Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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It seems that we are full of confidence before every journey, but once we feel the difficulties after the start, we will regret it and want to turn back.
Yan Han was having this thought now, wondering if he was wasting his time by continuing to work so hard…especially since Teacher Oda told the class that week that the midterm exam was about to begin.
Luze High School was a good school, and competition was everywhere. Even in the midterm exams, the school attached great importance to the ranking.
In terms of time, the midterm exam should be held first, and after the exam, it would be the rematch of this competition for top students…
If he had to take care of all of them, he simply wouldn’t have that much time and energy!
Learning this thing…how should I arrange it…I really have no experience!
He wished he had an IQ like…like his deskmate.
It would probably take less than half a day to finish 30,000 questions. Even if he didn’t know the knowledge points, he wouldn’t have to deliberately understand them. Anyway, his brother had a photographic memory and could remember all the details of a question…
Thinking about it this way, it was a pity that Lin Jianlu didn’t participate in this event.
….
Forcing himself to stay calm in the darkness, Yan Han pressed the remaining cigarette butt against the dilapidated earth wall and extinguished it using traditional physical methods.
Anyway, he wasn’t his desk mate, and he didn’t know anyone like him who was also participating in the competition. He had no reference for review procedures and the like. He could only embark on this journey alone, crossing the river by feeling the stones, and doing everything by himself.
But the eldest brother was very open-minded. In just a short while, he had made a decision – don’t consider the midterm exam for now. He should not delay his normal daily studies. He should learn and memorize everything step by step, and only do the questions after he had completed them.
In this way, even if he lost the competition for top academic achievement, it would not affect his daily studies and his general direction.
But Yan Han knew his own personality. He knew that if this was the case, he would probably continue to reduce his rest and sleep time in order to squeeze out more time to practice questions…
After taking a short rest, Yan Han returned to the dormitory and turned on the live broadcast equipment again. He subconsciously glanced at the background and found that just when he went out, Maowei actually sent him a system message.
The general idea was to inform all the contestants of the academic master competition that in order to make more preparations and give them more time to practice questions, the start time of the rematch will be delayed by half a month, that was, it would be moved from the original early May to the late May.
Yan Han: !!!
Was there such a good thing?
Postpone it for half a month…this way it will be postponed to after all the exams!
The planning of this battle for top academic achievement really took middle school students into consideration!
The next day was Monday, another day full of chirping… no, it was another day full of energy and vitality.
The midterm exam would be after the May Day holiday, which was still more than two weeks away, but many students had already started reviewing on their own initiative.
The midterm exam was linked to the final scholarship, and there were only a few vacancies for each of the arts and science subjects in a grade. Although it was the highest honor, it went without saying that all of them would go to Class 1 and Class 9. Yan Han had never thought about it.
However, he still had to review well. What was the saying? Take every exam seriously so that you won’t panic when you really get to the college entrance examination.
Fortunately, the competition for the top academic position was postponed for half a month, which gave him enough time to prepare for both ends.
However, even after making the plan, Yan Han’s task was not easy. He hardly moved the whole morning. He wanted to run for lunch and came back to do his homework after eating. Considering that the first class in the afternoon was swimming class and he could relax through activities, Yan Han even gave up his nap.
Fortunately, he was so busy that he even forgot the embarrassment of suspecting that Lin Jianlu liked him. Yan Han sat next to Lin Jianlu and studied for the whole morning as if nothing had happened. He had no time to think about other things, and even less time to talk to others – the eldest brother was originally a person who would hardly take emotional matters to heart.
When the swimming class was about to start in the afternoon, the class monitor came back from the meeting and woke up all the students who were taking a nap a few minutes in advance. He talked about the content of his meeting just now: “Our school is going to hold an annual basketball game. The competition process will start with the first grade internal competition, and finally a class will compete with the second grade. Classes will register to participate. I thought about it. Including the substitutes, our class must have at least seven people. Is there anyone interested?”
After the monitor finished speaking, he looked at the students below. Many of them had just woken up and had not yet reacted to what he had just said.
However, upon reflection, not many people were interested – he didn’t know if it was a coincidence or the school’s class division mechanism, but in classes like Class 14, except for a few students who worked particularly hard, the others studied sporadically, and did not seem to be very interested in sports, and thus the overall performance was mediocre.
When the class monitor asked this question, many people had a look of confusion on their faces, as if it had nothing to do with them, and they didn’t take the basketball game seriously at all.
However, the class monitor was an exception. He was an extremely extroverted person and was very interested in various activities. Although his classmates as a whole were not very interested, he was already ready to try.
“I’ve reserved a spot for myself. The most important thing about this kind of thing is participation. Just treat it as fun. If other classes compete and our class doesn’t participate, that would be unreasonable.”
“…”
“…Besides, if our class wins first place, we can compete with the second graders. The school will give us an award or something. No matter which class everyone goes to in the future, they can always follow you. How cool is that!”
“…”
Facing the empty gazes from the audience, the monitor said weakly: “If you don’t want to sign up, I will force you to take the roll. The taller ones go first.”
He called out the names of two boys in the back row, and then said, “Wen Juerong in the back, don’t fall asleep! Hurry up and sign up!”
Wen Juerong pointed at his face which was covered with sleep marks from sleeping on the table and said: “Ah?”
He then pointed at himself with his orchid finger, in disbelief: “First of all, I can’t play basketball!”
“At least we can get some people together.” The monitor wrote his name in the notebook without saying anything else. “Anyone else wants to sign up?”
In the last row of the classroom with open windows, Yan Han raised his hand and asked hopefully, “Class monitor! Can I sign up?”
Monitor: “… Stop making trouble, this is a men’s basketball game.”
Yan Han: “…”
He just knew it!
If he could participate in this kind of competition, he would definitely get extra points. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Yan Han did not give up and simply gritted his teeth and said, “I can dress up as a man.”
Class monitor: “…”
The monitor was dumbfounded at first, but then he seemed to have some ideas. He said, “Then I’ll ask the school if this is possible.”
After he said that, he actually wrote Yan Han’s name on the paper.
Then the monitor said, “But we still have to praise Yan Han’s spirit. And I heard that Yan Han is very good at playing basketball. Can’t you learn from her and at least be more active?”
Student Yan Han: “…”
Later, encouraged by the class monitor, two more boys signed up. Now the number of people barely reached six, and they could actually sign up.
But this situation was different from what was expected. The class monitor always felt that it was not safe and something was missing.
So under another wave of calls, Wen Juerong covered his mouth, trying to hide the source of the voice and shouted: “Big Brother Lin! Choose Big Brother Lin!”
“Big Brother Lin?” The class monitor turned his gaze to Lin Jianlu in the back row.
It was not that they didn’t consider him, but Lin Jianlu was busy with school matters and he also had mysophobia, so he probably couldn’t play basketball, so they just passed him without asking any questions.
He was not the only one who had this idea. When it was mentioned, even Yan Han turned his head and looked at Lin Jianlu.
…He had seen Lin Jianlu fighting, and he knew that both his physical fitness and flexibility were quite good.
What’s more, judging from Big Brother Lin’s height alone, he was quite suitable for the sport of basketball, but he had the problem that he could not interact with others… Well, what a pity.
“Me?” Lin Jianlu in the back row lowered his eyes expressionlessly and thought for a moment under the gaze of everyone.
Before someone mentioned it, Lin Jianlu himself had never thought about signing up.
He really would not have considered this kind of sport before.
But……
Lin Jianlu paused for a moment when he saw Yan Han looking at him. Then he said calmly, “Then I’ll try.”
“Good!” The class monitor excitedly said three good words in a row, and finally wrote down Lin Jianlu’s name.
Finally, seven people were gathered together, just like collecting seven gems. The class monitor kept the piece of paper with the names written on it like a treasure and asked everyone to study on their own.
Seeing that the bell for the afternoon class was about to ring, Yan Han thought that if he didn’t rush to the gymnasium, he would probably have to go the same way as other students, and it would be hard to explain if he suddenly disappeared at that time.
So he asked for leave from the class monitor on the pretext of going to the toilet and walked out of the classroom.
Of course he had to go to the bathroom, but he would just go in the dressing room.
Yan Han walked to the corner of the corridor and was about to go downstairs to the stadium when he heard someone calling his name.
When he turned around, he saw that Lin Jianlu had come out with him! He walked up to him step by step, and it seemed that he had something to say to him.
For no apparent reason, Yan Han’s heart began to pound.
…Is Lin Jianlu going to confess his love to me?!
If he had known this yesterday, his brother would have simply said that Li Hongqing was his dream lover! Even if it was being misunderstood as a teacher-student relationship, it was better than letting Lin Jianlu have any other thoughts about him!
No matter how calm he had appeared before, faced with this unprecedented one-on-one conversation, the eldest brother was instantly thrown into disarray by the things he had imagined in his mind, and he didn’t know what to do with his hands and feet.
Maybe the more you worry about something, the more it will happen. At this moment, he heard Lin Jianlu say, “I have something to tell you.”
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