Age of Legends

Chapter 275 Grievance
Ultimately, unless you're exceptionally gifted, achieving good grades requires a lot of practice problems. Shen Nuoyi proposed many solutions and evaluated Zhang Chen. The conclusion was that Zhang Chen possessed strong potential to excel in areas such as applying knowledge to new situations, comprehension, and critical thinking. However, he also had several weaknesses, the biggest being a lack of focus and patience.

If Zhang Chen is exceptionally talented, scoring around 90 out of 100, and can grasp concepts quickly and efficiently, while also expanding his knowledge in depth, then he can tackle extremely challenging problems. He can master one key concept and then learn subsequent concepts in a more accessible way.

If Zhang Chen's talent is around 70 or 80%, Shen Nuoyi thinks that a systematic review is necessary, and her method of building a wrong question bank would be of great help to him.

However, Zhang Chen is not a top talent, and most importantly, his foundation is not solid. So he needs to strengthen his foundation and do a lot of inductive training, which in essence means doing a lot of practice problems.

But this is precisely Zhang Chen's current weakness. He has too many distractions and can't concentrate. When you only have one path, you might go for it without hesitation. But Zhang Chen is currently surrounded by too many things: his parents, his own business, Tencent, Shengfeng, Wanxiang Jianghu… With all these entangled causes and effects weighing on his mind, Zhang Chen naturally can't fully immerse himself and put in the hard work of practicing problems.

Even though Zhang Chen can treat problem-solving as a hobby and find the initial joy in learning, fully satisfying a top student's basic attitude towards studying, he still can't fully immerse himself in it. No matter how good a game is, you can't completely focus on playing it, especially when you're burdened with other things, and studying requires even more energy and mental commitment.

This is a rather frustrating thing right now, so even though Zhang Chen got 608 points, he wasn't in a good mood. In fact, if he checked, there were many points that he shouldn't have lost but did. Only by seeing the crosses and carefully analyzing why he made the mistakes can he eventually find the reasons for his errors.

This is actually a matter of focus and consistency; ultimately, it boils down to not doing enough practice problems. If Zhang Chen could recover those lost points, his actual score might reach around 640.

The questions that seemed like mistakes that shouldn't have been made but were made were not actually due to being distracted or absent-minded at the time, but simply because the effort put in behind the scenes was insufficient.

However, doing practice problems does take up a lot of his time and energy, which is exactly what Zhang Chen lacks, and there is currently no solution to this problem.

So Zhang Chen looked a bit grumpy after receiving her grades. Today was the official start of the winter break. Shen Nuoyi's father came to pick her up, Wang Shuowei had made plans to play soccer, so Zhang Chen went home alone. As she walked alone from the teaching building toward the school gate, she heard some laughter behind her.

He turned his head and saw Zhuang Yanyue and several girls from her Class 8. They were chatting and laughing behind him, probably talking about Zhang Chen, and deliberately making noise to get his attention.

Zhuang Yanyue glared at the girls, but she was quite generous. Since Zhang Chen had seen her, she walked forward amidst the girls' giggling and came to stand in front of him. Her somewhat foxy eyes turned to Zhang Chen, and she curled up her lips: "How did you do on your final exams?"

She narrowed her eyes again, "I have good news for you... I got 606 on the test this time."

Zhang Chen was initially surprised. If she remembered correctly, Zhuang Yanyue's score was only around 560, but later Zhang Chen scored 600, and she even wanted to ask him to be her teacher. She did indeed ask him to explain problems to her.

She actually scored 606 this time, only 2 points behind me!?

But Zhang Chen quickly realized that she genuinely didn't know his score. With Zhuang Yanyue's extensive connections, finding out his score beforehand wouldn't have been difficult. Was it because she knew they were close in the rankings that she launched this surprise attack?
This shouldn't be happening. Zhuang Yanyue, you have such high emotional intelligence, why would you do something so stupid for me this time?

Furthermore, those girls deliberately tried to attract his attention from behind. Was it really their doing without permission, and you, Zhuang Yanyue, pretended to be innocent? Or were you secretly instigating them?

Zhang Chen was already annoyed, and Zhuang Yanyue was still making such a fuss behind his back. He was furious. But what met her curious and longing gaze was Zhang Chen's suddenly cold face.

Seeing Zhang Chen's expression, Zhuang Yanyue's foxy eyes were momentarily at a loss, and the few lively girls behind her also seemed to sense this unusual aura. They had originally planned to watch the two rumored lovers interact, but suddenly stopped teasing under Zhang Chen's gaze.

Staring at Zhuang Yanyue, Zhang Chen said, "Do you think you're so smart? And everyone else is stupid?" "I..." Zhuang Yanyue was stunned. Her face, which had been beaming with excitement, paled slightly at Zhang Chen's words. "No..."

Faced with Zhang Chen's words and cold expression, Zhuang Yanyue only murmured two words from beginning to end.

"I don't……"

But she immediately stopped talking and ceased trying to provoke Zhang Chen. The girls behind her felt as if they had done something wrong, and none of them dared to breathe loudly.

Some people couldn't stand it and spoke up for Zhuang Yanyue, saying, "Hey, Zhuang Yanyue didn't mean it that way..."

But she was pulled back by someone next to her, who gave her a look that stopped her. Because right now, it seemed that only the two of them could handle the situation.

Zhuang Yanyue's face, which had initially been flushed with excitement and anticipation, suddenly turned pale. Before she could offer any explanation, Zhang Chen naturally realized that he had perhaps spoken too harshly.

Even if Zhuang Yanyue was right, there were other people present. Publicly humiliating her would still hurt her pride.

Having lived two lives, Zhang Chen realized he had gone too far and quickly adjusted himself. He toned down his cold and impolite demeanor, his expression returning to calm as usual, and said, "You did well on the exam. Keep up the good work. I'll be going now."

These words eased the chilling atmosphere that had just descended. Seeing Zhuang Yanyue remain silent, Zhang Chen turned and left this time.

After Zhang Chen walked away along the tree-lined path, several girls from Class 8 came up from behind and surrounded Zhuang Yanyue.

Someone said, "Hey, why is Zhang Chen like this!"

"How could he be such a person!"

"This is the first time I've ever seen Zhang Chen act like that... I didn't even dare to say a word!"

Zhuang Yanyue smiled at the girl beside her who was trying to comfort her, "It's okay, he was probably just in a bad mood. Everyone has those moments, the only mistake was that we bothered him at the wrong time!"

Hearing her say that, the group of girls immediately relaxed. "You scared me to death! Zhang Chen's cold face is still a bit scary! Only you, Zhuang Yanyue, can withstand it!"

Zhuang Yanyue smiled gently amidst everyone's comforting words, seemingly letting the unpleasant incident just now pass by with a laugh.

However, when she pursed her lips, the curve was slightly downward, appearing unnatural due to her aggrieved expression.

(End of this chapter)