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"To improve your score on Chinese composition, you must master the layered structure. There are three high-scoring layered structures for argumentative essays in the college entrance examination: the parallel general-to-specific structure, which secures the basic structure points; the progressive three-layer structure, which can differentiate thinking; and finally, the positive-negative structure..."

As Wen Xiuyu spoke, she wrote on the blackboard, the sound of chalk gliding across the surface of the board was delicate yet clear.

Mei Yulu lowered her head slightly, holding a pen in her hand. While the students around her were all taking notes, she remained motionless.

Why can't I forget? Why can't I let go?

Actually, the day we bumped into each other at the library during summer vacation, she had already decided to step out of her shell.

In the first semester of her senior year of high school, she devoted all her energy to studying, thinking that those obsessions would gradually fade away with time.

Even now, they meet again in the same classroom. Xie Shu is there too, sitting in front of her. The way the two of them tutor each other is exactly the same as when she and Li Mubai were together, even the angle at which they tilt their heads when they talk is the same.

Memories resurfaced as if gently touched by something.

Her arm was gently poked by the tip of a pen. Mei Yulu turned her head to the side, and Shen Nianning pushed a piece of paper over with only three words on it: "Take notes."

She paused for a moment, quickly wrote "thank you" and then picked up her pen again, turning her attention back to the blackboard.

Shen Nianning took back the note without saying anything more. She just didn't want anyone to leave a bad review after the class because they thought her mother's class was bad.

"We have twenty minutes left in the morning, and I need everyone to do something in the next twenty minutes."

Wen Xiuyu put down the chalk and glanced at the students below the stage. The students below also looked up at her.

"I need you to work in groups of four, completing a group assignment with a 15-minute time limit. One person will be the group leader, and the other three will be the group members, for example, these four..."

Wen Xiuyu walked over to Xie Shu and pointed at Li Mubai, saying, "For example, if he's the group leader, he's responsible for integrating the three outlines..."

Li Mubai roughly understood that the group leader was to coordinate the essay outlines of the other three people and have a representative present them on stage, while the other three people were to draft outlines based on the essay's hierarchical structure that had just been explained.

However, this group might not be very good at cooperating...

Seeing Xie Shu turn around, he turned around as well.

The atmosphere was slightly awkward, and the other groups had already started discussing the division of labor.

"Who should be the group leader in our group?" Shen Nianning asked first.

"Let Xiao..." Xie Shu paused for a moment, "...Li Mubai will be the one. Teacher Wen has already designated him."

"Hmm—I think it's a good idea." Shen Nianning wholeheartedly agreed; she'd rather not go on stage to give a report.

"Hmm," Mei Yulu replied calmly.

"Then Li Mubai, you'll be our team leader." Xie Shu looked at Li Mubai, a slight smile playing on his lips.

What is this? You haven't even asked for my opinion yet?

"Keep it up!" She nudged his shoulder.

"Okay, okay, I'll be the team leader." He reluctantly accepted the job.

Shen Nianning twitched her lips, while Mei Yulu remained calm, her eyes lowered.

"So how should we divide the work in this layered structure?" Shen Nianning continued to ask.

"I'm fine with anything," Xie Shu said.

Shen Nianning looked at Mei Yulu again, but Mei Yulu lowered her eyes and remained silent.

"Mei Yulu, what do you think?"

"I'm fine with either."

"..."

Shen Nianning wanted to try the most difficult repetitive structure herself, but she also wondered what Xie Shu would think if he wrote this layered structure. Hesitation appeared on her face.

"How about we have the team leader assign us tasks?" Xie Shu suggested.

Shen Nianning looked up at Li Mubai in front of her: "That's fine too."

Mei Yulu didn't say anything, but just nodded silently.

While the other groups had already started writing, their group was still arguing about the division of labor. Li Mubai's mind raced, and he said:

"Xie Shu, can you use the positive-negative-repetitive method?"

"Can."

"Shen Nianning, you can use the three-tiered approach."

"it is good."

Li Mubai finally looked at Mei Yulu, who kept her head down.

"Uh... Mei Yulu, try using a parallel structure with a general-to-specific-to-general format."

"Um."

With the tasks finally assigned, Li Mubai slowly exhaled.

The next five minutes were used to help the three girls independently develop a complete, layered outline, followed by seven minutes for peer review and refinement, and finally three minutes for a summary report.

Li Mubai wasn't idle either; he also drafted an outline using the most difficult method of positive and negative repetition.

"I'm done writing." Less than five minutes later, Shen Nianning put down her pen.

Xie Shu quickly turned around, and the three of them looked at Mei Yulu at the same time. It took the latter half a minute to slowly put down her pen and push the outline she had prepared to the middle.

"Let me see." Shen Nianning couldn't wait to pick up Xie Shu's outline and start reading.

Mei Yulu took Shen Nianning's portion, while Xie Shu picked up the middle one.

"This is good. If I write it this way, I think I can get a high score," Shen Nianning couldn't help but say.

"A parallel general-to-specific structure is also acceptable." Xie Shu put down Mei Yulu's outline.

"Okay." Mei Yulu said calmly, placing the outline in her hand on the table.

"Uh... how about we look for any flaws?" Li Mubai asked, feeling that everyone was just flattering each other.

"Hiss—" Shen Nianning frowned slightly without realizing it. She picked up the outline and looked at it again. It was easy to find the advantages, but it seemed a little difficult to find the disadvantages.

Just then, Xie Shu's voice rang out:

"How about we let the team leader give his evaluation as well? He needs to compile our outlines and submit them to the team leader."

"Li Mubai?" Shen Nianning thought for a moment, "That should work."

"Mm." Mei Yulu nodded.

Li Mubai naturally had no objections. He took this opportunity to look at everyone's submissions and to compile a summary of those submissions, selecting one with a layered structure suitable for the essay topic.

"The essay topic is 'Using the power of youth to shoulder the responsibilities of the times.' Xie Shu, your essay's strength lies in its strong analytical approach, but its weakness is that this topic lacks opposing viewpoints and controversy, and there's a tendency to include too many counter-arguments, deviating from the core theme..."

"Mm." Xie Shu smiled faintly as she looked at him.

"Let's look at the progressive layered structure."

Shen Nianning leaned forward slightly.

"The advantage is its clear in-depth logic, delving deeper layer by layer, but the disadvantage is that it requires a high degree of coherence in thinking and is not suitable for abstract exam questions, in addition..."

As Shen Nianning listened, she couldn't stop nodding in agreement.

"Finally, there's the parallel structure of general-specific-general..." Li Mubai's voice paused slightly.

"Hmm," Mei Yu murmured, indicating that she was listening.

"The advantage is its well-organized framework and clear logic; the disadvantage is that the content is prone to overlap..."

Li Mubai rattled off the advantages and disadvantages of the three layered structures in one breath.

"Given the writing theme, the most suitable structure is a progressive layered structure, followed by a parallel general-to-specific structure, and finally a positive-negative-repetitive structure," he concluded, not disregarding the facts because of his relationship with Xie Shu.

"Impressive! I didn't realize you were so good at Chinese," Shen Nianning said.

"Li Mubai scored 130 on the midterm exam last semester." Xie Shu's tone held a hint of joy.

"Really? That's impressive." Shen Nianning thought for a moment, "I remember that time three of them scored over 130."

She didn't pay much attention to the grades that ranked after hers. Only when her sister suddenly became interested did she check how Li Mubai's exam results were. Overall, they weren't bad.

"Just lucky, just lucky," Li Mubai said with a modest smile.

"Truly impressive..." Mei Yulu murmured to herself in a voice only she could hear.

……

The intensive course students all have their lunches arranged by the institution. There's even a dedicated cafeteria, but everyone sits in their own seats, and most of the students here don't know each other.

Mei Yulu looked at Li Mubai and Xie Shu chatting and laughing not far away, then lowered her head and silently picked up some vegetables and put them in her mouth.

A figure suddenly appeared in the empty seat next to her. She turned her head and saw Shen Nianning.