Chapter 34: – Studying Hard
A few days after watching Chen Xinya's dance, Lin Jin finally began to attend classes seriously under the requirents of the black cat, and she could not skip any classes. Even the drawing course, which most of the classmates find annoying, she surprisingly went to attend early in the morning. This surprised many classmates who were familiar with her. Did Lin Jin, who was known in the class for skipping classes the most and had the reputation of being the "Little Prince of Skipping Classes" actually start attending classes?!
However, although she no longer skipped classes, Lin Jin still lacked motivation. Although she was not late, she played with her phone in class every day and never handed in howork. This made those classmates who thought she had turned over a new leaf slightly feel that Lin Jin might not have been "kicked in the head by a donkey" after all.
The first-year university curriculum, though not as compact as high school, still made Lin Jin feel sowhat overloaded. She had heard that by the second year, there would be hardly any classes for an entire week. This made Lin Jin think that perhaps it would be better after so ti.
Because one of the rewards was mastering her singing, Lin Jin no longer practiced her voice acting. Instead, she repeatedly listened to the song she was preparing to sing for the Chinese New Year's Eve gala, hoping to engrave this song deeply into her mind so that she would not make low-level mistakes like singing off key or forgetting the lyrics.
"Lin Jin, do you want to play table tennis?" After a day of class, Wu Min got a bit restless and began to coax Lin Jin to go out and play. "You don’t plan to stay in the dorm all day, do you? Go out and play, don't be a hobody every day."
"No money, I won't go." Lin Jin was half lying on the table, feeling so weak that she could hardly stand up. "And there were three classes today, don't you feel tired?"
"I'll treat you." Wu Min just received his living expenses today, and he was quite generous. "Today I have money. If you make
happy, I'll treat you to barbecue."
"No, I'm on my period" Lin Jin pouted and picked up her phone for a glance, realizing that it's already Thursday today.
Lin Jin's period had already ended yesterday, but she still used it as an excuse to refuse. After all, Wu Min didn't know whether her period was really over or not.
Although she had been attending classes these days, she never brought any books nor knew which course she was attending. Lin Jin was just passively following Wu Min and Wen Xuan to attend classes, which made her hardly rember what day of the week it was.
In a few days, there would be the weekly tasks again. She wondered what kind of nauseating tasks it would be this ti. Plus, the temporary task of scoring eighty points on the English quiz seed increasingly difficult to accomplish.
The Black Cat seed to be particularly quiet these past few days. It hadn't given her any ssy tasks, which made her sowhat unaccustod. Mainly because now was precisely the ti she urgently needed to use mory bread, but the Black Cat had suddenly disappeared.
What happened to the promise to compensate her with a simple task and reward her with master singing skills? How co this task is now so difficult that there's hardly any hope of completing it?
Indeed, the Black Cat is unreliable.
"Are you sure you won't go? Wen Xuan said he would go with . You'll be the only one left in the dorm." Wu Min was already putting on his shoes, planning to leave.
"I won't go" Lin Jin said, propping her cheek with one hand and searching online for English phonetics tutorials. At this point, she didn't even know how to read phonetics, let alone morize vocabulary. Even if she did morize words, she'd probably only cram them without knowing how to pronounce them.
"She's probably planning to hole up in the dorm all day." Wen Xuan stood next to Lin Jin, constantly looking at himself in the mirror on the closet door and casually teased Lin Jin. He suddenly rembered that Lin Jin was a girl and paused, then pretended as if he hadn't said anything and shouted at Wu Min, "Hurry up, it's already eight o'clock. We need to be back before ten for roll call."
"I know, I'll go wash my face and leave." Wu Min put on his shoes and walked towards the balcony. As he passed Lin Jin, he glanced at the computer screen and asked with so surprise, "Are you really planning to study seriously?"
"No sh*t."
Of course, she had to study English seriously, right? Although her English grades wouldn't improve much within a week, a week's ti was enough to lay a solid foundation. Then she could cheat with the mory bread, and she should be able to score eighty points on the quiz by then.
This task wasn't just about whether Lin Jin would fail the course or not. The task reward was also related to whether she could pass the program audition in about ten days, and whether she could get the ten thousand yuan from the chain task.
That's ten thousand yuan!
Lin Jin's eyes sparkled, as if she could see stacks of red bills waving at her. Then she wouldn't have to live frugally, worrying about spending all her living expenses on fun and not having money for food. She could also give her younger brother a combined coming-of-age and New Year gift.
Hmmm! She must work hard on studying English!
As soon as her roommate left, Lin Jin imdiately locked the door and began to learn phonetics from the video tutorial on her computer. Those phonetics weren't too difficult. Lin Jin had studied them before, but she had forgotten all about them because she hadn't reviewed them for a long ti. Now, picking them up again seed quite convenient. Except for a few difficult pronunciations, she felt she could morize them all in one night.
But she really wanted to play video gas...
After following the tutorial for half an hour, Lin Jin began to get restless. She glanced at the Dota 2 icon in the taskbar at the bottom of her computer screen, thought for a mont, and realized that she hadn't touched this ga for almost a week. Despite being constantly beaten in the ga, it had a unique charm that attracted her.
Especially when she was studying boring English...
"Think about that ten thousand yuan... Ten thousand yuan is beckoning to . Hold on for another week. After the quiz next Wednesday, I can play gas." Lin Jin kept mumbling to herself, trying to hypnotize herself with money.
Sure enough, the expectation of money overca the desire to play gas. Lin Jin took a deep breath and once again focused her attention on the computer screen.
"Hey, Lin Jin, do you want to play Dota?" The back door was suddenly knocked on. Turning her head, she found that Lin Xin was standing outside the door looking at her.
Imdiately pausing the video and minimizing the webpage, Lin Jin opened the door. Before she could speak, she heard Lin Xin mock her, "Don't hide it, I saw you studying English. I can't believe you're thinking about studying."
"What? You're trying to tempt
to play gas when you see
studying?" Lin Jin humd lightly, not bothering to hide anymore, and maximized the webpage. "I'm now inspired to study hard every day. To make my university life more aningful, I must leave behind my previous confused life!"
Lin Xin stood behind Lin Jin with his hands on the back of her chair, asking with a sowhat incredulous tone, "You actually have this kind of awareness?"
"Of course, I must have it, okay?" Lin Jin tilted her head back, with an arrogant look, "Please don't lump
together with ordinary people like you."
"Then I'll go play by myself. An ordinary person like
isn't worthy of playing gas with you." Lin Xin went along with Lin Jin's thoughts and left, "Study hard. In a few days when you give up, I'll co find you to play."
Finally getting rid of Lin Xin, Lin Jin sighed and locked the back door again, staring blankly at the computer screen.
"I wish I could play too..."
She suddenly rembered the scenes of herself studying hard in the past, was it in junior high school? At that ti, she was the top student in the class and among the top three in the whole grade. But ever since her father started gambling and drinking, and her mother left with her younger brother, she started to retaliate against her father and quickly fell into decadence, becoming a hoodlum who smoked, drank, and fought. Her academic performance plumted from the clouds to the abyss.
Picking it up again this ti, with a little effort, maybe I can beco the top student I was before?
Lin Jin chuckled, pulled out an English book from the pile of books on the shelf, and started learning vocabulary word by word using the voice translation feature on Baidu.
Translator’s Note: Baidu is basically a Chinese version of Google search.
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