Due to time constraints, Yun Buran only finished one math set and one physics set. The moment she put down her pen, Su Nian finally couldn’t help himself.
“How did you even get this score?”
Yun Buran was a bit embarrassed. She thought Su Nian was looking down on her for not finishing the two papers within the time limit.
“Your scratch paper is a complete mess. Divide it into sections and label the problem numbers! You don’t circle key conditions in the problems either. Every single one of these details is where you lose points from your so-called carelessness. Your time allocation is also unreasonable—you get too invested and stubbornly cling to problems you can’t solve.”
Su Nian couldn’t help tapping her on the head.
Yun Buran felt very wronged. She had been thinking that since he was watching, she didn’t want to seem unable to solve the problems.
‘So troublesome, and this computational thinking is completely unreasonable. How can she be so stupid?’
Yun Buran felt very wronged. She moved a little farther from Su Nian.
“Your sensitivity to numbers is poor, so your calculation speed is slow and error-prone. In the coming days, I’ll take some time to rebuild your calculation method.”
“You need to be sensitive to pivots, symmetry, homogeneity, conjugates, so that factorization is fast. In physics, I’ll teach you the concept of degrees of freedom; we must first build a logical problem-solving framework in your mind.”
After speaking, Su Nian reached out and pinched her cheek.
‘After she put on her glasses, how did she become such a cute and dazed girl? But very adorable.’
Yun Buran, with a flushed face, moved a bit closer.
Su Nian really wanted to show off to Xiali, that teaching a kid is about one slap and one candy, but he held back.
In school days, there are countless evening study sessions, but the only one people are reluctant to part with is the movie night. Now there is also a night with a young tutor.
Yun Buran looked at the boy waiting for the elevator at the door. She really wanted to say something.
‘Is it too late to walk him home? Or skip the trouble and just let him stay overnight.’
But when the elevator doors opened, the boy walked in without a trace of reluctance. He had brought many things, yet took nothing away.
Yun Buran wished it would pour with rain at that moment, but unfortunately, she couldn’t even let her reluctance show, let alone rain.
“You might have been the King of Succubi in your past life.”
“Is there really such a thing?”
“In front of me.”
Xiali said seriously.
Su Nian still felt that the little cat had been deeply poisoned by the internet; just a few days ago, she was so innocent.
“Seriously, I feel like she’s already fallen for you. Why hasn’t the demon appeared yet? Could it be that you humans can go into heat without feelings?”
With her demon intuition, Xiali felt that Yun Buran seemed like she could barely hold back all day.
“From now on, hand over the tablet before 11:30.”
Su Nian used the most beautiful tone to utter the coldest words.
“Ha? Don’t even think about it!”
Xiali bristled and directly launched a Meow Meow Fist, but was unfortunately suppressed.
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During self-study class, the broadcast sounded, informing class monitors to go and get next week’s weekly test papers.
“Ah, we have a joint exam next week and they’re still handing out weekly test papers, one more homework assignment.”
An Hexi sighed softly, sounding a bit petulant.
She wasn’t speaking to anyone; it was a complaint muttered to herself, because sometimes Su Nian would chime in with a word or two.
She secretly glanced at Su Nian, who was doing calculations on his scratch paper at lightning speed; it seemed there would be no such small luck today.
Su Nian had been squeezing his time in the classroom to the limit recently, making An Hexi even more reluctant to talk to him too much.
An Hexi stood up and decided to call her best friend. After all, it was papers for all subjects; they were not too many, just one set, but not too few—her class had 52 people. Two people carrying them would be just right.
“I’ll help you carry them.”
“Huh?”
An Hexi suspected she might be hallucinating from doing too many problems lately, but Su Nian put down his pen and stood up.
“Let’s go.”
“Okay!”
An Hexi put her hands behind her back and tilted her head with a smile.
As Su Nian’s number one observer, she knew it must be because of that bottle of strawberry milk on Su Nian’s desk!
It was worth it that this morning she had acted a little coquettish toward Su Nian, saying, “But today I brought some really delicious strawberry milk.”
Once again, she had stopped Su Nian from refusing. An Hexi, small win!
While finding it amusing that Su Nian would remember to repay a bottle of milk, she also felt a bit shy walking ahead.
She could already feel a lot of attention from the class; there must be many complex gazes, but they couldn’t stop the girl’s light steps.
An Hexi, big win today!
From the moment they left the classroom, the gazes kept gathering more and more. But An Hexi walked firmly beside Su Nian, even though she kept her eyes nervously fixed on the floor ahead, not daring to look at Su Nian.
“Where do we pick them up?”
Su Nian, who rarely left the classroom and was not very familiar with the school, asked the question of the day.
“There’s a place in the gymnasium specifically for stacking materials and papers.”
“Oh, do we need to line up?”
The two chatted back and forth along the way, but to everyone at First Middle School, it was an extremely rare sight.
At that moment, Yun Buran was carrying some snacks and heading to the gymnasium. She wasn’t the class monitor, but she was the academic committee member, so she came along.
The class monitor was also a girl. Both of them were looking down and carrying things, and the silence along the way was not unusual.
Yun Buran was used to silence in social interactions, and the class monitor was used to Yun Buran’s personality.
But the sound of noise came; they looked up. Although sometimes there was a line, why were there so many people at the gymnasium entrance this time?
“Oh, it’s God Su.”
The class monitor muttered and then went to queue in the senior year section. The crowd only appeared large; in fact, they were just people reluctant to leave.
But Yun Buran didn’t follow her. She stood there staring blankly.
The boy at the center of the commotion—they had once been very close, so close that their shoulders almost touched, but now she was very far from him, so far that when they met, she wanted to lower her head and escape.
But then her gaze locked onto the other protagonist on the stage. She was a very ordinary girl.
She looked cute, her every move like an energetic fawn, but her personality seemed very ordinary. Her appearance could only be described as pretty, but standing next to the boy, she seemed lacking.
But the boy didn’t care. Surrounded by admirers, he gently took most of the papers into his arms, sharing the burden for the girl.
Such ordinary gentleness, such ordinary vitality, such an ordinary beautiful girl—so why could she stand beside the extraordinary him and still show such a disgusting smile?
Seeing that her immobility had already caught the class monitor’s attention, and that the pair was about to walk over, Yun Buran restrained herself and walked toward the class monitor.
But it was so hard. She felt every step crushed something. She kept her head deeply down, pretending not to see anything; perhaps her heart had already become empty.
“What are you doing here? I remember you’re not the class monitor, right?”
Su Nian’s voice was very distinctive. Yun Buran was sure anyone could recognize it. She looked up at Su Nian, who had arrived in front of her, and bit her lip stubbornly, saying, “It’s none of your business.”
“Is it because there are too many people? If you’re uncomfortable, don’t push yourself. Work hard today too, okay?”
With a hint of a smile, Su Nian said this gently and then left.
‘He’s concerned about me.’
Yun Buran felt as if she had received a sip of life-giving water in a dry desert, soothing her and letting her hold on to that breath.
But as she watched the girl who was curiously asking Su Nian something, she couldn’t help thinking, maybe she had a whole lake.
Actually, it had nothing to do with her, but she was so jealous.
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