Chapter 61, that's quite something.

Seeing her look of astonishment, Yang Yingwen expressed her indignation on behalf of Chen Zijin:

"He barely had some trouble in his relationship with Zijin before turning right around to chase Song Yu. He is an absolute, thorough jerk.

Xiaohan, you are so pretty, you need to keep your distance from him, lest he fails to win over Song Yu and turns his sights on you."

"Mm-hmm," Xiao Han nodded repeatedly. To show she was standing in solidarity with her best friend, she chimed in brightly, "You too, Yingwen."

Yang Yingwen laughed at herself, "I don't need to worry. When that jerk and I used to argue, he often called me an old floor rag—old, dry, and flat—and said he wouldn't be interested in me at all."

Hearing this, Xiao Han couldn't help but smile sweetly. She hurriedly pulled two tangerines from inside her desk, handing one to each of them.

Consoling her, she said, "Come on, let's stop talking about the jerk. Let's eat tangerines instead."

……

Class 204.

At this moment, Zou Aiming, having just returned from the Academic Affairs Office, was enthusiastically and animatedly telling everyone a joke.

A joke about Liu Yejiang.

It turned out that a ridiculous scene had just played out in the Academic Affairs Office.

When Liu Yejiang found out he had only scored 81 points in mathematics, his eyes turned red. Unwilling to accept it, he asked the teacher recording the scores:

"Then what did Li Heng get?"

The person recording the scores happened to be Teacher Yang, the head teacher of the neighboring Class 205. Hearing this, she said with a meaningful smile:

"Liu Yejiang, I heard from Teacher Wang Qi that before the exam, you made a solemn pledge, swearing up and down that you would beat Li Heng this time.

To encourage you, Teacher Wang Qi even put up 5 yuan as a reward.

Yet your geography was 4 points lower than his, your politics 6 points lower, and your mathematics had the outrageous gap of 39 points. You're falling behind him in every single subject. How are you going to wrap this up? I'm starting to worry on your behalf."

"Hahaha, I'm worried for him too," PE Teacher Zhou, who was also a minor school administrator, chimed in while puffing on a cigarette.

With a flushed face, Liu Yejiang struggled to defend himself: "Chinese, English, and history results aren't out yet. I still have hope."

Hearing this, Teacher Yang turned to look at the Director of Academic Affairs: "Leader, have you finished grading the Chinese papers yet?"

While grading papers, the Director replied, "There are still some left to read. I'll finish them tonight."

With that, the Director glanced sideways at Liu Yejiang and said, "You've been guarding this place all afternoon without even eating dinner. Go get something to eat first, and I'll hand out the papers in the classroom during the third evening self-study session."

Seeing that Liu Yejiang was a bit obsessed, the teachers all advised him, persuading him for a long time before he finally left.

After recounting what happened in the Academic Affairs Office, Zou Aiming began to imitate Liu Yejiang's voice, shouting mockingly:

"Then what did Li Heng get? Then what did Li Heng get? Then what did Li Heng actually get, ahhhhh!..."

Zou Aiming was extremely gifted in linguistics, perfectly mimicking Liu Yejiang's voice and mannerisms, which left everyone in stitches.

Zhang Zhiyong kept stoking the flames from the sidelines: "Exactly! Bah! What kind of nobody is he, daring to compare himself to my brother..."

Just as the two of them were playing off each other and using Liu Yejiang as the butt of their jokes, a female classmate kindly warned them: "Liu Yejiang is coming."

"Oh, so he's coming, big deal! A little monkey with 81 points dares to challenge the Tathagata Buddha with 120 points. Did he watch Journey to the West too many times, thinking he's cultivated immortality? He dared to do it, and I'm not allowed to talk about it?"

Zhang Zhiyong valued loyalty above all else; provoking his best brother was equivalent to provoking him. Now that he had the momentum riding high in his favor, how could he possibly pass up the chance to tear into him?

Liu Yejiang, who had just stepped into the classroom, heard every single word loud and clear. Anger instantly surged in his chest, but upon seeing Zhang Zhiyong giving him a cynical sideways glance, he swallowed back some of his fury:

"Zhang Zhiyong, don't be so arrogant. As everyone knows, Li Heng's English and Chinese aren't his strongest subjects. Who gets the last laugh isn't certain yet!"

Before Zhang Zhiyong could fire back, Liu Li had already spoken up: "It's true that Li Heng's Chinese and English aren't his absolute best, but his overall score ranking is always ahead of yours. Where do you even get the face to say that?"

Zou Aiming reached out and patted his own backside, saying in a sarcastic tone, "I gave him that face! I gave it to him!"

Furious yet not daring to throw a punch—still traumatized by the time Li Heng chased and beat him with a stool, a memory that still sent shivers down his spine whenever he thought of it—and unable to swallow his pride, Liu Yejiang could only channel all his frustration into his academic scores.

But as for his scores right now...

Ultimately making a lot of noise with little effect, under the gaze of many classmates in the room, Liu Yejiang glumly retreated to his seat.

Li Heng returned to the classroom right as the bell rang for the start of the first evening study session.

Before he even had a chance to warm his seat, the mathematics teacher walked in carrying a stack of test papers.

Teacher Pan first placed the test papers on the podium, then picked out a piece of white chalk with his right hand from the chalk box, turned around, and began writing silently on the blackboard:

Multiple-choice questions: Full score!
Fill-in-the-blank questions: Full score!
Long-answer questions: Full score!
Total score: 120!

After finishing, the math teacher pinched the piece of chalk and said, "This is Li Heng's math score for the scholarship exam.

Even with errors in the final long-answer questions that multiplied the difficulty severalfold, student Li Heng still managed to solve them using his exceptional knowledge.

Quite impressive, truly impressive!"

At this point, the math teacher smiled mildly and said, "This 'impressive' wasn't said by me; it was said by the other math teachers. I am merely imitating their tone.

This exam was exceptionally difficult overall, with many problems taken from competitions. Getting over 100 is already quite remarkable. Scoring over 90 makes you an expert, and 70 or 80 is still excellent. When the papers are handed out later, everyone should not lose heart; you must believe in yourselves.

Alright, we will start handing out the test papers now. Whoever's name is called, come up and get it."

Having said that, the math teacher put down the chalk, picked up the test papers, and began reading them off one by one:

"Song Yu, 101 points; Mai Sui, 100 points; Liu Li, 92 points..."

"Hey, I actually got a 92," Liu Li whispered, rubbing her hands together with a beaming smile.

"Zou Aiming, 90 points; Chen Lijun, 89 points; Sun Manning, 89 points..."

From then on, the teacher only read the names without announcing the scores.

However, when he called Liu Yejiang, Teacher Pan asked with concern: "Liu Yejiang, why did you only get 81 points? Were you nervous during the exam?"

Of course he was nervous! Liu Yejiang didn't know how to do the last three long-answer questions, and seeing Li Heng breeze through them all the way to the very end completely shattered his mental composure. He hadn't even bothered to check his answers; he just stubbornly locked horns with those three long-answer questions out of pure spite!

The outcome could easily be imagined...

Without uttering a word, Liu Yejiang took his test paper and slumped back to his seat with his head down.

After finishing handing out the papers, Teacher Pan asked, "Is there anyone who hasn't received a paper? Did anyone get missed?"

Li Heng raised his hand, "Teacher, I don't have one."

The math teacher leaned against the podium and said, "Your paper was snatched away by another teacher to be used as an example. It will be sent back tomorrow."

Hearing this, Sun Manning in the front row passed a scratchpad back to him, with a line of text written on it: You're a beast! Treat us! Treat us!

Li Heng wrote back: What do you want to eat?

Receiving the notepad, Sun Manning wrote: Spicy pig trotters!

After writing, she passed it to Mai Sui.

Mai Sui took a look, glanced back at Li Heng, and mischievously wrote: A cup of tofu pudding, with +++ sugar.

With that, Mai Sui placed the notebook on Song Yu's desk.

Glancing through it, Song Yu smiled prettily, unscrewed her fountain pen cap, and added her own: Salted plums.

Finally, the scratchpad made its way back into Li Heng's hands.

Good grief, they really weren't holding back at all! Spicy pig trotters were expensive! Extremely expensive! They cost 1.2 yuan a plate.

Li Heng wrote back: No problem, see you this weekend.