Chapter 8 The Nanny's Niece's Counterattack
If you lose your job because of this, it's not worth it.
Lin Jinhui, being the type to listen to advice, said, "Okay, I understand." Although she felt a little embarrassed, she thought that what her niece said made some sense, so she decided to let it go.
Lin Wei then said in a coquettish tone, "Auntie, I know you're doing this for my own good. Don't worry, I'll let you know if anything happens. Take care of yourself while you're at work too." Even through the phone, you could feel her concern.
A warm feeling washed over Lin Jinhui, and she instantly forgot about the discomfort the younger generation had mentioned earlier. "Okay, I'll be careful," she thought to herself. "Girls are so considerate, unlike my nephews, none of them care about my health."
Even if it's just verbal, isn't it even more disheartening if it's not even verbal?
Qin Boyuan was passing by the flowerbed when he saw Lin Ma talking on her phone from afar, her smile more pronounced than he had seen in the past few years.
He knew almost without a doubt that she was talking to her niece. If anything had changed during this time, it was that she had come to S City.
Although he had never met Lin Wei, Qin Boyuan still had an impression of her. She was quite good at coaxing people. He thought of the nice things that Butler Xu had said for her last time, and how he had helped her transfer to the top class at No. 1 Middle School.
The fact that even Butler Xu could soften his heart suggests that he is no ordinary person.
Lin Wei was unaware that someone on the other end of the phone was speculating about her. After hanging up, she looked at the person who had come closer to her and blinked, asking, "What's up?" The two of them probably weren't close, were they?
Apart from Zhou Xueqing, she wasn't very familiar with anyone in the class. Anyway, after graduation, everyone would go their separate ways, so there was no need for any social interaction. So, what did Fang Yihuai want to do by coming to see her?
Fang Yihuai hesitated for a moment before saying, "You seem to have some issues with me." A rare hint of confusion flashed in her puppy-dog eyes. Although they hadn't exchanged many words, he could sense that she didn't like him that much. Why? Had he offended her somehow?
Lin Wei denied it, saying, "No." Her fair face showed no remorse, her gaze fixed on him. "That's your imagination. My attitude towards everyone is the same." But what she really thought was different. Why don't I like you? Isn't it because I'm jealous of your intelligence?
Anyone who has to study hard to avoid falling behind will feel incredibly envious when they see others who, besides attending classes and doing homework, have free time to do other things and still get first place.
If she had that kind of brain, her progress would be many times faster, and she wouldn't have to study so hard.
Fang Yihuai sensed her emotions again. He tilted his head, a look of surprise flashing in his dark eyes. Jealousy? That was a very unfamiliar word. He had only ever felt feelings of liking, envy, and admiration. This was the first time someone had ever been jealous of him, let alone because of his studies.
"What a strange person," Fang Yihuai thought, looking at the girl in front of him. Actually, secretly, the classmates all called her the class beauty. She had a bright and generous smile, and could talk to everyone. It was only because she was in the top class that she had so many suitors.
However, it was clear that Lin Wei only cared about studying. Although people would talk to her and joke around, they didn't really get to know her well. She seemed detached, but her appearance was quite deceptive, making people think she had a cheerful and confident personality.
Fang Yihuai could tell it was because he was the same kind of person, and he was a little curious whether she could surpass him.
Being number one all the time is pretty boring.
Soon, the second exam arrived, this time in English. Looking at the test paper, Lin Wei wondered how she could have been so bad at even such simple questions. Even though there were some words she didn't recognize, she could still guess their meaning from the overall meaning of the passage.
Needless to say, the listening comprehension section is a piece of cake. If you can master it in the system space, how could you possibly fail this little test?
So, including the 20 minutes for the listening section, she finished all the questions in just one hour.
Lin Wei looked at the English test paper, checked it twice, and only stopped after confirming that there were no problems.
Aside from deducting a few points from the essay, you'll also lose one or two points from other questions. Getting over 140 points should be a sure thing.
After the exam ended, everyone was talking about the answers. "This listening comprehension section was a bit too difficult." The listening comprehension in high school was significantly faster and the vocabulary was much more advanced compared to middle school.
Ji Dongling was unsure about many questions, and Zhou Xueqing was even more so. If the results came out, it would be a public humiliation. Last time, she only scored 110 points in math. If she did poorly in English, the game model her dad promised her would be gone.
"Lin Wei, what do you think of the difficulty of this exam?" Ji Dongling asked her, as if she couldn't beat her in math, surely she couldn't possibly do better in English?
Lin Wei: "I feel the reading comprehension is a bit difficult." She wasn't quite sure if she understood one of the questions correctly. However, Ji Dongling and Zhou Xueqing also thought the test was quite difficult for her.
I breathed a sigh of relief at that moment.
Having someone around who's incredibly competitive puts a lot of pressure on them. It's good that it's difficult, it's good that it's difficult. I mean, how could someone who only scored 120 on the middle school entrance exam possibly turn things around so quickly in high school?
Zhou Xueqing was still comforting her, "It's okay, this test was indeed quite difficult, it's alright even if you get a low score."
Lin Wei looked at her strangely after hearing this. Did she say she would do poorly on the test? However, it was too troublesome to explain, so she just nodded to show that she was listening.
Those nearby who had overheard their conversation withdrew their curious gazes and breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "I knew it! How could someone be so amazing? She just got a perfect score in math, and her English is improving like lightning." It seems she's just weak in math.
They generally assumed her English was mediocre, but three days later, when the test results came out, everyone looked at her in disbelief. "She actually got a perfect score! Did I hear that right?"
Some people even took a closer look at her score, and after confirming it was correct, their expressions became even more dazed.
For the first time, Zhang Mo and Gao Fuya looked at her with obvious respect for their competitor. Who wouldn't want to rank as high as possible?
Lin Wei did well on the exam, so they had one more competitor. Originally, Fang Yihuai was the only one they took seriously in the class, but now there was another one.
I just don't know if she only did well in math and English, or if she did well in all her other subjects.
Fang Yihuai was surprised but not at all when he heard about her results. He thought that with her hard work, she would succeed at anything.
If her grades continue like this, well, his first place might really be taken away. Thinking this, Fang Yihuai glanced at his test paper on his desk. Although it still showed a perfect score as always, he was starting to wonder if he'd been living too comfortably.
Because of this, he started to work harder, and the top student also started to work harder, which made the atmosphere in the class even more tense.
"Anyone who didn't know better would think we were about to take the college entrance exam right now." One student smiled wryly after seeing this and looked at the group of people.
Gao Fuya was looking at her English dictionary, while Zhang Mo was reading his physics book—not high school physics, but university physics. Fang Yihuai, needless to say, read a little bit of everything, but mostly Chinese composition books.
If it weren't for his poor performance in the Chinese composition section, he could have gotten a perfect score.
As for Lin Wei, she suddenly came into everyone's view with these two exams, she was a dark horse.
Lin Wei felt that she was still far from good enough, but in the eyes of her classmates, she was already considered a top student, even if she was only good at one subject.
And she's also a beautiful and academically gifted girl.
In fact, she wasn't the most beautiful in the school, but her scholarly air was something that people with only good looks couldn't match.
Only two people got full marks in English this time: she and Fang Yihuai. Even Gao Fuya only scored 149. Although it was only a one-point difference, it was enough to widen the gap between them.
In the presence of more outstanding individuals, even a single point difference can make one pale in comparison.
Zhou Xueqing was initially surprised, but then she praised her enthusiastically, "150 points! That's amazing!"
Although Lin Wei appeared calm and collected on the surface, she was secretly delighted. She hadn't expected to get a perfect score; she thought she would get at most 145.
However, the higher her score, the more worried she became about dropping in the next exam, and her sense of urgency intensified. The thought of everyone believing her to be a top student, only to fall short in the next test, filled her with unimaginable anxiety.
No, no, we absolutely cannot let this happen.
Lin Wei realized that this was not as good as when she was a poor student. At least when she did poorly on tests, no one would say anything.
Secretly, in the office, the teachers were also talking about them.
"I'm not surprised by Fang Yihuai and the others' scores, but Lin Wei's scores are truly unexpected." It's the first time I've seen someone improve so much.
It's like flying.
The Chinese teacher said, "I hope she does well on her Chinese test too." She was even planning when to arrange a test. But considering the current teaching progress, she decided against it. On the other hand, the physics teacher was thinking about when to give her a pop quiz to gauge her performance.
She can't possibly do well in English and math but not care about physics, can she?
Lin Wei was unaware that she would soon have another physics quiz; she was currently taking extra Chinese lessons. She planned to start with classical Chinese and reading comprehension, leaving poetry memorization for later, since she couldn't possibly memorize all that in a short time.
Okay, actually, she just didn't want to memorize it. Everyone wants to take a break sometimes.
What Lin Wei didn't expect was that the system would make an ancient person her teacher. Hearing Wen Jiujiu's voice, a look of confusion appeared on her face.
What?
What was he saying? Lin Wei finally understood why Zhou Xueqing looked confused when she heard her speak English.
She couldn't understand what the person in front of her was saying.
What classical Chinese phrases? I can do them... Can you speak something she can understand?
Perhaps sensing the confusion on her face, the teacher then translated what she had just said.
"Next, I will teach you classical Chinese, but unlike traditional teaching, I will not take a classical Chinese text and explain its meaning to you sentence by sentence."
"To get full marks in classical Chinese, you shouldn't approach it with the mindset of solving a problem, but rather with the mindset of a creator. When you can explain it yourself, those articles will naturally be no problem for you."
It's just like English. Once you can speak it, doing exercises is like doing Chinese. You can understand everything you read, and you just need to think.
Surprise flashed in Lin Wei's eyes. Wasn't this a case of dimensional reduction? Others were trying to understand the mindset of the creator when he wrote that classical Chinese text, while you had already understood what he wanted to say simply by being able to speak classical Chinese.
At that moment, Lin Wei's desire to learn reached its peak. Just thinking about how those classical Chinese texts were nothing to her made her feel impatient.
However, even with a strong will to improve, one's spirit can become weary, especially when starting from scratch.
You know how first graders learn pinyin, then they start by forming initials and finals to learn characters, and finally they form words. She's learning classical Chinese now, and it's going through a similar process.
But it's clear that classical Chinese is a bit more difficult.
Because of this, Lin Wei couldn't continue studying after a few hours. If it had a built-in lock like it did with math and English last time, she would naturally have no choice but to continue. However, since it didn't, she couldn't stand it anymore after studying in the system space for two hours and simply ran out.
Suddenly, Lin Wei realized how beautiful the world was, much more beautiful than the scenery in the system space. She looked at the scenery outside and thought, even the air seemed fresh and fragrant.
Downstairs in the dormitory, a calico cat was lying lazily in the grass. Lin Wei saw it and went downstairs to buy a sausage. When she came back and saw that the cat was still there, she breathed a sigh of relief and walked over to it.
"Mimi, come here." She beckoned to it.
Zhang Mo was leaning against a tree reading a book when she heard the sound and saw the person coaxing the cat. A look of speechlessness flashed across her usually taciturn face, especially when she saw that the person had taken a bite out of the sausage she had already opened because the cat wasn't coming over.
"It smells so good." Lin Wei herself was amused by her own behavior, and a bright smile appeared on her elegant face. "Hahaha." Her laughter was as clear and crisp as a bell, and anyone who heard it would feel happy.
The cat eventually came over, meowing at her, and wasn't afraid of people at all.
Lin Wei handed the sausage to it, and seeing it eat it, she praised it, "You're so beautiful, a beauty in the cat world."
"How about I call you Flower?" she muttered to herself, not caring whether the cat lived or died.
From Zhang Mo's direction, he could see the cat's expression, its eyes filled with a sense of utter despair, as if to say, "Do you think it's easy for me to eat something?"
Upon seeing this, the usually expressionless man's lips curved into a slight smile, revealing a rather cold and stern expression.
Lin Wei only noticed him when she turned her head. Her expression froze for a moment, but she quickly smiled and asked, "Zhang Mo, what are you doing here?" He was so quiet, it was a little scary.
Zhang Mo picked up the book in his hand and waved it, "I'm reading."
Lin Wei felt she shouldn't have asked that question. She had just managed to relax for a moment, and he had dragged her back to the painful study she had been going through just a few hours earlier.
Just then, Zhang Mo spoke up, "The calico you just fed was raised by the students themselves. Its name isn't Hua Hua, it's Xing Hua."
Lin Wei glanced at the cat that had already run far away. "Is that so? Okay." To some extent, she and the first person who named it were quite in sync, both having the character "flower" in their names: Xinghua and Huahua, aren't they both flowers?
However, she was quite surprised that he knew about these things; she thought he didn't care about anything.
Zhang Mo then asked, "How's your physics?"
Lin Wei looked puzzled. "Why are you asking this?"
Zhang Mo didn't hide anything, "When I went to the office to hand in my homework yesterday, I heard the physics teacher say that there would be a pop quiz next Monday. He hopes your physics is as good as your math and English." If her physics was also good, then he would have one more person to invite.
Zhang Mo participated in a physics research competition. The team needed three people. Besides himself, he planned to invite Fang Yihuai and Gao Fuya. However, if there was a better option, he would like to invite her instead.
However, at this moment, Lin Wei couldn't hear anything else. Only one sentence echoed in her mind: the exam was next Monday. She had just prepared to spend time on Chinese, and now physics was coming first—wasn't she allowed to rest? Most importantly, if he hadn't suddenly brought it up with her, wouldn't she have known about it until the day of the quiz?
Oh my god.
Lin Wei felt a wave of despair wash over her, but no matter how much she panicked, she didn't show a single flaw on her face. Zhang Mo, seeing this, only felt that she was very calm and confident, and that the quiz next Monday shouldn't be too difficult for her. Perhaps he should consider whether to invite Gao Fuya, who had always had excellent grades, or this dark horse who had suddenly appeared.
There's also the question of whether they'll accept it. Although Zhang Mo doesn't think anyone will refuse, what if they do?
After they parted ways, Lin Wei went back and started randomly flipping through her books, but she really didn't know what the test points would be. Could it be the knowledge she had been taught recently? But what if it wasn't? She had forgotten almost everything she learned in junior high school.
Fortunately, Zhou Xueqing went home this weekend, otherwise her appearance alone would have been enough to overturn the impression she had of her.
Lin Wei comforted herself, "No rush, no rush, there's still one day left." The worst outcome would be the shattering of her academic star status, but that's not a big deal.
However, she had only been sitting there slacking off for a short while when she couldn't help but stand up and say to herself, "Absolutely not." She had worked so hard to improve her reputation, how could she let it all go to waste because of something as trivial as physics?
Full marks, it must be full marks.
How can she surpass those geniuses if she doesn't get full marks?
So after a short while, she still entered the system space to study. On the bright side, at least she had time to cram at the last minute, unlike her classmates. Lin Wei thought to herself, trying to find some humor in her predicament.
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