bdsm-fiction Chapter 6: I bet you have a 1-point advantage.
Chapter 6: I bet you have a 1-point advantage.
"I heard that we're not betting on the total score, only on the combined science score. And we need to precisely score one point higher than Li Hao."
"My God, this isn't gambling, this is performance art."
The atmosphere in Class 7 had become extremely subtle.
Li Hao hasn't provoked anyone for the past three days. He's like a processor that's suddenly switched to overclocking mode, arriving at the classroom at 5:30 every morning and leaving last at 11:00 at night.
His desk was piled high with past exam papers from the city-wide joint exam, internal mock exams from prestigious schools in the provincial capital, and three brand-new competition study guides.
A handwritten schedule was pressed against the corner of the table, specifying what to do every fifteen minutes.
Su Qingwan delivered breakfast to Lin Yu on time every day, and Lin Yu could smell the aroma of beef porridge wafting from the insulated bag when he passed by.
"Go Hao Ge, you're the best!"
Su Qingwan's voice was sweet and soft, and her volume was just enough to cover the three rows in front of and behind Li Hao.
Li Hao raised his bloodshot eyes and squeezed Su Qingwan's hand.
"rest assured."
Li Hao's voice was hoarse, "I've never scored below 280 in the combined science exam. He'll never reach that number in his lifetime."
Su Qingwan turned her head and glanced at the back row of the classroom.
Lin Yu lay face down on the table.
She wasn't pretending to be asleep; she was really asleep.
Saliva left a small, irregular dark stain on the sleeve of his school uniform in the crook of his arm, and his breathing was even and long.
There were no review materials on his desk, only an open English journal with the cover printed with Physical Review Letters.
Su Qingwan looked away, a surge of irritation rising in her heart.
She couldn't pinpoint the source of her irritability. Logically, Lin Yu faced only two possible outcomes in the joint exam three days later: either she would fail Li Hao and publicly declare herself a failure during the flag-raising ceremony, or she would back down at the last minute and become the laughingstock of the entire school.
Neither of them are relevant to her.
But Lin Yu's nonchalant attitude made her feel suffocated, as if she were punching the air.
Are you worried about him?
Li Hao noticed the direction of Su Qingwan's gaze, and his voice turned several degrees colder.
"How is that possible?"
Su Qingwan composed herself, a smile returning to her lips. "I just feel sorry for him."
Li Hao didn't say anything more.
He opened a set of mock science papers from a provincial high school and plunged his pen heavily into the answer area.
The last afternoon of the month before the exam was a self-study period.
Xia Zijin appeared in front of Lin Yu's desk.
She placed two English-language journals on the corner of Lin Yu's desk. The journal covers had obvious creases, and the title pages were stamped with the Jiangcheng University Library's borrowing stamp.
Lin Yu was startled awake by a slight sound. He looked up, his face reflecting the wrinkles from his sleeve.
"What you want."
Xia Zijing pushed up her black-rimmed glasses. "The library card belongs to my dad. You'll have to pay the overdue fine yourself."
Lin Yu took the journal and turned to the first page.
Three seconds later, he closed it.
"I've read the core papers from these two issues. There's a review paper on page 37 about the quantum tunneling effect. The data fitting in the conclusion section has systematic errors, but it won't affect your understanding at the high school level."
Xia Zijing's lips moved slightly.
She adjusted her glasses, neither asking him when he had read it nor questioning whether he was exaggerating.
Because Lin Yu's tone was exactly the same as when she stated the laws of physics—pure facts, without any emotion.
She can tell.
"I've memorized all the Chinese language formulas."
Xia Zijing pulled a folded square of paper from her school uniform pocket and unfolded it. It was covered with densely written notes of the reading comprehension trigger mechanisms Lin Yu had given her. Each formula was accompanied by its corresponding question type number and usage conditions.
"The applicability of Formula 3 in the category of expressing sentiments through objects needs to be revised."
Xia Zijin pointed to one of the lines, "I used it to apply to five mock exams. Two of the questions used the technique of building up emotion by first suppressing it rather than directly expressing it, so Formula 3 should have a lower priority than Formula 1."
Lin Yu glanced at her.
In three days, I not only memorized the entire formula system, but also ran five test papers to get feedback and make corrections.
"You're right. The triggering condition for Formula 3 needs a preconditioning check."
Lin Yu took the pen and wrote a line of patch logic on the blank space of the paper: "If there are more than two transitional conjunctions in the first paragraph, skip Formula 3 and use Formula 1 directly."
Xia Zijing took the paper and looked at it for three seconds.
"The exam is tomorrow."
She folded the paper again, put it back in her pocket, and turned to leave.
I didn't say "keep going" or "good luck."
Lin Yu found this way of communicating extremely comfortable.
The chubby classmate leaned over and whispered, "Hey Yu-ge, can I have a copy of that formula you exchanged with the genius sister? My Chinese is bad too."
"Your problem isn't that you don't know how to apply the formula."
Lin Yu lay down again. "Your problem is that you can't understand the words in the question."
"..."
On the last night before the monthly exam, Li Hao, for the first time ever, did not stay until the very end.
He finished tidying up all his stationery and cleaning his desk by 9:30.
As he walked out of the classroom, he deliberately passed by Lin Yu.
Aside from the two borrowed English journals, there was nothing on Lin Yu's desk. Even his textbooks were tucked away deep in a drawer, gathering dust.
Li Hao remained silent.
But he gripped the strap of his schoolbag tightly.
The knuckles are turning white.
Joint examination of ten schools.
The examination room at Jiangcheng No. 1 Middle School was a standardized classroom on the second floor of Building D, with each student having their own desk and an examination number barcode affixed to the desk. The invigilators were from other schools.
At 7:40 a.m., the candidates entered the examination hall.
The combined science subjects are in the afternoon, but the Chinese, math, and English subjects in the morning are already sending signals.
Lin Yu sat in the third-to-last row, by the window. His desk was minimalist, containing only a black ballpoint pen, a spare pen, and an eraser. There was no calculator, no scratch paper holder, not even an exam admission ticket sleeve. The admission ticket was simply taped to the corner of the desk with transparent tape.
During the morning's Chinese exam, Lin Yu paused to look at the sycamore tree outside the window for three seconds while finishing her essay.
He mentally calculated the points deducted.
12 points for staying on topic and understanding the prompt. 3 points deducted for above-average content. 3 to 4 points deducted for deliberately suppressing literary flair and maintaining a mediocre level of language. 1 point deducted for intentionally leaving three correction marks on the paper.
Essay predicted score: 41 to 42 points.
He finished writing the last period.
In the math exam, Lin Yu completed all the questions in forty minutes. He spent the remaining eighty minutes checking his calculations.
It's not about verifying whether the answer is correct.
Instead, he checked whether each step he deliberately wrote incorrectly fell precisely within his predetermined deduction range.
The correct answer to multiple choice question 7 is B. He filled in C. This question is worth 5 points.
In the fill-in-the-blank question 12, he forgot to write a negative sign in his answer. 5 points deducted.
In question 17 of the major section, he deliberately used an inefficient substitution method in the third step. The examiner will give points for the process but deduct points for the conclusion, with an estimated deduction of 4 points.