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For someone like Lu Chi, a typical useless shut-in who found even crossing the street too much trouble, Yue Bin and Zhang Yang were simply speechless.

Meanwhile, Lu Miaomiao leaned against her big brother with a look of utter despair. Making a second-grade elementary schooler study with high school students—only her big brother could come up with something so inhumane.

She could not possibly be more hopeless!

Lu Chi glanced at his listless little sister with a beaming smile and said, "If you behave well, Big Brother will take you to the gym to play ball this afternoon."

Lu Miaomiao, who had been born unable to sit still, instantly lifted her head. Her whole little face lit up as she promised, "Don't worry, Big Brother. I'll definitely study hard and make progress every day. I'll be as obedient as you want."

Lu Chi smiled.

What Lu Chi had not expected, however, was that when he brought Miao Miao to the library, he found that most of the study group was already there.

Zhuo Yue and the others spotted Lu Chi arriving with his sister and greeted him with a smile. "We thought you went home for the weekend. If we'd known, we would've invited you too."

Lu Chi smiled and replied, "I really wasn't in the dorm yesterday. I just got back."

Still wearing her hair in a ponytail, Zhou Mingxi pointed at Lu Miaomiao with a cheerful smile. "Is this your little sister? She's so cute."

Lu Chi answered and introduced the study group to Lu Miaomiao. Lu Miaomiao sweetly greeted everyone with a round of "Hello, big brothers and big sisters."

Wang Rui, who wore glasses, teased with a smile, "You're bringing your family along to study now?"

Zhuo Yue rolled the carbon pen in his hand and said in a low voice, "Did you know? Our monthly exam results are probably out."

Lu Chi froze at that and blurted out, "No way. That fast?"

"Our teachers have always graded papers quickly." Wang Rui pushed up his glasses and smiled at Lu Chi. "Congratulations. You got 722 points. Unless something unexpected happens, you'll definitely remain first in the grade."

Zhuo Yue smiled and shook his head. "I got 715. I originally thought I did pretty well, but I didn't expect to be that far behind you."

Lu Chi curled his lips. "You guys sure are well informed."

The results had not even been released, yet they already knew their rankings.

Zhou Mingxi waved her hand and said as though she was used to it, "Because none of us went home, the teachers dragged us in to grade papers last night. As compensation for being press-ganged, we got this little bit of priority."

As Zhou Mingxi spoke, she looked at Lu Chi with resentment. "You sure got lucky. You actually dodged it."

Wang Rui echoed mournfully, "We graded papers until after ten!"

After ten last night... Lu Chi, who had been watching a horror movie at the time, did not know what to say. He could only imitate the way his little sister used to act cute and blink innocently.

Lu Miaomiao happened to blink along with him. The siblings' perfectly synchronized cute act immediately made everyone laugh. Even Zhuo Yue, who had been in low spirits, smiled.

Honestly, he was under quite a bit of pressure right now. Judging from Lu Chi's performance in the last two weekly and monthly exams, Lu Chi's grades were clearly very stable. That steadily improving performance left Zhuo Yue, who had monopolized first place in the grade for years, feeling somewhat lost—fortunately, the top three students in the year-end finals would all receive an 8,000-yuan scholarship. Otherwise, Zhuo Yue would have been under even greater pressure.

After sitting down at the same table with Lu Miaomiao, Lu Chi noticed Zhuo Yue studying him thoughtfully and raised his brows in slight confusion. "What is it?"

"Nothing!" Zhuo Yue snapped back to his senses and vigorously shook his head. After a while, he hesitated, as if finding it difficult to speak. "Um... do you have any study tricks?"

At Zhuo Yue's question, the other members of the study group also stopped what they were doing and quietly looked over.

Study tricks...

Lu Chi blinked. In truth, after these several weekly and monthly exams, he really had figured out quite a few tricks—for example, those exam fragments that occasionally appeared in his dreams. Basically, the more thoroughly Lu Chi had mastered the textbook knowledge, the clearer the questions he dreamed of became. The more accurately he grasped the test setters' line of thought, the more precise the exam scope in his dreams became. And as Lu Chi repeatedly went over exam material in his dreams, it also affected his grasp of basic knowledge in reality. But those dream fragments did not just appear whenever he wanted them to; there had to be a certain trigger...

So by now, Lu Chi could basically conclude that ever since he had taken that blow to the head, his brain had indeed undergone a strange change. His hearing, sense of smell, vision, and memory had all become sharper than before, and he absorbed information faster than ordinary people. After he fell deeply asleep, his brain would automatically sort through and integrate the information he had deliberately taken in, then process and predict it in a way even Lu Chi could not understand. The end result was those exam papers that occasionally appeared in his dreams—

Although even Lu Chi himself did not know whether this counted as a superpower to foresee the future, the one thing he could be certain of was that the future fragments he "foresaw" had to involve things he already understood. As long as he understood something, there was a certain chance he would dream about it; the broader and more precise his knowledge was, the clearer and more detailed the fragments he dreamed of would be. Moreover, he could not dream of those fragments anytime he wanted. At any rate, every time Lu Chi had dreamed about exams, he had felt that he slept especially well.

In short, sleep quality was also a major factor affecting his dreams.

But this sort of experience and trick was obviously not what Zhuo Yue and the other members of the study group wanted to know. Naturally, Lu Chi had no intention of sharing such a private secret with them either. So after a brief moment of thought, he shared quite a few new insights about predicting questions and cramming before exams.

After listening very seriously to Lu Chi's newly summarized advice, the study group members all nodded, saying they had benefited greatly. Some even pulled out their exercise books and began trying out Lu Chi's methods on the spot.

Although Lu Chi had mentioned some "study techniques" when he first joined the study group, he had been a newcomer then. On top of that, what he talked about had seemed somewhat like taking shortcuts, so while everyone had politely humored him on the surface, they had actually been fairly dismissive inside.