Chen Hang rolled his eyes: "You think girls are so easy to pursue? And you're going to go all out? Do you think this is like fighting?"
"How is it different?" Su Jinning put on a reasonable expression and continued, "It's like fighting. If you get carried away and charge forward, isn't that all you have to do?"
"Oh!" Chen Hang smirked and tapped Su Jinning's chest with his finger: "You really have someone in your heart, Ning-ge. Now you even talk about love and romance."
"Come on!" Su Jinning laughed and pushed him away. "Aren't you the same?"
"Sigh!" Chen Hang leaned back with his hands behind his head while Yan Sheng sat down to assign them homework, and said with some emotion, "This thing is not so easy to talk about. If it were as simple as fighting, I would have confessed my feelings long ago."
Su Jinning smiled but didn't say anything.
"But speaking of which," Chen Hang leaned closer again, somewhat nervously, "who exactly is the person you like? What does she look like? Do I know her?"
Su Jinning knew he was about to launch into a barrage of probing questions, so she simply pushed him away, saying, "Alright, you'll find out later."
Chen Hang rolled his eyes and complained that he wasn't loyal enough: "I've already told you who I like, and you're still keeping it from me?"
“That doesn’t count as telling him.” Su Jinning argued with him while writing down tonight’s homework in her notebook: “Even a three-year-old could see that.”
"..."
Chen Hang knew he couldn't win an argument with him, and he didn't have as many arguments as him, so he could only awkwardly cross his arms and say, "Stop talking about me, why don't you just confess your feelings?"
Su Jinning paused for a moment, then burst out laughing.
"What are you laughing at?"
"No." Su Jinning shook her head helplessly, then looked up at Chen Hang mysteriously: "I'm afraid of scaring my little darling."
"???"
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In the afternoon, Yan Sheng gave them a short quiz. There weren't many questions, only two pages, and they could finish it in about a break. He said it was to test whether the students had been memorizing formulas and key points recently.
Su Jinning was quite nervous when he received the test paper. It was a paper he had previously thrown away, but holding it in his hands made him feel uneasy. He even wondered if he had test phobia.
It's especially serious now.
He carefully read the questions and found that many of them were the types of questions Yan Sheng had explained in the past two days, as well as some he had casually heard about before. He had a very good memory and could memorize them perfectly after reading them once or twice. So he carefully and cautiously completed half of each question.
Su Jinning felt that taking notes during class recently had been effective. Some formulas that she couldn't understand before were now easy to understand and apply to her studies, even with just a little explanation from the teacher.
However, he spent more time on the later, more challenging questions and the bonus questions, and in some cases, he only managed to answer the first two questions.
In the end, he solved four major problems, but one of them was incomplete.
However, this was already a great achievement for him in the past. If it were any other time, he might have boasted about it to Chen Hang for two or three days, but now, he felt somewhat resentful.
When the third period ended and everyone gathered together chatting and laughing, Su Jinning was still pondering the questions from the previous lessons in her notes and textbook, thinking about which questions she had gotten wrong.
Chen Hang and Song Wenmiao gathered around him as usual, playing around, but seeing that he was studying, they didn't dare to disturb him.
"Su Jinning! The teacher wants to see you in the office!" Yin Xinxin stepped in from the doorway, her famously loud voice ringing out from inside.
Su Jinning was taken aback at first: "Ah, you're here."
The people around him exchanged glances, and Song Wenmiao spoke first, asking, "What's wrong, Brother Ning? Don't tell me you've gotten into trouble lately, okay?"
"Get lost! Can't you speak properly?" Chen Hang retorted to Song Wenmiao, then turned and praised him very obsequiously, "Brother Ning has been studying so diligently lately! So eager to improve every day! So..."
"Get out! Get out!" Su Jinning slapped Chen Hang across the neck, then left without looking back.
Su Jinning entered the office and found Yan Sheng, Han An, and Jin Shuoshuo. Several teachers, including Yan Sheng, were gathered around Jin Shuoshuo's office, making it seem to anyone who didn't know better that his class's homeroom teacher was holding a private meeting.
Looking at the scene before him, he hesitated, suddenly feeling that such a large-scale operation might not be a good thing.
But the next second, the teachers' overjoyed expressions startled him again. Jin Shuoshuo waved his hand, urgently gesturing for him to come in: "Why are you standing at the door? Come on over!"
Su Jinning hesitated for a moment, but resigned herself to her fate and went to stand among the teachers.
The oppressive and awkward feeling almost suffocated him. He couldn't understand why these teachers had gathered around him and called him here. He hadn't been fighting or skipping school recently. Unable to guess, he could only stand there and await their fate.
"Come here!" Just as Su Jinning was feeling a bit flustered, Yan Sheng suddenly tugged at her arm, startling her. But Yan Sheng didn't notice and casually picked up a test paper from the table: "Come and see your score."
"Um... teacher." Su Jinning didn't like beating around the bush. Hearing Yan Sheng's words, he probably already knew why. He lowered his eyes, preparing to accept it frankly: "I didn't do very well on this exam, I know, so you..."
"What are you saying?" Jin Shuoshuo suddenly interrupted him. Several teachers then burst into laughter.
Su Jinning was speechless, frozen in place. He remembered that he had answered a few questions correctly, so how could his grade be so bad... that the teachers were laughing in exasperation?
Han An patted Su Jinning on the shoulder, seemingly noticing his anxiety: "Don't always think the worst. On the contrary, you did very well on the math test just now."
"Yes!" Yan Sheng picked up the test paper, his tone revealing a rare kindness and satisfaction: "In this quiz, your math score surpassed that of thirty other students in the class."
"Looks like you've been studying hard these past few days, you brat!" Jin Shuoshuo teased him with a smile, arms crossed.
Su Jinning seemed not to understand, staring blankly at the teachers around her: "Me? More than... thirty classmates?"
Yan Sheng nodded confidently: "Although this test was not large in scale and had few questions, you scored 80 out of 100!" Yan Sheng's last sentence was delivered with great emphasis, hitting Su Jinning right in the heart.
Han An added, "Recently, his attitude towards studying has been very positive. He doesn't sleep in my classes anymore, and he always takes notes." Han An turned to him and smiled with satisfaction.
Su Jinning was still reeling from the surprise and thought it was all too real, so he stood there dumbfounded.
Jin Shuoshuo happily put his hand on Su Jinning's shoulder: "I knew it! This kid is really smart. He was number one in the class in junior high! It's just that he didn't study hard in high school!"
Yan Sheng laughed and said, "I also think this kid isn't stupid, he just hasn't put his mind to it, has he?"
Su Jinning nodded modestly, a sense of accomplishment suddenly washing over him. Although it was just a small test, and it wasn't particularly impressive for a class of over sixty students to outperform thirty, he felt that if Shen Moyu knew, she would be happy for him.