VHBF -Chapter 163 The School Tyrant Daddy (Part 25)

“Agreed with the comment above. Didn’t the OP already say that kid is from a wealthy family? Since the school agreed to let a three-year-old sit in on classes and even specially arranged an exam for her, what’s wrong with giving her a little help—cheating a bit—to make the kid happy?”

News of a three-year-old participating in a certain high school’s senior-year midterm exam—and crushing a whole group of students with a score of 538—sparked heated discussion among netizens.

The comments split into three camps.

One camp showered her with praise, eager to ride the good fortune of the “little academic prodigy,” saying things like, “You can’t imagine the world of geniuses. Just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean others can’t!” They believed in infinite possibilities.

Another camp posted comparisons of their own kids, gazing up at someone else’s child while feeling a mix of envy, jealousy, and resentment.

The last camp flatly refused to believe that a three-year-old could score that high. If she were really that amazing, why would she even need school? Kindergarten, primary school, middle school—skip them all. Just go straight to high school and the college entrance exam.

They cited all kinds of real-life examples, even pulling out childhood records of famous big shots for comparison, and concluded:
“A three-year-old simply can’t have that level of cognitive and comprehension ability. Just reading and understanding the questions alone would stump them. If they can’t even understand the questions, how could they possibly arrive at the answers?”

What the netizens absolutely could not imagine was that these arguments worked on ordinary people—but were completely ineffective when applied to a living, breathing koi.

The whole thing blew up online mainly because the controversy was just too strong. No one had ever heard of a three-year-old doing senior-year exam papers and getting such a high score.

Shen Huainan had just finished a video conference when his assistant handed him a tablet.
“Sir, the little miss is trending.”

“It’s about the exam you arranged this time. Someone posted the report card. People don’t believe it, so they’re arguing online. There’s even a poll going on now…”

Seeing his boss’s unpleasant expression, the assistant suggested, “Should I have PR take the trending topic down?”

Shen Huainan frowned at the unsightly comments for a long moment, then said, “No need. Blocking is worse than guiding. Have the school release the exam footage.”

Thinking of the family’s miraculous little miss, the assistant couldn’t help but smile. He agreed readily, a trace of schadenfreude creeping in. Back then, he and the boss had watched the exam live and both had their worldviews shaken. As for those netizens who stubbornly refused to believe…

If they wanted to suffer—come right on in.

The assistant immediately called the principal and explained the situation.

The balding principal was quite happy about it. How could he not be? This was free publicity for the school.

At the same time, Class 10 students—who had just finished watching Yinyin’s exam footage—came across the trending topic while scrolling Weibo. Comments questioning the authenticity of Yinyin’s results were stacked layer upon layer.

The underachievers clutched their phones, cursing repeatedly. After skimming through it, they rushed over to Shen Lian’s desk and shoved the phone in front of him.

“Which idiot is spreading rumors about our kid? Brother Shen, look at this!”

“Check this original post—link’s here. No idea if it’s someone from our school. They even posted Yinyin’s report card.”

“What’s this person’s problem? Our Yinyin did well—does it have anything to do with them?”

Each of the underachievers was indignant, completely different from their earlier sour, worldview-shattered selves. Who still remembered that before watching the video, they too hadn’t believed it at all? Now they wished they could jump into the internet and beat up everyone doubting their precious kid.

Shen Lian finished reading, brows knit. “What about that hacker from last time? Can we still contact him?”

Xu Gao said, “Yeah. I have his WeChat.”

Just as Shen Lian and the others were discussing teaching the poster and malicious commenters a lesson through a hacker, before they could act, that evening an account named ‘Diya High School Official Weibo’ posted a video and @-mentioned the original blogger.

It read:

“Regarding the matter of our school allowing a three-year-old to participate in an exam, which has drawn widespread attention, we would like to clarify: the child is very well-behaved, and at her age she is not yet capable of cheating. Moreover, this was merely an educational, recreational exam, not something that required cheating. We ask everyone to show the child more kindness. Thank you. The entire exam process was recorded on camera with no deletions. We welcome supervision.”

The video quickly went viral and shot to the top of the trending list:

#Full Video of Three-Year-Old High School Exam

The video lasted several hours, and quite a few people patiently watched it all the way through. After watching—

“……”

A freshly graduated master’s student collapsed into his chair, doubting his life.

Thinking back on how he’d battled his way through middle school exams, college entrance exams, and postgraduate exams—blood, sweat, and tears just to make it this far—then looking at the three-year-old Yinyin in the video, breezily doing multiple-choice questions like it was a game, he was instantly in tears.

This time, the internet exploded even more thoroughly than before.

As people from Huaguo, who hadn’t grown up enduring brutal exams?

Without exaggeration, most Huaguo people have been taking exams since they first learned to read—primary school, middle school, high school, university. Some take postgraduate and doctoral exams; some even have to take civil service exams and professional certifications after graduating and starting work.

And coincidentally, many of these exams heavily feature one type of question: multiple choice.

Some exams even consist entirely of multiple-choice questions. What do you do when you don’t know the answer? Guess!

Every Huaguo student has guessed before—but how many guesses actually land right? Even a 10% success rate would be amazing. But then look at Yinyin in the video, happily circling answers while muttering, “This one looks nice, that one seems pleasing,” and compare that to one’s own past experience of guessing with trembling caution, practically wanting to burn incense—it was enough to shatter one’s mentality.

“I have to say, after watching, I lay on my bed thinking about life for a full ten minutes before I could barely recover. Now I just want to ask one thing—kid, how did you do it?”

In the video, the little dumpling—pink-cheeked and jade-carved—even with parts of her face mosaicked, was clearly a stunningly cute baby. You could vaguely see her chubby cheeks puffed out, her little mouth chattering nonstop. Frankly, she was so adorable it melted hearts.

Even those who had spoken harshly before unconsciously softened their tone, some immediately switching sides: “The video’s out—then it must be real. I apologize to the kid!”

Onlookers: “……”

“By the way, has any tech expert verified whether the video is real? Any editing?”

About ten minutes later, a very famous tech account commented: “Verified. Only normal transitions before and after each exam segment. Standard procedure. Video is real.”

Other tech experts soon followed, confirming its authenticity.

“So you guys were right—this kid really is unbelievably amazing. If she can do senior-year papers at three, what’ll happen in a couple more years?”

“…No, no, judging by her 100% accuracy on multiple-choice questions, she can do tons of exams. She could even do postgraduate exams and score high! Postgrad students crying wuwuwu…”

“Yeah, all kinds of certification exams too…”

Netizens listed all kinds of exam formats and realized that in most of them, this dumpling—blessed by heaven with the hands of a koi and able only to draw circles—could participate.

“No, I’m done. Studying for a hundred days isn’t as good as Yinyin randomly circling answers. Life is so miserable!”

“I think the most miserable ones are the question setters. No matter how devious your traps are, as long as it’s multiple choice, she’ll still pick the right answer!”

“Pfft—when you put it that way, it’s really hilarious. I just want to know what the question setters are feeling right now…”

The video opened everyone’s eyes. Netizens crowned her with the title “Koi Exam God.” Some even made stickers of her and worshipped them, reposting on their Weibo.

Even if part of Yinyin’s face was mosaicked, netizens used their imagination to draw her bowing her head over the exam paper, adding two red koi horns on her little head. The sticker read “Koi Exam God” in big characters, complete with sparkling effects.

After reposting, they wrote: “Rubbing against the little Koi Exam God—please bless me to pass my exam this time.”

Others followed suit enthusiastically. In no time, the Koi Exam God went completely viral. Many netizens even changed their profile pictures to her, hoping to get a bit of that bizarre guessing luck.

The assistant secretly changed his profile picture too. Well… he had a level exam next month—might as well borrow some of the little miss’s luck.

Shen Lian was in his room gaming when messages kept popping up in the group chat:

“Holy crap, Brother Shen, the school released the video!”

“Weibo exploded. Our school forum exploded too.”

“The school’s this tough? I bet it was Uncle Shen’s idea!”

“Hahaha, our Yinyin’s being called the Koi Exam God online. I’m changing my avatar too, gonna rub some luck.”

Shen Lian: “……”

The blue-haired youth sat quietly in his room, unmoving for a long time. Everything had been handled by the old man—did he, as the dad, have any dignity left at all?

Thinking of this, Shen Lian recalled the old man’s suggestion…

If he was going to do it, he’d do it by his own strength!

Yinyin poked her head in through the door, toddling over on her short little legs, climbing onto Shen Lian with a beaming smile. “Grandpa hired an auntie! The food she made is suuuper yummy. Daddy, hurry and come downstairs to eat!”

Shen Lian’s lips curved slightly as he patted Yinyin’s little head—then he remembered that even the auntie had been hired by the old man, and the smile faded again.