We ordinary people also need to fall in love.

"This school assembly is hosted by student xxx from Class 8 of Grade 11."

The selection of the host for the school assembly is basically random, but nobody really cares.

Li Mubai stood there seemingly lost in thought, but in reality, he was recalling the knowledge he had learned.

"The theme of this school assembly is 'Honest Examinations, Starting with Me'..."

Midterm exams are next week.

"Now I have some news to announce. Our school has achieved excellent results in this year's National High School Mathematics League. Eight students, including Xing Yi and Xiao Qingqing, have won the provincial first prize. Among them, Xing Yi will represent our province in the national finals. Let's give him a round of applause."

Li Mubai is a liberal arts student and doesn't know much about the International Mathematical Olympiad, but winning a first prize at the provincial level means he has to participate in the national finals, so he must be very impressive.

"Xie Shu, Li Mubai, I've printed out two exam seating charts. One will be placed on the class bulletin board, and the other on the teacher's desk." Before the class meeting, Wu Changguo called Xie Shu and Li Mubai to his office.

Li Mubai took a seating chart, glanced at it, and realized that he and Xie Shu were in the same examination room; in fact, the entire examination room was filled with people from their class.

Chen Qiuhe was in a bad situation; she was assigned to take the exam with students from both her own class and other classes.

"Class monitor, I'll post this on the bulletin board."

"it is good."

Li Mubai used pins to fix the seating chart to the bulletin board.

"The exam seating chart is out!" someone shouted, and the students immediately gathered around.

Fortunately, he retreated quickly, otherwise he would have been surrounded.

"Aren't you going to go take a look?"

Upon returning to his seat, Li Mubai saw Chen Qiuhe still sitting peacefully and asked her what was wrong.

"Didn't you see it? Where am I?"

No wonder he wasn't in a hurry; he was certain he would see where she was.

"You will take the exam in your own class."

"And what about you? Where are you taking the exam?"

"Multimedia Classroom"

The school has another teaching building that is usually not used except for exams. It is equipped with air conditioning and the top 30 students in both arts and sciences have to take their exams there.

"That sounds awesome, I want to go too."

"You can come if you get into the top 30 in the midterm exam."

"Then I'll think this over for a moment, and we'll meet at the summit."

……

"I want to emphasize again for this exam: don't even think about cheating. If you're caught, you'll be punished. Everyone should be fully focused, don't hand in your papers early, and treat every exam like the college entrance exam."

During the class meeting, Wu Changguo once again explained the exam arrangements.

"In addition, after this midterm exam, monthly exams will resume for the second year of high school."

This is truly bad news; everyone is groaning silently as the good days are gradually coming to an end.

"I won't say much more. You all know what will happen to those who don't do well on the test. Now take out your textbooks and let's continue the lesson."

The game of Gomoku was over, the gossip was gone, and the entire evening study session was filled with a silent atmosphere of learning.

"Do you know how to do this problem, Li Mubai?" Chen Qiuhe asked, pointing to a math problem.

"No, my math level is about the same as yours, you've asked the wrong person."

"Never mind then, I was thinking that two mediocre people can do the work of Xie Shushu."

…What Xie Shushu? It's just to make up three words.

"I'll go ask Xie Shu, do you want to come along?" Chen Qiuhe asked him, turning her head slightly.

"You go ahead, I won't go."

"You can't do this. You can't give up the opportunity to improve because of that." Because there were other classmates present, Chen Qiuhe spoke vaguely.

"Which one is that?" Li Mubai asked, feigning ignorance.

"You're something else. You'll be crying when I overtake you."

"Feng Wanli, do you know how to do this problem?" Li Mubai asked Feng Wanli with the problem when he returned to the dormitory that night.

"I haven't figured it out either. Maybe I should ask Xie Shu tomorrow?"

"Never mind then."

"What's wrong? Are you having a bad relationship with her?" Feng Wanli looked at him with suspicion.

"No, we're just ordinary classmates. I feel bad troubling people I'm not very familiar with."

"Okay, I'll think about it some more and I'll let you know when I've made it."

"Okay, thank you."

Li Mubai then took the question to ask other boys, and without exception, none of them knew the answer.

I'm so angry! There isn't a single math whiz in the entire dorm. Aren't boys supposed to have a natural talent for math?

That makes sense. There are generally only two reasons why boys choose humanities: either they are interested in humanities or they are bad at science. Some people are both.

Should I ask Yan Shu? The thought popped into Li Mubai's mind.

Let's wait and see. What if Feng Wanli suddenly has an epiphany?

In order to prepare for the midterm exams, their bi-weekly project was temporarily suspended.

"Feng Wanli, how's it going? Have you got any ideas yet?"

"not yet."

……

"Feng Wanli, have you solved it yet?"

"No, I miscalculated one step and need to recalculate."

Or should I shamelessly take it to Teacher Chen tomorrow? Let's just forget about that; Li Mubai can predict what he'll say.

"You can't even do such a simple question? Why are you only asking now? What were you doing all this time?"

Ahem...

Li Bubai: "Are you a science student?"

Although he had been speculating this way, he had not yet confirmed it with the other party directly.

Yan Shu: "My science grades are good, is there a problem?"

Li Bubai: "Today I reviewed a math problem from the second year of high school, it was a bit difficult [jpg.]"

Li Mubai hadn't forgotten that he was a senior in high school.

Pretending to be a senior in high school, outsmarting the best.

Yan Shu never doubted his identity as a senior high school student.

Yan Shu: "This problem needs to be solved like this..."

It took the other party nearly ten minutes to explain the problem clearly, since some mathematical symbols cannot be input, and Yanshu was unwilling to write out the solution steps by hand or send a voice message.

Li Bubai: "Thank you, thank you so much."

He expressed his sincere gratitude.

Yan Shu: "You're welcome, but doesn't anyone in your class excel at math?"

Li Bubai: "You know I'm a student in a bad class."

Falling silent, Li Mubai assumed the other person looked down on students from lower-achieving classes and was unwilling to speak.

Yan Shu: "Okay, you can ask me if you have any questions in the future."

Li Bubai: "Okay."

That's what I say, but I still don't want to trouble others too much. As students, everyone has their own things to do.

"Feng Wanli, I've solved this problem. First..."

After learning how to solve the problem, Li Mubai did not forget Feng Wanli, who was still racking his brains.

"Oh, I see. How did you figure it out?"

"I asked someone else."

"Who? Huang Lingling?"

"no."

"Who is that?" Feng Wanli seemed quite interested in this topic and pressed for an answer.

"Uh—a science student."

"Boy or girl?" This was the question that Yang Kun was interested in.

"Boys."

"Really? I don't find it very believable."

They usually saw Li Mubai as a loner, and he was only close to his deskmate Chen Qiuhe.

"Really." Li Mubai nodded slowly.

"Is it from our school? Are they in the same grade as us?" Zhao Feng joined in the interrogation.

……

I wish I hadn't asked this question.