Today was the first official day of classes.
Ling Yun washed up early and arrived at school.
When he reached the classroom, he noticed a repressive atmosphere inside.
Ling Yun took his seat and turned to look at Zhou Da, who was sprawled across his desk.
"Da Zi, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so listless?"
Ling Yun was somewhat curious about Zhou Da's expression, which made him look as if he had lost the will to live.
"Brother Yun... Do I really have to attend school? I feel like my soul is still in bed, and my body was kidnapped and brought here."
Zhou Da let out a huge yawn and mumbled indistinctly.
"Is it really that bad? It's only the first day. Come on, pull yourself together and leave a good impression on the new teacher."
Ling Yun was amused by Zhou Da's utterly hopeless expression.
"Hey, you don't understand..."
Zhou Da turned around and lay facedown in the other direction, his voice muffled.
"Happy times are always short, while the cycle of suffering repeats endlessly. This brand-new day marks the beginning of brand-new torment."
He let out an exaggerated sigh, drawing sympathetic looks from several equally listless students in the back row.
Only then did Ling Yun realize that the oppressive atmosphere lingering in the classroom was probably the low pressure collectively radiated by this group of late-stage "post-holiday syndrome" patients.
"By the way, Brother Yun, that Douyin blogger 'Ling Chen Asks for Immortality' who gained twenty million followers in two days—is that you?"
The reason Zhou Da had figured it out was simple. He had played Honor of Kings with Ling Yun and knew that his account was Top of the Peak.
"That's right. It's me."
Ling Yun did not hide it and admitted it openly.
"Damn, it really is you! Brother Yun, give me your autograph."
Zhou Da looked excited when he heard Ling Yun admit it.
"I can give you an autograph, but don't reveal my identity. For now, I don't want too many people to know."
Ling Yun looked at Zhou Da seriously.
"Don't worry, Brother Yun. Since you don't want me to tell anyone, I definitely won't."
Seeing Ling Yun suddenly turn serious, Zhou Da became serious as well.
Ling Yun was satisfied with Zhou Da's promise, but he was not foolish enough to rely on just that one safeguard.
He used his mental power to place a restriction on Zhou Da's memory. As long as Zhou Da tried to tell anyone Ling Yun's identity, he would forget this part of his memory.
Zhou Da carefully put away the autograph Ling Yun had given him.
As they talked, the bell signaling the start of class rang.
The students instinctively straightened their backs a little.
The first class on Monday was mathematics.
Footsteps approached from the distance. A female teacher around forty years old, dressed in a neat skirt suit, strode up to the podium.
She had delicate features and the steady bearing unique to teachers. Her calm gaze swept across the classroom.
The remaining whispers in the classroom vanished completely.
"Stand up!"
Seeing that the teacher had steadied herself at the podium, Ling Yun immediately issued the command every Class Monitor had to know.
"Good morning, teacher."
The students skillfully shouted the phrase they had been saying from elementary school through high school, and their voices finally held a little spirit.
"Good morning, everyone. Please sit."
The math teacher—Teacher Wang—smiled and nodded. Her voice was gentle yet firm.
"I'm your math teacher, Wang Xuemei. I'm glad to meet you all. Over the next three years, we'll explore the mysteries of mathematics together."
The students sat down, and a faint sound of desks and chairs being moved filled the classroom.
Teacher Wang did not rush to open the textbook. Instead, she had the Class Monitor call roll.
Ning City No. 1 High School required every teacher to take attendance before class.
The students did not know the reason, but they all knew that every rule had a story of blood and tears behind it.
It was just like when Ling Yun had attended university in his previous life.
At first, there had been no such thing as checking attendance, but later, an unbelievably troublesome student changed the system.
It was said that the student had not attended a single class since the beginning of his freshman year, so none of the teachers knew him.
That person enjoyed himself freely at school for an entire semester, but the good times did not last. One day, he suddenly disappeared.
Because he had never attended class, the teachers had no idea that such a person had disappeared.
His roommates assumed he had gone out to have fun again, so they did not pay any attention.
His disappearance was eventually discovered only because his parents contacted the school, saying they had been unable to reach their son for a long time.
The school took the matter very seriously and launched a massive search around the campus.
After finding nothing, they had no choice but to call the police.
However, even after the police searched for a month, they found no trace of him.
The incident damaged the school's reputation, and it also paid the student's parents a large sum of money in compensation.
However, a year later, the student was found.
The student had been lured away by online scam messages and trafficked to a fraudulent pyramid-scheme company.
The police rescued him after destroying the operation.
The incident taught the school a hard lesson.
After that, every teacher took attendance extremely seriously.
As a result, students like Ling Yun who wanted to skip class in his previous life no longer had any way to do so.
After Ling Yun finished calling roll, formal classes began.
Everyone knew that mathematics was a very peculiar subject. Those who excelled were extraordinarily good, those who were terrible were unbelievably bad, and there were surprisingly few who were merely average.
The Ling Yun of his previous life naturally belonged to the terrible group. Whenever he attended math class, he would inevitably feel sleepy.
But this life was different!
With Top-tier Comprehension, Ling Yun could recall everything he had learned during his three years of high school in his previous life. Combined with his exceptional understanding, he could now take the college entrance examination directly.
He did not dare claim too much, but aside from possibly losing a few points on the essay, scoring 740 should not be a problem.
At first, Ling Yun thought he would stop paying attention because he already knew everything being taught, but after class began, he discovered that he was listening with complete focus.
The reason he was so serious was not because he liked studying, but because it felt like a university student doing simple addition and subtraction.
Only now did he finally understand why those top scholars enjoyed studying.
The Ling Yun of his previous life would never have understood that feeling.
The class ended while Ling Yun was completely absorbed.
When the bell rang, the math teacher announced the end of class without hesitation.
"Ling Yun, organize the students into lines outside. We'll raise the national flag in a while."
Just then, homeroom teacher Liu Shiguo walked in.
Hearing Liu Shiguo's words, Ling Yun was not surprised. He began organizing the students into lines outside.
Ning City No. 1 High School held its flag-raising ceremony at the start of the first break on Monday.
Since military training had ended only a few days earlier, the students had not yet grown rusty.
Before long, they were standing in formation beneath the national flag.
The flag-raising ceremony was simple. After raising the flag and singing the national anthem, they moved on to the classic inspirational segment.
The student who gave the speech beneath the national flag was selected from the top student of each class in the entire grade, with a different class taking its turn each week.
After listening to the speech beneath the national flag, the students returned to the classroom in a daze.
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