Seeing Wen Li's dazed expression, Zheng Ke's heart pounded, and he liked her more and more.
Wen Li's face flushed red, but she wasn't unhappy at all. On the contrary, she was surprised that someone liked her so much.
Fortunately, the morning reading bell rang at that moment. Chu Mingtai stepped into the classroom a second later, paused for two seconds on Wen Li and Zheng Ke, and then told the students to return to their seats.
After morning reading, the class representative went to the teacher's office to inquire about the monthly exam results.
A short while later, several class representatives walked into the classroom with the test papers.
Wen Li looked at the test papers coming down one by one, feeling a little uneasy. After the exam, she roughly estimated her score, which was much higher than her entrance exam score, but for a class full of top students, her score was not good enough.
Wen Li never wastes her energy internally.
Other people's grades are just a reference. No matter how good the grades are, they are still someone else's. As long as she gets a little better than each other, that's progress.
There's always someone better, and chasing after one person only to have another one appear—that's exhausting.
"Wen Li, here's your test paper." At that moment, a classmate handed the test paper to Wen Li.
After what happened with Wen Sirou, the classmates seemed to speak to Wen Li in a much gentler tone.
The student in front of Wen Li passed her test paper. When they saw that Wen Li's score was obviously not good enough, they still couldn't help but praise her, saying, "Your math score has improved so quickly. You got all the basic questions right."
When Wen Li took the test paper, she found that her math score, which was 8 points last time, had increased to 48 points this time.
That's a full forty points higher!
The student's voice was a bit loud, and people around looked over.
"Wen Li, you've improved so quickly!"
"Wen Li, you're amazing!"
Perhaps because they saw what happened online, the classmates knew that Wen Li had never been to school and had suffered hardships in her childhood, and they suddenly developed a liking for her.
Apart from the few girls who initially fawned over Wen Sirou and were still rolling their eyes, the rest of the class sided with Wen Li.
Wen Li was a little embarrassed and explained, "I do a lot of math problems every day."
Even with a photographic memory, she couldn't master the knowledge of junior and senior high school in one go. Her score in a single subject improved by forty points in a month, which was already beyond her expectations. Wen Li had nothing to complain about.
The first class after returning from the National Day holiday was English. The English teacher praised Wen Li highly, and even teachers from other subjects said that Wen Li had made rapid progress.
Wen Li had never been praised by so many people in one day before. She felt elated all day, and her enthusiasm for learning increased even more.
Seeing Wen Li burying herself in her studies every day, Zheng Ke couldn't help but ask, "Xiao Li, why are you working so hard?"
Upon hearing this, Wen Li looked up from her studies and stared at Zheng Ke with a puzzled expression, seemingly not understanding what he meant.
Shouldn't people strive to do their best?
Zheng Ke clearly understood the confusion in Wen Li's eyes and said, "What I mean is that your family is so rich that you can have endless money for the rest of your life without having to work hard. Moreover, your father and brother spoil you so much that it doesn't matter if you do poorly on your exams. Unlike us, who are ordinary families, we need to go to university and have a decent and well-paying job in the future."
"Because I want to get into a good university." Wen Li thought for a moment and said very seriously, "To be fashionable."
"Huh?" Zheng Ke was so shocked by Wen Li's explanation that he was speechless.
“There’s a difference between educated and uneducated people,” Wen Li said with certainty. “What if my family goes bankrupt if I don’t work hard? And if I don’t work hard, I probably won’t even understand when people are criticizing me, which would be too embarrassing.”
More importantly, if she gets into university and obtains a bachelor's degree, she can then take the Taoist priest exam and be qualified to open a Taoist temple in the future.
But Wen Li didn't say this, because even if she did, Zheng Ke wouldn't understand.
"Of course, I want to make money in the entertainment industry in the future. If I can't even get into university, wouldn't that disappoint my fans?"
“That’s true.” Zheng Ke nodded, subconsciously putting Wen Li in her shoes.
Given Wen Li's situation, most fans don't actually have high expectations of her.
However, Wen Li's rival fans will definitely use her academic background to mock her in the future.
Thinking about it this way, Zheng Ke felt more and more that his son's thinking was comprehensive.
On Friday after school, the whole family knew that Wen Li had scored 350 points on her monthly exam. The entire Wen family was waiting at the school gate early in the morning. Except for Xu Yurong, everyone was quite happy.
Wen Xingming booked a hotel to celebrate, and the family elders tacitly prepared gifts for him.
The next day arrived in the blink of an eye, and Helian Zhao drove a police car to find Wen Li.
He and Wen Li had arranged to report to the Celestial Masters Association this weekend to start their jobs. After breakfast, Wen Li waited for Helian Zhao to come over in the living room.
Wen Yanchu was tutoring Xu Yurong with her homework, while Xu Yurong was playing mahjong with her friends. The sound of mahjong tiles being rubbed could be heard from the next room from time to time.
Seeing Helian Zhao standing at the door, Wen Yanchu quickly had the servants invite him in.
The Wen family treated their guest with great hospitality. After taking a couple of sips of warm tea, Helian Zhao explained the situation.
Wen Li had previously told her family that Wen Tingsong had also asked someone to investigate after he found out that what Helian Zhao said was true, and the family fully supported Wen Li's decision.
Wen Li got into Helian Zhao's police car. An hour later, the blue and white police car drove to the outskirts of the city. The surrounding area changed from towering high-rise buildings to narrow roads, and all around were mountains except for the flat roads.
As the car drove deeper into the mountains, the road gradually widened until the police car finally stopped in front of a quaint courtyard house.
The entire courtyard house is decorated in brown and white, with two ancient stone lions in front, which look quite old.
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