Chapter 14: First

The class was suddenly silent, and all the students who were in the class looked towards Qiao Lan in unison.

The expression on Zhao Tong's face gradually turned into shock as she looked incredulously at Qiao Lan's paper.

There is no mistake, it is 150 points, the same as Song Yao and Chen Yaoyang, full marks.

How is this possible?

This is simply not possible!

The moment before, she had guessed that Qiao Lan would score 80 or 90, but Qiao Lan scored a perfect score, which Zhao Tong couldn't believe.

An eerie silence fell over the class, and no one saw Tan Mo, who usually kept his head down, look up, his light brown eyes now falling straight on Qiao Lan's body.

Chen Yaoyang and Song Yao, who had just walked into the classroom, glanced over at Qiao Lan after hearing the whispers of the students next to them.

Zhao Tong suddenly slammed his book on his desk and stormed out of the classroom.

"It must have been copied, how could she get a perfect score on the test."

"It's really stupid, isn't it? You can't even copy, you just copy a perfect score, do you all think we're stupid?"

"Yeah, even Pei Ning didn't get a perfect score this time, Qiao Lan got a perfect score? Who would believe it."

"English ABCD is good for copying, I don't believe she can copy all of maths, language and history."

Zhao Tong now feels a little better.

Yes, Qiao Lan copied one subject, the others are not as good as English, so she won't be disturbed even if she copies more.

She was in the top five of her class.

But this is just the beginning.

Apart from the slow-moving subjects such as Language, Politics and History, all the rest of the subjects came out one by one.

Chemistry and Physics results were released one after the other.

Qiao Lan has been studying physics like crazy lately and would often run to the teaching office to ask the physics teacher questions.

The physics teacher was not impressed with Qiao Lan at first, as she did poorly in her first monthly exam and was clearly not paying attention in class.

But after the monthly exams, Qiao Lan suddenly became a different person and came to ask him questions whenever he had time. When he looked at Qiao Lan's physics exercise book, he saw that it was full of marks and Qiao Lan's attitude towards asking questions was not like he was playing around.

It's okay to not take it seriously before, but it's totally not too late to finally start knowing to work on it!

It's only just senior year isn't it?

Mr. Liu is not the only one who has recently changed his mind about Qiao Lan.

When the results come out now, the physics teacher will be more than satisfied.

There were eight mid-term exams, each set at one hundred and fifty marks, so the full mark was twelve hundred. The highest physics score in the whole year was Chen Yaoyang with 133 marks, and then there were no more students who scored one hundred and thirty.

Qiao Lan is the first of a hundred and thirty-one.

129.

Single subject ranking, tied for second in the year with two other classes!

The physics teacher stood at the podium and handed out the papers himself, finding the first place paper belonging to Chen Yaoyang 133 away, the physics teacher became steeped in excitement.

"I've told you before, as long as you're willing to work hard, there's nothing you can't do! There are no dumb students in this world, only lazy students. If you are willing to work hard and strive, your marks will give you a satisfactory answer!"

A sense of foreboding rose up in Zhao Tong's heart.

She glanced at Qiao Lan with some unease, mentally reassuring herself that it could not be impossible.

Impossible...

But the next second, the physics teacher's more passionate voice exploded in her ears.

"Qiao Lan! 129 points! Come up and collect your paper!"

Qin Yang, Song Yao and the others in the front row turned around, their expressions now not too different from Zhao Tong's.

Zhao Tong was in no mood to listen to the physics teacher's paper, she sat restlessly for the rest of the class and could no longer sit still afterwards.

"You copied it!"

Qiao Lan looks up at Zhao Tong for a moment.

Copy you.

"Whose do I copy?"

Chen Yaoyang is the only one who scored higher than her in the whole year, did Chen Yaoyang copy the answers for her?

Qiao Lan glanced at Zhao Tong's paper with a bemused expression, "Copied from you?"

Blatantly sarcastic, Zhao Tong's face suddenly went white and she covered her roll, looking up again and noticing that some of her classmates were looking at her a little strangely.

That's when it hit me that the suspicion I'd just had was simply ridiculous.

The Physics paper was produced by their teachers themselves this time, unlike before when they were looking for questions from the online question bank of previous years, the Physics paper contained questions that could not be found on the internet at all, occasionally there were one or two questions of a similar type, but the data had been changed.

So it is simply not possible to copy such a paper from the internet.

Zhao Tong's face burned and her eyes shuddered as she glanced in Chen Yaoyang's direction.

Chen Yaoyang frowned at her in a rare moment of seriousness, but Qiao Lan and Zhao Tong were sitting together, and Zhao Tong couldn't tell for a moment whether Chen Yaoyang was looking at her or Qiao Lan.

Li Fan frowned, looked at Song Yao who was not doing very well in physics, and then glanced at Qiao Lan before turning to Chen Yaoyang and saying, "Qiao Lan has really worked hard to sit at the same table as you, this progress is really fucking scary."

Chen Yaoyang frowned slightly, "Stop it."

Li Fan, not afraid of him, thought for a moment and suddenly said, "Crikey, she's not going to overtake you, is she?"

Chen Yaoyang looked down with a look of you-know-what, and Li Fan thought he was overthinking it.

It's too hard to beat Chen Yaoyang, considering that in the last monthly exam, he was almost 30 points ahead of the second place.

Shaking his head, it wasn't long before the chemistry paper was also delivered.

The Chemistry results followed suit, with Chen Yaoyang again topping the single subject with 145 points, but Qiao Lan, with 141 points, was a boy behind, coming in third in the class.

Chen Yaoyang couldn't help but glance over at Qiao Lan again and suddenly had a bad feeling.

And at the moment Senior 2 are handing out maths papers.

Hao Ying, who was hopeless at maths and already waiting for the men's and women's doubles, was suddenly hit with a big surprise.

For his maths, he scored 123 in this exam!

Hao Ying held the paper for a few seconds and was finally sure he was not 23, but 123.

The guy who came over shouted "Damn!" and grabbed Hao Ying's paper and read it, "All of the multiple choice and fill in the blanks are correct, bro, whose paper did you copy from?"

Hao Ying froze and snatched back his own paper as soon as he could.

Choose and fill in all the blanks correctly and you will get 80 points straight away.

Hao Ying suddenly remembered what she had asked the girl in the front row that day.

"How are you doing in maths, classmate."

"It's okay."

That's not fucking okay, that's like learning to be a bully!

So what did those two girls mean who deliberately misled him and kept him on tenterhooks for days afterwards?

No, then what does Qiao Lan's result in the last monthly exam mean?

Toxic, right?

But then again, if you got full marks for copying someone else's multiple choice, how many marks did Qiao Lan get?

After experiencing English, Physics and Chemistry, the students of Upper Class 13 were completely banned after learning once again about Qiao Lan's maths paper with a hundred and fifty marks.

There were three full marks in the class, one for Chen Yaoyang, one for Pei Ning, both boys, and the last one, Qiao Lan.

By now, Qiao Lan has scored 570 points and, if everyone is correct, has climbed to second place in the class for the time being.

There are still four results outstanding.

But Chen Yaoyang, who is in first place at the moment, has only seven points more than Qiao Lan.

The best and most powerful subjects were only seven points ahead of Qiao Lan.

The remaining four subjects, the languages and the three subjects of the Arts and Letters, are not the most outstanding subjects in Chen Yaoyang.

The moment before Li Fan said that Qiao Lan would surpass Chen Yaoyang, everyone, including Chen Yaoyang, thought it was a fool's errand, but at the moment, they were all a little unsure.

Based on Qiao Lan's results in her first monthly exam, it is clear that she is better in Arts than in Science.

A strange and tense atmosphere suddenly descended on Senior 13, as students who had never looked at Qiao Lan in the slightest began to glance at her from time to time.

And Qiao Lan, the subject, is calmly writing on a piece of paper with a pen in hand.

After these four results, Qiao Lan was completely relieved.

Because the latter ones are the ones she is best at.

The results of the latter four courses are given together.

Or rather, it never came out until the results were tallied for the whole year and sent directly to the campus network.

All results, names, all have been tallied.

A few students rushed straight to the computers on the podium, logged onto the campus network and were trying to find the results of Class 13 when they accidentally clicked directly on the grade rankings.

And then, straight away, the first name in the grade rankings drew all the attention away.

It's still Senior 13, but instead of three words, the name is two, and instead of a boy, it's a girl.

The name of this girl is Qiao Lan.

Total score 1092.

The second place finisher, however, was a familiar name, also in Senior 13, three characters, male, surnamed Chen, full name Chen Yaoyang.

1068.

He finished 24 points below Qiao Lan in first place.

Inaccurately rounded up a bit, it's almost thirty points higher.

Before the first four results, Chen Yaoyang was 7 points ahead of Qiao Lan, but in total, Qiao Lan was 24 points ahead of Chen Yaoyang!

Chen Yaoyang's never-endingly confident and self-assured expression finally broke down for a moment in this moment.

Chen Yaoyang The brothers next to him were silent, anyone who opened their mouths at this time was simply looking for a scolding.

What's more, they simply didn't know what to say at the time.

Chen Yaoyang's first place was taken away from him by Qiao Lan, a man he once despised and whom no one had ever thought of.

It was Qiao Lan whom they had not long ago mocked for saying that no amount of learning would help.

As a result, people are now directly at the top of the class for the whole year, overpowering Chen Yaoyang, not to mention leaving them far behind.

No one is saying that Qiao Lan was copied.

One or two subjects might still be possible to copy, but how can you copy when all subjects are so plucky.

You tell me how to copy language history and politics?

There are also physics and maths papers that are personally produced by the teacher and the answers cannot be copied online at all.

And Qiao Lan, who is so badly liked and whose family is so poor that they can't even afford a mobile phone, who will send her answers and what will she send them with?

Zhao Tong, who had previously felt that Qiao Lan had copied him, could not say anything else.

Not only because of Qiao Lan's progress, but also because of one of the things that made her the most run down.

The class rankings are out.

She coincidentally came in fifth place.

Without Qiao Lan, she would have been fourth, sitting behind Chen Yaoyang.

But now you have to sit at the back behind Chen Yaoyang.

The more Zhao Tong thought about it, the harder it became, and he finally fell on the table and burst into tears.