Su Yinuo packed her textbooks and thermos into her backpack, ready to bolt out the door at a moment's notice.
To make it easier to leave as soon as class ended, she always sat in the very back row.
Unfortunately, the teacher suddenly announced, "Final exams are coming up soon, so don't rush off just yet. Open your textbooks, everyone. I'll go over the key points. Make sure you study them so you don't fail your finals!"
At those words, the students who'd been grumbling about class running late immediately perked up and shouted, "Long live Teacher Ning!"
"We're ready! Hurry up and go over the key points!"
As soon as Su Yinuo heard that, she stood up and said, "Teacher, class is already over. You can go over the key points in your next class. Don't hold us up from getting lunch."
Only students who were bad at school needed the key points spelled out for them.
Not her~
She was going to see Dad and eat the seafood feast he'd made!
Su Yinuo had always been the class troublemaker. She was the only one in the whole class who dared to openly challenge the teacher like that.
The teacher glanced at Su Yinuo, then closed her textbook and said, "Fine. Class dismissed!"
The struggling students weren't happy about that!
They still needed the key points!
What if they failed otherwise?
Then they'd have to take a makeup exam!
It was the dead of winter. Who didn't want to finish exams and go home for the New Year? Who wanted to stay behind for a makeup exam?!
But the teacher clearly had no intention of going over the key points anymore. She angrily picked up her textbook and left.
Su Yinuo left even faster than the teacher, clutching her backpack as she charged out of the classroom first.
She was faster than a hundred-meter sprinter.
The students left behind were furious.
The accounting class had far more girls than boys. There were 54 students in the class: 50 girls and 4 boys.
Girls had quick tongues.
One of them immediately shouted, "Damn it! Su Yinuo's such a bastard! If she doesn't want to go over the key points, she can leave by herself! Why drag all of us into it?"
"Teacher Ning already said she'd go over the key points! We only need to study those, and we won't fail the exam!"
"Now we have to burn the midnight oil and read the whole textbook if we want any chance of passing!"
"I'm so pissed!"
"Su Yinuo's such a bastard!"
Su Yinuo's three roommates were unhappy and shot right back, "What did Yinuo say that was wrong? Class was already over. The teacher shouldn't have taken up our free time to go over the key points!"
"We're top students at the University of International Business and Economics. We shouldn't need the teacher to go over the key points just to pass a final exam."
"Maybe you shouldn't be in school at all!"
"Trash! Useless!"
The girls who'd watched the video that morning of Su Chen flying into a rage for Su Yinuo and taking on basketball team captain Xiao Haoran, and had been green with envy, exploded at once.
"We're trash? Useless?! Fine! Great! Let's make a bet. If Su Yinuo doesn't get first place in the accounting major on this final exam, she'll post under her real name on the school BBS forum, saying she's useless trash!!"
"Do you dare?"
The three roommates were suddenly caught between a rock and a hard place. Their minds went blank, and they blurted out, "A bet's a bet! Who's scared? If Yinuo gets first place in the accounting major on this final exam, the ten of you will run five laps around our dorm area, shouting that you're trash and useless!"
"Do you dare?!"
The ten girls answered at once, "It's a deal!"
The three roommates: "Hmph!"
The ten girls: "Hmph!"
Su Yinuo had no idea any of this had happened. By then, she'd sprinted to the building where Su Chen lived.
Walking there at a normal pace would have taken at least fifteen minutes.
But by running, she'd made it in just eight.
She'd cut the time in half.
She'd only just reached the building and was about to catch her breath when she spotted Su Zihan leisurely riding her bicycle home.
Her eyes widened, and she instinctively wanted to hide.
She'd sprinted in the middle of winter, so her little face was flushed and her breathing was still ragged.
She didn't want Su Zihan to see her like that.
"Nuonuo!" Su Zihan spotted her just as she was turning around. Delighted, she pedaled faster and zipped over to Su Yinuo in a flash.
She caught Su Yinuo red-handed.
"Wow, Nuonuo, you ran here! You must've been going really fast—look how red your face is." Su Zihan deftly parked her bicycle beside Su Chen's Alphard Nanny Van, locked it, and turned to Su Yinuo with a bright smile.
Su Yinuo coolly shoved both hands into her pockets. Though she'd been caught, she still looked perfectly calm. "Running in winter keeps you fit. Look at how weak you are—you clearly don't get enough exercise."
"From now on, come on a half-hour morning run with me every day."
Su Zihan immediately raised her hands in surrender. "Don't start! I won't tease you anymore, okay? By the way, are you really not going to buy a bicycle?"
"What would I need a bicycle for? I'm going to be the strongest girl around!" After seeing Su Chen's First-rank Martial Artist strength, she was even more determined to follow the martial path properly.
Su Zihan grinned and gave her a thumbs-up. "Impressive! That's a great ambition."
The two sisters chatted as they went upstairs.
When they reached the door of Su Chen's apartment on the third floor, Su Yinuo began to feel nervous.
You'd never have guessed it from the way she was still chatting away with Su Zihan. Behind her back, her hand was clenched into a little fist, trembling faintly.
Su Zihan took out her key and opened the door.
She immediately called out sweetly, "Dad, Yinuo and I are home!"
"Wow, it smells amazing!"
"Dad, what are you frying? It smells so good, my tummy's already growling~"
As she spoke, Su Zihan went inside and changed into her slippers.
Then she took out a brand-new pair of black women's slippers and handed them to Su Yinuo, blinking her lovely big eyes. "Yinuo, Dad bought these new slippers for you."
After saying that, Su Zihan pattered off to the kitchen.
Su Chen was frying a giant lobster in the kitchen, with the range hood roaring overhead.
He hadn't quite heard what his eldest daughter had said.
He assumed his eldest daughter had simply come home first.
He turned and smiled at his eldest daughter, who had poked her head into the kitchen. "Dad's frying a giant lobster. Hanhan, go wait in the living room. Watch some TV and have some fruit and nuts."
"The lobster will be ready in another ten or twenty minutes."
"Mhm~ Dad, this lobster is huge! Oh my gosh, I've never seen one this big. Just one lobster takes up the whole wok!"
"Wow! Dad, the sink is full of cleaned giant lobsters! Oh my gosh, this is a deluxe feast!"
"Nuonuo, come take a look! These Australian giant lobsters are seriously enormous!"
"Nuonuo's home too?" Su Chen's hand stopped mid-stir. He quickly turned off the heat.
His gaze shot toward the kitchen doorway.
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