After the morning formalities...
"Students... I am pleasantly surprised. Out of the 8 subjects, the class averages for 5 of the exams have a passing score!" Luo Zi Da did not expect this class to pass at all, much less in almost every subject. Well, they barely passed, but even that was a monumental achievement for Class D.
"So that means we failed 3..."
"Ah, and also, the subjects you failed were the ones when Teacher Ning watched over you. Haha, did he intimidate you too much or something? Or does my presence boost your intelligence a bit?"
"..."
Ah, we get it. A tacit understanding formed between the students.
And soon, Luo Zi Da started giving out the papers starting from the highest score.
For the first subject...
"Who do you think it's gonna be?" "It should be Lu Xifa, right?" "Or maybe it's Ren Weiwei."
The class chatted with each other, trying to guess who the top scorer was. Of course, Lan Xiang never came up in their guesses. Well, he did come up, but not when they were guessing the top scorer.
"How about the lowest?" "Hehe, is there any need to guess?" "It's obviously Trash Xiang."
Luo Zi Da's ears perked as he heard the words "Trash Xiang". He shook his head in disappointment.
"Okay, when I say your name, come here and claim your test paper."
The students talking earlier shut their mouths and listened closely.
"...Lan Xiang."
Dun!
Someone hit their pitcher and it fell of the table.
"Ai— aiya, ahaha." The student smiled awkwardly as he grabbed his pitcher back.
Lan Xiang stood up, amidst the skeptical—no, dumbfounded glares of the students around him. He walked to Luo Zi Da with a smirk and grabbed his paper.
Luo Zi Da rolled his eyes. He, too, was shocked beyond belief when he first found out about the results. When he thought about Lan Xiang's cultivation, however, he quickly accepted it.
"It's like... he's become a different person."
As Lan Xiang discreetly flaunted his score by facing it towards his classmates, their eyes all widened.
A... A perfect score?
He sat down smugly.
"Next, Lu Xifa..."
As Lu Xifa made her way to the front, Lan Xiang wiggled his eyebrows at her, provoking her. She suppressed the urge to show him the finger.
Soon, all of the papers were distributed, and it was the second subject's papers' turn to be given.
"H, hey, who do you think this one's top scorer'll be?" "It, it should be Lu Xifa, right?"
"Lan Xiang." Luo Zi Da called him once more.
Lan Xiang took the paper and waved it while looking at Lu Xifa and Ren Weiwei before sitting down.
The next subject.
"It should be Lu Xifa this time..."
"Lan Xiang."
And the next, and the next...
One after another, Luo Zi Da gave to Lan Xiang his papers with perfect scores, shocking his classmates again and again.
The bespectacled student couldn't believe his eyes. Why...? I am supposed to be superior than you in studies! Why are you so f*cking great?!
"Okay, the next subject is... geography." Luo Zi Da looked at the papers. The first one is Lu Xifa, eh? Finally, his streak is broken.
As Lan Xiang was flashing his tongue towards Lu Xifa, Luo Zi Da spoke.
"Lu Xifa."
Lan Xiang's heart dropped.
Lu Xifa's eyes sparkled before she stood up in victory. She couldn't suppress her smug smile as she gazed at the pouting Lan Xiang.
"I should be next then..." Lan Xiang speculated.
"Ren Weiwei."
She, too, was surprised that it wasn't Lan Xiang who was the runner-up. She claimed her papers and sat down, of course, not forgetting to gloat to Lan Xiang.
Lan Xiang was confused. This was geography, a subject as easy as memorizing everything. How come he hadn't perfected it??
"Wait, come to think of it..." He took a glance at the scores of the test papers in his hand and totaled their scores.
"...525. That means... I got a zero?"
He clearly remembered his total score posted on the bulletin board. It was equal to the sum of the scores of the papers in his possession.
"This means, not only did I get a zero in geography, but in the only other subject left, history! How did I f*ck up this bad?"
He silently sighed as he waited for his name, presumably at the very end of the pile.
As he predicted, when there was only one paper left, Luo Zi Da called his name.
Luo Zi Da was slightly disappointed when he saw the big egg on Lan Xiang's test paper. But there was also a sense of comfort, a sense of familiarity. After all, he had always gotten these scores in the past.
Lan Xiang grunted as he grabbed the paper.
The students all let out a sigh of relief. This was the usual Lan Xiang they knew, the one until this moment was an impostor, an alien.
On the other hand, Lu Xifa and the rest weren't in the mood to gloat anymore. With him perfecting every single test until now, it was astonishing to get a big fat zero.
They saw his prowess when they studied together, just how in the world did he get a score of nil?
After geography was history.
Lan Xiang bit his lip. He knew that he had gotten a zero on this subject as well. But why? How did this happen?
He looked at the test paper for geography. It was a blank map, and the students had to fill up the countries, their capitals, and whatnot, for a total of 75 points.
He checked his answers.
"Yes, Jingshi should be here, and Chengshi should be here... Wait. Isn't this Pei Luan?"
A sudden pain struck Lan Xiang's head. He groaned as he massaged himself.
"...Yeah, that's right. I'm in a different world."
He had discovered why his scores were abysmal in these two subjects. It was because he had his memories all jumbled up!
"Haizz, I should have noticed! What a waste."
Lan Xiang clicked his tongue. He should study about this world's history. After all, he answered with the cities from the other world by accident.
While thinking about it, he noticed something.
"Weird. The maps look exactly the same, the only differences are the locations of the borders and the names of the cities.
"Does this mean that I'm in a parallel world?"
After a while, he got rid of the thought. "Whatever, there's no use knowing this anyways."
INTRIGUE