BXBX NOVEL Chapter 13: 008 Vine Emperor_1
Chapter 13: 008 Vine Emperor_1
At the front of the classroom stood a middle-aged man with a slightly rotund figure, his back curved as his hands rested on the lectern, “Now, looking at this problem, what should we do first? We set the coordinates for this moving point M, using trigonometric substitution and the trigonometric identity, right?”
“And what’s the next step? Write down the coordinates of the other points as well! Then it becomes pretty obvious, they’re all collinear. Can we not determine the coordinates of point P? Isn’t the slope of PQ now evident? Isn’t it quite simple, right?”
The students in the class were dozing off, responding intermittently.
Lu Lingxi knocked on the door, “Mr. Xia, I’ve brought a new student.”
Some students in Class 15 languidly looked up, and in the light, the newcomer was seen wearing a simple white cross-collared shirt, embroidered with a tiny white poppy at the neckline, paired with a black horsehair skirt below.
In her white blouse and black skirt, her black hair was neatly coiled with a wooden hairpin, and she had no other accessories.
Her features were pretty and she exuded a lazy elegance, giving her an irresistible aura.
The math teacher momentarily felt as if he had time-traveled, as if he were in the Imperial College, and approaching him was his most spirited female disciple.
She entered the classroom and spoke in the midst of a profound silence, “Hello, everyone. My name is Bai Lian.”
At the sound of “bang,” the atmosphere instantly exploded.
“May I ask, ‘Lian’ from which ‘Lian’?” A girl sitting in the back excitedly raised her hand to ask.
Standing politely at the lectern, Bai Lian casually tilted her head upon hearing the question, “The ‘Lian’ as in ‘the vines of an emperor’s home.’
“Wow!”
“Cool!”
Some boys even started banging on their desks and shouting.
Some girls, seemingly composed, bowed their heads, but had already taken out their phones to frantically communicate in chat groups.
“Alright, calm down, you lot,” Lu Lingxi said with a smile, “Bai Lian, take the empty seat in the fourth group,” she looked at the girl with her head down by the window, her voice softening, “next to Yang Lin.”
Bai Lian walked towards the only empty seat in the classroom with her backpack.
“If you need anything, you can come to me.” Yang Lin spoke in a delicate and gentle voice, and after she finished speaking to Bai Lian, she kept her head down, continuing to do her homework.
“Thank you.”
**
Lu Lingxi returned to the office.
“Wanxuan, you’ll have to write on the bulletin board at the intersection later,” Ren Wanxuan had studied under a famous teacher since she was little and had good handwriting, Lu Lingxi was also partial to her, “Also, you’re aware of the Jingjiang Preparatory Camp, aren’t you?”
Ren Wanxuan nodded, “I know.”
She didn’t just know; her grandfather was also actively communicating with a doctor from Jiangjing.
“Some schools use software from the preparatory camp to drill their top students with questions,” Lu Lingxi spoke slowly, “Our school recently got a spot, but there’s only one, so the school will decide who gets it after another month.”
The spot for Jingjiang Preparatory Camp was basically a guaranteed ticket to Jiangjing University. There were very few opportunities to get this software spot; Ren Wanxuan remembered that even Beicheng High School only had ten such spots.
She was surprised that Xiangcheng’s school actually had a spot, Ren Wanxuan was quite taken aback, “I understand, Ms. Lu!”
“Stay a bit later after school; there’s a training session targeted at those of you who can compete for the spot. That’s it, you can go back,” Lu Lingxi said with a smile, sending her off.
Lu Lingxi was not only the homeroom teacher of Class 15 but also taught Chinese to three classes, concurrently holding the position of grade director.
She was in charge of all the significant issues of the senior year.
“Ms. Lu, I’ve placed the transfer student’s test paper on your desk,” the physics teacher reminded Lu Lingxi.
Lu Lingxi quickly put on her glasses and picked up the exam paper, “Let me take a look.”
The first thing she noticed was the handwriting on the paper.
This handwriting…
Upon hearing this, Ren Wanxuan slowed her steps.
So that test paper belonged to Bai Lian?
The physics teacher, holding his tea cup, said with a smile, “85 points, the paper is simple, the score is a bit on the low side, but the fundamental knowledge is well-learned.
Ren Wanxuan paused at the door, a hint of mockery in her eyes.
She closed the door, thinking nonchalantly, what a refined way the physics teacher phrased it—
How is that ‘a bit’ on the low side?
In Xiangcheng’s initial exams, the science comprehensive is very simple, consisting entirely of basic questions, with a total score of 300 points, and in their class…
There’s no one below 150!
In the office, however, Lu Lingxi was quite surprised.
“85, that’s also enough,” Lu Lingxi said, holding the exam paper and smiling, “You don’t know, but Bai Lian switched from liberal arts to science, I thought if she could score 50, I wouldn’t persuade her to go back to arts.”
She didn’t have high expectations for Bai Lian, especially since she had switched from literature to science; she hadn’t expected Bai Lian to score as high as 200.
Lu Lingxi wasn’t pursuing graduation rates either.