After Marrying the Officer

During the national college entrance examination, the weather was kind, not too hot.

As I came out of the examination hall, Uncle Xia and Auntie and all the rest were waiting outside, neatly gathered.

"How did you do, sis? Did you do really well?" This was my cousin.

"Nonsense, your sister definitely did great!" This was Uncle Xia.

"Yeah, Chuyi definitely did awesome." This was Xia Chengzong.

"That’s enough, why don’t you say less, Chuyi, don’t be too stressed, all that matters is that we tried our best, whether we get in or not we’ll live!" Only Auntie still had some sense.

Then followed the agonizing days of waiting for the results.

"Chuyi, how many days until your results?"

"Chuyi, why haven’t the results come out yet?"

Xia Chuyi, who had initially been a bit nervous, eventually became numb from her friends asking over and over.

"Soon, very soon."

Finally, the day for the announcement of results arrived.

"Are you up?" Xia Chengzong, dressed in new clothes, anxiously asked Xia Chuyi who had just gotten out of bed, "Chuyi, what time does your school post the results?"

At that time, to find out the results of the national college entrance examination, one had to go to their school, as telephones had just started entering ordinary households and were rarely owned.

Xia Chuyi turned her head to look at the sky that was just beginning to light up.

"Bang bang bang!" The sound of knocking came.

"Chuyi, Chengzong, are you up yet?"

Xia Chengzong went to open the door, and outside stood Uncle Xia, Auntie, the cousin, and the rest, just like Xia Chengzong—newly clothed and shining with appearance.

Having just gotten out of bed, her hair a mess and unkept appearance: ...

"No worries, we’ll wait for you!" Uncle Xia said, "You go and freshen up quickly!"

A while later, just as I was starting to brush my teeth, I heard Uncle Xia shout again: "How about this, Chuyi, you come later, and we head to the school first, there’s sure to be a lot of people checking their scores, and we might not see it if we go too late!"

Brushing her teeth, her mouth full of foam, Xia Chuyi: ...

"Mhm mhm mhm, you guys go first!"

"Alright, we’ll go first!"

Then it went silent.

Xia Chuyi: ...

By the time I arrived at the school, it was indeed very crowded, but I spotted Uncle Xia and the others immediately because...

"That’s right, that’s right, my niece, Xia Chuyi, got second place in the entire county!" That was Uncle Xia’s elated voice.

Xia Chuyi put her hand to her forehead: Second place in the entire county? Ling County only has one high school...

It seemed that the students at that time were indeed very impressive. With the advantage of the "space" learning tool, I had only managed to earn second place.

"My idol!" Qian Qianqian was also there, she spotted me from afar and quickly dragged me inside, "Look, you got second! Haha, Liu Chunya only scored a little over three hundred!"

Suddenly, Xia Chuyi felt the gaze of everyone around her converge on her.

She tried to keep calm, glanced at her score, mentally estimated that she should have no problem getting into the university of her choice, and then said, "Ahem, let’s go back."

I slipped away.

As I left, I cast a glance at the name in front of mine on the list, "Meng Zhaodi,"—a very characteristic name of that era.

Not far away, Liu Chunya was looking at Xia Chuyi amidst the crowd in disbelief.

"How can this be? How can this be? Didn’t she cheat on the last test? How could she have scored higher than me?" Up to now, she still firmly believed that the test Xin Chuyi had taken in front of Director Wang were the results of cheating.

Because there was no one who knew the real abilities of Xia Chuyi better than her, who had secretly competed with Xia Chuyi since the first day of school!

How could Xia Chuyi, who had such a poor foundation before she dropped out, improve so suddenly? Especially in English, how could she have learned it without anyone teaching her?

Liu Chunya felt extremely unwilling, and her eyes turned red with anger.

"Xia Chuyi, you think just because you passed the cut-off score, you can go to university, you’re dreaming!"

After saying this, she huffed off furiously.

Afterwards, while preparing for university, Xia Chuyi was waiting for her admission notification.

"Chuyi, it’s possible someone has claimed your admission notice!" Suddenly one day, Chang Luhui came to "Youwei" and said to her.

"What?" Xia Chuyi was a bit shocked, "What happened?"

"It’s like this," Chang Luhui explained, "Today someone came to the Police Station to change their household registration and wanted to change their child’s name too. I happened to be passing by and heard that parent saying they wanted to rename their child ’Xia Chuyi’."