Rebirth of a Top Student's Handbook

Zhou Min paused for a moment, then came to her senses and found that all the girls around her had run away, and the other three girls in the dormitory had also disappeared.

Zhou Min also rushed back to her dormitory.

"Ahhh, look at my face... Waaaaah..." Zhou Min heard Mao Yating's tearful voice as soon as she entered the dormitory.

“You’re really red. Did you bring any after-sun lotion or anything?” Feng Pinling suggested, looking at Mao Yating’s flushed face.

Zhou Min noticed that Mao Yating's sunburn was indeed quite severe, with some areas showing peeling skin.

"Didn't you put on sunscreen when you went out this morning?" Zhou Min asked in surprise. Mao Yating's mother looked like a meticulous working woman; there was no way she wouldn't have prepared these things for Mao Yating.

Jiang Fei, on the other hand, and neither she nor her parents seemed to be particularly particular about such things, so they probably didn't prepare these items.

"I thought it was too sticky, so I didn't use it. I thought I'd only be down there for a short while, and that 9:30 would be fine, but who knew it would be so sunny today, and the teacher would be so talkative. Waaah... what am I going to do now?" Mao Yating looked at Zhou Min with teary eyes.

Zhou Min herself didn't know that the first time she used sunscreen in her previous life was after she started working, when her colleague shared it with her during a company team building event, and that's how she learned about this product.

Even now, Zhou Min knows the routine skincare and makeup process, but she doesn't understand or care about what products to use for different skin types.

So Zhou Min could only look apologetically at Mao Yating, unable to help her.

Jiang Fei washed her face by the sink on the balcony and came over, saying, "Just rinse it with cold water."

"Will it get darker?" Mao Yating looked at Jiang Fei expectantly. Her biggest advantage was her fair skin. It is said that fair skin can cover up three flaws, and Mao Yating's skin color did indeed enhance her originally ordinary appearance.

"I don't know, but I've always been like this since I was a child," Jiang Fei said with a shrug, and then ignored Mao Yating.

Zhou Min didn't have any good ideas. Thinking about the military training tomorrow and the homework waiting for her, she simply ignored it, sat down at her desk, turned on her computer, and prepared to do her homework.

"Aren't you going to eat lunch?" Just as Zhou Min was racking her brains, Feng Pinling finally comforted Mao Yating, and the two of them prepared to go to the cafeteria for lunch together. Before leaving, they called out to Zhou Min and Jiang Fei.

“I have no appetite, I’m not eating,” Zhou Min replied as she typed.

"Please bring me one, I want a fried rice." Jiang Fei was engrossed in playing the game and didn't want to go out.

After Zhou Min and the other two left, she thought for a moment and couldn't help but ask Jiang Fei seriously, "Jiang Fei, did your teacher tell you not to play games yesterday?"

"no, what happened?"

"Yesterday, my teacher said that the majority of students who are expelled from university are those who are addicted to games and neglect their studies. So I have now uninstalled the game and I plan to never play games again."

"It can't be that exaggerated, can it? I only play around with it occasionally, it should be fine, right?" Jiang Fei felt a little uneasy after Zhou Min's words.

"This is just a suggestion for you. After all, we study science and engineering, but the scale is relatively large, so if we fall behind, it will be difficult to catch up. They study languages, and they were all admitted through special admissions, so they already have a language foundation, and their academic pressure will be much less than ours."

Zhou Min said earnestly that she really didn't want to see Mao Yating waste her life like she had in her previous life.

She wasn't too worried about Mao Yating, since liberal arts majors test students' soft skills more. Some people are born with a sense of language, high emotional intelligence, and good interpersonal skills, and can succeed even without studying.

Moreover, judging from Mao Yating's parents' appearance, their family conditions should be quite good. With their help after graduation, Mao Yating's life shouldn't be too bad.

"Okay, I understand." Although Jiang Fei verbally agreed to Zhou Min's request, he did not uninstall the game and continued playing it.

After glancing at it, Zhou Min refocused on the code she had just written.

Perhaps because of the pause just now, Zhou Min's train of thought was interrupted again. Feeling a little discouraged, Zhou Min looked up and saw the journal again.

Zhou Min planned to read some journals to relax and maybe find some inspiration.

However, as she was browsing through the articles, she suddenly noticed that one of the articles about machine vision systems was signed "Yu Gong," something Zhou Min would not normally notice.

After all, this is a foreign language journal, and most of the authors are from abroad, with their names all in English. In Zhou Min's eyes, all those names are the same, so she basically skips them.

However, while reading today, Zhou Min found this article to be very well written. She wanted to go back and take another look at the title, and that's when she scanned the author's name below the title.

Perhaps it was because she had just seen Teacher Gong's work ID today, or perhaps it was some kind of sixth sense, but Zhou Min was instantly drawn to the name.

At that moment, she had a strong premonition of something bad. Sure enough, when she shakily turned to the article she had copied before, she saw the author's name "Yu Gong" under the title.

Zhou Min felt a sense of despair for a moment.

"Ahhh..." Zhou Min couldn't help but cover her head and waile as she lay on the table.

Just then, Feng Pinling and Mao Yating returned with packed lunches.

"What's wrong with you?" Mao Yating asked curiously, looking at Zhou Min's dejected expression.

"Yesterday, my teacher asked me to write a self-criticism for him. I copied one from a book, but then I discovered that the author of that article was our teacher," Zhou Min said, on the verge of tears.

"No way? What a coincidence! Did your teacher see it? If not, you should quickly write another one and exchange it for yours," Feng Pinling suggested hastily.

"It's no use, I already saw it, right in front of me." Zhou Min was really about to cry now. She thought about how stupid she looked this morning, and felt so embarrassed that she wanted to dig a three-bedroom apartment out of her toes.

"Didn't your teacher say anything?" This was the first time Mao Yating had heard such a ridiculous story.

"No, he just casually tossed his employee ID on the table while he was packing his things, and I happened to see it." At the time, Zhou Min was completely oblivious, even silently criticizing how ugly Teacher Gong's ID photo was. Zhou Min was almost crying with frustration at her own stupidity.

"He must have done it on purpose. You didn't copy everything, did you?"

“Yes, I thought this journal was rare in China.” Zhou Min looked at Mao Yating with heartbreaking grief.

"Since the teacher didn't say anything, it's nothing to worry about. It seems your teacher is quite understanding," Feng Pinling comforted her.

"Hmm." Zhou Min knew that Teacher Gong wasn't holding it against her, but she still felt ashamed.

"Your teacher is amazing! He publishes works in foreign journals. His English must be very good." Mao Yating curiously snatched the book from Zhou Min's hand and flipped through it.

Mao Yating flipped through the pages for a while and found Professor Gong's book on machine vision, and was immediately shocked.

"Seriously? Zhou Min, you wrote this kind of thing in your self-criticism? Did you write it in English? Are you trying to fool the teacher into not understanding it?"

"No, it's another one." Zhou Min took the book and continued flipping through the pages.

"Your teacher published two papers at once! That's amazing!" The other students in the dormitory also gathered around.

"Then, this one." Jiang Fei's English wasn't very good, and she found it quite difficult to read this kind of English literature.

Although Feng Pinling and Mao Yating have good English skills, they don't know many professional terms, but this does not affect their ability to understand the meaning.

"You're awesome." After watching, the two of them gave Zhou Min a thumbs up in unison.

They could already imagine the scene where Zhou Min, who originally intended to use this profound self-criticism to save face, ended up making things even more embarrassing.

Seeing their gloating expressions, Zhou Min was too lazy to pay them any more attention. She could only try her best to compose herself and focus on the homework assigned by Teacher Gong.