Seven o'clock at night. Chunshen Second Middle School, tenth grade, Class Eight.
The fifteen- and sixteen-year-old students, dressed in blue and white school uniforms, were hunched over their test papers under the cold fluorescent lights.
Some had Qingcheng Mobile Phones hidden in their desks, busy scrolling through Douyin. Some had just finished dinner and were still in a food coma, their minds warm and fuzzy. Others had opened their *Three-Year Simulation, Five-Year Gaokao* workbooks and were doing reading comprehension.
With the doors and windows shut tight, the carbon dioxide level in the classroom was excessive, and many students were feeling drowsy.
"Damn principal. I'm just a freshman, and our evening study session runs until ten-fifteen. Give us a break! I really want to call and report this."
"Big Head, you wanna ditch? Let's go to New Wave for a round of Challenge Mode."
"No way! If it was LoL, I might consider it. CrossFire is outdated, I'm not playing that."
