A street urchin turned academic genius, starting by saving the blind school beauty.

Chapter 25: A lifetime of accumulation, a lifetime of unleashed power.

The second period in the afternoon was math class, taught by an elderly man surnamed Chen, who was about fifty years old.

The old man was explaining the practice problems he had assigned at noon yesterday. Apart from Xu Qingwan and a few others listening, most of them were sleeping on the table.

Lu Zhaoye, having overworked his brain, dozed off downstairs. There was an apple core wrapped in a tissue on the corner of the table.

Just before Lu Zhaoye fell completely asleep, the old man on the stage suddenly shouted, waking up many students in the class.

"What's that old man doing up there, making such a fuss like he's putting on a grand opera?"

Chen Ziniu opened his sleepy eyes and looked around, but seeing that his eldest brother was also fast asleep in front of him, he felt very relieved.

"...Lu Zhaoye did a great job on his homework yesterday at noon. Not only did he get it all right, but he also had a clear thinking and even came up with other solutions. Let's give him a round of applause."

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The boy in the back row immediately sat up straight, opened his eyes, and instantly became a celestial being.

The mechanical start-up of one-button follow function made me clap along with the little old man on stage.

Immediately, thunderous applause erupted...

Seeing that Lu Zhaoye was confused, Xu Qingwan quickly reached out and poked him a couple of times.

Lu Zhaoye frowned, puzzled, feeling only annoyed and disturbed, and said in a hoarse voice.

"Stop messing around, class monitor, I'll get up and study in a bit."

"......"

"Fatty, was this all planned? Is the boss using us as part of a game?"

Chen Ziniu said calmly, then turned to look at his deskmate, his pupils dilating instantly.

"Hey fatso, stop messing around! You won't die from jumping from the second floor, you need to go to the fifth floor!"

"Hey, you guys in the back, stop messing around."

Old Chen, standing on the podium, keenly sensed something was wrong and quickly spoke up to stop it.

Then he turned to look at Lu Zhaoye beside the podium and said with a smile.

"It seems Lu Zhaoye studied very hard last night."

In fact, all the teachers in charge of this class are aware of their learning situation.

Therefore, classes were quite casual, and were basically only held for the sake of the few girls in the front row.

But yesterday, when Old Chen went to the English office to look for something, he overheard Teacher Wu praising Lu Zhaoye in the office, saying that he was definitely going to turn over a new leaf.

Old Chen simply smiled and shook his head.

He had heard the phrase "prodigal son returns" countless times in his decades of teaching, but he had never actually seen it before.

"Hey! You've seen it now!"

Lu Zhaoye woke up slowly while Old Man Chen was in a daze and figured out the situation.

"Old Chen, you've never seen a solution like this before, have you?"

Old Chen was taken aback for a moment. He wasn't annoyed by the boy's disrespect; instead, he almost laughed.

Compared to the pretentious children in the advanced classes, these mischievous yet genuine students are more popular with the teachers.

"Yes, I haven't seen it before. Then let me explain how to do question eight."

Old Chen said with a smile, also wanting to confirm it again.

Lu Zhaoye's practice sheet for the short questions from yesterday noon was filled with his problem-solving ideas and his bold, unrestrained handwriting; he must have written it seriously.

In the past, he had never even seen a worksheet, let alone a solution to a problem.

Lu Zhaoye stood up, glanced at the question, walked to the podium, and coughed lightly.

"Thump," the boy in the back row stood up subconsciously, his face loyal.

Lu Zhaoye's face darkened. What's going on?

"Stop messing around, it's not like we're having a brawl. You're just interfering with our boss's show-off antics," Chen Ziniu said with a grin.

"By the way, boss, you didn't even look at the questions. Are you going to go up and recite them from memory?"

Everyone burst into laughter upon hearing this.

"Shut up! This is a very simple derivative problem. First, you need to induce the function..."

Lu Zhaoye copied the question onto the blackboard and then began to explain it very naturally, just like a teacher explaining a problem.

Nothing more than the daily grind of being a beast of burden, honed from the grueling PowerPoint presentations I had to deliver every day in my previous life.

"Niu Zi, isn't this math class? Why are we talking about biology?"

Xiao Zifang said, looking completely bewildered.

"Guiding is one thing, but to go and then induce is another!"

Chen Ziniu pushed away Xiao Zifang's chubby face that was leaning in.

"Don't interrupt, I'm studying frame by frame how the Demon Orb took the Spirit Orb."

"..."

Xu Qingwan's concise and refined answers have two very conspicuous red crosses.

One was a derivative problem that Lu Zhaoye was explaining, and the other was a problem that I made a mistake because of carelessness.

The derivative problems are very difficult. They not only require you to memorize various reduction formulas, but also to have a very thorough understanding of functions from the first year of high school. It is a highly comprehensive unit.

Xu Qingwan spent a long time trying to solve this problem during her lunch break yesterday, but she still couldn't come up with a solution.

Mathematics is something you either know or you don't; you can't learn it just by doing a lot of practice problems.

Lu Zhaoye wrote the steps on the blackboard and explained them very clearly.

Without skipping a single step, Xu Qingwan vaguely understood.

Of course, Chen Ziniu in the back row also realized it, rubbing his chin with a serious expression.

"No wonder Xu Shen got close to our boss. In order to explain the problem to Xu Shen thoroughly, the boss actually memorized the solution steps."

"...Therefore, this problem involves a monotonically increasing function."

Lu Zhaoye finished explaining the topic very smoothly and prepared to leave the stage.

The classroom immediately erupted in applause and cheers, with exclamations of praise filling the air.

Lu Zhaoye simply smiled and remained silent, pretending to be an expert.

Old Chen nodded in satisfaction upon seeing this, but then grabbed Lu Zhaoye's arm to prevent him from leaving.

"Wait a minute, isn't this the solution you wrote on your worksheet?"

The students in the class were taken aback. What did that mean?

Several heavily made-up girls rolled their eyes, genuinely believing that Lu Zhaoye would do that.

"Oh, I was afraid that everyone wouldn't understand, so I'm explaining a simpler solution."

Lu Zhaoye chuckled, "It's not that I wanted to show off."

Old Chen forced me to comply; how could I, a student, refuse?

"How about... I explain another solution?"

Old Chen nodded and offered a word of encouragement.

"Feel free to speak up; what if it inspires your classmates?"

After saying that, Old Man Chen glanced at the back row.

Chen Ziniu and Xiao Zifang both raised their heads, listening intently with eager eyes.

Old Chen nodded kindly.

"Amazing! Boss actually memorized two sets of problem-solving steps just for the sake of the Spirit Pearl!"

Chen Ziniu lowered his voice and said incredulously.

Xiao Zifang was also surprised. Although she couldn't understand it, she felt it was amazing.

"The eldest son actually wrote English in math class! I think Old Chen is getting senile. It's amazing he didn't even scold him!"

Of course, there were also some more normal boys who rubbed their chins and listened attentively.

"It feels like the boss... really does know how."

"..."

As Lu Zhaoye finished writing the last few strokes, he completed the second solution.

Lu Zhaoye turned around and put down the black pen.

This time, the solution was the one I wrote on my homework sheet. The process wasn't as simple and easy to understand as the previous method because it used a second-order formula.

"...Very good, this solution is very ingenious. It uses a second-order formula. It seems difficult, but if you learn it, you can solve the problem directly."

Old Chen praised him, a glimmer of hope flashing in his eyes.

He already knew perfectly well whether it was memorized or genuine knowledge.

"Lu Zhaoye, you are a child with a high talent for learning. If you can study hard, it's not too late now."

As soon as Old Chen finished speaking, the classroom erupted in commotion again, with applause even louder than before.

Afterwards, Old Man Chen asked Lu Zhaoye to return to his seat, and then explained the problem again.

Lu Zhaoye seemed lost in thought, the words of Old Man Chen echoing in his mind: "He has a high aptitude for learning..."

He suddenly realized that if he said that...

In my previous life, I was a clueless, unsuccessful student who only knew how to memorize answers.

In this life, however, he is a gifted but misguided genius.

When the two are combined, hmm?

"..."