So it was like that? Looking at his appearance he seemed to be a similar age as they were, so Mei Ling thought he was a student at first. This Professor Tian seemed to be very capable since he was so young and even taught at Jin Long. Anyone would know that the professors who taught here were well sought-after and had a huge reputation. For this young professor to teach here, just backing was not enough.
In an instant, the professor turned around with a sharp gleam in his eyes. Knowingly, he had caught their whispers.
"You, answer this question on the board."
Seeing him point to her, Mei Ling paused for a second. Then calmly looking to the board for the question, she was stunned. Why...why was this question here? It seemed that this question was one of the practice questions she used in...high school? Could it be that this professor's teaching was just too low standard? Or was this world's standards a lot lower than her previous world?
Confidently, she replied and gave a whole list of explanations, talking nonstop as if she was immersed into the question. Only when Professor Tian had cough lightly to interrupt her did she stop.
With innocent eyes, she blinked and asked politely "Professor Tian, was I right?"
Actually, he wasn't the type to abuse his power like a tyrant on a student. At that time, he was in a bad mood and when he saw everyone staring at the girl in the front row, he got irritated that she was disrupting their study time before class started. When heard tiny whispers between her and the girl next to her, he couldn't control his irritation and called on her.
In truth, he hadn't taught anything on the board yet and was going to teach about it today. This was why he was stunned that a freshman would be able to answer and even in such a detailed manner.
Prior, he didn't notice why everyone in his room was looking at her in his fit of anger. Now, he could see the features of her and momentarily blanked out. At that moment, it seemed as though the sun shined on her and illuminated her nicely, creating the effect of an angel that descended from an oasis of happiness. Nonetheless, with how he grew up, he was able to quickly get back to earth.
Mei Ling asked again with another blink, "Professor Tian...could it be I was wrong?"
My god! She had explained so clearly and in such detail too, could it be the answer in this world was different or she could have remembered it wrong? How embarrassing!
"You were correct." Professor Tian cleared his throat and acted as if her explanation was nothing in his eyes meanwhile every other student was staring at her in surprise. Beauties and brains! Those who looked at her innocent beauty couldn't force themselves to hate her even if they wanted to, and could only sigh at the disparity. What struck their interest however, was what background she had, which family did she come from? They could tell her beauty was natural, but...how was she so smart? If they knew correctly, then this was the first lesson for all of them so how could she know the answer? Even them with influential families that hired them expensive tutors hadn't learned this topic yet!
Hu Hei was too excited, and blurted out without trying to lowering her voice, "That was so cool!"
Coughing, the professor called on Hu Hei next...
At the end of class, everyone walked out crowding around Mei Ling as soon as they scanned out of the building and went back outside. Almost like reporters, they bombarded her with questions..
"I was sitting behind you, is your name Mei Ling?"
"What family do you come from?"
"What skin products do you use!?"
"I've never heard of the Mei family, could you be new money?"
"Are you an idiot? New money can't buy those clothes!"
"That's true....could it be those hidden influential families?"
Mei Ling didn't want to disclose her information yet, and felt that Lu Jiang wouldn't be happy either. Through this thought process, she decided to say a simple "One of you is right!" and left with Hu Hei with a smile.
With that, rumors started going off like crazy in that first class. Someone posted what she said again on the school forums, and the rumors started going off for those that had seen her. For example, the crowd that let her in front of the line, or those that had seen how smart she was. Those who had heard of her but never actually seen her up front didn't use the time to think about it as they thought it was all photo-shop or random hype. Many of these rich kids grew up under strict rules and didn't care about any rumors or anything else that didn't concern them. Heck, although many people had seen the pictures on the school forum while browsing, they would've forgotten about it right after seeing it.
Even Hu Hei thought the situation would soon die down, but over the next few days it turned out to be the complete opposite. Originally, if everything was photo-shopped then it wouldn't have mattered. But when Mei Ling kept going around campus over the days to get to class, the passerbys who had seen her were all stunned by her beauty and realized that she was the angel they had previously seen on forums when they were bored. More and more photos kept getting uploaded every time she walked out of her dorm, and she became a small-time celebrity at Jin Long Academy.