The full name of the selection competition is—the Jinjiang Cup Primary School Olympiad Mathematics Competition Anning Division Summer Camp Selection Competition.

The name is extremely long, but the key words are "Olympiad Math" and "summer camp."

The director mom has always hoped she could get into the Olympiad Math summer camp. Because only by getting into the summer camp does she qualify to participate in the official Jinjiang Cup Olympiad Math competition.

Winning a prize in the competition can guarantee admission to a very good middle school. This also means her life would be completely different from other orphans.

So where exactly did she go wrong? She thought about it and figured it was probably because, even though she was supposed to be a role model for all the children, she did something disappointing.

David Carter felt that the director mom was thinking a bit too far ahead, and little David Carter was carrying a burden that was a bit too heavy.

But in the admiring gaze of little James Carter looking at her, there was so much longing—something that the 22-year-old David Carter hadn't seen in a long time.

It seemed to mean that life is so long, and there are endless possibilities.

And in the context of this office now, she could even add another adjective to her life.

—Even a life that starts off as badly as possible still has endless possibilities.

After finishing two steamed buns, David Carter took James Carter's hand and left the director's office. When she turned off the desk lamp, she glanced again at the wall full of certificates.

Outside the window, the night was pitch black.

She thought, why did I come here?

……

Morning.

David Carter still hadn't figured out this question.

Of course, to be specific, she hadn't really thought about it seriously.

Because after returning to the dorm, she read two stories to James Carter and two other little kids, then washed up and went to sleep.

In the half-awake state in the morning, she was still thinking about the two pages left of her internship report, and that she hadn't replied to Little Harris's WeChat, when she was startled awake by the morning bell.

In her daze, she was shocked—her first reaction was, why could she hear the school bell at home?

Then she realized she wasn't at home anymore.

The room at the orphanage was really not big. She used to share it with a girl a bit younger than her, but recently the girl was adopted, so now she was alone.

Climbing down from the small wooden bed, David Carter pulled open the pink polyester curtains. The children's play equipment in the yard was bathed in sunlight, the flowers and plants lush, though everything was old.

She watched for a while before she fully woke up.

After becoming an orphan, what exactly should she do every day—these routines were already etched into her bones; they belonged to little David Carter. After getting up, she made her bed, went next door to help the younger kids get dressed, watched them wash up, then took one in each hand and led them to the cafeteria for breakfast.

In the orphanage's small cafeteria, she ran into Mrs. Carter, who was busy serving food to the kids—the same strong auntie who had dragged her to see the director at the alley entrance yesterday.

Mrs. Carter didn't have time to lecture her again, just ruffled her hair and told her to hurry up and finish breakfast and go to Olympiad Math class.

David Carter was still thinking, isn't today not Saturday? Then she instantly remembered, this wasn't the time when schools weren't allowed to run tutoring classes anymore. Right now, every school had weekend interest classes.

However, the Olympiad Math class wasn't an interest class; it was an advanced class organized by the school. The biggest difference from interest classes was that it was free. Hongxing Primary School still wanted to focus on training a group of students, hoping someone from the school could get into that summer camp and bring honor to the school.

David Carter sat by the window.

Thinking of Olympiad Math, she couldn't help but think of Old Carter and Henry Clark.

Old Carter was the one who sent her to Olympiad Math class, and Henry Clark was the person in class she could never catch up to.

And now...

Was she going to dominate Hongxing Primary School all by herself?!

Author's note:

It's actually just a different life storyline—a parallel world, very simple, straightforward, green, and environmentally friendly. Is it hard to understand? I'm confused too.

Chapter 10: Quiz

Short desks and chairs, a clean blackboard, and a faint scent of books in the air. David Carter hadn't sat in a classroom at eight in the morning for a long time, and she felt a bit nostalgic.

She rubbed the 1.2 yuan coin in her palm, stuffed it into her pocket, and looked out the window. To the northeast was Zhuanzhu Alley, but she couldn't go look for Old Carter yet, because her current identity was as the good student little David Carter.

It was 8:20, and only about half the students had arrived for Olympiad Math class.

She scanned the classroom, opened her Olympiad Math textbook, and prepared to preview the lesson in advance—mainly to get back the feeling of being a top student.

Last class was the first lesson on boats moving with the current; this class would be the second lesson...

Her hand rested on the textbook, and her thumb paused as she was flipping the pages.

David Carter flipped back two pages. Little David Carter had written something in crooked handwriting.

1. Finish the exercises after the first lesson on boats moving with the current.

2. Think about bonus question 1.

3. Next class, the registration form will be handed out. Must get in!

She rested her chin in her hand, looking at her own childish handwriting. In the sunlight, the exclamation mark gleamed.

David Carter thought, actually, when she was little, she never had this much drive.

She never really had the urge to get or accomplish something.

She sat like that for a while, until someone sat down next to her, bumping her elbow and knocking her hand off her face. She stumbled in her seat, turned her head, and saw a chubby little kid.