Chapter 8: 8

Xu Sheng wasn’t the only one in trouble. Shao Zhan, who was separated from him by an aisle and who had clearly heard the words “function problem”, was not any better off.

No matter how calm Shao Zhan was, he didn’t even dare to think of what was going to happen next. 

After Shao Zhan entered the class, he pulled out his chair under Li Mingyong’s terrified gaze. The shirt he was wearing had been taken out from the closet by Xu Sheng and thrown at him. He had chosen a t-shirt with a relatively simple image.

Shao Zhan wasn’t suited for these types of large collars at all.

 

 

He lifted his head, pulled back his collar, and for some unknown reason, the image of Xu Sheng wearing the school uniform appeared in his mind.

A person like Xu Sheng, even though Shao Zhan hadn’t matched his face and his name together, he had still heard some rumours about him. 

This issue of not wearing the school uniform had been a big deal in the first year of high school.

 

Shao Zhan didn’t pay attention to these things, but back in the bedroom while changing clothes, he had been a bit startled after he accidentally walked in front of the mirror.

The look of Xu Sheng wearing a school uniform… was different from what he had thought, or rather, it was completely unexpected. If any teacher or student from Linjiang Sixth had pushed open the door and entered, they would have probably been rooted to the spot in shock.

The young man in the mirror was wearing the grey-blue school uniform. It still didn’t hide his sharp edges, but it showed a bit of a student-like spirit that wasn’t usually there. Xu Sheng was already tall in stature and naturally looked good in everything.

 

The “bad student” wearing the school uniform and walking around on campus would probably turn a lot more heads.

Shao Zhan finished changing his clothes and suddenly realised that he seemed to be the only person right now who had seen Xu Sheng in a school uniform.

After Shao Zhan had tossed away all thoughts of “Xu Sheng in a school uniform” out of his mind, across the aisle, his ex-deskmate was still anticipating “Shao Zhan’s” answer to this question on functions.

 

Shao Zhan let out a quiet “ahem”, signalling to Xu Sheng to not talk nonsense. 

Xu Sheng slowly closed his eyes. He didn’t know what to say at all now.

Shao Zhan’s deskmate’s gaze was passionate, shy, and full of expectation.

One look at this deskmate and it was obvious that he was the study god’s biggest fan. In fact, that was the truth. Ever since the seating arrangement had been released, Shao Zhan’s deskmate’s emotions seemed to shoot up into the clouds, the happiness knocking him out!

Although Shao Zhan usually didn’t care about other people at all, to be able to sit next to his idol and learn with him, progress with him, was already a huge honour. 

And as for Xu Sheng’s emotions, it was hard to describe.

He entered a short moment of silence, and an overwhelming sense of confusion swept over him.

He really didn’t know it.

Not only did he not know it, in this entire green book, but there was also no guarantee that after flipping through the entire thing there would be a single question he knew how to answer. 

But he still couldn’t say: You wait here, I’ll help you ask “Xu Sheng”.

While Xu Sheng had been memorising vocabulary words, he had been pretending to fidget with a pen. Now he really didn’t know how he should react, his fingers spinning the pen around in a circle–– From other people’s perspective, he looked cool and calm.

 

“This one, part c.” The deskmate mustered up his courage again and scooted his chair over closer to him. “Can you solve it using logarithm or prove it’s a monotonic function?”

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Luckily, Xu Sheng’s adaptability was not bad, and his mental disposition was strong, otherwise he wouldn’t have had this back-and-forth with Gu Yangwang for an entire year already. Other than the matter of the school uniform, he rarely got caught for breaking the rules.

Finally these messy thoughts and plans all disappeared. Xu Sheng surprisingly calmed down.

He fidgeted with the pen and languidly spun it around one more time. Under his deskmate’s anticipating gaze, he opened his mouth. “You don’t even know how to answer this question?”

The deskmate, “…” 

Shao Zhan who was across the aisle, “…”

Xu Sheng’s move was too fierce, striking first to gain the initiative. Shao Zhan’s deskmate bowed his head in shame after hearing it.

Xu Sheng continued, “It’s not that I’m not willing to teach you.”

Shao Zhan’s deskmate regained hope and sharply raised his head. 

Xu Sheng paused for a moment after saying that, then spun the pen around his fingers again. He sighed and spoke a sentence of utter bullshit. “It’s just that I don’t want to take away your ability to think independently.”

Xu Sheng pretended to ponder over part c of the question that he couldn’t even understand, then he habitually lowered his head and pulled the cap off the pen with his teeth. He drew a languid circle over the only words he could understand, “positive integer”. After circling that term, he didn’t even care about whether he had circled the right thing or not. He bit on the pen cap and said, “How about this, I’ll mark the important parts for you. Go and think about it yourself first.”

After Xu Sheng finished marking the important points, he capped the pen, and said with an authoritative air, “Think about it first, learn how to think independently.”

“Look at the question more, and feel the intention of the person who set the question. Ever heard of the philosophy of ‘seeing the truth after reading the question one hundred times’? Never mind, doesn’t matter if you’ve never heard of it. Now you have.” 

After Xu Sheng finished speaking, even he wanted to applaud this performance!

Shao Zhan’s deskmate’s eyes flashed with the gaze of someone who had been moved. “Study god…”

 

Xu Sheng was unabashed. “No need to thank me. It’s what I should do.”

“…” 

Shao Zhan lifted his hand to support his forehead. While he was relieved, he really couldn’t continue listening to this anymore.

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Although what Xu Sheng had said was all bullshit, it really sounded right upon the first listen, and it was an aura that made people stunned by all the bluffing. Shao Zhan’s deskmate actually started to think really hard about part c of the question.

Xu Sheng took the opportunity to get up slowly and walk out of the classroom by the back door. Before going out, he secretly kicked the leg of Shao Zhan’s chair, and said quietly, “You come out.”

The two of them met up in secret at the entrance of the corridor. 

During morning study, basically all of the students were inside the classroom, and very few of them went outside. Xu Sheng squatted on the steps of the staircase. Shao Zhan’s straight uniform had been worn by him until it looked casual. “What happened with that deskmate of yours?”

It had barely been a few days since school started. Shao Zhan wasn’t familiar with his deskmate. “Accident.”

Xu Sheng was too lazy to argue over this accident. He got up and pulled out the pen and paper he had hidden in his pocket. “We’ll deal with this later… First tell me how to do this question.”

Xu Sheng was finally able to ask the words he had been holding back for a long time. This was the first time in history that he was asking a student for help with a question like this, thirsty for knowledge. “What’s an intercept?” 

Shao Zhan, “The value of x or y when the function intersects the xy axis.”

Xu Sheng memorised those words and asked again, “Your deskmate asked whether you could use the logarithm, and the mono something, monotonicity?”

Shao Zhan sighed, and didn’t count on him and his ability level on being able to repeat this to his deskmate. “Give me the pen and paper.”

Xu Sheng passed the pen and paper over. 

Shao Zhan asked, “Did you copy down the question?”

For the first time, Xu Sheng noticed that in this way, he was actually able to exude an aura of “there are no questions in this world that I cannot answer”. It was like having cheats in a video game. Although he had heard a lot of people calling out the name of study god, this time he could really feel what it meant to be a “study god”.

It was really amazing.

Xu Sheng, “I copied it. On the paper.” 

Shao Zhan spread the paper out and pressed it on the wall and prepared to raise his pen to solve the question. After he saw the words on the paper clearly, he looked at those sentences quietly for a couple of seconds. “Come here.”

That tone of voice, Xu Sheng didn’t doubt that what he really wanted to say was “get your ass over here”.

 

Xu Sheng got up and walked over. Shao Zhan flipped the pen over, and used it to point at the two sentences that Xu Sheng had written. “What did you write, translate.”

Although there had been a small hiccup in the process of solving the question, the result was still quite fulfilling. 

When Shao Zhan’s deskmate had been looking at the question for the nth time already, Xu Sheng returned to class.

Shao Zhan’s deskmate was just about to say that reading the question a hundred times didn’t seem to be of any use, if he didn’t know how to solve part c then he really didn’t know it, when Xu Sheng crooked his finger and tapped it two times on the deskmate’s table. He then pushed the solution that Shao Zhan had written over. “If you can’t figure it out then never mind.”

The bullshit he had said before couldn’t just be tossed away. Under the deskmate’s worshipping gaze, he rubbed his nose and said, “But you still have to remember, learn to think independently.”

Shao Zhan’s deskmate engraved those words about independent thinking in his mind and nodded his head solemnly. 

During the morning self-study period, Gu Yanwang patrolled and inspected each class.

A sharp-eyed student saw Gu Yanwang coming and immediately gave a look to the other students in the class. The morning air and atmosphere was better, Gu Yanwang walked along the corridor from Class One to Class Seven, and didn’t notice anything unusual. He nodded his head in satisfaction, and said to the teacher at the side, “Looks like everyone’s learning atmosphere is well maintained today, their performance is…”

The words “very good” caught in his throat.

Just as Gu Yanwang was saying this, he happened to walk up to the second year’s Class Seven. Looking through the window from this angle, the situation in Class Seven could be seen at a glance. There was a “Xu Sheng” who had just flipped over a page of a manhua book. 

Gu Yanwang stood at the back door with an unhappy face. “Xu Sheng, stand up!”

Shao Zhan only realised two seconds later that this “Xu Sheng” was actually referring to him.

Gu Yanwang strode into the class. In order to see everything happening in each class clearly on his patrols, he had a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose. He took the manhua away, then lifted a hand to push up the frame of his glasses. “Do you know that it’s class time right now–– Looking at non-academic books during school, how does this help your future, with your self-development in life?!”

Gu Yanwang finished speaking, then asked, “Did you finish writing the disciplinary review from yesterday?” 

“… Yes.”

Shao Zhan bent down and took out the disciplinary review stack from under his table.

Gu Yanwang took the review as well as the manhua and lectured him again. Before he left, he instructed him “Stand, stand until the end of the self-study period. The other students, supervise him.”

Shao Zhan could more or less understand Xu Sheng’s feelings from just now: Sleeping, reading manhua. 

There hadn’t been a mention of standing as punishment.

Although the situation was different from what was expected, after this battle, the two of them were thinking the same thing: The most important thing is to solve the issue of sitting at the same table.

 

The aisle wasn’t wide, but there was still a distance between them.

It wasn’t convenient to do anything if they were sitting apart, and nobody knew when the next function problem was going to come. 

In conclusion, one sentence: Become deskmates to be safe.

In the office.

A big crowd of students had gathered in the office to hand in assignments.

Meng Guowei would never have expected these two students, Xu Sheng and Shao Zhan, to appear in front of him. 

He was preparing the materials for class later. He took a drink of water and said to “Shao Zhan”. “Have all the assignments been collected? Put it here. The two of you came here together, do you have something you want to talk about?”

Before Xu Sheng had come, he had already prepared his thoughts. He put the assignments down and said carefully, “Teacher Meng, there is something. Last time, about deskmates…”

Once Xu Sheng had said the word “deskmate”, Meng Guowei interrupted him. “I thought it was something else. You can rest easy on this matter.”

Rest easy? 

How to rest easy?

Xu Sheng hadn’t even finished saying his sentence before Meng Guowei had stopped his words.

Meng Guowei had already been brainwashed by the bullshit that Xu Sheng had pulled last time in the teacher’s office. While he prepared the class materials, he said, “I thought it through, and what you two said had some sense. I can’t force this issue of being deskmates. I definitely won’t change your seating arrangement.”

Shao Zhan, “…” 

Xu Sheng, “…”

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