Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 62: Chapter 58: Is he really doing this for me?

The papers for the monthly test have been upgraded.

To make grading easier for the teacher, there is now an answer sheet for English.

Even if it’s just half a sheet of A4 paper with a few simple spaces printed on it, and a large blank lined area left at the bottom for essay questions, the whole feel changes with the addition of the answer card.

Zhao Yi scanned the questions on the test paper while filling in the letters on the answer card.

For him, the English exam was truly simple.

By the time Teacher Niu Lianhua had set up the tape recorder on the podium for the listening comprehension part, he had already finished a reading comprehension question.

Listening comprehension!

Easy!

Like other students, Zhao Yi listened and looked at the questions simultaneously. His speed of answering was shockingly fast. Often, as soon as a question was finished, he had already written the answer without consideration.

Niu Lianhua leisurely strolled over to Zhao Yi and even stopped to watch him answer the questions.

Zhao Yi glanced behind him.

A sudden realization!

Low key!

After the listening comprehension part ended, he turned to the last page and started working on the short passage correction section.

Usually, during English class, he was almost always earning ’Rest Coins’ and hardly ever focused but still managed to do a few sets of correction questions and slowly found some patterns.

The mistakes in the short passage correction section often appeared in the form of incorrect use of grammar or words.

For example, using the progressive tense instead of the past tense. free𝑤ebnovel.com

For example, changing go with come.

The above are the simplest examples, but similar mistakes occur frequently, and it becomes relatively easier after finding the pattern.

Zhao Yi spent the most time on the short passage correction section.

Writing the essay was easy.

The topic was ’Speech Manuscript for Organizing an English Speaking Competition’. He just had to write according to the criteria listed below.

After completing the essay, he went back to the reading comprehension section.

Within ten minutes.

Everything was done.

He waited for about another ten minutes to make the total time an hour, then he raised his hand and called out, "Teacher Niu, I want to submit my paper!"

"Hand it over!"

Niu Lianhua was standing on the podium. She took Zhao Yi’s paper with a smile, and then whispered, "Don’t hurry to leave, I have something to ask you."

She walked towards the classroom door.

Zhao Yi followed her.

Looking at Zhao Yi, Niu Lianhua hesitated for a moment before asking, "Zhao Yi, the thing you said at Happy Valley last time, was it true?"

"What?" Zhao Yi was a bit confused.

"About Teacher Xue..."

Zhao Yi shook his head in frustration, "You guys misunderstood. I can’t tell fortunes. I was just making up stuff then because I didn’t want him to be fooled out of his money."

He started pondering internally.

When Teacher Xue asked about the fortune-telling, he told Teacher Xue to ask Teacher Shen Yan herself, so did...Teacher Xue immediately take action?"

He must have been rejected!

So, the teachers got wind of the news and started gossiping?

Zhao Yi felt that he should exclude himself. If Teacher Shen Yan knew and blamed him, it would be a problem. "Teacher Niu, I just told Teacher Xue to be brave. I really don’t know what he was planning to do!"

"Ok, you can go now!"

Niu Lianhua waved her hand, letting Zhao Yi go first.

When she returned to the podium, she thought as she considered the important information she had gathered, "Is it because of Zhao Yi? Zhao Yi told Xue Pinggui to be brave, to be brave towards me, to be brave..."

"So, he’s feeling guilty? He’s afraid to see me? He’s even scared when he sees me?"

Niu Lianhua’s face turned slightly red, and she muttered disdainfully under her breath, "Coward!"

She lifted her head.

She noticed that the students were whispering to each other, with an abrupt change in her expression, her eyes flared as she bellowed, "What are you doing? All of you! This is a test! Have you all finished?!"

"If anyone else looks up or looks around, stop doing the paper and hand it in directly!"

...

The examination ended.

The students gathered together to compare answers, and many came to ask Zhao Yi.

Lin Xiaoqing leaned over to Zhao Yi, "What was the last option for the multiple-choice questions?"

"I forgot."

"What about the penultimate one?"

"I forgot."

"And the reading comprehension? The last one is really hard..."

"I, forgot, okay!"

Zhao Yi felt a headache coming on. He really didn’t remember the questions and had no interest in comparing answers.

He got them all correct anyway.

Lin Xiaoqing made a sullen face and turned her head away, ignoring Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi was now free to focus on math problems. The math exam was in the afternoon. Reviewing a few function and spatial set questions was beneficial.

Lin Xiaoqing was even more angry.

The two didn’t talk to each other all morning.

In the afternoon.

The math test.

Zhao Yi wracked his brain against the questions, considering that his math skills had returned to their original level or even higher, and coupled with the ’Causality Law’ effect, he figured getting a good score shouldn’t be too hard.

In the end...

It was devastating!

He got stuck on the very first major problem, lost in a complicated calculation. Math problems and calculations go hand in hand, but when the calculation process gives you a headache, it means you’ve definitely messed up somewhere.

Despite using the Causality Law, it took Zhao Yi twenty minutes to find the answer to the first problem.

"I can’t continue like this!"

Feeling overwhelmed by the difficulty of the test paper, he decided to start with the easier sub-questions and leave the complex ones until the end.

Still, he managed to fill up the entire paper.

Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions were fine.

The only major question he was entirely sure about was the first one.

As others started handing in their papers, they were all complaining--

"This is torture!"

"I couldn’t finish even one major problem!" freewebnσvel.cøm

"I only managed to solve one sub-question in the last problem!"

"Why is it so difficult?"

The teacher in charge of collecting the papers, who also happened to be their high school math teacher, quipped as he left, "Don’t complain about the difficult questions, it has been known that Nanjiang’s college entrance exam alternates between difficult and easy questions every year. Last year, the questions were easy, so this year, it was bound to be hard."

"But this is simply too difficult!"

"It’s insane!"

"I might fail this time!"

Sighs filled the classroom.

Only Sun Liang seemed happy. He happily said to Zhao Yi, "I didn’t finish the last question!"

"What’s there to be happy about?"

"I can score higher in Math now! I’m confident I can aim for the top five this time!"

His smile made you itch to smack him.

Zhao Yi held back his urge to get physical, but Sun Liang continued to discuss the topic well after the class had ended, "Hey, remember the bet? You only mentioned how you would treat me if I scored lower, but what will you do if I outscore you?"

"I should eat shit and you also..."

"Gao Yuan!"

Zhao Yi yelled out abruptly.

The slightly chubby cute girl in the front row turned around. She was always naturally smiling, which was very infectious and instantly put you at ease. This was none other than Gao Yuan from class six.

"Zhao Yi? Did you call me?" Gao Yuan asked.

Zhao Yi pointed at Sun Liang while cheerfully responding, "No, Monkey here was saying...."

"Don’t listen to him, I didn’t say anything, I swear!" Sun Liang was practically hanging onto Zhao Yi’s arm, visibly distressed like a drowning man.

Zhao Yi further teased, "Monkey was saying that he did well in his Math exam today, so he wants to treat us to dinner. Are you free?"

At this, Sun Liang froze.

Gao Yuan was surprised, she glanced at Sun Liang and hesitated, "My mom doesn’t know, she will worry..."

"It’s all right."

Zhao Yi retrieved a Nokia ’brick’ phone from Sun Liang’s pocket and handed it to Gao Yuan, "Just make a call."

"But..."

Despite having the phone in her hand, Gao Yuan still hesitated. Going out for dinner with two boys did not seem particularly safe to her.

Meanwhile...

Lin Xiaoqing approached rapidly, wrapping an arm around Gao Yuan’s shoulder, "Monkey is treating? Count me in!"

"Don’t swear, okay?"

Zhao Yi gently reminded them.

Hearing this, Lin Xiaoqing was immediately provoked. She glared at Zhao Yi and was about to retort when Zhao Linlin chimed in, "I want to go too, is that okay?"

She asked Sun Liang but was looking at Zhao Yi.

"Sure!"

Zhao Yi agreed with a laugh, "The Monkey is treating us, which is a once-in-a-lifetime event!"

Lin Xiaoqing’s anger was further ignited at his comment.

The group decided to go to a hot pot restaurant together, and each called their families to report their plans. Throughout the entire process, Sun Liang did nothing more than nod apprehensively, not uttering a single word.

Once at the hot pot restaurant, they settled into a small round table.

Zhao Yi took the main seat facing the entrance and yelled at Sun Liang, "Don’t sit next to me, you reek!"

"You’re the stinky one!"

Sun Liang was about to explode with anger.

Zhao quickly whispered to Lin Xiaoqing, "Don’t let me sit next to Gao Yuan, my charm is too overwhelming."

"Shameless!"

Regardless, Lin Xiaoqing ended up sitting to Zhao Yi’s left, successfully separating him from Gao Yuan.

Sun Liang was banished to the other side of the table.

Zhao Linlin had no choice but to sit to the right of Zhao Yi.

So, Sun Liang ended up sitting next to Gao Yuan.

At first, Sun Liang was secretly grateful to Zhao Yi, thinking he was a true pal. But when he noticed Zhao Yi was sandwiched between Lin Xiaoqing and Zhao Linlin, Sun Liang’s gratitude ran dry.

On either side were two stunning beauties.

Wait a minute...

Was this really for my sake?