Chapter 348 Qingbao’s Little Pride

In the classroom, Li Qingrong glanced at the answers on the blackboard, then lowered her eyes to her own test paper, her red pen hesitating to mark anything.

Jiang Nian, sitting in front of her, suddenly turned around.

“How many did you get wrong?”

Li Qingrong glanced at her math test paper, which had no red marks, then looked at Jiang Nian, and held out the red pen in her hand.

“Do you need a red pen?”

Upon hearing this, Jiang Nian felt as if struck by lightning.

No.

She didn’t get any wrong?

“Alright, lend me the red pen.” He took the red pen from the class monitor’s hand, turned back, and quietly focused on correcting his work.

He corrected his math without saying a word.

He turned to look at Zhang Ningzhi beside him, who was also silent. She held a red pen, correcting and calculating.

Zhang Ningzhi noticed and turned, meeting his gaze.

She looked miserable.

Both of them showed a bitter smile and began to probe each other.

Jiang Nian: “Zhizhi, how many multiple-choice questions did you get wrong?”

Zhang Ningzhi’s Face was bitter, and she whimpered twice.

Upon hearing this, the smile on Jiang Nian’s Face disappeared again. It was replaced by a serious expression, his eyes fixed on Zhizhi.

“One? Five points deducted?”

“Yeah.” Zhang Ningzhi’s Face drooped.

“So, out of sixty points for multiple-choice questions, you got fifty-five.” Jiang Nian touched his Face, “You must have gotten a lot of fill-in-the-blank questions wrong, right?”

“No, I didn’t.” Zhang Ningzhi nodded.

Jiang Nian hesitated and asked, word by word.

“When you say ‘no, I didn’t’… do you mean you didn’t get any wrong, or are you agreeing with me?”

“I didn’t get any wrong,” Zhang Ningzhi said.

“Hahaha.” Jiang Nian was instantly infuriated to laughter. He rubbed his Face, “You mean, for multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank, you only got one wrong?”

Zhang Ningzhi stopped talking and timidly glanced at Jiang Nian.

“How many did you get wrong?”

“Four.” Jiang Nian met Zhang Ningzhi’s gaze, thinking, ‘If you dare to laugh, you’re finished tonight.’

Zhang Ningzhi pursed her lips, then looked up slightly. Her gaze went to the ceiling, thinking, ‘If I laugh, I’m finished.’

A pilfering cat is petty and vengeful.

Jiang Nian stared.

Zhang Ningzhi rubbed her Face, her gaze fixed forward. She coughed, and under the bright lights, her dimples deepened.

She spread her hands towards Jiang Nian, indicating that she hadn’t laughed.

“Teacher Zhizhi.” Jiang Nian stared at her and said, “Do you know what the Foolish Old Man’s last words were to his sons before he died?”

Zhang Ningzhi heard this and felt she wasn’t so inclined to laugh anymore, so she shook her head.

“I don’t know.”

“Moving the mountain… moving the mountain…” Jiang Nian pretended to be on the verge of expiring, then began to sing, “Twinkle, twinkle, little star~”

Zhang Ningzhi immediately couldn’t hold back and burst out laughing.

“Haha, what is that?”

Jiang Nian’s Face instantly changed, and he pointed at Zhang Ningzhi.

“Aha, I knew you’d mock my score. Getting four wrong in multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank, and you only got one wrong, is that so funny?”

“I didn’t!” Zhang Ningzhi immediately pouted, “You were the one who made me laugh, I wasn’t laughing at all.”

“Putting all that aside, you still laughed.” Jiang Nian immediately started bickering with Zhang Ningzhi, then snatched a box of drinks.

Zhang Ningzhi had actually messed up too, estimating her score to be around 120. She was only slightly better than Jiang Nian, who estimated his to be in the low 110s.

Logically, Zhang Ningzhi should have scored 130 or 140.

She misread the conditions for a major problem, calculated in the wrong direction for a long time, wasted time, and then made another mistake in solid geometry.

A series of errors led her to the 120-point range.

Originally, Zhang Ningzhi was quite depressed, but after Jiang Nian’s antics, she suddenly felt like it wasn’t so bad after all.

A subtle curve played on her lips; she had successfully extracted emotional value.

Li Hua was not in the classroom during the first evening self-study session; he went to the office to chat with the math teacher and only returned during the second session.

At this time, biology answers were written on the three blackboards in the class. A group of people gathered by the podium, checking answers and correcting their work.

Li Hua glanced at the biology answers on the blackboard and couldn’t help but yawn.

“Roughly looking, it seems I got everything right.”

After saying that, he immediately assumed a defensive posture in his seat, preparing for an attack from Jiang Nian—a chokehold, a Overlord Fist (Overlord Punch).

However, seven or eight seconds passed.

Silence.

Li Hua peered through his defensive posture at Jiang Nian, his deskmate, but saw that he had a calm expression, showing no reaction whatsoever.

“Nian, what’s wrong with you?”

Jiang Nian sighed, not speaking. He just pointed to the blackboard in front and asked in an extremely weary voice.

“How many biology questions did you get wrong?”

“One multiple-choice and one fill-in-the-blank, probably ninety-one points.” Li Hua immediately escalated, showing his true colors.

However, when he turned around, what he saw was Jiang Nian’s smile.

“What are you smiling about?”

Jiang Nian’s lips curved upward, “Hua, I got one small fill-in-the-blank question wrong, three points deducted.”

Li Hua was stunned for a moment, thinking he was dreaming.

“How many?”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ningzhi, his good deskmate who was correcting her biology test, also turned her head, staring at Jiang Nian with an incredulous expression.

“Huh?”

“No, did you really get ninety-seven in biology?” Li Hua, who usually won big, felt a little broken and couldn’t help but blurt it out.

The moment his words fell, the group members in the front row, and half the class, all turned to look in Jiang Nian’s direction.

“How many?”

“Ninety-seven? That’s terrifying, isn’t it?”

“That’s only three points short of a perfect score. Can anyone even get a perfect score on this terrible test? I only got sixty-something in biology!”

The news of Jiang Nian’s ninety-seven in biology caused quite a stir in the class. The score itself wasn’t important; the improvement in score was.

Under Qingbao’s tutelage, a thirty-point improvement in biology—the significance of that was self-evident.

Students weak in biology would naturally trust Qingbao more than bought online biology courses.

After all, the famous teachers in online courses were hyped up, but Jiang Nian’s progress was a living example that everyone in the class had witnessed.

Yang Qiming shook his head directly, scoffing twice.

“What kind of freak is Jiang Nian?”

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yuting thought that Jiang Nian was indeed a complete freak. But then she had a sudden thought and felt a pang of regret.

Jiang Nian was almost getting a perfect score in biology, and she still hadn’t found her strong subject.

Wang Yuhe clenched her fist, wrote the number ninety-eight on her test paper, and vowed that in the next provincial joint exam, she would surpass Jiang Nian.

After doing all this, she finally turned to Chen Yunyun and said.

“Yunyun, if I spend time on biology, I can score ninety-eight next time!”

“Mhm, yes.” Chen Yunyun withdrew her gaze. She estimated her biology score this time at 82. “How did he score that?”

Yu Zhiyi was bewildered, thinking, ‘Is this a score a human can get? We’re all from the same batch of biology advanced students, so how… is the gap so huge?’

No, I need him to get that thing done quickly.

I’m definitely going to be the biology class representative!

Sun Zhicheng was indifferent to this; he was engrossed in chemistry. He didn’t care about biology, only about Chen Yunyun in the front row of his group.

He was waiting for a suitable opportunity, confident that the class monitor could keep Jiang Nian in check.

This time, he would win.

Yu Tongjie’s eyes were gloomy. He held his biology test paper, which scored less than sixty. His mood was almost at its worst; he wished he could switch classes.

Old Liu had talked to him before the joint exam, and the speculations of those around him had greatly affected his mindset, even causing him to collapse.

Except for math and English, his other subjects had inevitably failed. Switching groups had become a luxury; switching classes, however, was possible.

His mind flashed back to what his mother had told him yesterday: Class Zero had an “auditing” spot, allowing one student to be transferred.

This was what Director Ji Ming, the grade director, had personally told his parents when he visited. It was most likely true; an opportunity to go to Class Zero.

Yu Tongjie remembered having an acquaintance in Class Zero. But if he really agreed, it would be tantamount to publicly announcing that he got in through the back door.

Face, or substance?

But very quickly, he realized something else. If he started fresh in Class Zero and returned accomplished, what would Jiang Nian amount to then?

Strong, you thrive; weak, you perish!

During the second break.

“I think, the Imperial Seal is just a piece of rock, isn’t it?” Li Hua was bragging, “Essentially, it has no value whatsoever.”

“You’re right.” Jiang Nian nodded, then looked up and said, “However, if I were the one to pick it up, then that’s another story.”

“Jiang Nian, the teacher is looking for you.” Yu Zhiyi walked to his seat, called out to him, and silently gave him a look.

However, Jiang Nian merely said “Oh” and got up to leave.

Yu Zhiyi didn’t know if he understood her hint, and she instantly felt both annoyed and anxious, stamping her foot in frustration.

She thought, once Jiang Nian’s score is revealed, Qingbao’s teaching status will undoubtedly skyrocket, and by extension, the position of class representative…

Thinking of this, she grew even more anxious.

In the comprehensive science office, the lights were bright.

Piles of answer sheets were stacked on the tables, and students from various classes came and went, either registering scores or asking questions.

The scene was bustling and lively.

In a corner of the office, the people’s teacher Qingbao was hunched over her desk. She held a cup of tea, and a steaming cup of jasmine tea was also on her table.

Qingbao’s figure was not plump but rather that of a bony beauty. However, she was well-endowed in all the right places, making her a natural clothes hanger.

Even when she was quietly nestled in the office, she still attracted the gaze of passing students.

Since the answer sheets for math, physics, and chemistry from different classes were mixed, each class had to send someone to manually sort through them, so there were many students in the office.

Several boys even took advantage of this opportunity to linger in the office for a long time.

The scene was too chaotic, and the leaders had all gone to a meeting. No one was supervising them, so quite a few students took the opportunity to wander around.

Until Jiang Nian walked in from outside the office.

As this boy, like a young white poplar in midsummer, appeared, his dark eyes swept around, and he grinned.

“Teacher, were you looking for me?”

Saying this, he didn’t even look at the others in the office. He walked directly towards Qingbao’s workstation, and before he even sat down, he picked up her tea.

He held the disposable cup and gently blew on it. Without asking, he took a small sip directly from the cup, then sat down.

“Are the results out?” he asked with a smile.

Qingbao nodded, a hint of a smile on her Face as well.

“Biology 97, you did well.”

His score exceeded her expectations; he was almost her little pride.

“It’s all because the teacher taught so well. When I was doing the questions, it felt very…” Jiang Nian wanted to say’smooth,’ but the word ‘moist’ popped out instead.

Qingbao pulled out a comprehensive science test paper from the desk, spread open the biology long-answer and fill-in-the-blank questions, and pointed to a certain gene question.

“You shouldn’t have gotten this one wrong.”

The several boys in the office stared blankly at the beautiful biology teacher, gently and tenderly explaining the problem to that annoying guy.

They hated, hated, hated it, wishing they could take his place.

However, it was only a small sub-question, after all, when a figure suddenly appeared at the office doorway.

Old Liu walked in.

He was first surprised to see Qingbao explaining a problem to Jiang Nian.

Then he actually stopped in place to wait, nervously rubbing his hands. He didn’t even take out his phone, choosing to listen on the spot.

After finishing the explanation, Qingbao greeted Old Liu.

“Go on, Teacher Liu might have something to discuss with you.”

Upon hearing this, Old Liu felt strange. Even though Jiang Nian was also his student, he felt a bit like Emperor Taizu of Ming and Lan Yu’s adopted son.

Step back, I order you to step back.

“Teacher, were you looking for me…?” Jiang Nian walked out of the office.

“Yes, step… no, come with me.” Old Liu perked up, “Except for Chinese, all other subject scores are out.”

“Yes, step… no, come with me.” Old Liu perked up, “Except for Chinese, all other subject scores are out.”