Chapter 109: Chapter 109: “Holy Shit, So Exciting!

’How did you know that’s what I’m afraid of…?’

This was practically a confession. It made Xu Su more uncomfortable than if he had just said, “I like you.”

In Teacher Wu’s car, Fu Jun was already waiting.

He had a long face. The moment he saw Xi Zirong, he asked, “God Xi, how did you solve the second problem?”

He rattled off his thought process for solving it, clearly insecure about his answer. He had just asked Teacher Wu about it, too.

But, still not satisfied, he wanted to confirm it with Xi Zirong.

Xi Zirong paused for a moment before explaining his steps.

Xu Su listened to the whole explanation, her eyes growing brighter and brighter. At least for this problem, her answer was the same as Xi Zirong’s.

’Right, the exam was hard, but it wasn’t just hard for me.’

’I was stumped, but so were the other students. Maybe I actually have a chance at a provincial first-prize award? Or even a second-prize award would be fine.’

Xi Zirong noticed her expression and looked down to ask, “Did you solve this problem the same way?”

He seemed a little happy too. “How about we compare all our answers when we get back?”

Xu Su shook her head. “No, let’s not. The exam’s over. Comparing answers won’t change anything.”

The most important thing now was to catch up on the classes they had missed. To prepare for the competition, the two of them hadn’t properly attended evening self-study for over two months.

Although evening self-study was mostly for independent learning, it was crucial for reinforcing what they learned during the day. Xu Su thought about the upcoming midterm exams.

She felt she had no confidence at all.

Fu Jun was the same. After the second round, his study schedule became even more rigorous.

The school’s competition class also began to disband, with everyone waiting for the second-round results.

Those who ranked at the top of the first-prize winners would be selected for the provincial team for intensive training and would no longer need their school teachers. If they didn’t make the provincial team, there was even less need to study for the competition.

They would have to return to preparing for the regular college entrance exams.

Xu Su got the class notes from Qian Jia and started reviewing the key topics the teachers had covered over the past two-plus months.

After the competition class was disbanded, Xi Zirong and Xu Su were no longer deskmates. Although their seats weren’t far apart, they were nowhere near as close as when they had sat together.

Xu Su also returned to her old habit of going everywhere with Huang Feng and Qian Jia.

After they parted on bad terms last time, Xu Su and Zhou Mochen hadn’t seen each other again. Plus, with her preparing for the competition, she hadn’t replied to his messages for many days.

In her free time, she would occasionally scroll through the messages he’d sent, calculating the time.

She was always dancing on the edge of his tolerance. At first, they met once a week, then once every half a month, and now it had been a whole month since they’d last seen each other.

’The bottom line is meant to be broken, isn’t it?’

As the weather cooled, Zhou Mochen’s daily messages changed from general concern to urging her to go out and get winter clothes. Xu Su only had two school uniform jackets with her at school. Now that it was November, the thin jackets felt drafty in the mornings and evenings.

Zhou Mochen pleaded so earnestly, he was just like an old father afraid his daughter would catch a cold.

Xu Su was a little annoyed, but she promised him she would go home this weekend, take her summer clothes back, and pack her winter clothes to bring back to school.

On a Wednesday at the end of October, the results of the second round were released. Xi Zirong became the only one in the entire city to get a perfect score of 150, a full thirty points higher than the second-place student from Experimental Middle School.

As soon as the results came out, City No.1 High School erupted. In fact, it wasn’t just City No.1 High School; the news was spreading like wildfire through all the middle and high schools in Chang City.

According to Gu Yunjia, back in middle school, Xi Zirong had already established that same second-place student as the “perennial number two.” She couldn’t believe that even after transferring schools, he was still beating him in a competition.

Gu Yunjia had also attended Experimental Middle School and had been a little fangirl of Xi Zirong’s back then, paying close attention to all his achievements.

After the last school-hunk gossip incident, Gu Yunjia had become good friends with Qian Jia and Huang Feng. The three of them hit it off, and over the past two-plus months, they had become kindred spirits.

Xu Su had been busy preparing for the competition during this time and didn’t have much time to join their gossip group. Now that she was finally free, she just followed along and enjoyed the drama.

This time, Xu Su’s results were also good, even better than she had expected.

She won a second-prize award in the N Province Mathematics Competition. Fewer than ten people in all of Chang City achieved this, and she was one of them.

However, compared to Xi Zirong’s perfect score, Xu Su’s little bit of glory was completely overshadowed. Aside from a few close friends, the students and teachers at school were all busy singing the praises of God Xi.

Meanwhile, Xi Zirong himself was currently cornered by a first-year girl on a secluded path at school.

During their lunch break, Xu Su, Qian Jia, and Huang Feng went to the school store to buy some daily necessities.

On the path back to the dorms, Xu Su was suddenly pulled aside. Her two friends furtively bent over and gestured for her to look ahead.

Xu Su didn’t bend down with them. She looked in the direction they were pointing and saw two people standing in the distance.

A tall, slender boy stood with his hands in his pockets, quietly looking at the girl in front of him.

Huang Feng, ever the well-informed one, crouched behind a tree and whispered, “The school beauty of the first-year class, Hu Anqi.”

Oh!

Xu Su nodded. So that was it.

The two were too far away for Xu Su to see Xi Zirong’s expression or hear their conversation. She could only see the girl, wearing the same school uniform, try to grab the corner of his shirt, only for him to turn his body to dodge her.

“Holy shit, this is so intense!” Qian Jia exclaimed in a hushed, excited voice, covering her mouth. “God Xi sure is popular with the ladies. It’s an underclassman, and she came to corner him in person.”

Xu Su’s lip twitched. She looked away, her face impassive. She had no interest in prying into someone else’s private life.

“Let’s take a detour. We shouldn’t disturb them.”

The moment Xu Su spoke, her two friends finally realized what was happening: someone was trying to steal their sister’s man!

They had both just assumed that Xi Zirong and Xu Su were dating.

Huang Feng snapped out of her gossip-enjoying state, furious. “Holy shit, aren’t you mad? God Xi is being pestered by another girl! Xu Su, if I were you, I’d go over there right now and stake my claim.”

Qian Jia’s expression also changed in an instant. “This underclassman is out of line! The rumors about you and God Xi dating are all over First High School. What’s her deal, still coming here to poach him?”

Seeing her two friends’ rapid change of heart, Xu Su felt a headache coming on, but she was also a little touched.

But what right did she have to stake any claim? Xu Su didn’t have time to explain.

She grabbed one with each hand and said in a low voice, “Let’s just go. Hiding here and spying is really creepy.”

They weren’t making much noise, but the two people in the distance still noticed them. Before Xu Su could pull Huang Feng and Qian Jia to their feet, Xi Zirong was already walking toward them.

The girl who had cornered him followed his every step, and only then did Xu Su get a clear look at her face.

She was a very pretty girl, truly deserving of the title of the new school beauty. Even with two streams of tears on her face, her looks weren’t diminished.

’…Two streams of tears?’

’What did Xi Zirong do to the poor girl to make her cry?’

Xu Su glanced at Xi Zirong and saw his face was uncharacteristically dark. ’Is he angry?’

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