Chapter 51
The 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Little New Year in the North.
All morning classes today were self-study sessions. Every teacher was in the office, busy grading exams since the tests finished yesterday.
Since the students would be on holiday in the afternoon, the teachers had to rush to finish grading all the papers in the morning.
The workload was massive, especially for Chinese and English, which required grading essays, so they even roped in the freshman and sophomore teachers to help.
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A somewhat restless atmosphere filled the classroom, as graded papers were returned from time to time.
Whenever a batch of papers was brought back, a flurry of discussion would ensue.
Everyone was talking about their scores and silently calculating their total grades. Afterward, they would check on how others around them did. This was the same for both the advanced and regular classes.
Gu Ran was an exception. He sat quietly studying because no one was talking to him, and he was more than happy to enjoy the peace.
For some reason, he always felt out of place among the high school boys around him. Whether it was the topics they discussed or the things they cared about, none of it resonated with him.
Even when they talked about pretty girls, it stayed on the superficial level of just a pretty face, completely failing to pique his interest.
Students in the 2010s were just innocently cute.
Is a girl's face really the only thing to look at?
Shouldn't one consider a comprehensive range of factors!
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Sunlight refracted through the large windows and into the classroom.
After spending so much time with Ye Zhenzhen, his sitting posture had been corrected.
Wearing a neat school uniform, he sat straight in his chair, staring intently at the math problem in front of him.
His brows would furrow slightly from time to time, and he would unconsciously pinch the bridge of his nose.
Holding a pencil, he continuously wrote and scratched on the paper, repeatedly calculating the questions he got wrong.
Holding the few test papers that had just been handed out, he mentally calculated his current total score.
The math papers were graded the fastest and had been handed back early on.
He scored a 94. Although it didn't seem like much, it was the result of his effort starting from scratch.
The comprehensive science paper was also handed back. 184 points, a perfectly average score.
Having started learning from scratch, Gu Ran was quite satisfied with this score, yet also a bit dissatisfied.
Because with his cheat-like memory boost, his biology score was close to perfect, and he got a good grade in chemistry too. But to only get this total score in comprehensive science meant his weakness in physics was too severe.
Staring at his paper, he sighed silently and stopped thinking about other things.
Rubbing his face with his hands, he picked up his pen and buried his head into the embrace of physics.
It was just like the saying: Physics tortures me a thousand times, but I treat Physics like my first love!
But half an hour later, he painfully pinched the bridge of his nose. After wasting so much time, he had summarized a painful lesson.
Looking at physics is like looking through a fog; it's physically impossible to comprehend!!!
Without Ye Zhenzhen explaining it to him, looking at physics problems was like reading a heavenly script.
Anyone could do the simple basic questions, but once the difficulty went up slightly and the calculation questions were slightly altered, he was completely dumbfounded and helpless.
It was a case of the questions knowing him, but him not knowing the questions.
Helplessly, he pulled out the math workbook Ye Zhenzhen had prepared for him and lowered his head to work on it.
Although the difficult questions were a bit strenuous, it wasn't like physics where he was completely at a loss.
As his mind gradually sank into studying, time flew by rapidly.
The chattering voices of his classmates around him gradually blurred in his ears.
He didn't know how long had passed, but a cold breeze blew in from outside the classroom, gently brushing across his forehead and bringing waves of coolness.
He turned his head to check the time and realized school was almost over. On the empty desk beside him, two test papers had already been placed.
They were the English and Chinese answer sheets that had just been delivered. They must have been handed out by the class representatives, though he didn't know when they were placed there.
He reached out, picked up the answer sheets, glanced at the scores on each, and couldn't help but nod in satisfaction.
English was as terrifyingly good as ever. Relying on his past knowledge and abnormal memory, he easily secured a high score of 146.
Chinese was slightly worse, only a little over 100.
He flipped through the Chinese answer sheet, sucking his teeth in confusion.
He couldn't understand how the score could be so low.
Doesn't Chinese rely on reading comprehension ability? He had lived for almost forty years across his two lifetimes; how could he only have this little comprehension ability?!
Frowning as he looked at the reading comprehension questions, he found that all his point deductions were concentrated there.
Scratching his hair, he felt somewhat helpless.
Why were they all marked wrong?
How do you know what the original author was thinking when they wrote this sentence?!
Even Lu Xun said not to make subjective assumptions!
Sure enough, the people who are best at overthinking in this world are Chinese teachers.
He curled his lips and stuffed the answer sheet into his backpack, no longer obsessing over the answers. He planned to listen carefully when the teacher went over them.
He was very curious about how these test makers felt that their answers were exactly what the original author had in mind.
Were they mind-reading tapeworms inside the original author's stomach?
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The school bell rang. Gu Ran stood up and stretched slightly, feeling his muscles loosen.
Without the slightest bit of nostalgia for the classroom, he grabbed his backpack and walked out, heading straight for the door of Ye Zhenzhen's classroom.
The aloof girl was already standing at the door waiting for him. As soon as she saw him, she naturally handed her backpack over.
"Hehe, so, how is it? All the graded answer sheets should be handed back by now, right?"
Ye Zhenzhen blinked, a teasing look flashing through her usually cold eyes.
"Yeah, they've all been handed back. I found that I got a lot of questions wrong that I shouldn't have."
Gu Ran took her backpack, slung it over his shoulder, sighed, and spoke slowly with a drawn-out tone.
Hearing this, Ye Zhenzhen scrunched her nose and chuckled, "Now you know to be humble, right? Studying isn't that simple. Are you still going to boast shamelessly in the future?"
After a brief moment of schadenfreude, Ye Zhenzhen relaxed her brows, but then quickly began to comfort him, afraid of hurting a certain someone's confidence.
"But don't be discouraged. After all, you've only been studying hard for a little over a month. You can't improve your grades that fast. But you're very smart, I believe you can definitely do it..."
The motherly girl had relapsed into her "elder sister acting like a mother" syndrome and began to nag uncontrollably.
The two walked out of the campus. Ye Zhenzhen had her hands behind her back. Her school uniform was clean and neat, emitting bursts of osmanthus fragrance.
Below, she wore straight-legged pants, and at the junction with her little white shoes, the small edges of pure white cotton socks peeked out, making the girl look even more pure and lovely.
As she walked, the high ponytail behind her head swayed along, and a faint smile hung on her delicate and pretty face.
Her cherry-blossom pink lips parted and she began to chatter non-stop. Gu Ran scratched his head, feeling a bit of a headache.
He couldn't quite understand it: where did the untouchable flower on a high peak from when they first met go?
She was supposed to be a cool, stoic older sister, but she turned into a motherly girl???
And a nagging mother at that!
He sighed and said faintly, "It really isn't simple. I was just a little bit short of scoring 600 points."
"Exactly, you were just a little bit short. But let's not get discouraged, keep up the good work, there are still 160 days until the college entrance exam..."
Her words abruptly came to a halt. She suddenly widened her eyes, looking at Gu Ran beside her in shock.
"You... what did you just say you almost scored?"
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
g Yu was preparing for retirement when her organization decided to eliminate her. She transmigrated to a zombie apocalypse world. However, a tiny unexpected situation occurred: She somehow transformed into an adorable little girl?!
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
