I Might Have Fallen in Love With My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 73 - 69 Second in Grade

Chapter 73: Chapter 69 Second in Grade

Old Wu didn’t discuss the scores, but that didn’t mean other teachers wouldn’t.

The second class was English, and the English teacher entered the classroom with a face blooming into a big smile.

Qingran heard Li Ce whisper to Zheng Chunming, "Our class must have done quite well in English this time."

Sure enough, when she wasn’t paying attention to the back desk, Qingran had never heard a peep from them during class, but when she did pay attention, their whispered conversations couldn’t escape her ears.

As the class began, English test papers were distributed.

When the test paper reached Qingran’s hands, seeing the bright red 148 points made her finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Xie Ying’an glanced at Qingran’s score, then slowly looked at his own—146 points, two less than Qingran.

"You did very well this time," he complimented.

Qingran held her test paper and smiled, confident that if her English score was fine, the scores in other subjects should be fine too.

Subsequently, teachers handed out the test papers one after another, and thanks to the forum post, now almost half of the students in Grade F were interested in Qingran’s grades.

This time in physics, Qingran performed exceptionally, missing a perfect score by just one point, while her deskmate Xie Ying’an unsurprisingly achieved a full score.

The physics teacher was even happier than the English teacher; he walked up to the podium in class one, nearly closing his eyes with joy, "Students, this midterm, our class one has solidified the throne as the number one in physics for the second year."

"Wow!"

A series of excited cheers erupted from below.

The physics teacher finally composed himself a bit, he patted the lectern to signal for silence, and once the classroom was quiet, he began to motivate the students: "You still need to continue to study hard, strive to consolidate our top rank. Our class one aims to be number one in everything!"

The math teacher was more reserved; this time the math problems were generally tough, and everyone’s grades were not ideal.

Seeing Xie Ying’an’s freakishly perfect math test paper, Qingran felt immense pressure, so much so that she found it hard to breathe.

Xie Ying’an, however, didn’t seem to feel anything. It was almost routine for him to score full marks in all subjects.

"Let me see the test paper," Qingran reached out to him.

Xie Ying’an quickly handed his math test paper to her; the math teacher was spitting saliva while going over the last question at the podium, but for the two of them who had gotten it right, there was no interest in listening anymore.

Qingran compared her wrong answers with Xie Ying’an’s test paper, but some things she got wrong once turned out to be easy to get wrong again.

Qingran pushed the test paper to the middle between them and asked Xie Ying’an for the solutions to the questions she got wrong.

Xie Ying’an, who was always aloof, showed not a trace of impatience when explaining the questions to Qingran, and after he finished, he still asked her if she had understood.

Qingran understood, but it seemed Xie Ying’an didn’t think she did.

He explained it again using a different method.

Li Ce and Zheng Chunming retracted their pricked ears.

Zheng Chunming appeared thoughtful.

Li Ce exclaimed, "Forget about Brother An, if I had a deskmate who was as attractive and academically brilliant, I’d be willing to explain the same question a hundred times over."

Zheng Chunming glanced at him dismissively, "Li Qingran has always been that pretty, did you only notice today?"

Li Ce frowned, "Chunni, don’t say that, but I indeed just noticed it today."

Zheng Chunming was puzzled, "Haven’t you seen what Qingran looks like before?"

"Not exactly," Li Ce pondered for a moment before continuing, "Before, for some reason, I always felt like Li Qingran had a layer of dust over her face, giving the impression that her looks were just mediocre."

"Me too," Zheng Chunming nodded vigorously in agreement, "I also had that impression, and it was only after she sat in front of me that I realized she is actually that beautiful."

Li Ce sighed deeply, "It must have been a psychological shadow from before, assuming all top students were not good-looking."

On the first day of class, four test papers had already been handed out, and Qingran’s total score was only 7 points less than Xie Ying’an’s.

It could be said that she was hot on his heels.

Because the score list had not been posted yet and since it was a habit for class one’s teachers not to read out the scores when distributing test papers, apart from Xie Ying’an, no one else knew how well Qingran had done.

In the evening after school, someone in the forum was asking about Qingran’s exam results.

The outcome being unknown was the best situation. Those who bet she "couldn’t" do it were taking malicious delight in the forum, declaring that as soon as the results came out tomorrow, those who lost the bet should start cleaning the playground immediately.

They also said they had taken note of everyone’s usernames, no one could weasel out of it.

On Monday night, Li Qingmo came back surprisingly late, not returning until nine o’clock.

He came back and didn’t even turn on the living room lights, just flopped down on the sofa, motionless.

When Qingran went downstairs to get some water, she was startled by him, so she went over and touched Li Qingmo’s head: "What’s wrong, bro?"

Li Qingmo brushed away her hand: "Nothing."

He glanced at Qingran and suddenly said, "I think you women are so annoying."

Qingran frowned: "What exactly happened to you?"

Li Qingmo huddled on the sofa, clutching a pillow without saying a word, looking as wronged as a little wife.

Qingran didn’t bother with him anymore, turned around, and took out a cool, refreshing glass of lemonade from the fridge, sitting on the sofa opposite Li Qingmo.

Out of curiosity, she asked, "Bro, did you do really badly on this exam?"

Li Qingmo "hmm’d" through his nose.

Qingran took a bold guess, "Did your homeroom teacher lecture you?"

"Heh!" Li Qingmo sneered: "If it was just a lecture, that’d have been all right. She confiscated my phone and demanded I stay for two extra hours of tutoring every day. As if I’d stay for that."

You wouldn’t stay for tutoring? So why did you come back several hours late today?

Qingran had a belly full of complaints she dared not voice. She consoled: "Having such a responsible teacher, bro, you should be happy."

"Jealous, huh?" Li Qingmo sat up, snatched the lemonade from Qingran’s hand, took a drink and puckered up from the sourness.

"Jealous." Qingran sincerely sighed: "Bro, your classmates are so lucky. The homeroom teacher is only five or six years older than you guys, no generation gap at all."

"Oh," Li Qingmo put the glass back in Qingran’s hand and lay down again: "If you’re jealous, how about we switch classes from tomorrow?"

Qingran didn’t want to entertain him.

She was more curious: "Bro, how many points did you actually score?"

Just how badly did you do?

Li Qingmo covered his head with the pillow, activating his playing dead mode.

Qingran: "..."

Heh! Even if you don’t say, I’ll find out tomorrow.

The midterm exam rankings were posted on the bulletin board early on Tuesday morning.

It was said that it was thanks to the dedication of Class 1’s homeroom teacher, Old Wu, who worked hard without rest until midnight to get them up before noon on Tuesday.

His professional dedication was admirable.

But upon seeing the rankings, people then understood why the homeroom teacher of Class 1 was so diligent.

This time, the top three of the second year were all from Class 1.

First place was the perennial top student: Xie Ying’an

Everyone skipped over the first place and went straight to look at the second place.

Second Place: Li Qingran

Third Place: Wen Shiyi

Most of the people coming to see the rankings were those involved in the bet; right now, they were exchanging looks of despair upon seeing Li Qingran in second place.

Who the hell said Li Qingran’s grades were getting worse, once being a bad example?

Damn it, show up whoever said that, we’ll make sure not to beat them to death!!!