"I'm not opposed to that," the language teacher nodded, curious to whether Ye Wanwan was telling the truth or not.
Seeing that, all the other teachers looked at each other and finally agreed.
"Ye Wanwan, because of you, so many people have gathered here and wasted their valuable time! It's not too late to confess now! Don't wait till you've lost all dignity! You have thoroughly embarrassed F class!" Liang Li Hua said furiously.
Ye Wanwan laughed, " Ms Liang, you were the one who questioned me and also the one who gathered all the teachers here. Even if everybody's time has been wasted, you're to blame!"
"You…"
Before Liang Li Hua opened her mouth to raise hell, Ye Wanwan looked at the other teachers and said directly, "Teachers, you don't have to go through all this trouble. If we use the spare exam, Ms. Liang might accuse me of cheating again and I'm afraid that even jumping into the Yellow River wouldn't clear my name. How about every teacher create 5 questions on the spot? There would be a total of 25 questions and if I make a single mistake, then consider that to mean I cheated!"
Zhao Xing Zhou rubbed his chin, "Ah, Ms Ye, your math is troubling… with language, math, politics, history, and geography, shouldn't it be 30 questions altogether?"
Ye Wanwan turned glum, "Math shouldn't be counted."
Zhao Xing Zhou raised his brows, "Why shouldn't math be included?"
Ye Wanwan replied, expressionless, "Because I hate math."
Zhao Xing Zhou immediately covered his heart, feigning a fatal shot to the heart with his face full of grief, "Don't be like that, what's wrong with math? My lessons are the most interesting…"
Ye Wanwan gave him a blank stare, "…" more like they're the most masochistic!
The teachers discussed this for a moment and decided in unison that Ye Wanwan's suggestion was the fairest and would save time as well.
The teachers then came up with 5 questions each.
Very quickly, 25 questions were printed and split into 5 small tests.
Zhao Xing Zhou, the math teacher, also persisted and came up with 5 questions, looking at Ye Wanwan eagerly.
The head of Student Affairs glanced at her watch and declared, "You may start now, is half an hour enough for you?"
"Yes." Ye Wanwan didn't object. She sat down and started answering the questions.
The teachers all sat on the sofa nearby and drank tea while waiting.
Liang Li Hua looked at Ye Wanwan as she buried her head to complete the test. Her face filled with mockery, she wanted to see how long this wretch could pretend for.
Ye Wanwan glanced through the questions from top to bottom once and then started writing.
To prevent her from making lucky guesses, there were no multiple choice questions--only fill in the blanks.
In less than 10 minutes, she finished all the questions.
A number of teachers gathered around and quickly graded her work. The final verdict was… a perfect score!
Except for math, for which she still hadn't attempted a single question.
In order to accurately test Ye Wanwan's true capabilities, these questions were as difficult as the simulation exam. But in the end, this girl actually got every single question correct again?
After Liang Li Hua finished marking the last question from the English test, her expression changed immediately, "This is impossible! Ye Wanwan has always been the first from the back! How is it possible that her grades improved so drastically overnight?!"
Ye Wanwan replied, "Can't it be because I'm a genius?"
"Pffft…" the initially depressed Zhao Xing Zhou laughed after hearing her reply, "This girl probably knew how to do the questions before but deliberately submitted blank exams. Rebellious child, I understand everything now! Now that the truth has been revealed, Qing He has another student with exceptional results. Isn't this something to celebrate?"
He then turned towards Ye Wanwan with a face full of hurt, "But Ye Wanwan, it hurts me greatly that you hate math so much! Can we come to an agreement to share rain and dew in future?"
"Sorry teacher, can't do it."
"…"
Ye Wanwan looked at the head of Student Affairs and brought up the issue that was concerning her the most, "So, in regards to my notice of dismissal?"
The head of Student Affairs looked at the provisional test paper, pondered for a long time and finally said, "According to the school rules, with your excellent test results, the decision of dismissal can be postponed while we monitor your behaviour for some time! If you prove that you have changed for the better, the decision will be withdrawn!"
"How could this be? How could you change a decision that has already been made?" Liang Li Hua pressed on, with urgency.
It had been so tough to get rid of this wretch and her plan had been foiled just like that?
The head of Student Affairs spoke in a grave tone, "Ms Liang, this is according to the school rules. Furthermore, as you know, the graduation rate is of utmost importance to the school. Ye Wanwan still has a lot of potential, so put in more effort to guide her well!"
Liang Li Hua wasn't satisfied, but now, all the teachers had witnessed Ye Wanwan's exam results were genuine and she also understood the importance of graduation rates to the school.
Damn! She had been 80% sure that she'd be able to chase this wretch away this time!
…
While Ye Wanwan had just ended her re-test, the students hiding outside quickly circulated the news to the class.
After hearing the news, the whole of class F was in an uproar.
The Ye Wanwan that was always last in class actually topped the class for real?
"We saw it for ourselves, all the teachers at the scene came up with new questions and she got them all correct! Also, the decision to expel her is held back at the moment!"
"Damn! How could this happen?! I thought that we wouldn't have to see that freak anymore, but now we have to continue to be around this eyesore!"
"She just has slightly better grades! What's the big deal? If she didn't have good grades to make up for such an ugly face, then she might as well be better off dead!"
Very soon, Liang Li Hua returned to class with a gloomy face with Ye Wanwan following behind.
The classroom immediately entered a silence, with all eyes trained on Ye Wanwan.
After all, it was shocking to have the student who was always ranked last in class to come around and end up top of the class so suddenly.
"Class monitor, come over and give everybody their results back! After receiving your exams, students, please remember to check carefully for mistakes!" Liang Li Hua made these casual remarks with a cold face, without mentioning what had just transpired and without much comment on the students' results this time.
Otherwise, she would be doing the equivalent of slapping her own face and praise Ye Wanwan for her drastic improvement right?
Observing Liang Li Hua's attitude, everybody knew in an instant that the rumours about Ye Wanwan coming in first in the class were true.
Liang Li Hua, "Now, everybody, please rearrange your seats!"
Hearing that they would have to change their seats, the students started wailing, some happy and others worried.
Finally, with a big problem out of the way, Ye Wanwan was in a good mood. She waved goodbye to her seat partner, while slowly packing up her things, "Goodbye, classmate Si Xia! Congratulations, finally you don't have to look at this face of mine anymore!"
The boy grabbed his result slip tightly in his hand with blue veins on his forehead. Goodbye my ass!
About 10 minutes later, everyone quickly hustled to their new seating arrangements.
Then, all eyes stared at the pair of seats in the first row oddly.
On the left-most seat on the first row was Ye Wanwan.
To the right of her was… Si Xia…
At this moment, the boy next to Ye Wanwan glanced sideways at the face that'd been giving him nightmares for the past few days in a row and the light in his eyes almost died out.
If he had known this would be the result, he'd rather be last in class than number two.
Ye Wanwan looked at him sympathetically, "Young man, you have my condolences. You still have a long way to go in life, this small setback is nothing in comparison!"
Si Xua took a deep breath, trying to suppress his raging temper, "Shut up!"
Ye Wanwan finally stopped aggravating him and laid on the desk to sleep. She'd exerted too much energy just now, so her energy needed to be replenished.
After everyone had settled into their new seats, Liang Li Hua continued, "The exams are over but we have something very important to do next. I believe everybody knows that to initiate the school leaders' inspection, the school has organized an arts performance and requires each class to showcase one performance.
In the previous class meeting, we had agreed that our class would be staging a play "Snow White" and Si Xia was chosen to be the prince. However, we hadn't decided who would be the female lead, Snow White."