Volume 1 Chapter 15: Teacher, I Want to Change Desk Mates!
Going to school is real suffering.
Waaah—
Not only do I have to sit with my sworn enemy, I even got called to the teacher’s office to get scolded.
Sigh…
Standing in front of her homeroom teacher, Teacher Zhu, Lin Lin could only lower her head humbly and listen carefully to the advice of this excellent young teacher, who had already guided several top graduating classes.
She didn’t know exactly what would happen, but…
Once you get called to the teacher’s office, it usually means one thing. Getting scolded, right?
As expected, Teacher Zhu pulled a test paper out from a pile. Lin Lin glanced at the name and score on it and immediately took a sharp breath.
Lin Lin — 69 points.
It looked okay at first glance, like she passed, but in reality…
In Huadu City, the full score for a high school math test is 150.
The passing line is 90!
So that means…
Not only did Lin Lin fail, she didn’t even reach the middle level. If you convert it to a 100-point scale, it’s only a little over 40 points.
I’m done for.
She instantly understood why Teacher Zhu had called her in. Teacher Zhu held a thermos cup with goji berries in one hand and the test paper in the other, her brows tightly furrowed.
After a moment, she turned around and handed the paper to Lin Lin.
“This is last Friday’s weekly test. Xiao Lin, what happened here?”
Lin Lin took the paper with shaking hands. Hearing this terrifying question, like something straight out of a horror school, made her lips twitch.
Th-this…
Yeah, what did happen?
After quickly scanning her test paper, Lin Lin soon realized the main reason her score was so bad was actually because…
Her long-answer questions were full of red X marks.
As for the multiple-choice questions… um, she barely knew how to do them.
The fill-in-the-blank questions were so-so at best…
“Well? Can you see the problem now?”
Teacher Zhu rested her cheek on her hand, looking at Lin Lin helplessly.
“I… I can see it…” Lin Lin stammered.
“What problem?”
“E-everything is a problem.”
Teacher Zhu was speechless for a moment. Then she lightly tapped Lin Lin on the head. The girl let out an “ow—” and covered her head, looking at the teacher with a wronged expression.
“You can’t do the big questions at all. You haven’t really learned the methods. Your multiple-choice and fill-in questions are barely okay, but you’ve done way too few practice problems. It feels like you’ve never seen these types of questions before.”
“Ah… I really am not very familiar with them,” Lin Lin admitted nervously, her eyes drifting to the other side of the desk. She felt very uncomfortable staring at the male teacher sitting across from Teacher Zhu.
Teacher Zhu had a dark look on her face. “But I explained all of this in class. From your multiple-choice and fill-in answers, your basic knowledge seems fine. So tell me, did you actually do the homework I assigned?”
“Uh… well, teacher, I think you need to define first what counts as ‘doing it myself’…”
Lin Lin’s gaze shifted to the potted plant by the office window. Teacher Zhu froze for a moment, not quite understanding what she meant.
“What do you mean by ‘doing it yourself’?”
“Doing it yourself just means doing it yourself. How else could it be done?”
“Uh, what I mean is… when I completely don’t know how to solve it, and I just randomly write some answers every time, does that count as doing it myself?”
After saying that, Lin Lin looked at her teacher nervously. Teacher Zhu’s vision almost went dark, and she helplessly covered her head and sighed.
“Sigh… so you didn’t listen in class at all, and you didn’t properly do your homework at home either?”
“I’ve always followed the excellent study habit of never leaving homework until after evening study.”
“And then what do you usually do at night when you get home? Just play games?”
Teacher Zhu looked at her helplessly. Lin Lin felt a bit awkward.
Uh…
Well…
She pinched the corner of her clothes. How should she say this?
Actually… I still have a job as a virtual streamer?
If I say that out loud, I’ll definitely get scolded for not focusing on proper things.
Sorry, Teacher Zhu. I also want to study seriously, but…
If I don’t become a virtual streamer, I’ll turn into a trash can, boohoo…
Seeing that Lin Lin stayed silent for a long time, Teacher Zhu could only shake her head. From years of being a teacher and even more years of being a student, silence usually means admitting it.
With no other choice, Teacher Zhu sighed and said to her.
“If you really can’t do it, you can come ask me. If you run into problems you don’t understand, you can always come to me. If I have time, I’ll explain them to you.”
“Mm… I u-understand.”
Lin Lin lowered her head quietly. Even though she said that, she was really just hoping the teacher would let her leave soon.
How is that possible? Who would come to the teacher’s office every day to ask questions?
If someone really had that kind of motivation, they would’ve become a top student long ago. Why would they still be running to the office all the time?
In the end, the homeroom teacher’s presence was just too scary. Boohoo.
Seeing how depressed Lin Lin looked, Teacher Zhu softened a little.
Ah, this child…
She’s clearly a cute girl, but she’s so withdrawn, has no friends, doesn’t listen in class, and her grades are bad. This is really hard to deal with…
“Sigh~ If nothing else works, didn’t I already arrange for Gao Liang to be your desk mate? You can ask him.”
“Huh?!”
Hearing this, Lin Lin immediately raised her head and stared at Teacher Zhu in disbelief.
So that’s the real culprit!
So putting Gao Liang next to her was to push her to study?
She was grateful that the teacher cared about her, but this decision really didn’t seem right!
Gao Liang… that guy is her sworn enemy!
She would never get involved with that person, especially after he had just let her down earlier.
Hmph, he’s just a handsome jerk anyway. Just… good at studying, popular, and nice-tempered…
Ugh…
Anyway, her bottom line was clear. She absolutely did not want to sit next to him!
No, no. She had to change her fate right now!
“Um! Teacher, I think Gao Liang and I don’t really get along…”
Lin Lin twisted her fingers and secretly started complaining about Gao Liang in front of the teacher.
“He’s too cold to me, and he’s a boy. I feel embarrassed to ask him questions. So how about… you give me a desk mate who’s good at studying, pretty, rich, and gentle?”
Teacher Zhu rolled her eyes.
Are you kidding? Gao Liang is cold? She had chosen him exactly because he was always so kind and unlikely to bully a strange girl like Lin Lin.
As for the rest of those demands, what kind of nonsense was that?
I might as well just give you a list of girls’ phone numbers.
This child…
Is there really something wrong with her?
Ahem. Seeing that the teacher stayed silent for so long, and desperate to avoid Gao Liang, Lin Lin even lowered her demands.
“If that really won’t work, anyone is fine. I just don’t want to sit with Gao Liang. Boohoo—”
“No! Hmm… looking at you like this, I need to talk to Gao Liang again and have him properly supervise your studying! You! Ask him more questions. Otherwise, I’ll force you two to sit under the teacher’s desk!”
“W-what?!”