"You think Wang Yuezhi's grades are as bad as yours, burning books and burying scholars? The math they're teaching now doesn't feel difficult at all. It shouldn't be that bad, right?"

Chen Yuying was a little puzzled. Mainly because Wang Yuezhi's grades weren't much worse than her own. It wasn't a competition problem, just regular homework. How could it be difficult for him?

"Should I go ask him what's wrong?"

"It's right to care about your classmates," Lin Li nodded, then, with zero-frame startup, shouted, "Wang Yuezhi, are you okay?"

"I'm fine! Don't bother me!!"

"Class President, he's fine. He's super-loud fine, which means he's super fine, even finer than fine," Lin Li reported the situation to Chen Yuying.

Chen Yuying: "..."

Something felt off.

"Also, Class President, although my grades aren't great, your description of 'burning books and burying scholars' was a bit much. I was ranked in the four hundreds in the grade on the final exam last semester. You're not just insulting me, but also the two hundred plus students ranked behind me! Class President, please apologize to me," Lin Li cleared his name.

Nansang High School had a total of twenty classes in the tenth grade, with a total of nearly seven hundred students. A rank in the four hundreds was indeed still in the lower-middle range.

"Alright, alright~ I'm sorry," Chen Yuying apologized with a smile.

As for Wang Yuezhi, since he said he was fine, then he was fine. The main thing was that Wang Yuezhi's act of throwing his homework just now was too sudden and without warning. It felt like it was purely his own emotional instability. In that case, it was better to let him regulate himself.

Her apology was soft, and Lin Li found it very pleasant to listen to, even more pleasant than a weekend night with rain outside and friends inviting him to play games.

Why wasn't the Class President like a little fairy at all? She actually apologized to a man so easily. This really didn't disappoint Lin Li.

"Alright, let's get back to the autumn outing. Although you're not a real Autumn Hehe~ Outing King, Lin Li, I still want to know your personal opinion on this plan. Do you have any suggestions for improvement?" Chen Yuying asked, letting out a light laugh midway because she couldn't hold it in.

The Autumn Hehe~ Outing King Lin Li picked up Chen Yuying's plan, read it carefully, and then nodded seriously:

"Although I'm not an expert in this area, I'd still like to express my opinion. After carefully reading your guide and thinking about it for a long time, I actually don't know how to answer. As I said at the beginning, I'm not an expert in this area."

Chen Yuying: "..."

But before Chen Yuying could pout unhappily, Lin Li answered with a playful smile, "Class President, I don't travel much, so I'm really clueless about travel guides. Your plan looks quite interesting to me, and I can definitely accept it.

But I don't think you want to hear that kind of answer. If you really want me to pick a point to suggest, it would be not to schedule the itinerary too densely. I'm not a fan of the 'special forces' style of travel. I go out to play not to check off boxes, but to have fun and relax—just my personal opinion."

"You have a point. I'll remove one sightseeing spot then. That will immediately free up a lot of time to be interspersed into the rest of the itinerary." Chen Yuying frowned slightly upon hearing this, pinching her chin as she looked at her plan, then picked up a pen and started making revisions.

"How about this? Isn't it much better?"

"Mm-hmm," Lin Li nodded.

"Then if my autumn outing plan is chosen, will you go?" Chen Yuying asked again.

"Of course. Class President, do you need my vote?" Lin Li thought of this possibility and said, "Don't worry, I'll definitely cast my vote with your dorm. I'm actually not that close with Bai Bufan and the others, we're just surface-level friends. I've been annoyed with them for a long time."

"There is indeed something I need your help with, but it's not this vote," Chen Yuying said after a slight hesitation:

"It's like this.

The girls' side doesn't really have any ideas either, so they've given me full authority to handle it. Plus, on the boys' side, Zhuo Yongfei and a few other classmates also think it's fine. That should already be more than half the class. After the vote tomorrow, this can be our class's plan."

Lin Li nodded.

Then she really didn't need his vote.

As a professional hype-man, he knew that when the other person clearly hadn't finished speaking, he just needed to use body language to show that he was listening, without interrupting with verbal cues like "and then?".

"But, Zhuo Yongfei told me that he asked some other boys for their opinions, and they're quite resistant to the idea of an overnight autumn outing," Chen Yuying continued. "Because many people are actually indifferent to the autumn outing—but that's on the premise that the outing only takes up the one designated day.

I asked the teacher what would happen if we chose not to go on the autumn outing. Mr. Xue said that if you don't go, you can't go home early, nor can you stay in the dorm. On Friday, the school will arrange classrooms and teachers to supervise self-study for all the students who didn't go.

And my plan takes up Saturday, a day when everyone would normally have gone home. So I'm worried that many boys will choose to stay at school for a day of self-study and then go home 'normally' on Friday."

As a self-funded activity, the autumn outing was naturally not, and could not be, mandatory. Students had the right to choose whether to go or not. And it was a very normal 'tactic' for the school to arrange self-study. After all, this was a team-building activity that promoted the all-round development of students, and the school certainly hoped that everyone would participate.

If they didn't set it up this way, a bunch of people would just not go and go home directly. Then, in the photos on the school's official account and in the admissions brochure, a class would have only a sparse three or four people, with more teachers than students. It would look like the students were taking the teachers on an autumn outing, which would be a bit of a reversal of roles.

In that case, Principal Wang might as well choose to put up his "Vice Raid Pioneer" photo. That would be more prestigious.

"Oh—" Lin Li nodded and interjected, "So what you're worried about, Class President, is that Bai Bufan and the others will choose not to go after seeing that your plan is the final result for our class?"

"That's right. Mainly because for many of us, this is the first and last time we'll all have the chance to go out and play together. After the classes are divided next semester, there will probably only be a few of us in each class who are still classmates," Chen Yuying nodded.

Nansang High School was located in Zhegong Province and adopted the new college entrance examination system. Classes were not divided based on arts or science streams, but gave students a great deal of autonomy in their choices—three out of seven.

In addition to the basic three subjects each for arts and science, there was also a "Technology" subject that included general technology and information technology.

Students only needed to choose three out of the seven subjects for the college entrance examination. As for the problem of different difficulty levels for different subjects, the elective subjects adopted a scoring system based on the ranking of the raw scores in the provincial examination. The first tier was 100, the second 97, the third 94, and so on.

It could be called the most liberal college entrance examination system in the East, unique to Zhegong Province. The new college entrance examination in other places usually adopted the 3+1+2 model—a mandatory choice between physics and history.

However, even after the division, there were still only twenty classes. So some relatively niche combinations, like physics, chemistry, and politics—a combination of the most artsy arts subject and the most sciency science subject—might have people who chose them, but it would be basically impossible to form a class.

Such students would either have to choose to attend classes in different classrooms or switch to one of the top twenty more popular combinations in the grade.

But since there were still twenty classes, when it came time to divide them, it was basically a case of everyone going their separate ways. The number of classmates who could choose to be together, unless it was a competition class, would almost never exceed ten.

That's why Chen Yuying said that.

The Class President was quite sentimental. Her pretty face was visibly a little downcast as she said this.

Lin Li reached out and patted Chen Yuying's shoulder, comforting her:

"Don't worry, Class President. Once a Class President, always a Class President. Even if we're not in the same class in the future, you'll always be my Class President. If you need anything in the future, just call me. I will provide all help except for actual action! I'm so looking forward to my new Class President!"

The 'moved' part of Chen Yuying's emotion hadn't even started before the 'moved' was gone. She let out a laugh and then suppressed it, looking at Lin Li with a somewhat resentful gaze.

~~Let you have your new Class President~~Let you have your new Class President~~

Class 4, Grade 10 was truly a place where geniuses were born in droves. But the little ghost that Chen Yuying had transformed into was much cuter than the resentful ghosts that Ding Sihan and Koukou had transformed into. Lin Li had no intention of exorcising or running away at all.

But her silent staring was really unbearable. Lin Li was defeated.

He raised his right arm at a 45-degree angle, his fingers together and pointing forward:

"There is only one Class President in my heart! Loyalty!"

Chen Yuying pressed down Lin Li's hand, which would make a Jew subconsciously turn into soap upon seeing it, with a look of helplessness, and spoke again:

"Hmph, who cares if you're looking forward to your new Class President or not.

So, this is the only time for our Class 4, Grade 10 to go out and play together as a group. I hope as many people as possible can come. If a lot of people are unwilling to come, I'd rather change to another plan."

"So what you mean, Class President, is that you hope I'll go persuade Bai Bufan and the others, right?" Lin Li had roughly understood Chen Yuying's meaning and asked proactively.

"Yes! Bai Bufan and the others, Zhuo Yongfei doesn't have much say with them and can't really persuade them, but you can. If your group is missing from the class outing, it will definitely be a lot less interesting, and it will be hard to get the atmosphere going. You guys are really important."

Chen Yuying's statement was also true. If Lin Li, Bai Bufan, and the others were missing from a class outing, it might be less noisy and annoying, but it would definitely be a lot less interesting and funny.

However, Lin Li shook his head and chuckled:

"Class President, are you unaware of the shamelessness of fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys? With what you just said, plus your voice and appearance, do you really not know how devastating the impact would be?

If you personally told them these words, I guarantee that 90% of them would stand at attention like they've been injected with chicken blood and salute, saying, 'Thank you for your appreciation, Class President. We guarantee to complete the mission.'"

The young men of Xiling Town stood at attention.

Chen Yuying lowered her head slightly upon hearing this, her voice much lower than usual, the tips of her ears a little red:

"But you're also unaware of the shamelessness of fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls. I can only say these kinds of words in front of you, because I know you're a pervert! How can I say this to each of them in front of them? If I say it seriously and then encounter the 10% who would coldly refuse, I wouldn't know what to do."

She could only say it in front of him.

This kind of special status was very fulfilling.

So Lin Li went "hehe".

The only problem was, the direction of his specialness seemed to be a little off.

"Class President, can you explain what you mean by 'know I'm a pervert'?" The non-hehe-ing Lin Li asked with a straight face.

Chen Yuying looked up, her clear eyes looking straight at Lin Li, then blinked.

At this moment, silence was more eloquent than words.

—Does this need to be explained?

That was probably what Chen Yuying wanted to express.

But seeing that Lin Li's expression hadn't improved and was still serious, so serious that Chen Yuying, looking at him, felt a little scared.

She somewhat regretted making this joke and was about to apologize when she heard Lin Li start to emphasize:

"You forgot to add the word 'good'."

"Eh?"

"I'm a good pervert. You said it yourself, Class President. This is very important. I will absolutely not allow you to remove this prefix!"

"...I'm sorry."

After being stunned for a short while, Chen Yuying finally replied, a hint of a smile flashing in her bright eyes.

(End of Chapter)