Shen Wanyi discovered something.
My neighbor Lu Zhixing scored 149 points on the math test, but told the class that he "didn't do well". Every time he took the weekly test, he accurately stopped at 51st - not at the top, not at the bottom, as stable as if measured with a ruler. She saw with her own eyes that there were college textbooks spread out on his desk, with comments written on the margins.
He's pretending to be a scumbag.
What made her even more confused was that this person was pretending to be the best at helping her move from the passing line to the top of her grade in Physics in the most inconspicuous way. Classification of wrong questions, special training, and inferring questions from the answers. Every step of the way was to step on the areas she didn't know how to do. It was like someone had drawn a map in advance and was waiting for her to walk through it step by step.
Shen Wanyi decided to expose him.
Tracking, flipping through books, and checking files. She photographed the evidence in front of him: "You pretend to be a scumbag, does that have anything to do with me?"
He was silent for a long time.
"Yes," he said, "because if you taught me, you would keep knocking on the door."
Shen Wanyi was stunned. She remembered every time she took the initiative to walk towards him, remembered the corner of his mouth that hesitated to speak while standing in the door frame, and remembered every sentence he said, "I didn't do well in the exam this time."
It turned out that he had been pretending for half a semester and just wanted to wait for someone to expose him.
It turned out that he hid all his talents because he was afraid that he would be sent away early if he did too well on the test. After he left, no one knocked on his door again.
Campus sweetheart/secret love comes true/double academic master/college entrance examination side by side
From neighbors to deskmates, from weekly exams to college entrance exams. He pretended to be a bad student for a whole semester, but in fact, only one thing was true - he wanted to go to the same university as her.
