May 15th, Thursday. Light rain.
The Midterm Exam results had already been released.
Chen Siyu jogged into the classroom and saw Xue Yuantong lying on her desk, playing on her phone. She reminded her, "Aren't you going to check the grade rankings?"
Xue Yuantong raised her head and looked at her. "No need."
As long as the teachers grading the papers had not made a mistake, first place would definitely be hers.
Seeing her like this, Chen Siyu could not help feeling defeated.
The results board had been placed in a corner of the East Corridor, surrounded by students checking their scores. Guo Kunnan emerged from the crowd in high spirits. He had risen from 36th in the class to 32nd—a full four-place improvement! Across the entire grade, that meant he had moved up dozens of places. In the college entrance exam, where countless students fought to cross a single-plank bridge, who knew how many examinees he would have surpassed?
Sure enough, his efforts had paid off.
After checking his own scores, Guo Kunnan had even gone out of his way to find the results of his good brother, Kaiquan.
Shan Kaiquan had fallen directly from the top ten in the class to around 30th place.
Guo Kunnan could not understand it. "Quan Ge, what happened? How did you fall so badly?"
Shan Kaiquan slumped against the desk behind him. His hair was wet from the rain outside, making him look even more desolate.
"Let it be," Shan Kaiquan said weakly.
As he spoke, he secretly glanced toward Bai Yuxia.
Bai Yuxia, do you see how willingly I've fallen? Doesn't it hurt you at all?
In truth, Shan Kaiquan's real results still placed him in the top ten of the class. To torment Bai Yuxia, he had deliberately done poorly,