Episode 6: The School Flower and the Classmate of a Fool

  Yang Xue Ning, one of the acknowledged school flowers of Longtan Second Middle School, not only looks beautiful but also has surprisingly good grades, always ranking first in her grade. Since she entered the school, she has never changed and is regarded by countless young people in their youth as the supreme goddess in their hearts!

  Students in their youth are often deceived by vague feelings and enter the ranks of early love, and these high school students at Longtan No. 2 Middle School are no exception, especially when facing a beautiful girl like Yang Xueying, it's unlikely that any boy wouldn't be moved. However, being moved is one thing, but unfortunately, so far, not a single person has been able to move Yang Xueying's heart.

  This girl seems to have put all her energy into studying, in school, she doesn't care about anything outside of learning, not even having a few female friends. Those boys' confessions, including the one from Wang Jie, who was known as the "school grass" for being talented and handsome, were all rejected by her without exception.

  It turns out that the reason why Li Yan was able to become desk mates with this goddess in the first place was mainly because he was a weak student. When they were assigned seats in sophomore year, no one wanted to sit with him, and when Yang Xuejing transferred over, there was only one empty seat left next to him... afterwards, after Yang Xuejing discovered that he was a weak student, she became even more at ease and became desk mates with him, and they sat together for almost two years.

  At this time, Yang Xueying was quietly sitting in her own seat, as if standing alone outside the entire world, holding a language textbook, reading intently. Suddenly being interrupted by someone, she involuntarily frowned subconsciously, raised her eyes, and saw that the person who came was her own weak-minded deskmate. A hint of mockery and disdain flashed in her eyes, and then she stood up and made way for him.

  As for the beauty's coldness, Li Yan had already had an impression of it from his previous memories, so he didn't mind at all. He just glanced at her and then walked straight to his own seat, sitting down silently.

  He stuffed the backpack in his hand into the desk, casually pulled out a language textbook, placed it on the desk and flipped through it, but didn't look at it carefully. Suddenly, he had an idea, put his hands together on the table, clasped them together to form a strange handprint, and directly entered a meditative state.

  The knowledge in the book he has already perfectly grasped, and has even deduced it to an extremely high degree. Even if the exam is near, he doesn't intend to look at it again. Time is precious, waste is shameful, he naturally wants to seize the time to cultivate, in order to recover his original spirit as soon as possible.

  Looking at Li Yan's strange appearance, even Yang Xuejing couldn't help but shake her head, and she couldn't help but think of a scene she saw after school yesterday:

  In the drizzle, a silly boy hugged an electric pole covered with small advertisements and shouted: "I'm finally saved!"

  Foolish, always foolish, this is just a euphemism, in harsher terms, it's idiot! Compared to him, I'm like someone on a parallel line, although we sit at the same table, but forever can't cross the boundaries of the world, having any deep connection.

  With a hint of disdain, she glanced at Li Yan indifferently, and then Yang Xuecong immediately came back to her senses, continuing to look at her own notes, as if she had already become immersed in the world of books.

  Time slipped away quietly, and with the end of morning reading, the bell for the first class rang out. The head teacher of Class 1, Grade 3, Liang Haifeng, walked in with big strides. He looked like a stout middle-aged man with a round face and a sly expression, wearing glasses and rolling his eyes, giving off an air of being a self-interested person.

  Standing on the podium, Liang Haifeng swept his eyes over the students in the classroom. His gaze varied from person to person, falling on Wang Jie and Yang Xueying with great praise, falling on students with poor grades with indignation, and finally falling on Li Yan's face with contempt.

  He didn't start the lesson directly, but after clearing his throat a few times, he solemnly announced: "Classmates, this Thursday and Friday of this week, we will have the second mock exam of this semester. Unlike last time when we took the exam in our own classrooms, this time's mock exam will be conducted simultaneously across the entire grade level. To make way for this exam, classes for freshmen and sophomores will be suspended for two days to provide us with testing venues. Moreover, all teachers from the freshman and sophomore departments will join forces with those from the junior department to proctor the exams. The examination rules in each testing venue will be exactly the same as those of the college entrance exam. No textbooks, reference materials, or communication devices are allowed to be brought into the testing venues. If anyone is caught cheating, they will be disqualified and their scores for that subject will be cancelled."

  As soon as the words were spoken, all the classmates couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. No one had expected that this second mock exam would be so grand and formal. Although there were still more than two months to go before the college entrance examination, from this moment on, everyone felt a thrilling atmosphere of an impending decisive battle.

  He waved his hand, and Liang Haifeng signaled the whole class to stop discussing, with an excited expression, saying: "This exam is crucial for all students, after all, it's the second-to-last mock exam before the upcoming college entrance examination. The score you get will likely determine your fate, because our Longtan No. 2 Middle School has twenty reserved spots."

  This way, those students who have achieved good grades can't help but feel excited, after all, the college entrance examination is unpredictable, as the saying goes 'people make mistakes and horses stumble', even if they usually perform well, it's possible that they may not do well on the exam, so at this time, the school's reserved quota becomes extremely precious!

  Of course, these are benefits that only students with good grades have. Those who do poorly in school don't care anyway. In short, unless you have a strong background, these benefits are naturally not for them.

  "Now, I've finished arranging the exam schedule," said Jiang Haifeng, pulling out a pre-printed form. "The seating arrangement for this exam has been completely randomized, and I'll post this seating chart on the blackboard later. You're all responsible for remembering your own exam room and seat number."

  Then, after handing over some matters needing attention, Liang Haifeng began to teach. In fact, it was called teaching, but it was actually asking students to review by themselves and then having Liang Haifeng answer some classic difficult questions. After all, the third-year high school curriculum had already been finished in the previous semester, and now, except for a few subjects, the rest were just reviewing.

  Li Yan was even less concerned about these things, and for nearly a day, he seemed to be in a daze, but in fact, he had been working hard to cultivate himself. After all, he had already passed through the heavenly tribulation once, and now he was just gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to restore his primordial spirit. So, although his progress was not worth mentioning, the effect of his recovery was quite good.

  Including the head teacher Liang Haifeng, all subject teachers knew that Li Yan was mentally weak. So even when they saw him spacing out, no one paid attention to him. To them, Li Yan had long been a hopeless case, and it would be better to focus their energy on other students who might have a chance of getting into college rather than wasting their time on him.

  As the final bell rang, Li Yan finally came to his senses. Unlike those good students who were preparing to stay behind for evening self-study, Li Yan and some of the poor students chose to go home after school because of their special status. Naturally, no teacher was willing to take care of them either.

  "Excuse me..." Li Yan spoke up again, his tone as indifferent as it was when he arrived in the morning, interrupting Yang Xueying who was still working on a math problem.

  "Who are you?!" Yang Xueying couldn't help but feel a surge of anger, her temper flaring up, but then she thought about the fact that the person in front of her was an idiot, and her anger dissipated: Alas... even doing homework is a mess, what's the point of arguing with an idiot?!

  When he saw Yang Xue, he stood up silently and made way for him. The corner of Li Yan's mouth couldn't help but curve into a smile. As he passed by her side, after a slight hesitation in his eyes, he finally couldn't help but remind her: "Take some time to go to the hospital for a check-up, your illness is very serious..."

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