CHAPTER 184: CHAPTER 41: ROLES OF ATTACK AND DEFENSE REVERSED, NERVOUS RONG XIYI_2

Xu Lin picked up a copy of the "Ancient Chinese Dictionary," and also a copy of the "Great Chinese Dictionary."

The former is a dictionary specifically for classical text translation.

The latter is a dictionary of Chinese characters. In everyday use, people actually use just over 3,000 characters, but the "Great Chinese Dictionary" includes nearly 55,000 characters. Of course, that’s still not all the characters; there are roughly 90,000 in total. The well-known "Xinhua Dictionary," in its latest edition, contains 13,000 Chinese characters.

Recently, he has been preparing to learn classical text translation, planning to go through these two large books. In the future, as long as the classical texts don’t involve historical events he’s unfamiliar with, basically translation won’t be a problem for him at all.

To exaggerate a bit, nationwide, when it comes to classical text translation, perhaps no one could match him.

Of course, Xu Lin doesn’t dare to claim absolute; there are some elderly scholars with years of study whose knowledge surpasses even the rice you’ve eaten.

Xu Lin used to think that learning was a very unpleasant thing, especially being a poor student. The joy of learning can only be enjoyed by one kind of person—the top students, for whom learning is like gamers dominating in the game world. Similarly, if gamers enter a high-difficulty game, then the game becomes joyless for them.

Learning used to be just like that for Xu Lin.

But now, it’s different.

The Extraordinary Memory buff allows him to memorize quickly; after several views or a few seconds, he can remember everything.

Learning talent allows him to learn efficiently and focus, making study much more productive.

Thus, he memorized a six-centimeter thick "Ancient Chinese Dictionary" besides its cover and table of contents in just an hour, and rapidly processed it in his mind.

Next, in an hour and a half, he finished the dauntingly large "Great Chinese Dictionary." There was a lot he didn’t need to look at, like content related to sentence structure, which took up a lot of space. Xu Lin focused only on the key points—characters, their pronunciation, traditional versions, and translations. Just these four points. The rest he ignored.

Similarly, he noted them down and processed them in his mind.

Two thick and tedious books were finally handled by Xu Lin.

By then, it was almost ten at night.

Ning Yuhuan had finished her chart work and was working on Level 6 English test questions, about to finish the English essay.

Xu Lin didn’t disturb her, and Ning Yuhuan hadn’t disturbed him earlier either.

A few minutes later, Ning Yuhuan finally finished her English essay.

Xu Lin gave it a glance and said, "How about I help you revise it?"

"Do you know how?" Ning Yuhuan was curious.

"What do you think?"

Xu Lin took the red pen and answer sheet from her, then spent ten minutes revising them, replacing them with higher-level sentences or grammar, and some advanced vocabulary that even Ning Yuhuan didn’t recognize. Of course, he also wrote the meanings of the words on the side.

Xu Lin’s mind held 220,000 words. Probably only computers and AI have a mental capacity as terrifying as his in the whole world.

"Done!"

Xu Lin handed the pen and answer sheet back to her.

"Wow, you’re amazing!"

Ning Yuhuan read it a few times and felt her original writing seemed like a grade school essay, quite surprised, she laughed, "I’ll just ask you whenever I don’t understand English from now on!"

"No problem, let’s go. It’s ten o’clock."

"Okay, okay!"

The two packed up and left the library.

Xu Lin also went to the cafeteria with Ning Yuhuan, where he bought three servings of sweet dumplings, one for himself, one for Ning Yuhuan, and another for Rong Xiyan.

But Ning Yuhuan didn’t know it was for Rong Xiyan.

After sending Ning Yuhuan back to her dormitory, Xu Lin headed next door to Building 9 and sent a message to Rong Xiyan.

"I’m downstairs, brought you sweet dumplings."

Rong Xiyan saw the message but was still sulking and didn’t want to reply. She just wanted to leave Xu Lin hanging.

Sometimes girls think like this. If the guy’s patient, it’s fine. If not, then it’s on to the next one.

Of course, except for love-struck loyal types.

Xu Lin waited over four minutes, sent several messages, and even made a voice call, but seeing no response, was about to head back to his dormitory.

He wasn’t going to indulge her.

Just then, he saw Li Sinan returning to the dormitory.

Xu Lin had just arrived at Building 9’s dormitory door when Li Sinan came out, and now she was back.

"Xu Lin, why are you still here?"

Li Sinan was curious.

Xu Lin handed her the sweet dumplings, "Li Sinan, could you take these up to Rong Xiyan?"

"No problem!"

Li Sinan took the sweet dumplings from him, her gossiping nature ignited, "Xu Lin, what’s going on between you and Rong Xiyan?"

"It’s complicated. Just give her the sweet dumplings."

"Okay, sure!"

Li Sinan carried the sweet dumplings back to the dormitory.

She saw Rong Xiyan sitting cross-legged on a chair, looking at her phone.

Li Sinan placed the sweet dumplings on the table, "Xu Lin bought these for you; he asked me to bring them up."

"Oh, thanks."

Rong Xiyan, while still angry with Xu Lin, was also cold to others in her heated state of mind.

Li Sinan noticed her indifference and couldn’t help but say, "I don’t think Xu Lin is the type to be a lovesick puppy. If you keep giving him a hard time, he might not bother with you in the future. He waited downstairs for several minutes; normal guys don’t have that much patience unless they’re hopelessly devoted."

Hearing Li Sinan’s words, Rong Xiyan suddenly realized and panicked a little.