Chapter 18
Ever since that basketball game, time seemed to have accelerated, and Lin Jiu's first year of high school passed by in the blink of an eye.
All efforts pay off.
Although Lin Jiu's academic performance did not improve much in the first semester of his freshman year, he could only occasionally break into the top 30 in the class.
But she gained more confidence, found her own learning rhythm, and persevered.
During the winter vacation, she maintained her daily schedule at school. After finishing her winter vacation homework, she would do various exercise books she bought at the bookstore and practice various test papers.
After school started, in the second semester of her senior year, her monthly exam scores were finally able to consistently rank around 20th in the class.
It's almost the end of the next semester.
Yuan Hui announced during a self-study class that students would be required to choose between arts and science majors, and gave them a form to fill out.
After getting the form, Lin Jiu only took two minutes to finish it.
She chose science without any hesitation.
In fact, she had already made up her mind after the results of the first monthly exam of her freshman year of high school came out. So, the exercises she bought were all in math, physics, chemistry, and biology.
She chose science not because she particularly liked it, but simply because it was popular. Science accounts for the vast majority of mainstream subject choices.
Moreover, she was not particularly fond of liberal arts, so she decided to study science.
Lin Jiu calmly glanced at the subject report form, finding nothing wrong. She then set it aside and began working on the assignments as usual. On the deadline, she turned it in with the other students.
Lin Jiu had a premonition that many students would probably leave after this division of subjects.
As far as she knew, there were two students in their dormitory who chose liberal arts, one was Zheng Ying and the other was Zhou Kexin.
She didn't know why Zheng Ying chose the liberal arts major, but she could guess why Zhou Kexin chose the liberal arts major.
Zhou Kexin's performance in liberal arts is very good, much better than in science. Choosing subjects that she is good at is undoubtedly a wise choice.
Parting is always sad, and Tang Yue and Zhou Qing cherished the days when Zhou Kexin was still in their class. They spent the rest of their time together, doing everything together, even going to the bathroom together.
Sitting in his seat, Lin Jiu looked at the backs of Tang Yue and the other two holding hands, feeling a little emotional, thinking that time passed too quickly.
However, after expressing her feelings, she picked up the pen again and occasionally wrote and drew on the draft paper.
As the holidays approached, she could always hear her classmates discussing their summer vacation plans.
Some were excited, making travel plans and planning a trip out first. Some were gloomy, complaining about having to go to training classes. Still others planned to combine work and rest, playing first and studying later.
Summer vacation is very long and you can do a lot of things in two months.
After thinking for a while, she decided to focus on physics, chemistry and biology during the summer vacation, followed by mathematics and English, and then Chinese.
Later, she took some time to go to the "Manfen Bookstore", bought six exercise books, and then selected several sets of test papers.
She plans to consolidate the key and difficult content of the first year of high school, and self-study some of the content of the second year of high school, and then do some questions based on the test paper.
During the summer vacation, Lin Jiu never left the village. The farthest place she had been to was no more than twenty meters away from her home. Her life was simple and boring.
After dinner, she usually went straight back to her room, sat at her desk and studied hard.
Of course, people are always lazy.
If she encounters a difficult problem and is unable to think of an answer for a long time and starts to get impatient, she will find something to do and waste half an hour.
For example, cleaning the room, looking at the scenery outside the house, and chatting with her grandmother.
After calming down, she forced herself to sit down at the table and work on the problem again until she understood it.
And just like that, her summer vacation passed quickly.
After the start of the second year of high school, there were some new faces in the class and the learning atmosphere became more serious, completely different from the lazy atmosphere of the first year of high school.
There are fewer topics for small talk, but more people are discussing the subject.
In such an atmosphere, Lin Jiu gradually adapted from being uncomfortable.
Plus, she felt the pressure.
She was afraid that her efforts would be in vain and she would not be able to improve her ranking any further.
Later, she discovered that she did have some skills.
When others are starting to take it seriously, her ranking can still be improved.
This result gave her great confidence and made her study more motivated.
Although Lin Jiu saw his own progress, he still didn't dare to relax.
If she relaxes, she may be overtaken by others.
She had no choice but to bite the bullet, put in all her energy, and keep herself busy studying.
In the second semester of his senior year, Lin Jiu ranked eighth in the class in his second monthly exam.
Looking at the results posted on the wall, she curled the corners of her lips slightly and was in a good mood.
This is the third time she has entered the top ten since she entered her second year of high school, and her performance is relatively stable.
She is very satisfied with her current results.
She believed that if she tried harder, she would have no problem being in the top five in the class.
Being in the top five of the class may not sound like much at first glance, but it is actually quite difficult for her.
Ji Xin and Meng Qinyang consistently rank in the top two in their class, and also in the top two in the entire school.
Third place, Wang Jingyi, her former deskmate, is among the top ten in the school.
From fourth to fifth place, they are basically stable in the top thirty.
There are 983 students in this class of No. 4 Middle School, and the top five in Lin Jiu's class are of good quality.
Compared with the school ranking, Lin Jiu pays more attention to the class ranking.
Their class has many more top students than other classes. As long as she can make it into the top five in the class, her ranking in the whole school will not be too bad.
After looking at the results with satisfaction, Lin Jiu turned around and prepared to return to his seat.
As soon as she turned around, she saw Chen Miao, who had returned to the classroom at some point. He was standing in the aisle not far from her, leaning against the table and looking at her.
Every time Lin Jiu checked the results, he would finish lunch first.
Today, when she was checking her grades, her classmates had not returned from lunch yet and there was almost no one in the classroom.
Chen Miao suddenly appeared, and... Meng Qinyang, who always appeared with him, disappeared?!
Although he was confused, Lin Jiu did not show it on his face and looked normal.
After the two looked at each other for a few seconds, she calmly looked away and walked straight to her seat.
During the two years of high school, she and Chen Miao had looked at each other countless times, and each time they looked at each other for some inexplicable reason.
After so many times, she has become a little immune to it...from the initial pounding heart to the calmness now.
At first, she thought about it for a while.
She had doubted whether Chen Miao liked her.
Because he always wandered around her sight casually, and always looked at her very naturally.
However, the strange thing was that every time Chen Miao looked at her, he was very frank, as if he had no other thoughts. And... he basically never spoke to her in front of the classmates. In the eyes of the classmates, they were like two parallel lines that did not intersect, and they were not familiar with each other at all.
You can't hide your love for someone. However, if others don't see any signs of it, then that means there really isn't any.
Lin Jiu thought that maybe he was too narcissistic and thought too much.
Moreover, she was very anxious during that time, constantly thinking about how to improve her grades, and had no time to guess. So she simply assumed that Chen Miao had no interest in her and did not like her.
However, Chen Miao's appearance did satisfy her. Usually, whenever he looked at her, she would glance back. Looking at a handsome guy always made one feel better, and it was a great way to relieve the stress of studying.
During my second year of high school, I changed seats countless times.
This time, her seat was a little further from the front door. It was in the middle, next to the window, with a view of the pristine hills behind the teaching building and the basketball court in the distance.
As soon as she walked onto the podium, she heard Chen Miao say, "This time the results are good."
She paused, glanced sideways at Chen Miao, and after confirming that he was talking to her, she replied very modestly: "It's just average, I still need to work harder."
Then, she saw Chen Miao tilt his head slightly, revealing his smooth neck, his Adam's apple moved slightly, and the smile on the corner of his mouth gradually deepened.
“…”
Although he looks good when he smiles, Lin Jiu really wants to complain that his sense of humor is too low.
After admiring it silently for a few seconds, she turned around and went back to her seat.
Fortunately, Chen Miao didn't stop talking to her after he finished laughing.
That was exactly what she wanted. She still had math problems to do at noon and had no time to deal with him.
Just a few seconds after she returned to her seat, Meng Qinyang came into the classroom and shouted at Chen Miao, "What are you doing standing in the aisle?"
After watching Lin Jiu take his seat, Chen Miao stood up straight in the aisle. Just as he was about to return to his seat, Meng Qinyang walked in.
He suppressed his smile, regained his usual nonchalant demeanor, and lied without batting an eyelid, "I just took a look at your grades."
“…?!”
When Meng Qinyang heard the results, his face instantly turned sour.
As long as Ji Xin was around, he was always second. Whenever the results came out, he would get so nervous he'd rarely go outside the front door, lest he accidentally glance at that unlucky ranking list.
This time after he went to the toilet, he deliberately went in through the back door because he didn't want to remember his grades.
As a result, Chen Miao actually went to see his results...
This sentence was so devastating that Meng Qinyang instantly lost the desire to speak again.
He sat down directly on the seat, crossed his hands on the table, buried his face on them, closed his eyes and immediately began to enter autistic mode.
Chen Miao walked over and sat down next to Meng Qinyang, raised his eyebrows and glanced at the back of his head, then took out the book and began to read quietly.
A few minutes later, some people entered the classroom one after another, and the silence was broken.
A few days after the results were released, Yuan Hui rearranged the seats, and basically everyone had a new deskmate, except Chen Miao and Meng Qinyang.
The two of them were regular tablemates, and their seats had never changed. Moreover, this time they didn't have to move, and they were still in the last row by the back door.
After checking the seats, Meng Qinyang stepped down and briefly explained the situation to Chen Miao, then went to the corridor with Chen Miao. After all, the two of them didn't have much to do, so they didn't want to take up space in the classroom.
Lin Jiu waited until there were fewer people around before going to the podium to look for seats.
Looking at her seat, she didn't know how to describe her feelings. This seat was simply amazing...
Suddenly, a pleasant voice suddenly rang in her ears: "Classmate, what's wrong?"
Looking at the person who came, a very beautiful smiling face appeared beside me.
She was wearing an ordinary winter school uniform with a high ponytail, but with her bright face, she had a unique charm.
It's Wenmin.
That's right.
Wen Min is her new deskmate.
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