Zhao Ping finished reading out everyone’s marks before turning to look at Ye Ci. He looked at her helplessly as he gently shook his head.
He had painstakingly tried to persuade her, but she had not listened.
What else could he do?
Thus far, they had already gone through half of the winter camp, yet Ye Ci’s situation still had not improved.
She was still adamant about participating in the finals and kept pressing on.
No one knew what she was up to.
Ye Ci had seemed like a smart and outstanding student based on her resume and performance in Yunzhou Second High, but she was so willful here.
Ye Ci had already expected this ranking and mark.
She went up to get her paper with her head slightly lowered and with no expression.
When she went back to her seat, she heard Zhang Yanyan talking to the person next to her.
“No wonder she was so mad last time. If I didn’t pass the paper, I would be upset if someone saw my paper too.”
“Shh… Keep it down… I think she heard us.”
“So what if she heard us? It’s a fact anyway. She’s taken the test, so why is she afraid of what others will say? Actually, it’s quite unbelievable that she’s in the same school and class as Ning Li and Pei Song with her level… Is there a problem with their school?”
“Yunzhou Second High has produced those two geniuses that always come in first and second…”
“They produced two geniuses and an idiot…”
Zhang Yanyan said this as she looked at Ye Ci and snickered.
“Some people shouldn’t even be here in the first place.”
Ye Ci closed her eyes and wanted to plug her ears, but even more so, she wanted to go up to Zhang Yanyan and rip her mouth off!
However, it had gotten very ugly the last time they had fought, so she could not do that again.
On the podium, Zhao Ping had already started talking about the paper.
“Let’s look at the third subquestion of the second last question. Only five people in the class have done it. Besides this solution I just talked about, there’s one more.”
Zhao Ping said and looked to the last row of the classroom.
“Ning Li, Pei Song, you both had the same solution to this question. Why don’t you both discuss and see who’d like to come up to write it?”
The people in the class turned around in unison.
Of course, the top two in class from the same school would also come up with the same solution.
Tan Ruiqun could not help but ask in a low voice, “Pei Song, have you guys learned this solution before?”
Pei Song shook his head. “No.”
Tan Ruiqun looked at his own paper. “Then, it’s quite a coincidence that you both wrote the same solution…”
Pei Song looked at Ning Li. “Which of us is going?”
Ning Li said, “You.”
Pei Song nodded, got up from his seat, and walked towards the podium.
His figure was lean and tall. His indifferent and detached eyes were hidden behind his lenses. He then casually took the chalk and wrote on the board.
Pei Song’s handwriting on the board was extremely beautiful.
Most of the students began to transcribe his solution while some others stared at him deep in thought.
Pei Song soon finished writing.
Zhao Ping stood next to him and said, “Why don’t you explain it?”
Pei Song nodded. “Sure.”
His cold and aloof voice rang out in the quiet classroom.
The small number of girls sitting in the front seats could not move their eyes away from him.
When Pei Song finished speaking, Zhao Ping nodded appreciatively and looked at Ning Li.
“Ning Li, do you have anything else to add?”
Ning Li shook her head.
“No, I’m thinking along the same lines as Pei Song.”
Pei Song put the chalk back and paused slightly when he heard this.
However, it had only been for a moment so no one noticed this subtle action since he had always been introverted.
…
After class.
A few girls got together and looked to the back of the classroom from time to time.
“Pei Song is amazing! He has good grades, he’s handsome and such an eye-candy compared to our school’s popular guy.”
“Sigh… Too bad the winter camp is only two weeks long… When it’s over, we won’t see this face again… By the way, do you guys think that Pei Song has a girlfriend?”
“I heard that he doesn’t, but many of the girls in Yunzhou Second High like him. If he was interested, it would only be a matter of time…”
“Tsk tsk… All he cares about is his studies, so why would he care about this?”
…
The classroom was rather noisy, but these words were intermittent, so it was easy to get the gist of it.
Pei Song did not seem to mind and looked calm.
He looked at his paper. His eyes lingered on the question for a moment before he finally folded it up and stuck it in his book.
Ning Li went to get some water. When she came back, she passed by the girls.
Someone asked her. “Hey, Ning Li, can I ask you something?”
Ning Li stood still. “What is it?”
The girl lowered her voice. “Do you know if Pei Song has someone that he likes?”
Pei Song’s eyebrows twitched slightly. He glanced at them.
Ning Li did not notice Pei Song. She thought about it and said, “I don’t think so…”
As far as she could remember, Pei Song seemed to be cold and aloof to everyone.
“Then…then what’s his type?”
Ning Li shook her head. “I’m not sure.”
The girls looked regretful.
Ning Li and Pei Song were classmates, so if she did not know, they had even less of a chance to find out.
Pei Song leaned back in his chair and lowered his eyes. He looked at the two words he had subconsciously written on the draft paper.
Ning Li.
He then turned the page.
“Pei Song really is the hottest guy I’ve seen in school. Even the popular guys from Capital First High in the past few years can’t compare to him.”
A girl sighed.
Cao Jingxuan, who was sitting next to her, heard this and laughed.
“That’s not necessarily true. There’s still Senior Lu!”
Ning Li was about to go back to her seat. When she heard this, she paused in her footsteps.
The girl was puzzled and asked, “Which Senior Lu?”
Cao Jingxuan smiled and said, “Who else? Senior Lu Huaiyu.”
