Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Wang Ling never expected that his overly stable grades would conversely draw Teacher Pan’s attention. He thought his existence in class would fade with his average grades – he never ever thought that Teacher Pan would in the end still pay attention to him.
As a pioneer teacher at No. 60 High, Teacher Pan had guided countless students toward entering key universities, and her intuition told her that Wang Ling was an extrely easy-going student. To get the average grade in class every ti – Teacher Pan even felt that in so sense, Wang Ling had talent.
Since he had talent, there was a lot of room for improvent.
But in previous years, a number of the parents and students had opposed the one-on-one tutoring. The parents were against them because there were tis when a boy and girl who were paired up might develop feelings for each other during the tutoring sessions, which wasn’t a good thing to happen at this critical ti. The reason why the students objected to it was that the one-on-one tutoring happened after class hours and used up a lot of energy beyond what they already spent on studying.
Why couldn’t the ti for the one-on-one tutoring be spent on sothing they were interested in?
Thus, after giving the matter ample consideration, Teacher Pan decided to first do a test run with Wang Ling. If the results were good, the sessions could slowly be implented on a wider scale; a roster system could even be set up.
For example, if Student A helped Student B’s grades to improve, Student A’s task was done, and it would then fall to Student B to tutor Student C. Not only would students learn sothing this way, but in helping others, they would also consolidate their own knowledge.
So, here was the question.
Who should tutor Wang Ling in his studies?
“Is there anyone here who would be willing to tutor Student Wang Ling?”
“…” Zhenyuan and Gu Shunzhi fell silent.
Tutor?
What could they tutor Wang Ling in? Wouldn’t that be like teaching your grandmother to suck eggs?
When no one responded, Teacher Pan’s gaze swept over the class committee mbers who were present. All of them had above average grades, and it was the two new students who had the best grades.
But considering that they had just joined the school, Teacher Pan felt that getting them to help Wang Ling right away would imply that No. 60 High didn’t have a great academic track record. In addition, she could tell from their conflicted expressions that they didn’t seem willing to do any tutoring.
Hence, Teacher Pan made the final decision after considering the overall situation.
“Student Lotus Sun, I’ll give the task of tutoring Student Wang Ling to you. Any questions?” As soon as Teacher Pan said that, everyone’s eyes lit up. They looked at Lotus Sun’s very red face before turning to look at the expressionless Wang Ling with extrely complicated feelings.
After the spirit sword exchange et, all the rumors about this pair gradually subsided. Now that Teacher Pan had put them together again, it felt like a lifeti ago.
Teacher Pan naturally had her own reasons for pairing them up.
There had indeed been rumors around school before that Wang Ling and Lotus Sun were dating and that they liked each other. The issue, however, was that this news later disappeared. In the end, Teacher Pan heard that it was because Wang Ling’s temperant was too cold, and so they had drifted apart.
Cold was good!
In terms of feelings, as long as one side was cold, it was impossible for anything to happen!
Hence, Teacher Pan felt that there weren’t any problems with this pairing.
Wang Ling: “…” To hell with no problems!
…
Shortly after the class committee eting, the whole class found out about the one-on-one tutoring sessions. Apart from that, the thirty-three PE lessons which they had been deprived of naturally beca another hot topic of discussion.
“Why didn’t you fight for it?!” soone complained.
“You know what Old Pan is like – is there any use fighting?” Super Chen shrugged helplessly. His title as sports committee mber had long beco an empty one. They actually wouldn’t even get all thirty-three lessons; the PE teachers might go off on a research trip or might fall ill collectively – these lesson periods might be snatched away for all sorts of mysterious reasons… It would be a miracle if they could get twenty PE lessons this sester.
Since the second half of Senior Grade One was already like this, it was inevitable that everyone would start worrying about their days in Grade Two and Grade Three, and they distinctly felt the pressure. Once they actually reached Grade Three, they could forget about PE classes altogether… Usually, the school would just round up the students for intensive training before the PE exam.
As for the two whom Teacher Pan had roped together, Wang Ling and Lotus Sun had their own thoughts.
When it ca to feelings, Lotus Sun knew she had run into an iron plate this ti… Throughout the first sester, she had racked her brain for ways to catch Wang Ling’s attention, but in the end, all he ever did in class was rest his head on one hand and look out the window.
She thought at first that their relationship would progress after the spirit sword exchange et, but who would have thought that Wang Ling truly didn’t plan to date anyone.
A lon that was forcibly split open wasn’t sweet; Lotus Sun of course knew this.
But no matter what, this one-on-one tutoring session was a very rare opportunity.
She felt it was ti to let out what she had been hiding inside her heart for so long.
The outco didn’t matter.
On the other side, Wang Ling seed to have sothing on his mind at that mont.
…
School had ended and everyone had already left the classroom. Wang Ling and Lotus Sun sat facing each other over a desk.
She was flipping through his mistakes and test papers.
After all, her main task was to help Wang Ling with his studies and improve his grades; as for personal matters, they could wait to talk about it after the tutoring.
She examined each of his mistakes very conscientiously, and in the end was utterly astonished. “Classmate Wang Ling…”
“???”
“How are your mistakes so consistent?”
“…”
Lotus Sun checked Wang Ling’s test papers from beginning to end, and discovered that a lot of the mistakes which Wang Ling made were minor ones, such as missing units, deliberately leaving out so symbols, or getting the last step in solving a question wrong… Furthermore, his answer was very close to the correct value.
All of these were actually tricks Wang Ling tended to use to keep his scores down.
If he didn’t write down the units of asurent in a test paper, he could ensure that he lost ten marks for it.
There were tis when he deliberately wrote the paper in a slovenly hand, and five marks or so might be taken off for it.
Wang Ling didn’t care about losing these sorts of marks at all.
On the contrary, units of asurent and whatnot were nothing more than a ans of keeping his scores down.
Lotus Sun then copied down several questions in an exercise book.
She didn’t copy the exact questions, but changed so of the variables.
At last, she pushed the exercise book in front of Wang Ling. “Classmate Wang Ling, these are the questions you got wrong; can you do them one more ti?”
Gazing at the exercise book, Wang Ling sank into silence.
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