Chapter 170: Results (4)

The girl's voice was very soft, but Gu Ting still caught it.

"Alright, then I'll come find you after class."

Shen Qing said nothing more. Leaving Gu Ting standing right where he was, she turned and hurried down the stairs.

When she reached the classroom, the bell had just rung, and the students were gathered in groups discussing the results of the joint entrance examinations.

The official website of the Fancheng Education Bureau allowed students to enter their examination numbers to check their grades starting at eight o'clock, but it kept showing that the traffic was too heavy. Logging in via a smartphone was impossible; a computer was required to retrieve the scores.

"Oh my! When is the school going to post the rankings? I'm getting so anxious!"

"Other schools posted their rankings by nine o'clock. Why is our school being so slow this time?"

"I wonder if I even broke five hundred?"

"I heard the top scorer got 730 points this time."

"You've got to be kidding me, that high? It must be Lin Ruiyang, right?"

"Hey, the class monitor is back."

"Yao Panpan, what did I get?" As soon as Yao Panpan walked in through the front door, she was surrounded by a crowd of people.

"Oh, stop shoving! I wrote down everything I saw on this piece of paper, go look at it yourselves." Yao Panpan pulled a piece of paper from her pocket and walked toward the back of the classroom to find Nie Huan and the others.

"Sister Huan, I checked, you got 523 this time!"

"Little Fatty, you actually managed 510 points."

"Chu Yu, did you secretly study behind our backs? You actually scored 612!" Yao Panpan read out their scores one by one.

"Good lord, Chu Yu, you scored that high?" Little Fatty felt as if he had suffered a blow of ten thousand points. Clearly, at the start of the semester, the two of them had been evenly matched. What shocked him even more was that Sister Huan had also scored higher than him!

"Yao Panpan, what did you get?"

"Not a point more, not a point less, exactly 600."

"..." Fine, he was the only one who hadn't made any progress.

Yao Panpan glanced at Shen Qing, who was playing with her phone. "Sister Qing, how come I couldn't find your score?"

She had used the computer in the staff office to check multiple times, but she simply couldn't find Shen Qing's results anywhere.

Chu Yu looked up at Yao Panpan. "Did you misread it, or did the server time out before you logged out?"

"No way. I checked mine first and then immediately searched for Sister Qing's. Her name didn't show up in the system at all. Afterward, I checked other people and it worked fine, only Sister Qing's didn't."

"I wasn't on the joint exam roster." Shen Qing looked up from her phone, raising her eyes to glance at them.

Yao Panpan froze. She suddenly realized why Sister Qing wasn't on the joint exam list.

"Um, Sister Qing, I'm really sorry." Yao Panpan lowered her head.

Chu Yu and Little Fatty were also stunned as it finally dawned on them. Neither of them knew what to say; the situation was undeniably awkward.

Nie Huan glanced at the three silent people. "Because your grades are too bad?"

Yao Panpan felt as though ten thousand wild animals were stampeding through her heart. Sister Huan, you really don't sugarcoat anything!

"Mhm," Shen Qing gave a faint acknowledgment, lowering her head to look at her phone again.

"Well, I'm going to go do some practice problems." Trapped in the awkward atmosphere, Little Fatty quickly found an excuse to escape.

Class Eight.

Liu Yichen patted Lin Ruiyang on the shoulder. "Hey, do you know how many points the top scorer got?"

Last night during dinner, his uncle, who was the school principal, received a phone call from the school saying that someone had achieved a phenomenal score of 745!

Lin Ruiyang paused. "730 points."

He had already checked his results, and his score was the highest.

"Tsk tsk tsk, guess again—" Liu Yichen drew out the end of his sentence, then leaned close to Lin Ruiyang's ear and whispered, "It's 745 points."

The pen in Lin Ruiyang's grip suddenly slipped from his fingers and rolled onto the floor.

"Eh? You're shocked too, aren't you?" Liu Yichen bent down to help him pick up the pen.

Lin Ruiyang pressed his lips into a thin line, snatched the pen back from Liu Yichen's hand, and said coldly, "No."

Liu Yichen looked at Lin Ruiyang and clicked his tongue. "I'm going to the office to check on the computer myself to see if you scored 730 or 745."

With that, Liu Yichen got up and walked out.

As the boy's retreating figure vanished through the classroom doorway, Lin Ruiyang finally lifted his head.

His own score was 730. Then who on earth scored 745?

Liu Yichen rushed eagerly into the staff office, where every teacher's computer was already surrounded by throngs of students.

"The competition is fierce this year," Liu Yichen muttered to himself.

"Liu Yichen, what did you say?"