. He wanted to wait until his grades reached his ideal level before sharing this surprise with his parents.

At the same time, in this process, no one knew how much effort he had put in. When others were studying, he was studying; when others were eating, he was reading while eating; when others were playing, he was still studying; when others returned home and lay in bed to rest, he was still studying. In short, except for the necessary 6 hours of sleep and the time to go to the toilet every day, Fang Yuan always had a book in his hand and kept forcing himself to study.

He knew that he had wasted two years. If he wanted to catch up with or even surpass those students who were already ahead of him in this year, he had to put in more sweat and seize every opportunity to have a chance of success.

When he first obtained the system, the exchange store had not yet been opened. It was not until the end of the last mock exam that the exchange store was officially opened. The most important function of the system was officially displayed in front of Fang Yuan.