Chapter 132: Kang Shuchun, Let’s have a talk.
Zhang Wenling looks at Kang Shuchun's bright expression. Did my son do good in his previous life or something? How could he be such a girl magnet?
Before the two were about to duke it out again with their eyes, Zhang Wenling steps in as she didn't want her future daughters to fight. She suggests, "How about the two of you tutor Xiao Chen? I'm pretty sure he would need all the help he could get with his studies."
If the two start to tutor him, then it would make them grow closer to each other. Naturally, Zhang Wenling notices the hostility the two have for each other. And she wants to fix their relationship. She thought it was an excellent idea if they work together. On the other hand, Lu Chen was not smiling at all.
He was already not a fan of being tutored by Ye Meixiu. But with the addition of Kang Shuchun, he knows he might explode from the two arguings. He wants to say something, but it's decided as the two pairs of eyes sparkle as they each took a booklet.
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“Brother Chen, this isn’t how you use this formula for this solution. You use it like this.” Ye Meixiu starts writing out the proper steps to use the math equation.
“Chen Chen, this is how you say this sentence correctly.” Kang Shuchun begins to speak in fluent English.
Lu Chen nods his head as he changes his confused expression to a bright one. Two beauties explain both math and English lessons simultaneously, and he could only agree as if he knows. Well, he already knows most of it.
Zhang Wenling looks at her son as she shakes her head in disappointment, “Xiao Chen, how can you be this bad in your study?”She knew her son had horrible grades, but she never realized it was this bad.
It is as if the heavens had only given her son over the beyond looks. But to equal him out, they made Lu Chen’s intelligence level down to garbage.
Lu Chen couldn’t say anything as he continues to look like he’s focusing on what the two girls are lecturing. But on the inside, he was bawling his eyes out.
It’s not my fault that I have to hide my real intelligence! Lu Chen decides to hide his intelligence for now. As he knew if he displays it, it wouldn’t have a large effect. It would make him look weird. He had planned to show it the moment he gets back his gaokao score.
And he knew if he displays his score to them, then they would be shocked in awe. That's why he had to play as a dumbass for now.
While Lu Chen had these thoughts, Zhang Wenling decides to leave. From how the three were super focused on their study, she doesn’t want to bother them.
After a few hours of studying, Lu Chen couldn’t take it anymore and suggest having a break.
The two nod in agreement as they drank water from being dehydrated in talking too much. Lu Chen eats his cake, and when he looks up at the sky. It had turned dark.
“How long have we been studying?” Lu Chen didn’t realize the sky had become so dark.
Kang Shuchun suggests, “ Let’s go inside. We’ll continue our work inside.” When the three went into the room, Ye Meixiu remembers something, “Brother Chen, do you still have the album when we were children?”
“I do. But doesn’t aunty have a copy of it?” Lu Chen said. Ye Meixiu, Luo Ai, and Liu Fei Fei have an album, each with pictures of the four.
“But brother Chen, aunty probably has more pictures of us in your album.” Ye Meixiu knew her family has an album of their childhood. But Zhang Wenling was the one who took the photos of the four children. Aunt probably has kept the nice one by herself.
Knowing his Lao Ma, Lu Chen nods in agreement. Lao Ma likes to keep the better stuff to herself. Ye Meixiu pleads, “Brother Chen, can you get it for me?”
“Alright, let me go find it.” When Lu Chen left the room, the two girls’ expression instantly changes.
Ye Meixiu glares at Kang Shuchun as she said, “Kang Shuchun, let’s have a talk.”
I missed something, I think. Why is it to his advantage to have everyone think he is an idiot until the test results come out? Why would it look weird f he showed intelligence? Why does he need to make a big academic impact?!
I think I worded it really broad But basically, the reason why he has to wait for the test results to come out is that it gives him proof that he isn't an idiot. And it would have looked weird if he showed his intelligence because Lu Chen had been the last place for the last three years (Idk how long is Chinese highschool, so I eyeballed it.) so who would believe him? And the last question won't be answered because it's explained later ^^
@placeintime ... ok, so, basically not showing too much change in one week? (The same week that he publicly broke up with Fei Fei and, of course, reincarnated.)
In that case, I'd expect that he'd want to start at least a gradual improvement between now and when the exam is taken, essentially showing that his poor performance was because of his focus on Fei Fei which he has abandoned, now shifting his focus into studying and possibly martial arts. Otherwise, if not a gradual improvement, he will show an unbelievable burst of genius with test results (unless he intends to bomb the exam, argue that he fooled everyone all this time and was always a genius, or that his great results were a fluke).
If he is planning on showing improvement, getting tutoring from YM, KS, or class-president would be advisable; plus tutoring would be the excuse he needs to see women during the period until his engagement is formally ended.
Also, if you don't want us readers to view him as someone who is wasting his 2nd chance, maybe he could actually study something, aside from martial arts, since he will be sitting in class for 6+ hours a day, which would at least make it look to others like he is studying. He could also watch how-to videos on youtube (or Chinese equivalent) about weapon use while his driver ferries him around the city. He knows that someone is coming to kill his family in various ways; there is knowledge that he will want to acquire since boxing won't stop semi-automatic weapons or keep a vehicle from running off a cliff. He pretty much did nothing in school the first life, it wouldn't show much change if he did exactly the same thing in his second life (because of his college-level education.) I wouldn't be surprised if his reincarnation perfect recall applies to things other than punching and kicking, which would be great for learning multiple languages, science, math, history, poetry and arts, criminology, mechanical studies, etc. You may never have him use any of it in the story, but it would at least show readers a change in behavior (not wasting his 2nd chance) and could be used to plug a plot-hole if he suddenly needs to identify a poison that could cause a heart-attack, fix a cut brake-line, field-strip and load a jammed firearm, etc.
It's part of the plan on how he is reinventing himself. Remember he has reincarnated to the past life. No one suspects much he was so focused on fei that he was failing classes let his looks go etc. Now with the incident where she dumped the food on his head he can simply say that with him stopping his obsession over her he no longer has to pretend to be that person and simply say he was always this way but his love for fei was simply more important
I also don't really get it... if it shows how his last test indicates he's smart, it show's here he's pretending to be dumb.
So at least in their mind, they'll see him as dumb, but when the test results come out for the test they took previously they'd ask, "why is he so smart?"