Very soon, the school bell rang, signaling that it was the start of the next class.
As soon as the Chinese teacher arrived, Teacher Luo Hua was already nowhere to be seen. It seemed that their exchange didn’t go as well as she had initially thought.
“Class, please quiet down.”
Everyone immediately followed suit, and her eyes narrowed at the crowd.
“Do you think that Mathematics and English are the only subjects that are important here? Is that why you don’t value my subject enough?”
She glanced in her direction.
“Don’t you think it’s ironic that Chinese is the very subject that had dragged all your scores down?”
“Since you all know your rankings, I’m sure you are all aware of your scores in your different subjects. Am I right?” The other students nodded in response.
“Look! You’ve all received perfect scores in your other subjects, but you couldn’t even get a perfect score in Chinese! How ironic is that!”
“You’ve been memorizing your English and practicing your Math, but did that really help you in achieving the perfect score?”
“The top six students in our batch have all received imperfect scores in their Language subject. Don’t you see how integral this is?”
She scowled.
The teacher’s face was deep red as she ranted to them about their grades. However, the students were far too drowsy to reply. They didn’t really need Chinese languages to pass.
Mathematics offered them enough points to go above and beyond the other students.
As for their language subject, their grades have always been quite stable. While their reading comprehension took a little dip, it really was all down to their luck.
Seeing that everyone was silent, the Chinese teacher became even more passionate.
Among the students in Class 20, there were six students who had scored full marks in all the other subjects. Yet, they lost a few points in their language subject.
Not a single one of them had a perfect score.
The moment she received their grades, she couldn’t help but be disappointed with them. There were students in other classes who had received full marks in her subject, but there was no improvement when it came to Class 20.
Was she the one dragging them down?
She turned her gaze to Yao Tang as a small smile slipped into her face. “Why don’t you tell everyone why there’s such a large gap between you and the fifth placer?”
Yao Tang didn’t even raise her head when she answered, “Because he answered quite well.”
What?
What did she just say?
The teacher gritted her teeth. “Because their Chinese language comprehension is better than yours! Look at your results!”
“The one at seventh place is just a point below yours. They could’ve caught up with you if they wanted to.”
“If your language comprehension was a little better—if you had just studied a little harder—then your results wouldn’t have been this low!” she snapped.
If it weren’t for the fact that the other subjects were more difficult, Yao Tang’s Chinese language would’ve been ranked a bit her.
After all, Chinese language was easy for her.
However, she was just far too lazy to finish her composition. That seriously dragged her score, which affected her entire average.
Upon seeing her nonchalant look, the Chinese teacher scowled. This was such an important exam, and they were disregarding it just like that?
After class, the language teacher brought her to the office and sat her down. “Yao Tang, you seriously can’t go on like this. The college entrance examinations are coming, and they recognize only the top scorer. Do you understand?” she questioned.
“Now that the other students have caught up with you, you shouldn’t continue wasting your time on this subject. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to enter the Top 10.”
“Perhaps you think that it would be the same if you could enter a top university, but as the top scorer, or as an ordinary person, it’s still different.”
“Yao Tang, you have to think of your future.”
The language teacher sighed, unsure of what to say next. Her hand was trembling as her face was filled with regret.
She really was concerned over her student.
Yao Tang slowly nodded her head as if she was listening seriously. However, her completely blank expression was enough to give the teacher a headache.
Every time, she’d always tell her the importance of Chinese.
And every time, she didn’t want to take it to heart.
At this point, the teacher didn’t even know if she should continue being like this.
However, when she saw Yao Tang’s results, she couldn’t help but hope that maybe this time around, she’d finally take her subject seriously.
