The countdown to the college entrance examination posted in the high school classrooms dwindled, with each passing day. Non-graduating students walked with a spring in their heels, their faces full of smiles even with final exams looming; after all, the long-awaited and all-too-brief summer vacation was just around the corner — a dream come true that was almost laugh out loud joyous.
But for the seniors, those dwindling numbers were like a death knell, involuntarily tightening the grip of anxiety around their hearts. Even in a high school in a small town like Sancha River, where the prospects of university acceptance were bleak, who could help but try their luck at this critical juncture?
Yan Fei began to sweat bullets too, not over the college entrance exam but because the summer holiday at university started earlier, and Xu Xiaoyan's vacation was just around the corner.
