Graduating high school students with disabilities also take the Gaokao, China’s national college entrance examination. Topping the June test in the disabled category was Guo Bin, who is blind. Guo Bin correctly answered 721 of 800 questions to earn admission to Changchun University, where he plans to pursue a dual-degree program in medicine and computer science, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

The test papers for blind examinees were in Braille, and they were given additional time to finish. It was not surprising that Guo scored high on the Gaokao, as he followed a rigorous study routine at a free school for the blind, plays five instruments — the hulusi, ocarina, Native American flute, bass guitar and suona — and was a member of the school band.

He is also remarkably composed despite losing his sight in an attack by his own aunt when he was six years old.

Meanwhile, the vision of a man identified only as Le, who lives in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, deteriorated after an apparent self-inflicted injury.

Le lost his peripheral vision and could only see straight ahead. Upon consulting an eye doctor, he was told his retina had detached, according to the SCMP.

The condition followed Le’s deliberate slapping of his twitching right eyelid for three straight days. When the eyelid started twitching for an unknown reason, it reminded him of the popular Chinese saying that “a twitching left eye brings wealth, while a twitching right eye brings disaster,” the SCMP reported.

Le turned to the internet rather than a doctor for a diagnosis and found claims that slapping the eyelid could “drive away bad luck.”

Local newspaper Changjiang Daily reported that Le repeatedly slapped the area around his right eye, and the twitching eventually stopped on the third day. Disaster followed, however, when his retina was damaged.