The hardest part to deal with
Qiao Yingzi admitted she was a little tempted, but then she immediately thought of Lin Lei'er and decisively shook her head. Looking frustrated, she said, "Forget it. Unless you can get Lin Lei'er to control his score like you do, I still can't be sure I'll come in first."
Qiao Yingzi and Huang Zhitao used to go to school together all the time. But ever since Wang Yue and Ji Yangyang arrived, they had split off into separate groups. The two who came later, Fang Yifan and Lin Lei'er, stuck together.
So Wang Yue and Qiao Yingzi didn't wait for anyone else. They deliberately slowed their pace, chatting about this and that as they walked, and soon reached the school.
They had just entered the school grounds and hadn't even made it to their classroom when they heard the campus broadcast reminding everyone to check their district rankings according to their scores.
At the mention of that, Wang Yue couldn't help grumbling. He didn't know when it had started, but announcing students' rankings had become something that dealt a blow to kids, leaving them unable to cope.
He didn't know when kids had become so fragile, either. If they couldn't even handle a ranking, how would they face other difficulties after leaving school?
Or was it like the saying that there was a kind of coldness that only your mother could feel—a kind of fragility that only experts thought you had?
Whatever Wang Yue thought about it, even after traveling through so many worlds, he was powerless to fix the problem. He could only accept it and go with Qiao Yingzi to leave her bag in the classroom. Then they headed together to the school's ranking board.
The board showed no names, only scores