It made Ye Jian1 grab her face and teased her with a severe look: âItâs too late to think youâll get bad grades. If you didnât do well in the exams, uncle and aunty would think itâs normal. If you did do well, I believe theyâll think itâs unusual.â
âYouâre right, hahaha. I didnât sleep well last night; I was dreaming the whole night. I dreamt that I was looking for my pen everywhere and woke up scared.â An Jiaxin, who was usually very careless, started relaxing after being consoled by Ye Jian. She hurriedly continued: âPlease donât tell me I didnât bring a pen, let me take a lookâ¦â
Opening her pencil caseâ¦, with the corners of her mouth twitching, An Jiaxin said: ââ¦I really didnât bring a pen!â
âNot bad, with a relaxed mind like this, youâll definitely have no problems in the exam. There are still fifteen more minutes, and you can go back and find your pen.â Ye Jian glanced at the time and reminded her slowly, âIâll give you seven and a half minutes, youâll have plenty of time.â
An Jiaxin pulled her legs and ran; she didnât dare to dawdle for a moment longer.
Forgetting to bring pens to exams, being so relaxed like she was already one of a kind.
When there were still five minutes left before the exam started, An Jiaxin ran back to the classroom while panting. Instead of running to her seat, she ran to where Ye Jian was, and while panting, she said: âI thought I was the only one who didnât bring a pen, that Yao Jing was the same. I saw her when I was going upstairs, and she dragged me away and told me something. Otherwise, I wouldâve been in class two minutes ago.â
Yao Jing, a name that she hadnât heard in a long time, made Ye Jian realize that she hadnât heard her voice in the noon and evening broadcasts these past few days.
âDonât think sheâs like you, forgetting to bring a pen, maybe sheâs just a slow walker. Hurry up to your seat; the exam is starting soon.â About Yao Jing, Ye Jian wasnât interested in mentioning her, so she motioned An Jiaxin to return to her seat and prepare for the exam.
The first exam in the morning, from 8 oâclock until 10 oâclock, was Mathematics for Grade 10 to Grade 12 students. The paper was handed out three minutes beforehand, and the moment the bell rang, the whole school was plunged into silence. Even the rustling of leaves being blown in the wind could be heard outside.
Ye Jian was famous for solving problems quickly, even the teachers of other classes had heard rumors about it.
During this midterm exam, the teachers of each class exchanged places to invigilate the exam. Two invigilating teachers took turns to watch Ye Jian write her exam, and when she was solving the multiple-choice questions, the teacher who was watching her looked stunned.
⦠She didnât even use draft paper and just went on and on!
When the other students were still working on the first question, sheâd already finished three or four of them! With that kind of speed, sheâll finish the two-hour paper in under an hour!
After standing for upwards of ten minutes, the teacher rubbed his chin⦠and walked away. Standing in front of a student like this, even a teacher would feel their heart tormented, so stressful!
The other teacher was more or less the same. After standing beside her for around ten minutes, he walked away quietly.
The stress was inordinately large; the teacher couldnât solve problems as quickly as the student. When he saw the problem, heâd still have to write in the palm of his hand, but the student just picked up her pen and finished writing her solution like splashing ink from head to toe. The whole process⦠the mental calculation, there wasnât any draft process!
Ye Jianâs mental calculation had always been impressive, how else would she have been able to get a gold medal in the Olympiads?
Around 9:10 am, Ye Jian had already finished her test and prepared to hand it in and leave. Outside, the two unfamiliar teachers who came by to take a look at Ye Jian couldnât help but nod their heads from the sight. They turned to Principal Cao: âPrincipal Cao, when her midterm marks come out, weâll have to trouble you to keep an eye on them for us.â
âDonât worry, donât worry, there are still three more days for exams, you two can still pay attention to other students.â Principal Cao, who was accompanying two directly recruiting teachers from GuangXi University, started playing Tai Chi with them. Ye Jian didnât need the admissioning teachersâ attention. When her results come out, all the schools would be fighting over her. Still, Old Chen had already told him this beforehand, neither HuaQiao University nor GuangXi University would become Ye Jianâs choices.