"Are you telling me that your master, with only three years and two months of schooling, can get into college while you high school students fail? How would that look?"
The apprentices were left speechless. The straightforward Gu Shaodong asked in a low voice, "Master, are you really that confident you'll get in?"
"Of course. I'm smart, and I have an outstanding, all-around genius of a teacher in your Master's husband. Plus, now that I'm pregnant and at home, my mother-in-law won't let me do a thing, so I have tons of time to study."
"It's what they call the perfect storm of favorable conditions. It would be ridiculous if I *didn't* get in!"
The apprentices were already used to their master's blind confidence in everything, and they were numb to her constant public displays of affection.
