For a moment, I felt a little wronged.
Why? We're classmates, why is his test paper like this?
Although I'm not as good as him, I can still tell the difficulty level of the exam paper. Some of the knowledge is only learned in university.
Vocational school, in the end, is just a crash course.
I went to ask my teacher, because I wanted to reach his level as well.
However, I received an extremely absurd answer from the teacher.
My teacher told me that his foundation was already sufficient for the position of teacher, and he passed their exam on his very first day at the school. His special exam was actually designed to address specific needs and situations within the country.
The so-called special test paper does not mean that students are supposed to study it.
It is a test, an unusual test.
The school will be happy if he can do it. If he can't, the school doesn't care.
As long as he researches in this direction, that's fine.
The reason we didn't let him graduate was to allow him a few years to reflect and mature.
My teacher also told me not to be too fixated on comparing myself to him, because there's no comparison. With so many people in China, there's bound to be some geniuses.
The word "genius" is actually quite common.
However, only by truly being around geniuses can one understand the true meaning of genius.
I gradually felt powerless.
It's like while I'm still learning what 1+1 equals, he's already researching space shuttles...
I returned home feeling dejected.
This has been the case for several weeks in a row.
My father is very worried about me, and I don't know why or how to explain it.
Until my mother had a heart-to-heart talk with me.
Her words, "You like him," stunned me.
Do you like him?
On what grounds?
Would I like that arrogant guy?
But……
Yes, I don't know when it started, but he's all I can think about.
His indifference, his disgust, his contemplation—everything about him seemed to stir my emotions.
I'm not the kind of person who's afraid to admit whether I like someone or not; I just don't know if my feeling is right or wrong.
I decided to try a different approach to him.
Because nobody likes someone who constantly offends others, I suddenly realized that my current behavior was as childish as those boys in elementary school who would grab my braids to get my attention.
I calmed myself down and decided to try getting closer to him. I wanted to know if I really liked him, and if I did, I would pursue him.
When I calmed down and tried to approach him, I suddenly realized that he wasn't actually that difficult to approach, provided you really wanted to learn from him.
To be honest, there are too many people who want to learn things in this era.
Everyone in the class wanted to learn something.
The key question is how to learn it, and there's no definitive answer.
Even the teachers in the class have developed their own methods, or rather, most of them are self-taught. They don't really know how to teach. This leads to inconsistencies in teaching quality. But this problem doesn't seem to exist in his case.
Whenever someone in the class encounters a learning problem.
He could give a reasonable study plan just by glancing at the person's exam paper.
This is something I completely cannot understand.
As for me, who got almost a perfect score, he just told me that the exam paper was just an exam paper.
The purpose of a test is to assess one's learning outcomes. If the learning outcomes have met the standards, it means that one can begin learning new knowledge, rather than remaining complacent on the test paper.
From that moment on, I realized that his level of understanding was not that of a naive person.
His goals have always been ambitious.
From that moment on, I admit, I was moved.
I'm the kind of person who acts on impulse, so after getting to know him for a while, I decisively made my move on him.
Then he refused...
I don't understand why he refused. I'm not bad-looking, and my family is well-off. I also know about his situation. He's an orphan, which is actually a good thing for me. I really don't know how to get along with elders, and this suits me perfectly. This means that he and I are a match made in heaven. As for his future...
Honestly, even if he didn't help my family at all, I don't think he would become just another ordinary person.
Because, during his time at school, his actions became increasingly outrageous.
He often argued with a group of teachers at the school, and once, he even slammed his fist on the table so hard that people from above came over.
At school, he argued with almost every teacher.
This is the first time I've ever seen someone make a teacher so angry that their face turns red and their neck turns swollen.
The key point is that after they calmed down, this group of people continued to discuss it together the next day, and then got angry again until their faces turned red and their necks bulged.
I don't understand why this guy would reject me.
We're clearly a good match.
But he told me that we weren't a good match.
He doesn't like me; he has someone he likes.
I don't know what to say. The moment he rejected me, I realized one thing: I really fell in love with him.
Some say that what you can't have always stirs your heart, and that's probably how I feel. I wasn't convinced, so I decided to surpass him. That was my plan. But until graduation, I never truly caught the teacher's eye, let alone someone like him who could argue with professors on academic matters.
His grades are very good.
I originally thought he would join the Ministry of Industry on his own.
I know that the Ministry of Industry is short of staff, and our college has one opening that we can get into.
I also tried to stay in Beijing, thinking that way I could probably see him.
But to my utter surprise, the guy who got into the Ministry of Industry wasn't him, but Xu Jiaguo.
I didn't like Xu Jiaguo; I didn't think he was a good person. As it turns out, my intuition was right. He was incredibly honest and open with others; he was living a ridiculous life.
But... who isn't a joke?
That year, I lost him.
No, to be precise, I lost his contact information.
I don't even know where he went.
I went to the school to ask the teachers, but none of them would tell me. Even Old Huang told me not to bother him anymore, saying that I couldn't control him.
Ultimately, you can't fight city hall; even after I went to Xu Jiaguo, he wouldn't tell me.
I could only go where I was supposed to go. And that trip lasted for two years.
I thought I would most likely forget him, then meet someone better, and finally marry that person and live a happy and healthy life together.
This is what my father told me, and I believe it too.
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