Study System: I'm a 38-Year-Old Student-Chapter 83 - 76: Sudden Windfall!

"Huh?"

"How many points??"

The scene was noisy, and Shen Yixiao thought he’d heard wrong.

"Uncle Shen got a total of 494!"

Zhou Yu shouted again, then added a savage follow-up: "Shen Yixiao, didn’t you say you wanted to compete with Uncle Shen on the mock exam total score?"

"You lost, dude!"

Actually, the father-son mock exam competition had already spread through the school for ages.

Especially among the senior year students—you could say everyone knew!

Some people even bet in private on who’s gonna win.

But before the big scoreboard came out, Shen Yixiao was always the favored horse.

After all, the mock exam weighed overall performance, and although Shen Qiushan’s English was god-level, nobody thought his other subjects were up to par.

A 38-year-old boomer, I mean.

Who’d really expect him to be an all-around exam monster?

Yet now, seeing Shen Qiushan’s score, everyone’s jaws dropped!

Total score, 494!

Ranked 146 on the history major leaderboards!

And in the senior year, there were 318 students who signed up for history!

Shen Qiushan’s results already crushed more than half of the history students.

"No way!"

"How is this even possible!"

"My dad’s politics/history/geography scores combined aren’t even 100!"

Shen Yixiao squeezed into the crowd while talking, and the crowd cooperated, making a path for him.

"What’s so impossible about it?"

"See for yourself!"

Zhou Yu pointed at Shen Qiushan’s name on the board.

To be honest, Zhou Yu was just as shook by that score.

They were in the same exam room, and during the math and English sections, their seats were right next to each other.

Zhou Yu saw with his own eyes how Shen Qiushan blitzed through the math paper at lightspeed.

Back then he’d thought, "My future father-in-law must not know how to do most of these, that’s why he handed it in so fast!"

But, plot twist.

Shen Qiushan didn’t hand in early because he couldn’t do the questions, he was actually at the total opposite extreme.

This math paper was notorious for being tough; Zhou Yu only got 101.

Shen Qiushan came in at 121—20 points more than Zhou Yu. Insane!

Shen Yixiao followed Zhou Yu’s finger and saw his old man’s previously unrevealed scores for two subjects.

Chinese: 129

English: 150

Holy sh*t!!

Old man’s absolutely cracked!

Shen Yixiao couldn’t help blurting out a nationwide swear word.

Gao Bin, who squeezed in behind, was also gobsmacked: "Uncle Shen actually got a perfect score in English."

"No wonder he’s the champion of the vocab contest!"

Shen Yixiao looked over at his own scores again.

Chinese: 75

English: 83

Add those up, and he’s only 8 points higher than Dad’s English alone.

"Brother Xiao, it’s not that you didn’t try hard." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"It’s just that Uncle Shen is an absolute beast!"

Gao Bin piped up with some comfort.

Zhou Yu added, "I checked just now. If you only count the big three—Chinese, math, and English—Uncle Shen ranks third among history-track students!"

"And first place is only 5 points ahead of him!"

After Zhou Yu’s info drop, the crowd got rocked all over again.

Everyone just focused on Shen Qiushan’s total score earlier.

Sure, 494 on Shen Qiushan truly blew everyone’s mind, but if you take it by itself, it doesn’t sound like much.

After all, among history students, it’s only enough to put him at 146th.

But Zhou Yu shifted everyone’s viewpoint!

Just the big three—Chinese, math, English.

Third in the rankings!

Now that’s gold!

In other words, as long as Shen Qiushan’s politics/history/geography scores catch up with the top students,

he could totally charge into history track’s top ten, even top five!

Seriously wild!

A middle-aged dude.

Came in on the "study buddy" ticket and KO’d all the history candidates!

Just bonkers!

Unreal!

Inside Senior Year, Class 5.

Shen Qiushan was still seriously grinding his history textbook.

Ding!

Congrats, host! You defeated 764 people in the English exam.

Reward: 76,400 Scholar Index points!

Congrats, host! You defeated 719 people in the Chinese exam.

Reward: 71,900 Scholar Index points!

Hearing the system’s notification, Shen Qiushan’s eyes lit up.

This crazy windfall finally landed!

He instantly summoned up his system screen.

Locked onto current Scholar Index: 221,556 points

This is what you call filthy rich in an instant!

One word: Awesome!!

Shen Qiushan wasted no time and opened up his attribute panel.

Sticking to plan, he tried leveling up his Health.

Ding!

Scholar Index -10,000 points

Health +1

Current Health: 83!

Shen Qiushan tried it once—the Health value went up as expected, but nothing seemed to happen physically.

He clicked a few more times, added Health up to 90!

Now Shen Qiushan finally noticed some changes; first was his eyesight. Sitting in the back row by the blackboard, he used to barely see the top chart lines. When Health hit 90, suddenly he could see even the last row crisp and clear.

Then came his hearing—this past week sitting mid-class, usually if people whispered in the hallway, he couldn’t catch anything.

Now he could hear them all.

Guy A: Holy crap, Old Deng from Class 5 hit 494, that’s higher than me.

Guy B: Freaking nuts, did Old Deng cheat? If my mom finds out I lost to Old Deng in the mock exam, she’ll murder me!

Guy C: 494 isn’t even the point—the savage bit is, if you just count Chinese, math, and English, he’s third place among history students!

Guy A: Seriously insane!

Guy B: I just hope teacher doesn’t post the mock rankings in the parent chat...

Somehow he even heard folks talking smack about him behind his back.

Shen Qiushan cursed, "Little brats," and went right back to digging into his attribute panel.

He realized Health wasn’t just literal—the boost made all his five senses OP.

And this was just Health at 90.

Currently, Shen Qiushan still had left over 140,000 Scholar Index points.

Might as well max it out!

With his mind made up, Shen Qiushan kept upgrading.

But then a friendly reminder popped up:

Health value now 90!

Next upgrade costs 100,000 Scholar Index points. Continue?

WTFFFF!

Shen Qiushan couldn’t help cursing at that popup.

What’s with this system using "Pinduoduo" tactics—getting to 90% is easy, then the grind scales up like crazy!

Shen Qiushan thought he’d be maxing out his basic stats in no time!

Now it looks way tougher—probably gonna have to wait till college entrance exams.

The mock exam’s just a warm-up; college entrance is the real cash cow.

100k points for one Health... not worth it for now.

He decided to get all his basic stats to 90 first.

So from the Health 90 situation, 90 should be about the max ceiling for normal humans!

Shen Qiushan glanced at his attribute panel again.

Appearance and Figure were both at 85!

He just chucked it and leveled both up to 90!

Reminder: Upgrading Appearance and Figure requires a 30-day adjustment period.

After boosting both to 90, he got another system notification.

Makes sense; looks and body shape can’t change overnight.

Even plastic surgery needs a recovery period!

After that wild shopping spree,

there were still over 40,000 Scholar Index points left—enough for daily spending.

That’s when the third period bell rung.

Shen Yixiao and Wang Yunpeng rushed in right as the bell rang.

And Chen Xiangyu, who hadn’t shown up all morning, trailed in behind the pair.

After stepping up to the podium, Chen Xiangyu subconsciously eyed her old flame in the last row.

The reason she was late today? All Shen Qiushan’s fault!

Last night was too much exertion, so when she woke up, it was already past nine.

But once she finally got up, Chen Xiangyu felt amazing—like an old battery suddenly supercharged.

And Shen Qiushan was the charging plug!