The campus belle loses face and runs off to complain

In late April, an aristocratic university in the capital held a super academic genius examination competition. Fourteen schools and several thousand students took part.

In just two all-nighters, Ye Huo memorized every course from the first semester of freshman year. She knew them backward and could remember anything at a glance.

The student who placed first would reportedly receive citywide recognition, and her name would be displayed high above the school gate on a giant red screen.

It would stay there for a full week in recognition of her achievement.

In other words, whoever took first place would become a prominent figure throughout St. Peter's Aristocratic University.

In previous exams, Bai Yaxi, the academic genius of Media Class Three, had always taken first place.

This time, she was going to slap Ye Huo's face hard with her results.

On the day of the exam, the students sat properly in the packed examination rooms.

The first day brought biology and chemistry in the morning, then English and history in the afternoon.

The second day brought mathematics and Chinese in the morning, then ideological and political studies in the afternoon.

There were seven subjects in all. Ye Huo picked up her pen and scribbled through them, then spent most of the remaining time sleeping at her desk in the examination room.

Each exam lasted two hours, and she slept for an hour and a half.

The invigilators couldn't help frowning. They walked over to remind the examinee to observe examination rules.

But when two teachers approached the girl from opposite directions with dark expressions and picked up the exam paper on her desk for a look, they were stunned.

Her handwriting was neat, as if produced by a printer, and every answer looked like the model answer.

They searched and searched, but couldn't find a single wrong answer.

Incredible!

So she really had the ability. No wonder she slept so soundly.

Ding-dong. The bell rang, signaling the end of the final exam.

Ye Huo sat up, rubbed her eyes, and wiped away her drool with a tissue.

In every exam, as soon as time was up, she had always been the first to rush up and hand in her paper, leaving a deep impression on the teachers.

After the exams ended, school was dismissed.

In the school corridor, Gu Wanyang pulled Huohuo aside to compare answers.

"Huohuo, what did you get for the last major math question?"

"Nine and three quarters."

"What? Wasn't it supposed to be nine?"

"Oh, I forgot."

Ye Huo blinked and carefully tried to recall the steps she had used to solve the last major question.

She couldn't quite remember.

After all, she had slept, and a long time had passed between finishing the question and handing in her paper.

All she remembered was that the last major question went beyond the syllabus and had been made more difficult. Only someone who had studied the Newton-Leibniz formula could solve it.

As it happened, she could solve it.

"What do you mean, nine and three quarters? The answer was obviously nine. Certain people are idiots, so they shouldn't pretend to understand when they don't!"

Zhang Yanyan and Lin Jing, the two lackeys, came toward them with Bai Yaxi between them.

When Bai Yaxi saw Ye Huo, her deliberately rouged lips curved up slightly, and the malice in her eyes deepened.

She looked at Ye Huo with disdain.

So what if she was pretty? So what if she was richer than her? She still couldn't beat her in an exam.

She boasted smugly, "I heard someone fell asleep in the exam room. No wonder she couldn't work out the answer. After all, not everyone is qualified to be an academic genius."

Ye Huo rolled her eyes at her as if she were looking at a fool.

She coldly uttered one word: "Idiot."

"What did you say?"

Bai Yaxi flew into a rage.

Ye Huo curled her lips in a cold, arrogant smile, her brows and eyes alight. "I said, a frog at the bottom of a well will never know how big the world outside is. You are an idiot."

"You insulted me. Believe it or not, I'll go tell the teacher!"

Bai Yaxi gritted her teeth as she made the threat.

"Go ahead."

Ye Huo gave Bai Yaxi an icy look, a faint smile touching her lips. "What else can someone like you do besides tattle?"

"Just you wait-"

Bai Yaxi's pretty face lost its color with anger, then flushed red.

She always came first in exams. With fair skin, a beautiful face, long legs, and an elegant bearing, she had always been revered as Media Class Three's goddess and academic genius.

She also frequently took time off to put on makeup, go shopping, shoot short films, and attend fashion shows.

She was a rising minor internet celebrity in the entertainment industry.

At school, too, she could summon the wind and rain, receiving the treatment of a goddess and surrounded by countless simps.

She had never expected this wretched girl to insult her like this.

Unable to swallow her anger, she ran off in tears to find a teacher.

Ye Huo rolled her eyes at the childish girl, who was no more mature than an elementary school kid, then slung on her schoolbag and drove Gu Wanyang home in style.

With red-rimmed eyes and looking as though she had suffered an immense injustice, Bai Yaxi went to Class Three's homeroom teacher to complain.

Teacher Li, Class Three's homeroom teacher, heard that the precious genius girl in his class had been bullied.

He immediately took Bai Yaxi with him and stormed into the principal's office to demand justice.

"Principal, you must do something about that wretched girl surnamed Ye from Class Seven. She's absolutely horrible! Her own grades are poor, so she's jealous of others doing well, and she even insults them. She's utterly lawless!"

The words came pouring out of Teacher Li.

The moment the principal heard the surname Ye, he was so startled that he nearly fell out of his office chair.

"When you say Ye, do you mean... Ye Huo from Class Seven?"

Cold sweat broke out on his forehead as he spoke in a trembling voice.

"That's her. Trash like her, a black sheep, has no place in a prestigious school like ours. Principal, I suggest you expel her."

Teacher Li made his suggestion indignantly.

He blindly favored good students. In his eyes, even the shit of a student with excellent grades smelled sweet, while everything a student with poor grades did was wrong!

Who did that Ye Huo from Class Seven think she was? Since she dared bully his star pupil, just wait and see how he dealt with her!

Bai Yaxi wore an innocent expression, her bright face and white teeth on display, her eyes misty. She looked aggrieved to the extreme.

"Principal, I don't even know how I offended Ye Huo. She suddenly started calling me an idiot and a frog at the bottom of a well as if she'd gone mad. In all my life, I've never been treated like this. Boo-hoo, I don't want to live anymore..."

"All right, stop crying."

The principal looked at Bai Yaxi with cold eyes and retorted sternly, "I trust Student Ye's character. She's not that kind of person."

"Boo-hoo-hoo, Principal, are you saying I falsely accused her?"

Bai Yaxi's eyes widened as she asked with an innocent expression.

The principal nodded solemnly. "Yes, you falsely accused her. It seems to me you're the villains complaining first. Student Ye is so well-behaved, so pretty, and so obedient! How could she be the kind of person you say she is?"

"Principal, why are you shielding that wretched girl? How much did she give you?"

Teacher Li demanded.

"That's none of your business. I'm warning you, as long as I'm principal of this school, no one is allowed to bully Student Ye."

The principal slammed his hand on the desk and declared overbearingly, "From today onward, Student Ye is my own great-aunt. You will respect her, cherish her, and indulge her. Stop spreading rumors and stirring up trouble, or don't blame me for being ruthless as your principal!"

"Principal, boo-hoo-hoo, you..."

Tears filled Bai Yaxi's eyes, and she choked up with grievance.

"Cry, cry, cry, that's all you know how to do. One look at a green tea bitch like you annoys me. Get out."

The principal rolled his eyes and sent them away.

At the same time, he was relieved that he had learned Young Miss Ye Huo's true identity in advance. Otherwise, if he had recklessly offended her again, he would have been the one to lose his job.

Teacher Li could tell at a glance that Ye Huo's background was definitely extraordinary. Even the famous principal protected her, so there was surely nothing he could do to her.

He took Bai Yaxi back with him in a huff.

"From now on, don't provoke that wretched girl. If you see her, steer clear."

Teacher Li stood in the corridor, pondered for a moment, and reminded her with considerable foresight, "She's not someone we can afford to offend."

"Boo-hoo-hoo... Then, Teacher, do I just have to swallow this grievance for nothing?"

Bai Yaxi refused to accept it.

"What else do you want? Do you want me to go against the principal?"

Teacher Li sneered, left Bai Yaxi there, and went out.

Although he was especially fond of students who did well in their studies, that only held as long as his own interests weren't involved.

No matter how good Bai Yaxi's grades were, she would graduate and leave in four years. He still had to stay at the school and work under the principal.

So he would rather offend Bai Yaxi than offend the principal's own great-aunt-Ye Huo.

Seeing one person after another protect that bitch Ye Huo made Bai Yaxi feel even more aggrieved. Her eyes nearly spewed fire.

She clenched her fingers and stamped her foot, deciding to find another way to take revenge on the wretched girl and vent her anger.