"Sui Han, your grades... were you sick during the two days of the exam?" Shen Qingmang pointed at the report card with a worried look on his face.
The top student who had always been in the top five of his grade suddenly fell out of the top 200, and his city ranking was even worse. She initially thought the results had been recorded incorrectly, so she pulled out Gu Suihan's answer sheet and checked it against the standard answers. The results weren't wrong, but he had indeed gotten many questions wrong, leaving several major questions in chemistry and biology blank.
"No." Gu Suihan shook his head.
"Then what's going on? You shouldn't be able to get this score at your level. Except for Chinese, everything else is a complete failure."
"You taught me well, so of course my Chinese will be good."
"Stop praising me. I am your Chinese teacher, but also your deputy head teacher. I am not only responsible for your Chinese subject. You must answer me truthfully, Gu Suihan, you haven't been in a good state recently. What happened?" Shen Qingmang had a serious expression.
Gu Suihan admired her expression, which had become more vivid because of him, for a moment, and then said, "Actually, I... have a severe anxiety disorder."
"Ah? Anxiety disorder?" Shen Qingmang was a little surprised.
"Yeah, it's a kind of mental illness." Gu Suihan had already prepared a script for this day, and now he was telling a lie very smoothly. "Chinese was the first subject, so I was in good condition during the exam. But in the following subjects, my anxiety got worse and worse. When I encountered questions I didn't know how to answer, I had difficulty breathing. Later, I couldn't think deeply about anything. So...that's how I ended up doing."
"So that's actually the case... Have you seen a doctor? What did the doctor say?"
"The doctor told me to relax and not to overthink and take any bad things that might happen seriously."
Shen Qingmang stared at him nervously. "Are you uncomfortable with the teacher talking to you like this?"
Gu Suihan smiled at her. "No, I know the teacher is concerned about me. There's nothing to worry about."
"Then...then when do you get anxious?"
"When I'm faced with a problem, when I disagree with a friend, and...when I'm alone," Gu Suihan lowered his head. "When I'm alone, I tend to overthink things. So I tend to stare at others to distract myself."
Shen Qingmang's face showed pity. "I'm sorry, I misunderstood you before. Don't worry, don't be nervous. This disease can definitely be cured."
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