This top-tier academic genius

An ordinary residential community.

Sun Yutong frowned as she looked at the documents in front of her.

She majored in mathematics in college, and it's not easy to find a job in this field except for the top few. So she simply went back to her hometown and prepared to take the teacher's exam there.

However, her family's financial situation is average, so she has to bear some of the economic burden.

During the period of preparing for the civil service exam, she needed to earn some income, so she thought of tutoring as a part-time job, which could both earn her money and help her gain teaching experience.

Today, through her aunt's introduction, she received a tutoring job, tutoring a senior high school student.

But looking at her tutor's grades, her brows furrowed into three lines.

Chinese 87, Math 17, English 34, Physics 8, Chemistry 21, Biology 32, Total 199 points.

This is the monthly exam score of this student named Lin Yan for the past month. He scored a total of 750 points, but he couldn't even get 200 points.

It seems he's a poor student who doesn't like studying.

Bad news: the student I'm tutoring is a poor student.

Good news, there's plenty of room for improvement.

Sun Yutong is a meticulous person. Since she has taken on this part-time job, she must find a way to help this young man named Lin Yan improve.

Fortunately, the mother's demands were not high; she only wanted to find a way to help her son raise his grades to the art exam cutoff score.

Based on the previous years' cut-off scores for the cultural subjects in the art entrance exams, the scores typically range from 300 to 350.

Therefore, all we need to do is find a way to help him improve by 150 points.

Sun Yutong thought for a moment and realized that, given Lin Yan's current grades, improving by 150 points was not an impossible goal.

In her opinion, apart from math and physics, which are somewhat challenging and depend on talent, the other subjects in high school are quite simple.

English and biology can be passed with rote memorization, and chemistry is also passable if you find the right study techniques. Math and physics can be improved slightly, and 150 points should be enough.

After figuring it out, she made a serious study and improvement plan.

After dinner, Sun Yutong made a special effort to dress up and changed into more appropriate clothes to make herself look more like a teacher.

Today is my first time tutoring at their home, so I need to make a good impression on their parents and convince them that I am capable of tutoring their son.

As agreed, the other party would arrive home around 8:1 pm, and the tutor would provide one hour of instruction every evening for a fee of 150 yuan.

At 8:20 p.m., Sun Yutong arrived at Lin Yan's door on time according to the address and rang the doorbell.

"Hello, are you Aunt Wang? I'm Sun Yutong, here to tutor."

"Oh, you must be Teacher Sun. Please come in."

"Aunt Wang, you can just call me Xiao Sun or Yu Tong."

"It's the same, it's the same. Lin Yan from our family just got back recently and is studying in his room."

Upon hearing Wang Lanyin say that Lin Yan was studying on his own, Sun Yutong had to adjust her perception of Lin Yan. She had initially thought he was a poor student who didn't like to study, but now it seemed that he was probably just not very bright.

Wang Lanyin led Sun Yutong to the door of Lin Yan's house, knocked on the door, and said, "Yan Yan, the tutor I just told you about, Teacher Sun, is here."

After a while, the door opened.

The moment Sun Yutong saw Lin Yan, she was stunned. She hadn't expected this junior to be so good-looking, like a movie star.

"Yanyan, this is your tutor, Ms. Sun. I heard she also graduated from Xincheng No.1 Middle School."

"Hello, senior."

Lin Yan greeted him and saw that the tutor in front of him was wearing thick glasses and looked like someone with real talent. He was instantly satisfied.

Sun Yutong realized what was happening and quickly replied, "Hello, junior."

"Okay, you guys chat, I'll go cut some fruit." Wang Lanyin voluntarily stepped aside.

"Thank you, Aunt Wang."

"Senior, shall we start class now?"

Let's begin now.

Lin Yan welcomed Sun Yutong into the house, making sure not to close the door.

Sun Yutong looked around the room. It was a simple and tidy room with a large desk by the window, neatly folded blankets on the bed, and a guitar hanging on the wall above the bed. There was no sweaty smell or other odor that she had been worried about.

On the contrary, I could smell a faint, fresh scent of shower gel on this junior.

For no apparent reason, Sun Yutong thought to herself: "Junior, you smell so good!"

After sitting down, Sun Yutong first reassured him.

"Junior, I've seen your grades. Except for Chinese, your grades in the other subjects aren't very good. Actually, apart from math and physics, you can quickly improve your scores in other high school subjects through memorization and techniques. With your grades, as long as you study hard, reaching the cultural score requirement for the art college entrance exam shouldn't be a problem."

As she spoke, she took out a prepared learning and improvement plan.

"Take a look, this is the learning and improvement plan I made for you. Follow this plan and you'll have absolutely no problems."

While Lin Yan was looking at his study and improvement plan, Sun Yutong glanced at the books on the table to find out what Lin Yan was reading.

When I looked at it, I was stunned.

"Towards the IMO: A Collection of Mathematical Olympiad Problems"?

What the heck? Someone who hasn't even mastered the basics was just looking at math olympiad material?

She couldn't help but ask, "Were you looking at this just now?"

"Um."

Sun Yutong: "..."

Surprisingly, it's true. It seems this junior student isn't very bright.

Sun Yutong composed herself and said, "Junior, your math foundation is very weak. You should start from the basics and not read these frivolous books. If I were you at this stage, I would start by relearning algebra from the first year of high school."

Sun Yutong felt that she had actually put it quite tactfully. In her opinion, someone who could only get 17 out of 150 points was not weak in their foundation, but rather had no foundation at all.

However, Lin Yan seemed not to understand what the other person meant, and instead asked, "Senior, I heard you graduated from the mathematics department?"

"right."

"Could you tell me about the knowledge framework of university mathematics? I'm quite interested in it."

Sun Yutong: "..."

It seems this junior is indeed a bit slow; he didn't even understand what I said.

Not only is he stupid, but he also has unrealistic ambitions.

"Junior, to put it bluntly, your priority right now is to learn the basics, not to worry about things beyond your current understanding. Now, let's review the concepts of set theory with you!"

Lin Yan: "..."

"Senior, that won't be necessary. I've pretty much mastered the math knowledge from high school textbooks. I'd like to extend my knowledge to university-level math."

Hearing Lin Yan's words, Sun Yutong was genuinely a little angry.

You only got 17 points on the last test, and you told me you had mastered all the high school math?

These young boys nowadays, why are they so pretentious?

"Okay, so you say you've mastered it all, right? Then let me test you."

Sun Yutong picked up her senior year math textbook from the corner of the table, randomly flipped to a page, selected an exercise, and wrote it on a blank piece of scratch paper.

"Solve it!"

Lin Yan glanced at it.

What is the minimum value of the function y = x + 4/x, where x ∈ [2, 4]?

It was a very simple function problem, and without even thinking, he said "4".

Sun Yutong: "Huh? It's actually right."

Did you just glance at the question and immediately blurt out the answer?