{"id":3185,"date":"2026-05-23T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:16:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:16:47","slug":"after-transmigrating-into-a-beta-i-took-the-initiative-to-attack-the-main-characters-love-interest-33","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/bn\/chapter\/after-transmigrating-into-a-beta-i-took-the-initiative-to-attack-the-main-characters-love-interest-33\/","title":{"rendered":"After Transmigrating into a Beta, I Took the Initiative to Attack the Main Character’s Love Interest 33"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next morning, Zhou Shiyi couldn’t find Gu Sheng in the competition class.

Gu Sheng’s departure felt surprisingly ordinary during the preparations for the competition.

As time went on, Zhou Shiyi also took part in the preliminary round of the biology competition.

The biology preliminary was set independently by the provincial authorities, and all participants were candidates registered in H Province.

Zhou Shiyi finished checking and turned his paper in early.

Teacher Li, who was supervising, saw him but didn’t ask why he’d handed it in ahead of time.

In this period, Teacher Li was very pleased with Zhou Shiyi.

Zhou Shiyi was talented and hardworking, willing to put in the effort to study deeply, and he always had a good mindset. No matter how difficult the questions were, Zhou Shiyi could calm himself and answer carefully.

“How was the difficulty this time?” Seeing Zhou Shiyi as the first to leave the exam room, Teacher Li couldn’t help but be curious. He wasn’t worried Zhou wouldn’t make the next round; he just wanted to know how the other students did.

“It was okay. The questions were rather novel,” Zhou Shiyi said calmly.

Teacher Li was nearly blinded by that line\u2014using internet slang, it was basically “don’t fake it, the radiance on you makes it impossible to open my eyes.”

Zhou Shiyi really did think the test was okay. As he said, the questions were fairly new and mostly tested flexible application of knowledge.

“Do you remember which questions there were?” Teacher Li was intrigued \u2014 if Zhou Shiyi could recite the problems, they must be interesting.

Zhou Shiyi nodded, took the scrap paper and pen, and, just outside the exam room, began to write the questions from memory.

Exam papers and scratch paper couldn’t be taken out of the room, but if the answers were kept in your head, no one would object.

The other chaperone teachers waiting outside also came over to watch Zhou Shiyi as he wrote the questions down.

They were a bit worried about their students, so they checked the difficulty of the test papers.

This set of questions, as Zhou Shiyi had said, was very novel.

As examinees came out one after another, each looked like an eggplant struck by frost \u2014 it was obvious how devastating the test had been for the students.

Seeing Zhou Shiyi waiting outside early, the students from Mingde High School couldn’t help but groan: “God-tier, you handed yours in already? How did it go?”

“Not bad.” Zhou Shiyi nodded.

The boy suddenly wailed, making a mournful face and saying he’d flunked the exam.

Another girl came over and said, “I was in the same exam room as Zhou God. Before either of us even turned the page, Zhou God had already finished. People really are just different.”

That girl was Li Ying, also a special-enrollment student at Mingde High School; she and Zhou Shiyi happened to be in the same exam room, which doubled her pressure. Seeing other students panic because Zhou Shiyi handed in his paper early, she suddenly found a bit of equilibrium.

The experience of being ruthlessly outclassed in the biology competition class\u2014so she wouldn’t have her rhythm thrown off by Zhou Shiyi’s composure\u2014had to be called, oddly enough, a kind of useful experience.

“Stop crying, we already wrote down all the answers. If you have time, just take a look.”

Because the preliminary round used provincially set questions, the exam content followed the provincial schedule. There was no practical portion in the prelims; practicals only appeared in the semifinals.

So, after the competition, they could go home.

The students of Mingde High School all went, “Huh?” when they saw Teacher Li, just as he said, post a few pictures in the group chat.

They immediately took out their phones and checked the answers against them.

The pictures showed the handwritten questions; there were two different handwritings \u2014 one was Teacher Li’s, the other was Zhou Shiyi’s.

They compared answers with complicated feelings, groaning aloud.

“Ahhh, how could I not have thought of that.”

“I can only get a few points for the steps on this question.”

Mingde High School acted arrogant and wealthy \u2014 they’d hired a whole bus, so of course they all rode back together.

Zhou Shiyi sat in the car, looking at the message He Yanqing sent him asking how his exam had gone.

The biology competition and the math competition had different schedules; Zhou Shiyi had already finished, while He Yanqing and the others were still at school preparing.

They exchanged a few casual lines, mostly to ease He Yanqing’s pre-exam nerves.

He and Zhou Shiyi weren’t competing in the same field \u2014 asking was just a way to keep himself from getting so anxious.

By the time Zhou Shiyi returned home, senior year had already started early.

Zhou Shiyi rested for about two days, then packed his things to go back to school.

As soon as he entered the classroom, he saw the countdown on the back blackboard.

It was originally meant to be a one-hundred-day countdown, but the homeroom teacher, worried about students newly entering senior year being too unruly, had put up the countdown early.

For a moment, the students, who had still been in the relaxed, sleepy state of vacation, settled down and listened attentively.

Once they entered senior year, they had to start evening study sessions; those who lived far from school had to either stay on campus or arrange with their families to be picked up at night.

The schedule was tightly packed, and as soon as classes let out many students collapsed into naps.

Because of his steady study routine, Zhou Shiyi was still in pretty good spirits.

Among the few students in class who hadn’t slumped over, he was one of them.

Zhou Shiyi glanced out the window to rest his eyes and saw Gu Sheng sitting upright by the window.

This semester, from the moment school started, Gu Sheng uncharacteristically hadn’t been sleeping in class; even during breaks he stayed in the classroom, working hard.

Since that last conversation between Zhou Shiyi and him, Gu Sheng never came to look for him again.\u4f59y\u8a00 u\u751f

Time hurried on, and before he knew it, it was already time for the results to be announced.

Zhou Shiyi was selected without question\u2014still one of H Province\u2019s few perfect scores.

More than half of the students from the biology competition class were selected as well, including that boy who said after the exam at one venue that he hadn\u2019t done well.

“Congratulations, Zhou God.” Li Ying had also been selected; she came over to congratulate Zhou Shiyi, prompting the others to join in congratulating him.

Zhou Shiyi smiled lightly. “Congratulations to you too.”

After the results were released, what followed was the next round, the regional competition, also called the provincial contest.

At this point, rankings needed to be determined.

Zhou Shiyi also packed up early to join the closed training camp.

It wasn’t until he left the exam hall and stepped out of the lab that Zhou Shiyi nodded to Teacher Li.

The preliminary was held in H City; this time, at the semifinal, he was up against the top students from across H Province.

Zhou Shiyi came out, and about ten minutes later another person emerged; seeing she wasn’t the first to leave the exam room, she was still a bit surprised.

Meng Chen was also one of the few people who scored a perfect mark in the preliminary round. She had heard the name Zhou Shiyi before, and coincidentally, Meng Chen was a student at H City’s No.1 High School\u2014the longtime rival of Mingde High.

Most students at No.1 High School are quite excellent academically; often an entire class can get into top universities and become a legend.

Logically, Mingde High School didn’t follow the same approach, but every time after the middle school entrance exams, Mingde would poach top-performing students so their own results looked better.

Mingde couldn’t match No.1 High in terms of consistently concentrated results, so it took the wealthy route\u2014buying up those promising kids who had a shot at provincial top scorer and stuffing them into Mingde to compete head-to-head with No.1 High.

So No.1 High paid a lot of attention to Mingde.

Besides, Mingde High hadn’t produced a top national student for years, and when one finally appeared it was a prodigy like Zhou Shiyi\u2014so Meng Chen naturally knew there was someone like him at Mingde.

After their gazes met, a fierce fighting spirit flared in Meng Chen’s eyes. They nodded to each other, which counted as greeting.

This time, the test takers were out very quickly.

Competition problems aren’t the kind of thing you can suddenly have a flash of inspiration about while sitting in the exam and then write out, so they basically all handed in their papers early and bet on their practical skills.

After the exam, to keep everyone’s spirits up, Teacher Li decided to treat them to a meal.

“All right, Teacher Li, today we’re going to eat you broke!” Gao Rui shouted, making everyone else laugh.

Gao Rui was the kind of top student who always claimed he hadn’t done well, but when the results came out you’d find his “not doing well” was nothing like what you imagined.

Last time he was the loudest to say he hadn’t done well, and yet he still made it to the next round.

“Fine, I want to see if you can starve me out.”

The group waited for the exam hall to release them, and once outside the test center, the students all lowered their heads to take out their phones.

Teacher Li shook his head, saying these students weren’t serious about the exam and were most active when looking at their phones.

That was just teasing, though.

Their training this time lasted a long time; you could call it military-style management. All phones were collected, and they weren’t allowed to contact people outside.

Of course some people brought two phones, but everyone was very conscientious about keeping them on silent, so it was inevitable they’d want to check if they’d missed any messages.

Zhou Shiyi also got his own phone; he turned it on and first called Grandma Zhou to let her know he was safe.

Zhou Shiyi had grown up in H City and this was the first time he’d been away from home for so long, so Grandma Zhou couldn’t help but be a little worried.

Zhou Shiyi was also worried that something unexpected might have happened to the elder while he was away from home.

Later, he heard Grandma Zhou tell him that Teacher Li often called her, so she told Zhou Shiyi not to worry.

And recently there’s been a young man who often comes to visit her.

Zhou Shiyi was completely baffled; he had no idea who the person Grandma Zhou was talking about. When he heard someone calling him, Zhou Shiyi exchanged a few words with Grandma Zhou and then hung up.

They were all very relaxed on the way back. With the pressure of the exam gone, nobody knew what their scores would be, but the heavy stone on everyone’s chest had lifted for a moment, giving them a brief respite.

Not everyone who enters the competition is aiming for a national first place; getting a provincial ranking is enough to earn bonus points. After the contest, their main focus still returns to the college entrance exam.

Teacher Li booked a large private room at a fairly well-known restaurant nearby. Once they arrived, the dishes began to arrive one after another.

“Teacher Li, we toast you\u2014thank you for taking care of us all this time.” At the table, someone used a cola instead of wine and clinked glasses with Teacher Li.

“Yes, thanks to Teacher Li\u2014thank you for encouraging us.”

Teacher Li smiled and lifted his teacup, clinking it with theirs.

The teacups and cola fizzed together; everyone drank happily to the last drop.

Zhou Shiyi sincerely thanked Teacher Li as well: “Teacher Li, thank you for taking care of me.”

Teacher Li smiled and patted him, saying, “You’re my student \u2014 it’s my duty to take care of you. I’m not exactly giving you special treatment.”

Mr. Li was truly very pleased with Zhou Shiyi as a student, but as he had said, he treated every one of his students equally.

After the round of respects, Zhou Shiyi sat down and ate with them.

During that time his phone vibrated; he took it out and saw it was an unfamiliar phone number.<\/p>","protected":false},"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"novel":[],"class_list":["post-3185","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/3185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/3185\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"novel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/novel?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}