Chapter 23 : The College Entrance Exam, Smoother Than Expected
Chapter 23: The College Entrance Exam, Smoother Than Expected
Chen Fan was dazed.
Yiyu.com had actually launched.
This meant that while he had been busy setting up Yuming.com, Boss Yao had also been setting up Yiyu.com.
The two websites had gone live only three or four days apart.
In an instant, Chen Fan felt unprecedented pressure and urgency.
He first carefully studied Yiyu.com.
To be honest, from the perspective of the future, this forum website was too rudimentary.
Not to mention compared to his own Yuming.com, it was garbage even compared to other similar sites.
But Chen Fan knew that it was this very website that attracted capital in just a few months.
Eventually in the same year, it was acquired by Wanwang, allowing Yao Jingbo to earn his first pot of money, and he himself became an executive at Wanwang.
But in this life, a bug named Chen Fan had appeared.
Yuming.com and Yiyu.com launched one after the other.
They would inevitably split all the traffic between them.
What remained to be seen was whose site could grab the lion's share of traffic and emerge as the dominant force.
Chen Fan took a deep breath.
The situation he had most worried about had still occurred.
He believed Boss Yao must have also noticed his Yuming.com.
With two similar sites, a fierce battle for traffic was bound to happen.
And the best way to get ahead of the competition was through promotion.
There was no better way to promote a website than to spend money.
A lot of money.
In this aspect, Chen Fan was no match for Boss Yao at all.
Although Boss Yao was also just starting out, Chen Fan knew that the funds at his disposal were not something Chen Fan could compete with.
Because right now Chen Fan only had a little over 520 yuan to his name.
500 of that was from fixing computers for others last time.
If Boss Yao went all-out spending money on promotion later, Chen Fan would truly have no way to respond.
"Whew!"
Chen Fan slowly exhaled, calming himself down.
For now, his Yuming.com's only advantage was that the site looked good and was user-friendly.
Whether the site interface or the various sections, it was definitely ahead of Yiyu.com by several versions.
"I still have a chance."
Chen Fan quickly calmed himself down.
Currently, with the two sites having just launched, his site could take a temporary lead by virtue of its attractive interface and rich, convenient features.
What he needed to do now was to come up with a contingency plan before Boss Yao started spending money on promotion.
On the way back to the exam hall in the afternoon, Chen Fan was still pondering countermeasures.
It wasn't until he entered the classroom that he shook his head to clear his mind.
Focus on the exam.
After the college entrance exam ended and summer vacation began, he would still have a month to go head-to-head with this Boss Yao.
The bell rang.
The invigilating teacher began distributing the math exam papers.
For math, Chen Fan no longer had any cheat codes.
Aside from relying on memories from his past life to recall the last few big questions, for the preceding content he could only answer based on his current knowledge.
After the math exam, Chen Fan's mood was not exactly relaxed.
150 points, he estimated he could score over 100.
Instead of meeting Su Ruochu after the math exam, Chen Fan slipped away early with Guo Shuai.
Before going home to avoid raising his parents' suspicions, he changed out of his school uniform with Guo Shuai.
He also removed the gauze from his head and the bandages on his hand.
Even so, as soon as he got home, his mother Li Jinqiu still noticed something was off.
After all, it wasn't easy to hide that large lump on his head.
Chen Fan had no choice but to lie, saying he had accidentally fallen on the way home.
"How could you be so careless? Should we take you to the hospital for a check-up?"
Li Jinqiu was quite worried.
But Chen Fan just waved his hand with a smile.
"Mom, it's nothing. I just bumped myself a little. I already had the doctor take a look, they said it's fine, this lump will go away in a few days."
"You really are such a careless child..."
At this point, Chen Fan's dad Chen Jianye interrupted his wife.
"That's enough. Our son says he's fine, so stop nagging."
"Young people bump and bruise all the time, it's no big deal."
He then glared at his wife, signaling her not to affect their son's exam mentality.
At dinner, Li Jinqiu's expression was still not very good, clearly still worried about her son's condition.
Chen Jianye, on the other hand, chatted a bit with his son.
Chen Fan smiled and said he did pretty well today, so he might have a shot at getting into university.
Seeing their son so relaxed, the couple exchanged a glance, finally breathing a sigh of relief after worrying all day.
The next day, there was only the English exam.
Chen Fan wasn't worried about English.
In addition to being fully prepared, English was the only subject he still had an advantage in from his previous life.
As his business grew larger, interacting with foreigners became unavoidable.
That's how Chen Fan gradually practiced and improved his English.
Sure enough, the English exam posed no difficulty. Especially for the final essay question, Chen Fan simply transcribed the essay he had prepared.
On the morning of July 9th, the last day of the liberal arts exams.
Chen Fan answered with almost supernatural ease, completing his paper an hour early.
After carefully double-checking, Chen Fan took a long breath of relief.
He knew his college entrance exam should be fine.
If there were no accidents, he could attend the same university as Su Ruochu.
The bell rang and Chen Fan was the first to stand up and hand in his paper.
As he walked out of the classroom and picked up his bag, he had originally planned to meet up with Guo Shuai.
But as soon as he went down the stairs, he saw a familiar graceful figure.
Su Ruochu was silently standing there, seemingly having waited for quite a while.
Not having seen Chen Fan for two days, she was a bit uneasy.
For this reason, on the last exam, she handed in her paper ten minutes early just to wait for Chen Fan here.
Knowing this, Chen Fan was quite touched.
He reached out and gently ruffled Su Ruochu's head.
"Silly girl, I'm perfectly fine."
Su Ruochu's eyes were sharp, immediately noticing the large lump on Chen Fan's head.
She grabbed his hand, then noticed the scars on Chen Fan's palm.
"What's going on here?"
"You got hurt..."
Tears instantly streamed down her cheeks.
Seeing the wound on Chen Fan's palm, Su Ruochu's heart ached.
Chen Fan hurriedly panicked a little, raising his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"Don't cry, don't cry. I just accidentally cut myself a bit, see, I'm totally fine."
But instead of calming her, this only made her cry harder.
Su Ruochu clutched Chen Fan's hand, sobbing.
"Tell me what really happened..."
"How did you get hurt?"
Chen Fan gave a wry smile. "I broke a bottle and accidentally cut myself..."
Su Ruochu lowered her head, looking at Chen Fan's palm with a pained expression, gently stroking the stitched scar with her hand.
"Does it still hurt?"
Chen Fan smiled: "It was quite painful before, but after you touched it, it doesn't hurt anymore."
"Of course, if you gave me a kiss, it probably wouldn't hurt at all."
Su Ruochu's eyes brimmed with tears as she lightly punched Chen Fan.
"You're hurt like this and still saying such smooth things."
"You deliberately avoided me these past few days, didn't you? Just because of this?"
Chen Fan gave an awkward laugh, raising his hand to gently wipe her tears again.
"Yes."
"I didn't want you to worry."
But Su Ruochu pursed her lips, seeming a bit angry.
"For things like this in the future, you have to let me know first."
"Okay."