Free Web NovelChapter 63: Chapter 59: Time to Work Hard to Accumulate Study Coins!
"To be accurate.
Zhao Linlin’s seat is also close to Sun Liang’s.
On either side of Sun Liang are beautiful girls, one of whom is his crush, Gao Yuan, so in total, he’s no worse off than Zhao Yi, except for the table being a bit too large and there being a bit more distance between people.
Zhao Linlin consciously sits far from Sun Liang, leaning towards Zhao Yi’s direction.
Lin Xiaoqing’s mouth is pouting in annoyance, her face filled with discontent; however, she’s sitting quite close to Zhao Yi.
Gao Yuan also puts some distance between herself and Sun Liang.
At a glance, it looks like Zhao Yi is caught between two beauties, while Sun Liang is sitting alone.
Zhao Yi doesn’t feel sorry for him at all.
What a great opportunity!
This is a chance I painstakingly created, but he doesn’t take the initiative to move closer. I don’t know what he’s being shy about - he’s a grown man.
Zhao Yi sneered at Sun Liang, and he started chatting with the girls on both sides.
Lin Xiaoqing is always grumpy.
Zhao Yi spoke a few more words with Zhao Linlin.
Then.
Lin Xiaoqing became more upset.
Lin Xiaoqing didn’t know what was wrong with herself. Seeing Zhao Yi chatting with Zhao Linlin made her heart flare up with anger. She knew there was something wrong, and felt weird inside.
What does Zhao Yi’s conversation with Zhao Linlin have to do with her?
Lin Xiaoqing felt frustrated.
Everyone in the school calls her a ’violent girl’.
That was just a rumor!
Back in the first year of high school, that male classmate who kept pestering her, even after she rejected his confession, wouldn’t let go of her arm and even tried to grab and touch her, behaving as though he wouldn’t let her leave unless she agreed.
At that time, she was furious!
It’s not good to resort to violence in school, but sometimes, girls need to protect themselves with force.
In the three years of high school, she never really resorted to violence against anyone else. Most of the time, she was just joking around. She often gets teased as ’violent’, and it always makes her angry, so she just acts tough.
Lin Xiaoqing knows how much her mother has sacrificed for her, and she can only repay her mother by studying hard.
Study hard!
Study relentlessly!
The most important thing in the senior year of high school is studying, striving to get into the best university, and she doesn’t even dare to think about anything else.
Recently, she has been getting distracted for no reason--
Zhao Yi’s words are so funny, he insulted people in such a roundabout way, and it took her a while to understand.
Zhao Yi is really impressive, not stumped by any competition questions.
When Zhao Yi is serious, he is kind of a bit handsome.
Zhao Yi is so thick-skinned, a narcissist...
Lin Xiaoqing firmly pursed her lips and turned her head to see Zhao Yi laughing there. Her heart was bursting with anger.
She knew this was wrong.
Zhao Linlin is her friend too, she shouldn’t get mad at Zhao Linlin for talking to Zhao Yi.
But...
"Zhao Yi is such a jerk!"
After thinking about it for a long time, Lin Xiaoqing couldn’t stop the fire in her heart with reason, so she simply turned her grief into appetite.
Eat!
Eat your heart out!
As she glared at Zhao Yi, Lin Xiaoqing kept stuffing her mouth with food.
Fatty beef, lamb, fish tofu...
Slippery shrimp, beef balls, duck blood...
Enokitake mushrooms, lettuce, potato slices...
"Xiaoqing, leave some for me!" Zhao Linlin, seeing this, hurriedly joined the food scramble.
The two of them, one mouthful here, two mouthfuls there, quickly cleaned out the food in the pot.
The others were dumbfounded.
Gao Yuan took a piece of lettuce, nibbled at it, and asked hesitantly, "Aren’t you afraid of getting fat? If I eat a little more, my weight goes up."
"Let it go up!"
Lin Xiaoqing continued to eat without a worry.
Zhao Linlin said bluntly, in a way that could infuriate someone, "I never gain weight!"
Zhao Yi quickly gave Sun Liang a look.
"Huh? What?" Sun Liang didn’t get it.
Zhao Yi sighed heavily.
When a girl starts talking about her figure, even if you’re not a sycophant, you should at least chime in with, "You’re beautiful enough as is. If you maintained your figure any more, how would other people live?", "You will always be the most beautiful in my heart.", "It doesn’t matter, I like you no matter what," etc.
In any case, it doesn’t hurt to say more.
Sun Liang, you idiot!
Zhao Yi quickly joined the food war, no longer looking after the others, just picking up his own meat, but still some pieces were snatched away by the girls on either side.
"I grabbed this with my chopsticks! It might have my saliva on it!" freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
Saying this didn’t help.
What was originally just a hot pot meal seemed to have turned into a ’Who Can Eat More’ competition, and Lin Xiaoqing voluntarily registered for the competition, her fighting spirit reignited.
Zhao Linlin didn’t want to lose either.
The two of them started squabbling.
Zhao Yi decided to not help on either side, just letting them eat their fill, after all, the stomach can only hold so much.
"Beep~~~"
The phone in his pocket suddenly began to vibrate.
Zhao Yi picked up the phone, saw it was an unknown number, pressed the answer key, and a clear voice sounded from the other end, "Hello, may I speak with Zhao Yi?"
"I’m the program manager from Nanjiang TV station. I’d like to ask if you are interested..."
"I’m not interested."
Zhao Yi interrupted impatiently, immediately hung up the phone.
Several people looked over.
Zhao Yi explained, "Scam call!"
Soon, he suddenly felt something was wrong. Isn’t the first thing a scam caller says usually ’Are you the owner of XXXX’s phone’? How did the other party know his exact name?
He took out the phone again, staring at the screen and started counting.
1, 2, 3, 4...
The screen lit up again.
The same number.
He pressed the answer key again and said into the speaker, "Sorry, I was just joking earlier. I am Zhao Yi."
The person on the other side sighed with relief and explained, "This is how it is. We are the program group of ’Brain Power Burst’ from Nanjiang TV station. We saw your performance in the ’Youth Cup Competition’ and noticed the honors you’ve achieved in the past."
"Our directorial team believes that you meet our program’s contestant requirements and would like to invite you to join ’Brain Power Burst’ as a contestant."
Zhao Yi listened patiently, asked with interest, "Is there a participation fee for this program? I’m sorry, I have no experience in this area, I want to know."
"Yes, our standard is that a regular contestant receives a five-thousand-yuan participation fee for each episode. It will increase if you advance to the next round, this is just the minimum standard..."
The person on the phone briefly explained.
Zhao Yi listened patiently until he more or less understood.
An ordinary contestant on "Brain Power Burst" would be paid according to the minimum standard for any appearance they make on the show.
If they keep advancing and increase their popularity, the participation fee will rise exponentially. Perhaps after a few rounds of progress, they could make several hundred thousand yuan for just one episode.
Once they gain recognition from the production team after coming to popularity, they could officially sign a contract.
By that time, they would be treated like a star.
Zhao Yi just wanted to understand the situation, he didn’t agree to it.
He never thought about becoming a star.
Ordinarily, he simply didn’t have the time. Joining a show certainly required taking time off, and he needed to focus on studying to improve his performance.
What’s most importantly is his lack of confidence.
Zhao Yi was sure that he was not a genius, the possibility of being eliminated for a mere few thousand yuan after participating in one episode was not worth it.
Besides, will such a show certainly be fair?
Hard to say.
"I’ll consider it!" Zhao Yi gave an uncertain response, but anyone who knew better would understand that he was basically refusing.
The phone call took quite long.
By the time Zhao Yi hung up the phone, everyone else had finished eating. They all curiously looked over.
Zhao Yi laughingly explained, "It’s nothing, maybe because I’m too handsome, a TV station called, they want to make me a popular male star. But what I love the most is..."
As he spoke, he glanced at Lin Xiaoqing and then at Zhao Linlin.
Blatantly blinking.
He continued, "So I refused!"
"Bullshit!"
"Narcissist!"
"You can even say such things!"
"Gros...."
...
The next day was another exam day.
Morning, Chinese.
Zhao Yi’s answering speed was quite fast, even his essay took only half an hour. The remaining time was spent on a poetry memorization problem.
If he wanted to get better results, he had to try his best to score all the points he could.
He just wrestled with this ’as if I would know, as if I could remember’ question.
"Keep cutting and abandon it, ____. Keep trimming and never give up, ____."
"What was it again?"
"I’m sure I can recite it, why can’t I remember it!"
"Keep thinking!"
Unfortunately, he couldn’t think of the answer until the exam ended.
After the Chinese exam, Zhao Yi unusually discussed the questions with classmates and got to know the answer: keep cutting and abandon it, rotten wood will not break. Keep trimming and never give up, gold and stone can be carved.
So that was it!
He found that battling with a question was really not a good idea. In the end, it was all for nothing and it just wasted his energy.
Afternoon, Comprehensive Science.
This was Zhao Yi’s weakest subject. He didn’t do many physics problems, and he only skimmed through chemistry, biology textbooks and experiments. There were quite a few problems that he struggled with and still couldn’t figure out.
However, the effect of the "Law of Cause and Effect" was not bad.
On some non-multiple-choice questions, the possible number of answers was limited, so he could obtain the correct answer by asking questions.
In the end, he managed to fill in all the blanks.
The monthly test was over.
The students were all a lot more relaxed.
Before the exam, many people worried about whether they could get into or stay in the elite class, but after the exam, fewer people talked about it, since talking about it was meaningless now, they just needed to wait for the final result.
Zhao Yi was also a lot more relaxed.
When he returned home that day, he rarely lazed around. He only reviewed the biology textbook and solved two mathematics function problems, as a review. Then he sat in front of the computer.
The ’Computer Technology Exchange Group’ still received a bunch of messages.
Originally, Zhao Yi wanted to chat with people in the group. Bragging and chatting could also relax his mind, but it turned out that the group was discussing the problem of electronic signal transmission.
He really didn’t understand this!
The field of computer science is too broad.
The related majors in college include Computer Science and Technology, Software Engineering, Network Engineering, Information Security, Internet of Things Engineering, Digital Media Technology, Intelligent Science and Technology, etc.
Each small area could branch into many subfields.
For instance, the software field.
The software on mobile phones and computers were definitely different, and the developed software had to adapt to various operating systems.
When segmented by design fields, there were also many differences, including desktop applications such as Java, C++, C#, VB, C.
Website server-side development like JSP, PHP, ASP, Web-App framework, etc.
Website client-side like HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash.
Further on with smartphones including Android using Java, iPhone using Objective-C.
Artificial intelligence’s Prolog, PDDL, general application layer data exchange processing technology such as XML/XPATH/XSLT, JSON, YAML.
And so on.
Most people engaged in software development work could only master one or a few of them, it was impossible to master all of them, let alone cross-field knowledge.
Zhao Yi simply closed the QQ software and decided to continue doing exercises.
Practice!
Foundation first!
He patiently completed a set of exercises and found that the learning efficiency was not very high, so he casually played some games. After finishing today’s ’Leisure Coins’, he opened the system and took a glance--
"Study Coins: 896."
He paused.
"The Study Coins are near nine hundred, very close to my goal of one thousand!"
Zhao Yi calculated carefully.
Up till now, it had been around a month and a half. Most of the time, he couldn’t max out the Study Coins, but averaged more than twenty, excluding daily consumption of Study Coins, he could save around fifteen per day.
15×45=675.
Plus the two hundred Study Coins rewarded for improving academic reputation, it should be about nine hundred in total.
"From tomorrow on, I need to work hard to save Study Coins!"
Zhao Yi was very excited.
The goal of one thousand Study Coins was within reach, he would gain a new ability by then.
One week, that should be enough!
