Zhuang Li calculated the time and finished his math, chemistry, biology, physics, and English papers. When it was his turn for the Chinese paper, he put down his pen and said calmly, "My mom is coming soon. Teachers, please correct my paper. I want her to see my results."
The Chinese textbooks in each world are different. Zhuang Li does not have the original owner's memories, so his Chinese grades will definitely be a mess. It would be better to find a way to turn it down.
Several teachers could fully understand his feelings and agreed immediately.
They'd been teaching for over a decade, and they'd never encountered a parent like Zhuang Xin. To curry favor with someone else's child, she'd suppressed her own. What was she thinking? What did she think of Zhuang Li? A tool to maintain her wealthy lifestyle?
Thinking of this, the teachers looked at Teng Xuan with more suspicion and condemnation.
Teng Xuan couldn't tolerate others being better than him, right? With such a narrow mindset, he wouldn't achieve much in society. This kid looked so good, but he was actually so complicated...
The teachers shook their heads and said nothing, but it made Teng Xuan feel very uncomfortable. He wanted to explain but couldn't find the words to speak.
More than ten minutes later, the test papers for each subject were corrected, and Zhuang Xin and Teng Wei also walked into the office at the same time.
Seeing the two people coming together, Teacher Zhou immediately waved, "Come on, Zhuang Li's mother, Teng Xuan's father, come over here." Finally, pointing at Teng Xuan, he said, "You too, come over here. All four of you sit over here. Let's have a meeting."
The other teachers returned to their seats, but glanced over here from time to time, full of curiosity about this reconstituted family.
Teng Xuan gritted his teeth and sat over, his eyes scanning the stack of test papers that Teacher Zhou was holding.
Teacher Zhou immediately noticed his movements and simply laid out several test papers on the table, pointing at them one by one: "Zhuang Xin's mother, these are Zhuang Li's actual scores. Please take a look."
Zhuang Li tilted his head and looked at Zhuang Xin. His expression seemed full of longing, but his dark pupils were covered with a layer of indifference.
After entering the office, the mother first looked at Teng Xuan, her smile gentle and endearing. Then she looked at her son, her lips twitching downward, revealing obvious annoyance. In her eyes, her son seemed to have long been synonymous with the term "debt collector."
Zhuang Li never believed that maternal love was innate.
If maternal love were truly an innate instinct, there wouldn't be so many children in the world who suffer misfortune. Zhuang Li grew up in an orphanage and met too many abandoned children, so he lost his admiration for mothers very early on.
He observed Zhuang Xin's every move indifferently and analyzed her psychology.
Zhuang Xin slowly flipped through the papers, thinking she understood what had happened. She said confidently, "Teacher Zhou, did you call me here because Zhuang Li cheated on the exam?"
Teng Wei immediately looked at his adopted son and said angrily, "If you don't do well on the test, then don't do well on the test. Why are you cheating? Do you think I will stop you from studying?"
After hearing this, Teacher Zhou's expression became even more subtle, and the other teachers also showed contempt.
These rich people really love to save face. They clearly don't want their children to study hard, yet they still say it in such a high-sounding way. With such a hypocritical father, it's no wonder Teng Xuan has such a bad character!
Several teachers looked at Teng Xuan and found that he was staring at Zhuang Li's test paper with a gloomy expression, which was very different from his usual gentle and reserved appearance.
So this is Teng Xuan’s true face, right?
No wonder Zhuang Li didn't dare to do well in the exam. If he really snatched the first place in the grade from Teng Xuan, he might not even be able to return to the Teng family in the future.
Teng Xuan was so shocked that he completely forgot to control his expression. He thought Zhuang Li was only good at math and might not be better than him in other subjects. However, he didn't expect him to complete five sets of tests in such a short time and get full marks on all of them.
Mathematics 150, English 150, Chemistry 100, Biology 100, Physics 100, which adds up to 600 points. Chinese is the easiest subject to score well, which means that Zhuang Li can easily surpass himself.
Teng Xuan was stunned, his head was buzzing, and he had no way of accepting the facts before him.
Teacher Zhou had originally intended to have a good conversation with Zhuang Xin and Teng Wei, but after hearing their indiscriminate comments, he became furious and slammed the table, saying, "Teng Xuan, play that phone recording for your father."
Teng Xuan had just woken up from the confusion when he heard these words, and his heart tightened again.
"I deleted it." He replied immediately.
"Teacher, I have it." Zhuang Li took out his mobile phone and pressed the play button.
Teng Xuan looked at him in disbelief, vaguely realizing that something was wrong! Where did Zhuang Li get this recording?
Teng Wei listened with his ears perked up for a while, and then his cheeks slowly turned red.
He looked at Zhuang Xin and said in disbelief, "You actually don't allow Zhuang Li to get good grades? Although he is not my biological child, I would be very proud if he could do well in the exam. Our Teng family is not so petty as to be so narrow-minded!
"He's your biological son. What are you thinking when you suppress him like this? Don't you consider his future at all? He's already in his third year of high school and will take the college entrance exam soon. If he doesn't get into a good school because of you, how will you make up for it?"
"This concerns his entire future! Are you using his future to pave your own way? I'm telling you, I, Teng Wei, am a real man, I stand tall and proud. I don't need a child to bend over backwards in front of me in order for him to live a peaceful life!"
It was not until this moment that he understood why several teachers looked at him with contempt.
He was so embarrassed that his face flushed and his neck thickened. He wanted to dig a hole in the ground and crawl into it! After all, he was a well-known figure in City B. How could he not even tolerate a child?
As a qualified father, Teng Wei always puts Teng Xuan's education first, so he cannot understand what Zhuang Xin does.
He suddenly realized that Zhuang Xin was a heartless woman. To please her husband, she even suppressed her own son. If one day his interests conflicted with hers, what would she do?
To put it bluntly, this woman doesn't love anyone, she only loves herself!
The more Teng Wei thought about it, the angrier he became. He turned to look at Teng Xuan, feeling even more disappointed. "You didn't do well on the test, so why are you crying to Zhuang Xin? Are you even a man? Is this how I teach you? Aren't you ashamed? You've disgraced the Teng family for eight lifetimes!"
As he spoke, he poked his son's forehead with his finger, his expression angry and embarrassed.
Teng Xuan was truly speechless. He hadn't cried to Zhuang Xin before, but Zhuang Li's grades had indeed been better than his when he first arrived at the Teng family. There had been a few instances where he'd looked gloomy, and Zhuang Xin might have noticed, leading to the subsequent suppression.
He was indeed narrow-minded and couldn't stand others being better than himself, but he tried hard to maintain an elegant and tolerant appearance. However, he didn't expect that this secret would be exposed to so many people because of a small mistake.
Teachers, classmates, and even his father—they all knew his true identity! This wasn't the plan! Things shouldn't have come to this!
Teng Xuan's mind was in a mess. He wanted to sort things out, but he couldn't escape this quagmire at all.
If she hadn't heard this recording, Zhuang Xin would have almost forgotten that her son's grades in junior high school were indeed very good. After she married into the Teng family, every time her son got his report card after a final exam, Teng Xuan would be gloomy for many days.
In order to please her stepson, she thought about it for a while, and then told her son not to get good grades in the exams anymore.
Later, Teng Xuan hired many tutors to give him extra lessons. His grades gradually improved, but his son became a worthless student. The family became harmonious and stable because of his son's disharmony.
Zhuang Xin is satisfied because her stepson is sensible and obedient and her husband is gentle and considerate.
As long as she could live well, what did her son's poor grades have to do with her? If he couldn't get into a good university, he could go out and work. After all, the Teng family had so many companies, and any one of them could hire her son as an employee and he would still be able to make a living.
The son's surname is not Teng, so he cannot get a share of the Teng family's property. Zhuang Xinzhi cannot rely on him, so how can she make plans for him?
Zhuang Xin thought so and did so. She was very good at understanding people's hearts, otherwise she wouldn't have praised the Teng family so much.
But now, looking at the furious Teng Wei and the embarrassed Teng Xuan, Zhuang Xin finally realized that she had made a wrong move.
After his son's rebound, the Teng family must have been the most embarrassed. What would others think when the news spread to the outside world?
The Teng Group is so huge, yet it can't even accommodate a minor! He even has to be polite to others when taking an exam. This is the only ability Teng Wei's carefully cultivated heir possesses. Who knows how the Teng Group will be ruined if it falls into Teng Xuan's hands. A genius heir? What a joke!
Without thinking too much, Zhuang Xin could guess what others would say about Teng Wei and Teng Xuan.
Wasn't it the same way she secretly mocked Teng Xuan when she ordered her son to deliberately do poorly on the test?
She hurriedly turned off the recording and defended herself, "I never said anything about not allowing him to do well in the exam. I really didn't!" But her guilty and flustered expression was enough to explain everything.
"Enough! Stop embarrassing yourself!" Teng Wei shouted angrily, then looked at Zhuang Li and smiled very gently and kindly: "Xiao Li, you misunderstood Uncle Teng. From now on, you can take the exam however you want without worrying about anyone.
"Your achievements are your own, and your future is your own. You must grasp it well. Your uncle will only support you and will not hinder you.
"If you can get into Yale or Harvard, your uncle will cover all your expenses abroad. I will spare no effort to cultivate you. Whatever Teng Xuan has, you will have. You are both my sons, there is no distinction between inside and outside."
After he finished speaking, he pressed down on his son's head and ordered, "Hurry up and apologize to Xiao Li! From now on, you two will compete fairly in your studies. Whether you do well on the exam or not is up to you. You can't blame anyone else. The men of our Teng family don't have petty minds like you."
Teng Xuan said humiliatedly, "I didn't cry. Aunt Zhuang misunderstood. But I am willing to apologize."
He had lived for seventeen years, and he had never felt so embarrassed and humiliated as he did today! Where was he supposed to be a poor student? Where was he supposed to be ridiculed by everyone? Why did he end up being the one being ridiculed?
Zhuang Li stared at the top of Teng Xuan's jet-black head and said slowly, "Uncle Teng, since you said we're in a fair competition, then I'm relieved. Teacher Zhou," he turned to look at the homeroom teacher and said lightly, "Has Teng Xuan qualified to represent the school in the National Knowledge Contest? If I'm more capable than him and can guarantee to win gold medals in major competitions, even international ones, shouldn't that spot be transferred to me?"
Teacher Zhou's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "Of course. Chongming has failed to win anything in international competitions for two consecutive years, and the students we selected are all the strongest. If you can defeat Teng Xuan, we will naturally let you compete in his place. There's no need to argue."
The competition field only follows the law of the jungle and absolutely no human feelings are considered. This is a truth that everyone understands.
To consolidate its position, expand its influence, and attract students, Chongming University needs numerous honors and accolades. Therefore, the school board attaches great importance to the annual International Knowledge Contest, selecting only the best talent in the school.
This year, the talent selected by Chongming is Teng Xuan, and he participated in three competitions in mathematics, physics and chemistry at the same time, making him an all-round player.
The school has high hopes for him and believes that he can at least win a first prize.
If Zhuang Li's performance was better than his, winning the gold medal would not be a myth.
Teacher Zhou was excited. He immediately asked the physics and chemistry teachers to bring out the most difficult set of competition papers and announced, "You two will compete now. Whoever gets the higher score will go to the competition."
Zhuang Li picked up the pen with a smile.
Teng Xuan suddenly opened his eyes wide, realizing something—
Is that what that diary entry was about? It wasn't a study schedule at all, it was a list of things to strive for! First place in class, first place in grade, national competitions, international competitions...
All the honors that Teng Xuan had in the past, currently had, and would have in the future would eventually fall into Zhuang Li's hands! He would no longer endure, he would begin to plunder!
Finally realizing the true intention of the diary entry, Teng Xuan couldn't stop trembling...
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