Chapter 30 He was born to shine.
[Note: The competition process contains some custom settings and differs from reality. This is not a bug; please treat it as a parallel universe~]
The days of studying from dawn till dusk seem to pass by very repeatedly.
"Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday..."
During her morning reading, Shi Miao yawned several times and then simply lay down on the table, counting on her fingers, "Today is Friday."
The kitten, overwhelmed by studying, solemnly announced...
"I should start resting on Friday."
Study for four days, rest for three days, starting with cats!
She happily gave herself a break, resting her chin on her arm and staring blankly out the window at the corridor.
The sky was bright, and the ginkgo trees planted in front of the teaching building hadn't yet turned yellow. A little bird was hopping and skipping on a branch.
A serious, square face suddenly came into view.
Reid held a roll of test papers in his hand, his thick, dark eyebrows furrowed, and he nodded vaguely at Shi Miao.
Shi Miao: "..."
The kitten sat up straight in a flash.
I couldn't help but steal a glance.
Niu Chongtian emerged from behind Reid. The two talked as they walked towards the front door, pushed it open, and waved to a few people amidst the sudden, loud sound of morning reading.
Zou Yuanyuan put down her vocabulary list, turned to Shi Miao, and whispered, "Miao Miao, I'm not having breakfast with you guys today."
Shi Miao: "Okay."
She watched blankly as Zou Yuanyuan stood up, a flash of blue and white in her peripheral vision, and she subconsciously turned around.
Jiang Yingxu hooked his long, slender, pale fingers onto the chair, casually tossed it over his shoulder, and pushed the chair back under the desk.
He could have simply gone out the back door.
But for some reason, her long eyelashes were slightly lowered, and she walked forward with a natural expression.
Shi Miao was used to being a cat, and often pawed at and licked Jiang Yingxu. Without thinking, she reached out and grabbed his sleeve.
It was only when my fingertips touched the slightly rough fabric of the school uniform that I suddenly realized what it was.
She is now Shi Miao.
Lajiang Yingxu will be left behind.
Just as Shi Miao was about to let go, Jiang Yingxu stopped.
He let her pull him along.
The boy lowered his eyes, meeting her round, curious cat-like eyes, and asked patiently in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Shi Miao was taken aback for a moment, then subconsciously asked, "What are you going to do?"
"Competition class begins."
Jiang Yingxu explained, "From now on, I will go to Mingde Building every Friday and Saturday, for the whole day."
Seeing that the other three had already reached their teacher's side, Shi Miao didn't want to delay Jiang Yingxu any longer, so she let go of his hand and watched him walk out the front door.
The four students from Class One followed behind the two teachers.
The other two were both math competition students and were quite familiar with Zou Yuanyuan, so they naturally walked together and started talking.
Jiang Yingxu walked at the very back with a calm expression.
The kitten diligently applies medicine to him every day, and the abrasions on his nose have faded to the point of being invisible, while the wounds on the back of his hands have scabbed over.
The sunlight outlined his handsome features, and his whole demeanor exuded a cold and aloof air.
He seemed to have drawn a clear line between himself and others.
The next second, the boy in front suddenly turned around and shouted loudly, "Jiang Yingxu, what method did you use to solve the last problem in your math homework yesterday...?"
The other two also slowed down and turned to look.
Jiang Yingxu hesitated for a moment, then quietly explained his thoughts.
As I spoke, I found myself surrounded by people in the center.
The presence of the cat acted as a buffer in the conversation, softening Jiang Yingxu's overly stern demeanor.
Then Xia Hui took the lead and went to ask Jiang Yingxu questions.
Although the group was not familiar with each other, they genuinely wanted to get along well with Jiang Yingxu.
Shi Miao's gaze followed his retreating figure, and she couldn't help but curl her lips into a smile, her cat-like eyes filled with bright starlight.
Yes, that's how it should be.
How could Jiang Yingxu be all alone?
He was born to be the center of attention, to shine brightly.
Shi Miao only looked away when Jiang Yingxu's figure was no longer in sight.
He turned his head.
Deng Yi, clutching the vocabulary list, crossed the aisle, pulled out the chair for Zou Yuanyuan, and plopped down in it.
"Let's go to the cafeteria together later."
Deng Yi said, "The finals are in a little over a month. Yuan Yuan and the others have gone to a separate competition class. We'll only see her a few times in the next few weeks, depending on luck."
Shi Miao asked, somewhat puzzled, "Why?"
She gestured vaguely towards the area behind her.
"Jiang Yingxu told me that it's only on Friday and Saturday."
Deng Yi shrugged. "Only him."
Seeing that Shi Miao was confused, Deng Yi casually picked up a piece of draft paper, drew a straight line on it, and filled in four round dots.
"The competition is divided into preliminary rounds, semi-finals, finals, and then the international competition."
"When the results of the semi-finals came out this month, out of the five competitions, about forty students from our school won first prize in the province, and only eighteen of them made it into the provincial team."
"These 18 people will participate in the finals of their respective disciplines in November. The top 50 in the finals will be selected to enter the national training team, and they will usually go to Peking University and Qingdao University to participate in winter camps in the winter."
"Then next May, the top five will be selected from the fifty to join the national Olympic team, and the sixth to thirteenth will join the Asian Olympic team. Only these thirteen people will have guaranteed admission spots."
Deng Yi drew a circle on the last thirteen stick figures.
"There are only thirteen guaranteed admission spots. The rest of us are basically aiming for the gold, silver, or bronze medals in the finals, and then trying to get into the special admission classes of prestigious universities, where we can get extra points on the written exam."
"The competition mechanism is actually quite cruel. If you don't win a medal in the finals, you can only come back and take the college entrance examination. So, after the competition class started, they basically stayed in Mingde Building for 18 hours a day, six days a week."
It's not that no one wants to do both: attend competition classes to try and secure a place in a university, while also reviewing for the college entrance exam to avoid panicking if they don't win any medals.
No. 1 Middle School does not force students to choose one of the two options.
But the problem is...
Deng Yi spread his hands, "Both competitions and the college entrance examination require your full attention. If you try to do both, you will basically end up not getting any good results from either."
"After being taught a harsh lesson by the declining grades on both sides, I was scolded by the teacher and slunk away, focusing solely on one thing."
Basically, something unexpected happened.
The chubby boy in front of me, holding his textbook upright, turned around and joined the conversation.
"But we have two geniuses in our grade who can maintain their performance in competitions while also keeping their grades in daily exams stable."
"Guess who it is?"
Shi Miao: "..."
It's so hard to guess who those two people are! (Reading in a monotone)
Across the aisle, Ren Ze leaned forward dramatically, and Ultraman raised his hand impatiently, "Fatty teacher, I know, call on me to answer."
I was just kidding, I won't say it even without pointing it out.
Ren Ze: "Zou Yuanyuan and Jiang Yingxu, two academic geniuses, are terrifyingly talented!"
Little Fatty squinted his small eyes behind his glasses and sighed, "But Jiang Yingxu is still better. After all, he's a god who skips classes to work every now and then and still doesn't drop his grades at all."
The competition class rarely allows students to take leave.
Except for Jiang Yingxu.
Therefore, Jiang Yingxu dares to say that he only needs to study on Friday and Saturday, while others basically give up their daily classes to focus on preparing for the competition.
Ren Ze gossiped, "I heard that another genius like this has emerged. It's that rich young master in the second year of high school who is pursuing math competitions, but he always ranks first in his grade in monthly and final exams."
"Damn, what kind of brain do you have? Can I have some of it?"
Shi Miao was bombarded with a lecture on competition knowledge, and struggled to make sense of it all while feeling dizzy.
Her eyes widened, and upon hearing this, she nodded in deep agreement.
The kitten, who is currently learning junior high school math, has a profound understanding of what it means to bend down to pick up a pen and then look up again to find that it can't understand anything.
Mathematics is a very magical and elusive thing.
If you don't know math, you really don't know it.
Shi Miao couldn't help but say to the system, "[Is only the protagonist capable of having such a brain? Even a cat wants one!]"
I support giving the cat the same treatment as the main character!
The system genuinely wondered: "Is it that difficult?"
An intelligent being with a question bank and the ability to get 100% correct would not understand a kitten scratching its head over a math problem.
Shi Miao: [。]
Shi Miao: [Okay, that would be impolite QwQ]
As they were talking, Deng Yi and Xiao Pang Ren Ze had already shifted their topic to how many national competition medals No. 1 Middle School could win this year.
"Information...biology...chemistry..."
"As for math, Yuan Yuan should be pretty solid, with a silver medal as a minimum, and there's also Pang Yibo from Class 3... I remember Yan Zhaozhou from the second year of high school also had very good grades, his family is rich, and he gets professional one-on-one tutoring."
The three of them knew the results of the competition class like the back of their hand.
Little Fatty: "And then there's physics. Jiang Yingxu goes without saying, he's guaranteed a gold medal. The only question is whether he can make it into the national team."
Ren Ze: "That's the reputation of Jiang Shen!"
Ren Ze even put his hands together and bowed in a seemingly respectful manner.
"May Jiang Shen make it into the national team and win the gold medal in the international competition, giving a resounding slap to those lowlifes who spread rumors!"
His voice was a bit loud.
A boy from the next group, who was of average appearance and had a few red pimples on his face, heard this and glared at him fiercely.
Ren Ze rolled his eyes and went back.
"Cai Wenguang is really shameless. He lost face in the group chat, but he can continue to go to school as if nothing happened."
"He also colluded with a few like-minded people to slander Jiang Yingxu's competition results, saying that he didn't make it into the national training team the first two times because he had no talent."
"My God, those people probably can't even answer the competition questions."
Deng Yi: "They're scared of being scolded by us, so they only dare to huddle together like cockroaches in private."
They chatted and laughed, showing no doubt about Jiang Yingxu's achievements and placing complete trust in him.
Shi Miao held the plastic pendant hanging from the ballpoint pen, her thick eyelashes drooping, and her cheeks slightly puffed out.
She actually knew the results of the final.
The original book is written very clearly.
Jiang Yingxu, Zou Yuanyuan, and Yan Zhaozhou all won gold medals in the finals and were selected for the national training team.
During this time, the male and female protagonists, as teammates and rivals, also develop unusual feelings for each other.
They will join forces to stand on the international stage of mathematics competitions, win international gold medals, and gain admission to top universities.
Then have an incredibly sweet romance in college.
As for Jiang Yingxu.
哢.
Unconsciously, Shi Miao used her fingertips to pull the pendant off.
The round, plump little star rolled down onto the table and tumbled twice.
Its plump, transparent body revealed red pen marks underneath, resembling a pool of hazy blood.
Jiang Yingxu.
He was unable to appear on the international stage, nor did he take the college entrance examination that year.
When he reappeared, he had already been recognized as the young master of the Yan family, and with the Yan family's financial support, he had obtained the qualification to enter Peking University.
Just like his identity.
It was something that should have belonged to him.
However, it always seems somewhat illegitimate and improper.
"..."
Deng Yi suddenly nudged Shi Miao with his elbow.
"Miaomiao, how many gold medals do you think Jiang Yingxu will win?"
Shi Miao slowly came to her senses, her eyelashes fluttered, and she met the relaxed smiles of the group. She curled her lips and made a "3" gesture without hesitation.
His tone was exceptionally assertive.
Three pieces!
Deng Yi gasped, "Gold medal in the finals, gold medals in the individual and team events in the international competition... Miaomiao, you really have high hopes for Jiang Yingxu."
"Um."
Shi Miao smiled sweetly, her eyes sparkling, unwavering in the slightest.
There was a firmness hidden in her voice that only she knew.
"Jiang Yingxu will definitely achieve his glory."
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