Five days passed by in a flash...

Lin Chaoxi silently recited the transition sentences that he would use in the textbook and walked towards the teaching building.

She didn't find these five days difficult; her attention had been completely distracted by Lao Lin's phone call.

Why did Lao Lin make that call, who was on the other end of the phone, and why did Lao Lin hug her tightly after the call?

Countless questions came to her, and the most crucial question was, which choice in the cheese world went wrong, causing her and Lao Lin to separate?

Thinking of this, Lin Chaoxi had a bold guess: could the person on the other end of the phone be her mother?

She had never seen her mother, and when she was a child, she probably asked Lao Lin questions like "Where is Mom?"

At that time, Lao Lin held her hand and told her seriously that his mother had given up the custody rights, that everyone has their own life and reasons, and he hoped that she would not hate her mother.

In fact, there is no hatred at all. I have never felt the love of a mother, so there is no loss, let alone hatred.

Lin Chaoxi slowly climbed the stairs. The reason why she and Lao Lin separated in this world might be the key to unlock Lao Lin’s past.

She knew this, but at the same time she was wondering if she really should go and see it.

Her father will never be Captain China, living in anonymity, and one day Tony Stark will ask him to save the world...

Thinking of this, Lin Chaoxi suddenly stopped, turned around and walked back.

But it was too late.

A large number of students rushed down the stairs after class, some to the cafeteria and some to the library. Before she had walked down one and a half floors, she was surrounded by Lu Zhihao, Huajuan and the others.

Huajuan winked at the others, hooked her neck and dragged her downstairs.

As soon as they arrived at the open space, the children's uncontrollable questions finally rang out.

"Teacher Lin is your father?"

"Are you an orphan from an orphanage?"

"How do you know that?"

"Did you guys do a DNA test? What were the results?"

Lin Chaoxi's sight was filled with excited faces and little mouths that kept opening and closing.

She looked around and found that even Lu Zhihao's face was red, so she asked, "What's going on?"

Among all the people, only Pei Zhi was still holding a book, standing a few steps away and watching them.

She looked at Pei Zhi in despair and asked for help: "Why are you so gossipy? Look at classmate Pei Zhi."

Pei Zhi smiled, looked at her, and said happily: "Don't look at me, I want to know too."

Lin Zhaoxi: ...

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"If Teacher Lin is really your father, will you move in with him?" In the cafeteria, An Beibei took two mouthfuls of rice and asked again.

Lin Chaoxi let out a cry and buried his face in the rice bowl. It was not easy to muster up the courage.

The children's attention was completely attracted by the relationship between her and Lao Lin. They kept asking questions along the way. Even during meals, they only stopped for two minutes before starting talking again.

Lin Chaoxi is now looking forward to Old Lin showing up and saying coolly behind him, "What else?"

But no.

Lao Lin was nowhere to be seen. He said he had to go back and forth to the cafeteria for work, but when they walked into the cafeteria, they didn't see Lao Lin at all.

Lin Chaoxi even suspected for a moment that Old Lin might have been scared away...

An Beibei sat opposite him and was about to say something.

Lin Chaoxi sucked the tip of the chopsticks and quickly interrupted.

"Have they told you about the midterms?" She started a conversation, hoping to distract them.

"I did!" Hanamaki answered enthusiastically.

"So what do you think?" Lin Zhaoxi asked.

"What do you think?" An Beibei asked, "It would be great if we could form a team together!"

"If we can't pass Zhang Liang and the others in the exam..."

When Lin Chaoxi said this, he glanced at An Beibei and said, "Wait, An Beibei, when did you stop liking Zhang Liang?"

"Chen Chengcheng is my buddy, how can I be friends with him!" An Beibei pointed at the little boy Chen Chengcheng sitting in the corner, very loyal.

An Beibei: "Besides, our grades are not good to begin with. We still have to take the midterm exams anyway. As the old saying goes, 'Death is more precious than feathers...'"

The chatterbox classmate An Beibei started to talk nonsense, and Lin Chaoxi couldn't help but interrupt him: "It's 'lighter than...'"

"It's almost the same anyway!"

"But you didn't have to accompany me..."

"Oh, I'm not going to argue with you!" Another girl from Group 6 slapped the table and said, "You want to handle everything by yourself, then what do you think of us?"

The girl was filled with righteous indignation. Lin Chaoxi was stunned for a long time after being yelled at. Finally, she could only look at Lu Zhihao and ask, "Are you from the same hometown, Northeast China?"

"Yes!"

Lu Zhihao: "Where are you from?"

Children have short memories and they immediately started talking about their hometowns, as if they didn't care about her worries at all. Lin Chaoxi lowered her head and took two bites of rice.

Pei Zhi scooped a spoonful of soup beside her and said as he drank, "It's a good thing you're here too, let's make a plan."

"Ah?" Lin Chaoxi looked at the little boy beside him.

"The average score should be higher than Zhang Liang's group. What kind of results should each of us achieve? We should make a plan like this."

Everyone at the long table looked at Pei Zhi in unison, and the sound of cutlery falling could be heard.

Pei Zhi tilted his head slightly, not understanding why, and looked at them.

"Super...superior to Zhang Liang?"

Pei Zhi said: "Only if we surpass Zhang Liang can we stay and continue our studies..."

"No, no, how could the average score of the 12 of us possibly exceed that of Zhang Liang and his team?"

"Yes."

"They are the best students in our class! It's hard for us to surpass them, right?"

Questions arose one after another.

Lin Chaoxi finally understood why Pei Zhi said that. She looked at the other children and asked, "So what are your plans?"

"Of course I'll go with you!"

"Are you serious?" Looking at everyone's loyal faces, Lin Chaoxi felt complicated.

On the one hand, she thinks this is not bad. The children don't have to bear any passionate goals or pursue good grades. They can learn math purely for interest. It's good for them to come together and walk together.

On the other hand, it would be a lie to say that I have no regrets deep down.

How much she hoped that everyone could work together, and finally surpass Zhang Liang and the others in terms of performance and achieve the most perfect victory.

But in fact, this kind of passion and victory probably only exists in novels or passionate comics. In reality...

"Yeah, just be happy."

Lin Chaoxi picked up the chopsticks again and smiled. Just as she was about to put down her chopsticks, a light sound was heard from the corner.

“I want to get 85 points.”

Chen Chengcheng said.

Lin Zhaoxi looked at him slowly.

"I want to try and see if I can get 85 points." The young boy repeated firmly.

"I want above 95!" said Lu Zhihao.

Lin Chaoxi turned her head and looked at her deskmate.

Lu Zhihao lowered his head and took a big bite of rice: "I want to win!"

There was an inexplicable silence at the dinner table.

Neither of them said why they wanted to win, and in fact, there was no need to give a reason, everyone knew why.

After a while, another voice was heard: "Then the mainland wants 95, I took 80"

Hanamaki said cautiously.

"Isn't 80 a bit low? Zhang Liang and his friends' average score should be at least 90." Yao Xiaotian, the little sister sitting next to Huajuan, said in a low voice.

"Then I want 85?" Huajuan asked.

"You're going to get 85, so I want 90!" An Beibei clapped her chopsticks and shouted.

"What do you mean by 'I'm lucky'? An Beibei, let me tell you, I'm really lucky!"

Huajuan said.

As if inspired by something, the children suddenly started to report their goals one by one.

Lin Chaoxi wanted to say something but stopped herself, and also wanted to laugh. How could it change so quickly?

She was still looking at Chen Chengcheng. The child, who had always been as wet as seaweed, lowered his head and ate two mouthfuls of rice. As if he felt her gaze, he suddenly raised his head and nodded vigorously at her.

Come on.

Lin Chaoxi also nodded.

She thought that children were actually braver than adults because their emotions when they desired something were purer.

Children are like this: they will cry and make a fuss to get what they want, even if it means rolling on the ground.

"Let's do the math!" The leader of Group 6 raised his hand to interrupt the discussion. "Who can still remember the average score of Group 1?"

"84.5/83/89/79/82.5." Pei Zhi reported it directly.

The whole table was silent.

The leader of group six swallowed his saliva and could only ask, "So, what is the average score for each of us in these five days?"

Pei Zhi: "Lin Zhaoxi 95, Lu Zhihao 72.5, Hua Juan 62..."

Pei Zhi was about to say something else, but Hua Juan interrupted him: "Stop talking, just tell us how many points each of us will get!"

"This calculation takes into account not only the average grade, but also..."

When Pei Zhi said this, a note was passed to him from the side.

The names of the 12 people were written in pencil on the slip, with two columns of grades next to them. The slip was written in adult handwriting, elegant and graceful.

Lin Zhaoxi slowly raised his head.

"Very good, since you are all willing, let's do it this way."

Old Lin arrived without warning. His cold voice rang beside them, and Lin Chaoxi was so startled that he almost stood up.

He had changed into the cafeteria's white uniform, black plastic shoes, and a pair of red plastic gloves. He pushed a cart with a tray as tall as a person past them. Perhaps he had been perfectly hidden behind the cart before, so none of them noticed him.

"Master, where have you been?" Lu Zhihao asked.

"Suddenly a girl called me dad, so of course I need to be alone and calm down." Lao Lin said casually.

Lin Chaoxi banged his head against the edge of the table, and the little warmth and affection that had just grown in his heart disappeared.

"Teacher Lin, were you the one who dumped Lin Chaoxi earlier?"

"Did you find her back?"

As soon as the children saw Lao Lin, all the questions they had just forgotten came to their mind again.

Old Lin acted as if nothing had happened. Under the children's gaze, he took off his gloves, patted the shoulder of Lu Zhihao, who was sitting at the edge, and rubbed his fingers at him.

"Master?" Lu Zhihao was confused. "Are you really Lin Zhaoxi's father?"

"Textbooks." said Lao Lin.

Lu Zhihao quickly took out the white paper given to them by the summer camp and handed it out.

Lao Lin turned to the question bank at the back and did not answer his question at all. Instead, he said smoothly: "P.317, questions 1-5. P.318 all. There is no need to talk about the application questions. Just finish them all today..."

"Have you finished all of them?" The children were shocked. "This is too much! We didn't have to do so many questions before."

"You have so many questions. It seems you haven't done enough." Lao Lin smiled and put down the book.

The note that Lao Lin had handed over earlier had already been passed down one by one, and the children started shouting again: "Do I want to get this score? I've never scored above 90 before."

"It's okay. It won't be a big problem if I do more."

“Do we have to do a lot of questions?” the children asked.

"How about this? Can one's grades improve rapidly just by telekinesis?"

"Yes, it depends on our efforts." An Beibei shouted.

"No." Lao Lin smiled, "Of course it depends on me."

Lin Chaoxi felt that her father was still her father, and he hadn't changed at all...

Just when she was about to say something, she suddenly heard Lao Lin speak slowly.

"Maybe he will become his father. What will it mean if my daughter is driven away?" said Lao Lin.