The Housekeeping Robot Liu Shun suddenly stopped vacuuming.
Then, a slightly aggrieved electronic simulated voice sounded again: "Seeing dirt and starting to clean is Liu Shun's established program. Liu Shun must work according to the established program."
Xia Chujian: "..."
Liu Shun, you're a Housekeeping Robot, what are you doing with all these emotions? Don't you think you're overacting a bit?
Xia Chujian threw back the covers and got out of bed, shuffled over to Liu Shun in her slippers, bent down, looked at Liu Shun's display screen, and muttered, "Let me see if I can change your program? — Sigh, I don't know how to program..."
The red light in Liu Shun's eyes flickered again, and it said, "Master doesn't need to program. As long as you give Liu Shun verbal instructions, a new program will be generated."
"Ah? That easy?" Xia Chujian tilted her head and looked at the half-meter-tall cylindrical robot in front of her, and tried to say, "Don't use a high-powered vacuum cleaner to clean in the morning."
A red light flashed in Liu Shun's eyes, and it repeated, "Don't use a high-powered vacuum cleaner to clean in the morning. Please define 'high-powered'."
Xia Chujian: "...Define it yourself."
Liu Shun: "Program activated. Rebooting."
Xia Chujian was overjoyed, "It really works!"
She began to issue new instructions.
"Liu Shun, clean at five in the morning, and help Xia Gugu with breakfast preparations at six."
"Liu Shun, remind Xia Gugu not to sit in front of the computer for too long at nine."
"Liu Shun, help Xia Gugu with lunch preparations at eleven."
"Liu Shun, be at the door with slippers to greet me when I come home from school at three in the afternoon."
"Liu Shun, help Xia Gugu with dinner preparations at four in the afternoon."
"Liu Shun, clean at six in the evening, especially the kitchen."
"Liu Shun, do the laundry at eight in the evening, and pay attention to sorting the clothes."
"Liu Shun, stand guard at the living room door from ten in the evening to five in the morning, and don't allow anyone to enter the house."
...
Xia Chujian issued eight new instructions in one breath.
The red light in Liu Shun's eyes flashed like a police car, and finally it crashed and stopped moving.
Xia Chujian pursed her lips and went over to manually restart it.
The red light in Liu Shun's eyes flashed again.
This time, it repeated all the new instructions Xia Chujian had just given, word for word.
Then it asked Xia Chujian, "Master, what should Liu Shun do during the free time between these time points? Liu Shun's previous established program was arranged according to twenty-four hours."
Xia Chujian said, "Use your strongest Housekeeping Robot processor to think carefully. Anything related to housework can be done between these time points."
Liu Shun made a "guji guji" sound, and Xia Chujian always felt that the sound didn't sound very kind.
But she didn't continue to waste time with it.
She only had fifteen minutes left, and she didn't even have time for breakfast.
In the end, Xia Chujian ran out of the house with her schoolbag on her back and an electronic lunch box containing breakfast and lunch in her hand.
She ran all the way and finally caught the Inner City Maglev Train to school at the entrance of the residential area.
Once on the train, she saw her neighbor sitting right across from her.
She sat there quietly, with a standard student-style short haircut, and even her back shone with the light of a "genius student."
Xia Chujian immediately became well-behaved and sat there quietly until she got off at the school station.
Then she discovered that the girl actually walked into the same classroom as her.
Then, the girl sat down in a seat.
That seat was Zhu Yingying's old seat.
It was also Xia Chujian's deskmate.
Xia Chujian: "..."
Well, that was quite unexpected.
She walked into the classroom and was immediately greeted by thunderous cheers from her classmates.
"Sister Xia is awesome!"
"Sister Xia is the best!"
"Sister Xia has finally turned the tables!"
Even the class's study committee member squeezed over, face flushed, to congratulate her.
"Xia Chujian, your grades are amazing, congratulations! You're the second highest scorer in this year's Guiyuan Star high school graduation exam!"
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
How could that be?! She hadn't even checked her own scores. At first, she thought everyone was joking with her! It wasn't until the study committee member, who never lied, said the same thing that she realized it might be true...
But she had tried so hard not to score too high...
Her aunt's ability to predict the questions was truly miraculous! Of course, Xia Chujian wouldn't tell everyone how she got such high scores, but she pretended to be modest and said, "You're all too kind. I just got lucky. I crammed a bit before the exam, and ended up stumbling upon the right answers by chance, hahaha..."
Some students in the class were disgruntled with her and muttered among themselves, suspecting her of cheating.
But the study committee member refuted them without hesitation: "If you're not as smart as others, don't expose your shortcomings! In Chujian's exam hall, everyone's scores were much lower than hers! Where could she have cheated?! Instead of slandering others, you should do more practice questions yourselves!"
These words silenced some students who had suspicions but didn't dare voice them.
That's right, if Xia Chujian had only barely passed, there might have been a possibility of cheating.
But scoring so well, better than all the other students in her exam hall, completely ruled out any possibility of cheating.
Moreover, in the minds of these students, no one even considered the possibility of leaked questions.
Because the Beichen Empire was extremely strict about these large-scale exams, and even if the Royal Family was involved in leaking questions, they would be severely punished by the Cabinet.
Besides, given Xia Chujian's family's social standing, no one believed she had the ability to find the question setters and get them to leak the questions.
So it was true!
Xia Chujian listened to everyone's praise with a smile, feeling a small sense of vanity.
There was no helping it, after being a slacker for so long, she also wanted to experience what it felt like to be a top student.
It wasn't until class started that she came down to earth in a daze.
Her deskmate had been reading the textbook and doing exercises the whole time, not participating in their flattery at all.
Xia Chujian happily took out her electronic notebook and saw the teacher's three-dimensional holographic projection appear on the platform.
After their previous homeroom teacher Wang Yixiao suddenly died, the school had assigned them a new homeroom teacher for this intermediate class.
This was a relatively young female teacher, not very tall, a bit plump, and wearing black-framed glasses.
She looked at the whole class with a smile and said, "Hello everyone, I am your new homeroom teacher, my surname is Deng, and my name is Wanqing. I am honored to be your homeroom teacher. Today, I learned from the school's Academic Affairs Office that the first and second highest scorers in this year's Guiyuan Star high school graduation exam are both in our class!"
After she said this, the whole class was silent for a second, and then, with a bang, everyone burst into an uproar.
"What?! The first and second highest scorers are both in our class?!"
"...The first and second in all of Guiyuan Star?! Not just the first and second in the school? Or even the first and second in Mulan City?!"
"Guiyuan Star has a total of four major cities, and each city has tens of thousands of high schools. There are more than eight million high school seniors in total! Looking at it that way, what are the odds!"
"Stop arguing, stop arguing! Listen to the teacher!"
"Sister Xia is second, so who is first?!"
Everyone came back to their senses and looked around the classroom, finally focusing their attention on the transfer student who had just arrived.
Everyone knew the grades of the whole class, except for the transfer student's.
It had to be her.
Xia Chujian also guessed it, and couldn't help but feel even more admiration for this girl.
She knew that her second place was largely due to luck, while the other person's first place was definitely based on genuine talent and hard work...
Sure enough, Deng Wanqing said, "Second place is our classmate Xia Chujian. And first place is Yu Wangyou, who just transferred from Wind Sea City. Everyone, applause!"
The whole class applauded, including Xia Chujian.
Of course, she was applauding her deskmate, Yu Wangyou.
Yu Wangyou only glanced at her before calmly shifting her gaze, saying, "...It's not the National Higher Education Entrance Examination, what's there to be happy about?"
Her voice was soft, completely drowned out by the tidal wave of applause.
It was then that Xia Chujian learned that her new deskmate and next-door neighbor was named Yu Wangyou, which sounded quite nice, giving off the feeling of a fairy who doesn't eat the food of the mortal world. And this little fairy was also a top student, which made Xia Chujian feel even more fond of her.
Encouraged by her top student deskmate, Xia Chujian attended class diligently all morning, without letting her mind wander.
When it was time for lunch, Xia Chujian and a few familiar classmates sat together with their electronic lunch boxes.
They sat by the window, where they could see students from other classes walking around in the corridor outside the classroom.
The class beauty, Xi Danyu, said to Xia Chujian, "Sister Xia, your deskmate is so amazing, and you're so amazing too. Will you two be able to get into universities on Beichen Star in the National Higher Education Entrance Examination?"
Among the Five Major Planets of the Beichen Empire, Beichen Star is where the Imperial City is located, and the universities there are the best, belonging to the super-first-class universities.
In addition, there are many universities on Cangge Star, Shaofu Star, and Kanli Star, but the quality of students and teaching is not as good as that of Beichen Star, only belonging to first-class and second-class universities.
And their Guiyuan Star has only a few dozen third-class universities in Da Fu Prefecture.
Even these third-class universities are very difficult to get into.
Only one percent of Guiyuan Star's high school graduates can get into university each year.
And of this one percent, only a very small number can get into the first-class or second-class universities on Cangge Star, Shaofu Star, or Kanli Star.
As for students who can get into Beichen Star University, their Guiyuan Star has had a blank window for ten years.
In other words, in the last ten years, not a single high school student on their Guiyuan Star has been able to get into a university on Beichen Star.
Of course, there were no recommendations either.
Because there are no Nobles on their Guiyuan Star, and the small Fan Family from before was not qualified to be recommended to Beichen Star University.
Xia Chujian gave one of the meatballs from her lunch box to Xi Danyu and said, "What are you dreaming about... We have the first and second place on Guiyuan Star every year, how many have you seen get into Beichen Star? They're not even in the same league."
Yu Wangyou happened to come in from outside and heard Xia Chujian's words. She said faintly, "Just because others can't do it doesn't mean we can't. Xia Chujian, you don't need to be so self-deprecating."
Xia Chujian shrank her neck, not daring to breathe loudly, and only used her eyes to express: The top student is right!
In fact, not only Xia Chujian, but the students in the class were quite afraid of this Yu Wangyou.
It wasn't that she was very bad or very fierce or anything, but that her grades were too good, so good that they treated her like a god to worship.
They didn't have this kind of top student filter for Xia Chujian, because Xia Chujian's image as a academic scum was too deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Even if she got a high score on this graduation exam, everyone was only happy for her and did not give her the respect that a top student deserves.
Xia Chujian happened to not think of herself as a top student, and this was a perfect match.
Chatting and talking with a few classmates, lunch was quickly finished.
Xia Chujian took her water cup out, planning to get some water from the water room.
She walked past the advanced class next door and heard a few students from the advanced class whispering.
"...I heard that a transfer student came to the intermediate class next door, and she's the number one in the entire Guiyuan Star for this year's graduation exam!"
"So amazing, why didn't she come to our advanced class?"
"...Why would she come? Didn't you hear that the second place is also in the next class..."
"That hooligan Xia or something, right? I heard she's a great fighter..."
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