Maybe the system really was quite considerate, and knew the original owner’s educational level too.
That’s why the test papers it had Lin Tingwan do at first were all the most basic ones, and even so, it had taken her most of the night to finish them correctly.
Once actual classes started, Lin Tingwan realized just how difficult things were.
The first class in the afternoon was math. Flipping through the math textbook, Lin Tingwan’s mind went completely blank.
She’d been able to be reborn directly into the original owner’s life and continue living it because, in truth, this world was parallel to the one she’d originally lived in.
In other words, she’d been reborn at the age of thirty into a sixteen-year-old little fat girl who shared her exact name.
This year was a full fifteen years after the era when she’d attended her first year of high school in her past life.
Never mind anything else, just the knowledge in the textbooks alone had already undergone an era-defining transformation.
Carefully flipping through the math textbook, Lin Tingwan broke out in a cold sweat.
She’d once self-studied advanced mathematics, so she knew, the content in the current first-year math textbook was actually beyond what she’d learned back in her day.
Some of this material, she’d never studied at all in her own first year of high school. Under these circumstances, catching up to her classmates’ pace—
let alone surpassing them, wasn’t that a bit too difficult for her?
“Quick, look, Lin Tingwan is actually reading a book.”
“Ha, so was what she said before not a fit of madness, is she really going to start studying hard?”
“Tch, does she think just reading a book is going to improve her grades? When have you ever seen God Jiang reading? And yet he’s still first place, isn’t he?”
“Exactly, if you ask me, the dead fat woman is just putting on a show. She’s deliberately acting like this just to get attention.”
“Looking like that, what good would scheming do her anyway? If you ask me, she should just carve the fat off her own body with a knife.”
Lin Tingwan really hadn’t known the original owner’s standing in class was this bad, just flipping through a book was enough to set off this kind of talk behind her back?
Still, she also knew that most students in the rocket class were decent people.
As for the ones talking, Lin Tingwan knew without even turning around, just from their voices, that those speaking with such sarcastic tones were the ones who usually hung around with Lin Yuexuan.
Sure enough, birds of a feather flock together, students who got into Chengguang High School either came from good families or had good grades themselves.
And to make it into the rocket class on top of that meant being among the very best of the students.
With conditions this good, wouldn’t studying hard be the obvious choice? Even if they were set to inherit a fortune someday, they’d still need the ability to manage it, keeping a family business is harder than building one.
So the petty gossip of those small-minded people couldn’t affect Lin Tingwan at all, she kept reading her book seriously, waiting for Teacher Zhou to arrive.
Even though on the very first day Lin Tingwan became the original owner, the very first class she’d encountered had been Teacher Zhou’s, and his attitude at the time had been quite unfriendly.
But pulling up the original owner’s memories, Lin Tingwan knew this really couldn’t be blamed on Teacher Zhou.
Teacher Zhou wasn’t only the math teacher, he was also the homeroom teacher for Class 6, first year, naturally, he cared about the class’s overall grades.
But saddled with a little fat girl with poor grades who’d been forced into the class, and on top of that a student who didn’t take class seriously and didn’t do her homework properly—
her total score across all subjects on any exam didn’t even match Jiang Suizhou’s score in a single subject.
It wasn’t just dragging the class down, it was practically strapping their entire Class 6 onto a rocket flying straight toward the bottom of the rankings.
Especially back then, when the original owner habitually zoned out during class, and Teacher Zhou hinted at her many times to no avail before finally getting genuinely angry.
In fact, Teacher Zhou was a responsible, good teacher, and his teaching ability was excellent too.
And as it happened, in her past life, out of all her subjects, the one Lin Tingwan had performed best in was math.
Back then, her math teacher had even joked that he never expected to have a student under him who might one day become the top scorer in math on the college entrance exam.
If only…
Once again, Lin Tingwan mentally showered Xiaobai with praise.
This wasn’t just about extending her life, having the chance to live it all again, and make up for the biggest regret of her past life, was also quite wonderful.
Because of this, Lin Tingwan performed excellently through both math classes in a row, at least not staring blankly like she had during the incomprehensible physics class.
She even bravely raised her hand to try answering when the teacher asked questions.
And Teacher Zhou was quite gratified too, perhaps feeling something like the joy of finally seeing a stubborn stone nod.
He really did call on Lin Tingwan three times in a row to answer questions.
Teacher Zhou was very satisfied, the girl was actually teachable, and this time the questions he asked were all basic ones.
Lin Tingwan was overjoyed, because this meant she’d completed today’s daily task.
More wisdom points, and another day added to her life, yes!
Probably because it was a subject she genuinely enjoyed and was actually learning from, Lin Tingwan stayed focused and serious through both math classes.
In stark contrast with—
ahem, with a certain male classmate sitting behind her, sleeping soundly the whole time.
Many times, Teacher Zhou had to take a deep breath to hold back the urge to hurl a blackboard eraser at him to wake him up!
But he was, after all, his prize student.
At the same time, Teacher Zhou reminded himself that next month’s math competition would still depend on that guy to bring the class glory,
Fine, better to turn a blind eye.
And Xia Xiaoman, seeing Lin Tingwan this serious for the first time, was stunned by her friend’s diligence and focus.
Could it be, was what she’d said really true?
Although that wish sounded like it had little chance of coming true, seeing her friend work this hard and seriously, Xia Xiaoman felt too embarrassed to keep slacking off herself.
She followed along and started listening seriously too, never mind anything else, after just two math classes, Xia Xiaoman felt she might not just score ten points next time.
Then, today’s very last class turned out to be P.E.!
Xia Xiaoman wailed, high school’s study schedule was already this packed, why did they still need P.E. class?
Lin Tingwan, on the other hand, felt lucky, P.E. class, a perfectly legitimate excuse to complete her training task in broad daylight.
Usually the P.E. teacher was “always sick,” and P.E. class often turned into math class, English class, physics class, had the P.E. teacher’s health finally recovered today?
Once P.E. class began, following the P.E. teacher’s instructions, the class monitor for sports led the students around the track for three laps, then let everyone move freely.
Following behind the sports monitor’s lead, at the very end of the line there was, unexpectedly, an overweight figure tagging along too.
After all, Lin Tingwan had never once attended P.E. class before, on the rare occasion there was one, she’d just play on her phone and eat snacks in the classroom.
Never mind everyone else’s reactions, just Lin Yuexuan alone had her beautiful phoenix eyes wide open.
As if she’d seen a ghost in broad daylight.
With her health value increased, plus the fact that she’d already run to school that morning, Lin Tingwan found she wasn’t actually struggling too badly running now.
By the second lap, everyone else had already finished, and only that overweight figure’s footsteps remained on the track.
To be honest, Lin Tingwan was tired too, her legs sore and swollen, and hadn’t she technically already completed today’s training task anyway?
But the Best Actress, resolute by nature, gritted her teeth and kept going, running for weight loss was a pretty good form of exercise too.
The other students all felt something was off about Lin Tingwan today, all they could see on the track was one lump of fat, still running.
Was this, was this still that same lazy, dim-witted fat girl who’d always refused to exercise no matter what?