Chapter 3: The Secret Recipe for Walking on Fire and Entering a State of Madness

  " Pearl milk tea!?" Under the astonished cry of Tong Yu's twin sisters, Cheng Yun and Cheng Lan, Su Can quickly recalled who the person was.

  At that time, yes, now the vice class leader of the junior high school class, Dong Qingyun, was a typical and pure bureaucratic sprout. With the title of vice class leader, no one dared to offend him, especially those who didn't study hard in class and later became social hooligans. These people's rebellious hearts hadn't fully emerged yet, so they became Dong Qingyun's loyal followers and hatchet men, doing his bidding every day to get protection from unfinished homework.

  This made Dong Qingyun even more unapproachable, and although he was very famous in his grade, Su Can remembered that from the beginning of middle school, Dong Qingyun had launched a fierce pursuit campaign against Tang Wei. As for whether it succeeded or not, it was unknown after Tang Wei and he both took the college entrance exam and went on to higher education.

  Although milk tea has become an outdated thing after many years, it is still a new and relatively high-end product for students now, especially the term "Taiwan Pearl Milk Tea" spoken by Dong Qingyun, which makes both Cheng Yun and Cheng Lan sisters feel deeply moved.

  Tang Yu was clearly not interested in Dong Qingyun, but since she was the vice class monitor, she furrowed her brow and said, "Oh, I forgot which question you didn't understand. Anyway, tomorrow is the last day before the holiday, so come to school tomorrow and I'll explain it to you."

  Dong Qingyun spread out the test papers in his hand and put away some of them upon hearing this. "Well...I think it's okay."

  He glanced at Soo-young beside him and said, as if intentionally, "Hmmm, anyway there's still one more day tomorrow, and then we'll have two days of free review time. How about I come find you and we study together? You can explain some questions to me that you're good at, and who knows, maybe I'll have some ideas for the ones you're having trouble with."

  Dong Qingyun's words were indirectly showing off to Su Can, earlier Tang Yu had blushed and turned her head under Su Can's gaze, he hadn't missed it, thinking that this kid who had been hiding in the corner like a turtle for three years was now going crazy on the eve of graduation, pursuing school flower Tang Yu?

  Just now, Tang Yu's rare appearance of a blush made Dong Qingyun stunned, and at the same time, he was filled with great hostility towards Su Can. However, this sentence revealed that he and Tang Yu belonged to the top class in terms of grades, and only she could be in the same position as him. As for Su Can, such a small role should be quickly submerged by the torrent.

  Tang Wei was slightly moved, although she had excellent grades, but not to the point of being complacent. There were still questions in middle school that she didn't know how to do, which is a very normal thing. Dong Qingyun's words were reasonable and made sense. For the two days before the promotion exam, Tang Wei had planned to spend one day reviewing and one day resting. If she could review with Dong Qingyun, who was on par with her in grades, on the day of review, it would be a great help.

  Dong Qingyun's deliberate actions, of course, did not escape Su Can's notice at this moment. He couldn't help but chuckle to himself about the guy's jealousy. Without commenting on it, Su Can casually glanced at the test paper in Dong Qingyun's hand and said, "Hey, can I take a look?"

  "Look, can you understand it?" Dong Qing's eyebrows rose slightly as she handed the test paper to Su Can, her tone undisguisedly disdainful.

  Su Can took a look at the test paper without a title, which belonged to the school's printing house and was printed separately. The thick ink smell on the mimeographed paper had not yet dissipated, and when he smelled it, there was an inexplicable nostalgic flavor in his nose. Su Can had a faint urge to cry with a sour nose, these were such precious memories of the past.

  But Su Can certainly couldn't show his true feelings, otherwise so many people would see him and think he's lost his mind or showing despair towards the uncertain future.

  Everyone saw him pick up the test paper and frown as he looked at it, but no one paid attention to this, each quietly discussing topics between girls, among which there was a kind of sadness about the upcoming graduation.

  This test paper has no title, and it starts directly with the first question. There are no blank lines between questions, whether they are multiple-choice or proof-based calculation problems, all the way to the 100th question. Combining this with Dong Qingyun's attitude earlier, Su Can understood that this was an internal test paper. Generally speaking, school teachers would take some difficult exercises at the current stage and distribute them as internal reference materials to the top students in the class, so that they could make a final push and prepare for the last battle.

  These materials are often only available in limited quantities and will only be distributed to top students like Dong Qingyun and Tang Yu. For students like Su Can, it is almost impossible to get them.

  This is not because of any bias or ulterior motives on the part of school teachers, but rather because these questions currently fall into the marginal category of teaching syllabus, and the difficulty level is also top-notch for this stage of junior high school. For ordinary middle-stream students, distributing such difficult questions as review materials before exams would be of no help to them at all, and would instead have a negative impact. These questions can consolidate and review the entire knowledge system for top-scoring students, but for ordinary students, they can only disrupt their normal thinking system and lead to terrible consequences.

  Su Can looked at these exercises, although he couldn't solve them all at a glance, but after all, the things he learned in high school and college were called "advanced mathematics", which were based on his understanding of middle school math. It was like a high school student looking back at middle school exercises, although not completely solvable, at least 80% could be done with confidence. Moreover, Su Can later studied hard due to consecutive losses, but because of poor foundation, his grades couldn't improve.

  It's just like in martial arts, a person who is weak and sickly from childhood, no matter how hard they work later on, unless they encounter some kind of miraculous event like finding treasure after jumping off a cliff, it's absolutely impossible for them to become an exceptionally powerful master with profound inner strength.

  It seems like heaven has given him another chance to start anew.

  However, these exercises now seem all too familiar, the whole situation is clear at a glance, and some questions Su Can ask himself if he has a piece of paper and a pen, he can still deduce and answer.

  If Dong Qingyun and Tang Yu, who claimed to have mastered all the knowledge points and pitfalls of this set of exercises, knew that Su Can was so confident at this moment, they would probably be shocked to drop their chins.

  Su Can understood that if this wasn't a dream, he had inexplicably returned to eleven years ago. This was an absolute unchangeable fact, everything in front of him, whether sensory or visual, was so clear and real. If rebirth really happened to himself, then for the future tragedy not to repeat itself on his body, Su Can understood that the first BOSS he had to solve was the junior high school graduation exam in front of him, otherwise he would just be re-experiencing a difficult life.

  Among the crowd chatting, the eyes of the twin sisters Cheng Yun and Cheng Lan were the first to fall on Su Can with a look of utter boredom. He had been standing there staring blankly at this test paper for nearly five minutes. What's wrong, couldn't you, Su Can, really be fascinated by these internal exercises? Don't you care about your own scores? Are you comparable to Tang Wei? Do you even understand the content of these exercises?

  Su Can snapped back to reality, seeing everyone staring at him with strange expressions, and couldn't help but smile apologetically. "Hey, it's getting late, everyone should head home quickly, don't let your family worry... However, Dong Qingyun, can you let me make a copy of this test paper to take back?"

  Dong Qingyun never thought that Su Can, who was usually timid and reserved, would suddenly become so calm and natural, and even call out his own name. Hearing his own name being called out like this felt strange, just like his older brother talking down to him.

  The people around were stunned, and Su Can actually dared to mention it! Tang Yu looked at Su Can at this moment, and couldn't help but feel a little moved. Just now, she was still sighing about the future of her lower reaches, who would have thought that Su Can would show such ambition, making Tang Yu's melancholy mood due to graduation inject a hint of comfort.

  But Tang Yu certainly knew that a person's fate could be reversed by temporary efforts, but it was too late in the last three days before the middle school entrance examination.

  "Can you?" The icy and indifferent Tang Yu finally expressed a worried tone for Su Can's unprecedented feat.

  "Alright, I'll give you the copy." Dong Qingyun suppressed the anger that had slightly surfaced and then subsided, responding cheerfully on the surface while already thinking ahead in her mind, "Since Su Can is looking for trouble himself, don't blame me!" The internal test questions were only given to these students because they currently possessed the quality of thought and intellect that would allow them to break through and improve with these questions, reaching the pinnacle of the junior high school stage.

  But for Su Can and his ilk, these questions are nothing more than a recipe for disaster, likely to confuse their minds and ultimately lead to defeat.

  Dong Qingyun would rather help him achieve his goal.