The Tender Beauty is Sweetly Doted in the 20th Century Novel!-Chapter 231 - 230: The Study God Must Be Respected and Admired

Chapter 231: Chapter 230: The Study God Must Be Respected and Admired

The two of them didn’t bring pens, and the only fountain pen they had was new and had no ink, so they could only dryly look at the questions and explain the problem-solving process.

But Ye Manman had a clear train of thought, with a problem-solving method that was clever and novel. Some problems left him pondering hard without finding a good way to solve them, but Ye Manman could take a different approach and solve them in the simplest way.

Even without writing it down, with just a hint or two from her, he could suddenly see it all clearly, sorting out the whole problem-solving direction at once.

Ye Manman also liked challenging difficult problems. Although the problems recorded in Ji Bowen’s notebook weren’t particularly difficult, some of them still needed careful thought and were a good way to pass the time.

Finally, she finished all the problems in the notebook, but the finals were only halfway through.

She started to feel bored again, leaning back in her chair and yawning.

But Ji Bowen was different.

He originally just wanted to kill two birds with one stone, helping her pass the time while learning something himself. But now it seemed he had indeed learned a lot, even wishing he could take out a pen and write feverishly, though Ye Manman was still quite bored.

But he was also a rather boring person and had no funny stories to tell her, nor did he have other difficult problems for her to solve; he could only quietly look at the questions himself and shamelessly ask her again when he couldn’t think of the right approach.

In this way, Ye Manman barely avoided being so bored that she fell asleep, finally waiting until the end of the finals to announce the rankings.

She yawned, with physiological tears hanging from the corners of her eyes.

"It’s finally over."

She sincerely sighed, while Ji Bowen silently put away his small notebook beside her and also sighed, "Yeah."

He really gained a lot from this!

If he had brought a pen, he might have hoped the finals lasted a little longer so he could ask her more questions.

But now their relationship should have eased up a bit, right? Her character was indeed as good as Liao Yonghe said.

He sneaked a glance at her, thinking he actually got to know such an amazing friend. Finally, he could ask someone questions, and his grades wouldn’t stagnate; he could even make progress. He couldn’t help but smile.

The results of this competition didn’t seem so important now.

In fact, during the competition, almost everyone had already guessed who the champion would be. So when the host teacher announced the runner-up and third place and then tried to keep them in suspense, no one in the audience made a fuss; everyone instinctively looked at Ye Manman.

The teacher also felt there was no suspense about who would take the championship home, so they didn’t keep them in suspense any longer and loudly announced that Ye Manman had won the championship.

As her name was mentioned, the whole hall erupted in enthusiastic applause, and the applause didn’t stop for quite some time.

Ye Manman walked slowly onto the stage under the envious and admiring gazes of everyone, elegantly receiving her trophy, certificate, and prize money, then gave a few witty acceptance remarks before standing between the runner-up and the third place.

Next was the photo-taking to commemorate the moment.

Only the champion had a shiny gold trophy, while the runner-up and third place only had certificates and prize money.

Ye Manman couldn’t hold the trophy and show her certificate at the same time, so she rolled up her certificate, held the red envelope containing the prize money, and cradled the trophy to complete the photo commemoration.

Ji Bowen barely made it to the top three, winning third place.

During the photoshoot, he was so nervous that, with the teacher guiding him to stand a little closer to Ye Manman, he felt like his arm touched hers, and his face went stiff, unable to smile.

As the shutter clicked, he was terribly distressed in his heart.

Finally, it was his first time having a photo with Ye the Great, and he didn’t get his expression in order. He didn’t know if the picture would turn out to look really ugly.

Yes, Ji Bowen had already silently changed Ye Manman’s title in his heart to Ye the Great because Ye Manman had just effortlessly solved the problems that had perplexed him for more than half a month.

She had already become a god of study-like figure in his heart, worthy of respect, esteem, and even admiration.

Thinking that his ugly face might spoil the photo, he wanted to slap himself.

With the photo session over, everyone began to leave the venue; he turned his head and saw Ye Manman holding the trophy and talking with the teacher. He really wanted to say a couple more words to her but didn’t know what to say, so he quietly left.

Liao Yonghe seized the opportunity to hurry over and congratulate him.

"Not bad, you managed to beat those second and third-year students, impressive!"

"By the way, did you apologize to Ye Manman? I was watching you guys, whispering there the whole time. How come your relationship has warmed so quickly in just one afternoon?"

He was genuinely happy, feeling like his future support pillars were steady now, finally not needing to worry about stumbling himself.

Ji Bowen felt a bit awkward, "I apologized to her, and she solved all the problems in my tricky problems collection this afternoon. We even agreed I’ll bring her a bottle of ink tomorrow when we have class."

Liao Yonghe widened his eyes in amazement, "Wow, the relationship is progressing well! By the way, is she really that good? Did she solve your whole notebook?"

"Was there no problem she couldn’t handle?"

Ji Bowen shook his head ruefully, "No, she even said these problems weren’t challenging enough and were easy to solve."

Liao Yonghe was shocked, "Wow..."

He patted Ji Bowen on the shoulder, "Then you’ve hit the jackpot, with such an academic godlike big shot around, there’s no way your grades won’t improve. Keep it up, I’m rooting for you."

"Mhm, I will work hard. After interacting with her, I understand what ’there’s always someone better’ really means. I truly was too arrogant before, thankfully she’s willing to forgive me."

Liao Yonghe nodded earnestly, "See, I told you, she’s a pretty good person. Indeed, we both messed up before, and we should make amends to her in the future. By the way, does she like fountain pens? You gave her one, should I also give her one? So she can swap them around?"

Ji Bowen glanced at him, feeling inexplicably a bit unwilling.

"One is enough; there are so many stationery items, you might as well give something else."

Liao Yonghe stroked his chin, "Right, how about I give her a notebook? I saw some notebooks that are large and beautiful and quite suitable for girls like her."

"..."

Ye Manman didn’t expect that after awarding her the trophy, it would need to be taken back.

The teacher said it was for efficiency, as the names on the certificates were written on the spot at the event.

The trophy didn’t have engraved names either, so they gave it to her first for photo-taking. After the photo session, the school would take it back to engrave her name, saving the need to call on students to come for a photo op and wasting time.

One must say, this was quite an efficient approach.

It’s just that her plan to show the trophy to Liu Rulan tonight fell through, and she would have to wait two more days.

But fortunately, she still had the certificate, and the prize money was already in hand, so Ye Manman didn’t object, handing the trophy to the teacher before leaving.

The speech competition didn’t have a fixed ending time; she didn’t know how late it would run, so she had informed Liu Gaoyuan earlier not to pick her up today. She thought of returning directly to her own place.

Unexpectedly, Liu Gaoyuan was waiting at the side entrance.

There weren’t many cars on the street these days, so Liu Gaoyuan’s Hongqi car was particularly conspicuous. As she stepped out, she saw it immediately.

Going over, she found Liu Gaoyuan asleep in the car, she tapped on the window.

"Grandpa, what brings you here to pick me up?"

After getting in the car, she found something to say to start a conversation.

Liu Gaoyuan turned around with a smile, repeatedly looking at the certificate she handed over.

"Don’t think I don’t know what’s on your mind, little girl. You just didn’t want to bother me by not letting me pick you up. I’m an old man with nothing much to do, and I’m more than happy to pick up my granddaughter; there’s no need for you to worry about that."

"Wow, this is the championship? Little girl got first place?"