Zeng Han blushed, taken aback by her words. "You're just spouting nonsense without any evidence!"
Ruan Chen smiled gently, "It's alright, Teacher Zeng. Let me help you recall what happened that day. On my first day in class, I was quietly reading in the second-to-last row when you told the whole class that I ranked over 60,000th in the province in the high school entrance exam, and that my uncle had come to the school to pull strings to get me in... Teacher, is it fun to use others to do your dirty work and sow discord?"
Zeng Han's hidden thoughts were easily exposed by Ruan Chen, making Zeng Han's eyes red with anger. "What nonsense are you talking about! Isn't what I said true? What did I say wrong?"
"Tsk, you're already on guard?" Ruan Chen shook his head. "What you're saying isn't true, it's just some extremely superficial things you've seen—if you've ever tried to understand your students, you'll see in my admissions materials that I missed the first day of the high school entrance exam, but I got full marks in all the other subjects."
Before Zeng Han could react, a boy who had been looking down at his book and had never participated in the discussion suddenly looked up at the slender, straight back and asked, "Ruan Chen, did you represent Huating Academy in the National Mathematics Competition?"
That was Bo Nian.
He ranked first in the province in the high school entrance examination.
He naturally occupied the most central position in the class, surrounded by everyone.
He raised his sharp eyebrows slightly and looked at Ruan Chen.
He had felt the name was familiar until just now.
"I participated."
There's no denying it; any search engine can find it, and it's even written in Ruan Chen's enrollment materials.
Bo Nian looked at Zeng Han and said, "Teacher, I believe that Ruan Chen did not cheat."
Zeng Han was hoping that Bo Nian would get the top score in the province in the college entrance examination, which would bring her a considerable bonus, so she spoke in a particularly gentle tone, "Bo Nian, why are you making a fuss? I know you are kind and can't bear to see Ruan Chen drop out of school, but cheating is a matter of principle."
Bo Nian looked at Ruan Chen, “In the 26th National Mathematics Competition, Ruan Chen from Huating Academy was the first in the province—'Ruan' is not a common surname, and the probability of two people with the same name at Huating Academy is even lower.”
The whole class fell into dead silence.
Some people have already taken out their phones to check the list of winners from that year.
Ruan Chen remained calm and composed, as if it were none of her business, and even secretly yawned.
If Yu Xiaoya had a tail, it would be wagging its tail to the sky by now. "I told you our Ruan Chen is a genius. Now you know how amazing Ruan Chen is, right?"
“Teacher,” Bo Nian lowered his sharp eyebrows and pushed up his square black-rimmed glasses, “you really haven’t really looked into Ruan Chen. This is all public information, including her high school entrance exam scores, which were all reported to her homeroom teacher when she enrolled.”
Zeng Han was completely stunned.
If that's the case, then she has been suppressing a genius who is even more outstanding than Bo Nian as trash all along!
She suddenly understood why Feng Yuankai had been so supportive of Ruan Chen that day. Based on her first-place ranking in the provincial national mathematics competition, even disregarding her middle school entrance exam scores, she was more than qualified to enter the top class!
After a brief moment of dizziness, Zeng Han became even angrier—appearance, family background, even learning ability, why is it that some people are born with all of these things so easily!
Bo Nian quietly observed Ruan Chen's indifferent expression, then suddenly asked, "Is this interesting?"
Ruan Chen was taken aback by the question, and was even unsure if Bo Nian was talking to her.
Bo Nian spoke coldly, looking at Ruan Chen with a frown and accusing her, "You deliberately pretended to be at the bottom to get in through connections, and then deliberately gave mediocre grades in the first two weekly tests. When everyone thought you were a good-for-nothing, you deliberately missed one subject in the diagnostic test and got full marks in the others. That way, when everyone laughed at you for being last and accused you of cheating, you could bring out your competition results from back then to prove that you didn't cheat and steal the limelight."
Bo Nian looked at Ruan Chen with utter disdain. "Ruan Chen, I don't understand what your purpose is in doing this, but it's really boring."
Even with Ruan Chen's composure and mental fortitude, she was so angry at this nonsensical accusation that she laughed.
She asked calmly, "Bo Nian, have I offended you?"
Bo Nian paused for a moment, his sharp eyes behind his glasses flashed for a second, then hardened again, and said, "No, I just can't stand it."
Ruan Chen was truly exhausted. A hint of impatience flashed across her face. Too lazy to pay attention to Bo Nian, she turned to Zeng Han and prepared to have her sign the withdrawal application as soon as possible.
If I had known there would be so much trouble, I would have gone to No. 2 High School.
"Bo Nian, are you out of your mind? This is the best in the whole province?!" Yu Xiaoya was the first to object. She also had a fiery temper, otherwise she wouldn't have directly confronted Ruan Chen back then.
She pushed the table aside, stood up abruptly, turned to look at Bo Nian, raised her chin, and retorted, "Deliberately pretending to be at the bottom? Did Ruan Chen shout about her grades through a megaphone? Did Ruan Chen say she got in through connections? Who brought this up?"
"Furthermore, people can score however many points they want. Haven't you heard that real academic geniuses control their scores? Ruan Chen can achieve an arithmetic sequence score because she has the ability. Why are you all so idle, staring at other people's grades?"
"And about the competition results, it was you, Bo Nian, who brought it up. Ruan Chen had already written her withdrawal application. What business is it of yours here? If it weren't for your jumping around here, No. 2 High School would have held an entrance ceremony for Ruan Chen! How come it's suddenly Ruan Chen showing off? First in the whole province? I think you're either stupid or malicious!"
Ruan Chen couldn't help but chuckle softly.
Yu Xiaoya couldn't stand it and really confronted him.
Bo Nian was stunned by the rebuttal.
It seems... to be true.
Ruan Chen herself has never been boastful or said anything; it has always been just gossip in the class, and she has been too lazy to explain or get involved.
It's Ruan Chen's business how many points she wants to get, but why did she... lose her composure just now?
His face flushed red.
Ruan Chen remained standing there, showing no sign of anger, only a faint smile playing on her lips.
Just as Bo Nian was about to see clearly, the smile vanished.
His tone was somewhat relaxed, and he stammered an apology before asking, "Then...why did you miss the high school entrance exam? And the diagnostic test a few days ago?"
Ruan Chen lowered her eyes, and when she looked up again, her eyes were filled with tears, and her tone was sad.
"On the first day of the high school entrance exam, my father suddenly suffered kidney failure at home and was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment. I really couldn't concentrate on the exam and stayed at the hospital with him."
"A few days ago, my father had his left kidney removed. I went to the hospital in the morning, which caused me to miss the exam."
Ruan Chen sighed sadly, "Everyone knows about my family situation and my father's identity. I hope you can keep this a secret for me."
Sighs drifted through the classroom.
Bo Nian: I deserve to die.
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