Chapter 41
Jin Sihan took it out.
It was a violin.
"I know you have this, but you celebrated your birthday on a foreign country and we never had a chance to celebrate… so I missed the chance to give it to you.."
Yu Chuyao took the instrument, the top was made of the best spruce wood, the side and the back wood color and pattern were also first-class.
She gently plucked the strings, the tone was excellent.
At first glance she already knew that it was a hand maid violin with excellent workmanship.
"Wow, there's even my name engraved here. Sihan, you're really nice, this is the best gift I've ever received."
Yu Chuyao said happily.
"As long as you like it."
Jin Sihan scratched his head and smiled shyly.
After Jin Sihan left, Yu Chuyao put the violin into her room and never gave it a second looked again.
After the Physics class, the whole room was dead silence.
The lesson was a bit difficult to learn making the students spiritless.
However Shi Ning on the other hand, habitually opened the physics exercise book after class and began to solve the problems.
The table next to her, a boy named Deng Lan.
Deng Lan was considered to be from a simple family in the group of second generation rich kids.
He has an average appearance, and average in grades, generally speaking he was the unremarkable nobody in the class.
With Deng Lan first encounter with the scary Shi Ning, he has been very afraid of her and never dared to take the initiative to talked to her ever since they became desk mates.
Even after she crossed over, Deng Lan still never talked to her. Shi Ning on the other hand rarely chats with others and usually studies by herself.
Deng Lan who was having a hard time understanding the lesson, looked at Shi Ning who was so engrossed solving her physics exercise book.
Although this was not the first time he saw Shi Ning doing things out of ordinary after the class started, he was still amazed by how fast she solves the problems.
Today's lesson was really difficult ah!
Many students had a hard time understanding those cryptic problems, but how can she just understand and solve those question?!
"Didn't the teacher said that this topic is to be discussed first?"
Deng Lan asked who couldn't control his curiosity asked for the first time.
"Well, yes."
"So how can you start solving that?"
"I just finished studying this topic on my own. Self-study."
Deng Lan, "…"
When did his desk mate became so obsessed in studying?
Chapter 42
Translator:Kyotot
When Shi Ning started to study seriously, everyone thought that she was just pretending, and showing to Nan Xaio that she could do it too.
After all everyone knew that Nan Xiao had a different attitude towards the new girl who recently transferred to the next class Tong Lu as she has good grades.
Everyone thought that Shi Ning also wanted to follow Tong Lu as a good student.
Unexpectedly weeks passed and she was still able to put up with it.
Shi Ning seemed to be possessed by something, she was the first student to arrive at school and the last to leave.
And most surprisingly, whether Nan Xiao was there or not she would still continue to study.
Even more shocking was she doesn't even care if Nan Xiao was really there, as long as the room was too noisy she would go out and find a quiet place.
Deng Lan secretly watched her answer the questions and the quietly opened the page for the answers in the exercise book.
Strangely enough, all was correct.
This was just simply unscientific.
In the past, Shi Ning's grades were always at the bottom, but then suddenly she just turned into a study machine and her grades were one of the top.
How could she suddenly do that?!
Either she was hiding her strength before.
Or she was a genius, who do not like to study, but once she put her mind on it!..?
No matter which one it was, Deng Lan feels that his desk mate was quiet frightening.
In the afternoon, their teacher had a short meeting before the class was dismissed.
"Students, it's been more than two months since the school started, how do you feel about studying?"
There was a lot of complaints at the bottom of the class. Although senior one's courses were not difficult.
They were not divided into liberal arts and science courses, so they need to learn many courses instead.
As one of the best private high school in the province, Yang Chuan's demands on the students were naturally high, with wide range of courses and heavy learning tasks, making everyone wails.
"Us teachers knows that you just entered senior year, the amount and difficulty of courses are not the same level as your junior years and you may have difficulty in adapting. But there is nothing we can do about it."
The teacher added,
"This is the most crucial period of your life, college entrance examination will be much more difficult than this, so don't think that you can just relax. As long as you allow yourselves to relax, you can't catch up and when you can't catch up you can't lay a good foundation, and later when you wanted to study it will be more and more arduous."
After Lao Yang finished his sermon, he said.
"Anyway, after a long time of studying, I believe that everyone wanted to know how far their achievements are."
As soon as the whole class heard this, they immediately had a n ominous premonition.
Sure enough, the next second Lau Yang said,
"Next Monday will be our midterm exam. All student please seize the time to prepare."
Chapter 43
Translator:Kyotot
After the teacher left the classroom, the students begun to discuss the upcoming exam.
"Ah! Why do we need to take the exam again!"
"Exams comes too fast like a tornado."
"It comes and goes, worst it come once a month."
"I thinks it's good to test our current level! I hope I can improve this time!"
"I just don't want to fail ah, but ugh.. I also don't want to take math..! I don't want physics either!"
"Don't even talked about it, last month's exam I only got 30 points, is that even a score?"
Sarcastically complaint by a male student.
It was the first time they encounter a senior high level mathematics problems, compared to junior years the gap was to wide.
The questions formulated by the school was too difficult, that almost half of the class failed the test.
"Oh, but I remember your score was not the lowest in our class—wasn't it 28 points?"
"Who was it?"
"If I remember it correctly it should be Shi Ning."
Someone pointed out.
Everyone's eyes simultaneously looked at Shi Ning, who recently has been so focused on her studies that people tends to forget that she was once also one of the dumbest student in the school.
"Bother your unlucky this time. Shi Ning has change, she now study's really hard. This time, you are destined to be the bottom of the class on the math test."
Another boy patted the student who got the 30 points, on the shoulder.
The 30 points walked towards Shi Ning and asked her,
"Shi Ning ah, how many points do you plan to get in the math test this time?"
Shi Ning who was still focused on her physics exercise book, turned her head and answered,
"I don't know, it depends on the difficulty of the problem."
"You're not going to pass it this time also— are you?"
Shi Ning looked at the boy with a puzzled look,
"Isn't it basic to pass a test?"
"….."
Look, this is what people say!
Are these the words of a student who once scored 28 in math!
This was basically as difficult as heaven and earth for him!
"Don't be naïve, and don't think that just because you work hard for a while, you'll really become one of the top students."
The 30 points boy defiantly retorted.
Shi Ning frowned,
"Passing doesn't really mean you're one of the top students ah, isn't that what a student should do?"
Annoyed, thirty points boy stopped talking to her, and walked back to his friends.
He felt that if he continue to argue with her, he will die of anger.
"Speaking of top students, we have two of the top scorers in our class, one male and one female. The first placer and the second placer."
"Yes ah, Seno and Chuyao are already good looking but they also have good grades!"
All the students in the class cast an envious eyes at the male god and goddess.
Yu Chuyao smiled and said modestly,
"What are guys talking about, I didn't even take the exam last time, second placer in our grade is not me."
"That's because you didn't come. Since junior year, the first and second was always been Seno and you. Tong Lu that transferred student is nothing. She's just a country bumpkin."
A female classmate in the class said.
"She doesn't deserve it but you do?"
Nan Xiao's gloomy voice came sounded in the whole room.
The big boss who was slumped on the table sleeping whole afternoon raised his head and opened tired eyes that was full of annoyance and impatience.
The girl who obviously forgot that Nan Xiao was still in the classroom, immediately apologized when she realized that she had said something wrong.
"Sorry, I was wrong."
Nan Xiao sneered and stood up from his seat.
"A bunch of nerds—how boring."
He swung his bag on his shoulder and put his other hand into his pants pocket and walked out of the classroom coolly.
Before leaving he left one sentence.
"Studying counts for nothing."
Shi Ning: "….."
Originally he had no problem saying that, after all for him studying was flatulence for him.
But what did he mean with those words when he said this sentence after passing by Shi Ning?
Shi Ning felt that he had insulted her and her effort at the same time, after hearing him.
"You are already nothing, even without studying."
Shi Ning muttered in a small voice.
Her voice was not loud, but Nan Xiao has surprisingly good ears.
He turned his head and stared at Shi Ning.
"What did you say?"
"Nothing."
"I f̲u̲c̲k̲i̲n̲g̲ heard it all."
"But you still asked? Why do you always talked so much nonsense."
?
?
What's with this righteous look on her face?
The last person who dared to treat him with this attitude was still lying in the hospital!
"Damn it."
Nan Xiao walked out of the room with black face while cursing.
"Shi Ning you are so awesome."
After Nan Xiao left her desk mate, Deng Lan gave her a thumbs up.
Shi Ning turned around a little and found that everyone in the class was looking at her with inconceivable eyes.
After all, she was the first one in Yang Chuan that made Nan Xiao defeated just like that.
Chapter 44
Translator:Kyotot
After returning home in the evening, Shi Ning hurriedly finished her dinner and then went back to her room and study.
It has been half a month since she was transmigrated. In that past half month, Shi Ning had been studying advance courses in addition to what she learned in class.
However since mid-term exam coming up, she had stopped with advance courses and focused on the mid-term's coverage.
She naturally has no problem with liberal arts since she has good memory.
Science…
There should be no problems with basic questions, but each set of papers would have a few difficult questions.
The topics and techniques of teaching in big cities was different from that in remote mountainous areas. Shi Ning has never been exposed to this kind of things since she was a child.
Although she was smart, she was not a god, and her brain can't keep up with all of it at once. So it would be difficult for her to get high marks or even full marks in physics and mathematics.
After reading some books, Shi Ning analyze and check the set of questions that she got wrong. She carefully circled the easy to overlook but tricky questions and find correct answers, after practicing few more questions.
A long time had passed, but Shi Ning was still focused on answering the questions and simply did not mind to care about other things.
When Shi Ning finished all the tasked she had set for herself on that day, Shi Ning sighed with relief and put down the pen in her hand.
And because she had wrote too much, her fingers hurt a bit. After rubbing her finger together, she stretched her sore neck a bit.
When Shi Ning looked at the time, it was already more than 12 o'clock in the evening.
It was still too early.
Shi Ning rubbed her temples, lying on the table intending to close her eyes and rest for five minutes before continuing to listen on English practice.
Among the courses, she had more difficulty in was English, and she can't learn it overnight.
It could be said that the original owner did not study at all before, she only relied on her family background.
Being accepted on the best school from childhood to adulthood were due to her family's influence.
In class, she would either read comic books or romance novels, Shi Ning could hardly find any knowledge or learning in her memory.
Shi Ning did not learn English in primary school before but only in her junior year. Their education condition were so poor that most of the teacher who came to teach them would leave soon after teaching them.
Most of the thing they know were taught by themselves.
She could easily remember the words but unfortunately her pronunciation was not the standard, also her grammar and conversational English was not good.
She need to take time and study it every day.
The best way to learn language was to make use of the spare time, for example after completing the task, she could listen and remember a few words before going to bed.
Shi Ning originally just wanted to take a nap for a few minutes and then get up to study.
She just didn't expect that when she lay down, she would feel deeply asleep.
In the middle of the night, Shi Chen was thirsty and planned to get up, go downstairs and pour himself with a glass of water to drink.
He passed by Shi Ning's room and saw that the light was still on while the door was halfway open.
She's still awake at this hour?
Shi Chen thought, he pushed the door and walked in to take a look.
With warm yellow light shining the room, Shi Ning who was lying on the desk, eyes closed, with a shallow breathing was sleeping quietly.
Her head was still resting on the book and the lamp was faintly warm, apparently it had just been turned off.
Shi Chen check the time, and it was already one in the morning.
This girl actually studied until so late.
His eyes fell on Shi Ning's face, he didn't seemed to notice but she has a long, curved eyelashes covering her eyelids, and cute, beautiful face.
On the table was different kinds of books and papers scattered, Shi Chen also saw her math and physics scratched papers and the corrections she made as well as the papers full of mistakes next to them.
And under her head an English listening book.
Shi Chen knows that she has been studying hard recently, but he didn't expect it to be this serious.
He was touched inside, looking at his sister who had been studying late at night that she had fallen asleep on the table, she looked very clever and lovable.
Shi Chen always felt that studying was an easy thing, exams were even simpler, but at this moment he hated why studying was needed and exams existed.
Their country has was exam-oriented education, which makes Shi Ning worked so hard.
Shi Chen gently flipped the paper test result next to Shi Ning.
And his eyes widened looking at the score above, Shi Chen was surprised.
His sister.
When did she became so smart?
Chapter 45
Translator:Kyotot
Shi Chen flipped through the papers she had done answering.
Mathematics 85.
Physics 80.
The wrong ones were all difficult problems and the basic ones were almost all right.
The two sets exercise books she chose were of medium high difficulty, about the same difficulty as the school's usual questions.
They were only in first year of senior high school. The total score of all the subjects was 100, according to the difficulty of the test papers, the score of Shi Ning's two subjects should be the top ten in a single subject class.
When Shi Ning heard a rustling sound, she rubbed her eyes, looked up and saw that her brother was turning over the papers that she was done answering.
"Brother, when did you come in?", asked Shi Ning.
"Just now, why haven't you sleep yet?"
"It's time for the mid-term exams, just study a little longer."
Shi Chen smiled helplessly,
"Your just on your first year, you can just work harder when your third year."
"You are a genius. I can't compare to you, so I need to start ahead."
"I remember that you have never passed in mathematics before, but now just for the past half month you can already get 85 points in this difficult test?"
Shi Chen continued,
"Although you are only in your first year, your knowledge was already high. I am your brother but I can't tell what level you are now. A month ago even if you are given a middle school math test, you might not be able to pass it."
This person is really sharp!
When he said these word by word, Shi Ning slowly felt uneasy, afraid that he could be see through her.
Shi Chen was not wrong with what he said, just based on the original owner's knowledge, it was impossible to make such great progress in such a short time no matter how smart you are.
Moreover, if she was really that smart, why did she not do it earlier?
Shi Ning also once thought about whether to hide her strength and slowly, step by step she would progress steadily.
But thinking about it carefully, she was now Shi Ning, even if someone suspects her what could they do?
She did not cheat, nor engage in crooked ways, this was her own scores, her own efforts and there was no need to deliberately fail the test.
But today looking at her brother, she suddenly felt guilty.
"I…"
As she was trying to figure out how to explain it to him.
"As expected of my sister, her brain is as smart as mine. You can do others can't do."
Shi Chen suddenly said.
"Huh?"
Shi Ning's heart that was suspended above suddenly fell on the ground. She looked at her brother in daze.
Shi Chen rubbed her head and said,
"There are ready-made resources here. Why don't you know how to make use of them ah? if you don't know how to solve the problem in the future, just come and find your brother, okay?"
"I'm afraid, I might disturb you."
Shi Chen was in senior three, and she doesn't want to trouble him. Besides, except for some problems that she can't solve, she could usually read and try to analyze then understand it by herself.
"Fool, you are my sister. You can find me anytime you needed me, it's not a disturbance at all."
Shi Ning was quiet for two seconds and looked at him, then said seriously.
"Brother, you are so kind."
Shi Chen chuckles and closes the book on her table.
"Don't study. What time is it now, and yet you're still awake."
"But.. I haven't listened to the English practice yet."
Shi Ning said weakly, finally shutting her mouth under her brother's warning glare.
Hnng.. so fierce oh..
Finally Shi Ning was pulled to sit on her bed, Shi Chen watched her lie down before walking out of the room and also helped her turn off the lights.
Shi Ning lay down on the bed and covered herself with the blanket.
While closing her eyes, she thought to herself.
So this is how it feels to have a brother.
It's like having a mountain to lean on, she could rush forward without hesitation and could occasionally stop to rest in peace.
On the day of examination, Shi Ning packed her things and was prepared to enter the examination room.
The school assigns exam rooms according to the ranking of grades and because the original owner's grades were so poor, she went to the bottom room this time.
On the way to examination room, Shi Ning ran into Jin Sihan and Nan Xiao.
"Ningning, we're in the same exam room again this time."
Jin Sihan smiled at her.
"Jia you1"
Nan Xiao butted in.
"Studying so hard every day, are you planning on taking the first place this time?"
Shi Ning heard that he was being sarcastic, she chose to ignore him and went directly to the examination room by herself.
Jin Sihan and Nan Xiao entered the examination room together.
Nan Xiao confidently took the seat in the front row of the examination room.
This means that he has the best scores in the whole room, although the people inside the room were from the bottom few of each classes.
"Brother Xiao is so amazing, surely you're going to the next room for the next exam."
No one in the school don't know who Nan Xiao was, the male classmate seated beside him praised Nan Xiao.
Nan Xiao leaned on his seat, his slender legs stretched straight and looking so bored, he said.
"What next door? I don't like it there. I like it here. The air is fresh and it's lively."
Shi Ning: "….."
Jia you1– fighting in Korean, and figure of speech for cheering on someone
Chapter 46
Translator:Kyotot
Shi Ning's examination room was quite lively, all student were chatting and was making noise. Compared to other rooms that was busy memorizing knowledge points.
Shi Ning happened to sit next to Nan Xiao, and when the male students saw her, they all snickered loudly.
They were not in Shi Ning's class and had never spoken to her before.
"Oh.. isn't this sister Shi Ning? We all remember the scene where you confess to brother Xiao last time, you were really awesome ah, really awesome."
"I heard you went to the hospital after that ah, why is it, were you sick?"
Shi Ning doesn't want to pay attention to them, and ignored everything they said. She was more focused on reviewing the Chinese essay as her reference, for the first exam.
The boy saw that Shi Ning ignored him but he still continued,
"Oi, don't ignore me. We are also considered as old acquaintance, we've been in the same examination room since junior year. You even received my test notes before."
"Can you be please be quiet for a while?"
Shi Ning gave him a cold look and said.
After being warned, the boy touched his nose and said to Nan Xiao.
"Brother Xiao what's wrong with her?"
The temperament was like a different person.
Nan Xiao leaned on the chair, with his head rested on his hands, gazing faintly and after seeing Shi Ning, he withdrew his gaze, with frivolous smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Can't you see it, someone is going to take the first place in our grade."
"Hahahaha"
The boy laughed loudly.
"Sister Shi Ning wants to be the first in our whole grade? I think it should be more like within this room but even that is impossible"
"Well actually, it should be plausible, the ranking was not that far, she just need to pass 30 people."
"The one at the back, you hear me? Next time, you're going to give up your position to Shi Ning."
The whole room was filled with mocked and snickers from the boys who don't believed and never saw Shi Ning's changes for the past month.
"Is that funny?"
Shi Ning spoke.
The boy couldn't stop laughing, and laugh longer.
"Hahahah funny."
"Then take your time and laugh slowly."
Shi Ning looked at the initiator, Nan Xiao.
"If you don't study hard yourself, you have no right to laugh at those who work hard."
Her indifferent attitude bored Nan Xiao, and as the laughter around became more louder and noisy.
Nan Xiao kicked the table, and his cold stern eyes swept the around the room.
"Laugh at your mother, get out if you don't want to take the exam."
Everyone immediately fall into silence.
The room was so quiet as if they were in the middle of the exam.
When Shi Ning said those words, she was ready to lose his temper.
But she didn't expect that this temper was not directed at her but at everyone. With his temper the classroom became quieter.
She can finally review in peace.
It didn't take long for the announcement telling everyone to go back to their seats as the exam would soon begin. Proctors and teachers walked in each room with exam papers in their hand.
Everyone took their material out and started preparing for the exam.
The first test was Chinese language, liberal arts category was what she was good at. Shi Ning quickly finished the questions and started writing the essay.
About 20 minutes before the end of the exam, Shi Ning finished her essay and reviewed her answers.
She felt someone staring at her, she turned her head and saw that it was none other than Nan Xiao.
She then inadvertently glanced at his test paper.
The composition page was blank.
The essay this time was about 'What I want to write'.
Noticing Shi Ning's eyes on his paper Nan Xiao stopped staring at her and started writing.
Tsk. I wanted to hand in blank paper—
There were nine exams, which would take place a total of three days.
At the end of the exam, on the third day people coming out of the exam room were all checking the answers.
Shi Ning came back to classroom from the library and accidentally heard them talking about the topic.
"The mathematics is so hard this time, I feel like I won't pass."
"Math was hard? I think physics is harder."
"Isn't geography difficult? It's obviously an arts subject, but the test is even more dizzying than science."
Shi Ning knew remembered the questions herself, but didn't want to check her answers with others. She wanted to go home early, so after packing her things she went home directly.
When she came out of the classroom, she ran into someone, she was going out and the boy was going in.
The boy was very tall that Shi Ning could only looked at his chest.
"Right or left.."
She just wanted to apologize but after getting a good look at the boy's face Shi Ning quickly change her tone.
"Let me through."
Nan Xiao's face blackened and didn't move.
Shi Ning slipped out of the door though a gap on his side.
She hadn't taken a few steps when someone grabbed her collar from behind.
Shi Ning turned her head and saw that it was Nan Xiao.
"What are you doing? Let go of me!"
Nan Xiao ignored her and dragged Shi Ning by the collar all the way to the emergency stairway.
Usually there were no people passing by the emergency stairway.
After Nan Xiao dragged Shi Ning, he closes the door with one kicked.
The loud thud produce by the door after Nan Xiao kicked it declared his impatience and irritability.
Shi Ning however was calm, and to be precise she had been looking at him with calm eyes since she woke up that time.
Nan Xiao took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit a fire. The scarlet light of the fire went out between his slender white fingers.
He finally calmed down and asked Shi Ning.
"What wrong with you lately?"
Chapter 47
Translator:Kyotot
"What's wrong with me?"
Nan Xiao was almost choked to death after Shi Ning asked back the question.
Really what's wrong with her?
The anger and scorn he received recently was all because of her, and no woman had ever dared to do this to him.
At first he thought that she was just trying to get his attention, but then, day by day she didn't care about him and she didn't even talked to him.
And even if she did, she would anger him to death with just a word or two.
It had been a long time since anyone had annoyed him this much, and this woman succeeded in attracting his attention.
"Have I offended you? Why do you always have problem with me."
Nan Xiao asked impatiently.
Shi Ning has full of question marks hovering over her head.
How dare you, ignore me!
It's too late for you to avoid me.
Nan Xiao thought. Since she started it he would make sure she would finished it but not by ignoring him!
"You're overthinking. I don't have a problem with you."
Not understanding Nan Xaio's question and with the thought of cherishing her life by staying away from the male lead, Shi Ning added.
"If you're not satisfied, I'll make a detour whenever I see you in the future, how's that?"
After saying these, she immediately pushed the door open intending to leave.
But, who knows why, Nan Xiao pusher her against the door, locking her in between his arms. And suddenly approached her closer.
"Didn't you say you love me? Now you're avoiding me like I am a monster, is your love that cheap?"
His eyes were fixed on her, hoping to see through her facade.
Unfortunately he didn't see anything, from beginning to end. She was like a thousand year old pool, no ripples could be seen1.
Her eyes that was once full of love and admiration were all disappeared. Gone.
Shi Ning doesn't understand anything that Nan Xiao was talking.
His mood was so baffling.
He's what's wrong with him..?
She grab Nan Xiao's arms and break free from him.
Shi Ning looked into Nan Xiao's eyes and said the words seriously.
"I don't like you anymore."
After saying that she pushed him and walked away from him.
While Nan Xiao froze in place.
It was only at that moment that he really believed that she wasn't really getting his attention by ignoring him. She just doesn't really love him anymore.
These days everything in his eyes was wrong with her, because she no longer loved him.
The school was so efficient in checking the papers that the day after they finished the test, the result were out.
But before the results were uploaded, there was a lot of talked in the class.
"First place must be still Lin Suno. He is no longer the master of study but the god of study. Since junior year he's always been the top one in our grade and it never changes."
"Of course, but who do you think will get the second place this time?"
"It should be Yu Chuyao. I stand by my goddess unconditionally."
"I also think its Yu Chuyao, she's really smart and clever, and she even know music. Ah.. I feel so inferior when I stand in front of the goddess."
When Yu Chuyao heard her classmates say this, she laughed lightly and pouted.
"You guys quickly stop talking, I've been away for so long, how can I take the second place for year 1?"
Thinking about this, Yu Chuyao was right. After all she away for more than one month, and just came back recently, this surely would have an impact.
"Then, what will be your rank this time?"
Someone asked.
Yu Chuyao lowered her head and smiled,
"Hmm..If I can't get the second place in our grade then, it should be second in our class."
"Wow! That's amazing too!"
"The goddess really deserves to be called a goddess. Even if she was away for more than a month she could still get second place in whole class."
"Usually I don't see Yu Chuyao take notes on discussions that much. She really is smart."
The class song lot of praises for Yu Chuyao.
Yu Chuyao lowered her head to express her embarrassment and innocently said.
"I was just lucky. It was not that hard for me to catch up with the topics since it was not that difficult."
"I just listen carefully in class since I'm lazy taking notes and I don't really like reviewing the topics at home."
Yu Chuyao explained shyly.
What nonsense.
Shi Ning thought while rolling her eyes.
At this time Yu Chuyao saw Shi Ning and asked her with a smile.
"Ningning, how did you do in the exam this time? I see you've been studying really hard lately, you should make a lot of progress this time."
Shi Ning smiled and replied.
"Of course, maybe even better that you."
As if hearing a joke Yu Chuyao covered her mouth and laugh.
"Ha ha ha, Ningning you really know how to joke. Sister hopes to see that day."
Shi Ning turned her head away, not wanting to pay attention to her anymore.
Seeing her indifferent look, Yu Chuyao thought that when the result came out later, she would know who's better than who.
There were a few loyal followers of Yu Chuyao in the class, and when they saw Shi Ning turned around, someone whispered to Yu Chuyao.
"Chuyao don't pay attention to her. Can she even do better than you? Just look at her level."
"That's right, so what if she study's hard when her brain can't even catch up with it. Unlike you, you can take the second place even if you don't study hard."
"Chuyao you are so smart, how can you do it, being smart and beautiful at the same time, ah.. Were so envious."
Floating in happiness with her classmates praises, Yu Chuyao thought to herself.
What's the use of hard work Shi Ning?
You can't even climbed up from the bottom of the class to me.
However on the surface she still reproached them and said.
"How can you guys say that. Ningning is working so hard, she will definitely be rewarded."
"Hey, you're just too kind. Can't you see that Shi Ning is throwing her face at you now?"2
"Yes, she if getting more and more arrogantly lately, even brother Xiao dare not looked at her in the eyes."
These girls were really upset, as if they were fighting injustice against Yu Chuyao. They all talked badly at Shi Ning, not minding if she heard everything or not.
While Yu Chuyao smiled and said nothing.
After a while, one of their classmate came running to the room and shouted.
"Classmates! Classmates! The grades are out!"
The computers finally received the uploaded report cards.
Someone turned on the projector so everyone could see the exam results on the big screen.
The student operating the computer clicked on the report card as the class watched nervously.
No one could see it clearly, and he had to drag it straight in the middle, while saying.
"Everyone wait, I'll look at my score first"
The boy holding the computer mouse, giggled playfully.
"Hurry the hell up."
Someone in the class berated.
After the boy checked his scores, he dragged it back to the grade ranking.
They first check who was at the bottom.
Nan Xiao.
He's name was at the very bottom of the class ranking.
Jin Sihan looked shocked and said.
"Brother Xiao, what's wrong with you? You used to get better grades than me. I'm fifth from the bottom this time but how did you end up at the very last?"
Nan Xiao said with a cold face.
"Not in the mood to take the test."
In those three days, Nan Xiao was just watching Shi Ning, writing and answering all those questions, while ignoring him who was sitting beside her.
Looking at Nan Xiao's name at the bottom, everyone was scared of provoking him so they quickly asked the boy holding the computer mouse to move it directly to the top.
The first place, as everyone expected was Lin Suno.
And the second.
Was not Yu Chuyao.
But Shi Ning.
Chapter 48
Translator:Kyotot
"Crap, what did I just see?"
"Second place is Shi Ning?"
Everyone couldn't believe their eyes and rubbed them hard.
"It's not Yu Chuyao but Shi Ning! This is really a big news! A big news!"
"Impossible, the last monthly exam Shi Ning is at the bottom ah! how could she suddenly jump to second place, she must have cheated."
"Are you stupid? Shi Ning took the exam in the last examination room, tell me who did she copied to? In our class her scores are closer to Lin Suno, surpassing Chu Yao who was in the ninth place."
Everyone was stunned at the amazing speed of Shi Ning's progress and was even more stunned to see that she taken the position that was second only to the-ten-thousand-year unbeaten first placer Lin Suno.
This time Yu Chuyao could hold back the expression on her face, she couldn't believe that Shi Ning scored better than her.
"Wow Shi Ning your political science, history, and geography all scored almost full marks."
Everyone checked Shi Ning's score on every subject and found out that her science score was not particularly good, but her English was far worse.
While Lin Suno's scores, he got full marks on mathematics, physics and chemistry. But Shi Ning's liberal arts was also good it was just that her English was scored lower.
She only got 70 points out of 100 in English.
Yang Chuan belongs to the International Noble College, where most of the students were promoted from junior year to senior year.
And since their junior year the school has spent a lot of money to hire the best English teachers and professional foreign teachers for their students.
So the students of Yang Chuan have high scores mostly on English and Shi Ning score was just average.
Being in the top of the grade and only getting an average score in one subject was pretty bad, and it belong to one of the most critical subject.
But thinking of it on another way.
If her English was only score 70 points, but was able to be the second on her class and fifth in her grade.
What's more if her English score was improved, she would be close to top three on her class, and if her science was also a little better, she may even shake up Lin Suno's position.
After all her political science, history, and geography were 99, 98, 100 were all unprecedented.
Everyone looked at Shi Ning like she was a monster.
Shi Ning felt nothing, this was not her ultimate goal, before reaching the finish line again, these was not worthy to be proud of.
It's one thing not to be proud, but you had to educate some people who were overly proud, right?
Shi Ning turned her head, looked at Yu Chuyao and smiled.
"Sister Chuyao, this time I accidentally beat you in the test. It seems that this learning casually just by listening was not that reliable in making you a second placer. You have to work a little harder ah."
Yu Chuyao's face stiffened and pulled out a smile.
"It seems that you have improved a lot during my absence Ningning, sister is truly happy for you."
"Thank you for your praise sister Chuyao, I'll try to make you happier in the future."
Her stress fell heavily on the word happier, which has deep meaning behind it.
Yu Chuyao was choked by her words and could only smile awkwardly.
Shi Ning glanced at Yu Chuyao's follower behind her.
"As for some people, don't think I can't hear you. You know I really have a bad temper, if you let me hear later that you are chewing your tongue1 behind my back, I may not be very happy."
The girls turned pale in an instant.
"I'd like to see who dare to upset my sister."
A clear male voice came behind Shi Ning. In a noisy classroom, it was as beautiful as a jade plate, catching everyone's ears.
Shi Ning turned her head and saw that it was none other than her brother, Shi Chen.
Shi Ning didn't notice when her brother was standing behind her.
"Brother, when did you get here?"
"Just came, I won't join the do inter-class exercises today and it will take a long time before it ends, thought I'd come and see you."
"It's Shi Chen, Shi Chen in F4! So handsome ah!"
"Ah.. my male god.. senior three is not the same building as us, usually it's rare to see him. I did not expect that he'd come to our class today!"
"What's he doing here? Looking for Shi Ning? But why did I hear that those two siblings are not on good terms?"
"Yes ah, I've also heard that the two of them have the same relationship as enemies."
The students couldn't help but talked a lot when the man of the wind came.2
"What happened just now? Who made you unhappy?"
Si Chen asked again.
Before Shi Ning could say anything, Yu Chuyao talked first.
"It's just a few ignorant students in our class joking around, Ningning will definitely not take it to heart, don't think too much."
"I'm even more unhappy when sister Chuyao say's it like that. A few of them are talking behind my back saying that I'm not as good as you, so in your eyes, it was just a joke?"
Yu Chuyao's face paled in an instant, and her nails dug into her palm.
"Sister didn't mean it like that, I just think that it's better to avoid unnecessary trouble since we're all classmates."
"I don't really care about that trouble, for me Shi Ning's matter is my business."
When he threw these words out, all the whispers and discussion was silence.
He was this protective with his sister?
What bad relationship! Your mother! This is simply spoiling his evil sister to death!
After Shi Chen said those words, Yu Chuyao's face turned paler. She looked at Shi Ning with jealousy.
She bit her lip and turned her head to scold the people behind her.
"Did you hear that? Is Shi Ning someone you can talk about behind her back? Don't think that a few words could stir up the feelings between me and Shi Ning. If I hear you talk badly about Ningning behind her back again don't say that you know me in the future."
Those girls did not expect Yu Chuyao to change sides so quickly, obviously they had been discussing these privately before and Yu Chuyao had never stopped even after hearing them.
Bu because Shi Chen was here, these girls did not dare make a sound.
Although Nan Xiao was the person they were afraid to offend of in the school now, but before Nan Xiao, the one who dominates the whole Yang Chuan was the one in front of them.
Several girls came forward and apologized.
"Sorry Shi Ning we didn't expect…"
We really didn't expect that you'd do well on the exam.
"I really didn't expect you to do better than Chuyao in the exam."
Some of these girls were dissatisfies with what Yu Chuyao had just done and coldly mocked.
Shi Ning didn't really care about them, frankly speaking she didn't care much if they discussed about her behind her back because honestly she was not hurt, at all.
She did this just to take the opportunity to intimidate Yu Chuyao.
"Forget about them, by the way brother I got second in my class this time."
In front of her family, Shi Ning's attitude changed from calm and quiet to a lively person.
Shi Chen smiled,
"I know, just now on the way here I heard people in your class talking about how great you are to get from the bottom third of the class to second place."
He then looked at closer at her score.
"Pretty good ah, your liberal arts subject are very good. I used to be much more worse than you in politics, history and geography when arts and sciences were not divided into classes yet."
Shi Chen boasted.
"But I'm not as good as you in science nor in English."
Shi Chen put his hand on her head and rubbed it.
This was the first time Shi Chen felt that having a good sister was good, especially after they reconciled and Shi Ning changes.
He specifically like to rub Shi Ning's head. The girl's hair was smooth and soft, it also has mild fragrance in it that was not nauseating.
"What are you afraid of? With your brother her, you can make up for everything."
"And now that the exam was over, don't think too much about it. Let's go, I'll take you to relax and unwind."
With that Shi Chen pulled her out of the classroom.
chewing your tongue1– talking behind her back/insulted her
man of the wind came.2 –influential figure
Chapter 49
Translator:Kyotot
When Shi Ning was dragged to the school supermarket by her brother, and watched him buy her two large bags full of snacks with the manner of sweeping the supermarket, she realized that this was his so-called relaxation.
Shi Ning was rendered speechless.
"There's so much, I can't finish it."
Shi Chen didn't care and said,
"Then eat slowly, and then you can give it to your classmates if you can't finished it."
Finally, Shi Ning could not resist him and went to the classroom with two large bags full of snacks.
The original owner had no other friends in the class besides the three childhood friends, F4. Shi Ning looked at the two large bags full of snacks and was worried that she couldn't finished them at all.
The two large bags were so full and felt heavy to carry.
She carried one bag and gave it to Jin Sihan.
"You ask Suno and eat it with him."
Jin Sihan looked at the large bag full of snacks,
"Brother Chen bought it for you?"
Shi Ning nodded.
"Your brother is feeding a pig, right, to buy you so much?"
"So didn't I come here to feed you?"
Shi Ning dropped the sentenced and turned around to leave.
Jin Sihan: "….."
Shi Ning returned to her seat and opened a packet of biscuit.
It's really a lot"
How can I finished this alone?
As she ate, she suddenly noticed that the table next to her was looking at her intently.
Shi Ning looked at Deng Lan's sturdy body.
En, he should be quite good at eating.
She moved the other bag that was full of snack on the table to the side.
"Let's eat together."
Deng Lan was so shocked that his jaw dropped.
"What's wrong with you?"
Shi Ning asked in confusion after seeing him so emotional.
"Nothing, just touched."
He still remember the first day of school. Seeing her beautiful and fairy-like young lady as his desk mate he felt so overwhelmed, however her first words to him was.
"Hmp! Sitting the same table as me, don't you look at yourself in the mirror and see if your deserving to be my desk mate? Just because teacher Lao Yang doesn't allow me to sit with Nan Xiao, I wouldn't sit here."
Puzzled, Shi Ning just stared at Dng Lan who was lost in his thoughts as if reminiscing something.
She did not understand why he was touched, she was only thinking that he should be very good at eating.
At class A, year 3.
When Shi Chen returned to the classroom he dropped two large bag of snacks at the center of the room.
"Come on everybody, let's celebrate together."
The people in room looked at him with surprise.
"Brother Chen, what's the celebration about, you're getting married?"
Shi Chen grabbed a piece of chocolate and threw it at the man's head.
"Married you mother, Laozi1 is not a law breaker."
I'm not even at marriageable age.
"Then for what!"
Everyone continued to ask.
Shi Chen curled his lips and smiled,
"I'm happy that my sister is striving for success."
"I know, I know."
Someone in the class said.
"My brother from year one told me that Chen's sister, Shi Ning had good scores in the exam."
Everyone was even more confused.
Is it worth celebrating the fact that your sister's scores have improved a lot?
How come you don't celebrate every time you get the top score for the whole year three?
Everyone felt a little bitterness for the big brother who has just recently experienced the happiness of spoiling his sister too much.
One of Shi Chen classmates said,
"Shi Chen you are already this happy that your sister's grades improved, then what about if your sister gets the first place on the next exam?"
"Then I will immediately hang a banner at the school to celebrate."
He would tell the world that his sister was the best.
After Shi Ning's results came out. It really caused a big stir, a stir not only among the students but also generated a lot if controversy in the teacher's office.
People have seen fast progress, but never seen such fast progress.
Some teachers also suspected that she cheated on the exam, so they checked the cameras installed for monitoring.
It showed that Shi Ning has been concentrating on her own papers, and there was no cheating happened.
The math teacher who saw Shi Ning's changes said,
"But this child is very hard working recently, yes she did not study before but she work's hard than anyone else and was also very smart. She recently came to me to ask advance and more difficult problems than the usual things learned in class. I just give her some pointers, and some examples and she already knows what to do next. Really gifted child ah."
The history teacher, supported.
"And this girls had a great comprehension skills and remembers things faster than anyone else."
The class advisor, Lao Yang immediately agreed.
"Yes, yes, yes! It's true that she has a good memory! I was shocked by the speed of her memorization and doubted if she ever forget it."
"Too smart"
"Indeed really talented ah. If you study hard surely you will be the backbone of the country. This an honor to our school."
"Sure enough. An apple doesn't fall to far from the tree2, she's as good as her brother. As for senior 3 Shi Chen, I heard that he was taken the top in the exams."
"As long as she is willing to work hard, she will be the next Shi Chen in the future and she will be the most powerful competitor for Lin Suno."
"That's not necessarily. No one can compare to Lin Suno's mathematics and chemistry. Second grade will be divided into arts and science, she is obviously more suitable for arts."
A group of teachers gathered around and talked as if they had discovered a new treasure.
The director coughed to get their attention again.
"If she's this talented, why wasn't she discovered earlier? If I remember correctly she was the problem student, right? She even committed suicide a while ago."
According to Shi Ning's situation, if it wasn't for her strong background she would have been advised to drop out of school.
Chapter 50
Translator:Kyotot
Lao Yang speak up for Shi Ning, since he was really happy with the recent changes he saw in Shi Ning. He said to the director.
"Director, even a smart child had to be willing to learn before she can have good grades ah. Shi Ning was full of thoughts about love before and never prioritized her study. But since she came back from the hospital, she has change a lot. She comes to school early and goes back late every day."
The director then nodded his head and suggested.
"This Shi Ning is a good seedling, she easily realized her mistakes. Do not let her go astray again, who did she fall in love with before? Let's talk to that student and let him not affect Shi Ning's study again."
But Lao Yang hesitantly said.
"…I can't talk with that student.."
"It can't be, that one, is he?"
The director asked tentatively.
Lao Yang nodded.
The children of the four most powerful and wealthy families were all in Lao Yang's class. Especially the Nan family, which was the head of the four families, not to mention the school was owned by them.
This was also one of the reason why the school tolerated Nan Xiao's' I-don't-care-attitude, plus since he was the only son of the Nan family, which was to put it bluntly, their future boss.
The director shivered.
"Forget it, if we can send that Budhha to graduate safely then we can peacefully burn incense to our ancestor."
It doesn't matter whether she's was really in love or not, as long as it was over.
Shi Ning wondered if it was only her imagination or not.
She always felt that the number of times she ran into Nan Xiao recently was so frequent.
For example, today after school everyone in the class had left to go home. While Shi Ning was left, reviewing her notes.
But when she finally left after reviewing, it also happened that Nan Xiao came back to the classroom after playing basketball.
The two looked at each other before moving their eyes away.
Shi Ning thought about the day he rudely pulled her to the hallway and decided to distance herself from the violent maniac.
"Your good sister is crying, don't you want to go and see?"
Nan Xiao suddenly spoke.
Not far away from the bench under the Wutong tress, there was a beautiful and lean figure of a woman.
Though her back was facing to them, Shi Ning could tell that she was crying from her sobbing movements and the constant wiping of her eyes.
Under the yellow Wutong tree, the autumn wind rolled up the maple leaves falling on the ground, matches the slim back of the girl.
She really was the modern version of Daiyu1.
The villain was a villain after all. Even if she falls behind for a short time, she would never fail to act.
I did not see this coming.
Shi Ning sighed looked at Nan Xiao,
"What am I going to do? Someone specially prepared it for you."
After saying that Shi Ning left.
Nan Xiao looked at Yu Chuyao who was still crying not far from him, thinking that they grew up together after all, he walked over.
Hearing some movement behind her, Yu Chuyao turned around saw Nan Xiao.
"Nan Xiao why are you here?"
Yu Chuyao surprisingly asked.
Nan Xaio originally wanted to say.
'I was playing basketball, and saw you crying so I stopped by.'
But he suddenly remembered Shi Ning words.
"Someone specifically prepared it for you."
Suddenly it seemed that the person it front of him was not as simple as she seemed.
Yu Chuyao wiped her tears. Looking at her teary appearance any boy would feel heartache and the impulse of wanting to protect her.
"I'm sorry letting you see me like this. It's just too humiliating…it's just that I …. I feel so useless."
Nan Xiao asked expressionlessly,
"Why?"
"Actually it's not that easy to do both study and music. I stayed up all night studying during the days I was out to compete but I didn't expect that I would still failed this time, even Ningning has become so good now, and while I'm happy for her, I felt bad that I can't do anything right."
No man wouldn't feel the sense of protectiveness after seeing a beautiful and good woman who was weak and crying in front of them.
Yu Chuyao was sure of this.
She specially came here to wait for Nan Xiao. This time Shi Ning has robbed her of the limelight, she was already at the disadvantage.
Now what she need to do was to turned the disadvantage into her advantage and exchange her failure to Nan Xiao's pity.
"Just because of that?"
Nan Xiao asked.
The first sentence shattered Yu Chuyao's beautiful fantasy.
Then he said,
"Crying because you didn't do well on test, you really are quite useless."
"Then according to you, in this kind of school, a scum like me is unworthy."
Yu Chuyao didn't expect him to say that at all, although Nan Xiao had a bad temper, he was still polite to her.
How did it become this way?
Nan Xiao has been annoyed by Shi Ning's 180 degree change of attitude these days, and was even more impatient to see Yu Chuyao crying.
"In the future you can go find another place to cry. I often play basketball here, and I don't want see any woman crying near it."
After saying these words, Nan Xiao left without looking back.
Leaving Yu Chuyao frozen in place, completely unable to believe what had just happened.
Daiyu1– of the principal character of Cao Xueqin's classic 18th century Chinese novel, She is portrayed as a well-educated, intelligent, witty and beautiful young woman of physical frailness who is somewhat prone to occasional melancholy
