Chapter 12: Proving himself
Chen Lingshan entered the classroom afterward. As she sat down, she slammed her books onto the desk, making her displeasure plain. She ignored Su Can completely, not even meeting his eyes, nothing like the way she had chatted and laughed with him at the school gate.
Beside him, Xue Yiyang asked with a hint of nosy curiosity, "What's wrong with Chen Lingshan? Who upset her this time?"
Su Can merely gave a wry smile without answering. This really was not something he could easily explain in words.
What Xiao Rihua had said upon entering the classroom, however, had left Su Can momentarily stunned. He had never expected Xiao Rihua to speak to him in such a subdued tone, without his usual airs for once. Still, it marked a good beginning. Xiao Rihua had set aside his hostility toward him, and ultimately, that was something Su Can had earned through his own efforts.
When the results came out, there were two contrasting developments in the class. First, deputy class monitor Wang Xuebing had performed far below his usual standard and slipped to fifth place. Second, Su Can had moved up another two places in the final ranking, coming eighth in the class.
The rankings and scores caused a stir among some students as Xiao Rihua read them out, filling even him with an inexplicable sense of pride. Strangely, he had felt little regret when announcing Wang Xuebing's fall to fifth, yet Su Can's rise to eighth made the prospects before him seem bright.
This boy had limitless potential.
Su Can knew that if he put some effort into the memorization questions, he probably could have advanced more than two places.
His biggest problem lay in the memorization questions. It was not that he had a poor memory;