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It took him, with abysmal talent, two months to become eligible for top tier university. Keep in mind he is talentless. Story doesn't show his efforts before or after appraisal so his 'achievements' are no different from plot armor. Dude even had time thinking about hitting on the girls, so I highly doubt he trained that hard. And right after the training, this sweaty, exhausted dude went confidentiality to apply to university. Honestly with such level of requirements university can just accept everyone with no exam
The reason why female lead is interested in him - because MC trained daily with bad skill. Usually people who do useless and self harmful things cause petty, not attraction. Especially if they eventually behave rudely
Last but not least. MC is in the world he knows. He wants simple life because his skill is horrible. So instead of abusing his knowledge in trading or going into some hidden dungeons or simply trying to get some unguarded treasures, he basically tries to confine himself in university where no one can even train him spearmanship
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