I Get Stronger When Called Up - Chapter 11

The person who arrived was not the Fang Qimai Xiao Bixue had been waiting for, but Li Hongzhe.

“Hmm? Didn’t you leave, Class Rep?”

“I forgot to take my extracurricular exercise paper with me… By the way, that boy hasn’t come back yet? You might as well stop waiting.”

Li Hongzhe said while pretending to look for something.

…

Just then, Fang Qimai returned.

He was drenched in sweat and looked completely dishevelled.

Xiao Bixue quickly walked over to him, “Fang Qimai, you…”

Fang Qimai asked, “Why are you still here?”

“Didn’t we agree that you would explain the problems to me? If I can’t solve this problem, I won’t be able to sleep.”

“I almost forgot. By the way, can’t the Class Rep do it?”

“The Class Rep… can’t…”

“I…” Li Hongzhe hesitated, feeling a little nervous and ashamed.

“From Li Hongzhe, Confusion Value +4.”

Fang Qimai was right, if you don’t know maths, you just don’t know it.

This time, his image crumbled in Xiao Bixue’s eyes, while Fang Qimai became the academic star.

Fang Qimai smiled slightly and said, “All right, I’ll explain it to you. By the way, Class Rep, if you don’t know, would you like to listen in?”

Although it was rather embarrassing for an academic star to listen to a struggling student teach, there were no others around now, and Li Hongzhe was curious to see if Fang Qimai was just boasting.

If he was bragging, he could still redeem himself.

So Li Hongzhe sat down.

Fang Qimai continued, “Class Rep, you really have the nerve to stay, huh?”

Li Hongzhe: …

“We already know the first method. Now let’s use the second method.”

“First, let’s take the case where a > b > 0. Let’s set c = (a² + b²) / (1 + ab) and treat a as a variable to construct the function…”

…

…”Then let a be the first root, and let a1 be the other root, so a + a1 = bc, and aa1 = b² – c…”

…

…

“Continuously constructing the function and repeating the previous process, we can conclude that a > a1, which is greater than a2, while the non-negative numbers less than a are finite.”

Tap, tap, tap.

Fang Qimai wrote furiously on the paper, filling a whole page with formulae.

“So we have arrived at the final answer, which is the same as the result of the first method.”

He put down his pen, clapped his hands, then gave himself a thumbs up and said, “Perfect!”

Li Hongzhe and Xiao Bixue watched in astonishment.

The second method was much more complicated than the first.

For an average person, solving the first method would be the limit; the second was something only a genius could come up with…

“By Li Hongzhe, Confusion Value +10.”

…

“Good work!” Xiao Bixue hastily clapped her hands,

“Even though I didn’t understand it…”

“No wonder Teacher Xue said we don’t need to know.”

Xiao Bixue muttered to herself.

It was too difficult, she just couldn’t keep up with Fang Qimai’s train of thought.

“Class Rep, do you understand?”

Fang Qimai turned to Li Hongzhe.

Li Hongzhe was taken aback and did not know what to say.

“How boring, I’m leaving.”

Fang Qimai laughed; this guy just didn’t want to admit that he couldn’t keep up.

…

Li Hongzhe stood up, “Bixue, are you leaving?”

Xiao Bixue replied, “I still have a few questions I would like to ask Fang Qimai if he… has time…”

Fang Qimai said, “I have plenty of time.”

“From Li Hongzhe, Confusion Value +4.”

Li Hongzhe added, “Bixue, how about I have my driver wait for you and I’ll take a taxi back?”

Xiao Bixue replied, “No need, Class Rep, we don’t even know when we’re leaving.

How annoying…

“But won’t your mother worry? I think it’s better if you go back early. It’s dangerous to come back late, especially with the recent incident; it’s all over the news.”

Li Hongzhe tried everything to prevent Xiao Bixue from being alone with Fang Qimai.

Not even studying together would be acceptable.

But Xiao Bixue insisted: “No, I told my mother.

Li Hongzhe: …Fang Qimai said, “Don’t worry, Class Rep, I will take Xiao Bixue home safely.

Li Hongzhe: !!!

“Confusion Value +8 from Li Hongzhe.”

…

Li Hongzhe reluctantly left.

The thought of them being alone together made him more and more angry!

At the school gate, a Benz waited patiently for Li Hongzhe.

“You’ve finished school, young master.”

“Wait a moment.”

Li Hongzhe didn’t get into the car, but went to a nearby milk tea shop.

Jiang Zejian and a few other classmates, along with some outsiders, were sitting at the entrance drinking milk tea.

Li Hongzhe approached and pulled Jiang Zejian aside.

“Spit it out quickly if you have something to say!” Jiang Zejian said impatiently.

In truth, Li Hongzhe was quite afraid of Jiang Zejian.

Jiang Zejian was a little punk who ruled the class, and no one dared to provoke him.

Usually, Jiang Zejian would put on a show to please Xiao Bixue, and Li Hongzhe could only seethe in silence.

An idea struck Li Hongzhe, and he stepped forward and said, “Jiang Zejian, as they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Since we both have a common enemy in Fang Qimai, why not join forces to deal with him?

Jiang Zejian asked coldly, “Are you telling me how to do things? Don’t try to pressure me with your Class Rep tactics.”

“No, no, no, it’s not like that. I just want you to help me deal with this Fang Qimai, not to beat him up, but to find a way to take him down a notch!”

“Like how?”

“Like a one-on-one basketball challenge. Doesn’t he like to play basketball? You’re in the school basketball team, so it should be easy to crush him, right?”

Jiang Zejian: …

Remembering how he was dominated by Fang Qimai earlier, Jiang Zejian fell silent.

“Speak up!”

“You’re driving me crazy. I know you like Bixue too. You and I should compete fairly based on our own abilities, but that brat Fang Qimai… he’s just too shameless! I’ve always wanted to find a way to get to Bixue!

In a way, you and I are comrades!”

“Come on, comrades? Why don’t you do it yourself?”

“Isn’t it because I don’t know how to play basketball? You’re quite good at it. Let’s invite Bixue to watch you humiliate him and make him lose face in front of her!”

This might indeed bring Fang Qimai down, but it would also allow Jiang Zejian to show off in front of Xiao Bixue.

Li Hongzhe felt like he was hurting himself while planning to hurt the enemy.

But at the moment, he didn’t have any other choice.

As for humiliating Fang Qimai, Jiang Zejian wouldn’t even dare to think about it, and he certainly wouldn’t bring up the basketball game from earlier.

After a pause, he said, “Earlier… I saw him play basketball and he was quite good. I don’t… I don’t have the confidence to beat him…”

“Earlier?”

Jiang Zejian exclaimed excitedly, “Yes! Just now, while I was studying on my own, he was out there playing. This guy used to be just average at basketball, and suddenly he… he became really strong.”

Li Hongzhe didn’t think much and suddenly realised.

So Fang Qimai never went to Teacher Luo to be scolded, he went to play basketball instead.

No wonder he was dripping with sweat right now.

“Confusion Value +4 from Li Hongzhe.”

Fang Qimai: ???

…

Li Hongzhe asked reluctantly, “So we can’t get to him? We must do everything to make him lose face in front of Bixue!”

“We can definitely take care of that!” Jiang Zejian replied coldly, then looked at a person sitting at the entrance of the milk tea shop.

…

At that moment, there was another sound in the classroom of the 10th grade…

It turned out to be Xiao Bixue applauding Fang Qimai.

He had helped her answer a lot of questions in one go.

Xiao Bixue couldn’t help but exaggerate, “Fang Qimai, it turns out that you are so amazing!”

After a pause, she added, “Thank you for clearing up so many of my doubts!”

“No need to thank me, let’s do something practical.”

“Huh?”