The next morning, as soon as Jiang Moxi entered the classroom, she was about to switch into sleep mode when Mu Wanting started gossiping with her.
"Mo Xi, do you know? Our calculus teacher is pregnant and will have a baby soon."
"It's not like you're having the baby, so why do you sound so happy?"
Jiang Moxi picked up her textbook and placed it on her forehead, a gesture of refusal to engage with Mu Wanting.
But once Mu Wanting started gossiping, there was no stopping her.
She lifted Jiang Moxi's textbook and continued, "I'm not happy about her having a baby, but I heard she's going back home to rest and won't be our calculus teacher anymore. Because our college is severely lacking in calculus teachers, the school borrowed the most handsome calculus teacher from Top One University, Xiao Zhong."
Jiang Moxi could sense what was going on. Mu Wanting wasn't exactly thrilled about the pregnancy, but she was undoubtedly excited about having a strikingly handsome new teacher!
Unfortunately, Jiang Moxi wasn't really into handsome teachers, so she covered her forehead with the textbook once again.
But that didn't deter Mu Wanting's admiration for the handsome teacher. She propped her chin with both hands, gazing towards the blackboard with eyes filled with admiration and anticipation, her cheeks blushing like she was intoxicated.
"I saw one of Xiao Zhong's lectures on the live streaming app, and he's really handsome. Especially when he's explaining the problems, he's incredibly charming and elegant!"
Once again, she lifted Jiang Moxi's textbook and brought her face close to Jiang Moxi's, asking, "Mo Xi, how do you think I look today? Should I apply more blush to appear livelier and cuter?"
Jiang Moxi forced herself to open her eyes and took a quick glance at her friend's face, now as red as a monkey's. With little expression and an insincere tone, she offered some praise, "You're fine as you are, your current look is very charming. You're so stunning that you seem otherworldly..."
"Then I'll rest assured and await my Prince Charming to come and teach the class."
Mu Wanting beamed and covered Jiang Moxi's head with the textbook again, eagerly gazing at the classroom door.
Meanwhile, Jiang Moxi got her wish and dozed off with the textbook covering her.
However, today, Jiang Moxi seemed to have a clash of luck. She had just fallen asleep not long ago when she felt someone shaking her.
Jiang Moxi reluctantly opened her eyes and saw Mu Wanting leaning in, whispering, "Moxi, Teacher Xiao wants you to wake up and answer a question."
Apart from Mu Wanting, she noticed that all the other classmates were staring at her, especially Li Xue'er, who wore a gloating expression.
Jiang Moxi's eyebrows furrowed in annoyance.
The previous calculus teacher had never done this. Even if she slept in class, the gentle female teacher never woke her up, let alone ask her to answer questions and embarrass herself.
She might at most ask Jiang Moxi to find her after class and inquire if she hadn't slept well at night or if she needed any help.
Indeed, that female teacher preferred to inspire students and spark their interest in learning.
But this new teacher, Xiao Zhong, obviously excelled at standing on a high ground and pointing out students' mistakes.
Seeing Jiang Moxi open her eyes and still not getting up, he sneered. "Do you need half a class time to recover from your morning sleepiness?"
"I don't need it." Jiang Moxi replied after regaining her senses and stood up.
In reality, Jiang Moxi could grasp that Xiao Zhong had been invited from Top One University to teach at the Technical Insitute, and it seemed he was eager to achieve notable results to impress everyone.
So as long as he didn't cross her bottom line, she would try to cooperate with Xiao Zhong until his appointment at the Technical Insitute ended.
"Then tell me, how do you solve this problem?" Xiao Zhong pointed at the blackboard, where he had just written a question.
Jiang Moxi casually glanced at it and replied, "I don't know how to solve it."
As a low-performing student, how could she possibly figure out such a complex problem?
"If you can't solve the problem, is it something to be proud of?" Xiao Zhong coldly rebuked her.
"I didn't say I'm proud, I'm just telling the truth." Jiang Moxi met Xiao Zhong's gaze with a straightforward expression.
This was also the first time she had truly looked at Xiao Zhong.
His appearance was indeed quite decent, with well-proportioned features.
However, in comparison to the image described by Mu Wanting as "otherworldly beauty", he clearly didn't measure up, lacking several levels of charm and grace.
In addition, he probably became famous through the internet, which made him somewhat conceited, and the air around him was filled with a sense of self-importance.
The way he looked at Jiang Moxi was like looking at trash, full of disdain.
"Since you can't solve it, why don't you listen attentively? Are your parents paying tuition for you just so you can sleep in class? With such a disrespectful attitude, go back and have your parents come and talk to me, and then I'll decide whether to continue teaching you!"
Jiang Moxi actually wanted to say that she earned her tuition through part-time jobs, so her parents had no right to interfere with her here.
However, she also knew that if she argued at this moment, she would be accused of disrespecting her teacher and wouldn't be able to defend herself.
So she asked Xiao Zhong, "If I can solve that problem, then I don't need to bring my parents over, right?"
Yu Man and Jiang Guosheng were both concerned about their reputation; how could they let themselves be involved in her academic problems at school?
Xiao Zhong sneered. "You just said you can't do it, and now you say you can? Fine, if you can solve that problem, then you don't need to ask your parents to come over."
Indeed, Xiao Zhong thought that Jiang Moxi couldn't possibly solve that problem.
After all, before coming to teach at the Technical Insitute, he had already gained some understanding of these students in the class.
Jiang Moxi, known as the "Sleeping Goddess" during class, was the top underachiever in the Technical Insitute, earning herself the title of an unattractive and ineffectual student.
Her scores in calculus were basically floating around 20 points.
With such grades, how could she possibly solve such a complex problem?
So, Xiao Zhong was now looking forward to watching Jiang Moxi's embarrassment, and then he would call her parents to properly admonish her for sleeping in class and disrespecting the teacher.
The other classmates in the class also believed that Jiang Moxi couldn't possibly solve this problem. So, to some extent, they all thought that Jiang Moxi's fate of having her parents called in was sealed.
A few students looked at Jiang Moxi with sympathy.
Of course, there were also students like Li Xue'er, who were ridiculing Jiang Moxi inside and out. Even she, a top student, couldn't understand the problem on the blackboard, yet Jiang Moxi claimed she could solve it?
What a blatant lie!
However, Jiang Moxi would soon taste the bitterness of pretending to be something she was not. She would undoubtedly be scolded by Teacher Xiao and have her parents called in for a meeting. Finally, she would face criticism from the entire school.
The one most worried about Jiang Moxi was Mu Wanting.
She knew better than anyone that Jiang Moxi's grades were at rock bottom. She could barely score around 20 points on each test, and that was mainly due to copying the multiple-choice questions from Mu Wanting's paper.
Now, with the problem on the blackboard being incomprehensible even to Mu Wanting, how could Jiang Moxi possibly solve it?
But no matter what, Jiang Moxi was her desk-mate, and her fate was intertwined with Mu Wanting's. If Jiang Moxi went down, Mu Wanting would suffer too.
So, Mu Wanting couldn't just sit back and watch Jiang Moxi self-destruct.
While others were busy mocking Jiang Moxi, Mu Wanting swiftly took out a pen and jotted down the problem-solving steps and formulas she could think of on a piece of paper...
Just as Jiang Moxi was about to go up to the podium, Mu Wanting discreetly passed the paper to her.
However, this scene was caught by Xiao Zhong.
He immediately walked over to Jiang Moxi with a teasing smile on his face and asked, "What do you have in your hand?"