Chapter 262: Chapter 262: Don’t Leave After School (23)
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Everyone was at a loss for words for a moment.
With the top three students in their class, they still got scolded to high heaven.
Zhou Chu truly lived up to his name.
“Those whose names are called, come up to get your exam papers.”
Names were called from the lowest rank upwards.
When it came to the top ten, the rankings were announced.
“Ninth place, Tao Xinxin.”
“Eighth place, Ding Zhengyang.”
“Seventh place…”
“Third place, Shi Lin.”
“Second place, Xiang Hai.”
“First place, Yu Yue.”
Yu Yue strutted up with the air of a top scholar to grab the paper.
“I told you Yu Yue would definitely be first.”
“Otherwise, how could she be called a top student?”
After announcing the first place, everyone noticed Teacher Zhou still had one paper in hand.
The classroom instantly fell silent. The first place had been announced, so why was there still one left?
The only one not called in the class was the transfer student, Jih Cheng… But he didn’t even take the exam because of the cheating accusation; his score was recorded as zero.
Even though it’s now clear he didn’t cheat, his score was still zero.
Amid the students’ puzzled looks, Teacher Zhou slowly spoke, “This time, our class has a tie for first place, Xu Chuzheng.”
“…”
The classroom suddenly went quiet again.
Chuzheng stood up to get her exam paper. Teacher Zhou announced the overall ranking for all subjects, but the paper she received was for this one subject.
Teacher Zhou looked at the paper—answered so perfectly that claiming she cheated was out of the question. Some of her problem-solving methods were even different than the standard answers and simpler.
If it wasn’t for her overly concise writing, which cost her points, she would have been in first place.
Yu Yue sat at her desk as if pricked by a needle.
How could Xu Chuzheng’s grades be so good now?
She used to be at the bottom, lucky to even pass.
Now she suddenly tied with Yu Yue for first place.
One could imagine how Yu Yue was feeling.
“Xu Chuzheng actually tied Yu Yue for first place, am I hearing things?”
“How is that possible? Did she cheat?”
“No way…”
“She used to do so badly in her studies.”
“Yeah…”
Amid the whispers, Chuzheng returned to her seat unfazed.
Equally shocked as the other students was Jih Cheng, “You’re not…”
“Not what?”
“You can’t even do your homework…”
“When did I ever say I couldn’t do it?”
“…” Right, she never did say that; she just had others do it for her, but doesn’t that imply she couldn’t?
“I just couldn’t be bothered to do it.” Chuzheng pressed down on her paper, her face calm, “I think my grades are pretty good.”
If she couldn’t handle such simple questions from high school, how could she even get by?!
Deskmate: “…” So the reason she had others do her homework was that she couldn’t be bothered to do it herself?!
Jih Cheng: “…” Tying for first place is just ‘pretty good’?
Buzz—
Zhu Zian: Congrats, junior, first place! Dinner’s on me tonight!
Zhu Zian sent over a screenshot. Someone had circulated the overall ranking for the second year.