Chapter 102: Qin Xue's Exam Failure

The New Year's holiday quickly ended, and after New Year's came the tense exams.

Because third-year students would enter the second half of the school year after this winter break, this final exam is more difficult than before.

After one semester of tutoring from Zhou Xian, Su Yun Jiao has now roughly returned to her previous state.

The two consecutive days of exams made Su Yun Jiao feel extremely relaxed, with no pressure during the exams.

On the contrary, Qin Xue found the exams much more difficult; many questions looked familiar, but when the exam came she simply couldn't recall where she had seen them before.

After all the subjects' final exams were over.

Qin Xue felt as if she had lost her soul.

"Xiao Xue, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell somewhere?"

"No…… I'm fine."

"I think Xiao Xue also seems a bit unwell; maybe she didn't do well on the exam?"

The classmates of Yi Ban looked at Qin Xue with some worry.

But Fang Hong beside her firmly believed in Qin Xue, saying: "How could Xiao Xue possibly do poorly on the exam? You know her grades are among the best in our class, and she's the study committee member; there definitely won't be any problems, right, Xiao Xue?"

Fang Hong turned her gaze to Qin Xue beside her seat, but Qin Xue couldn't smile.

"I…… I feel a bit unwell, I'll go out for a moment."

Qin Xue said that and then walked out of the classroom.

Who would have thought that just as she stepped out, she heard Liu Ban's Zhou Tingting say: "I didn't expect you to be so impressive; my brother said you did exceptionally well on this exam, and the invigilator teacher praised your paper, saying you've improved even more since last time."

Su Yun Jiao said: "It's also because your brother teaches well; otherwise I couldn't have improved this much."

The two were chatting, but who knew that upon looking up, they would see Qin Xue standing before them.

Zhou Tingting saw Qin Xue; the disgust on her face couldn't be hidden, she darkened her face and said to Su Yun Jiao: "Jiao Jiao, let's go back to class."

Seeing the two about to leave, Qin Xue immediately caught up, hesitantly asking: "Did I do something wrong? Tingting, I feel you don't seem to like me very much."

"It's not that you did something wrong; I simply don't like you. Also, please don't show up at our classroom door three times a day—school is for studying, not for dating. Can you stop disturbing others' classes?"

Zhou Tingting mercilessly blamed the Qin Xue before her.

These days, Qin Xue would go guard the door of Liu Ban as soon as class ended.

When Lu Chi didn't come out to see her, Qin Xue asked her classmates to pass a message to Lu Chi, insisting on having a meal together with him, and would frequently go to their class, enthusiastically trying to befriend her—sending gifts, borrowing pens, and even after being rejected, shamelessly claiming she just wanted to be friends.

This caused the other people in the class to constantly say she was over the top.

During these three days of exams, Zhou Tingting had to avoid Qin Xue.

Seeing Zhou Tingting dislike her so much, Qin Xue lowered her head and burst into tears, saying: "Sorry, I know it's because of the previous incident… I really have realized my mistake, but… is there someone who doesn't want us to play together? I can explain…"

Qin Xue's gaze drifted faintly toward Su Yun Jiao's side, making her meaning all too obvious.

It's precisely because Su Yun Jiao doesn't like her that Zhou Tingting refuses to play with her.

This amounts to giving Zhou Tingting a face-saving excuse: as long as Zhou Tingting tacitly accepts that she's not playing with her because of Su Yun Jiao, she can further improve her relationship with Zhou Tingting.

I originally thought Zhou Tingting would bluntly say Su Yun Jiao's name.

Who would have thought Zhou Tingting would say: "You've misunderstood, right? I don't dislike you because of what you did before; I simply don't like you as a person. There are so many people in school—I hope you can stop staring at me all the time? I don't want to be friends with you; go make friends with someone else!"

After saying that, Zhou Tingting pulled Su Yun Jiao and left.

Su Yun Jiao also didn't expect Zhou Tingting to speak so bluntly; this directly left Qin Xue dumbfounded.

After the two left, the other people in the hallway kept looking at Qin Xue with a strange gaze.

It seemed as if Qin Xue was someone who, knowing the other person disliked her, still insisted on getting close.

Such people are collectively called "cling-ons."

Su Yun Jiao bit her lip, her face full of shame.

Now Lu Chi is unwilling to see her, always making various excuses to avoid her.

And Lu Chi's former underlings, their attitudes also began to waver.

Previously, when they saw her, they would call her "sister-in-law" in unison.

And now they no longer call her that.

Qin Xue didn't understand why, but she also couldn't bring herself to say it outright.

Could it be because that day she threw herself at him in the hot spring hotel, making Lu Chi disgusted?

"Qin Xue, come here a moment."

In the neighboring office, the homeroom teacher suddenly called Qin Xue to come in.

After the previous incident, the homeroom teacher's attitude toward her underwent a subtle change.

Before, she was the teacher's idea of a well-behaved girl, but now the homeroom teacher only feels this woman is both hypocritical and annoying.

"Teacher, are you looking for me?"

Although Qin Xue didn't know what had happened, her attitude remained humble.

The homeroom teacher leaned back in her office chair, looked at Qin Xue before her, and said: "Qin Xue, do you know how poorly you did on this final exam?"

"I……"

Qin Xue hadn't expected the grades to already be out.

The homeroom teacher said: "Because you're the study committee of Class Yi Ban, your grades matter to all the subject teachers; the results of these two days' exams have prompted several subject teachers to come see me."

Qin Xue dared not speak.

The homeroom teacher even more bluntly said: "Your academic performance has declined so severely—what's going on? The subject teachers say you don't focus at all in class, and you even make basic mistakes on exams; your mind isn't on your studies—where is it going?"

"I…… Teacher, I just feel a bit unwell; I didn't intentionally do poorly on the exam, I……"

"Don't give me that excuse; your family has spent so much money to send you to the city's key high school—is that just to let you waste this opportunity? When winter break comes, the school will have remedial classes, and you must attend."

Seeing that she had to come to school for remedial classes during winter break, Qin Xue's expression slightly changed: "But Teacher, I have something to do during winter break……"

"What could be more important than studies?"

Homeroom Teacher wore a stern expression, face grim, and said: "This matter is settled like this—you have to participate whether you want to or not!"