Eighteen Ways to Solve Problems

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When Sheng Kuang was assigned to a new class in his second year of high school, he was unexpectedly placed in the school's specially established Innovation Class, becoming its only new student.

On his first day in the new class, he ran into the cold-faced genius rumored around school to be able to solve a single problem in eighteen different ways.

And the dean of students, walking slowly behind him.

Sheng Kuang hadn't done anything to anyone. He just wanted to add the guy as a friend on his phone and ask for a way to solve a problem. Instead, he lost a phone on his very first day and couldn't help blurting out, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

The boy was lean and tall, with crisp, handsome features and fair skin so pale that faint veins showed through. Yet that weary look between his brows never seemed to go away.

Shen, the student, replied quite calmly, "I'm sick. Can you cure me?"

Sheng Kuang: "..."

What a lunatic.

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It didn't take long for Sheng Kuang to realize that this Shen guy was completely different from the rumors going around school!

He was the bking of all bking, the undisputed champion of sour faces!!

During evening study hall, Sheng Kuang asked the student in front of him, "Where exactly did they get these two equal lengths, BF and AP, from?"

Before the student in front could answer, the genius Shen twirled his pen once beside him and pointed at the problem, saying flatly, "The question tells you."

He casually wrote down several ways to solve it on the paper, then lifted his eyes without changing expression and asked, "Isn't this simple?"

Sheng Kuang: ? Want to try showing off one more time?

Then he failed to absorb any of the explanation. The math quiz that night had a similar problem, and he scored a 45.

Sheng Kuang: Tsk. Should've let him finish showing off.

While doing classroom cleanup, Sheng Kuang was on the verge of tears over his paper covered in red crosses. He turned around and saw Shen Yang tidying his desk, about to throw away a stack of papers filled with solutions.

Sheng Kuang: Wait!

Shen Yang paused.

The next moment, the papers were in front of Sheng Kuang.

He looked up in delight and saw Shen Yang walking away.

"Then throw them out."

A genius's papers! He'd be a fool not to take them!

School life gradually improved, but somehow a rumor started that the two heartthrobs in Innovation Class had a bad relationship, and that things between them were on the verge of falling apart.

Rumors spread quickly around school, and Sheng Kuang was asked every day whether Shen Yang had made him cry.

In response, Sheng Kuang, who had just shamelessly gotten the answers to the math paper from Shen Yang, the guy supposedly scary enough to make children within ten miles cry, sheepishly scratched his nose.

Really? Weren't they getting along pretty well?

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Their math teacher assigned them difficult problems every day, and the consequences of not finishing were terrifying. So in the middle of the night, Sheng Kuang would trudge over with his paper and knock on Shen Yang's door.

Sheng Kuang: "Um, I came to ask you..."

Everything spun around in an instant. By the time Sheng Kuang came to his senses, it felt as if a dog had taken a bite out of his lower lip.

A faint scent of Chinese medicinal herbs lingered at the tip of his nose. He heard Shen Yang whisper in his ear, "An equal exchange. One kiss for one solution."

Sheng Kuang: "..."

Taking advantage of someone when they're down.