Chapter 32 Answer Sheet
Su Xia nodded reflexively, then shook her head.
"I don't care whether I want to or not. It depends on you."
Her fair ears turned a little red, and she nervously raised her finger and swore, "Don't get me wrong, even though your seat is probably right next to mine, I don't mean to copy your test paper."
"I just think that you're a competition student, but your transcript from the administration building isn't posted here. No matter how well you do on the test, the teachers and classmates here won't know about it. What a pity."
"As long as your grades are good, teachers and classmates will look up to you, and no one will care about the rumors. If someone like Li Rui comes looking for trouble again, everyone will speak up for you. The physical education teacher will definitely side with you since he sees that you have better grades than him."
Xu Jiqing looked at her, "What about you?"
As long as the grades are good.
Will she also stand by him and speak for him?
His emphasis was always odd.
Su Xia was confused for a moment before she understood what he meant, "I'm originally on your side."
She was worried about waking up the students around her, so she spoke in a low voice and unconsciously moved closer to Xu Jiqing. Her soft hair fell and slid across the boy's arms.
Light sweet fragrance.
It was warm, as if it still carried some of the girl's body temperature.
Even though there was a school uniform jacket between them, Xu Jiqing still felt half of his body stiffen.
Very itchy.
It felt like being scratched by a kitten's claws, not very hard, but the itch spread from his shoulder to his throat. His voice was a little hoarse, "Are you so sure that I can do better than him?"
Su Xia nodded without hesitation.
This boy disappeared for a year after giving up the national mathematics competition in his previous life. After repeating the exam, he appeared in the college entrance examination hall again and was admitted to Tsinghua University based on his raw scores.
Even if Su Xia didn't know this, she could be sure of it just through this month of contact.
People like Xu Jiqing, no matter where they are born, are definitely not ordinary people.
As long as he is given a little opportunity, he can do everything well, whether it is studying or other things.
"Who is he, who are you?"
Su Xia tilted her head halfway, the little rabbit on her hairband swaying. She spoke matter-of-factly, as if her question was ridiculous. "He's just Li Rui, but you're Xu Jiqing."
Xu Jiqing was still holding the chocolate she had given him. Because of the hot weather, it had melted a little and was as soft as plasticine.
He wanted to say something, but when he met the girl's bright almond-shaped eyes, he just pursed his lips.
He was not used to his name being pronounced in this tone, as if the three words "Xu Jiqing" did not carry hardship, darkness and compromise, but something great and brilliant.
"I'm just giving you a little advice, don't feel pressured."
Seeing that no one was talking, Su Xia thought that she had pushed her child too hard, and hurried back to make up for it, "...Aren't the textbooks here in Jiangcheng different from your hometown? You haven't been to class for a month, so it might be a bit too late to cram now. It's okay if you don't take the exam. There will be many opportunities in the future."
Xu Jiqing spoke very little this year.
Until Teacher Ding came in with the textbook, he just said "hmm", and it was unclear which sentence she was responding to before.
After an entire afternoon of self-study, Xu Jiqing took out a stack of brand new textbooks and flipped through the blank study plans just as school was about to end.
He read ten lines at a glance, his long black eyelashes drooping, faster than Su Xia reads novels.
In the sunset, Su Xia watched as the books on his desk were changed one after another with a cold expression. She thought he had given up after reading through them once, and sighed softly.
She felt a little regretful for talking too much, but was also afraid that he would be sad. After thinking it over, she reluctantly gave up and handed over the last piece of chocolate in the box.
Don't be sad, boss, this is just the beginning.
Your bright future lies ahead.
On the way home from school, Su Xia specially brought a cup of double espresso from the coffee shop, drank it in one breath, and struggled to climb into bed. Because her heart was beating so fast that she felt dizzy, she simply got up and recited the steps of the key questions that Xu Jiqing had circled for her.
When you don't care about test scores, this day is no different from any other day.
But this was the first time she wanted to prove herself so much.
The next morning, when the alarm clock rang, Su Xia didn't stay in bed for a minute. She got up with messy hair and went into the bathroom in her slippers.
His head was full of formulas and he was mumbling to himself.
She has been studying very hard these days and is like a completely different person. She didn't even ask to go out to play on the 11th.
Su Xiaojuan didn't know how many times she had been shocked, but she was still a little uncomfortable. "What time did you go to bed?"
"It was almost three o'clock. I don't remember."
Su Xia was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes. After squeezing the toothpaste, she poked the toothbrush against her face several times before putting it into her mouth. Her words were a little unclear.
Even if she didn't fill in the answer sheet correctly, except that her Chinese and English were slightly better, she would have been lucky enough to pass the test.
Su Xiaojuan didn't dare to have too high expectations. She didn't ask Su Xia to improve a certain number of places after the holiday. She was just worried that the other exam room would be full of poor students who didn't study, and her daughter would be bullied sitting there.
"You haven't been to an exam room this far back in your freshman year. I was chatting with your Aunt Zhang before, and I heard that the last two seats are either filled with athletes or hooligans. No one takes the exam seriously. Su Xia, you should pay attention when you take the exam."
"How they play is their business. Just do your own paper and ignore them. If someone wants to copy your answers, cover them up first. If they threaten you, raise your hand and ask the teacher to handle it. Don't confront them head-on, okay?"
The aftereffect of the espresso still lingers.
Su Xia gargled, nodded twice, and felt dizzy.
On the way to school, Su Xiaojuan kept nagging her, but she ignored it.
This drowsiness accompanied her into the ninth examination room, and finally dissipated once when the invigilator handed out the papers. A quarter of an hour after the exam began, it completely dissipated.
Su Xiaojuan’s reminder is actually not without reason.
At 8:30 in the morning, the whole grade was busy writing. Those who were absent from the ninth examination room were absent, those who were asleep were sleeping, and the only few who were awake were spinning pens and playing with erasers.
But this does not include the number 38 next to her.
The back door of the examination room was open, and the sunlight pouring into the corridor was bright and beautiful.
The boy's profile was cold, pale and thin, with thin eyelids drooping, as if he was completely focused on the test paper in front of him. However, he did not cover the filled-in answer sheet at all. He pressed it with an eraser and placed it directly on the edge of the table closest to Su Xia.
Su Xia: “…”
The invigilator was standing by the diagonal window and didn't pay attention to this side.
Su Xia felt very complicated. She resisted the urge to look and tried to lean forward to block her view from the other side.
This is the first and probably the last time I will visit the last examination hall in my life.
The person sitting next to her was not only the best of the best, but also turned the pages faster than she could read the questions, and was quite generous in giving her the answers to copy.
If she said that, Su Xiaojuan would probably think she was crazy, right?
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