“Wife, Mengmeng really knows she was wrong, so please don’t be angry anymore…” Mr. Ding said cautiously from the side.

Ding's mother was still angry and didn't say anything.

"Wife?" Mr. Ding continued to plead for his daughter.

Ding's mother: "..." This is pointless. She's not an unreasonable person.

"Alright, it's getting late, you should go back to sleep!"

When Ding's mother relented, Ding Kemeng was overjoyed. She hugged her mother for a while, acting cute and charming. Finally, Ding's mother couldn't stand it and pushed her away, and she quickly went back to her bedroom.

Lu Ziyin was worried about her and sent her many messages. Ding Kemeng took out her phone and replied with two messages, indicating that she was fine. Only then did Lu Ziyin feel relieved and stop bombarding her with messages.

The next day, Ding Kemeng pleaded and begged with her mother for a long time before her mother finally agreed to let her go out. However, because of what happened the night before, her mother still set a curfew for her.

After a happy weekend, Ding Kemeng still had a smile on her face when she went to school the next day.

Ding Kemeng had barely entered the classroom, and before she even took her schoolbag off, several boys were looking at her with pitying eyes. Ding Kemeng sighed helplessly, resignedly opened her schoolbag, and took out her homework.

Upon seeing the homework, everyone pounced on it like wolves that hadn't eaten for days, and within seconds, the homework was snatched up.

Lu Ziyin entered the classroom a step later than Ding Kemeng, so she did not see this scene.

Lu Ziyin sat down in her seat, took out her homework, and handed it to Ding Kemeng, along with a box of cookies, the packaging of which was different from the previous ones.

It should be a new model.

Ding Kemeng was already used to Lu Ziyin's habit of feeding her. She took the biscuit, opened it, ate one, and then picked up the homework that Lu Ziyin handed her to look at.

Lu Ziyin didn't disturb her, and instead lay down on the table, smiling sweetly at Ding Kemeng.

This was the scene that Tang Zhizhou saw when he came in; it was so dazzling it almost blinded his titanium alloy eyes!

However, he didn't come so early just to witness their romance. He jogged closer to the two and asked with a smile, "Sister Meng, do you know about the evening study system in Xiushui?"

"Evening self-study?" Ding Kemeng used to attend a public junior high school, where the education bureau did not allow evening self-study, so she has never participated in evening self-study until now.

"Yeah, the first year of high school at Xiushui High School is pretty easy, but it's different once you get to the second year. Not only will our academic classes increase, but our art classes will be significantly reduced, and evening self-study is mandatory—there's no escaping it." Tang Zhizhou was unhappy thinking about this. Even though he didn't necessarily study during evening self-study, its existence greatly affected his gaming time!

"Instead of worrying about evening self-study, why don't you think carefully about where you're going to go after choosing between arts and sciences?" Lu Ziyin rolled her eyes at Tang Zhizhou and said indifferently.

"..." Tang Zhizhou's expression changed, and his smile became extremely lewd. "Hehe, wherever Brother Lu goes, I'll go." He didn't want to go to other classes; there was no one to talk to, it was too boring!

"How about you all choose the science class with me?" Ding Kemeng achieved good results in the last physics competition, and the school agreed to a condition for her. So, as long as Lu Ziyin and the others choose the science class, she can directly be in the same class as them and continue to be their classmates!

“Science is great! If Sister Meng chooses science, then we’ll choose science too!” Tang Zhizhou immediately nodded in agreement.

Lu Ziyin had no objections; wherever Ding Kemeng went, he would go too!

Once the group had set their goals, Ding Kemeng didn't dare to slack off. From then on, she not only tutored Lu Ziyin individually every day, but also started tutoring Tang Zhizhou in science subjects.

And so, in just one month, perhaps Ding Kemeng's tutoring really worked. At the end of June, Tang Zhizhou entered the exam room with some confidence for the first time. After the exam, he even checked his answers with someone, and the smile on his face never faded.

With the final exams over, summer vacation for first-year high school students has begun.

Every summer vacation, Ding Kemeng goes to her grandmother's house in the countryside, so no matter how reluctant Lu Ziyin is, the two of them won't have a chance to meet alone this summer.

Unlike the city, the countryside is free from the distractions of electronic devices, and with the fresh air, Ding Kemeng couldn't be happier at her grandma's house!

In the first week of July, Ding Kemeng learned about her grades from her parents. She wasn't too worried about it and didn't dwell on it after hearing about it.

Grandma, worried that she would get too hot, specially fished a large watermelon from the well, cut it up for her, and brought it in. Ding Kemeng sat at her desk, holding the watermelon in one hand and writing with the other, looking quite content.

The phone rang suddenly, startling Ding Kemeng. She quickly put down the watermelon and answered the call.

"Sister Meng! You are truly my benefactor!" Tang Zhizhou's excited voice came from the other end of the phone.

Tang Zhizhou's loud voice made Ding Kemeng's eardrums hurt a little. She moved the phone a little further away, and Ding Kemeng's voice came through: "What's wrong?"

"Sister Meng, do you know what rank I got in the final exams this time?" Tang Zhizhou suddenly lowered his voice, acting mysteriously, which was quite amusing.

Ding Kemeng narrowed her eyes, followed his lead, and asked with a smile, "How many places?"

"Twenty-fifth! Twenty-fifth in the class!" Tang Zhizhou was overjoyed on the other end of the phone. This was the first time in his life he had achieved such a good ranking. He hadn't cheated; he had achieved it through his own abilities. And it was a positive ranking!

Tang Zhizhou couldn't help but laugh when he thought of the shocked expression on his father's face when he received his grades that day!

This is practically like the Tang family's ancestral graves are emitting smoke!

"Sister Meng, it's all because of you! You're my savior!" He went to so many tutoring classes when he was a kid, and drove away so many teachers, but Sister Meng was the only one who tutored him. She wasn't scared away by his stupidity, and she even helped him get such good grades!

Enough said, Sister Meng is the living literary star of the Tang family!

Ding Kemeng couldn't help but laugh out loud. After a long while, she said, "Zhou'er, you're not stupid. You're just too impetuous. As long as you calm down, you'll do even better on the test. Believe in yourself, you're very smart!"

This was the first time in his life that someone had praised him for being smart, and Tang Zhizhou was so moved that he almost cried.

"Sister Meng, I'm so grateful to you..."

Grandma Ding, fanning herself, brought in a plate of chilled grapes. Seeing her granddaughter talking on the phone, she became curious and leaned closer, asking, "Mengmeng, are you talking to your classmate on the phone?"

"Yes, Grandma, she's a good friend of mine," Ding Kemeng smiled, pointed to the phone, and whispered.

Tang Zhizhou, with his sharp ears, heard the old lady's words and immediately shouted "Hello, Grandma!" into the phone.