Chapter 231 - Shocked
"The earnings from the songs have been calculated and sent to your account." This was what Yao Jiahong had said to s.h.i.+ Jin the most recently.
Although the overall music market was not doing well, there were still many people willing to listen to songs. As long as artists could write songs that resonated with them, no one would mind spending a little bit of money.
Compared to the past few years, where they could only produce videos and record tapes, and then sell them on the market, this modern environment had its advantages.
For example, as long as a song was written and recorded, it could be sold directly. The price was also very cheap. A song that cost a few yuan was affordable for everyone. The singers did not need to create more than ten songs before releasing an alb.u.m.
It all depended on whether s.h.i.+ Jin had any inspiration.
When she returned to school, Ji Huan came to look for her.
"s.h.i.+ Jin, I signed you up for three compet.i.tions."
"Compet.i.tions?"
"The National Mathematical Olympiad is also known as the Olympiad. The questions for this compet.i.tion are very difficult, but I think you can do it," Ji Huan said after some thought. "Your current exam scores are indeed not low. However, there are bound to be mistakes when it comes to the college entrance examination. You have to prepare properly for everything. The National Mathematical Olympiad is approved by Country S. It will give you 5-20 points on top of your exam results based on your performance. If you can achieve something through these compet.i.tions, the college entrance examination will be much easier for you."
Ji Huan had considered all aspects of s.h.i.+ Jin before deciding to help her register for these three compet.i.tions.
She had also specially gone over it with Yao Jiahong. She hoped that s.h.i.+ Jin"s manager would prioritize her studies and support her decision.
Initially, Ji Huan had thought of all sorts of reasons to convince Yao Jiahong. However, when Yao Jiahong heard this, he agreed without a second thought and even told her to tell s.h.i.+ Jin directly.
Were all entertainment companies so kind nowadays?
Hence, Ji Huan had come to talk to s.h.i.+ Jin personally.
s.h.i.+ Jin did not take this kind of compet.i.tion seriously, but when she met Ji Huan"s expectant gaze, she still nodded. "Then let"s follow Teacher Ji"s arrangements."
Ji Huan said happily, "It"s already been arranged. We"re just waiting for your approval. Mathematical and chemistry compet.i.tions are not normally held at the same time, but these are. It"s not a big problem for you. This is a common topic. Take it back and take a look."
"Okay." s.h.i.+ Jin reached out to take it.
Ji Huan had high hopes for her, as if victory was already in front of her.
Ji Huan"s beautiful face was so alluring.
Seeing her like this, s.h.i.+ Jin knew that she had to be more careful. She couldn"t bear to hurt this beautiful teacher.
When s.h.i.+ Jin left, Ji Huan said, "s.h.i.+ Jin, your manager is not bad."
s.h.i.+ Jin smiled and turned to leave.
The Mathematics and Chemistry Compet.i.tion originally had preliminaries and semi-finals, but the finals were of course at the end.
The compet.i.tors for the preliminaries were usually recommended by the school, while the semi-finals had strict requirements.
This time, it was Ji Huan who went to the school and begged Princ.i.p.al Lu to apply for a spot in the finals for s.h.i.+ Jin. For this, Ji Huan prepared a lot of information, such as s.h.i.+ Jin"s usual homework, test papers, results, and so on, as well as a joint recommendation letter from various teachers.
When s.h.i.+ Jin received the information, she realized Ji Huan"s efforts.
So there were many things that Ji Huan did not mention.
What else could she do? She could only work hard on the questions. s.h.i.+ Jin held the thick exercise book and did not get up even after cla.s.s.
w.a.n.g Boyan turned around. "s.h.i.+ Jin, you want to partic.i.p.ate in the Physics Olympiad?"
"Mm." s.h.i.+ Jin"s low-profile voice was relaxed and pleasant to the ears.
w.a.n.g Boyan suspected that if his ears were women, they"d probably be impregnated by it. He said in surprise, "I want to partic.i.p.ate too. Let"s go together when the time comes. We can also revise together."
w.a.n.g Boyan was good at physics and was one of the top students in his cla.s.s. He felt that he might be able to help s.h.i.+ Jin.
"Sure." s.h.i.+ Jin did not refuse. She put the completed physics compet.i.tion exercise book aside and picked up the math compet.i.tion exercise book.
"You"re also partic.i.p.ating in the mathematics compet.i.tion?" w.a.n.g Boyan was slightly shocked.
There were all kinds of top students at their school, but not many could partic.i.p.ate in two national compet.i.tions at the same time.
The saying that there were specializations in every field not only meant that everyone had their own areas of expertise, but also that it was very difficult for a person to go into several specializations. However, s.h.i.+ Jin was going to enter both compet.i.tions?
Ye Ke, on the other hand, was not surprised at all. She had met quite a few people who had partic.i.p.ated in the two compet.i.tions together. She interrupted from the side and said, "s.h.i.+ Jin, I want to partic.i.p.ate in the math compet.i.tion. We can revise together."
As she spoke, s.h.i.+ Jin nodded her head in agreement. She placed the Mathematical Olympiad exercise book aside and picked up the Chemistry Compet.i.tion exercise book.
It was Ye Ke"s turn to be shocked. "You"re partic.i.p.ating in chemistry too?"
Mathematics, physics, and chemistry all at once?
"Yes." s.h.i.+ Jin"s voice was extremely pleasant, just like her singing voice.
w.a.n.g Boyan had just finished reading the physics exercise book that she had completed. For a moment, he did not know what to say. How… had s.h.i.+ Jin done all the questions so quickly and with such a high accuracy rate?
He was one of the top physics students in the cla.s.s and the pet of the physics teacher, but s.h.i.+ Jin was even better than him!
When he thought about how he had been considering helping s.h.i.+ Jin just now, his face couldn"t help turning hot.
After w.a.n.g Boyan and Ye Ke were shocked by her behavior, they fell into a state of doubt.
It was not strange that they were top students because they had always been top students. Since they were young, they had developed very good study habits. They spent their third years nervously revising. As for s.h.i.+ Jin, most of her time was spent working!
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The National Mathematical Olympiad was about to begin.
In past years, this compet.i.tion would be held before the college entrance examination. It was a compet.i.tion that many top students in the country would compete for. It was also a chance for these top students to prove themselves.
The venue for this year"s three compet.i.tions was the Imperial Capital Traffic University.
Before the compet.i.tion, there was a final three-day training period.
The top students from all over the country had arrived at Imperial Capital Traffic University early to partic.i.p.ate in training and wait for the final compet.i.tion.
When s.h.i.+ Jin came in the morning, Ye Ke and w.a.n.g Boyan ran over to pick her up. "Hurry, s.h.i.+ Jin, the training is about to begin."
s.h.i.+ Jin followed them in.
The first training cla.s.s was mathematics. The cla.s.sroom was filled with top students from all over the country.
The moment s.h.i.+ Jin followed w.a.n.g Boyan and Ye Ke into the cla.s.sroom, the cla.s.sroom exploded.
"Is that s.h.i.+ Jin?"
"It seems like it"s really her?"
"Will she partic.i.p.ate in the compet.i.tion too?"
It wasn"t that these sharp fellows were suspicious, but that everyone had overcome all sorts of obstacles to arrive here, but in the previous compet.i.tions, they had never heard s.h.i.+ Jin"s name.