Ever since Shen Jingyan's test scores came out, the study atmosphere in the class had grown increasingly tense.
Even the boys who usually hated doing practice problems the most started devouring workbooks. After all, Shen Jingyan had missed nearly a year of school, yet he could come back, take the exams casually, and firmly secure second place. This shock wave made everyone push themselves to the limit.
No one moved even when the class-ending bell rang; even going to the restroom meant jogging back and forth. The test papers on the desks were piled up like small hills, and though their fingertips grew stiff from writing, no one was willing to put their pens down.
Jiang Shengyan and Shen Jingyan sat next to each other, and discussing problems every day had become the norm.
Sometimes, over the auxiliary line construction in an analytic geometry problem, the two of them would argue until their faces turned red. Shen Jingyan always liked to tap her workbook with his fingertip: "You took the long way around here. Try a different approach."
Jiang Shengyan would glare back stubbornly, her pen tip flying across the scratch paper to calculate. Once she figured out the result and saw it matched his, she would awkwardly turn her head away.
The surrounding classmates had long grown used to this sight, occasionally teasing them, "If you two keep arguing like this, you'll figure out all the problems just by yelling." Jiang Shengyan's ears would burn red, but Shen Jingyan would just s…
Chapter 201