A CERTAIN SOMEONE ( THE ON1Y ONE )

Chapter 31 - Change

The Only Difference Was That He No Longer Came Over To Mooch Off The ‘Study Room’ Anymore.

Jiang Tian completed all the practice papers at 11.30pm, and finished 3 major questions each from maths, physics and chem olympiad questions. He then took out all the further extension papers, and went through his mistakes for the second time.
As he really barely made any mistake, this part only took less than 10 minutes.

12.40am, and he already had nothing left to do.

The neighbouring room remained dead quiet throughout.
Sheng Wang did not shuffle around in his slippers, nor did he show any signs of intending to buddy up to study. Last week, he even joked that Jiang Tian’s bedroom became a study room he took over by force. In the end, the moment the monthly exam ended, the ‘study room’ lost its purpose.

Jiang Tian stood in front of his bag, his fingers picking through its content. He already read everything he could read. After two rounds or so of picking through, he took out a thick book with a poker face, the cover had the words ‘A Guide to Lyrical Writing’ written on it.

He stared at the cover for a couple of seconds, it was hard to say if he was pondering over what exactly he was doing, or if he was pondering if there was any point in reading that.
Maybe there was a point after all, because he went to sit at the windowsill with it in the end.

This mini unit was talking about the clever use of parallelism in sentences, two minutes later, Jiang Tian already zoned out.

The White Horse Alley at this time didn’t have the particular type of tranquility found at 2am yet. People occasionally passed by the lane once in a while, casting fleeting shadows in between the walls. The main street in the distance also had some traffic, sometimes, it would be utterly quiet, and the other times, there would be the light sound of car tyres rolling past the surface of the road, like the sound of waves that the wind occasionally carried over.

His phone suddenly buzzed, and Jiang Tian retracted his gaze from outside the window. The lines of his lips and brows shifted on a miniscule level, like the moment he heard the vibration, they instantly relaxed a little.
He closed the guide that he couldn’t bring himself to read, and scooped over his phone——
It was Gao Tianyang’s message.
Jiang Tian: “……”

Boom: Are you still awake, Tian-ge?
Jiang Tian: Still am.
Boom: Great, have you seen the olympiad questions Old He sent in advance?
Jiang Tian: Yeah.
Boom: I just knew you won’t wait until next week,
Boom: I have 3 questions.
Jiang Tian: Speak.
Boom: May I ask
Boom: How do you do
Boom: The three questions
Jiang Tian: ……
Gao Tianyang sent several memes about life being rough, and explained that the questions this time round were much more troublesome than before, there was too little information given, and he didn’t know where to begin.

A portion of physics questions were all like this, at first look the question said nothing at all, they dared people to find an answer without any condition given.
Boom: The hell with answering, I can’t even list a damn formula.

Jiang Tian was already idle anyway, he dug out the practice paper he completed from his bag, and took a picture of the question. He used a black pen to underline 10+ parts.
He sent the picture to Gao Tianyang, and said: Just need to find all the hidden conditions.

Which term represents an additional force, which term represents that a certain state can be set at a certain value, which other term represents the limitations etc etc. They were all hidden in the parts he underlined.
He Jin mentioned before that at this stage, physics would be testing them on their attention to details. When they consider all given factors completely, one would be hard-pressed to even make a mistake. The three questions she gave this time were classic examples, they have to search for the conditions all on their own, managing to cause an entire class of students to nearly vomit over trying to find it.