Chapter 9 (2/2)
Ideally, Zhao Youyue hoped that Mr. Qiu has a bad memory. If so, he would easily forget about this incident, whereas for the confiscated phone, she would just assume that it had dropped into the river while she was dabbling in the water…
Very soon, the first class began. It was the Mathematics class of Gu Yaoyan, a young and handsome teacher with a cool and unrestrained manner. Zhao Youyue had always been fond of good-looking men, thus, she was all ears in the first twenty minutes of his class, in which the pre-test paper was discussed. But after twenty minutes, she started to blank out, as if her soul had flew above the sky.
“Zhao Youyue, please explain to everyone on how to solve this question.”
Gu Yaoyan’s attention was caught by this girl who had been in trance for five minutes. Little did he know about her, so he called her name by glancing through the seating name list. Well, he did not really put any hope in her to be able to answer the question. His sole purpose, was to stop her from blanking out in class.
However, Zhao Youyue was not awake until her name was called again by Zhou Fang, and thus, she had brought laughters upon the entire class. After that, she brought her pre-test paper to the front. That was pretty much beyond the expectation of Gu Yaoyan. He had assumed that she would just remain seated in embarrassment, and as always, he would explain the answer to everyone.
“Sorry Mr. Gu, may I know which question?” Her voice was gentle and pleasing as always.
The whole class laughed even louder than before. They assumed that this girl who was just reprimanded by the class teacher this morning, was about to suffer another disgrace.
Gu Yaoyan chuckled. He had always been a good-tempered man, and now, he genuinely found that Zhao Youyue was really cute, he thus pointed out the question for her on the pre-test paper—
AB=AC, AD is perpendicular to BC, AM:MD=2:3, MN///AC, look for AN:NB.
This question was not too difficult, but Zhao Youyue failed to solve it during pre-test. Later on, she did not attempt to complete the corrections after she returned home.
Gu Yaoyan sighed within his heart, thinking that this girl was indeed cute but kind of slacky in her studies.
The students in the classroom were looking forward to how Zhao Youyue would react to this matter. In the contrary, only the mathematics representative student, Chen Haoran was filled with bewilderment. In fact, he was desperate to stand out and rescue her, in hope to win her affection by playing the plot of “the Hero saves the Beauty[1].”
After pondering for a moment, Zhao Youyue had astonished everyone as she recollected what she had learned in the two dimensional world. In the past, she would not be able to solve this question, but now, she was able to have a grasp of it at the first sight.
Nevertheless, she had given others a feeling that she randomly guessed the answer. Ah, it could not be helped, she does not have the aura of an elite scholar….
Taking up a chalk, she drew a few diagrams according to the question, and began to answer —
DE//AC intersects AB at point E, as it is an isosceles triangle, BD:DC=1:1, with similar theory: AE:EB=1:1. After that, AN:NE=AM:MD=2:3, Hence, if AE=EB=5a, then AN=2a, NE=3a, NB=NE+EB=8a. Hence, AN:NB=2A:8A=1:4.
She explained the answer in her tender voice while writing, with a clear mind apparently, and finally acquired the answer.
She looked at Mr. Gu with a joyful smile after placing the chalk down.
Everyone in class had lapsed into silence.
Translation Note:
[1] “the Hero saves the Beauty” – “英雄救美” is a Chinese saying which means the Hero will always be the one who saves the Beauty and finally wins her heart.