Chapter 130 I'm Not Taking the Challenge
"The image of a top student and Ivy League prodigy that I used to cultivate for myself has been completely shattered."
At noon, Li Pengfei and Lu Yanhe chose to come to the cafeteria when everyone had basically finished eating, so they could at least eat lunch more comfortably without being stared at by a bunch of people.
Li Pengfei's assessment of Chu Saiying was incisive.
“Now everyone knows what he’s done, so his pretense of pride is bound to crumble.” Li Pengfei chuckled and said, “That’s why you shouldn’t create a persona for yourself. Once you do, it’s destined to fall one day.”
“A profound saying,” Lu Yanhe said with a smile.
"Hey, that short-haired girl from the next class." Li Pengfei suddenly winked at Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe glanced at Li Pengfei in surprise.
That's Xu Linlin from Class 4. She used to follow Hong Zhixing around and was even more arrogant than Hong Zhixing.
"She actually came to eat alone? She used to always be with a group of people, why is she alone?" Lu Yanhe asked curiously.
Xu Linlin looked as if she had suffered a blow; her eyebrows and eyes drooped, and her previous fierceness was gone.
Li Pengfei: "Who knows? Maybe Hong Zhixing, in order to clear her name, will sever her own tail and pin everything she did to Xu Zijun on Xu Linlin."
Li Pengfei's words were just a casual remark, yet they proved prophetic.
At noon, Xu Linlin suddenly ran to Class 3 and, in front of everyone, with red eyes, said, "Li Pengfei, I misunderstood you yesterday in a moment of panic and slandered you. I'm sorry, I was wrong, please forgive me."
Comrade Li Pengfei, who was laughing and joking with Jiang Haitian, had never seen such a scene before and was stunned for a long time.
Jiang Haitian slapped Li Pengfei on the back of the head and said, "What are you spacing out for? He's apologizing to you."
Li Pengfei snapped out of his daze, said "Oh," and then said, "I understand. Go back to your class. It's lunch break now, don't disturb my classmates' rest."
Jiang Haitian stared at Li Pengfei in shock, never expecting that Li Pengfei would pull off such a stunt at this moment.
That speech, that mindset, that jerk!
Xu Linlin looked at Li Pengfei in surprise.
Li Pengfei waved his hand: "What are you still standing there for? You apologized, and I heard you. That's enough. Go out."
A classmate immediately chuckled.
He seemed amused by the scene.
But to Xu Linlin, this laughter sounded nothing less than mockery and ridicule.
Xu Linlin looked at Li Pengfei in disbelief. She couldn't understand why he would still take it so lightly and even ridicule her in public after she had gone to Class 3 and apologized to him in front of all his classmates.
In Xu Linlin's mind, even if Li Pengfei was unwilling to forgive her, he would be too embarrassed to say no in front of so many people.
Li Pengfei's reaction was completely beyond her expectations!
"How can you be so stingy? Are you even a man?" Xu Linlin said angrily.
Her previously apologetic expression vanished instantly.
The students in Class 3 were amazed by her appearance.
Li Cui exclaimed, "This speed of face-changing is unparalleled! Even the masters of Sichuan opera face-changing would have to admit defeat and call you their ancestor."
Li Cui didn't lower his voice at all; everyone could hear what he said.
Xu Linlin's eyes widened, and she glared angrily at Li Cui.
Li Cui immediately said, "Don't glare at me like that. Let me tell you, I'm not Li Pengfei. If you dare to slander me, I'll curse you to death."
Li Cui didn't seem afraid of Xu Linlin at all, and sneered.
Xu Linlin realized she was definitely not going to get away with this today, and left in a disheveled and angry state.
After she left, the class erupted like a boiling pot.
"Damn, I've never seen such a shameless person. Compared to her, Hong Zhixing doesn't seem so shameless at all," Jiang Haitian immediately said. "Why should we forgive her just because she apologized? What gives her the nerve?"
"She's just taking advantage of being a woman to force Li Pengfei to forgive her in front of everyone," Li Cui immediately said. "Luckily, our Brother Fei has a thick skin like a city wall and will definitely not let her succeed."
Li Cui gave Li Pengfei a thumbs up.
Li Pengfei returned the favor with the middle finger.
"Damn you, you're the shameless bastard with a skin as thick as a city wall!"
Everyone burst into laughter.
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Li Pengfei complained to Lu Yanhe: "Look, at noon we felt sorry for her, all alone. But now do you realize? Feeling sorry for the enemy is being cruel to yourself. She has no intention of turning over a new leaf and starting anew. She's still clinging to her old ways."
Lu Yanhe smiled.
"That's quite normal. How can a small setback stop the growth of a major villain?" He chuckled. "You're pretty impressive, completely unconcerned about her apology. Do you have some kind of discerning eye that saw through the insincerity of her apology?"
"What's the point of having sharp eyes? I have a brain. She was just an idiot who accused me of hitting her yesterday, and she apologizes to me today. Does that mean I should forgive her just because she's sincere? Am I out of my mind or bewitched?" Li Pengfei said righteously. "Then I'll beat her up, apologize to her, and see if she forgives me."
Lu Yanhe nodded and gave him a thumbs up.
"Transparent".
"Hey, Lao Lu, what's going on between you and Chen Siqi? A lot of classmates are saying you two are quite ambiguous. Is there really something going on?" Li Pengfei asked.
"What nonsense! We're just close friends, only close to you and me."
"It's that simple?"
"It's that simple."
"I don't quite believe it."
Li Pengfei looked Lu Yanhe up and down, pondered for a moment, and said, "You're not a honest person."
Lu Yanhe: "Get out of here, I want to read."
"The way they're avoiding the topic is so obvious."
Lu Yanhe opened the book and ignored Li Pengfei.
Are you even a little bit attracted to Chen Siqi?
Nonsense, a girl who is so beautiful, and who let him see her seemingly proud but actually arrogant side, how could he not be moved?
But there are many people in the world who can move his heart.
He has no time to think about these things right now.
When you can't even take care of yourself, what's the point of having a relationship?
Even if he wanted to talk, Chen Siqi might not be willing.
Her own home is a complete mess, and she has a highly skilled stepmother who's always keeping an eye on her.
"Holy crap, a super handsome history teacher has arrived in the second year of high school!" Mei Ping suddenly rushed in and shouted loudly in an exaggerated tone.
As soon as she finished speaking, at least half of the girls in the class looked up, their faces glowing.
"What?"
"who?"
Which class are you in?
"How handsome is he? More handsome than Lu Yanhe?"
...
Lu Yanhe, who had been called out again by accident, silently pursed his lips.
Could they be talking about Su Su?
Looking back, he was indeed quite handsome; at least among ordinary people, he was exceptionally handsome.
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Mei Ping said sincerely, "If we're talking about good looks, Lu Yanhe is a bit more handsome. But that Teacher Su has a completely different style. You'll see when you see him. He wears a suit and leather shoes, and even a tie. He's much more mature than Lu Yanhe. Ah, that ascetic aura makes my heart pound!"
Mei Ping is usually a very lively and outgoing girl in class. She expressed her feelings of attraction with exaggerated body language.
Her actions made all the girls in the class want to go and see what was going on.
Mei Ping led the team, and a dozen or so people set off in a grand procession.
The boys: "..."
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Ten minutes later, a group of girls returned, chattering and blushing.
"He's so handsome."
"Yeah, why isn't he our history teacher?"
"I'm so envious of Class 4 in the second year of high school."
"Compared to him, our history teacher is really hard to describe."
"It was terribly told."
"She deliberately gave a terrible lecture in our class, because everyone in Class 4 said her lectures were pretty good."
"Well, that's what happens when she's the homeroom teacher of Class 4."
...
The topic suddenly shifted to criticizing their class's history teacher, Yin Xiangyu.
Lu Yanhe overheard this and discovered that everyone shared a common dissatisfaction with Yin Xiangyu: her lectures were terrible and perfunctory.
History is inherently the most difficult of the three humanities subjects in the comprehensive exam. In the past few years, history has been the subject that differentiates scores in the comprehensive humanities exam, and unfortunately, their history teacher is not very effective.
Someone suddenly said, "Why don't we write to the principal and ask to change the history teacher?"
This proposal has received a lot of support.
Lu Yanhe's mind raced.
If they could get a new history teacher for their class, that would be a good thing.
A good teacher is extremely important to a class's performance in this subject.
Just like Mr. Chen, who is in charge of the English class, because of him, their class's English scores are the highest in the whole grade.
However, it's unclear whether writing a letter to the principal will get the school's approval.
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The proposer quickly wrote the letter, then got everyone in the class to sign it, and put it in the principal's mailbox as a joint letter.
Lu Yanhe also signed his name.
I don't know if it will work, but I'll give it a try anyway.
There is a history class in the afternoon.
When Yin Xiangyu walked into the classroom, the joint letter was almost half signed.
The atmosphere in the class became a little strange as soon as she walked in.
People couldn't hide much on their faces, and their hostility towards Yin Xiangyu was also revealed.
Yin Xiangyu misunderstood this hostility as a consequence of the incident involving Hong Zhixing and Xu Zijun.
Hong Zhixing was indeed quite embarrassed by this incident.
She had confidently asserted that her student was the one being bullied, and even brought people to cause trouble for Liu Qin. But that was not the case at all, and she was proven wrong. Although there was no evidence, it was clear from various signs that Xu Zijun was the one who was truly being bullied.
Yin Xiangyu felt embarrassed.
The more she looked at the students in Class 3, the more she felt that they were all dissatisfied with her because of this matter.
Yin Xiangyu's anger grew stronger and stronger, almost to the point of becoming furious.
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Finally, the bell rang, and Yin Xiangyu didn't linger for a second longer, grabbing her things and leaving.
As soon as she left, the classroom erupted in chaos.
"She's becoming more and more perfunctory in class. What was she even talking about just now?"
"Yes, I listened attentively for forty minutes, but I had no idea what I was hearing. I was completely confused."
"We must ask the principal to find us a new history teacher!"
...
Yin Xiangyu's attitude during class just now has aroused public outrage.
It wasn't this serious before, but she happened to be there when everyone was talking about it at noon. After listening carefully in the afternoon, she realized, "Oh dear, I didn't realize it until I was paying attention in class today. I found that Yin Xiangyu is really not good. Not only is she bad at teaching, but she is also very perfunctory. Whenever it comes to any logic points, she just says, 'You'll have to figure that out yourselves.'"
What is that?
If that's the case, they could become history teachers too!
Anyway, just read what's written in the textbook verbatim, and for what's not written in the textbook, "you'll have to figure it out yourselves."
Lu Yanhe didn't know what Yin Xiangyu was thinking. If her teaching ability was bad, then she should treat everyone equally. It was unacceptable that Class 4 was ranked first in the entire grade for history, while their class was ranked last. The disparity was too great.
Even so, the school never considered replacing Yin Xiangyu.
Why?
Lu Yanhe couldn't understand it.
Doesn't the school care about the grades of Class 3?
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At that moment, Liu Qin was also having tea with the grade leader.
"Director Chen, we really need your help with this." Liu Qin had come to him about this matter for what felt like the umpteenth time. "The college entrance exam is just around the corner, and our class has consistently ranked last in history. If our students aren't working hard, then they should be last in all other subjects too. I know what Yin Xiangyu is up to. She has several students in her class who are vying for first place, so she wants to protect them. But my students can't be let down by her."
Director Chen smiled and said, "Teacher Liu, we've talked about this several times. Actually, I see that your class's history scores aren't all bad. The reason the average score is low is because of the students at the back. Don't tell anyone that Teacher Yin deliberately dragged down your class's history scores. How could that be? She teaches your class history, and you teach their class math. How could she dare to do that?"
Liu Qin was furious, but she still had to put on a smiling face.
“The five top students in our class—Lin Yu, Chen Yi, Zheng Meiqi, Xu Zijun, and Chen Qin—have an average history score that is five points lower than the average score of the five top students in Yin Xiangyu’s class,” Liu Qin said. “You know very well what those five points mean for students in that score range. If she were targeting me, I could just apologize and treat her to a meal. But she’s targeting the students. She’s deliberately making things difficult for these top students so that the top student in the grade can stay in her class.”
Liu Qin got angry by the end.
Director Chen frowned and asked, "Teacher Liu, do you have any evidence to support your serious accusations against Teacher Yin?"
"I have no evidence, but the scores speak for themselves," Liu Qin said. "Lin Yu, Chen Yi, and Zheng Meiqi all have the ability to be the top scorers. She has held my students back. Director Chen, aren't you worried that if those students in her class do poorly on the exam, our school's students will all be wiped out?"
Director Chen, his face dark, said, "Pah! Everyone in the city knows that our school's liberal arts students are of high quality this year. Don't jinx it!"
“Director Chen, since you also hope that this year’s top scorer will come from our school, are you still willing to watch these promising players be held back by her?” Liu Qin retorted without backing down.
Her eyes were filled with unwavering determination, causing Director Chen to instinctively avoid her gaze.
"Alright, stop spreading alarmist rumors. I'll talk to Yin Xiangyu later," Director Chen said impatiently.
Liu Qin frowned: "If you talk to her, will she change?"
Director Chen: "If she doesn't change, I'll get you a new history teacher, okay?"
Liu Qin beamed, "That's exactly what I've been waiting for! Thank you so much, Director Chen."
She left satisfied.
Director Chen rubbed his temples, feeling a bit of a headache.
Actually, he knew what Yin Xiangyu was up to. Many students in Class 3 had previously said on the school forum that Yin Xiangyu wasn't good at teaching, that she was very diligent in Class 4, but just went through the motions in Class 3. He had seen these comments, but Director Chen didn't want to talk to Yin Xiangyu about them, as it would seem like he didn't trust her.
Another point is that Class 4, taught by Yin Xiangyu, has excellent grades. Together with Class 3, taught by Liu Qin, they are the two classes with the best grades in the entire grade.
Director Chen didn't want Yin Xiangyu to get upset over this.
Liu Qin had approached him about this matter several times, and he felt it was time to talk to Yin Xiangyu about it.
Going too far is also not good.
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Meanwhile, the joint letter from Class 3 encountered a problem.
The original plan was for the whole class to sign together, but one person refused to sign.
“He can sign it or not, it’s up to him,” Mei Ping said angrily. “He always acts like he’s the only one who’s right in the world, like we’re all idiots and he’s the only smart one. In reality, he’s just a coward. He’s afraid of being resented by Yin Xiangyu. There are so many people in the class, why would he care about resenting him?”
“If he doesn’t want to sign, so be it. I wasn’t expecting everyone to sign anyway. The number of classmates who signed is already beyond my expectations,” another female classmate immediately said.
Chou Tzu-yu gave them a thumbs up and said, "You guys are really efficient! You got the joint letter out so quickly."
Mei Ping said, "This is to save our class's history record."
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The back row of the classroom.
Li Pengfei said to Lu Yanhe, "Luo Zicheng is such a coward, he doesn't even dare to sign his name. I think he shouldn't hang around in our class circle after graduation. Who would want to associate with him?"
Li Pengfei's words weren't just said in anger.
They are all young people, and if they stand out from the group at this time, they will be more or less minded and ostracized.
However, Luo Zicheng certainly doesn't care; he's long since stopped fitting in.
Perhaps in Luo Zicheng's eyes, they are the fools.
Lu Yanhe said, "If we can really get a new history teacher, it would be a good thing for all of us. From Luo Zicheng's perspective, if we really have to change teachers, he won't refuse to change them just because one of them didn't sign. And if we can't change them in the end, and Yin Xiangyu really holds a grudge against us because of this, he is the only one who didn't sign, so he will be treated leniently by Yin Xiangyu. He won't lose out either way."
"How shrewd." Li Pengfei clicked his tongue twice, and his gaze toward Luo Zicheng changed. Before Lu Yanhe's explanation, Li Pengfei had only thought that Luo Zicheng was simply a coward.
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Mei Ping slipped the joint letter into the principal's mailbox after school.
Lu Yanhe did not stay at school for evening self-study tonight, but went home first.
Li Zhibai and Yan Liang are both not here. They won't be here for the next few nights. There's a stage for a performance this Sunday, and they need to practice for the next few days.
He studied alone in his room, where the environment was better than in the classroom.
There are always some people in the classroom who don't stay still and make noise.
Lu Yanhe can be more focused when he's alone.
As a result, at 9:30 p.m., the class group chat avatars suddenly started jumping wildly.
Li Cui was the first to speak: "Is Yin Xiangyu crazy? Is she out of her mind?!"
Jiang Haitian: She taught terribly herself, yet she has the nerve to come in and accuse us of being heartless?
Jiang Haitian: How disgusting.
Just as the group chat became lively, Lu Yanhe was drinking water and was quite surprised to see everyone's comments.
He asked: Yin Xiangyu?
Li Pengfei: You have no idea, during the second evening self-study session, Yin Xiangyu suddenly ran into our classroom and scolded us for being heartless. She said we had worked hard to teach us for more than a year, and yet we still wrote letters to complain about her. It's ridiculous.
Lu Yanhe asked in surprise: "She found out about our complaint letter to the principal so quickly?"
Chou Tzu-yu: It seems that as soon as the principal finished eating and returned to his office, he glanced at the mailbox and saw the letter we had written. He immediately called over Teacher Liu and Yin Xiangyu.
Chen Yi: You know that?
Chou Tzu-yu: Hehe, I have an inside man. I can find out about all sorts of things at school from another group.
Chen Yi: ...
Mei Ping: The funniest thing is that she actually thinks Xu Zijun is the one who orchestrated all of this. Haha, she speaks so harshly, she's unworthy of being a teacher.
Lu Yanhe asked: What did she say?
Mei Ping: I won't go into details. Anyway, they said some very hurtful things, cursing Xu Zijun. Later, I stood up and said that I was the one who orchestrated it, and only then did she turn her attacks on me.
Li Cui: Mei Ping is incredibly powerful. She directly confronted Yin Xiangyu, leaving Yin Xiangyu speechless with her sharp retorts.
Mei Ping: That's true. The top students in our class are no worse than those in Class 4. Why should they score worse in history than those top students in their class? If it's not that Yin Xiangyu is holding back, then she must be giving her students extra tutoring.
Li Cui: I regret not taking a picture of Yin Xiangyu's face. You made her speechless after you confronted her.
...
Lu Yanhe roughly understood what was going on.
He never expected that so many exciting things would happen in the class while he was away for one evening self-study session.
well.
Xu Zijun suffered an undeserved misfortune—Lu Yanhe quickly figured out what was going on. He guessed that Yin Xiangyu thought Xu Zijun harbored resentment towards her after what happened with Hong Zhixing, so she planned this incident.
But Yin Xiangyu didn't know that almost all the students in Class 3 were annoyed with her and extremely dissatisfied with her.
With so many things happening to Xu Zijun lately, Lu Yanhe felt that Xu Zijun might need to have a good talk with someone to avoid letting things fester in her heart.
In the live stream, many people watched Lu Yanhe staring blankly at his phone for a long time, which was a bit strange to those who were familiar with his live streams.
—This is the first time I've seen Lu Yanhe spacing out for so long; it's just like how I get distracted when I'm reading.
—They're just relaxing. They've been studying intently for over three hours without even going to the bathroom.
—I'm truly impressed by him now. I thought he was just putting on a show, but I didn't expect him to actually livestream his studies until midnight every day.
—The first person in the entertainment industry to portray himself as a true academic genius.
The chat room is always bustling with activity.
(End of this chapter)
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