Stating one's affection boldly. Joy blossoms in the heart, spreading wantonly like wild grass.
Su Qinian smiles with pursed lips. His voice is soft and gentle. His dark pupils reflect the figure of the person in front of him. "Do you mean writing something like 'Wen Wan likes Qin Huai'?"
It's late summer. The sky is still a clear blue, bright and clean. In the distance, a few white clouds dot it, like pearls inlaid on the periphery.
The sunlight falls lazily. The shadows of the two people are stretched long and overlap.
"Ah, what are you thinking about, Su Qinian?" Lin Jinran utters an "ah" and gives him a glare. "We're here to study hard!"
She enunciates each word carefully. The look in her eyes when she looks at Su Qinian is almost one of disappointment. "I finally understand why the grade director is so afraid of you falling in love."
"Why?" Su Qinian asks awkwardly. He turns his head away unnaturally, pretending to look at the scenery in the distance.
He was just being careless.
"You just look so dateable!" Lin Jinran shouts out the last three words emphatically.
Su Qinian can't help but laugh and cry at the same time. He steps a bit closer to the wall, looks up at it and says, "No, it was you who said we should also write something similar."
"Look, the most obvious thing here is the confession of love. The words 'Study hard and make progress every day' are in the corner. I didn't even notice them."
Su Qinian points innocently at the few lines of words at the bottom of the wall. The dappled sunlight shines on them, flickering. "So, Lin Jinran, it's because you didn't make yourself clear."
"It's still because you didn't notice." Lin Jinran refuses to admit her linguistic misunderstanding just now. "You've been here for so long. How could you not have noticed these small words?"
"Okay, okay." Su Qinian really has no way with her now. He curves his lips and keeps nodding in agreement. "It's my fault for not noticing these words."
He discovers that Lin Jinran has two different personas. On the rooftop that day, she was radiant and high - spirited, seemingly invincible.
But sometimes, Lin Jinran has the unique characteristics of a young girl. For example, she refuses to admit her mistakes, looking so cute.
"Well, Lin Jinran, shall we start analyzing your test papers?" Su Qinian smiles faintly. His eyes are lowered as he looks at their wrinkled shadows.
Lin Jinran exclaims. The class bell has rung for four or five minutes, and she hasn't even started analyzing yet. She was being careless. She glances at the wall and says, "Next time we come up, we should bring some chalk and write on it. Come on, Su Qinian, let's start analyzing."
Su Qinian finds a shaded area, tears off two pieces of scratch paper and spreads them on the ground. They sit on either side.
Lin Jinran gives all her test papers to him. While Su Qinian is still looking at the papers, she wonders if she should bring a stool and a table up next time. It's so inconvenient otherwise.
"Don't be in a daze. Look over here quickly. You did best in Chinese, so I won't look at your Chinese paper." Seeing her in a daze, Su Qinian knocks on her head with his pen, but at the moment of impact, he softens the force.
So Lin Jinran only feels something fall gently and disappear instantly. She obediently turns her head and looks at her test paper.
A gust of wind blows. The pleasant scent from the boy wafts into her nose. Lin Jinran is slightly stunned. She leans a bit more to the side and sees a shadow cast by the boy's long eyelashes. His outline is clean and sharp, and his skin is fair.
Her gaze moves slightly downward. A ball - point pen is casually held between his fair fingers.
"Well... Let's start with the math paper. You only scored 117 in math. Like physics, it's a place where you lost a lot of points. It can only be said that you can solve all the easy questions, but you can't solve at least half of the medium - level questions. And our school always likes to set difficult questions..."
Hearing Su Qinian start to analyze, Lin Jinran steadies her mind. She follows the boy's outline down and looks at her test paper.
Su Qinian looks at the test paper with a focused and serious expression. On another piece of scratch paper, as he speaks, he writes down the areas where Lin Jinran is currently lacking.
In the brilliant sunlight, Su Qinian seems to be gilded.
He has sat in the examination room countless times, written one test paper after another, and keenly found the flaws in each question.
There seems to be an innate confidence on him, not the blind arrogance, but the calmness cultivated from years of being immersed in the sea of questions.
Lin Jinran's train of thought is gradually led by him. She is immersed in the mathematical world that Su Qinian has brought her.
She is amazed at Su Qinian's acumen in math. Usually, he only needs to glance at the problem - solving process she has written to tell where she is weak, and even extends it to knowledge points beyond the college entrance examination.
After analyzing one test paper, Lin Jinran is still eager for more.
"Lin Jinran, your foundation is not bad. At present, the most important thing is that you lack a certain mathematical thinking. But this mathematical thinking can't be trained in just this last year."
Su Qinian says seriously, "When facing the following big questions, can't you tell at a glance where the problem - solving conditions are? Even for the first sub - questions of the last two big questions, you need to think for a few minutes, right?"
"Yes." Lin Jinran admits.
"This is the key. Mathematical thinking is neither too big nor too small. It's the same thing as the sense of language in English. The same goes for physics." Su Qinian writes the words "mathematical thinking" on the scratch paper.
Lin Jinran asks blankly, "Then what should I do?"
"If it were still the first or second year of high school, you might have time to practice. But now it's different. We're already in our senior year." Su Qinian says slowly. "It takes a lot of time and a large number of questions to practice. Now you can only try your best to do books like Five - Year College Entrance Examination, Three - Year Simulation. Through the surface of the questions, you need to see the intention of the question - setter."
"At the same time, don't give up the small questions after each chapter in the textbook. This is a way to cultivate mathematical thinking. All the questions come from the textbook."
"I understand." Lin Jinran says softly.
"Fortunately, you're not completely lacking in mathematical thinking. It's just relatively weak." Su Qinian smiles faintly. "Take it slowly, Lin Jinran. Take every step steadily. Do you have the confidence?"
Lin Jinran curves her lips and smiles. "Of course I have the confidence. Su Qinian, don't underestimate me."
"It's good to have confidence. Then let's start with the next test paper." Su Qinian gives her the math paper and takes out the physics paper. Just like before, he carefully analyzes it for Lin Jinran.
The boy's secret feelings are hidden in every stroke and are scattered lightly in every corner with the wind, unknown to anyone.
At that time, the sun is a bit scorching. The wind rises and falls. Lin Jinran stands at the turning point of her fate. Many years later, when she looks back suddenly, she realizes that all the hardships along the way have already blossomed into prosperity.
It's a pity that she still falls into the mud and can't see the light.