Establish study group
Jin Can passed the vocabulary quiz without any major incidents, and the plot rewind was not triggered.
"Where do you think you're going!"
As Jin Can began reciting the words from memory, he suddenly felt as if all the words had come to life, and they shouted in unison:
"We're here to test your loyalty! Your loyalty to memory!"
"Have you forgotten that I have two 'r's? I'm ashamed of you!"
"I've had enough! You always confuse the positions of my 'a' and 'e'!"
Jin Can countered one by one, searching through his mind for word roots, affixes, associative memories, and mnemonics... like a ruthless killer, each move a fatal blow.
bite--!
[System: Mission complete! Reward: Brainpower +10!]
[Hahaha, I understand the significance of this moment!]
You're all good students! I used to just write cheat sheets on my desk with a pencil!
Jin Can didn't want to pay attention to these meaningless comments anymore.
Hilarious! Back then, Jin Can was a top student who was admitted to the city's second-best high school with honors!
Memorizing vocabulary is easy; if you put in the effort and pay attention, you can definitely do it well!
Of course, half of it was due to the system's pressure, and the other half... I also have to thank Shi Yanxi.
Even when forced into this situation, Jin Can didn't lose focus and listened attentively to the entire English lesson.
Their homeroom teacher, Ms. Yang, was also their English teacher. During the second half of the class, she was analyzing the questions on their homework and tests. Jin Can looked down at her numerous mistakes—
All ten multiple-choice questions were answered incorrectly.
In the reading comprehension section, only one question was answered correctly.
[This is outrageous! You could probably get more correct answers by selecting C for all of them!]
[It's obvious this homework was done diligently! They racked their brains to avoid all the correct answers!]
Jin Can's confidence was instantly shattered.
Vocabulary quizzes only require rote memorization, but for serious exams, you have to be in the top ten to continue the story... Does that mean she'll be stuck in this high school forever, taking exams every day?
Help!
She had read novels of this genre before, some about how characters circumvent the rules with their brains, others about how they outsmart everyone else... but she knew she wasn't one of those exceptionally gifted protagonists.
Okay, let's try the simplest method first.
Study honestly, diligently, and assiduously!
Just then, a strange, pinned comment suddenly appeared:
[Reading comprehension question 60 is an information matching question. You need to go back to the original text to find the answer. Based on the location information, A and D haven't appeared in the original text, so eliminate them first; C is an antonymous distractor, so the correct answer is B.]
Jin Can scratched his short, boyish hair, looked down at his chosen option C, and sighed helplessly.
Science Popularizer, please accept my bow!
The comment section immediately exploded with messages like, "The science popularizer is awesome!" and "The science popularizer is great!"
Jin Can discovered that although he couldn't turn off the barrage of comments in his mind, he could actually send his own.
So she said:
"I can eliminate A and D, but I just don't understand C. I chose it because I saw this sentence."
Soon, a comment with a tone exactly like that of a science communicator floated by:
[Let's start by memorizing vocabulary. Make a vocabulary list of the new words from the original text and review it every day. The vocabulary for high school English is limited; the passages in the past exams won't exceed this range. Vocabulary is like bricks; if the bricks are solid, the foundation will be stable.]
Immediately afterwards, a red pinned comment appeared:
I won't help you with the exam, don't even think about it!
Jin Can thought this made a lot of sense and secretly decided: I'll skip watching anime and reading novels tonight and focus on mastering the vocabulary!
She was quite confident in her memory, and with the 10 points of brainpower she had just added, the effect would only be even better!
In a daze, she recalled that unbelievable dream of the harem from last night—
The haughty young lady—no, it was Shi Yanxi—held Ge Ouchen's left hand, saying, "You...you don't misunderstand, I just happened to be there..."
Chao Ningning tugged at his right hand: "Cheer up! If you're like this, there's really nothing we can do!"
Zhou Yu stood behind him, holding a book, looking anxious and her face flushed.
She herself was like an observer, watching her childhood friend "Dog Brother" being surrounded by three "harem" members. She was both angry and sad, feeling as if she were far away from them, and was so anxious that she was about to cry.
Suddenly, she remembered that Dog Brother had always been the top student in his grade.
If my grades don't change, then I can only watch his back as he tries to get into Tsinghua or Peking University, and we can never be in the same class again.
Although she was young and didn't quite understand "love" or "affection," she knew that the days she spent laughing with Dog Brother were very happy.
She cherishes it and doesn't want to change it.
Regardless of what happened to those three transfer students, she had to deal with the immediate problem first.
A few days later, there will be a math quiz in class.
She does fairly well in math, but to get into the top ten in her grade, she needs to get all the basic questions right on the test and also be wary of any questions that suddenly come up that are beyond the syllabus.
—The road ahead is long and arduous.
After class, perhaps feeling overwhelmed by these chaotic thoughts, Jin Can slumped onto the table, listless.
Ge Ouchen is here again:
"You spent all afternoon memorizing vocabulary, did you not manage to memorize it all? Your golden head can't be that bad, can it?"
"Oh, no. I'm thinking about my study plan for tonight. I'll go through the vocabulary on this English test first. My math test is coming up soon, what should I do?"
Ge Ouchen seemed surprised by her idea and cautiously asked, "Why did you suddenly start learning?"
Lin Xiaoxiao immediately defended her: "Don't say that about Cancan. Cancan is very serious about her studies!"
Jin Can was too lazy to explain his "Empress System" anymore, lest he be teased by the academic genius again.
"I'm good at math! It's fate that we met, you can ask me questions!"
Jin Can turned his head and saw Chao Ningning's voice:
"Competition problems are fine too! They can't stump me!"
Upon hearing this, even Ge Ouchen looked up at her.
"Campus heartthrob! I heard you're a good student too? How about we have a little competition later?"
Ge Ouchen looked at her for a few seconds, then suddenly said, "Okay, stay after school and wait for me."
Lin Xiaoxiao and Jin Can were both stunned, and Zhou Yu and Shi Yanxi were also drawn to the attention.
Shi Yanxi whispered, "So he likes smart people... I get it."
Zhou Yu also turned her head and looked at Ge Ouchen thoughtfully.
"Brother Gou, you can't get cocky just because you helped the class get revenge!" Lin Xiaoxiao said.
Jin Can felt a little wronged: What is all this?
I was thinking of studying hard for him and for myself...
【Oh My God? ? 】
[This...isn't this odd? Is it really turning into a harem anime?]
There might be a reversal! Let's wait and see!
Ge Ouchen simply mouthed to Jin Can, "Wait for me after school."
——
It was 4:30 PM, the end of school for the second-year high school students. The setting sun cast its light so bright it was blinding.
"Come on, school heartthrob, what do you want to compete in?"
Ge Ouchen refused the boys' repeated invitations to play basketball. A group of six—one boy and five girls—gathered around Jin Can and Lin Xiaoxiao's desk, each with a different expression, as if watching a show.
Lin Xiaoxiao is the only boarding student, and she has evening self-study sessions starting at 6 PM.
Jin Can and Ge Ouchen live in the same neighborhood outside the same intersection. She usually walks to school, and occasionally when she runs into Gou Ge, she rides on the back of his bicycle. After school, they almost always go home together: when Gou Ge goes to play basketball, she stays in the classroom, secretly takes out her phone to watch cartoons, and does some homework on the side; when Gou Ge doesn't play basketball, the two of them go to Jin Can's house together, watch cartoons, and do some homework together.
To put it bluntly, Jin Can wanted to copy Ge Ouchen's work, but Ge Ouchen refused to let him. After all that back and forth, the homework was barely touched.
Yesterday was an exception. The new anime that Jin Can had been waiting for for a long time finally released its second season's first episode, a special version that lasted a whole hour. All she could think about was getting home as soon as possible so she could stay home and watch it to her heart's content.
Ge Ouchen's parents are middle managers in a company and are often away from home for dinner. So he often plays with Jin Can until six or seven o'clock and then goes home after having dinner at Jin Can's house.
Jin Can's mother is a part-time housewife who works as a freelance designer. She loves to cook and is an excellent cook, often bringing him groceries home. Jin Can's father is even busier, so he rarely has time to look after Jin Can, but he doesn't smoke, drinks little, and has a good temper. His mother says that when his father was young, he played basketball just as well as Gou Ge (his brother), and now he loves playing tennis. When he doesn't have a partner, he can even get Gou Ge to play with him.
Ge Ouchen pulled up a chair and sat down next to Jin Can: "Take out your math workbook."
Jin Can handed it over, completely bewildered, and saw him begin to flip through it.
"It's better than I expected... You usually do these kinds of questions, so why are your scores so inconsistent on the exam?"
"Wait... how do you know so much about my grades?"
"That's right. Normally, there's no time limit, so I can do it slowly. But during exams, there's a time limit, and I'm slow, so when I'm in a rush, I write things down randomly, and sometimes... I accidentally mess it up. It's the same with physics and chemistry; I understand the principles, but I'm slow at calculating."
“You… call that ‘occasionally’?” Ge Ouchen rubbed his forehead.
"Hey! Top student! How exactly do you gesture?" Chao Ningning urged.
"I'm still not proficient enough. I need to increase the number of practice questions so that I can immediately recognize the key points and solutions when I see a question."
Ge Ouchen raised his head, looked at Chao Ningning, and said in a serious tone:
"Let's do it this way: you take charge of math, and I'll take charge of physics. Whoever helps her improve her score faster in that subject wins!"
Everyone's expression: Are you kidding me?
Jin Can's mind was filled with question marks.
[Such an uplifting storyline! I'm actually fired up!]
[Don't tell me, isn't this more exciting than XX?]
"Brother Gou, what did I do to you? You're a popular figure at school now. Just because you get good grades, does that mean I'm dragging you down?" Jin Can finally couldn't hold back his anger and shouted. His eyes welled up with tears, which seemed about to fall at any moment.
"Huh? I thought you finally realized your laziness and were ready to get serious."
Ge Ouchen looked back at Jin Can, gently wiped her eyes with his hand, his expression unchanged, and explained in a serious tone:
"Completely refusing to study and having fun is a kind of carefree attitude. But if you only study occasionally with a bit of interest and end up with a mediocre grade... then you can only live a mediocre life."
"The principle is universal. It's just that we are still students, and right now all we can talk about is studying, which is our duty."
"I thought you were feeling down because you saw how I was being praised at school today for playing basketball so well, and that you suddenly saw through all these things."
Jin Can had never seen Dog Brother talk so much at once, especially on such a serious and somewhat heavy topic.
“That makes sense.” Zhou Yu said calmly, turned around and started packing her cloth bag and schoolbag, then walked away on her own.
Lin Xiaoxiao asked timidly, "So... do we have a study group now? Can I ask you questions?"
Chao Ningning paused for a moment, then rolled up her sleeves: "Oh! Of course! Come on, study group!"
She took Jin Can's workbook and said, "Let me see your past mistakes."
Ge Ouchen also took out her physics workbook and began to study it.
Shi Yanxi pouted: "I don't need tutoring!"
"You don't have any books, go home, classmate," Ge Ouchen added casually.
Shi Yanxi wasn't angry. She packed her schoolbag and prepared to leave.
Jin Can called out to her, "Um... Shi Yanxi, thank you for what happened at noon."
Shi Yanxi just smiled, waved her hand, and left.
The setting sun shone on everyone's faces, and also brought out a slight smile to Ge Ouchen's lips.
Jin Can suddenly remembered what he had just said, and her heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason.
She blushed, lowered her head, and pretended to be nonchalant as she opened her notebook and began to do her homework.
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