It's the students' fault if they are too popular.

"Ah."

Ji Chen nodded, looked at Teacher Tong's hand resting on his cheek, and then gently brushing the black hair by his ear, and he suddenly felt a little confused.

very excited.

……Depend on.

He really wanted to ask questions!

But in my heart... I really wanted to show the goddess teacher that my math grades are excellent.

"Sorry, I need to think about this question for a while. You go down first, I'll call you later." Tong Yao took out the draft paper and said.

Ji Chen's face flushed and he quickly said yes.

corner.

"Tsk," Jiang Yiming sighed softly, "A top student is a top student. He has even started to study for the Olympic Games on his own."

Naturally, everyone was paying attention to what was happening on the podium.

Ruan Qian next to her said nothing, but she actually felt mixed emotions.

——What's so great about that? Isn't it just that I'm better at math? He even deliberately showed his Olympiad book, fearing that the audience wouldn't see it.

Humph, what a pretentious freak.

My eyes are almost glued to Teacher Tong’s face.

Ruan Qian was so angry that she banged her chin on the table, as if she wanted to poke a hole through it.

She... was actually a little envious.

If I had good grades in math, would I feel more confident when talking to Teacher Tong?

Chapter 3: I don’t want to study hard but I still want to be noticed

"Hey, why did Teacher Tong ask you to go to the office this morning?" Jiang Yiming asked curiously.

Ruan Qian leaned against the tile wall, her back felt cold. She turned her head away, unwilling to reveal: "Nothing."

But he quietly held the chocolate in his pocket.

She took a look at it when no one was paying attention. The chocolate was written in German and seemed very expensive. She was reluctant to eat it.

At this moment, Tong Yao on the stage suddenly walked down. Ruan Qian was startled and almost thought that she was here to find her.

It turned out not to be.

Tong Yao stopped in the middle row, holding the competition book in her arms, knocked on Ji Chen's desk, and then pointed out the window.

The two of them went out to explain the topic.

When she went out, she went through the back door. The places she passed by seemed to have a subtle fragrance, not the kind of slightly pungent perfume, but the kind of soothing and refreshing sweetness.

Ruan Qian looked out the window and saw the backs of Tong Yao and Ji Chen. Teacher Tong leaned his book against the railing and calculated stroke by stroke. She could vaguely hear something like "universal formula" and "sum and difference to product". But when she thought about it carefully, it seemed that she didn't even know how to write it down from memory.

She thought sourly, what's the point of improving Teacher Tong's favorability? She will definitely marry a tall, rich and handsome man in the future, maybe even a domineering president.

It seems that only that kind of person is worthy of Teacher Tong.

"Do you know how old Teacher Tong is?" Jiang Yiming asked mysteriously.

"do not know."

"I know." The boy chuckled, "Do you want to know?"

"Do not want to."

"Then I won't say anything."

"Damn, tell me!" Ruan Qian was embarrassed.

Then, Jiang Yiming reached into the drawer and took out a mobile phone.

"You!" Ruan Qian was shocked, "How dare you not hand in your phone just after school starts?"

"Shh, don't make any noise." Jiang Yiming opened the search bar and showed it to Ruan Qian, "I found our teacher."

Ruan Qian was skeptical and took the phone.

"Other people's children! 13-year-old genius girl admitted to University A"

"How are those young geniuses doing now?"

Judging from her appearance, the girl in the photo is most likely Teacher Tong, not to mention there is a name below.

The number of views is not high and there are no comments. To be honest, modern people are no longer surprised by geniuses.

According to the news release time, Teacher Tong is now...

"18?" she asked uncertainly.

"Right!" Jiang Yiming said proudly.

18 years old... 18 years old...

Only two years older than me...

For some reason, Ruan Qian felt a little itchy in her heart. It was like a seed sprouting in her body, and the sprouting branches poked her heart.

There was a noise behind him. It was Ji Chen who came back from outside. He looked enlightened and...satisfied. Tong Yao sat on the podium again and began to prepare for the lesson.

Even Ruan Qian could feel the eagerness of her classmates.

I want to ask questions but I don’t dare to.

To be honest, she didn't dare to ask. She was afraid that her question was too meaningless and would be blocked by a casual response like "Didn't I talk about this in class?" or "Go back and look it up in the book yourself."

That would be so embarrassing.

You know, old man Chen was like this before. He would never answer simple questions and would allocate all limited resources to the top students.

There is nothing wrong with this, this is how society works. Students tend to stay away from teachers anyway, preferring to ask the top students when they have a problem, and praying that the teacher will not sit over them when they see him in the cafeteria. But for Teacher Tong, everything seems to have changed.

Ruan Qian looked at the answer sheet handed out in the afternoon, and found that there were a lot of mistakes on the math answer sheet.

Or... go and talk to Teacher Tong?

She plucked up her courage and was about to stand up when she found that the person in front of her had gone up to the podium with the test paper in hand before her.

She glanced and saw a glaring 145 on the paper.

145 points.

What the hell are you asking?

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"Um……"

Tong Yao carefully examined the test paper in front of her and said:

"I was careless on this question. What a pity. I almost got full marks."

Yin Jiali stuck out her tongue and pointed to the last question:

"Teacher, my method doesn't seem to be standard. Can I write like this in the future?"

“Hmm?” Tong Yao lowered her head. “This question requires a second derivative… You did it by integration? Convert it to area… That’s pretty good. I think your method is better than the reference answer.”

"Hehe." The girl smiled brightly.

"Share this method with everyone in class tomorrow." Tong Yao said, "Are you ready?"

"Ok!"

The girl's back looked as happy as a rabbit as she walked down the podium.

Hmm... pretty cute.

Although he appeared calm and mature on the surface, he could not hide the joy in his eyes.

Tong Yao knew very well that this girl was probably asking for praise. She did not dislike such behavior and was even quite happy about it. Students should not be dull all the time. It is not a bad thing to have a little vanity, especially in terms of study. She was not stingy with her own praise.

But then, she saw a lifeless face.

Ruan Qian.

The girl held the test paper, not daring to look at her. She just put the test paper on the podium and said unconfidently:

"Teacher...can you help me analyze the test paper?"

70 points.

Tong Yao took the test paper and said with a smile: "Okay."

After saying that, she stood up and said, "Let's go to the corridor."

It was 7:30 and it was already dark outside. The lights outside the corridor were not bright at all, and I had to rely on the light in the classroom to see the answer sheet clearly. Ruan Qian lowered her head obediently. Teacher Tong... was so close to her that their shoulders were almost touching.

"So many wrong answers? Each one is worth five points."

She heard Teacher Tong say.

"……Um."

"You've basically got all the points for the first two questions of the big test. You're quite skillful in answering the questions." Tong Yao's eyes were curved. Most children yearn for recognition, so she tends to give praise mainly - after all, she is not the class teacher, so she doesn't have to worry about spoiling the students.

"Is that so?" Ruan Qian stuttered, raised her head, and reviewed her test paper again. The result was still... unbearable to look at.

"The school gave you science students advance lessons on derivatives during the summer vacation. It's normal that you don't have a solid grasp of it," Tong Yao scratched her lower lip with her fingers. "If the foundation is not solid, the whole world will shake. I will teach you well this semester, step by step, don't worry."

"……Um."

"By the way, why don't you choose liberal arts? I see that your scores in Chinese and English are relatively good." She looked at the girl, "How were your grades in liberal arts subjects before?"

"My grades in arts are better than science..." Ruan Qian lowered her head again, "But my parents asked me to choose science."

In fact, there is not much difference between choosing liberal arts and science. Even if the liberal arts scores are better, the university you can choose in the future may not be as good as the science. She thought about escaping from mathematics, physics and chemistry. She was only in the second year of high school, and it was not impossible to switch to liberal arts, but now...

Apart from physics, she felt that she could at least... like mathematics.

Someone come and scold her to wake her up. Does she like math? She is...envious of her own teacher.

"Well, if that's the case, just stick with it," Tong Yao said with a smile, "Be single-minded and don't let your imagination run wild. Forget about thoughts like 'It would be better if I chose liberal arts.'"

Ruan Qian blinked and said weakly: "Yeah."

"Then continue looking at the paper."

The moon looms in the sky.

Teacher Tong's collarbone was delicate under her shirt. Ruan Qian turned her eyes away. There was also a teacher explaining a question to students in the corridor of the next class. There was no teacher in the class, and there were faint voices coming from the room.

But none of this matters.

"Teacher," Ruan Qian said a little embarrassedly, "Have I kept you too long?"

Tong Yao looked back and said with relief: "It's okay, no one is asking now."

In half an hour, Tong Yao finished analyzing the entire paper. It was almost time for the get out of class to end, so she returned the paper to Ruan Qian and said:

"You can always come to my office and ask me about my position in the future, right?"

Ruan Qian blushed: "Yeah!"

"Okay, let's go back."

Tong Yao looked at the time. She had to go to Class 4 for the third evening self-study class, so she would have an hour free. So before leaving, she said to the students in Class 7:

"I'll be in the office until nine o'clock. Just come and see me if you need anything."

The students responded one after another: “Okay!”

between classes.

"Of course you can," Jiang Yiming said excitedly, "You have monopolized Teacher Tong for such a long time."

Ruan Qian was in a daze alone, which was considered as her agreement.

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