I Don’t Want to Win Lying Down - Chapter 18

Chapter 18: Burn, Power Of Youth!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The topic for the essay this time was ‘urban and rural cities’.

Of course, with Xu Mang’s knowledge, he could probably compare the different lifestyles between the urban and rural cities. Then, he could write about the great achievements that the motherland’s reform had developed, and by taking a patriotic path, he wouldn’t obtain too low a mark, but not too high either.

However, it was different now, and with the help of the System, Xu Mang had upgraded this essay. To what extent this upgrade would go, Xu Mang was not clear. In short, it felt as though although he couldn’t understand it, he felt it in his bones that it would be awesome.

The exam ended, and he left the room.

The hallway outside the classrooms was filled with students gathering in groups of three to five, madly comparing their answers frantically. There were some who were laughing in excitement while doing that, and there were some who were crying, and crying very sadly.

Xu Mang had always resented this ritual of comparing answers after an exam. He always had, and now, even more so. Was there any use in comparing answers? Would you be able to change your past mistakes in the exam even if you knew now?

No!

It just makes you even more miserable and regretful.

At this time, the lonely Xu Mang found another fellow loner in the corner. Yang Xiaoman was in a daze not too far away, and there weren’t any classmates around her. At this time, Xu Mang felt that the picture she displayed was beautiful.

“…”

“I must be crazy.” Xu Mang was horrified at his line of thought, to feel that Yang Xiaoman was breathtakingly beautiful…

In terms of nobody crowding around Yang Xiaoman, Xu Mang could understand it. First of all, her arrival had broken the balance of the upper ranks structure in their class. It forced a few changes, and to those elite students, it was a life-altering deadly change.

Especially the unlucky bugger who had been booted out of the top ten ranking, hate was not the word to express against Yang Xiaoman…more accurately, she was an enemy that could not be forgotten.

Secondly, Yang Xiaoman’s personality had also indirectly contributed to the confrontations against most of their classmates. She always had a hard expression on her face which made it seem like she was repelling everyone within a thousand miles of her. When a question was posed to her, she would always respond with a rejection. After a long while of the same repetition, Yang Xiaoman was left alone by the masses. 

Those below-average students were insignificant.

“The sun sets, a broken heart is on the horizon…” Xu Mang let out a sigh, and he suddenly realized, didn’t he just do something stupid?

Chinese Skill -1

Seeing the prompt from the System that there was a deduction in his skill, Xu Mang’s heart almost stopped.

Walking toward Yang Xiaoman, Xu Mang asked cautiously, “Looking at your frown and pained face, did you somehow fail your Chinese test this time?”

“Can you speak sense for once?” Yang Xiaoman said, her face bored as she quietly replied. “The test was simple. Getting a perfect score wasn’t a problem, but I deliberately made it 149.”

“…”

“I say, your bragging skills are even greater than mine!” Xu Mang said, his face full of disbelief. “You say you’ll get 149, then you’re getting 149? If you manage to get 149, I’ll eat your test papers on the spot!”

Hearing Xu Mang’s words, Yang Xiaoman was startled and burst out laughing. “Better remember what you just said!”

Xu Mang’s brows furrowed, feeling that things were different from what he had expected. This girl was confident, however…the boat had sailed and it was impossible to walk away from it. On one hand, he could be completely safe. On another hand, he could have fallen right into a deathtrap.

It seemed like there was a 9 out of 10 chance for him to die to his own trap.

Forget it, if he died, so be it. He was still considered a decent person while he had lived anyway.

***

Mathematics was Xu Mang’s greatest enemy in life. Since he had started missing out on the teachings, whether intentionally or unintentionally, he had never understood Maths… And the biggest confusion to him was, why were there not only numbers written on the test paper, but also Greek letters mixed inside!

As usual, after getting his paper, he wrote his name and class. This was a sacred ritual that wouldn’t change.

What was this?

Set?

He had never seen this sort of question before, never heard of such a high-end question before. There were no figures written, just a bunch of incomprehensible symbols, and there were two English letters, P and S.

ABCD…

Xu Mang was currently wandering around the crossroads of fate, and generally speaking, the first question was always a freebie. Otherwise… it was just a free sacrifice of his life instead.

Was it A?

It didn’t seem like it!

B?

There was a lack of attraction to it.

D?

A slight stirring of his soul.

Xu Mang finally decided to choose C for no specific reason. It was life or death anyway, leave it to the heavens!

Generally speaking, there was a rule to any multiple choice question, and that was, to pick out the most ideal answer. For example, the longest or the shortest answers. However, if there were two long and two shorts, in that case, pick B, otherwise, pick C.

In fact, this rule was already outdated.

Xu Mang was once a strong believer in this rule and usually, he obtained quite good marks with it. That was until the teacher who came up with the tests learned how to counter this problem…they followed the so-called rule and sometimes, there would be a consecutive A appearing.

Except for the elite students, the average and below students, when encountering consecutive same answers, they would doubt whether or not they had answered wrongly. With such a strong sense of doubt, they would be forced to make changes to achieve a more balanced selection.

At this time, Xu Mang had completed his multiple-choice questions and had reached the subjective part of the test. The subjective part of the Mathematics paper was different from the rest. While others only required memorizing, here…Image, conic section, functions, derivatives, and many more—every type of topic gave Xu Mang a suffocating experience.

Xu Mang had thrown in the towel…

Pass!

Calculation problems…

Sorry, pass again!

Problem-solving type of questions…

This one might be doable!

Xu Mang wrote a solution for each of the questions, and this was the basic respect for each of the questions.

The first question from this category was a trigonometric function, and it was one of the most basic trigonometric functions, that was to base the measurement on the angle. The measurement of the angle corresponds to the hypotenuse, adjacent and opposite lines on the triangle. The measurement of the trigonometry will change according to the given variables, and usually you would use sine, cosine, and tangent.

However…this was too difficult for Xu Mang!

He didn’t remember the three functions, he couldn’t draw the function images, he didn’t even understand the induction formula…forget it, just leave this question empty.

The second question was in regards to probability and statistics, it was another basic question which was a freebie. However, Xu Mang just glanced at it and got ready to go into a brand new battlefield.

The other few questions on geometry questions and conic curve questions were all left empty, and Xu Mang went straight to the final big question in the Mathematics paper. Generally speaking, this was the elite students’ battlefield as they would have been able to answer the questions in front all the same. The real difference would be here.

This question was about derivatives, and it was a test on the student’s application and comprehensive strength. The content far exceeded the content of textbooks, involving a wide range such as monotonicity, non-monotonicity, extreme value, extreme point, and maximum value among others.

In normal situations, Xu Mang would have just thrown in the towel, but it wasn’t the same this time. This time, he chose to face the obstacles headfirst!

Think about it, even if the first part of his paper was empty, if he managed to solve the most difficult question in the final part, didn’t that mean it would be possible to excuse the front portion which was completely blank?

Look!

The most difficult biggest question had been solved! It’s just that he hadn’t felt like doing the front parts.

‘System, how many points do I need to answer this question perfectly?

[System has detected, the perfect answer will require: 100 points (Mathematics Skill)]

Expensive… The Chinese test paper full mark for the essay only needed 300 points which gave him 60 marks. Here, 12 marks for a Mathematic question needed him to give 100 points…

But you couldn’t think of it that way. There were only so many moments humans could have in their life, and if you missed out on one, you would have one less.

And so, at this time, Xu Mang thought about Maito Gai from Naruto. 

Burn, power of youth!

Pay!