She wanted to surpass Zhang Jiye.
During Chinese class, many students were listless, dozing off, and yawning.
The math teacher shook his head helplessly and said to them, "Why are you kids already sleepy on the second day of school? Think about it, you only have one year left before you go to high school. If you're sleepy in class, what if you fail the high school entrance exam? So, you need to pull yourselves together now."
The students perked up immediately upon hearing this.
The math teacher was pleased and then said, "I have some good news for you."
Cheng Junming, who was behind the teacher, perked up and said with a grin, "Teacher, what's the good news? Is it going to be a sports meet?"
The math teacher shook his head and said to them, "The exam is next Tuesday."
Upon hearing this, the students all sighed.
The math teacher said to them, "Why do you kids get so down as soon as you hear about exams? You need to treat exams like a game, and that's how you'll be more motivated to study."
The whole class fell silent.
The math teacher set a goal for them: "Our class is the best in the whole grade, so we must be number one in the whole grade in this exam."
Cheng Junming called out from behind, "Teacher, we got first place in the whole grade! What's our reward?"
The math teacher smiled and said, "I'll show you a movie this afternoon."
"Long live the math teacher! Long live the math teacher!"
"Math teacher, I will follow you for the rest of my life!"
"Math teacher, I am your most loyal student!"
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There are many more to say.
Xu Chuwan didn't care much about these things and continued to think about the math olympiad problem.
At this moment, Zhang Jiye leaned closer, looked at the math problem, and said, "You don't know how to do this problem? I'll teach you."
Xu Chuwan was about to refuse, but Zhang Jiye started to explain. After he finished, Zhang Jiye said, "This question is quite difficult. It's normal that you can't do it. You can ask me next time you don't know how to do a question."
For some reason, when Xu Chuwan saw Zhang Jiye's smiling face, she swallowed the words of refusal that were on the tip of her tongue.
She stopped worrying about everything else and continued working on her problems.
Time flies, and before we knew it, it was exam day.
Xu Chuwan got up early, washed up, and sat on her bed in the dormitory to read books, review vocabulary, and look at her collection of wrong questions. When she felt she had reviewed enough, she went to the examination room twenty minutes before the exam.
After arriving at the examination hall, she still took out her collection of wrong questions and reviewed it.
She was sitting in the third row. When she got to her seat, the person next to her hadn't arrived yet, so she didn't know who was sitting next to her.
A few minutes later, she suddenly felt as if someone was next to her.
She turned her head and met Zhang Jiye's smiling face. Zhang Jiye said with a grin, "Classmate, what a coincidence, you're sitting here too."
Xu Chuwan gave a perfunctory "hmm".
Seeing that Zhang Jiye next to her hadn't taken out his books to review, she couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you going to review?"
She regretted saying that as soon as she finished speaking. Why did she have to meddle in his affairs? What did it matter to her whether he studied or not?
Xu Chuwan, you really love meddling in other people's business.
Zhang Jiye shrugged and said, "I don't think there's any difference between reviewing and reading books normally."
Xu Chuwan turned her head back to continue reading. Zhang Jiye said to her, "Xu Chuwan, I think you are a very hardworking person."
Although Zhang Jiyue had only known her for a week, he felt that she was a very hardworking person. However, she was also a bit introverted.
Unlike him.
You don't need to work hard at all; you can easily get first place just by being naturally smart.
The first exam began. The invigilator distributed exam papers and answer sheets, saying, "No copying from others is allowed. Anyone who does will receive a zero."
Xu Chuwan began to write.
One hundred and fifty minutes later, the exam ended.
Zhang Jiye ignored the friends who came to compare answers with him and turned to Xu Chuwan to compare answers in a very casual manner.
After finishing one exam after another, Shen Yan and Xu Chuwan were in the same exam room. Shen Yan put her arms around Xu Chuwan's neck and said, "Chuanwan, baby, we're finally done with the exams. How do you think you did?"
Xu Chuwan thought for a moment and said, "It should be alright. What do you think of yourself?"
Shen Yan said, "I hope I can get into the top 100 in my grade."
The next day in class, the math teacher walked into the classroom with a smile and said, "Only a few students in our class did not rank in the top 150 of the whole grade. Those students know their own limitations, so I won't call them out."
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The math teacher excitedly said, "I know that our class's top scorer in the whole grade is amazing, but I didn't expect it to be this amazing."
The students didn't understand what their math teacher meant.
The math teacher began, "The top two students in the grade both came from our class. So, they're from our class..."
Cheng Junming interrupted the math teacher, saying, "Teacher, my brother Zhang is definitely on the list. And my brother Zhang will definitely be number one!"
The math teacher nodded and continued, "The second one is our classmate—Xu Chuwan. Look at those two, they're deskmates and both got first and second place in the whole grade. And Xu Chuwan is a transfer student, yet she still ranks second in the grade."
Xu Chuwan didn't even look up, as if she were talking about someone else, not herself.
She lowered her head to write math problems, thinking to herself: I really want to surpass Zhang Jiye.
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