Mo Juecheng’s voice wasn’t loud and the few students sitting beside Lin Shen could hear it.
“No whispering!” Even Li Xuqian who was at the door turned his head back and looked at the classroom.
He pushed his glasses up and frowned, “Hurry up and use your time wisely to finish the exam!”
The classroom fell quiet once again.
The corner of Mo Juecheng’s lip curled up with a hint of sarcasm, and his deep gaze swept across Lin Shen’s face.
He was trying to be provocative.
At noon, he wasn’t able to react in time and so Lin Shen ran away.
Later, he asked someone to check and look at the other party’s unbearable report card, as well as his ‘brilliant’ past report cards.
Mo Juecheng even wondered if Lin Shen had drugged at noon, otherwise how could he have been fooled by this guy?
Currently, the dead last student in the class, Lin Shen, looked calmly at Mo Juecheng.
He quickly withdrew his gaze, and turned his attention back to his own exam paper.
“I said……” Mo Juecheng moved his chair closer to Lin Shen, “Zero point king.”[mfn]Always getting 0’s[/mfn]
His lips were almost touching Lin Shen’s ear as he whispered to him, “What are you going to say to lie to me this time?” As he spoke, he glanced at Lin Shen’s table.
Lin Shen’s exam paper was already filled with writing.
The draft paper that was handed to them wasn’t used much.
However, on the draft paper, three large letters were written on it——
“STT” !
Su Tiantian? !
Mo Juecheng’s gaze suddenly became as sharp as an ice blade, and he coldly shot them at Lin Shen.
He can’t believe that the other party hasn’t given up on Su Tiantian yet!
Mo Juecheng stretched out his hand and slammed it on Lin Shen’s draft paper with a “pa”.
He raised his head and stared at him coldly.
“Mo Juecheng!” Li Xuqian just finished discussing things with his colleagues.
As soon as he turned around, he saw that the other, even more difficult, super problematic student in his class, Mo Juecheng, was sitting together with Lin Shen.
“What are you guys doing?” Li Xuqian frowned.
Two senior high school students, one is over 1.8 metres tall and the other one isn’t short either, squeezing behind Lin Shen’s not-very-spacious single desk.
Sitting squeezed like this behind Lin Shen’s not-so-spacious single desk.
No matter how you looked at it, it was weird.
“Hurry up and go back to your own seat, use your time wisely to answer the questions!” Li Xuqian said again.
He wasn’t worried about the two cheating.
Lin Shen, was deathly stable with month after month, year after year, being dead last.
Mo Juecheng was too proud. If he wanted to copy someone else’s answer, the number one in the grade would give it to him with both hands.
But he disdained it.
After the homeroom teacher finished speaking, all the students in class F turned their heads and looked at Lin Shen and Mo Juecheng in unison.
“Teacher.” Lin Shen said, “I’ve finished. Can I hand in my papers?”
Li Xuqian: “……”
Yes it’s all filled in, but that doesn’t mean it’s done![mfn]The papers finished and completely filled, but was probably done half-heartedly/incorrectly just to get the exam over with.[/mfn]
He nodded with a complicated expression.
Lin Shen reached out and tried to take his exam paper back.
But Mo Juecheng’s hand was still pressed on his draft paper.
“What is this?” He ignored the homeroom teacher’s scolding and continued to look at Lin Shen.
Then, he said coldly in a voice that only two people could hear, “Su Tiantian? Is it that you don’t want to stay in Xingshang anymore?”
“You’re mistaken.” Lin Shen lowered his voice and whispered back.
What was written on the paper was indeed the abbreviation of Su Tiantian’s name.
After finishing the exam, Lin Shen still had some time and got lost in thought.
He was wondering why he had transmigrated into this specific book.
Is it because he had that dream? !
That’s right! Lin Shen admitted.
For a long time, he had indeed relied on Yan Shuo, who always gave him warmth and comfort when he was down.
But that kind of dependance should only be because he was the second child in the family.
Above him was a brilliant genius elder brother, and below him was a beloved younger adored by everyone.
He couldn’t help but press his lips together.
Subconsciously, he reached out to touch his wrist again
In his dream, Yan Shuo treated him the same way. He tightly grasped Lin Shen’s wrist and pinned him against the wall. He was slightly taller than Lin Shen and could completely envelop him in his embrace.
Yan Shuo’s chest was pressed tightly against his own…
Lin Shen was a little frustrated, “Why didn’t it feel like anything in the dream?!”
He suddenly really wanted to know—would the Yan Shuo in his dream have a fast-beating heart?
Would his palm be as burning hot as Mo Juecheng’s…?
At that very moment, Lin Shen made up his mind—
He had to go back!
Even if it cost him his life, he had to go back!
Not just because of his family. More importantly, he wanted to figure out exactly how he felt about Yan Shuo!
He wanted to know—if Yan Shuo really pinned him against the wall…
Uh, he considered that Yan Shuo might not treat him the same way as in his dream.
Or maybe, he could try it himself—if he were to pin the gentle, neighborly big brother against the wall, would the other person’s heartbeat be as fast as his was right now?
Lin Shen, with this unwavering determination, resolutely wrote the three large letters “STT” on the scrap paper.
He just hadn’t had time to write “MJC” yet.
Su Tiantian, the female lead!
Mo Juecheng, the male lead!
From the ten or so novels Lin Shen had read, he knew one thing.
If he wanted to go back, he would most likely have to follow the entire plot of the novel.
In these Mary Sue romance novels, as long as the male and female leads got together, the story would end.
So…
Lin Shen turned his head and looked firmly at Mo Juecheng, who was very close to him at this moment.
“You got it wrong.” His tone was calm, and he once again exuded the confidence he had used at noon to fool the other person. “I have no feelings for her.”
Mo Juecheng, “ …I don’t believe this nonsense!”
Lin Shen spoke as he took out a pen and quickly drew an XY-axis coordinate graph beneath the three letters “STT.”
Then, he casually sketched a straight line on it.
He showed it to Mo Juecheng and said, “This is an ST graph, a displacement-time diagram.”[mfn]I think this is more commonly known as “d-t graph”[/mfn]
Mo Juecheng: “…”
Lin Shen continued, “The last ‘T’ is uppercase, meaning ‘period.’ Be careful not to confuse it with the lowercase ‘t,’ which represents time.”
Mo Juecheng: “…”
At that moment, their homeroom teacher, Li Xuqian, also walked over.
He was the physics teacher for Class F. Now, he was looking at the diagram Lin Shen had drawn on the scrap paper.
Li Xuqian raised an eyebrow.
What Lin Shen said was just basic high school physics—nothing remarkable.
But hearing it from someone who had scored zero on last semester’s final physics exam made it rather intriguing.
“Teacher,” Lin Shen looked up at him, “Am I right?”
“…Yes.” Li Xuqian nodded with a complicated expression.
“See?” Lin Shen said to Mo Juecheng. “I wasn’t lying to you.”
Mo Juecheng: “…”
It did sound reasonable, but why did he still feel like he was being tricked again?
“Teacher, I’m handing in my paper.” Lin Shen pulled his exam paper out from under Mo Juecheng’s palm and handed it to the homeroom teacher.
Then he stood up and calmly packed his things.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone in Class F, including Li Xuqian and Mo Juecheng,
he strode confidently out of the classroom.
Li Xuqian lowered his head and quickly glanced at the densely written exam paper in his hand.
At least for the big questions, the steps looked clear and correct.
He instinctively looked at Mo Juecheng. “Did he do this himself?”
Mo Juecheng was baffled. “…Why are you asking me?”
The classmates and the homeroom teacher exchanged subtle glances.
Before the exam, everyone had clearly seen him voluntarily switch seats to sit next to Lin Shen.
And now, he was practically sitting in Lin Shen’s spot!
Mo Juecheng’s face darkened. “…Yes, he did it himself.”
After saying that, he stopped writing his own paper, hastily scribbled his name in bold strokes, and shoved it at Li Xuqian.
Then he stood up and strode out of the classroom.
He needed to find Lin Shen and ask him why the whole situation was heading in such a strange direction.
Outside the teaching building, Lin Shen hadn’t gone far.
He was standing under the nearest shade tree.
When he saw Mo Juecheng walk out with a cold expression, Lin Shen’s eyes lit up instantly.
He quickly stepped forward. “Mo Juecheng!”
Blocking Mo Juecheng’s path, Lin Shen said seriously, “I have something to tell you.”
Just now, he had completely sorted out the main storyline of the novel in his mind.
To reach the ending quickly, Mo Juecheng and Su Tiantian needed to get together as soon as possible.
Which meant…
Lin Shen looked at Mo Juecheng expectantly. “Classmate, you saw it just now—I’m very good at physics. Let me tell you, my math, chemistry, and biology are even better than my physics. So…”
Lin Shen took a deep breath. “Do you need tutoring? No charge. The kind that can get you into the top thirty in the province for the college entrance exam.”
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