Chapter 138: An Old Acquaintance Comes Calling
Beyond Chen Nangsheng, seven other students had earned first-class ratings this round.
Tang Xiaoxue and Hu Caiyi rose sharply out of nowhere, landing just behind Chen Nangsheng with First Class Lower ratings.
Fourth place went to Zeng Mingming.
Building a solid foundation mattered, but a foundation was still only a foundation.
Foundations were meant to help ordinary people close the gap with the gifted. Back when Wang Su had been persuading Chen Nangsheng, he had said it plainly: to earn a place in the inner hall, a person needed personal courage, intelligence, perseverance, and character, with none of those elements missing.
Academic ability was only one part of the whole.
When students entered territory that lay outside their familiar domain, those who were exceptional in unconventional ways, like Tang Xiaoxue and her kind, immediately gained an advantage.
How long that advantage would last was another question.
Entirely possible that the others would catch up quickly, or that the two girls would stumble in the rounds ahead.