Chapter 100 Asking Him to Save the Day

In one night, Lu Yanhe completed a set of mock humanities exam papers and organized the relevant knowledge points.

He finished tidying up, stretched, and looked up at the time; it was almost midnight.

It's been almost two hours since I got back.

"I'm so sleepy." Lu Yanhe turned on the sound in the live stream and opened the chat to see what everyone was saying. "I just finished a humanities test paper to check my learning progress over this period of time."

Soon, someone popped up in the chat and asked: Is the streamer going to end the broadcast?

Lu Yanhe shook his head and said, "We need to go through the vocabulary again. Our teacher will be checking it tomorrow morning."

A group of people spammed "66666".

Someone asked how to learn English.

Lu Yanhe said, "How to learn English depends on your foundation. If your foundation is very weak, start by memorizing vocabulary. If your foundation is okay, start with reading comprehension. This is just my personal opinion. Everyone should decide based on their own situation."

Some people say they can't remember vocabulary words no matter what they try, or they remember them one day, but forget them the next day after sleeping on them.

Lu Yanhe said, "The reason why you forget what you've memorized is because you don't use it after you've memorized it, so it's easy to forget. When I memorize a new word, I try to use it repeatedly in the following days, or actively think about it, such as when I'm on the bus or listening to some audio. It's similar to making sentences with the word. After using it a few times, I gradually remember it."

“There is an even more tedious method, which is to test ourselves,” Lu Yanhe said. “We have an English teacher who will come to check us almost every day, making us recite words from memory. This happens once or twice a day, and we recite five to ten words each time. If we make a mistake, we have to copy them down a few times to memorize them. After all, there are no shortcuts for these kinds of words. We just have to memorize them by rote. The more we memorize, the better our sense of language will become, and it won’t be so difficult to memorize other words later.”

Lu Yanhe spoke entirely from his own experience.

He wasn't very good at English to begin with, but he managed to get this score because he studied incredibly hard. To put it simply, it's just a language. If you can really recognize all the words, even if you don't understand the grammar, you can at least get a passing score. Besides, the difficulty of English lies in the beginning. Once you have a basic vocabulary and a feel for the language, it's just a matter of adding water to the pool.

Many people in the comments section said they lacked the perseverance and enthusiasm to memorize vocabulary, often working on it sporadically or failing to remember it at all, getting distracted while memorizing.

Lu Yanhe thought for a moment and said, "How about I teach everyone to memorize vocabulary in the live stream from now on?"

The chat suddenly became lively:

--good!

—No going back on your word!

Whether I pass the exam depends on you!

...

Seeing everyone's enthusiasm, Lu Yanhe was suddenly eager to join in, full of motivation.

"I want to do my own thing. How about this, I can definitely do a live stream every night at 10 pm, unless I have work. Let's schedule it for 10 pm every night. I'll type the words I need to memorize that day on the screen—although I don't know how to do it yet, I'll figure it out. Just ten words a day, ten minutes, let's memorize them together. Maybe if we memorize words together, there will be a competitive motivation, and we can concentrate better."

Everyone typed "OK".

Lu Yanhe belatedly realized and exclaimed, "When did my live stream room get a bunch of students?"

"High school freshman girl": Hahaha, I heard it from my classmate. There's a handsome guy who livestreams himself studying every day, so I came here. Sorry, I'm a sucker for good looks!

"I'm the coolest": I... came here because of the platform's recommendation. I was just bored reading by myself, so I searched for live streamers who did educational content on the platform. I didn't have high hopes, but I didn't expect to find one. I heard you're a celebrity.

"I'm ugly but I'm proud": Hahaha, doesn't the person upstairs know that the most popular song these days is sung by the streamer?

"I'm the coolest": What song is that?

"I'm ugly but I'm proud": "Remembrance", go search it, it's super good, only a high school student could write such a song. I graduated several years ago, but when I heard this song and searched for the singer, I found out that the singer is a real high school student who even does live streams every night to study. I came here today.

"Miss Dirt Eater": A hidden gem idol.

"Me, handsome and dashing": A rich woman has appeared!

"Truth is a lie": Rich woman?

Suddenly, the public chat showed that a user with the ID "Cen Sang" sent the streamer five [Lucky Balloons].

"Me, the Handsome One": Holy crap? Another big spender? I'm so envious of the streamer, being handsome makes you more popular!

After sending the gift, "Cen Sang" appeared in the live chat again: "Good luck, streamer! I hope you can really get into Zhenhua or Yuming."

"I'm ugly but I'm proud": Is this streamer really that ambitious? Isn't the name of this live stream just a gimmick? Is he really aiming for Zhenhua or Yuming?

"High school freshman girl": It seems to be true. It feels like the streamer is live streaming every night. She's really working hard, even harder than the top student in my class.

...

In the live chat, everyone was saying a lot, one after another.

Lu Yanhe's phone suddenly vibrated twice; someone had sent him a message.

He picked up his phone, opened it, and saw that it was a message from Hou Jun: Could you come and help out tomorrow?

Lu Yanhe was taken aback: Huh? Director Hou, what's wrong?

Hou Jun then called.

Seeing this, Lu Yanhe said to the live stream audience, "I'm getting a call, I'll mute it for now."

He muted his phone before answering the call that Hou Jun had suddenly made.

"Director Hou?" This phone call was too unexpected; Lu Yanhe hadn't anticipated it at all. "Please speak."

Hou Jun said, "We originally planned to record a new episode of 'Little Songs Gathering' tomorrow night, but one of our original guests suddenly couldn't make it. The recording time has already been set. You came to rehearse last time, right? You rehearsed two songs, didn't you? Besides 'Remembrance,' which we've already sung, there's also a song you sang before, 'Chasing Dreams.' We'd like to ask you to come and fill in for us. What do you say?"

Lu Yanhe said, "Director Hou, I have no problem with it. It's a performance that I just prepared. But I need you to talk to my agent. He... might not be willing to let me go."

Hou Jun asked in surprise, "Why? Your performance that aired yesterday received great feedback online, and the song 'Commemoration' is also doing very well in terms of play data on major music platforms. We all thought this song would gradually become popular."

Hou Jun clearly misunderstood Lu Yanhe's meaning. He thought that Zhou Ping'an would look down on "Little Song Gathering" as just a small program and would not want Lu Yanhe, a recently popular artist, to appear on the program again. So he immediately brought up the effect of the last program's broadcast.

Lu Yanhe didn't know how to explain it either.

He said, "I... Director Hou, please contact my agent. As long as he agrees, I have no problem. The time and performance are all OK."

(End of this chapter)