Youth always brought studying and sports to mind.
Whether boys or girls excelled in academics or athletics, their peers inevitably viewed them with an extra layer of admiration.
Provided, of course, that they were good-looking.
Quite a few classmates had watched the badminton match during PE just now. What surprised everyone most was Lin Meng Qiu's skill at badminton.
Girls with good grades were a dime a dozen. Girls who excelled at sports were genuinely rarer.
Who would have thought their class monitor, so outstanding in her studies, could be so impressive at sports too?
Quite a few girls in class looked at Lin Meng Qiu with sparkling eyes. What a cruel twist of fate! Why wasn't their class monitor a boy? She was so cool, so handsome! Their aloof class monitor, good at both studying and sports, was such a heartthrob!
Perhaps the sweat on Lin Meng Qiu's pretty face after exercising lent her usual cool demeanor a touch of sunshine. Zheng Yining and Xie Mengxuan, who sat in front of her, even plucked up the courage to start a conversation.
"Class monitor, you're so good at badminton!"
"...Thank you."
"Have you trained specifically in badminton?"
"Yes, I used to."
"Amazing! You looked so professional!"
"I'm average."
Lin Meng Qiu really wasn't good at chatting. Faced with Zheng Yining and Xie Mengxuan's enthusiasm, she felt a little awkward. She wanted to give them proper responses, but everything she said seemed to kill the conversation.
Zheng Yining and Xie Mengxuan didn't mind. Cool, indifferent replies like those were exactly what everyone expected from their class monitor!
Sure enough, as Lin Meng Qiu had anticipated, her responses gave them little to work with. After exchanging a few words with her, Zheng Yining and Xie Mengxuan turned around and started chattering and