Chapter 17
Lily left the dance studio and immediately left the school. Soon, word of Lily’s het with Nancy circulated among the teachers. Many teachers laughed at Lily for being overconfident Only John saw potential in Lily, and his eyes gleaned with confidence.
Upon hearing the news, Class 18’s students were depressed. However, they quickly regained their composure.
“Lily has always been good to us, and this time, she’s standing up for us. We can’t let her down. Even if we don’t win, we still have to aim for good grades,” one student said. “But the midterm exams are in two weeks. No matter how much effort we put in, we can’t get good grades”
“Whatever. Let’s just do our best!”
Just as everyone was gearing up to study hard, Lily entered the room. She carried a pile of things. From a distance, no one could see what they were
Lily placed the items on the teacher’s desk. She then pointed at Emma and said, “Distribute them to everyone.”
Emma paused and then nodded. “Alright.”
As she approached, she realized the items were a stack of materials and practice questions.
Emma looked puzzled at Lily but didn’t say anything. She simply began distributing the materials and questions to her classmates
Holding a piece of chalk, Lily wrote the number twelve on the blackboard with one hand in her pocket. Then, she tossed the chalk away.
She stared at the students of Class 18 and anounced, “Starting today, everyone in class 18 will live on campus, with no breaks between classes and no weekends.
“I will review the syllabus starting from 9th grade with you until the end of the midterm exams,”
Tan, who was sitting in the back row, Laughed casually. “Lily, I know you don’t want to lose, but you are teaching us? With your grades. you might lead us astray, right?”
Lily gave him a cold, disdainful look.
Lan shuddered and hastily said, “Uh, I was just joking.”
Lily continued, “I’ll start from the front row.”
During the study period, no teacher was around Lily went directly to the first boy in the front row. He was Julian, the math class representative
Julian initially thought to tell Lily he could learn on his own, but her cold attitude made him besitate to speak up.
Sean leaned over to lan and whispered, “Is Lily under too much pressure? Teaching us will only make things worse.”
lan, feeling pressured, ran his hand through his hair. “Forget it. If Lily’s teaching isn’t right, wer means giving it our all”
can research on our own. We have to move up a few places this time, even if it
Sean sighed and said nothing more. Ignoring the students‘ discussions, Lily instructed Julian to take out the 9th–grade textbook.
Her imposing presence made Juan feel intimidated as he obediently retrieved the textbook
Lily opened the textbook to the third page, marked a key point, and then pointed to a problem in the distributed materials to explain
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