The students went back to their classrooms and got together to discuss their exam answers enthusiastically.
Fu Huihui, the 'Goddess of Learning' who ranked among the top five in academics, was the subject of flattery by the students.
Fu Pei went to the bathroom and let Fu Ting return to the classroom alone. As soon as she entered the room, Fu Huihui targeted her. "I heard that Classmate Fu Ting finished her papers in ten minutes. You're the first one to hand in the papers, too. It seems like you're confident."
Everyone chuckled. She finished the papers in ten minutes? She probably wanted to be the class clown.
The boys who initially had favorable impressions toward Fu Ting's beauty felt annoyed inwardly for their misjudgments.
No matter how beautiful she looked, she was nothing but a suit if her brain was void of knowledge.
Fu Ting merely took a brief look at them before she walked to her seat. She was quiet and did not join them.
"Huihui is talking to you," Xu Tingting called out enigmatically. "Don't you know how to be polite? Let's forget about your stupidity first. You handed in blank exam papers like Fu Pei and got zero points. Do you think that's worthy to be proud over?"
Fu Ting obediently sat down and eyed her sternly. "Yeah, I'm proud."
Su Luoshui came back at this moment; she had heard the wave of restlessness inside. She casually sat down beside Fu Ting and fed her a piece of candy out of habit. "Little Kid's so clever to hand in her papers first. You don't waste your time on things you don't have confidence in."
"..." Fu Ting sucked on the candy and pressed her lips silently. Was Luoshui praising her or ridiculing her?
The others were speechless...
Su Luoshui's flattery had crumbled her reserved and aloof image.
...
The people in the high school grade three department were marking the exam papers at the moment.
For the sake of fairness, every homeroom teacher had to sort the exam papers to their students' files and hand them over to other teachers for cross-marking.
When the homeroom teacher of Class One was sorting out the exam papers of her class, she first picked up the stack of blank exam papers submitted by Fu Pei and was instantly filled with anger. She then retrieved Fu Ting's exam papers and threw them into the trashcan without even looking at them.
Teacher Zhu who was teaching mathematics saw it and immediately picked up the file.
"Don't bother with those, Teacher Zhu," the homeroom teacher sneered. "These are the exam papers from the idiot newcomer. She wrote them without any basis. It's a waste of time to even mark them. It's just making the other homeroom teachers laugh at me."
Teacher Zhu clicked his tongue. "You're wrong. How can you, a teacher, despise your students, especially when you're their homeroom teacher? It shouldn't matter whether they're intelligent or dull; you should treat them equally."
The homeroom teacher could not endure Teacher Zhu's nobleness and impatiently countered, "Who's their homeroom teacher here: you or me? How can you lecture me? If you're not disgusted, then you can mark them yourself. I'll leave you be."
Shaking his head, Teacher Zhu sighed and opened Fu Ting's file. The first thing Teacher Zhu saw was the math exam papers, and his thick eyebrows raised.
This little girl's handwriting was pleasing to see.
However, as he continued to read the papers, Teacher Zhu's expression became more and more dignified.
The homeroom teacher frowned. "What kind of look is that? Did she answer correctly?"
'Pah!' went the table as Teacher Zhu slammed his hands on the surface. "Wrong. All wrong..." His hands trembled in agitation.
...
The next day, the results for mathematics came out first.
Teacher Zhu took Fu Ting's exam papers and left in the early morning.
The homeroom teacher could only hand out the exam papers for him. When she went out holding the papers, she coincidentally met the homeroom teacher of the class next door. The homeroom teacher congratulated her. "Congratulations, I've just come back from meeting the education director. Seems like the student that ranked first is from your class. I really envy you. You'll have considerate reward this year for sure."
She was stunned. "The first ranked?"
The other homeroom teacher nodded her head. "Yes, and it's a really perfect score as though it's written by a god. Now, everyone's appreciating it. I'll take the exam papers to your class in a moment."
...
The homeroom teacher returned to Class One and joyfully proclaimed, "Fellow students, I have good news. The first ranked student in the grade for this monthly exam is from our class!"