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The news sent all the students present, especially the girls, into a frenzy.
"The underclassman should be on the coach bus this time, right!"
"Why does he show up only now! I've been waiting so long I've practically gone through the Taylor expansion of a multivariable function, and differentiated it countless times already."
"I know you're in a hurry, hurry, hurry, but stop rushing and standing there like an idiot! Go help the underclassman with his luggage! Any later and you won't even get to touch a hair on his head."
"You're, you're right!"
The girls swarmed over like fans at a meet-and-greet, forming a welcoming line, some even going so far as to display extravagant electronic placards bearing the underclassman's name.
But Song Xiaotao didn't join them; she remained quietly seated in her original spot.
"You really are special."
"That's because, I still have work to do." Song Xiaotao blushed as she began taking notes.
