Several weeks passed in a quiet blur, and the college entrance exams were now only two weeks away. The pressure in Ming De High had thickened. The students could often be seen buried in books, teachers had become stricter, and conversations had turned shorter and more anxious. Writing an exam with a pass rate of an average of 55 percent in the whole country brought about this kind of fear. No one wanted to fail or repeat the college exams, unless those, of course, who wished to study abroad and already had their connections ready.
Ming Ye and Zi Han had settled into something that looked, from the outside, like a relationship. At least, that was what Ming Ye insisted on.
He still called her his girlfriend without hesitation, as though it were already a settled truth in the world. But Zi Han never once returned the title aloud. She didn't reject it either. She simply… didn't confirm it.
