"Argh, I don't believe it! Xia Xu, you must've secretly copied someone else's answers, right? You had the answers and didn't even send them to me!"
If Ma Bing could accept Xia Xu getting full marks in English, seeing him score just as high in math and the combined sciences was a little too much. He felt the heartache of a revolutionary comrade betraying the revolution.
"Try copying someone yourself."
Xia Xu watched Ma Bing clown around, unsure whether to laugh or cry, then rolled his eyes. "Search the whole school and see if anyone scored higher than me. Who could I have copied?"
"..."
Ma Bing fell sheepishly silent.
The reasoning was simple. With Xia Xu's outrageous results this time, there probably wouldn't be many who could match him even nationwide in the college entrance exam, let alone at Star City No. 3 High School. There was nowhere for him to copy from. He couldn't have copied someone else's answers and still scored dozens of points higher than them.
As for an official answer key, their school's monthly mock exams were compiled by the teachers themselves based on their experience. There was no ready-made answer key to begin with.
That was also the main reason the subject teachers hadn't suspected cheating despite Xia Xu's astonishing scores and the enormous contrast with his previous results.
Besides, he had prepared his homeroom teacher beforehand. His claim of "controlling his scores to hide his ability" had probably already reached the other teachers through Liu Xiulan.
Whether they believed it or not, at least they had a reasonable explanation they could accept, and the facts were right before their eyes.
Rather than chat any longer with the boisterous Ma Bing, Xia Xu immediately ran over to Tang Youxin's seat when the bell rang