Top Student at Their Peak
Chapter 119 - 81 Can You Really Drink This Kind of Chicken Soup?_3

Chapter 119: Chapter 81 Can You Really Drink This Kind of Chicken Soup?_3

"I forgot to write the speech for the new student representative, Old Zhang is waiting for it. I’ll quickly write one to deal with him first." Qiao Yu’s voice came from the room, making Qiao Xi lose her temper.

This kid, clearly he’s busy in front of the computer every day, how could he forget such an important thing?

"Are you going to eat this leftover or not?" Qiao Xi couldn’t help but ask again.

"No, if I’m hungry at night, you can just cook some noodles for me."

...

Sitting in front of the computer, Qiao Yu had already entered thinking mode.

If he had written such a speech earlier, he could have been more casual, just writing a piece about youth, study, and dreams to brush past it.

But postponing until this moment, Qiao Yu felt he needed to add something bold, write something controversial.

So when Old Zhang asked, he could explain it well.

For example: "Ah, Principal Zhang, I sent the speech to you so late mainly because I was pondering whether writing it this way was appropriate."

Excuses can’t be made on the spot, they must be integrated with the content.

So he had to think carefully about how to start this speech. Luckily, Qiao Yu’s mind was agile enough, and two minutes later, he decided on the theme for the speech as the new student representative: "Regret and Progress."

Start with a bit of gloom, add some controversy, then perfect and elevate in the end... Brew a pot of soul-warming chicken soup that starts extremely gloomy and ends sweet.

At worst, Principal Zhang might find this chicken soup hard to swallow, and ask him to rewrite, then he could write a normal speech.

Though it’s a bit more arduous, at least he can save face.

Otherwise, it would be awkward if Principal Zhang brought up the recorded video of him.

With a rough idea in his mind, Qiao Yu started writing.

...

Dear teachers and fellow students: Hello, everyone! I am Qiao Yu.

Today, being able to speak as a new student representative at the opening ceremony at Xingtie First Middle School, I feel both excited and regretful.

Excitement needs no words, but regret resonates with the students below.

We have the chance to gather here today, merely because at our most naive age, we didn’t choose the most correct path. For this reason or that, we did not achieve the satisfactory results for ourselves, our teachers, and our parents in the high school entrance exam.

Yes, wrong choices made all of us miss out on prestigious schools and eventually brought us here to meet.

I believe the majority of you, like me, are unwilling to accept this.

Unwilling to draw a line between top universities like Huaqing and Yanbei in our lifetime; unwilling to lag behind at such a critical starting point of life.

Unwilling for your classmates to learn from more outstanding students in top-notch educational facilities and resources, and to envision the best universities in Huaxia together.

Yet you have to accept reality, spending the last three years before adulthood in an ordinary school.

When you flip through Xingnan’s college entrance exam history, looking back twenty years, you can’t see Xingtie First Middle School’s name.

This is life, and life inevitably has regrets.

We missed the most correct choice at an important crossroads, leading us on a not-so-broad detour. This path is filled with failure, setbacks, anxiety, fear, disappointment, jealousy, shame, and even anger.

...

Qiao Yu wrote over a thousand words in one go, finally feeling that he had accumulated enough negative emotions, and then began to release them.

...

But is there really no hope?

No, fellow students.

Do you still remember in 209 BC, our ancestors shouted that slogan in Daze Village—’Are princes and generals born to be noble?’

Stand up, classmates!

The setback in the high school entrance exam and missing out on prestigious schools is just a fragment of our lives.

Failure cannot define us, only by not being bound by the past can true warriors become stronger!

Walking on a detour does not mean the destination is unreachable, a more ordinary starting point is qualified to compose a more extraordinary story.

So I won’t envy those classmates who got into prestigious schools in high school, a life without challenges is no fun.

So in the following days, I will use diligence and persistence to tell the world: every choice is a rebirth; every effort is a cornerstone to success.

So I also believe in you, I believe every one of you sitting here today with an unyielding soul will achieve impressive results that will astonish everyone in three years.

I even believe that on that day three years from now, some of us can proudly say to those classmates admitted to so-called prestigious schools this year: the reason Star City No.1 Middle School didn’t produce Qingbei students in the past twenty years is just because I wasn’t here yet.

Yes, fellow students, now please stand up, let go of all negative emotions, and greet the glorious moment three years from now with hard work and sweat!

Thank you, everyone!

...

In ten minutes, Qiao Yu completed nearly two thousand words, glanced through it, corrected a few typos, and then directly sent the speech to Principal Zhang via WeChat.

Admittedly, the wording and phrasing of this script were somewhat crude, but he had only ten minutes, it was really impossible to do better.

This is the undesirable consequence of being subject-focused.

Even though he scored full marks in Chinese in the high school entrance exam, Qiao Yu knew very well his full marks in Chinese were because his ability matched that score. As for mathematics, it’s not boasting to say that even with two hundred worth of difficulty, he would still score full marks.

So if Principal Zhang assigned him a math problem, ten minutes would be enough for him to submit a perfect answer.