After The Honest Person Was Discovered For Simultaneously Pursuing Three People - Chapter 69

Chapter 69: Too Simple

Although Occident’s academic style is “free” and the school is filled with an atmosphere of luxury and class, it is not vague when it comes to academics and exams. It can be said to be very efficient. They finish six subjects in one day, from morning to night, and time is very tight.

And because it adheres to an elite education, the management believes that the exam time should be reduced. Therefore, a test paper that should have taken one hundred and fifty minutes is stipulated to be completed in one hundred and twenty minutes, a twenty percent reduction. Similarly, the time for other test papers is also reduced by twenty percent.

So when the exam bell rings, even in the last mixed exam room, most students quickly stop goofing around, open their test papers, and start the exam. But as soon as they open the papers, everyone is stunned. There are only a few scattered sounds of pens starting to write.

More are angry whispers.

“Are they sick? Why is it math? What about the first exam being Chinese, as promised?!”

“They probably changed their minds at the last minute. It’s an old trick of Occident, heh heh.”

“Who understands? Last time they said the first exam would be English, but it turned out to be chemistry.”

…

Next year, I’m going to tell my dad to mix manure water into the cement when they repair their office building…”

Facing the densely packed test paper full of numbers, Liu Yuliang’s hands are trembling with nervousness.

The first exam is math?! Is this screening for elites? They’re just messing with their minds!

Liu Yuliang curses the higher-ups in his heart. Because he is a transfer student who came in with Tao Ning in the same batch, this exam concerns whether he can continue to stay at Occident and whether he can receive a high scholarship. Therefore, his mind is full of the upcoming exam, and he doesn’t pay attention to what’s happening in this exam room.

He just feels that the person sitting in the front smells very good. Other than that, it’s the hell-level difficult math test paper on his desk.

His mind is a blank slate, but after all, he has been a top student since he was a child. Liu Yuliang quickly recovers and gets into a state to start the exam. His hands don’t stop moving. The high intensity of the nervousness makes him one or two times faster than his usual speed of doing practice problems.

Until the whistle for the one-hour mark sounds, and the last word is written, Liu Yuliang lets out a long sigh of relief.

He can finally breathe for a while. He rubs his hand, which is almost sore from all the calculations. He looks up and sees a beautiful face staring blankly to his left. Even though half of his palm-sized face is covered by glasses, he can still see the young man’s exquisite profile.

Liu Yuliang is a little dazed and recognizes Tao Ning.

This transfer student is very famous on the forum and is also his classmate. But there are rumors that this transfer student’s health is very poor, and he takes time off every now and then. He definitely can’t keep up with the pace, and he will be forced to leave Occident after this exam.

Looking at Tao Ning’s dazed appearance, the two large sheets of calculation paper on his desk are blank. He probably saw that he couldn’t do the test paper and simply gave up. In this school full of children of the rich and powerful, Liu Yuliang has a subtle sense of unity with the transfer students from ordinary backgrounds.

Unable to bear Tao Ning’s dismal grades, which would make the already bad reputation of transfer students sink to the bottom, Liu Yuliang pokes the young man’s thin back with the tip of his pen while there is still some time left.

Feeling his back being poked a few times by a sharp object, Tao Ning comes back to his senses. The guy behind him urges in a voice that is breaking. “Here, hurry up. Don’t let the teacher find out…”

It is also because their seats are in the corner and the last exam room is loosely managed that Liu Yuliang dares to flatten his test paper and put it on the corner of the desk for the young man to copy openly.

What happened? Tao Ning is a little confused. After the exam bell rang, he only used less than half an hour to finish the test paper, because these questions are too simple compared to the math problems he usually does in all-English or all-German versions. Even if some of the questions are based on math Olympiad problems, they are very basic.

Tao Ning doesn’t even do calculations. He just circles the key values on the paper and writes the steps directly for the longer problems.

At first, he was worried that he wouldn’t be able to write the essay after the exam, but he didn’t expect the first exam to be math. Tao Ning is secretly happy. He’ll have time to look at “Example Essays for the Gaokao” later. After he finishes writing, he can’t help but look at Xu Jun, wanting to know what he is doing.

“Hey, are you still in a daze?” Seeing Tao Ning get lost in thought again, Liu Yuliang becomes even more anxious. He pats his math test paper, which is full of writing, as if he is frustrated with him.

He has never seen a person more slow-witted than Tao Ning. He doesn’t know to copy more now. In another ten minutes, the ending bell will ring, and then it will be too late. Is there something wrong with his brain? He really doesn’t know how Tao Ning got into Occident…

Tao Ning is stunned. He follows Liu Yuliang’s movement and looks at his test paper. Does he want to check the answers with him? He has encountered such classmates before. Those classmates would say he was a savior during every exam and beg him not to block his test paper. In general, Tao Ning would agree.

He quickly scans the test paper of the person behind him. Tao Ning says in a low voice, “The eighth question is wrong. The answer is A. The twelfth question should be BC… The last fill-in-the-blank question has two answers. It’s the square root of two and one-half of the square root of two… Is there anything else?”

He wants to tell him the answers for the rest, but Tao Ning tries hard to turn his head and can only see the first two pages of the test paper, not the ones after that.

Unexpectedly, after he says these words, Tao Ning finds that the person behind him is looking at him as if he is a fool or a mental patient. “Wh… What’s wrong?”

Liu Yuliang is completely speechless. If he was sympathetic to Tao Ning before, seeing him as a transfer student who was about to be kicked out and frustrated with him, now he thinks that Tao Ning is simply mentally ill and deserves to be kicked out later.

A person whose calculation paper is blank dares to tell him, a person whose math score is always around one hundred and twenty or thirty, the so-called answers?!

Who gave him the confidence?!

The last bit of his remaining sympathy is gone. Liu Yuliang rolls his eyes at him and silently takes back his test paper, letting Tao Ning fend for himself. He’s stupid and wants to save face. There’s no hope for him.

But out of a strange psychological need for comparison, Liu Yuliang, although he knows that Tao Ning’s answers are made up, can’t help but re-calculate those three questions. But the final results are all consistent with his own answers, so he becomes even more convinced that Tao Ning is completely hopeless.

Seeing that the classmate behind him went back to doing the problems after listening to his words, Tao Ning feels relieved. He must have been mistaken about the look in his eyes just now.

And Wang Peng, who is sitting next to Tao Ning and has seen all of this, is overjoyed. He is a rich second-generation kid who is here to pass the time, but getting a zero in math is also not acceptable.

Liu Yuliang was busy with the test and didn’t see that Tao Ning finished the test paper in less than half an hour, but Wang Peng, who didn’t even pick up his pen, saw it clearly. At that time, he was dumbfounded and called it a miracle.

After all, whether he was writing randomly or seriously, being able to fill up this hell-level math test paper in half an hour is a miracle worker. Therefore, in Wang Peng’s eyes, Tao Ning seems to be surrounded by holy light, dazzling and impossible to look at directly.

Although he doesn’t know what Tao Ning is communicating with the person behind him, he is free now. Wang Peng quickly covers half of his mouth with his hand and calls out, “Classmate, classmate, let me copy.”

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