On Monday, Ran Qiming happily announced the names of the seven selected students in the class.

"Zhou Xiang, Ping Zhengping, Xiao Chunmei, Xue Zhendong, Wang Shaoming, Dai Dong, and Liu Zhongfan."

Vice-class monitor Li Zongmei's face turned grim. She hadn't even made it to the tryouts? And Xiao Chunmei, the one who'd always been Zhou Xiang's bootlicker, had not only made it but even finished ahead of Dai Dong and the others?

Should she also be Zhou Xiang's follower? However, regardless of whether Zhou Xiang is willing to accept her given his temper, she herself cannot lower her head!

Ran Qiming continued on the podium, "Due to time constraints, the selected students will directly participate in the city competition. The city competition will be held on April 15th, 16th, and 17th, and the provincial competition will be held on May 20th, 21st, and 22nd. The national competition will be on July 1st."

The competition is divided into four subjects: Chinese, Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry. You can sign up for any one subject or all of them. Of course, Chemistry is for third-year junior high students, so if you are confident, you can sign up as well.

Ran Qiming said this, looking at Zhou Xiang.

Zhou wanted to pretend not to see it. She hadn't decided whether to participate in the chemistry competition.

The national competition is on July 1st, so it should still be in time for me to rush back and take the high school entrance examination.

So, the message Ran Qiming received was not that Zhou wanted to sign up for the chemistry competition, but that she wanted to take part in this year's high school entrance examination.

"Are you finally planning to skip a grade?"

Zhou Xiang nodded and said, "I don't want to waste my time anymore."

"Okay! I'll apply for you."

With only half a month left before the city competition, Xue Zhendong was a little nervous. He had always been good at sports, but his grades were just average. It was luck that he got into the first class.

Because the classes were arranged in order of ranking, and then starting from Class 1, he was lucky and after a few rounds, he was ranked in Class 1. He thought he could just graduate from junior high school.

Who knew that something happened that made Zhou Xiang sit behind them. Every time the class organized a table change, he threatened the students in his row with his fists, telling them not to leave the table in front of Zhou Xiang.

Therefore, the various groups in Class 1 changed their tables many times, but he and Wang Shaoming still sat by the south wall like Zhou Xiang and refused to move.

Seeing the nervousness in the front row, Zhou Xiang whispered to them, "You've already surpassed the class monitor and study committee member, why are you still nervous?"

Xue Zhendong leaned against the table behind him, leaning sideways and asking in a low voice, "Really? Did Teacher Ran read the names according to their ranking just now?"

Zhou Xiang nodded, "Yes, okay, relax, Teacher Ran is looking this way."

Xue Zhendong immediately sat up straight.

After school, Zhou Xiang took Xiao Chunmei to his home and said, "They come on Sundays. You come every day at noon. I want to make up for it for you and my third brother."

Xiao Chunmei was really looking forward to it. Although she had passed the selection, she was still unsure about the city and provincial levels!

However, she would listen to whatever Zhou Xiang arranged, as Zhou Xiang was definitely doing it for her own good.

Without those people involved, Zhou Xiang felt very peaceful with only his third brother and Xiao Chunmei.

Fortunately, it's just this semester. After she skipped a grade, she no longer teaches these people. It's too tiring, mentally exhausting.

Xiao Chunmei also felt it, and she was determined not to mention to others that Zhou wanted to give her special treatment, let alone the matter of tea. She was simple, but not stupid.

Zhou Xiang goes into the space every night to read and study. She wants to get at least the first place in the third subject of the second grade of junior high school. The school she wants to enter is in the capital.

Only by winning first place in the national competition could she attract the attention of the two prestigious universities.

Her goal is to obtain at least a master's degree by the age of 20. She still has seven years left. She plans to take this year's high school entrance examination and skip one level in high school. The remaining five years will be enough for her to complete a bachelor's and master's degree. If possible, she plans to complete a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree.

Now that everything at home is arranged, it is time for her to focus on her studies.

After two Sundays, it was time for the city competition. On the morning of the 24th, the students from No. 1 Middle School who were participating in the city competition got on a big bus carrying large and small bags.

There are more than fifty seats, crammed with 60 students and six teachers.

A few benches were placed in the middle aisle. Hmm! It wasn't considered overloaded, unless there was a check.

However, looking at the four big words "Blue Sky Hotel", Zhou Xiang raised the corner of his mouth slightly, revisiting the old place!

Following behind everyone, waiting for room assignment, there were 60 students, 23 girls, plus a female teacher, and we requested 8 triple rooms.

37 boys, 5 male teachers and a driver requested 13 triple rooms and 2 double rooms.

After getting the keys to the 23 rooms, Ran Qiming asked everyone to form their own teams.

Of course, Zhou Xiang shared a room with Xiao Chunmei, and then a girl was assigned to share a room with Zhou Xiang and the others.

The key was controlled by Zhou Xiang, and she was not familiar with the girl. There were two of them on her side, so of course the minority should obey the majority.

She opened the door, put her things down, asked Xiao Chunmei to watch over them, and went downstairs to spend money to change the sheets and quilt covers.

The waiter's attitude was nice. He took the two dollars she stuffed into her hand, gave her two sets of sheets and pillowcases, and asked her to change them herself.

After changing the sheets and pillowcases with Xiao Chunmei, he took off the dirty ones without looking at the other female classmate who was hesitant to speak.

Han Chengcheng thought that there would be one for her among the pile of beds that Zhou Xiang brought up, but who knew there were only two beds.

She opened her mouth to say something, but then closed it again. She had figured out Zhou Xiang's temper. She didn't like to talk to people she wasn't familiar with, and even if she was familiar with them, she wouldn't necessarily talk to them either.

Only those who get along well with her will be smiled at, approachable, and take care of them meticulously, just like Xiao Chunmei, who is smiling silly now and has been Zhou Xiang's deskmate since the first grade.

Seeing Zhou Xiang go downstairs, Han Chengcheng walked over to Xiao Chunmei and said, "Hello, Xiao Chunmei! My name is Han Chengcheng, and I'm from Class 3, Grade 2."

Xiao Chunmei was a little surprised, but still replied politely: "Hello! How do you know my name?"

"Anyone who knows Zhou Xiang knows that she has a good friend named Xiao Chunmei."

Xiao Chunmei laughed happily, "Haha, I even became famous with Zhou Xiang!"

Han Chengcheng looked at her silly smile with disdain. "Hmph! You should be thankful for your height."

"Yes! Zhou Xiang is a famous figure in our class!"

Xiao Chunmei frowned. This didn't sound very pleasant to her ears.

"Oh? Tell me in detail how I became a famous person."

Han Chengcheng was about to say something sarcastic when he was startled by a sudden voice behind him.

"Zhou, Zhou Xiang, are you back?"

"Yeah! I'm back. You seem to want to talk to your classmates, so I'll come chat with you."

"Haha, we live in the same room after all, so it's only right that we get to know each other a little, right?"

"There's no need. Who knows who will be eliminated in the preliminaries and semi-finals? It's a waste of emotion!"

Han Chengcheng choked. "Can you even talk properly? It's just first place, isn't it? What's so arrogant? What's all this arrogance? I curse you to fail miserably in this competition." With an awkward smile, he turned and returned to his bed.

Zhou Xiang just glanced at the top student who was praised too much.

"Put your things in place, and I'll take you for a walk. I'm very familiar with this area."

"good!"