Ji Chuxing Couldn't Get Into Set Sail Class

At seven thirty the next morning.

Bo Yanchen personally drove Ji Chuxing to South City No. 1 High School.

She'd gotten up too early and was in quite a foul mood.

The little tufts of hair on her head stuck up wildly, and she couldn't smooth them down.

She sprawled in the back seat, looking half asleep and as though someone owed her eighty million.

Even two cups of jelly from Bo Yanchen couldn't coax her out of it.

He'd thought the girl was well-behaved and would probably love going to school. He hadn't expected her to be a poor student, too. Bo Yanchen felt a headache coming on. "Little girl, this won't do."

Ji Chuxing said nothing. She just wanted to sleep.

She'd stuffed herself sneaking jelly the night before and still hadn't fallen asleep at midnight. Her body had just recovered from a serious illness and needed rest.

Bo Yanchen hadn't expected the girl to dislike going to school this much, either. It had taken him a full forty minutes to get her up that morning.

Second Master Bo pinched the bridge of his nose. He felt he had never encountered anything so difficult in all his life. "Pay attention in class, and I'll take you to buy ice cream after school."

The girl had wanted some the night before, but considering she'd only just recovered from a serious illness, Bo Yanchen hadn't let her have any.

Sure enough, Ji Chuxing's eyes lit up. "I want peach, grape, lychee, watermelon..."

Bo Yanchen felt a headache coming on. "Only two."

Ji Chuxing turned her head away without a word, so Bo Yanchen had to compromise. "Three."

And so, wearing a hat and with sleepy eyes, Ji Chuxing entered the Set Sail Class at South City No. 1 High School.

South City No. 1 High School was the best elite high school in South City, and Set Sail Class was its top class for gifted students.

By rights, the original owner's grades weren't good enough to get her into the top class, and she hadn't planned on joining it. Wen Xinyue had firmly persuaded Zhou Ru to let Ji Chuxing in.

She'd said she could tutor Ji Chuxing and build a relationship with her older sister. It didn't matter if Ji Chuxing couldn't keep up with the lessons; she could tutor her.

The outcome was easy to imagine. The original Ji Chuxing couldn't keep up with the lessons in Set Sail Class, struggled to get passing grades on exams, and was laughed at for half a year.

Ji Chuxing walked toward Set Sail Class with bleary eyes, barely noticing the surprised looks people gave her along the way.

"Ah, who's that? Is she a new transfer student? I don't think I've seen her before."

"She's so pretty! She's every bit as beautiful as Wen Xinyue, our school belle!"

"Shh... isn't that the one who's been dragging Set Sail Class down?"

"How could it be? That scaredy-cat doesn't even dare lift her head when she walks!"

It wasn't yet eight, and students were trickling into the classroom, but it was completely quiet outside Set Sail Class. Just as Ji Chuxing was about to enter, she suddenly stopped.

Then the girl raised a foot and kicked the door hard.

"Bang!"

It was accompanied by a dreadful scream and the sound of heavy objects falling from the door.

"Ah!"

With a clatter, a foul-smelling mop and a trash can fell from the door and, as luck would have it, landed on several boys behind it.

The boys fell to the floor, groaning nonstop, their faces battered and bruised.

Everyone in Set Sail Class looked over, staring at the scene in disbelief.

But at that moment, their gazes lingered more on the girl standing in the doorway.

Her long hair hung loose beneath a black baseball cap. Dressed in a white T-shirt and black pants, she looked expressionlessly at the people on the floor.

The original Ji Chuxing had taken two days off after falling into the swimming pool, followed by a two-day weekend when there were no classes. For her return today, a few boys in Set Sail Class had prepared a "special gift," but in the end, they received the whole gift themselves.

"Ji Chuxing! How dare you!"

One of the boys scrambled to his feet, furious with humiliation. "Ji Chuxing, what's wrong with you?"

Another boy also got up, fuming. "Ji Chuxing, is this how you show kindness to your classmates? As a student of Set Sail Class, you actually kicked the door and made all this trash fall on us!"

Ji Chuxing glanced at the three of them. Weren't they the very people who had been physically bullying her ever since the original owner came to South City No. 1 High School?

By then, the class monitor had also walked over. He spoke with righteous indignation. "Classmate Ji, apologize to Classmate Sun and the others immediately. Then go to the director's office, admit your mistake, and make a thorough self-criticism. Otherwise, Set Sail Class doesn't welcome someone with such ill intentions."

As soon as the class monitor said this, people began whispering among themselves. "Exactly... she's from the countryside, all right. She has no manners."

"Ever since she joined Set Sail Class, she's been dragging us down. Our class average has already dropped because of her. Being in the same class as someone like that is one of the greatest humiliations of my life."

Plenty of others watched the spectacle. Some felt Ji Chuxing didn't seem to be at fault; Classmate Sun and his friends were clearly the ones who had put the wet mop and basin on the door.

But no one dared speak up, or they couldn't be bothered to. Ji Chuxing really was an unwelcome presence in Set Sail Class. It was bad enough that her grades were so awful, but she was also the school belle Wen Xinyue's older sister. Just looking at her made people angry! She didn't deserve it!

Ji Chuxing raised her chin slightly, her face expressionless. "Set Sail Class? A class for geniuses? Are you here to insult the word genius?"

Hmph, I was called a genius in my previous life too. This really puts me in a bad mood!

She seemed not to have said much, but the mocking tone in which she said it was enough to infuriate many of the people present.

The class monitor's expression changed. "Ji Chuxing, what did you say?"

Several girls also objected. "Who are you to say something like that? You're nothing but a lowly country student!"

"Exactly! I saw her getting out of a luxury car this morning. She never even dared lift her head when she walked before, but today she suddenly has the nerve to talk back. Who knows where she slept last night?"

Some people were truly strange. It was as though, because she'd never dared fight back when they bullied her before, she didn't deserve to resist and shouldn't resist.

Once those words came out, the looks directed at Ji Chuxing grew even more disdainful.

She used to keep her head down, with thick bangs and black-framed glasses, dull and lifeless like a clown. But today, although she wore no makeup at all, her skin was fair, and her peach-blossom eyes in particular were like distant mountains shaded in deep blue. Her exceptional bearing inspired jealousy.

Ji Chuxing swept a glance over them, and several girls immediately shrank back. One of them recovered, stepped forward indignantly, and mocked her. "What? You dared do it, but you won't let people talk about it?"

She spoke with such certainty, as though she'd seen Ji Chuxing do something dirty.

Ji Chuxing tilted her head and glanced at her. "Who are you? Is it your place to speak? Your eyes are so filthy. Why don't you find some toilet water to wash them out?"

Mo Xue'er was so angry she nearly fainted. Ji Chuxing actually dared speak to her like that!

The commotion at the entrance to Set Sail Class soon attracted the grade director, who was making his rounds.

The sharp-eyed class monitor spotted the grade director's chubby figure and immediately shouted, "Director! On behalf of all the students in Set Sail Class, I strongly demand that Ji Chuxing be expelled from Set Sail Class. Not only does she bully her classmates, but her conduct is also improper!"

The grade director's expression changed when he saw the sorry state Classmate Sun and the others were in. "What happened? How did you boys end up looking like this?"

The class monitor and several students from Set Sail Class all talked over one another as they recounted what had happened, all pointing to one "fact"-Ji Chuxing had kicked the door, injured her classmates, and verbally insulted Set Sail Class.

Set Sail Class held a most special place at South City No. 1 High School, and the director wouldn't allow anyone to insult it, especially now that they were in their final year, with less than a year until the college entrance exam.

Director Yan looked sternly at Ji Chuxing. "Classmate Ji, what happened?"