Green Tea Top Student Falls in Love with Me - Chapter 16

During evening self-study, the students were, as usual, heads down, catching up on homework. Shi Wangui originally belonged to this group, but this time was different she had finished her homework, and with high accuracy at that.

After all, even copying required manual effort, so it still counted as finishing it herself.

“A miracle.”

“Heavens.”

“Earth.”

“Shut the hell up.” After Wang Hu’s triple exclamation of surprise, Shi Wangui couldn’t hold back. Was it really such a big deal that she hadn’t copied from him this time? Besides, his accuracy definitely wasn’t as high as Wen Youren’s.

“Alright, grandma.” Wang Hu promptly shut his mouth.

“Wanwan, did you do this homework yourself?” Sun Yi compared Shi Wangui’s and the class monitor’s assignments. The answers were ridiculously similar. If Shi Wangui had done it herself, Sun Yi would eat the homework.

“Copied it.”

“Who did you copy from?” Sun Yi pressed on. “The accuracy is so high. Look, it’s almost identical to the class monitor’s.”

Shi Wangui paused for a second, glancing subtly at Wen Youren beside her. Wen Youren seemed uninterested in the commotion, quietly doing her own homework. “My phone. Copied from my phone.”

Wen Youren looked up. “Yes, I can attest to that.”

Silence fell…

Did she just speak? She spoke? She said she could attest to it? This is insane.

“Students, settle down.” The homeroom teacher, clicking in her stilettos, stepped onto the podium and clapped her hands to get everyone’s attention.

“We have an exam tomorrow. Before school ends tonight, remember to turn your desks around, leaving half of the desk outside. You can keep your books inside, but not a single book is allowed to remain in the classroom. Understood?”

“Understood.”

“I don’t mind if you perform poorly, but keep any dishonest thoughts to yourselves. Everyone must show their true abilities. Only by doing poorly can you improve. Is that clear?”

“Understood.”

It wasn’t class time yet, so the homeroom teacher had only come to make an announcement. Since there was no point in staying in the classroom, she clicked her way back to the office.

“The homeroom teacher always says that, but if you do poorly, she’d probably want to twist your head off,” Sun Yi remarked, turning to chat with Shi Wangui as soon as the teacher left.

“It’s fine. She doesn’t even bother with people like us,” Shi Wangui chuckled. “Someone has to be at the bottom. We’re just fulfilling our duty by occupying those spots. Others should thank us.”

“Have some ambition,” Wang Hu teased.

“Shut your mouth,” Sun Yi and Shi Wangui said in unison.

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With the exam tomorrow, the students during evening self-study were all cramming frantically. Even last-minute studying could offer some comfort, at least psychologically.

But Shi Wangui wasn’t among them. There was nothing for her to cram she couldn’t manage it anyway. She was bound to be last, no doubt about it. Might as well catch up on some sleep.

Just as she closed her eyes, however, she felt the light in front of her blocked, darkening her surroundings. When she opened her eyes, she was met with a stack of notebooks taller than her head.

What in the world?

“You’re awake.” Wen Youren tilted her head and smiled, pointing at the pile of notebooks. “I prepared some review materials for you.”

“I don’t need them,” Shi Wangui took a deep breath and said, word by word.

Wen Youren tapped her fingers on the notebook, her pale, slender fingers drumming randomly as if keeping rhythm to some music. The bones of her delicate, fair wrist were clearly visible, and even a simple red string bracelet looked beautiful on her.

“You can read the first chapter tonight and learn about set theory. You might even score five points,” Wen Youren said, completely ignoring Shi Wangui’s words.

“Are you deaf?” Shi Wangui straightened up. “I said I don’t need it. Are you know?”

But Wen Youren paid her no mind and started working on her own materials. This exam would be her first major test since transferring. If she ranked first, there was a scholarship for the top student, and then she could finally break free from Wen Yiyue.

Wen Yiyue was a monster, she hated her deceased ex-husband and the only daughter he left behind.

Shi Wangui: “…”

This person was definitely doing it on purpose. People always said first impressions were the most accurate, and her instant dislike for Wen Youren was purely because the girl radiated an annoying aura. She had been sleeping perfectly fine, only to be rudely awakened, and now Wen Youren had stopped arguing and was just doing her own thing.

Damn it, unbelievable.

Shi Wangui lay back on the desk, but Wen Youren kept writing. With her ear pressed so close to the surface, the sound of pen on paper felt like noise exceeding the decibel limit, grating on her nerves and making her increasingly irritable.

The worst part was that Wen Youren wasn’t in the wrong Shi Wangui was. After all, it was self-study time, and doing homework was the right thing to do.

Shi Wangui couldn’t sleep anymore, nor did she want to. Leaning back in her chair, she crossed her legs and scanned the classroom.

Maybe she should skip class. It was just too boring.

As soon as she put her feet down, Wen Youren said, “If you skip, I’ll report you.”

Shi Wangui: “…”

“Even if I’m going to the bathroom, you have to interfere?”

“Would that be so strange?” Wen Youren set down her pen, teasing. “We’re both girls. I could go to the bathroom too.”

Shi Wangui was speechless. She grabbed the top notebook and flipped through it casually. It was a math notebook, filled with strings of numbers and formulas that made her head ache, her eyes hurt, and her whole body feel sore.

What was the point of learning all these numbers? She couldn’t understand them, couldn’t memorize them. They say everyone has their own talents, and people should accept their weaknesses like her academic abilities.

She comforted herself inwardly. Her grades hadn’t always been bad; otherwise, she wouldn’t have gotten into a key high school. But she didn’t want to make Shi Qin happy. She had given up studying because someone once praised Shi Qin: “Even with such a busy schedule, you still manage to take such good care of your child’s studies.” Shi Wangui refused to accept it, why should he be praised? What had he actually done?

Even though the outcome hurt her more in the end, she was fine with it.

“If there’s anything you don’t understand, you can ask me,” Wen Youren offered generously, seeing that Shi Wangui had started looking at the book.

“No need,” Shi Wangui refused. “The best help you can give me is to shut up.”

She hadn’t realized before that Wen Youren talked so much. Usually, the girl was quiet, always buried in her books, wearing a gloomy expression as if someone owed her millions. Why had she suddenly changed so much lately?

Maybe it was a magnetic field disturbance or something. Anyway, she needed some excuse to explain this unreasonable phenomenon.

As dismissal approached, following the homeroom teacher’s usual instructions, desk mates were to leave one desk in the classroom for exams and move the other desk outside with both of their books, which somewhat helped prevent books from going missing.

At first, people often lost this or that taking an exam felt like starting a new semester, with someone always needing to repurchase or reorder something.

Shi Wangui didn’t want to leave her desk behind. Some quiet students during exams would take good care of it, but there were also those bored ones who would carve things into the desk with pens or compasses.

What annoyed her the most before were some boys carving things like “Beauty + [contact number],” leaving their numbers as if their faces were as big as plates. Shameless not only did they not care for others’ belongings, but they also acted like they were stars fought over by everyone.

“You can put your books on my desk. I’m taking mine outside,” Shi Wangui said to Wen Youren.

Wen Youren just glanced over, then gathered all her textbooks and placed them on Shi Wangui’s desk, packing the remaining review materials into her backpack to take back to the dorm.

It was then that Shi Wangui noticed Wen Youren’s books there were really a lot of them, but oddly, many were duplicates. Did this person have too much money and nowhere to spend it, buying several copies of the same material?

But that was someone else’s money. She couldn’t feel too possessive about a stranger’s finances. Whatever Wen Youren was thinking, Shi Wangui wouldn’t do the same if it were her.

“Wanwan, my mom said she’s making pancakes tomorrow morning and will make one for you too. Remember not to eat breakfast tomorrow,” Sun Yi said, standing beside Shi Wangui.

“Please thank your mom for me,” Shi Wangui replied with a smile. “Then I’ll bring you milk tomorrow so you don’t have to carry it, it’s so heavy.”

“Okay, I’m heading back now. You should return to the dorm early too.” Xu Qingnan would walk Sun Yi home every day. Since they lived a bit far from school, Sun Yi always stayed a few extra minutes at school.

After Sun Yi left, Shi Wangui also went back to the dorm, gathered her toiletries, and headed to the bathhouse. There, she ran into two old acquaintances, Liang Jie and Wang Yuyuan.

Those two had previously accused Shi Wangui of stealing money, then came to apologize, which made the homeroom teacher furious. Eventually, the teacher arranged a separate dorm for Wen Youren and Shi Wangui.

Since they were in the same dorm building, they often saw each other. But whenever they met now, those two would pretend not to see Shi Wangui and never spoke recklessly.

Shi Wangui was actually quite curious about why they suddenly changed their tune, but she didn’t want to ask those two were just problematic.

Shi Wangui didn’t know how long she had been washing in the bathhouse, only feeling that almost everyone else had left. She was in the farthest corner, using a cloth to block the front so no one could see inside, and she didn’t want to see anyone else either.

“You’d better come out soon, or you’ll catch a cold and get a fever again,” Wen Youren said.

Shi Wangui: “…”

“Who am I? Who are you? Even if you get sick, I won’t.”

“But last time, it was you who got sick.”

“Get lost.”

Wen Youren ignored her after that, replaced by the sound of the hairdryer blowing. Most people had already left, and the bathhouse had indeed grown chilly. Even under the hot water, occasionally exposed skin would flinch from the cold.

Shi Wangui finished changing and came out, only to find Wen Youren still drying her hair. She didn’t have much hair to begin with, nor was it particularly long, how could it take so long to dry?

“Here,” Wen Youren said, handing the hairdryer over as soon as Shi Wangui emerged. “The homeroom teacher told me to take good care of you and make sure you don’t catch a fever again.”

“The homeroom teacher is overthinking it. I’m perfectly healthy,” Shi Wangui snapped, snatching the hairdryer and leaving a sharp retort.

“Is that so?” Wen Youren chuckled meaningfully. “Good luck on the exam tomorrow. After all, I still don’t know your true capabilities.”

“Get lost.”

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