Sweetlove: Spoiled by My Childhood Sweetheart

Chapter 43: Chapter 43: The Secret is Out

Shen Zhaozhao rolled up her sleeves, really wanting to rush up and fight with the other person, but was held back by Sheng Chuyi.

“What are you doing?” Sheng Chuyi grabbed her arm.

Shen Zhaozhao, waving her fists, her little face filled with fury, said, “Let him spread rumors about me, I want to beat him to death!”

Sheng Chuyi: “Don’t think I don’t know what you’re up to. You just want to get into a fight and then get kicked out of the training camp, right?”

Having her intention exposed made Shen Zhaozhao feel instantly guilty. Her large eyes flickered as she stiffened her neck and said, “Not at all!” She just didn’t realize that the more guilty she felt, the louder she spoke.

As if you didn’t!

Sheng Chuyi directly cut off her thoughts, saying, “Don’t even think about it!”

Shen Zhaozhao: …

So frustrating!

But she didn’t have any solution.

“I agree too,” she muttered dejectedly, looking towards Chen Shuo.

Chen Shuo turned and wrote a problem on the blackboard.

[Based on the rules among the following numbers, fill in the “?” with the correct number, and explain why.

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1233=0

2456=1

9339=2

8848=6

5683=3

3530=1

0000=4

6991=3

8290=?]

Everyone started calculating with their pens in hand.

But no matter how hard they racked their brains and tried all sorts of methods, they just couldn’t come up with the answer.

However, Shen Zhaozhao, after only a few glances, stopped moving.

“Hmph, she definitely can’t solve it.”

“I knew it. She hasn’t been paying attention in class; how could she possibly solve it.”

“…”

At first, everyone was a bit anxious, but seeing that Shen Zhaozhao also couldn’t solve it, they all felt relieved.

“How about it, has anyone figured it out?” Chen Shuo asked the crowd below.

The crowd looked at each other, but no one spoke up.

Chen Shuo then looked towards Shen Zhaozhao.

Shen Zhaozhao: “It’s 4.”

Everyone was surprised; they hadn’t expected that she had actually solved it.

But they clearly hadn’t seen her doing any calculations.

Chen Shuo: “Share your solution with everyone.”

Shen Zhaozhao: “This is a pattern recognition problem; it’s about finding circles in numbers. Based on the problem, if you treat the digits as geometric shapes, an 8 has two circles, and a 9 and a 0 each have one circle. So the final answer is 4.”

Chen Shuo nodded, “Very good. In number pattern problems, searching for circles or curves is a common technique. This problem is about finding circles.”

The crowd was dumbfounded once again.

Could that even work?

But weren’t they learning mathematics? What did that have to do with finding circles?

Seizing the opportunity, Chen Shuo instructed everyone,”Olympic Mathematics is about thinking outside the box. Sometimes, you might as well think of it as solving brain teasers. So, does anyone have any objections now?”

In the end, Shen Zhaozhao was still allowed to stay.

This test had eliminated twelve people.

The remaining forty-eight would face another assessment in one week.

That meant she had to stay in this miserable place for another week.

“Zhaozhao, aren’t you happy?” a girl beside her asked.

“Happy!” Shen Zhaozhao answered listlessly.

She was just ecstatic!

“Right? We can continue to stay and learn. You have no idea, I was so scared!”

The girl, named Xia Miao, shared a dormitory with Shen Zhaozhao. In this test, she had scored just a few points more than Shen Zhaozhao.

She had been very close to being sent home as well.

Among the twelve people who were eliminated, four were girls, and one was from the dormitory next door; the other three were from Shen Zhaozhao’s dormitory.

Even though they had only been together for a week, having spent every day with each other, they were quite reluctant to part.

Several girls cried!

Shen Zhaozhao felt like crying too, why couldn’t it have been her who was leaving?