Let's Do Some Questions - Chapter 76

After Song Man finished showering, she started copying Chu Fengqiu’s homework.

Wherever Chu Fengqiu had circled mistakes, she would deliberately make a similar mistake, then use an eraser to rub out the circles on Chu Fengqiu’s homework.

Chu Fengqiu sat beside her, working on even more obscure and profound problems.

Actually, Song Man was more interested in the homework Chu Fengqiu was doing, but she couldn’t just skip her own, so she could only speed up.

English and Math were fine, but Chinese homework was more troublesome because there were a lot of characters, and simply copying it would be easily spotted.

Song Man could only skim through it and quickly jot down some answers.

This was why Song Man didn’t study humanities subjects. It wasn’t just because she was more interested in physics, chemistry, and math, but also because there were simply too many characters in the humanities subjects, especially politics. It was too much effort.

Song Man spent half an hour carelessly finishing all her homework. She leaned back in her chair, as happy as if it were a holiday, maybe even happier than a holiday.

“Finally finished.”

Song Man shook her hands and rubbed her knuckles.

“Want to rest for a bit?”

“No, I want to look at your problems.”

Song Man slid her chair over and peered at Chu Fengqiu’s homework.

Chu Fengqiu was working on physics problems. Song Man took out a piece of scratch paper, full of enthusiasm, completely devoid of the lifelessness she’d shown while doing her own homework.

Chu Fengqiu placed the problem book between them. Neither spoke as they began looking at the problems, thinking individually, and performing calculations on their scratch paper.

After finishing, they would compare their thought processes and discuss the problems.

That kind of intellectual exchange was simply the best. They understood exactly what the other was saying, their ideas sparked off each other, leading to analysis and debate. Regardless of whether they were right or wrong, it was exhilarating.

Song Man loved this kind of sparring. When she let go of her pen, her palm was damp.

Chu Fengqiu pulled out a tissue and held Song Man’s hand, wiping away the sweat beads.

“See? I told you my method was faster.”

Song Man was beaming, holding out her hand for Chu Fengqiu to wipe until Chu Fengqiu squeezed her fingertips, which finally drew her attention to her own hand.

Huh?

Huh, huh, huh?

When did Chu Fengqiu wipe her fingers? Did she have amnesia?

Song Man didn’t dwell on it. She looked at the problem and asked Chu Fengqiu to move on to the next one.

After working on another problem, Song Man suddenly felt a bit peckish.

“I’m going to get something to drink. Do you want anything?”

The housekeeper had put many different drinks in the heated cabinet, but Song Man still preferred soy milk.

“Get a bottle of milk.”

“Okay.”

Song Man got Chu Fengqiu a bottle of soy milk that she thought was super delicious. Of course, good things should be shared with the person you like.

Song Man inserted a straw, slurping her soy milk while taking snacks from a drawer. After eating a pack of spicy beef jerky, Song Man was full of energy.

“Let’s go, Chu Fengqiu, onto the Question Bank. Let’s PK.”

PK was the romance of top students!

Since the day she learned about Lingnan’s accident, Song Man hadn’t been on the Question Bank much.

After logging in, she found many private messages, most of which were from three IDs.

Looking at the screen full of messages like ‘Sister, are you okay?’ ‘Sister, you must take good care of yourself,’ ‘Working hard for Sister today too,’ ‘Sister, why haven’t you been doing problems for so many days? Has Sister fallen for some other little fairy?’ Song Man rubbed her temples.

Sister is fine, Sister is very well. One Magic Fairy Wand from Sister and the Magic Fairy Castle would collapse.

Messages from others weren’t many, mostly asking why she hadn’t been on the Question Bank for so long, and some asking for help with problems.

Song Man replied to the three girls, saying she was busy with things in the real world. After all, they were the support girls who had specifically come to meet her. She also looked at those asking for help with problems and briefly explained the steps.

Chu Fengqiu watched Song Man’s fingers busy typing, a faint smile on her lips.

Although Song Man always appeared difficult and impatient on the surface, she was actually incredibly soft-hearted and kind inside.

After Song Man finished dealing with her private messages, she didn’t start a PK immediately. Instead, she went to look at Lingnan’s profile.

Her last post was from the day of the accident, filled with undisguised excitement.

There were more comments below than before. Song Man clicked to view them. The most liked comments were all blessings. In the latest comments, some people were worried, but more were offering blessings. Even though everyone knew the hope was slim, Song Man hadn’t told them the outcome. This was good. Let the story, in the eyes of others, stop at this moment.

Song Man started a PK. Chu Fengqiu accepted the invitation, and both entered the preparation time.

With the title of a Question Bank celebrity, starting a PK live stream would broadcast across the entire app, so a wave of people quickly flooded into the live stream room.

【Wherever Sister is, I am! Cheering for A Man!】

【Man Shen and Q-Shen, long time no see. Why did you disappear at the same time?】

【Of course, because they are locked together! Today is A Wei’s mass grave!】

【Hahahahahaha a bunch of A Weis are dead [dog head]】

【Man Shen and Q-Shen, do you know how Lingnan is doing?】

【I just wanted to ask that too!】

“I don’t know either. She should be okay, I guess.”

Song Man didn’t reveal the truth. She had originally intended to ignore that bullet comment, but several others were asking, so she simply said she didn’t know.

【En! She must be doing well. Maybe she’s with the person she really wanted to see right now, so she doesn’t have time for the Question Bank.】

【Hope everyone is doing well, staying healthy, drinking more hot water, and sleeping early.】

【Sleeping early is impossible. How can we diligent students not stay up late studying!】

【Shut up upstairs! I understand the logic! But I just want to stay up late! Just be happy and it’s over.】

【I’ll just say one thing, it’s none of your business! Mind your own business! We Magic Fairies don’t sleep!】

So the topic strangely shifted from Song Man back to Lingnan, then turned into the pros and cons of staying up late and how delicious hot water really is.

When the PK started, everyone’s attention was finally drawn back.

【??? Am I blind??? Why do I suddenly feel like I’ve become a low-IQ person.】

【No, I’m different. I feel like I’ve become an idiot.】

【Can someone tell me what’s on the screen? Why can’t I understand it? I clearly understand what each character means, but when they’re put together, I can’t understand. Humanities student crying.】

【I feel like I can understand it, then I look closely emmmm】

“Problems that are too simple aren’t challenging, so this time we chose a particularly difficult one.”

After Song Man said this, she immersed herself in the problem.

She had originally planned to choose problems of the usual difficulty for a speed competition, but after discussing it with Chu Fengqiu, they felt they could challenge themselves with something more difficult.

The problems were truly difficult. Song Man could tell from the first one. It wasn’t a problem where a solution would form in her mind at a glance, but precisely because of this, it was more challenging.

Song Man calculated on the scratch paper on the screen, her brows slowly furrowing. She usually stuck to one path until the end, but the method she was using turned out to be a dead end.

This wasted a lot of time. She had to go back to the previous step or even the step before that and start over.

However, because her opponent was Chu Fengqiu, Song Man didn’t become overly anxious to win the match and lose her composure.

Song Man wiped the sweat from her forehead and continued to build her thought process, moving from one logical point to the next.

Song Man didn’t look at Chu Fengqiu. She didn’t know how Chu Fengqiu was doing, she was just completely focused.

This problem was really hard. There were only three problems, but it took Song Man nearly forty minutes, and she wasn’t even sure of the accuracy.

As soon as she finished writing, she looked at Chu Fengqiu.

Chu Fengqiu was still the same, without any change in expression.

“Lao Chu, these problems are so hard.”

“They are indeed very difficult.”

Chu Fengqiu nodded, her expression calm, showing no sign that she found them difficult.

Song Man checked the scores. They were about the same, which truly showed how difficult the problems were.

“You’re not a poker face, so where does this unflappable aura come from? You’re too calm.”

Song Man knelt in front of Chu Fengqiu, pinching her cheeks and pulling them sideways.

Song Man felt this aura was very ‘boss-like’. Even though it was difficult, looking at her expression made you feel like it was nothing to her. This was too much showing off.

“It still can’t cause my emotions to fluctuate, but you are different.”

Chu Fengqiu lowered her voice on the last four words, looking into Song Man’s eyes, utterly captivating.

That’s why Song Man least wanted to make eye contact with Chu Fengqiu; she simply couldn’t handle that level of impact!

This woman’s charm was damn sweet!

“Talk properly, don’t be all… like that.”

Song Man coughed a few times and turned back to look at her phone.

【Today, this old monk will achieve nirvana before this math problem. Farewell, fellow Daoists.】

【I could solve the initial part, but I completely don’t understand the rest. But seeing that even Man Shen and Q-Shen couldn’t get them all right, I’ve woken up from my existential crisis.】

“I’ll go check the correct answers first. I’ll post the answers on my profile later.”

【Man Shen is a girl??? Isn’t she our Question Bank’s number one straight man???】

【Upstairs, is your internet from the village? Someone at the meetup said Man Shen is a girl, and her looks are super high-level!】

【Really super high-level ahhhhh! Good-looking, nice voice, good figure, fair skin, and good at studying!】

【And Q-Shen is also a girl, and she’s good friends with Man Shen, right?】

【Their CP seems really shippable.】

【Welcome, sisters upstairs, join our CP headquarters. We already have artist and writer sisters stationed here. Come in and ship!】

【I never expected to see big shot CP fans and fanworks on the Question Bank. I almost thought I entered Weibo, so lively and chaotic.】

Song Man was about to exit when she saw the first bullet comment. She checked her microphone and realized she had forgotten to turn on the voice changer when she spoke earlier, so it was her real voice.

Song Man hesitated for a moment, then decided it didn’t matter. Since she had already gone to the meetup, what was the big deal about exposing her voice?

She exited the PK interface and sat cross-legged, thinking about the answers to the problems.

For her, understanding a problem wasn’t just about knowing one way to solve it. It was about grasping it thoroughly, then being able to use her own thought process to find the correct answer. Only then did she consider a problem truly understood.

Meanwhile, Chu Fengqiu didn’t exit the PK immediately, so she saw all the subsequent bullet comments. When she exited, she sent a private message to one ID.

【Ah Q】: Still need CP fans?

The girl on the other side of the screen trembled violently, shaking her hands as she texted her friends, roaring.

We actually shipped the real thing!!!