Chapter 19 The Nanny's Niece's Counterattack

While Lin Wei was lost in thought, the homeroom teacher announced the results of the midterm exams: "This time, thirty-nine students in our class made it into the top 100, and thirty students made it into the top 50. That's a pretty good result."

"However, some students should take note: if you get the same score in the next final exam, you'll be out of the running for Class 1." He looked at Zhou Xueqing and the others sitting in the back, reminding them.

Getting into the top 100 is certainly good, but a class only accepts top students. This means that if they continue to achieve the same results, 20 students will be replaced, which is a significant change.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xueqing's face fell. Although she didn't care about her grades, she had gotten to know everyone after spending so much time together, and she knew she wouldn't adapt to a different class so quickly.

The homeroom teacher obviously didn't wait for them to calm down before starting to talk about who the top ten students in the grade were: "Six students from our class made it into the top ten. Now I'm going to start reading out these students' names."

"Xi Ying, tenth in the grade."

"Liu Haoxuan, seventh in his grade."

"Gao Fuya, fifth in the grade."

"Zhang Mo, second in the grade." Fang Yihuai's name was nowhere to be heard. Everyone knew he was first in the grade again.

However, they were wrong this time. The teacher called out Lin Wei's name first, and although Fang Yihuai's name was called out after hers, it still caused a great shock.

First place? She's actually first place? How is that possible?

Although Lin Wei worked very hard during this period and got full marks on many tests, and even participated in physics competitions with Zhang Mo and Fang Yihuai, everyone still felt that she was not good enough to be the top student in the grade.

Can you imagine? She scored 440 points on the middle school entrance exam, and after entering high school, she soared like a rocket, leaving behind everyone who had scored higher than her. It's something I never dared to dream of, but it actually happened in reality.

Someone suddenly exclaimed "Holy crap!" breaking the silence.

Awesome.

Lin Wei hadn't expected to do so well. First place? She actually got first place! Her eyes widened in disbelief for a moment, almost thinking she'd misheard. Even though she had considered that she could be among the top students, it was only the top few; she never dared to dream of being number one. So when she found out, all she felt was joy.

She did it, she really did it. Although she tied for first place with Fang Yihuai, it was still a kind of surpassing.

The homeroom teacher looked at Fang Yihuai and said, "You got full marks in all your other subjects, which is commendable. However, your Chinese score was quite poor. You lost eight points on a perfect essay. That score might be okay for others, but it's obviously too low for you." This was especially noticeable when compared to another student.

"Here I want to commend Lin Wei. She not only ranked first in the grade, but also got a perfect score on her Chinese composition, achieving the highest score in the entire grade with 148 points." He said, clapping his hands, and the others joined in.

A perfect score in Chinese? What kind of freak is this? Zhang Mo is the only one in the class who got a perfect score on a Chinese composition in junior high school. And junior high school is completely different from high school. Her perfect score is definitely not just luck.

Lin Wei maintained a calm demeanor on the surface, but inside she was already beaming with pride at the praise. If she weren't worried about affecting her academic excellence, she would have grinned from ear to ear.

Unlike Fang Yihuai, who lost eight points on her Chinese composition, Lin Wei lost eight points across Chinese, Politics, History, and Geography, a fairly even distribution of two points each. However, Lin Wei didn't see anything wrong with it. It's difficult to avoid losing points in Chinese, but losing only two points was manageable. She had only spent a day studying Politics, History, and Geography, and she was already quite satisfied with her results.

While she was beaming with joy, Fang Yihuai was genuinely facing a crisis. They were tied now, but what about next time? Would his first place be snatched away? Because of this, besides a touch of nervousness, he also felt a sense of challenge. Having someone compete with him for first place was a kind of luck; otherwise, always being number one would be too boring.

Zhang Mo recalled what she had said last time and guessed that she was talking nonsense again. If this was considered a bad exam, then what would be considered a good one? He looked at his score, which had been reduced by nearly 20 points in nine subjects, and shook his head.

As soon as get out of class ended, many classmates surrounded Lin Wei, asking her how she did so well on the test. Some classmates even brought her questions. For a while, her table was very lively.

During this time, she also decided whether or not to participate in the math competition. She decided to participate. Regardless of whether she ultimately participated or not, she would register first.

As for why she suddenly wanted to participate in the math competition, it was because her exam results gave her great encouragement. She was now tied for first place with Fang Yihuai, so why not try participating in the math competition?

It's a competition that everyone dares to participate in; there's no reason why she'd already feel discouraged before even participating. She managed to get first place in her grade; she'll definitely do well in this math competition too.

Overwhelmed with confidence, Lin Wei picked up her phone after returning to her dormitory and asked Zhang Mo how to register for the math competition.

Zhang Mo: "Just click this link and fill in some information." He sent her a website link, somewhat surprised that she would participate.

It took me ages to convince her to participate in the last physics competition because of the money, but I never expected her to participate on her own initiative this time.

However, he didn't say much. Later, he asked her if she wanted to attend the weekend competition tutoring class. They were all attending, and if she could come along, it would be good for everyone to know each other.

Lin Wei retorted, "Does it cost money?"

Zhang Mo paused for a moment, then said, "Yes, ten lessons would cost around 1,500 yuan." The prize money from the last physics competition was enough to cover it.

However, it was too difficult to get money out of Lin Wei, so she directly refused, saying, "Then forget it." What good would ten lessons do? They already knew the basics and wouldn't bother to listen. She wouldn't understand the difficult parts even if she went. Besides, she wouldn't starve if she missed one competition, but she would starve if she ran out of money.

Although she was a bit short-sighted at the time, there was no other way; this approach was generally not applicable to her.

After seeing this, Zhang Mo didn't try to persuade her anymore. In fact, he had already guessed her answer when he asked her, but when he heard it, he still had a feeling that he knew it was true. If it weren't inappropriate, he would have liked to pay for it for her.

Asking her is a waste of her talent if she doesn't listen.

Only Lin Wei herself knew where her talent came from; it was all accumulated through years of study. Unless someone is extremely stupid, even after studying for decades or a hundred years, they wouldn't be completely ignorant.

Fang Yihuai and Gao Fuya soon found out about this. They were a little disappointed that she didn't come. Although it was only ten lessons, those ten lessons were clearly worth the price.

Gao Fuya couldn't help but ask in confusion, "Is she short of this money?" Compared to her, the two people beside her clearly understood Lin Wei better.

Fang Yihuai: "It's not that she doesn't have money, she's just stingy." Asking her to spend money would be like asking her to die.

Gao Fuya wondered why she hadn't agreed to her conditions last time. Unable to figure it out, she stopped thinking about it and focused on the competition.

While the three of them were attending extracurricular competition tutoring classes, Lin Wei was sitting in her dormitory looking at competition questions. Every time she looked at a question, she would enter the system space to think about how to solve it.

Although she didn't know how, and the system space didn't teach her any competition-related knowledge, she had unlimited time to think. They were intelligent, but she refused to believe that hard work could truly outweigh talent.

At this moment, she still hadn't expected that a seemingly ordinary competition problem would take her twelve days to solve. Even though only 48 seconds had actually passed in real time, Lin Wei still couldn't help but smile bitterly. "If this were in real life, I wouldn't even be able to solve a single problem, let alone win an award." Competitions were actually this difficult. Twelve days for one problem—even though she knew it was because she hadn't found the trick to solving competition problems, the result was still too dismal.

If Gao Fuya and Fang Yihuai found out, their eyes would probably pop out of their sockets.

However, the immediate issue is the upcoming parent-teacher conference. Her parents live far away in Linjia Village, several provinces away, so if anyone can attend, it can only be her aunt.

The parent-teacher meeting takes a whole morning. Will she have time to attend?

Because of this, she called her aunt and asked, "Auntie, are you free this Saturday morning? There's a parent-teacher meeting at school, do you want to come?"

Lin Jinhui's first reaction upon hearing this was, "Of course I have to come!" This was her youngest child's first parent-teacher conference. If her parents and brothers back home knew she hadn't attended, who knows what they would say to her? So without hesitation, she said, "Yes, of course I'll go." Not only did she have to go, but she also wanted to dress presentably so as not to embarrass her.

Because Lin Wei's focus was on the parent-teacher conference at that moment, she only remembered after hanging up the phone that she had forgotten to tell her aunt about her midterm exam results. "Oh no, I think I forgot about my midterm exam results."

She stood there stunned for a moment, then dismissed the idea of ​​calling back. "Anyway, we'll find out at the parent-teacher conference. It shouldn't make a difference whether we find out sooner or later, right?" she thought uncertainly.

This led to an obvious shock for Lin Jinhui on the day of the parent-teacher conference. She almost thought she had misread it. "Little one, your aunt isn't getting old and her eyesight isn't failing, is it?" She wondered how she could have mistaken the top student in the grade for her name.

Lin Wei said helplessly, "Auntie, you didn't see wrong, I really did get first place in the grade."

In that instant, Lin Jinhui's eyes lit up, and she felt as if her ancestors were emitting auspicious smoke. Although she had thought about how well she did on the exam before coming here, and even considered the worst possible outcome, since she usually told her how many points she got, she thought she did poorly this time since she didn't. But she didn't expect that she did poorly at all; she clearly did extremely well.

Lin Wei didn't expect that not telling her would cause such a big misunderstanding. One thought she did poorly on the test and didn't dare to bring it up, while the other thought that since everyone would know the results at the parent-teacher conference anyway, it wouldn't make a difference whether she said it or not. This also led to Lin Jinhui being in a good mood all day after the parent-teacher conference.

Especially during parent-teacher meetings, Zhou Xueqing's parents kept praising Lin Jinhui for her parenting skills, giving her a taste of parenthood.

When they got back, without the housekeeper Xu asking, she said herself, "My niece didn't get many points, she just got first place in her grade." Fanren Saifan is too amazing.

Butler Xu: "..." Did I ask you?

After Lin Jinhui left, having boasted to the housekeeper, she quickly called her parents in the countryside and told them about their shock and enthusiasm.

Lin Wei is still having a headache over this math competition. In her dormitory, after the initial excitement of registering for the competition wore off, she quickly fell into a state of lethargy, especially since she wasn't making much progress in her studies.

Because of this, she specifically went online to find some competition videos to listen to, but they were too slow, with each video taking about 40 minutes. At this rate, where would she find the time to listen to them all? So in the end, she gave up on this approach and went back to her previous inefficient method.