"You can't think like that, Little Gan."
Lin Tian raised his index finger and said seriously to Gan Yan Yu,
"If you waste too much time on one wrong question, then even if you know how to do the questions afterward, you won't have enough time to score points. Wouldn't that be a shame?"
"If this were an exam room, and you got stuck because of one small mistake, wouldn't that be an unjust death?"
Lin Tian earnestly imparted his knowledge to Gan Yan Yu.
Things that should have been common sense to a high school student had to be patiently explained to Gan Yan Yu from the very beginning, since she had barely encountered them before.
"But if I skip a question because it's too difficult, isn't that just running away?"
Gan Yan Yu tilted her head and said thoughtfully,
"Then I won't be able to focus on the questions afterward either."
"It's not running away! It's just a necessary compromise for the sake of the final score!"
Lin Tian corrected her sharply.
Soon, he thought of an analogy.
"When you perform, would you stop playing the rest of the score just because you played one note wrong at the beginning?"
"..."
Gan Yan Yu frowned tightly and thought for a moment.
"I've never had that happen before, so I don't know."
Then she added,
"Before every competition, I practice the piece until there's absolutely no way I could make a mistake."
"..."
This time, Lin Tian was speechless.
Right. This was Gan Yan Yu, after all.
No matter what piece it was, she would make sure she could perform it so thoroughly before the competition began that she practically knew it backward and forward. Even a few minutes before the competition, she might still be memorizing the score