While licking her sweet ice cream, Ruan Chen listened to Ruan Luo's wailing upstairs and couldn't help but swing her legs.
Ruan Yu'er hadn't recovered yet and was still sobbing, but that didn't stop her from eating ice cream.
Ruan Chen felt that Ye Huanhuan, as a stepmother, was truly capable of handling things; she was genuinely strict when necessary.
Just then, Nguyen Chinh Duc walked over with Nguyen Van Lou.
Ruan Chen quickly got off the sofa and stood up straight. "Dad, Grandpa Wenlou."
"Chenchen, Uncle Lou has served three generations of the Ruan family. To help you adapt to life here as soon as possible, Uncle Lou will temporarily become your personal butler and take care of your food, clothing, and shelter."
Ruan Wenlou bowed slightly. "Miss, please feel free to ask me for anything I need."
Ruan Yu'er jumped down and tugged at Ruan Zhengde, "Daddy, Daddy, I want one too!"
Ruan Zhengde gently rubbed her little face. "Don't you have several nannies? I only have one sister."
Ruan Yu'er thought about it and agreed. She nodded and jumped back onto the sofa to play on her tablet.
“Chenchen, Dad knows about your previous studies. Although you are in second grade, you are old enough to go directly into sixth grade. Is it okay if we arrange for you to enter sixth grade directly? The sixth grade curriculum may be difficult for you, so Dad will hire a tutor for you to have extra lessons.”
Ruan Chen shook her head. "Dad, I want to go straight to junior high school."
Although she felt nauseous every time she called out "Dad," she knew that she needed Ruan Zhengde to make herself strong and independent.
Ruan Zhengde smiled and said, "The curriculum in junior high school is completely different from that in elementary school. Chenchen, you can't rush things. How about we try sixth grade first?"
Ruan Chen didn't want to waste a year in elementary school; she knew her own talent.
"Dad, my brother should have some junior high school exam papers. Could you please find one for me? I'd like to try it out."
Ruan Zhengde hesitated for a few seconds, then said, "Okay."
When he came downstairs again, Ye Huanhuan and Ruan Luo followed him down.
Ye Huanhuan was surprised to hear that Ruan Chen wanted to do junior high school exam papers directly, so she specially printed out several blank exam papers of different difficulty levels, all of which Ruan Luo had done before.
Ruan Luo's eyes were still swollen from crying, and she glared fiercely at the innocent-looking Ruan Chen with a defiant expression.
This mistress's daughter is definitely not someone to be trifled with!
Ruan Chen took the test paper and immediately started working on it.
Ruan Luo glanced at Ruan Chen's scrawled handwriting and let out a loud, cold laugh.
A little illiterate boy whose handwriting is worse than a dog's scribbles, yet he dares to do his own test?
He deliberately crossed his arms and muttered, "Little illiterate! Can't even hold a pen!"
Ruan Chen knew her handwriting was bad, but she ignored Ruan Luo.
This was the first time in her life that she had encountered a clean, blank exam paper, and when she put pen to paper, she felt a sense of luxury.
This was a physics exam paper. Ruan Chen didn't even use scratch paper. He lowered his eyes to read the questions and then wrote down his solutions.
Ruan Zhengde said, "Chenchen, you can't just stare at the answer and guess when you're doing problems. You have to write down your thought process on scratch paper and deduce it step by step."
“Dad, there are only a few steps. I can calculate it in my mind. Writing it down would just be a waste of time.”
Ruan Luo thought to herself, "Keep pretending, keep pretending!"
Ruan Chen finished the questions, which took an hour and a half to complete, in just half an hour.
Although, in the eyes of the others, Ruan Chen was completely "fooled".
To take care of Ruan Chen's feelings and let her know that learning should be done step by step, Ye Huanhuan, although she thought it was unnecessary, still took out a red pen and solemnly corrected her work.
Ye Huanhuan finished making the changes in half a minute.
Ruan Zhengde, who was reading a newspaper nearby, asked, "How many did Chenchen get right?"
He also realized that his daughter was probably guessing the answer.
"...All correct. Although Chenchen didn't write out the steps for the later problem-solving questions, her answers were still correct."
"How is that possible!" Ruan Luo was the first to lose her composure, snatching Ruan Chen's test paper and checking the answers herself.
Absolutely correct!
"It doesn't count! Mom, look, she didn't even write out the solution steps, so she can't get any points!"
Ye Huanhuan patiently explained, "Your sister only attended elementary school for two years, so no one taught her the correct way to solve problems. But Mom remembers that you didn't pass this test back then, right?"
Ruan Luo was even angrier.
"This is my test paper from the first year of junior high school. I'm in the third year of junior high school now!"
While playing on her tablet, Ruan Yu'er took Ruan Chen's test paper without her noticing. Seeing that it was covered in red checkmarks, she exclaimed admiringly, "Sister is so amazing!"
Ruan Chen's heart skipped a beat.
This was the first time Ruan Yu'er had called her "sister".
She lowered her head and said encouragingly, "You'll be even better than me in the future!"
"Okay!" Ruan Yu'er clenched her fists, nodded emphatically, and stopped playing on her tablet. "I'm going to study now!"
Ye Huanhuan looked at the test paper over and over again, her eyes filled with excitement. "Zhengde, Chenchen is a genius!"
Ruan Chen thought to herself, "I already knew that," but still humbly said, "I've been studying on my own, and I don't really know my own level... Is my brother in the third year of junior high? I'd like to see the third-year junior high exam papers."
"Wait here, I'll get it for you!" Ye Huanhuan seemed even more excited than Ruan Zhengde, running up and down the stairs.
She took a math set this time.
Ruan Chen felt that the junior high school exam papers were much more difficult for her. By the time she finished, it was already past ten o'clock. Ruan Yu'er came down twice in between and showered Ruan Chen with compliments, which made Ruan Luo's face turn pale with anger.
He had doted on his younger sister for ten years, and the two of them had agreed to stand together against outsiders, but she was turned against him right from the start by the mistress's daughter with a perfect score on her test paper!
Ruan Chen deliberately made some mistakes, and combined with some knowledge points that she genuinely didn't know, she scored 83 out of 120 on the test.
Ruan Chen estimated that she could do 110, but she still held back.
She instinctively felt that being too sensational wouldn't work; being just right was enough.
In the end, Ruan Zhengde and Ye Huanhuan decided to let Ruan Chen transfer to the second year of junior high school.
Before going to bed, Ye Huanhuan took Ruan Chen to the bathroom.
"This is your closet, and on this shelf are your towels, bath sponges..."
"This is shampoo, and then this is..."
"This is the bathtub. The switch is here. If you feel the water temperature isn't right......"
"By the way, you should be on your period by now, right? This is for you... If you experience any allergic reaction or discomfort after using it, just let me know..."
Ruan Chen felt a lump in her throat.
If Cong Rao hadn't experienced Ruan Zhengde's betrayal and been left penniless and homeless, she probably would have become such a gentle mother, right?
She misses her mother.
Ye Huanhuan gently took off her clothes, and when she saw Ruan Chen's thin frame and old wounds, tears streamed down her face.
She felt increasingly sorry for this overly clever little girl, and even felt fortunate that she had left that environment and come to her side.
While taking a bath, Ruan Chen asked innocently, "Auntie, how old is my brother this year? He's so tall, how come he's only in the third year of junior high school?"
Ye Huanhuan used a bath sponge to create foam and applied it to Ruan Chen's body. "Brother is fifteen this year. In September, brother will be able to go to high school."
Ruan Chen casually pushed the timeline, which meant that Ye Huanhuan gave birth to Ruan Luo, and then that scumbag Ruan Zhengde went to Meicheng and got Cong Rao pregnant.
I don't know what kind of spell he cast on Ye Huanhuan, that she could tolerate this.
But Ye Huanhuan is also quite love-struck. Let's see how this stepmother behaves later. If she is indeed a good person, I might consider helping her cure her love-struck tendencies.
Ruan Chen frowned deeply, thinking that it would probably be just like in the TV shows, with Ruan Zhengde crying and admitting his mistake, saying that he had only made a mistake that all men make.
Bah! What you owe my mother, I'll pay her back, one by one, sooner or later!
Ruan Chen was so engrossed in thinking that she actually spat it out.
"Chenchen? What's wrong?"
Ruan Chen came to her senses and said, "I'm sorry, Auntie, something just went into my mouth. It tastes so bitter."
"It's probably just shower gel. It's okay, just rinse your mouth."
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