Lin Tingwan had negotiated amicably with the system.
And the Top Student System had solemnly agreed to it, for it to unilaterally tear up that agreement now, for no reason, could only be for one reason: this Jiang Suizhou occupied an important place in her life, or the original owner’s.
Since they were in the classroom, it wasn’t convenient to zone out for too long, so Lin Tingwan only replied:
【I know, Xiaobai.】
She planned to wait until the lunch break to properly discuss this issue with the system.
Maybe Lin Tingwan hadn’t even noticed it herself, but from communicating with the system, she’d stood there dazed for a while.
And since the subject of the discussion was Jiang Suizhou, her gaze naturally kept drifting toward him.
But in the eyes of the other classmates, it looked like the little fat girl was staring at Jiang Suizhou with a deeply infatuated expression.
Especially Lu Wei, he knew about the provocation the little fat girl had aimed at his friend yesterday.
Right now, Lu Wei started having other thoughts.
Obviously, there was no way the little fat girl, dead last in the grade, could ever surpass Brother Jiang in his studies.
So her saying that on purpose must have been to get Brother Jiang’s attention, was she trying to seduce him?
The thought made Lu Wei explode on the spot.
Especially having just heard someone say the dead fat pig had been bullying the goddess at home again, Lu Wei shot up out of his seat.
He blocked in front of Jiang Suizhou, glaring fiercely at Lin Tingwan and snapping, “Keep looking, and I’ll gouge your eyes out.”
But Jiang Suizhou just shoved Lu Wei aside, using a look to intimidate his own underling: “We’re all classmates. No need to be so fierce.”
Even as he said this, Jiang Suizhou quickly moved his gaze right back to Lin Tingwan.
He was genuinely curious, why did it feel like two completely different people were splitting off from one single person?
Something wrong mentally?
Split personality?
No wonder he was the school god, his mind worked fast.
If Lin Tingwan knew what Jiang Suizhou was thinking right now, she’d probably be dumbfounded, and deeply impressed all at once.
Ordinary people would never imagine something like transmigration and rebirth, but when a person’s core is swapped out inside the same body, there’s naturally bound to be some difference in behavior.
That Jiang Suizhou could pick up on it so quickly, besides his intelligence, it was probably also because of some kind of connection between his and the original owner’s energies.
The two of them locked eyes, and the intensity of it—
not only shocked the rest of the class, but also made Lin Yuexuan’s eyes practically spark with fire.
Why was it that she, beautiful, elegant, and top of the class, had approached him herself, only for Jiang Suizhou to act indifferent toward her?
And yet now he looked at this dead fat woman differently?
Hmph, that dead fat woman must have done something underhanded, or gotten some kind of hold over Jiang Suizhou.
It had to be that!
If the bell for class hadn’t rung right at that moment, Lin Yuexuan would have wanted to march over and slap that little tramp across the face.
She barely managed to hold herself back, sitting down in her seat, but turned her head to shoot Lin Tingwan a resentful glare.
Once she got home, she’d tell on her to her own mother and have her mother deal with this shameless girl!
After Lin Tingwan sat down, her desk mate turned her head to greet her.
Her large, clear black-and-white eyes looked at Lin Tingwan with curiosity as she asked, “Aren’t you scared of God Jiang?”
She herself found Jiang Suizhou’s gaze quite frightening, and didn’t dare meet his eyes easily.
“Xiaoman.” Lin Tingwan greeted her warmly.
In the original owner’s memory, this girl was one of the rare students in the entire Class 6 of Chengguang High School’s first year who showed her genuine goodwill, regardless of gender.
Xia Xiaoman never looked down on the original owner for being fat, never minded her clumsy movements or poor grades, from the moment the two of them became desk mates, she’d genuinely treated the original owner as a friend.
It was the original owner instead who, probably from being teased and tormented too much by her stepsister, had habitually grown a shell of thorns around herself.
Refusing the hand of friendship offered to her.
“Ah, Wanwan, you actually called me Xiaoman.” Xia Xiaoman’s eyes lit up, her blunt bangs slightly mussed.
It made her look somewhat adorably scatterbrained.
“Because you’re just naturally cute.” Lin Tingwan said with a smile.
She deliberately didn’t explain why her attitude had changed, the original owner hadn’t had any real friends in this class to begin with anyway.
Even with her personality having changed so much now, no one else would suspect anything of it.
Although playing out other people’s lives had been what the Best Actress Lin Tingwan had done most in her past life,
now, rarely, having returned to her school days, Lin Tingwan just wanted to be her true self.
Xia Xiaoman was, true to her name, an easily satisfied, adorable little girl.
Hearing praise from her desk mate, she instinctively broke into a big smile.
“Wanwan, let’s go to the cafeteria together at lunch.”
But before the two of them could keep chatting and deepening their bond, the English teacher had already bustled in, clutching her English textbook and a pile of study materials.
“Class, today’s pop quiz is dictation, pages 20 to 30 of the ‘3500 English Vocabulary Words for the College Entrance Exam.'”
Some rejoiced, some grieved, Class 6 was the first-year rocket class, and many of Chengguang’s students would go study abroad later on.
So dictating English words was child’s play for them.
Of course, there were also students like the original owner, and her desk mate Xia Xiaoman.
When it came to learning English, it was truly a case of six senses open, the seventh a total blank [1]six senses open, the seventh a total blank (qi qiao tong le liu qiao, yi qiao bu tong, 七竅通了六竅，一竅不通) Idiom, a pun on “utterly clueless,” playing off the idiom for … Continue reading jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_3293107_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_3293107_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });!
As if it weren’t bad enough already, on top of it all she heard the English teacher say: “I’ll call a few students up to the board to write. Everyone else, complete today’s pop quiz at your own seat.”
The English teacher’s eyes swept across every face in the class, unlike Teacher Zhou’s look of exasperated disappointment,
she didn’t even spare Lin Tingwan a single extra glance, a student like that was just dead weight, and the English teacher had always treated her as if she didn’t exist.
“Xia Xiaoman, come up.”
Being the first one caught, Xia Xiaoman went up to the board with a bitter look on her face.
The English teacher then called on Lin Yuexuan too, and was just about to call up two more boys when she saw Xia Xiaoman’s desk mate, the little fat girl, actually raise her hand.
Lin Tingwan spoke up on her own initiative: “Teacher, can I go up and try too?”
She wasn’t the original owner, in her past life, the Best Actress had gone abroad to film before, and had crammed English hard for it.
And having stayed abroad for quite a long stretch of time, through constant exposure, her spoken and written English had both become excellent.
To complete her daily study tasks, actively raising her hand in class to answer the teacher’s questions was a must!
The English teacher was quite displeased, feeling like someone was trying to show off.
But then she thought of the little fat girl’s garbage grades, she actually had the nerve to do this?
She simply called on her, if she wanted to embarrass herself in front of everyone that badly, the English teacher wasn’t going to spare Lin Tingwan any face either.
Oh my, the dead fat pig actually wanted to court disaster by volunteering to write dictation up front, Lin Yuexuan smiled, gloating, all her earlier gloom instantly swept away.
Lin Tingwan’s grades were terrible, not just by a little bit, had she forgotten how ruthlessly the English teacher punished students who made too many dictation mistakes?
But the actual result proved Lin Yuexuan’s assumption dead wrong.
Not only did Lin Tingwan get every single word right in the dictation, her handwriting was also beautifully neat, and even the normally strict English teacher, unprecedentedly, praised her in front of the whole class.
“Heaven rewards diligence, it seems Lin Tingwan has put in a lot of effort after class. Everyone should learn from her.”
A student who’d always had terrible grades suddenly getting a perfect score on a pop quiz, she must have secretly worked much harder studying on her own.
Because of this, the English teacher, rarely, gave Lin Tingwan a good look.
Lin Yuexuan, on the other hand, looked as though she’d been struck by lightning.
When had the dead fat pig managed to memorize all these words, and since when did she write this beautifully?
Damn it, could it be that Lin Tingwan had actually been secretly studying in her room every night after everyone else went to sleep?
And deliberately putting on the act of a hopeless slacker in front of everyone else?
Playing the pig to eat the tiger [2]playing the pig to eat the tiger (ban zhu chi lao hu, 扮豬吃老虎) Idiom, feigning weakness or stupidity to lull others before striking jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_3293107_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_3293107_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });?
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