The clattering strings played in a chaotic tangle, like large and small pearls cascading onto a jade plate!
Wind drove the torrential rain across the towering city, while clouds pressed down with gentle thunder that rumbled through the earth!
Dragons and snakes flew across the paper; the moment the brush fell, wind and rain seemed to startle everyone seated around!
"Ke ke ke!" Song He could not hold back a sinister laugh.
The computer screen flickered, its glow illuminating his face. His hands flew across the keyboard with ever-increasing frenzy. The atmosphere in the room was gloomy and terrifying, as if a vicious villain were writing an evil martial arts manual!
He had never expected that writing test questions could feel this satisfying.
Although his grasp of high school mathematics was thin, after refining it, he had somehow managed to build a temple within a snail shell, weaving together questions with astonishingly dense layers of thought!
An inconspicuous multiple-choice question could involve four or five concepts scattered across multiple textbooks, from compulsory to elective courses. On top of that, it could dig two additional traps into blind spots in the students' thinking and set up layer upon layer of misleading answers!
The more Song He wrote, the more outrageous it felt even to him. How had he come up with questions this wicked yet still within the syllabus?
How badly would this torment the high school students? Was he a villain?
At last, a brand-new Gaokao mathematics paper was complete, every sentence steeped in poison and every word blooming with malice!
Song He looked it over once, but still was not satisfied. His beastly instincts took over, and he revised it from beginning to end again, increasing the difficulty of every question and constantly digging pits and setting traps. He continued until the paper contained more traps than a battlefield, ensuring that no one would survive and that every examinee would scream before dying on the spot!
After letting out a long breath, Song He opened the forum.
In this short while, dozens more posts discussing the Gaokao mathematics paper had appeared on the forum. Clearly, the buzz had not died down.
The most-liked post had already surpassed ten thousand likes. Unable to resist, Song He clicked in to take a look.
Liu Sen (Hengshui Gaokao Top Scorer, founder of Top Scorer Online School)
"Hello, everyone. I'm Liu Sen, the Hengshui Gaokao Top Scorer from ten years ago. Every year, I thoroughly analyze the Gaokao papers, and this year we meet again!"
"I often say that there are only so many concepts in high school. As long as your foundation is solid enough, there is no such thing as an overly difficult Gaokao paper! Any question you find difficult is simply one whose underlying concepts you failed to distill successfully!"
"My self-created Butchering the Ox Problem-Solving Method is enough to let even the weakest students understand difficult questions. Many people are complaining that this year's Gaokao mathematics paper is difficult. Is it really? Let's break it down question by question!"
What followed was an extensive analysis of the questions. It had to be said that Liu Sen really had some skill. He dismantled every question with remarkable efficiency, and the paper's difficulty plummeted in his hands!
At the end, Liu Sen added several more paragraphs.
"Does everyone understand now? As long as you learn my Butchering the Ox Problem-Solving Method, there are no difficult high school mathematics questions in the world! The Test Question Setter's tricks are always just a few variations repeated over and over. Once you see through them, every question becomes incredibly simple!"
"Feel free to set any questions you like. As long as they fall within high school mathematics, I guarantee I can provide a clear and simple analysis to ensure every student can understand!"
"If anyone wants to set a question to challenge me, @ me. I will definitely accept the challenge within one hour and post all the answers and detailed analyses within three hours! This post is my proof!"
The comment section erupted. Quite a few high school students left admiring messages:
"I bow before you, senior! After breaking it down like that, it really seems there are no difficult questions!"
"You're amazing! This paper suddenly became so easy. I'm floating—I feel invincible at mathematics!"
"No wonder you were the Gaokao Top Scorer back then. So as long as you learn to break down the questions, there really are no difficult problems?"
"It's been ten years, yet the legend of Liu Sen's invincibility still hasn't been shattered. High school mathematics is so laughable before a master!"
Song He laughed when he saw this. Someone was actually asking to be beaten?
Brother Liu Sen was quite arrogant!
If someone asked to be beaten, then he would beat them! A request like this had to be fulfilled!
He immediately created a secondary account under the username "Math Demon God," decisively uploaded the freshly completed paper, and, without any unnecessary words, directly @ed Liu Sen.
The moment the post went up, a reply immediately arrived.
Liu Sen: "Received! I, Liu, accept the challenge! I'll post the answers and analysis in the comment section within three hours!"
Song He nodded silently. The buzz had been successfully tapped into. Whether this paper could break five thousand likes within forty-eight hours would depend on fate.
He shut down the computer, set a three-hour alarm on his phone, and continued burying his head in his mathematics books.
Magic City, an office building.
Liu Sen lounged comfortably in his executive chair, yawning as he looked at the computer screen. His face was filled with a smug smile.
Ten years ago, he had won the title of Gaokao Top Scorer. Relying on that crown, he had started a business while in university and established "Top Scorer Online School," an online platform for selling courses.
His business had been a great success. With his formidable skill at breaking down questions, he earned money by the handful each day, and his name resounded throughout the nation's high schools!
Every year, hundreds of thousands of high school students bought memberships to Top Scorer Online School, bringing him tens of millions in revenue. They also brought him this spacious, bright office, the gleaming black luxury car downstairs, and a female secretary in black stockings and high heels.
The period after the Gaokao was when profits exploded. He would analyze the papers online and rake in a wave of attention. After drawing crowds of onlookers, tens of thousands of high school students would marvel at his skills and pay for memberships!
He had just posted his analysis of the mathematics paper. His wrist throbbed faintly with pain, but seeing the number of likes soaring past ten thousand, Liu Sen could not suppress his smugness.
This year would be another year of abundance!
Suddenly, a notification popped up in the background. Someone had @ed him.
Liu Sen lazily reached for the mouse and clicked on it. It was a test-question challenge post from an ID called "Math Demon God." Pretty childish.
"Received! I, Liu, accept the challenge! I'll post the answers and analysis in the comment section within three hours!"
After typing his reply, Liu Sen remained unhurried. He first picked up the coffee on his desk, blew on it, and leisurely took a small sip.
"Mm!"
A satisfied hum came from his nose. Only when someone challenged him could he generate buzz, and only with buzz could he gain more members!
In previous years, when no one challenged him, he had even needed to use a secondary account to challenge himself. It was a real hassle. This year, his luck was pretty good!
After setting down his coffee cup, Liu Sen yawned, drooped his eyelids, and began looking over the questions.
A moment of silence passed.
"Hmm?"
He could not help sitting up straight. His brow furrowed slightly, and a trace of confusion appeared in his eyes.
What was going on? Why was the first multiple-choice question so difficult?
With Gaokao multiple-choice questions, he could usually scan the page and finish two or three at a glance. Yet at this moment, he had looked over the set on the screen several times and still had not even figured out the first question.
Another moment of silence passed.
"Hmm?!"
The sound from Liu Sen's nose had taken on a hint of panic.
A full minute had passed, yet he still had not understood the first multiple-choice question!
He understood every single word and could even roughly guess which concepts it was testing. But the moment he entered into the line of reasoning, it was as though a mud cow had plunged into the sea, instantly dissolving without a trace!
Cold sweat broke out all over him!
An ominous premonition suddenly shrouded him. Something was wrong. High school mathematics questions should not feel like this. A normal high school question should be a fluffy snowman, shattered to pieces with a single kick.
But now, one kick had broken his toes, and a hard fire hydrant had been exposed inside the snowman's abdominal cavity!
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