TSMVHATRM Chapter 105

Time Space: the Male Villain Has the Ability To Read Minds Chapter 105: Hua Cup Preliminary Round, Let’s Go!

Just who is this Bao Bao Bai?

Even the female lead avoids him like the plague; his identity must be extraordinary.

Pei Tiantian has developed a strong interest in Bao Bao Bai.

Thinking back, the year Bao Bao Bai became famous seems to be 1998, when he was twenty.

So, it’s still three years before he created “The Abyss” and became an overnight sensation.

This means that Bao Bao Bai is currently still an unknown artist.

Pei Tiantian put Bao Bao Bai’s letter aside and started reading other readers’ letters.

After reading about a dozen more, she felt a little overwhelmed.

Pei Tiantian yawned and kept Bao Bao Bai’s letter, along with several other readers’ letters that left a particularly deep impression.

She planned to write a reply to Bao Bao Bai and those readers, thanking them for their support.

Pei Tiantian looked at the many unopened letters still in the box, intending to read them slowly later and then select a few letters each month to reply to.

Pei Tiantian suddenly realized that her idea was actually quite good.

This way, she could increase interaction and closer connection with her readers, and better understand their thoughts.

This would also greatly help her writing novels later.

Pei Tiantian took the letters and went back to her room.

Then she began writing replies.

Especially when writing her reply to Bao Bao Bai, Pei Tiantian thought that he was still a nobody in the comic book industry, probably going through a low period, so she wrote a lot of encouraging words at the end of the letter, telling him to persevere in creating comics, believing that his work would eventually be recognized by more people.

After writing these letters, Pei Tiantian put them in an envelope and gave it to Pei Zhiwen, asking him to mail them for her when he went to the post office.

Soon it was the end of November, and there was only one week left until the preliminary round of the Hua Cup.

In the week before that, the Hua Cup would release a public multiple-choice question, revealing the question and its answer.

Moreover, this question was a guaranteed question on the exam.

It was practically a free point, so everyone had to get the points on this question.

Ma Xiangdong also gave Gu Rong, Pei Tiantian, and Ding Qiang past exam papers to work through.

He held a small meeting with them in his office, telling them that number theory and geometry were frequently tested topics and that they should focus on these two modules.

Pei Tiantian and Gu Rong nodded in unison, but Ding Qiang seemed distracted, continuing with his own work without looking up.

He had participated several times already and knew these concepts by heart.

Ma Xiangdong noticed Ding Qiang wasn’t paying much attention and felt a little annoyed, but he didn’t say anything.

Although he knew Ding Qiang had experience, his perfunctory attitude still displeased him.

Seeing that Gu Rong and Pei Tiantian were all focused on him, Ma Xiangdong stopped thinking about Ding Qiang and continued to tell them the important points he knew.

The preliminary round was a unified exam held in the city, and the twenty-five students from the school, led by their teachers, arrived in the city a day early to prepare for the exam.

The exam was hosted by Yu City Experimental Primary School. Pei Tiantian and Gu Rong, carrying their schoolbags, boarded the bus to the city with their teachers.

Pei Tiantian and Gu Rong were the youngest participants in the upper-grade group.

Tao Jing, worried about their safety, joined the teachers and personally escorted them to the city, checking them into the nearest hotel to the Experimental Primary School.

For all the students, this was their first time participating in an exam and their first time in the city. Seeing the brightly lit city, they felt like they were in paradise.

The lavishly decorated hotel and the various amenities in the rooms made their eyes light up with excitement.

Many students jumped around on the beds, having a great time.

However, they didn’t know how to use many of the hotel’s amenities.

Ding Qiang, acting like a senior figure, went from room to room, pretending to be a familiar customer, introducing everyone to the hotel’s facilities.

These are disposable slippers, that’s soap, this is a shower cap, and so on.

“Ding Qiang, you know so much!”

Several students looked at him with admiration, greatly satisfying Ding Qiang’s vanity.

Only Pei Tiantian and Gu Rong were the two oddballs, having finished washing up early and lying in bed to rest.

Gu Rong had never seen these things in a hotel before, but he wasn’t curious, so he remained indifferent.

Pei Tiantian was even less likely to be curious.

What people in 1995 considered a luxury hotel seemed rather backward from her perspective as someone from a later era.

Although it was considered quite good for that time, it couldn’t compare to hotels in later generations in terms of environment, hygiene, and facilities.

The next day, after getting up, Pei Tiantian and Gu Rong ate hot soy milk, fried dough sticks, and steamed buns, then joined the rest of the group heading to the examination hall.

Tao Jing and the teachers personally escorted the students to the school gate.

Pei Tiantian looked at her admission ticket; she was in examination room number five.

She wasn’t assigned to the same exam room as Gu Rong; Gu Rong was in exam room number 38, and they weren’t even in the same building.

“Are you also in exam room number 5?”

Ding Qiang suddenly leaned over and asked.

Pei Tiantian nodded, her eyes immediately noticing “exam room number 5” on Ding Qiang’s admission ticket.

She couldn’t help but think to herself how unlucky she was to be in the same exam room as him.

Ding Qiang gave her a cold look, then looked away, quickening his pace and walking forward, demonstrating that he didn’t want to go into the exam room with her.

Pei Tiantian: “…”

The exam bell rang, and after the exam officially started, Pei Tiantian received her exam paper, wrote her name and admission ticket, and then read through the entire paper.

There were ten questions in total, the first six being multiple choice and the last four being fill-in-the-blank.

The exam time was sixty minutes.

Pei Tiantian prepared to start with the publicly announced multiple choice question, the one whose answer she already knew.

Suddenly, she realized that the publicly announced answer was option C, “9.”

Unexpectedly, in the actual exam, the number “9” was listed as option A.

Goodness, this is another trap.

If Pei Tiantian hadn’t been careful, she might have actually just marked a C.

Pei Tiantian quickly finished the remaining nine questions.

She glanced at the clock on the wall; fifty minutes left.

She put her pen in her pencil case and then lay down on the desk to sleep.

“Ding—Exam over.”

A loud blare suddenly rang out, instantly waking Pei Tiantian.

Pei Tiantian sat up, handed her exam paper to the proctor, and left the classroom.

Ding Qiang, who had left the exam room first, saw several fellow students from the same school nearby and ran up to them, chattering excitedly as they discussed the answers.