Chapter 172: Shen Qing is That 745 (2)

Liu Yichen was momentarily stunned, though he quickly guessed the reason. It seemed this Sister Qing was deliberately slapping the school faculty right across the face.

A master! Truly worthy of being Sister Qing!

Xie Mingming gently pushed him, urging him to hurry to class.

Liu Yichen obediently gave an affirmative response and turned to leave. By the time he finished distributing the grade sheets to each classroom and returned to Class 8, ten minutes of the class had already passed.

As soon as he sat down in his seat, Liu Yichen leaned in close to Lin Ruiyang with a mysterious air. "Guess who scored 745?"

Lin Ruiyang was concentrating intently on the teacher's lecture. This math problem was quite difficult, and the teacher's approach was simpler than his own.

"Lin Ruiyang." Seeing that he was being ignored, Liu Yichen called out in a low voice again.

"Forget it, I'll just tell you." Liu Yichen glanced at the teacher writing on the blackboard at the front of the podium, leaned close to Lin Ruiyang's ear, and whispered, "It's Shen Qing."

It's Shen Qing...

Lin Ruiyang's pupils contracted sharply. Could Shen Qing possibly score 745?

"Shen Qing from Class 3?" The expression on Lin Ruiyang's face finally shifted slightly. He turned his head to look at Liu Yichen, his throat feeling somewhat tight.

"That's right." There wasn't a second person named Shen Qing in the entire First High School.

The math teacher turned around just in time to see the two boys at the bottom of the podium practically pressing their faces together.

"Hey, what are you two doing?" As soon as the teacher spoke, the gazes of everyone in the class shifted toward Lin Ruiyang and Liu Yichen.

Noticing the increasingly ambiguous looks from the others, Liu Yichen glanced at Lin Ruiyang's gloomy expression and couldn't help swallowing hard.

Now this was a massive misunderstanding.

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Class 3.

Xie Mingming placed the grade sheets on the podium, and the students in the first row craned their necks to take a look.

"Let's finish going over this test paper first, and if we have any time left, we can chat about other things." Xie Mingming covered the grade sheets with a book, mainly fearing that once the students saw Shen Qing's score, they wouldn't have any heart left to listen to the lecture.

"Okay!" the students below chanted in unison, followed by a rustling sound of flipping test papers.

Xie Mingming looked toward the back row. Shen Qing was slumped over her desk, unsure whether she was playing on her phone or sleeping.

The biology questions on this exam were relatively basic with no exceptionally difficult problems, allowing everyone to score quite a few points in biology, which made Xie Mingming's review go much faster.

"All right, we've finished going over the questions. Now let's talk about the results of this joint examination." Xie Mingming neatly put away the comprehensive science test papers and picked up the grade sheets.

Almost all the students below stopped what they were doing and listened attentively to Xie Mingming.

"Teacher Xie, did someone in our school really score 745?" Little Fatty had heard a snippet from Liu Yichen earlier that morning.

Xie Mingming raised an eyebrow slightly and glanced at Shen Qing. The girl was still slumped over her desk without even raising her head—could she actually be sleeping?

"Yes, really, and this student is right here in our class."

"In our class? Who is it?"

"Didn't the monitor go check the grades? Chen Bin, our class's top student, doesn't seem to have broken 700 yet."

"Chen Bin got 689. Were there any grading errors on his test paper?"

Discussions instantly erupted across the classroom. Hearing the buzzing sound filling his ears, Nie Huan frowned slightly, turned his head, and glanced at Shen Qing. "It's you, isn't it?"

Shen Qing slowly raised her head. "Mhm."

Xie Mingming cleared his throat. "This student is—Shen Qing!"

"What?! Sister Qing?"

"My goodness! Sister Qing is a top student? Could this possibly be copied..."

"Since Teacher Xie is saying it like this, it definitely wasn't copied."

"Sister Qing, did you really score 745?" Chu Yu remained stunned for several seconds before mechanically turning his head back.

Shen Qing had already straightened up from the desk, crossing her arms and leaning back in her chair as she gave an indifferent nod.

Xie Mingming signaled for everyone to quiet down. "Student Shen Qing's score is genuine. The points she lost were entirely due to handwriting deductions. Therefore, students, just how important is it to write neatly and properly!"

The students below were already numb. If they could achieve scores like that, what did a few handwriting deductions even matter!

"So that means Sister Qing was intentionally capping her scores all this time!" Yao Panpan widened her eyes as she stared at the figure in the back row.

Good heavens, no wonder, no wonder! During the second monthly exam, when Sister Qing said she would score 100, she got exactly 100!

Little Fatty's jaw was practically scraping the floor. His father always compared him to Shen Qing, and prior to today, he at least believed his academics were superior to hers...

Sigh, what a joke.