Xi Shaoyuan held his hung up phone in a daze, the words of explanation stuck in his throat without him being able to utter them.

He tentatively called Zhou Xiu back, and hung up immediately after two beeps. Zhou Xiu...didn’t block him.

Xi Shaoyuan's eyebrows were slightly raised, and the teardrop mole at the corner of his eyes flickered slightly. But his happiness didn't last long, and the corners of his mouth that were curved up straightened again.

Zhou Xiu refused Susan's tutoring and did not need his help.

Inside, Susan packed her things with a sad face. Her high-paying job of two hours a day and a monthly salary of 120,000 yuan was ruined. She also had to find a way to apologize to her employer.

These top students are really hard to fool, and they can easily tell something is wrong if you are not careful. Do smart people have two heads? She probably didn't expect Zhou Xiu to check the registration time of her account.

Even so, Susan still sent her exam preparation materials and audio to Zhou Xiu, and wrote a final message, "Xiu Xiu, I wish you success!"

Putting aside the high-paying job, Zhou Xiu was indeed the most worry-free and smartest student she had ever met. When teachers meet such students, they can't help but feel more sympathy.

In the evening Zhou Xiu replied, "Thank you, Teacher Susan."

Gu Mingxi sent a message on QQ to ask Zhou Xiu if she was free. Zhou Xiu just replied with a "?", and the other party's video invitation popped up.

Zhou Xiu stared at Gu Mingxi's video invitation, a little confused. She hung up the call and typed a line of text, "Sorry, I slipped. What's up?"

This was probably the first time that Gu Mingxi was rejected by someone for a video call. He was stunned for a moment, and replied with a smiley face, "I want to practice speaking with you for half an hour."

Zhou Xiu said, "Thank you, but that's not necessary. I plan to practice speaking with my classmates tomorrow."

During the day, Zhou Xiu wrote several IELTS papers. Thanks to Yude's weekly and monthly tests, her reading, writing and listening problems were not serious. But the spoken language is really troubling. She must pass the oral test this month.

Zhou Xiu logged into the official website to register and found good news and bad news. The good news was that there were two exams every month, but the registration fee was 2,170 yuan. Zhou Xiu carefully chose a time near the end of the month.

Have to get through it once.

The next day, Yude Middle School.

Zhou Xiu came to the classroom and carefully consulted her classmates about the IELTS test. Many classmates in the class have taken the IELTS. After asking, she found out that Du Feiyang scored 8.5 points.

Gu Mingxi scored 9 points. Taking him as a reference, Du Feiyang's 8.5 points seemed very impressive. Zhou Xiu immediately respected him.

For the first time, Lan Xin saw the academic genius' stunned expression and couldn't help laughing.

She explained: "Du Feiyang is incomparable. He likes to travel a lot, and it will be very difficult if he doesn't pass the language test. He is not the highest, I know there are three other students who got full marks."

Zhou Xiu was deeply shocked. It turned out that for some students, they could get full marks whenever they wanted?

Yu Qingyan laughed and said, "I have only seen these two or three in my life. It is not easy to get full marks. Xiuxiu also knows these two people. Look, I heard that the great Gu Mingxi got full marks. The other one is Yuan Shao."

Lan Xin said, "I don't know about Gu Mingxi's situation, but Xi Shaoyuan's second mother tongue is English. He took the exam organized by the school and he was bored. Xiuxiu wants to take the IELTS?"

After listening for a long time, the students suddenly had an expression that said "Blind student, you have discovered the highlight."

IELTS and TOEFL are reserved for those who are preparing to study abroad! Isn’t Xiu Shen taking the college entrance examination? Surprise appeared on everyone's face, and they all looked at Zhou Xiu.

Although Zhou Xiu was encouraged by the system and Gu Mingxi to apply to Harvard, she herself did not think there was any hope of success.

Zhou Xiu said conservatively: "Just improve your grades, it might be useful in the future."

The classmates said "Oh" in disappointment, it turned out that they were not going to apply for studying abroad. Xu Qing said with a smile: "IELTS is not easy, Xiuxiu needs to work harder."

He casually said, "Xiu Xiu, how do you write the last question on your math test? Tell me in English."

The adolescent male voice has a hint of graininess, is mellow and mixed with a smile, and makes people's ears feel itchy. Du Feiyang, a self-proclaimed straight man, shuddered uncontrollably and looked at Xu Qing exaggeratedly.

Tan Minggang came to the classroom and put down his schoolbag. He said contemptuously: "Math class representative... you have clearly finished the last question, please don't waste Xiuxiu's time."

He turned to Zhou Xiu, showing his white teeth, "Xiu Xiu, you have to practice speaking in context. From today on, we will cooperate with you in speaking English. Tell me when you come across something you don't understand, and I'll help you translate. By the way, I also got an IELTS score of 8.5."

The students around couldn't help but hold their foreheads in their hands. They couldn't bear to see such a scene. It was really a bit hot to the eyes. Ever since Senior Ming blew himself up last time, he noticed that Zhou Xiu had no reaction. Now he seems to have nothing to worry about?

The class monitor has an extremely good temper. If it were someone else with a bad temper, he would probably be annoyed to death.

Zhou Xiu ignored Tan Ming's words, but took out the test paper and began to stammer about the last question. Although Xu Qing finished the question, many of his classmates did not.

In the past, when Xiu Shen was explaining questions to his classmates, his thoughts were so fast that the poor students felt like dying when listening to him. Now she spoke in her not-so-fluent 50-cent English, stammering and repeating herself several times. They had more time to think and react, and they actually heard more clearly. This kind of Zhou Xiu seems more friendly and down-to-earth.

As long as the embarrassed person is a top student, the poor student will not feel embarrassed.

Huaxu rubbed Zhou Xiu's face, "You are such a funny guy, Xiuxiu, explain the questions to me like this in the future, hahaha."

Miss Li was a little surprised when she heard that Zhou Xiu had signed up for the IELTS exam. The national competition of the mathematics league will be held at the end of November, and the provincial nine schools’ joint mock exam is not far away.

But then she thought that all top students are like this, they don't like to do anything else. Does Zhou Xiu still need people to worry about her?

Her weakness is English, but she is willing to study English hard, which makes Miss Li very happy. But you have to be careful about this little secret and don't let it get to Old Wang in the Rocket Class's ears, otherwise his blood vessels might burst.

…

After school, Zhou Xiu watched English videos on Huateng's tablet. Huaxu took her mobile phone to play with it. She glanced at Zhou Xiu's QQ and found that there was a new friend request on her personal QQ, and the other party's note was Jiang Dongxue.

Zhou Xiu used to have 999+ strangers adding her on QQ every day, so she applied for a small QQ account that only her close friends knew about. Who is this □□x?

The behind-the-scenes video had no impression of her and habitually pressed the ignore button. After I rejected it, the other party applied again, and this time the other party noted: Jiang Dongxue, Jiang Jiajun’s sister.

I finally remember the behind-the-scenes footage. Jiang Jiajun is a contestant from R, and his sister... isn't this the girl who competed with them for a hotel in City B? You still want to add Xiu Xiu when we're just such a superficial relationship?

In the dream, beautiful women also have temper. Huaxu decisively rejected the question and started playing the 1024 mini game on Zhou Xiu's phone with a refreshed mood.

City B.

Jiang Dongxue looked at the phone in front of her in surprise. She didn't expect that Zhou Xiu rejected her friend request. This was the first time in her life that she was rejected when adding someone as a friend!

Jiang Dongxue knew that her brother had gone to City C to find Zhou Xiu, but she didn't expect that he would ask Gu Mingxi for help for Zhou Xiu and ask him to help Zhou Xiu apply to Harvard.

Harvard's acceptance rate is extremely low, and even students with perfect SAT scores may not be admitted. Gu Mingxi's parents are honorary alumni of Harvard and have a relative who teaches there. The probability of students recommended by them being admitted is extremely high.

Jiang Dongxue has known Gu Mingxi for more than ten years, but he never introduced her to anyone. Why can Zhou Xiu do that? Jiang Dongxue planned to let Zhou Xiu know how much favors the Jiang family had spent on Jiang Jiajun to help her apply.

Jiang Dongxue's impression of Zhou Xiu was that she came from an ordinary family, so she searched for Zhou Xiu's information on Baidu.

I didn't expect that when I hit the enter key, there were dozens of pages of Zhou Xiu's information. There is not too much information about Zhou Xiu. She has participated in intellectual variety shows, appeared on the big screen, and performed exceptionally well on the field. With her simple, elegant, pure and smart appearance, she was once rated as the academic goddess by netizens.

If Xi Shaoyuan and Huaxu hadn't spent money to remove the trending searches several times, she would probably have become an Internet celebrity.

Jiang Dongxue's eyes paused. Zhou Xiu had won the national gold medal in the biology competition, ranked first in the national gold medal, and also won the provincial first prize in the mathematics league. Pretty girls usually don’t do well in academics, but she actually has some abilities?

Jiang Dongxue instantly understood why Gu Mingxi wanted to help Zhou Xiu. He was a sapiosexual and had a liking for girls with high IQs. But none of the girls around Gu Mingxi are smarter than him. From childhood to adulthood, he has always been extremely arrogant towards everyone, except for the girl who was on the same team with him in IMO last year.

She threw her phone away in frustration.

The phone fell to the floor with a sound, and Jiang Dongxue's uncle walked in and asked with concern: "What's going on?"

Jiang Dongxue's uncle is Shu Yang. Shu Yang picked up his phone and glanced at it casually. The screen of the phone happened to show a photo of Zhou Xiu's speech. His calm eyes suddenly froze. Then he clicked on the picture on his phone and enlarged it.

Shu Yang's pupils shrank slightly, "Is this the girl Jia Jun wants to help? She's very talented and pretty."

…

After school.

Zhou Xiu finished using the tablet of Hua Xi and returned it to Hua Xi. Huatui casually handed it to Xu Qing, "Class monitor, please help me copy some materials for the college entrance examination review."

"By the way, Xiuxiu, the girl who competed with us for a room in City B last time wanted to add you, but I rejected you."

Zhou Xiu listened without raising his head and said: "Well, it doesn't matter."

She didn't have a very specific impression of this person, the only impression she had was that she might be Jiang Jiajun's sister.

Xu Qing readily agreed to Huaxu's request. He copied a copy of the information from his computer and sent it to Huaxu via Bluetooth. When Xu Qing was looking for the storage folder, he found the file "xiuxiu".

With this name, it looks more attractive than other folders.

Xu Qing subconsciously clicked on the file with his mouse. The moment he clicked on it, he reflected and despised himself, but thought that it should contain the things that Zhou Xiu saved in the learning videos.

Surprisingly, it turned out not to be a file containing study materials! It’s a file used by the behind-the-scenes to store Zhou Xiu’s photos!

At this moment Xu Qing was stunned unexpectedly and coughed violently. The file contained several secretly taken photos of Zhou Xiu in the classroom, including the swimsuit photo that Yu Qingyan accidentally sent to Xu Qing last time.

"No, squad leader, you can choke while drinking water? You are so grown up! Are you still playing basketball tonight? Come quickly, everyone is waiting for you." Du Feiyang shouted at the top of his voice while holding the basketball.

Xu Qing closed the computer and smiled after a long while before saying, "Well, I'll do it."