I Might Have Fallen in Love With My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 74 - 70: Slapping Everyone’s Face

Chapter 74: Chapter 70: Slapping Everyone’s Face

Qingran didn’t need to check the rankings to know she had scored second place in her grade.

There was still some time before class started, when Ruan Ruan charged into the classroom and hugged Qingran’s neck: "Wow! Second place in the grade, second place! You’re truly my Ranran!"

She looked even happier than if she had scored second place herself.

Qingran coughed twice, choked by her embrace.

Li Ce, who had also arrived early, couldn’t stand by anymore and yelled, "Ruan Ruan, what are you doing? You’re choking Qingran."

Prompted by Li Ce’s loud voice, the students who had arrived early all turned their attention here.

Ruan Ruan was taken aback and quickly let go of Qingran.

Qingran, holding her neck, coughed twice more.

Ruan Ruan didn’t know what to do with her guilt: "Ranran, sorry, I, I was just too excited."

Qingran waved it off, "No worries, no worries."

Ruan Ruan then looked at Li Ce, and Li Ce raised his eyebrows at her, his expression teasingly mischievous.

Ruan Ruan thought to herself that Ranran seemed to get along quite well with her classmates sitting around her.

Everyone acknowledged Qingran’s hardworking spirit as she could score second in the grade, and there weren’t many in class who would dispute that.

Even Huang Qianyu and her group, who had ridiculed Qingran for her grades slipping before, were quiet this time when entering the classroom.

With Ruan Ruan’s temperament, of course, she would seize this great opportunity to stand up for Qingran.

After Huang Qianyu and the others settled into their seats, Ruan Ruan sighed dramatically and grabbed Qingran’s arm, with an overly innocent voice she said, "Ranran, what should I do?"

Qingran looked at her in mild surprise, "What?"

Why was she talking in a tone that would give people goosebumps???

Ruan Ruan winked at her, her right eye squinting toward Huang Qianyu.

Top students often think differently than most people; Qingran quickly realized what was going on and smiled innocently, "There’s nothing I can do, it’s just my normal performance."

The rest of the class: "..."

Normal performance? And she got second place in the grade? Unfortunately, they can’t really compare.

Ruan Ruan winked again, was Ranran really catching on so quickly?

She continued in the same innocent tone, "Oh dear, your ’normal performance’ has slapped so many people in the face. I heard the bet was to clean the athletic field, this is going to be quite the show."

Qingran then remembered that the school forum even had a thread speculating whether she could make it into the top ten of the grade.

She whispered to Ruan Ruan, "So many people lost, won’t some just not show up and play dirty?"

Ruan Ruan sneered, "Play dirty? Who dares to play dirty?"

For such minor matters, just leave it to that idiot Song Shize to handle; he’d surely be delighted to do so.

Ruan Ruan took her phone out in front of Qingran and sent Song Shize a WeChat message.

Sure enough, she quickly received a reply from Song Shize with an OK gesture emoji.

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Ever since the grade rankings were announced, there was a strange and ominous silence in Class 2.

The homeroom teacher of Class 2, Mr. Liu, took pride in having two students in the top ten of the grade, but now one had slipped to ninth place, and the other fell out of the top ten entirely.

Yang Xuetin’s face was gloomy as she pretended to read a book while scrolling through the school forum on her phone, the blue light casting a shadow over her long face, making it look even longer.

Yang Xuetin was actually quite a good student, the top of her class in Class 2 and seventh in the grade. Above her rank was only Qingran.

From the first to the second year of high school, through all the various exams, as long as she made progress, Li Qingran from Class 1 would inevitably show the same progress, always outperforming her in every single exam.

Yang Xueting had been feeling indignant for a long time.

How terrifying can a girl’s jealousy be?

Just from the examples often mentioned by Teacher Liu lately, Yang Xueting followed the clues and found out it was Li Qingran. Afterward, she treated this good news as a "secret" and shared it with all her classmates in Class Two.

As expected, Li Qingran’s test scores were getting worse with each exam. Yang Xueting was secretly thrilled, believing that her own rank would definitely improve this time. She even boasted about it in front of the homeroom teacher.

Unexpectedly, she ended up slipping down two ranks, landing at ninth place for the grade.

What’s more bewildering was that Li Qingran, who had been the negative example all this time, actually got the second-highest score in the grade.

This was a harsh slap to the faces of all those who enjoyed making fun of her.

It was only after the fact that Yang Xueting remembered the anonymous voting post she started on the school forum. By now, she had lost all interest in studying.

She hurriedly checked her phone and saw that, with her and her Class Two classmates’ encouragement, nearly six hundred people voted that Li Qingran could not make it into the top ten of the grade, while less than a hundred believed she could.

Yang Xueting panicked a bit. Her fingers quickly scrolled down to check the latest replies.

In her rush, she even forgot to click ’reverse order’.

Since the rankings were only announced this morning, the school forum’s discussions were still stuck at the early hours of today, around two o’clock, when everyone was guessing about Li Qingran’s performance.

Yang Xueting breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that those who lost would likely curse at her, but as long as no one knew it was her post, it was fine.

Just as she was about to delete the post, she felt someone standing beside her, looking over.

A bad feeling rose in Yang Xueting’s heart. She slowly raised her head and saw Teacher Liu standing with arms crossed, a stern expression on her face, looking down at her from above.

Yang Xueting’s face turned pale with fright, stammering: "Tea, Tea, Teacher."

Teacher Liu extended her hand to her.

Biting her lip, Yang Xueting placed the phone in her hand.

With a loud "smack," the phone was thrown to the ground, shattering the screen.

The classmates all bowed their heads, pretending to study, with none daring to look up.

Yang Xueting, head lowered, watched her phone shattered into pieces, tears uncontrollably streaming down.

"What time is it?" Teacher Liu angrily pointed at Yang Xueting and yelled, "Eh? Your grades slipped that much and you’re still looking at your phone during self-study time?"

Yang Xueting just sobbed softly, not daring to respond.

"Look at Class One!" Teacher Liu pointed in the direction next door, her voice breaking from the high pitch: "The top three in the entire grade are from Class One. What are they learning? What are you learning? Who are you showing these lousy test scores to, huh?"

Yang Xueting just cried, not daring to utter a word.

Teacher Liu was also feeling uneasy these past two days in the office. Compared to Old Wu, who looked as if spring was blooming with pride because of Class One, she seemed to be in a lingering winter.

She had thought that with the way Class One’s top ten ranks had dropped, their mid-term exam rankings would be even more disappointing.

Who would have expected that they would come out of nowhere and stun everyone, previously hovering around fifth and sixth place in the grade, only to surge directly into the top three this time. And infuriatingly, all of the top three in the entire grade were from Class One.

Even the dean of studies came by specially today to praise Mr. Liu at their side, completely ignoring the homeroom teachers of the other classes. It was truly infuriating.

Teacher Liu didn’t care whether Yang Xueting cried or not, as she walked to the front and tapped the blackboard.

"I presume everyone has already seen their test results. Our Class Two’s average score dropped by 12 points. Do you realize what that means?"

The entire class was as quiet as chickens.

Teacher Liu’s gaze swept over each student’s head, "Now that the results are out and those who know where they lost the most points, you should focus on overcoming your weaknesses and strive to learn from the students in Class One."

"By the time of the final exams, I’m not saying our class has to be in the top three of the grade, but at the very least we need to have three students in the top ten. Did you hear that?"

"We heard it." This time, the students of Class Two responded very loudly.

But three in the top ten of the grade? Teacher Liu sure had high hopes.