Seeing Yan Jin’s proper attitude, the teacher happily called on her to answer a question. Because she had done sufficient review before coming, and the teacher’s question wasn’t very difficult, Yan Jin answered fluently.

“Good! Sit down, Student Yan.” The teacher smiled, her eyes curving into crescents. “As long as you maintain this learning drive, you’ll definitely be able to get first place in the class on the monthly exam!”

[Although, I feel like even if Yan Jin really got first place, she wouldn’t be very happy about it.] [Oh my god, with this classroom discipline, an education student would be itching to rush in and slam the desk.] [I remember it was mentioned before that this class was still okay, how come the classroom is so noisy?]

The teacher’s encouragement and the students’ clamor almost mixed together, causing Yan Jin’s eyelid to twitch.

Although there’s a saying that as long as you have the will, you can study anywhere, Class B was really too noisy. Yan Jin, who was used to a quiet classroom, was experiencing such a noisy class for the first time, to the point that she couldn’t hear clearly what the teacher was saying.

Even if Yan Jin was confident she could do well on the monthly exam and directly be promoted to Class A, the efficiency was really too low. If it were before, Yan Jin might have just gone solo to find the head of the school and apply to skip a grade.

But now — Yan Jin looked up at the few students in the classroom who were listening attentively and occasionally turning around to tell the other students to be quiet, and decided to take a completely different approach from her usual way of doing things.

After interacting with Yu Shu for a long time, Yan Jin had also learned from him things that she didn’t know before.

After class, Yan Jin went up to one of the students who had been listening attentively, “Hello classmate, may I ask you a question?”

This was something Yan Jin learned from Yu Shu, to ask the other party a simple little thing that they could solve. As long as it was something the other party could do, eight or nine times out of ten they would readily agree, and the relationship between the two could also quickly become closer.

The classmate Yan Jin stopped was called Xi Qionghua. Seeing Yan Jin ask her, she was a bit surprised, but still nodded, “Student Yan is too polite, we are classmates, it’s only right that we help each other.”

Yan Jin then asked a question that anyone who had been paying attention in class just now could answer.

Xi Qionghua quickly answered and carefully explained it to Yan Jin.

While explaining to Yan Jin, those few students who had been paying attention in class also heard the commotion and gathered over to explain to Yan Jin together.

Yan Jin didn’t expect the effect to be this good, attracting all the students she wanted to find in one go. She sincerely praised, “You classmates have such solid knowledge, you will definitely rank at the top in the next monthly exam.”

Unexpectedly, those few students shook their heads upon hearing Yan Jin’s praise.

“Actually this question isn’t difficult, Student Yan just arrived and isn’t used to it yet, that’s why you couldn’t think of it.”

“I’m afraid we’ll have to disappoint Student Yan, we can’t live up to Student Yan’s expectations like this.”

Xi Qionghua’s brows and eyes were tinged with a bit of worry, “Although the few of us can be considered to have okay grades in Class B, during the monthly exams, we can’t even compare to the last place in Class A.”

The student Li Banfan sighed, “It’s not that we don’t study hard. We’re so attentive in class and have persisted, but every time our grades just can’t surpass Class A.”

Yan Jin didn’t find this result surprising at all. The classroom was so noisy, even if one persisted in listening, the learning efficiency would still be greatly discounted.

Yan Jin asked, “If we encounter questions we don’t understand after class, when is the most appropriate time for us to ask the teacher?”

“Ask the teacher?” Xi Qionghua widened her eyes, “The teacher is always so busy. During her rest time after class, it wouldn’t be good for us to disturb her with such simple questions.”

Yan Jin put herself in their shoes and felt that what Xi Qionghua said made sense. So she changed the question, “Then after class, can we privately discuss and solve the simple questions among ourselves, and compile the difficult questions into a booklet to ask the teacher?”

Asking when you don’t understand, this was Yan Jin’s experience of many years. She originally thought that although times were different, “asking the teacher when you don’t understand” was common among students.

Who knew that as soon as she finished speaking, she saw the few classmates looking at each other.

Yan Jin: “…We can’t ask the teacher difficult questions either?”

“The teacher is already exhausted from teaching all day,” Li Banfan mumbled, “Let’s not disturb her.”

“We can resolve simple questions privately through discussion.” Xi Qionghua muttered softly, “For slightly harder questions, we can ask Teacher Zhou. If Teacher Zhou gets stumped like before, that would be too embarrassing.”

Teacher Zhou was the teacher who had just taught that class.

“Actually, Teacher Wang is very knowledgeable, we can ask her.” Another student said in a low voice, “But she’s too stern, my legs start shaking in fear just looking at her face.”

Xi Qionghua echoed in a low voice, “And if we ask her, Teacher Wang will also harshly scold us for having wooden heads, for being mud that can’t be propped up against a wall.”

Yan Jin understood now. She realized why Xi Qionghua and the others studied hard in class but could never score higher than Class A no matter what.

They didn’t dare ask the teacher about questions they didn’t understand despite being attentive in class, insisting on holding it in. Over time, the difficult unsolved questions accumulated more and more, creating a vicious cycle. It would be strange if their grades improved compared to before.

“To learn well, you definitely can’t be thin-skinned. How about this,” Yan Jin felt that she had to take the first step before persuading them to agree to her plan, “Have you encountered any difficult problems recently that are hard to solve? I’ll go ask Teacher Wang.”

Xi Qionghua and the others were startled. They didn’t expect the newly arrived Yan Jin to be so bold as to dare seek advice from Teacher Wang, the fiercest in the entire academy. Although they really wanted to solve the difficult problems, they still couldn’t bear to let their classmate whom they had just met do something so risky, so they all started persuading Yan Jin.

“Don’t worry.” Yan Jin instead persuaded them, “I have thick skin, I don’t mind.”

[If you don’t listen to the content and just look at how righteous Yan Jin appears, I’d think she was bragging about herself.] [Yan Jin really has self-awareness, knowing that she has thick skin.] [To be avoided like a tiger by all the students in the academy, this Teacher Wang must be very fierce. So I bet a cart of spicy sticks that Yan Jin will definitely be scolded until she cries.]

Yan Jin had strong execution. After class in the morning, she asked about Teacher Wang’s location. Then, bringing the difficult problems that Xi Qionghua and the others couldn’t solve, she headed straight for where Teacher Wang was.

The classmates saw Yan Jin hurrying off and were extremely curious. After learning that she was going to find Teacher Wang, they all widened their eyes and gaped their mouths.

“Student Yan, truly a brave warrior indeed.”