Chapter 5: Slaying Demons and Evil Spirits

."Cut the crap!" Seeing Su Can's surprised expression, Xue Yiyang chuckled and patted him on the shoulder, "Didn't you enter this prestigious school for her Could it be that you came here just for me!...Chapter 5: Slashing Demons and Evil Spirits

Mother, who occasionally passed by the kitchen通道 from Su Can's bedroom window, was shocked to find that Su Can was studying under the dim light of a soy-colored lamp.

In her memory, Su Can never studied this diligently. Before any big or small exams, he would always find various ways to relax, just like how he could have used the excuse of "changing his mind" to watch TV during the upcoming high school entrance exam.

However, as night fell, instead of playing around like expected, her son was locked up in his room revising and studying. This somewhat relieved Mother Su.

Returning to the living room, Mother Su Ke secretly told Father Su Licheng, "Our son is now putting in effort and diligently reviewing his studies. He hasn't been this hardworking before."

Su Licheng's face slightly eased as he glanced at the door of Su Can's bedroom. His eyes first showed relief but then a hint of worry appeared, hesitating to speak, ultimately sighing, "Only three days left; if only this child had started working hard earlier..."

Su Can’s desk was filled with textbooks from his three years of junior high school, placed on the table next to him. It looked somewhat impressive, including Chinese, English, Math, History, Politics, Chemistry, and Physics. Thankfully Geography and Biology were already finished and wouldn't be part of the exam, but these books still made Su Can subconsciously feel overwhelmed.

It was somewhat amusing to think about it. In 2009, there were countless穿越重生 (rebirth) novels, both online and traditionally published, all with a common theme: those who were reborn usually came from official families or had business opportunities leading them to cross eras for development or become the first to benefit from historical changes. Otherwise, they would go far away to another dynasty to cause trouble or stabilize the country.

But he inexplicably returned eleven years ago only to sit at his desk and look at thick textbooks in order to re-experience the failed exam-oriented education of eleven years ago!

Su Can felt that if he told anyone about this experience, no one would believe him. Even in 2009, people might think he was daydreaming or crazy.

However, life must go on; if God truly exists and gave him a chance to start over, it wasn't likely for the purpose of deepening his suffering. Otherwise, that old man would be too boring.

The disappointment of his parents and the attitudes of those around him after failing the high school entrance exam are still vividly clear, burning in Su Cen's heart. These memories that were once sealed away now haunt him. He absolutely does not want to repeat this painful experience again. Within this short period of time, he wants to change the sad events from eleven years ago and alter his destiny!

Su Cen roughly looked over Chinese and English. Many familiar things came flooding back into his memory. The articles that needed to be memorized for Chinese were now very親切而熟悉，一眼就能看透。然而，如果要一字不差地背誦下來，他估計自己已經不可能做到。因此，他主動放棄了這一部分的背誦工作。不過，對於遣詞造句、魯迅短語填空以及文章分析和句子成分劃分，這些本來就是蘇燦的強項，駕輕就熟。

In 2009, English was no longer a hurdle for him because his company involved foreign investment and he could communicate without difficulty. However, the most crucial part of junior high school English in 1998 was vocabulary accumulation and understanding some basic grammar rules. Therefore, these things were not difficult for Su Cen; he just needed to review and consolidate everything.

This was still a time-consuming task. Apart from a few words that he had to look at twice to understand, most of the more complex structures for junior high school students, such as 'congratulation' (祝賀) and 'delicious' (美味的), were already natural expressions in his vocabulary.

When flipping through an English textbook and seeing his old test papers from junior high, looking at the total score of 150 points while he was often hovering around passing grades of 80-90, Su Cen cursed himself for being so stupid back then! The mistakes on these tests now seemed obvious.

However, to be fair, a lot of those errors were due to not understanding the sentences deeply enough or even recognizing some words. This was a basic issue with memorizing vocabulary.

In reality, the 1500 vocabulary required by junior high school English had already been surpassed by Su Cen's accumulation during his eleven years since graduating from university and working. Therefore, looking at those past mistakes now seemed childish to him.

However, if he were to just take a glance and think this would be enough to face the high school entrance exam, it wouldn't take the test seriously enough. At least Su Cen believed that if he went in unprepared, perhaps he wouldn’t fail third place in the middle school, but he definitely had no chance of getting into the top-ranked city high schools or provincial key high schools.

No one gets a second chance at life, and since he has this opportunity to start over, he can't just go through it blindly. If rote learning education is becoming more and more important in society and was where he had previously stumbled, why couldn’t he use his accumulated knowledge to stand on top of it!

The high school entrance exam after a rebirth aims for the city’s best high schools.

Of course, now isn't the time to just daydream. The most critical thing is to take action.

Lack of a solid foundation was once his biggest issue, but now he has come back to life and transformed all the experiences from his earlier years into that very foundation. Now is the time for him to build upon this strong base, planting a vibrant and lush tree.

Spreading out the photocopied set of math problem sheets originally provided by Dong Qingyun, Su Cen realizes that what he needs most right now is to systematically grasp and familiarize himself with the three years' worth of middle school mathematics knowledge which has become somewhat hazy in his memory. Since this collection of problems represents the current hardest middle school math exercises, if he manages to work through each one thoroughly, wouldn't it be as easy as rolling off a log when facing the high school entrance exam

Su Cen laid out six books on mathematics beside him and opened up the problem set, starting from the first question. As expected, these questions, which represent the hardest problems in middle school, are not undeservedly difficult; the very first one had Su Cen stumped, particularly due to his fuzzy memory of mathematical concepts. He diligently turned the pages of each math book in search of relevant formulas.

As night deepened, both parents passed by the window several times and smiled when they saw their son bent over his work with intense concentration.

By eleven o'clock, Su Cen was working on the thirty-fifth problem.

Their repeated urging for him to go to bed were all met with Su Cen's request that they do so first. In the end, unable to persuade him any further and concerned about dampening his enthusiasm, Zeng Ke and Su Licheng returned to their rooms with a slight ache in their hearts.

During his student days, Su Cen hardly ever stayed up late; however, staying up for work was quite common later on, especially during those monotonous and repetitive times that could drive one mad. But compared to the future, this was nothing at all, let alone as he tackled each problem with increasing ease.

The review materials ranged from "Monotonicity of Functions," "Multiplication of Powers with the Same Base" to "Quadratic Functions," and "Tangent and Cotangent"...

Truth be told, those middle school problems back then were harder than later on, while high school problems jumped up a notch in difficulty. As for university-level advanced mathematics, some problems would even stump professors from third-tier universities where Su Cen studied. By now, he was gradually getting the hang of the formulas again through solving these questions, and with his background in marketing and other chaotic sales work, his understanding of elementary math had never been clearer.

It took him half an hour to solve the first ten problems, another twenty problems were done by Su Cen in just thirty minutes as well.

The next set of twenty questions was completed by Su Cen within twenty minutes, on top of his previous speed.

This is already an unbelievable speed. For top students in junior high, perhaps they could achieve this speed for ordinary problems, but for such meticulously organized internal exercises, reaching this level of speed is simply astonishing.

The next fifty questions were swiftly and decisively solved by Su Cen, just like munching on corn cobs, as he attacked them with full force.

With a sigh of relief, after checking the references and consolidating system knowledge, it's now one o'clock in the morning.

Rising from his chair, he stretched luxuriously, secretly exclaiming "fantastic."

This sense of pleasure derived from solving problems is akin to leveling up after battling demons and monsters in online games during a break in 2009. However, this sensation is even more intense!

The exercises that I have conquered with my dense answers represent all the key points of junior high mathematics, which were fully攻克 in just these three hours. It's like being level eighty with top-tier equipment while roaming freely in World of Warcraft, while all the housebound men and women are still at level seventy. This is what it means to be exceptional.

However, this set of exercises is not necessarily perfect. Yesterday, Su Cen only photocopied the exercises but forgot to include the answer sheet. So some errors might have crept in during his solutions. After all, sometimes even with a self-perceived sense of correctness, things often turn out differently. The harsh reality he experienced before his reincarnation and rebirth has already made him doubt his own judgment.

He lacks confidence.

Fortunately, there's still one more day left at school tomorrow, during which he can borrow the answer sheet to verify his answers.

In addition, he must also borrow similar ultra-difficult internal exercises for other subjects that systemically review knowledge.

The time is pressing; let's hope these three days will be sufficient... my brother! Damn it! Forget it, let's just leave this matter behind. I don't want to deal with you anymore, hearing your voice makes me angry!"Seeing Wang Haoran put his hands in his pockets and mimi...