No pre-exam self-study also ant going straight to the exam hall.
Li Qingrong sat in the exam room, occasionally looking out the window and occasionally at the door. However, even as the exam started, that person never showed up.
Jiang Nian was entirely preoccupied with mathematics, not thinking about anything else at all.
Let alone checking out the exam halls before the test or running over to chat with Li Qingrong, which would be a pure waste of energy.
Such insincerity, how could he score one hundred and twenty!
You heard right, one hundred and twenty.
Jiang Nian’s usual math scores couldn’t even reach one hundred and twenty, let alone the big joint examination. Setting a goal of one hundred and thirty was just a bit of self-entertainnt.
According to the math teacher’s estimation, the joint exam math paper was about ten points tougher than usual.
This ant setting a one hundred and twenty target was equivalent to one hundred and thirty on a usual weekly test. It was considered low for others, but just right for Jiang Nian.
Sotis, he wished he could be like in those youth dramas.
Falling madly in love in the third year of high school, and then in the last two months, with the help of a good friend or a girlfriend, making a miraculous coback from a poor student, staying up late studying, and getting into a top-tier university.
That’s just crazy, born in the heart of the republic, huh?
Zhenan is a small place, true to its na, really tough.
With backward educational resources, you either rely on natural talent to speed through or slog through as a mortal does.
Jiang Nian belongs to the third type, the barely-hanging-on type. His tutor has done their utmost to help him, the basics have been covered, and the rest of the path he had to figure out on his own.
The math test paper was handed out, and Jiang Nian took a deep sniff.
Ah, like the fragrance of a young girl.
What does a young girl’s fragrance sll like? Hmm... Jiang Nian didn’t know either, maybe after the test he would ask the class monitor if she would give him an honest answer.
He glanced at the people who set the questions, two teachers from other schools.
Clicking his tongue, he thought it indirectly showed that Zhenan Middle School wasn’t worth much.
Mathematics is the jewel in the crown of all subjects, and Zhenan Middle School can’t even participate in setting the questions. It’s self-explanatory, they have no say in this subject.
The worst among the worst.
Jiang Nian suddenly felt that his poor performance in math could be partially blad on the teachers.
With math, you first look at the big questions, then at the fill-in-the-blank questions. As he glanced through, his heart sank; these were not questions with a straightforward approach.
They are quite tricky, slippery all over. Only students who can hit the key points will enjoy them, while the rest will calculate back and forth, without understanding the questions at all.
The test papers were distributed in advance, but no one was allowed to write before the bell rang.
The invigilator’s voice was stern and cold, "Attention, students. Only start writing after the bell rings. Raise your hand if you have any special circumstances, otherwise writing is not allowed."
Another invigilator, while handing out the answer sheets, added.
"Ah, any behavior that violates the exam rules will be considered equivalent to cheating. Please take the exam discipline seriously as it’s being strictly enforced this ti."
Before the exam started, Jiang Nian had already stealthily ntally calculated two multiple-choice questions.
Qin Shi Huang eats Sichuan pepper, winning big.
Ding dong ding, the broadcast crackled, and a gruff middle-aged man’s voice announced.
"The exam begins."
He started focusing on solving problems from the multiple-choice section. For a month, he had been working hard, doing practice problems, and even learned problem-solving approaches from Zhizhi Baby’s dreams.
Even though the help was minimal, persistence pays off, and his problem-solving speed indeed improved. It wasn’t until he was on the ninth question in the math section that his speed slowed down.
After completing question eleven,
Jiang Nian looked up at the ti, twenty-five minutes had passed.
With two hours total for the exam, spending thirty minutes on the multiple-choice questions clearly wasn’t economical. He glanced at question twelve and had no ideas from a first glance.
He quickly chose D.
All-in, nothing to lose, after all, he had already completed the first eleven multiple-choice questions.
The essential post-question ritual was to look around the exam room.
Jiang Nian quickly scanned around; so were hunched low over their desks diligently, so were popping pimples while writing, others were engaged in the classic nose-picking.
If listened closely, one could hear the sound of legs rubbing against trousers. However, there was no massive sound of turning pages, proving that Jiang Nian was indeed way ahead.
Five minutes left until the end of the exam.
He roughly estimated, except for question twelve on the multiple-choice and one fill-in-the-blank that he couldn’t solve, he had finished the sequence problem and all the stereotry questions in the big questions.
Overall, in the worst-case scenario, he had a baseline of one hundred and ten.
One could say, never before had there been such a wonderful start.
....
After the math exam, Jiang Nian felt utterly exhausted.
He carried his exam stationery bag to the exam hall next door and stood at the classroom door for a while. Finally, he waited until Li Qingrong ca out and called out, "Class monitor."
Li Qingrong turned around and looked at him for a mont.
"Mmm."
For so reason, Jiang Nian felt a chill run down his back as she looked him in the eye.
Did she bomb the exam?
"Class monitor, how did your exam go?"
Jiang Nian asked tentatively, thinking if she bombed it, for instance, only scored 138, he should back off imdiately, not provoke her, saving himself from being sacrificed.
She replied, "It was okay, sa as before."
Hearing this, Jiang Nian let out a sigh of relief.
"Oh, oh, I felt I was off to a good start this ti; I did my best on whatever I could."
"Mmm."
When they arrived at the teaching building, Jiang Nian was thinking about grabbing food at the canteen.
He glanced at the crowd rushing to grab food and then at the overly pretty Li Qingrong, feeling a bit torn inside, whether to eat or accompany the class monitor upstairs.
After a few seconds of hesitation, Jiang Nian, choosing sensibly, decided to confirm one thing first.
"Class monitor, are you going upstairs to the classroom?"
Li Qingrong was slightly taken aback, glanced at him, and then looked away two seconds later.
"Mmm."
"Great, class monitor, can you take this upstairs for !" Jiang Nian exclaid in delight, shoving the transparent exam bag into her arms, "Thanks a lot!"
Having said that, Jiang Nian dashed off.
Normally, a gentleman, but at al tis, as wild as a stray dog.
Li Qingrong stood underneath the teaching building, looking bewilderedly at the running Jiang Nian. She glanced down at the exam bag in her arms and frowned slightly.
Ten seconds later, she still proceeded up the stairs.
On the staircase landing between the third and fourth floors, she saw a heap of scattered books. Her gaze settled on Yu Tongjie’s na, then glanced again at the exam bag in her arms.
Li Qingrong lowered her eyes for a mont but continued upwards.
Just as she got upstairs, she was hugged by Nie Qiqi, who sobbed about blowing the exam. She intended to nestle in the class monitor’s arms for comfort, only to hit a nylon bag instead.
"Huh? What’s this?"
"What do you an ’what’s that’, you’ve got so nerve to ask." Cai Xiaoqing’s voice intervened, pulling Nie Qiqi away from the class monitor’s arms, gritting her teeth.
"It’s! Filthy stuff!"
Nie Qiqi also gritted her teeth, glanced at Cai Xiaoqing, then turned back to Li Qingrong, sobbing.
"Boohoo, class monitor, she’s bullying ."
"Shaless vixen, behave yourself!" Cai Xiaoqing yanked her back again, and they continued bickering playfully.
Li Qingrong stood watching for a bit; seeing no one paid her attention, she walked around them and returned to her seat. After so thought, she placed Jiang Nian’s exam bag on his desk.
She then pulled out her test paper, staring blankly at it for a while before standing up and walking towards the corridor.
She stood at the fourth-floor staircase entrance, looking down but saw no disorganized books.
Who tidied them up?
In the evening.
Yu Tongjie returned from having dinner outside, ready for evening self-study. His mind was still lingering on this morning’s incident; Jiang Nian was truly shaless, at this rate....
To be honest, he didn’t dare to delve too much.
The good thing was Li Qingrong treated everyone expressionlessly, almost equally.
Though Jiang Nian was shaless, he could only add so... comic relief. Li Qingrong wouldn’t care about him at all, nor would anything happen between her and soone like him.
It did remind him to feel a sense of urgency.
Once he wins over Li Qingrong’s heart, the first thing he would do is ban Jiang Nian, this bastard. He wouldn’t allow his girlfriend to exchange a single word with him!
Would piss that bastard right off!
Thinking so, Yu Tongjie started to feel pleased inside.
He couldn’t help but think of the essay topic in the language exam, "The road ahead is long, and I will seek the truth above and below." At the ti of writing, his mind was clear!
Others rely regurgitated the material, but he infused it with genuine emotions!
With such cheerful thoughts, he returned to the classroom. He didn’t make directly for his books but first joined several math exam answer debates.
After a lively debate, it was said there were discussions with great minds coming and going without diocrity.
Until the evening reading bell rang.
The biology class representative organized the evening reading, only then did Yu Tongjie reluctantly leave the debate center. He exited from the back door of the classroom and went directly downstairs, instinctively reaching for his books.
Scanning around, hmm...
Did he rember incorrectly? The book basket was clearly here; did he walk to the wrong hallway?
Yu Tongjie searched around again and finally realized his book basket had vanished. At that mont, cold sweat instantly broke out on his forehead.
Where are my books!
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