Chapter 205 - 204: Bottom of the Grade (Extra)

Sui Yuan could see it clearly; before, Mianmian had been very kind to them, investing all her patience, tolerance, and affection into their small group.

When it came to others, she always masked herself with a willful and unruly demeanor, keeping her distance and her guard up.

But now, she saw softness on Mianmian’s face.

Other people had started to appear in Mianmian’s world, others that could touch her emotions.

That was a good thing.

Mianmian had to come out eventually.

“You haven’t noticed?” Sui Yuan blinked sincerely.

“Ah ha…” Lu Mian dodged Little Baldy’s probing gaze, casually ruffled her hair, and leaned in with a mischievous smile, “Could it be that I’ve become even more beautiful?”

“…” Sui Yuan blushed and scolded her, “You’re beautiful beyond this world!”

——

Ding Cai felt very heavy-hearted.

Today was the day the monthly exam results were released, and as he walked towards the grade director’s office, his steps felt increasingly weighted.

Although he had organized a tutoring program in his class and the students performed quite well, while his class was putting in the effort, so were the others—and not to mention that his class originally had a weak foundation.

His sole wish was that this time, the last three places weren’t occupied by Lu Mian and the others again. Otherwise, he had no idea how teachers from the other classes would scoff at Lu Mian.

He arrived at Qiang Hua’s office.

Qiang Hua was just finishing printing out the grade rankings and began distributing them one by one.

As soon as Ding Cai got the ranking list, his first reaction was to search from the bottom up for Class 25.

He hadn’t even unfolded the paper when Zhang Wenqiang, the head teacher of Class 1, walked over with ill intentions, “Teacher Ding, how did your class do this time?”

With dark clouds over his head, Ding Cai turned away and ignored her.

Zhang Wenqiang smiled, guessing something, and bragged, “Our class is still ranked first.”

The contrast between the teacher of the top-ranked class and the teacher of the bottom-ranked class made her inexplicably smug.

Until a teacher exclaimed in shock, “What, our class is in the last place?!”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Wenqiang’s smile froze.

Ding Cai’s class wasn’t last?

The speaker was the head teacher of Class 23; he couldn’t believe it, checking the ranking list several times, flipping it over and over before finally confirming: his Class 23 indeed was last.

The corners of Ding Cai’s mouth quietly turned up, as he spread out the paper and quickly looked for Class 25.

They weren’t second to last.

They weren’t third to last, either.

He kept looking higher, but the higher he looked, the colder his heart felt; could it be that his class didn’t even qualify for a ranking?

Not until he found the name of Class 25 next to the 13th spot did he stop.

Ding Cai rubbed his eyes several times, in disbelief.

He rubbed hard again, until he was completely certain: their class was ranked 13th in the whole grade for this monthly exam!

Ahhh!

If it weren’t for the occasion being inappropriate, he might have jumped up and done a tap dance.

“Teacher Ding, which place is your class?” the head teacher of Class 23, preoccupied with his own sorrow and wearing a miserable expression, sought comfort from Ding Cai.

Ding Cai shook the paper in his hand, “Our class, ah, 13th place!”

All the teachers: !!!

How is this possible?!

“Ah—”

While the teachers on this side hadn’t snapped out of their shock, Zhang Wenqiang on the other side suddenly cried out.

Several teachers crowded around.

“What’s wrong, Teacher Zhang?”

Zhang Wenqiang was holding the second set of rankings she’d just received, which was the students’ report card, and she was stunned, “Our Chen Qin is actually not the top of the grade!”

“That’s impossible, Chen Qin’s total score is even five points higher than the last time!”

She almost blurted out something like “There must be a mistake.”

Suddenly realizing something, Zhang Wenqiang walked up to Ding Cai, quite incredulous, “Is the top of the grade Su Luo from your class?”

“Ah?”

Ding Cai had just received the report card himself and hadn’t even glanced at it when Zhang Wenqiang snatched it from him.

When her eyes fell on the report card, her pupils suddenly dilated, and she was dumbfounded.