Rebirth of a Top Student's Handbook

Zhou Min saw that Chen Sheng had also ordered the materials. She had to admit that although her mother-in-law was very frugal, she was very generous when it came to her child's education.

By the time Zhou Min and her classmates received their study materials, they had already begun reviewing for the midterm exams. At this point, the entire ninth-grade textbook had been completed, and the first round of review had covered material from the eighth grade. To prevent students from forgetting the material covered in the ninth grade, the teachers were giving them intensive pre-exam cramming sessions.

Because there were no classes during the exam period, Zhou Min had plenty of time to start working on chemistry competition materials. This material was very thin, a combination of past exam questions and mock exams. Although there were answers at the back, only the more complex questions at the end had solution steps; the other multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions only had answers.

Seeing this, Zhou Min finally understood why no one had made it to the semi-finals in her previous life. Most people probably wouldn't understand it, and the teachers didn't expect their students to win any awards, so they hadn't given any guidance lessons.

Zhou Min started working on the problems. Having always excelled in chemistry in her previous life, she found the materials quite easy, given her high school chemistry background. Of course, due to the long period of inactivity, she had forgotten many key points, but by checking the answers, thinking carefully, and doing the calculations, she could generally find the correct problem-solving strategies and methods.

By the time the school held its mid-term exam awards ceremony again, Zhou Min had finished her chemistry competition materials. This time, Zhou Min still came in first place, Chen Sheng came in second, and only Li Na was replaced by Lin Xin in the top five.

During this period, spurred on by Zhou Min, Lin Xin had been studying like crazy, sleeping only four or five hours a day and spending the rest of his time studying. Hearing that most of the students in the class were like this, Zhou Min said that she wanted to grow taller and needed to get plenty of rest.

After the commendation ceremony, Li Na was a little down. After school, she took Zhou Min out for a walk and started asking Zhou Min about her daily study time.

"I usually go to bed at 11 p.m. and get up at 5 a.m. every day now," Zhou Min answered honestly. But what Zhou Min didn't say was that although I also study at home, I only study things that are unrelated to school exams.

After hearing Zhou Min's words, Li Na frowned and asked, "Your grades have improved so quickly lately, do you have any secrets?"

"It's nothing, I just used to like reading novels, but I've given them up now."

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Seeing that she couldn't get any information from him, Li Na brought up Xu Lingyuan's matter again.

"Don't talk about him anymore. I used to think I liked him quite a bit, but now I realize he only likes to hang out with people who get good grades. When I was doing well, he was so nice to me. But when my grades dropped, he often threw tantrums at me. Now that my grades are good again, he's trying to please me. Trying to please me? No way. I'm a person with strong principles."

“But we all feel that he has always liked you. You see, there are other people who have excellent grades, but we haven’t seen Xu Lingyuan trying to please them.”

"Anyway, I don't want to talk to him anymore."

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Li Na tried to persuade Zhou Min for a long time, but found that Zhou Min was unmoved, so she could only leave disappointed.

When Zhou Min returned home, she found that her parents had not yet come back. They were probably too busy at the shop. Her mother hadn't expected her business to be doing so well. Although she couldn't make a fortune every day, she had already made up for the rent from the shop and the house during this period.

Now, Zhou's mother is cheerful every day, as if she has found a second spring in her life, and she is full of energy. Zhou's father has also long been used to this busy life. Seeing Zhou Min's busy and fulfilling life every day, Zhou's father is also full of fighting spirit.

It's worth noting that Zhou's father's culinary skills are even better than Zhou's mother's. After all, Zhou's father had worked in the army's mess hall for two or three years, where he had received specialized training. Now, Zhou's father and mother are constantly developing new recipes, and their excellent cooking has attracted many customers. Because they are so busy, Zhou Min has gradually started eating all her meals at the restaurant.

When Zhou's parents returned, Zhou Min was already planning to go to sleep. Hearing their soft footsteps outside the door, Zhou Min felt extremely at ease.

The next day at school, Zhou Min saw Chen Sheng gazing into the distance again, and she was speechless. She never imagined that Chen Sheng, whom she had always forbidden from daydreaming in her past life, would be like this every day at school.

"Chen Sheng, have you done the chemistry competition questions? Can I borrow them to take a look?"

Upon hearing Zhou Min's words, Chen Sheng quickly opened his bag and handed the materials to her. Zhou Min looked at the book, which only had a name on it and whose pages were brand new and clearly hadn't been opened before, and helplessly twitched her lips. Just as she thought. It seemed Chen Sheng hadn't lied to her in her past life; he was also a poor student, always just going through the motions and never doing his homework.

Zhou Min borrowed Chen Sheng's exercise book again. Looking at the book, which was even cleaner than her own, Zhou Min looked up and gave him a cold glare. Chen Sheng immediately panicked. He remembered that in his past life, whenever Zhou Min looked at him with that gaze, Chen Sheng knew he had made a mistake, and even if he didn't know exactly what he had done wrong, he would always come over and apologize.

At this point, Chen Sheng had no idea that Zhou Min might look down on and suppress him academically in the future. He only thought that Zhou Min was like Lin Xin, looking down on students who didn't study and were degenerate, just like Lin Xin looked down on Zhou Min in the past.

Zhou Min hoped that Chen Sheng could also start working hard sooner, unlike in her previous life when he only started to exert himself in his senior year of high school. Although he had good aptitude, he wasted too much time and ended up only getting into an ordinary 985 university, just like her. Thinking this, Zhou Min couldn't help but provoke Chen Sheng: "Chen Sheng, I've finished all my materials. You're so slow at doing problems."

Chen Sheng, who always looks sleepy, was still quite shy at this moment. He blushed but pretended to be normal and said, "I just didn't do it. If I were to do it, I could finish it very quickly."

"Then I'll wait and see what you say."

Hearing Zhou Min's words, Chen Sheng immediately focused his attention on the chemistry competition materials. Even during class, Chen Sheng secretly did practice problems, since the teacher's lectures were too slow. Previously, Chen Sheng and Zhou Min would spend their days idly reading novels, sleeping, and fidgeting. But since being spurred on by Zhou Min, Chen Sheng diligently worked on the problems every day. However, because much of the knowledge was unfamiliar, he found them quite difficult.

At this time, Zhou Min gave Chen Sheng a complete book on the Chemistry Olympiad, which she had bought herself. It contained detailed explanations of the knowledge and analysis of examples. This was undoubtedly a great help to Chen Sheng.

In the days that followed, Zhou Min watched as her books were borrowed and passed around by her classmates. Of course, most of them were top students, while those with average grades were too embarrassed to borrow them. Several classmates even bought a copy of her book.