This humble Taoist priest wants to take the college entrance exam.

Chapter 172 The class monitor got a perfect score again?

Chapter 172 The class monitor got a perfect score again?
It was during recess, and the classroom was full of students. When the other students saw two pretty and cute girls coming to their class to look for someone, how could they not be curious?

Before the classes were divided, many of the students in the class were classmates with Wen Zhixia and Yao Jingyan.

Wen Zhixia, in particular, is a girl who consistently ranks first in liberal arts subjects and is also beautiful and cute; almost everyone knows her.

I thought they were looking for some old classmate, but then I saw Dao Ye walk straight towards them.

……

"Taoist priest! Come here quickly—"

Wen Zhixia was a little shy as she wandered into someone else's class's activity area for the first time. Even though it was outside in the corridor, many gossipy eyes fell on her, making her feel nervous and awkward. She felt her cheeks burning and her palms sweating.

Seeing Chen Shi'an come out, the girl quickly waved to him and led him to stand on the balcony near the stairwell where there were fewer people.

Upon reaching this point, the field of vision narrowed considerably, and the girl's tense shoulders gradually relaxed, even her breathing became easier.

She took Xiaoyan's arm, looked up at Chen Shi'an standing in front of her, and her earlier tension seemed to have been blown away by the wind. The corners of her mouth unconsciously curved into a soft, sweet smile.

The feeling of meeting him during the break between classes was strange and exciting for Wen Zhixia, as if she were openly revealing her thoughts to someone.

"What's wrong, Xiao Zhi?"

"Xiaoyan said she wanted to see you."

"……what?"

Chen Shi'an was stunned for a moment, then looked at Yao Jingyan.

Yao Jingyan looked at Wen Zhixia, who was holding her arm, with a face full of question marks, and said loudly, "Hey! Zhixia! You don't betray your teammates like this! I said I was going to the bathroom, who pulled me down? It was you who begged me to say it... Ouch!"

As if bitten by a mosquito, Yao Jingyan stopped talking.

"Taoist priest, have you handed out the Chinese language test papers yet?"

"Just posted it, what about you guys?"

"We received ours too! Then I heard that your class got the highest score in Chinese this time, who was it?"

"me."

"...It's you!! 145 points?!"

"What, can't it be me?"

Chen Shi'an smiled.

Wen Zhixia and Yao Jingyan, who were standing to the side, were both stunned.

Wen Zhixia wasn't unaware that it was Chen Shi'an, after all, he had scored over 130 points before, but when she was confirmed to have scored 145 points, she was still full of surprise.

"How did you get such a high score! You improved by more than ten points in one go?!"

Wen Zhixia was dumbfounded. As a top student in Chinese, she knew better than anyone how difficult it was to improve her score after it reached 130.

It was somewhat acceptable for Chen Shi'an to improve his score from over 120 to over 130, but this sudden jump from just over 130 to 145 sounds like a fairy tale.

"Just take the test as usual."

"...What score did you get on your essay?"

"Fifty-nine."

"...?!!"

Wen Zhixia finally understood where his high score in Chinese came from. After all, her own essay only scored 56 points, which seemed to be 3 points short, but it was the difference between a perfect essay and an excellent one.

"How many points did Xiaozhi get on her Chinese test?"

"...Not as many as you."

"a bit?"

"Three points less than you..."

"142 points? That's not bad. Didn't you say you bombed the test? This is an improvement of one point compared to your last monthly exam."

"..."

Ahhhhh!

That stinky Taoist priest!!

They even accused me of stealing my first place in Chinese! Turns out, it was that stinky Taoist priest!!
Wen Zhixia stretched out her small hand to him, her five fingers spread out, the girl's palm looking soft and tender.

"what?"

"Let me see the test paper."

"Other classmates took it and looked at it."

"Alright, then bring the test paper with you when you get back, I want to see it!"

"What, you don't believe I scored so high?"

"I want to see!"

"Okay, I'll show it to you later."

"You only distributed the Chinese language papers? Have the other subjects received theirs?"

"No, what about you guys?"

"Our math score was also awarded!"

"How did Little Cicada get his math score?"

"Woo..."

"a bit?"

"137 points..."

"Oh? It seems you really bombed the test, scoring one point less than in the last monthly exam?"

"Woo..."

"Okay, even though you bombed the test, you should still get a higher score than me."

"..."

Wen Zhixia looked at him and couldn't help but chuckle.

"Who comforts people like that?"

"Do you feel much better now?"

"Hmm, that's true."

The classroom not far away suddenly became noisy again. It turned out that the class representative had returned from the office with math test papers and was distributing them.

Anxious about her grades in other subjects, Wen Zhixia didn't linger long and took out a piece of candy from her pocket, stuffing it into Chen Shi'an's hand.

"Here's some candy, Taoist priest. We're leaving now, bye-bye—"

After saying that, Wen Zhixia took Yao Jingyan's arm and they went up the stairs together.

Chen Shi'an held the piece of candy in his hand, peeled off the coating, and popped it into his mouth, watching the two girls' departing figures.

For a moment I was still a little confused, wondering what they had come all this way for!

……

Chen Shi'an didn't hide his relationship with Wen Zhixia, going to and from school, eating, and playing ball together on weekdays, and many classmates often bumped into them.

However, this was the first time the girl had so openly switched classes to come and find him.

If a cute girl is so interested in someone that she goes to great lengths to visit them in another class, then they must have a very good relationship.

If you were to ask who the boys in Class 5 admired and respected the most, it would definitely be Dao Ye.

I envy Dao Ye for being able to sit next to the prettiest class monitor;
I admire Dao Ye for being able to sit next to the class monitor, who is the most unapproachable classmate.

I still remember when Dao Ye first transferred to the class, everyone secretly made a bet on how long he would sit next to the class monitor...

As the days went by, not only was the Taoist priest not replaced, but he seemed to be living a very comfortable life.

Not only that, Dao Ye seems to have a very good relationship with Wen Zhixia, and they are often seen going to and from school together, eating together, and playing ball together.

Gossip involving the class monitor is something you can only look at, not touch. Seeing Dao Ye navigating the minefield between the two girls as if nothing was wrong, the guys from Class 5 were all sweating bullets for him.

I'm really afraid that one day the Taoist priest will splatter blood on me...

……

Chen Shi'an returned to the classroom with a candy in his mouth.

The class is currently distributing math papers from the monthly exam, and it's as lively as if it were Chinese New Year.

"Class monitor! 150 points! Another perfect score!"

A classmate placed Lin Mengqiu's perfect score answer sheet on Chen Shi'an's desk.

Lin Mengqiu, who had been feeling down because the annoying cicada had called Chen Shi'an out, felt much better after seeing her perfect answer sheet.

The test paper was on Chen Shi'an's desk, but she didn't pick it up; she just left it there.

Chen Shi'an had returned to the classroom. He pulled out a chair and sat down. He immediately saw the perfect score paper on his desk.

"Class monitor, another perfect score?"

Chen Shi'an picked up the paper with both hands and looked down to admire it.

"Ah."

"The class monitor is amazing; he got full marks in two consecutive monthly exams."

"~"

Zheng Yining, who sat at the table in front of her, turned around and felt obligated to save Chen Shi'an's life, so she whispered a reminder:
"If I remember correctly, the class monitor got full marks in math on four consecutive monthly exams."

Four times!

"~~~"

Chen Shi'an was genuinely surprised. One perfect score doesn't mean much, but four perfect scores in a row really demonstrate one's ability.

Seeing the Taoist priest's surprised expression, Lin Mengqiu was very satisfied, and the frustration she had felt earlier because Chen Shi'an had gone out to meet Wen Zhixia also disappeared.

After all, it was Wen Zhixia who shamelessly came to him, not the other way around. What's there to be upset about?!

If you're so capable, why don't you bother someone and make them come to your class to find you?

In the end, he'll still have to come back and sit next to me...

With this in mind, Lin Mengqiu suddenly understood.

"Class monitor, here's your test paper."

After glancing at it briefly, Chen Shi'an handed the test paper back to her.

"...Have you finished reading?"

"No ah."

"...You're not going to watch it anymore?"

Lin Mengqiu stared at him, her face full of dissatisfaction with his reaction.

Chen Shi'an said with delight, "I thought the class monitor was in a hurry to get it. Since you're not in a hurry, I'll continue reading. There are still many things I can learn from the class monitor."

"~~~"

Lin Mengqiu looked away and turned back to continue doing her homework.

She would occasionally steal a glance at Chen Shi'an to see if he was seriously looking at her exam paper.

The class monitor's authority remained undiminished, and other classmates were too embarrassed to borrow her test paper to pass around. Apart from Chen Shi'an, no one else could so easily get a glimpse of her test paper.

Before long, Chen Shi'an's own math test paper was handed out.

"Master Dao! Yours! 102 points!"

"Holy crap! Daoist, how did you learn this? I remember you got zero on the last weekly test, didn't you? You were pretending to be weak and deliberately submitted a blank paper, weren't you!"

"No, I just didn't know how to do it before."

"Please, Daoist, just say you did it on purpose, okay? You're making me feel even worse!"

"..."

The final score on the Chinese exam differed from Chen Shi'an's estimated score, but the score on the math exam was exactly the same as Chen Shi'an's estimated score after the exam.

Upon hearing that Chen Shi'an had scored 102 on his math test, Lin Mengqiu's small hand swiftly reached out and snatched the test paper from him the moment it was handed to him.

She looked at this math test paper with even more care than she had with the Chinese test paper earlier.

No one knew Chen Shi'an's current math learning progress better than her. With so much behind the class, participating in the same exam as everyone else was obviously beyond the syllabus for him, yet he still scored 102 points.

Lin Mengqiu originally estimated that she would be very satisfied if Chen Shi'an could score 80 points, but she never expected that his score would exceed her psychological baseline by so much!

Take a close look at the questions he answered; all the ones he wrote down were correct.

There were three multiple-choice questions left blank, one fill-in-the-blank question left blank, and some sub-questions in the last three major questions left blank. The rest were all filled in, and all were correct.

"...Why did you leave the multiple-choice questions blank again?"

"Nope."

"Can't you just guess?"

"It's okay, it's not like the college entrance exam. I'll know how to do it next time, there's no need to guess."

"..."

Lin Mengqiu was convinced and for a moment didn't know whether to call him arrogant or honest.

But this also shows that Chen Shi'an is really different from all her classmates, including herself, in her studies. She has no illusions about her grades. She truly believes that if she learns something, she must learn it before she feels that it is her own score.

While Lin Mengqiu was looking at his test paper, Chen Shi'an was also looking at hers.

Chen Shi'an wasn't just going through the motions; he really looked at it very carefully. This perfect answer sheet had a kind of flawless and impeccable beauty.

Lin Mengqiu casually asked, as if speaking, as she gently twirled the pen around the girl's pert thumb halfway around.

"Why did Wen Zhixia ask you to go out just now?"

"nothing much."

"I'll just give you a piece of candy?"

"No, I just wanted to ask about the grades."

What score did she get?

"I got 142 in Chinese and 137 in Math."

Ah.

Great! I got a higher total score in Chinese and Math, and the Math test was much harder!

I win!

A subtle, proud smile curved the corners of the girl's lips.

"That's good. You should be able to get this many points next time too."