The Little Brat’s Sweet And Sassy

came down from the stairs and tossed Duan Xu a basketball.

“Wanna have a game?”

Duan Xu was delighted.
“Sure!”

“Hey! I have never seen you so happy before after a test! I thought your father said if you can’t score at least 300 points, you won’t get any more daily allowance.” The guy sized Duan Xu up curiously.
“Aren’t you afraid of starving to death?”

Duan Xu had gotten the last place throughout the entire third year and got a serious scolding when he went home.
He would not have been this nervous during the tests otherwise.

Duan Xu smiled.
“What do you know? It’s in the bag this time!”

He lifted his chin.
“Look at that.
A genius from the first class!”

The guy looked at where Duan Xu was pointing.
He then asked in an unsure tone, “Is that…Ning Li? I thought she’s bad at studying.”

Duan Xu was shocked.
“What?”

The guy sized Duan Xu up with a complicated look.

“Don’t you know about her? She was famous for being bad at studies back at Lincheng, and she always got into fi—I mean, she always skipped classes and even exams sometimes.
She might not even pass the test, let alone be a genius.”

Duan Xu’s eyes twitched helplessly.
“I thought she was in the first class?”

“What do you put in that head of yours? She’s the stepdaughter of the Ye family.
How do you think she got in?”

“B-but I saw her finish writing her answers very quickly! You have no idea how fast she was! She was the first to leave the venue for every single paper—”

“You used to be first as well.
How can you forget that?”

Duan Xu was speechless as complicated emotions ran through him.
He had been beside Ning Li throughout all the papers, and he knew that she did not hand in a blank paper.

Most importantly, she looked like she really knew what she was writing.

Could she have simply written down all those answers?

The guy tapped Duan Xu’s shoulders out of pity.
“May God help you, young man.”

…

The monthly test was soon over.

Usually, the third-year teachers would have to come back on weekends to mark all the papers so that the results could be announced on Monday.

On Monday, in the twelfth third-year class, Duan Xu sat in his seat with a bitter look.
If he had known that Ning Li was unreliable, he would have tried to answer the paper by himself.

He could have relied on his luck to circle the correct answers rather than copying someone who was bad at her studies.

“The results for Mathematics are here!” A guy holding a stack of papers came into the class and the students gathered around him.

Duan Xu was uninterested.
He could already see himself begging for bones on the street.
Annoyed, he walked to the back door to grab his basketball, intending to leave.

“Hey! Duan Xu, your paper—holy sh*t!”

The guy actually wanted to mock Duan Xu with his paper, but when he saw the scores, his eyes widened in shock.

“Duan Xu, how did you do it?”

Not wanting to see the single-digit score beside his name, Duan Xu said in an annoyed tone, “With my own strength, of course.
Is there a problem?”

The students got close to the guy with the papers and they looked strange when they saw Duan Xu’s score.

“All the multiple questions are…correct! What kind of sorcery is this?!”

Thud!

Duan Xu’s basketball fell to the floor.

…

In the first class of the third year, Lin Zhouyang came in, looking all mysterious.

“Sigh.
I heard from the teachers that someone in our class failed the monthly test.”

It was rare for someone to have failed the test in the first class.

“Failed? Who could it be?” someone asked curiously.

Cheng Xiangxiang looked at Ning Li and scoffed.
“Who else could it be?”

Having transferred to Second High recently, there was a high chance that Ning Li was the one who had failed the test.

She must have been able to answer the Physics question the other day because she had solved it before.
Nevertheless, the monthly test would bring out the true standard of a student.

He Xiaochen nervously looked at Ning Li.
“Ning Li, how did you fare in the test?”

She was worried that Ning Li might have failed.

Ning Li paused for a moment and said, “Okay, I guess.”