Seventies Sweetheart: From Breakup to Billionaire

Aunt Ge’s house doesn’t have a landline, to make or receive calls she has to go to the public phone booth at the entrance of the alley. Lin Xiang waited for several minutes before Aunt Ge hurried over to answer the call.

"Girl?" 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

"Aunt Ge, it’s me." Lin Xiang greeted Aunt Ge politely.

After some brief pleasantries, Aunt Ge got straight to the point, "Girl, you need to call your school teacher immediately. Yuanyi has already received the admission notice, why haven’t you heard anything yet?"

Not only was Lin Xiang waiting for the admission notice, but Aunt Ge and Fifth Aunt were also talking about it every day.

When Ge Yuanyi received the admission notice but Lin Xiang hadn’t heard anything, Aunt Ge got anxious and hurriedly called Lin Xiang.

Lin Xiang’s heart sank a little. She didn’t initially want to doubt Yu Xiumei, but admission notices in this era could easily be replaced.

Although her process of applying to university wasn’t extremely arduous, if her efforts were taken by someone else, she would be furious.

"Aunt Ge, I understand, I’ll call Teacher Yu right away."

Lin Xiang first dialed Yu Xiumei’s home number, but there were only beeps on the receiver, with no one picking up.

Helpless, Lin Xiang then dialed the phone number for the principal’s office at Town First Middle School.

When the call connected, Lin Xiang immediately said, "Hello Principal Wu, this is Lin Xiang. I wanted to ask, has my admission notice arrived yet?"

Lin Xiang’s name was well-known at Town First Middle School. As soon as she introduced herself, Principal Wu immediately remembered her, "Student Lin Xiang, our Town First Middle School has not received your admission notice. Are you sure you provided Town First Middle School as the address back then?"

Lin Xiang was living at Aunt Ge’s house at the time and wasn’t sure when she would return to Li Hua Team, so she decided to use Town First Middle School’s address, which was absolutely correct.

Moreover, in the first few days after arriving in Beijing, Yu Xiumei had called her, saying Ji Province’s college entrance exam results were out, and Lin Xiang scored a high 467 points. With this year’s admission scores, her score was sufficient to get into Huaqing University.

Lin Xiang had controlled her scores.

She intended to enter Huaqing University with decent scores but didn’t want to stand out too much, so besides carefully answering the political questions, she intentionally answered a few questions incorrectly in other subjects, ultimately controlling her score around 470 points.

Not the top scorer in Ji Province, but definitely the top scorer in Mianyang Town, which was enough for Lin Xiang.

However, it was already mid-August and she still hadn’t received the admission notice, which step had gone wrong?

Lin Xiang hung up the phone, bid goodbye to the receptionist, and hurriedly returned home.

"Mom, could you help me find the introduction letter? I need to buy a train ticket and go back home!"

Mrs. Lin was eating watermelon, seeing Lin Xiang anxious and hurried, she couldn’t care about the watermelon anymore and asked urgently, "Girl, what’s happened?"

"Aunt Ge called and told me Ge Yuanyi has already received the admission notice but mine hasn’t come through yet. I need to go back and see what’s happening."

With the matter of the admission notice, this was important, and Mrs. Lin quickly instructed Lin Yun, "Call your uncle and ask him to help get a sleeper ticket for the girl."

"No need to hurry back." Lin Yun said, "The girl’s score is enough to get into Huaqing University, and as of now, not receiving the admission notice almost confirms someone is meddling. I’ll just go with you to ask at Huaqing University’s admissions office."

Indeed!

They were currently in Beijing, and Huaqing University was only about twenty kilometers away, making going to Huaqing University much more convenient than returning to Ji Province.

Lin Yun and Lin Xiang went out, took a bus, and reached the bus station at Huaqing University.

But he didn’t rush to take Lin Xiang into the university, instead, he found a public phone booth and made a call.

"...We’ll wait for you just outside Huaqing University, hurry up."

On the other end, Cheng An pinched his brow, "I’m your brother, can you be a bit more courteous in the way you speak to me?"

"Brother, are you willing to help?"

"Wait here!"

Cheng An hung up the phone and headed downstairs directly.

Lin Yun put down the receiver and came out, "Don’t worry, Cheng An will be here soon."

"He’s a teacher in the mathematics department at Huaqing University, although not in admissions, at least he can help say a few words."

Lin Xiang was surprised, "Brother Cheng is a university teacher."

"Unexpected?"

"I thought he would follow in his father’s footsteps and be a soldier."

Mainly because of Cheng An’s demeanor, which outmatched many enlisted soldiers, but then it’s revealed he’s actually a university teacher?

The two didn’t have to wait long before Cheng An arrived.

Today, he wore a white shirt, black suit pants, and had gold-framed glasses perched on his nose, giving him a scholarly vibe.

If only he weren’t maintaining a stern expression.

"Come on, I’ll take you to the admissions office first."

In the admissions office, Cheng An asked Lin Yun and Lin Xiang to wait at the door while he went inside.

"Lin Xiang from Ji Province... found her, she scored 467, ranking third in Ji Province’s science stream. I recall her admission notice was personally filled out by me, it was sent out on August 3rd. Ji Province isn’t far from Beijing, how is it there’s nothing received yet?" Director Dong in the admissions office found Lin Xiang’s details.

Without the internet, much information was still recorded manually, and Lin Xiang’s name was prominently listed in the admissions section.

"I reviewed this student’s test papers, there’s a significant subject bias, only scored in the 80s in politics. If her politics hadn’t held her back, she very likely could’ve been the top scorer in Ji Province’s college entrance exam."

Cheng An said, "She’s waiting just outside the office. Director Dong, I strongly suspect someone intercepted her admission notice to replace her, can the school issue her another one?"

Since the reinstatement of college entrance exams in late ’77, with millions of candidates, thousands of identity theft cases were reported.

With such good scores and no background, Lin Xiang faced a high likelihood of being replaced.

However, issuing a replacement admission notice, Huaqing University hadn’t had a precedent for such action.

"If there’s no precedent, we’ll make one."

Director Dong was concerned, "But we have no way of verifying that she is indeed Lin Xiang herself."

"She’s here, I can guarantee her identity both in my name and my father’s. If you’re still unsure, we can have her redo an exam in front of the admissions office teachers, if the difference in her results isn’t substantial, it can validate her identity."

Nowadays, lacking identity cards, mere endorsement letters from village and commune leaders couldn’t confirm one’s identity in significant matters.

The solution Cheng An proposed was currently the most reliable and convenient.