Chapter 49

After Qin Tian returned home, his mother asked if he was hungry, then went to the kitchen to cook him a bowl of tomato and egg noodles.

While eating his late-night snack, Qin Tian handed the answer sheets he had brought back to Tang Xiuxia and simultaneously told her his results from this mock exam.

To ensure his mother wouldn't become too emotionally agitated, he tried his best to keep his tone calm and persuasive.

After he finished speaking, seeing his mother staring at the few answer sheets in shock, lost in a daze, he quickly added:

"You don't need to doubt it; this is all true. You can call the head teacher directly to confirm."

Once his words fell, unsurprisingly, the room fell into silence.

Qin Tian wasn't in a rush; he quietly ate his noodles, waiting for his mother to recover from her astonishment.

He knew himself that this surprise was too sudden for his mother.

After all, in his mother's eyes, he had been playful and uninterested in studying since childhood, and his grades had always been near the bottom of the class.

His mother had even given up, hoping only that he could attend some mediocre university.

Now, suddenly, several perfect-score answer sheets were placed before her, and she learned her son had placed first in the entire school with an incredibly exaggerated total score.

It was normal for her to find it hard to believe this dream-like, sudden surprise for a moment.

It wasn't until Qin Tian had eaten half the bowl of noodles that Tang Xiuxia finally made a move.

She looked up at her son in a daze, then, without a word, took out her phone, found the number for her son's head teacher, Li Xueping, in her contacts, and dialed it.

The "King of Hell Li" on the other end must have just arrived home, as the call was answered after two rings.

"Hello, Teacher Li, good evening. I'm Qin Tian's mother. Yes, I have something I'd like to ask you."

"Yes, yes, yes, it's about his mock exam this time."

"It's true? Okay, okay, I understand. Thank you, and sorry for disturbing your rest."

"Mm-hmm, okay, I understand. Goodbye, get some rest early."

After Tang Xiuxia hung up, she remained stunned for a long while, then suddenly shook her head vigorously, her sparkling eyes turning toward her son opposite her.

"First in the whole school?"

"Mm!"

"Three subjects with perfect scores? A total of 745?"

"Mm!"

The smile on Qin Tian's face grew even brighter, his expression waiting to be rewarded.

"Stop eating, give it back to me."

Tang Xiuxia suddenly retracted her smile, snatched the bowl from in front of him, and pulled the chopsticks from his hand.

Qin Tian was like someone hit by a freezing spell, turning into a stiff statue, revealing a standard "black man question mark" face.

"You brat, your grades were so bad before, you were just pretending, right? You're quite something, lying to your mother for all these years."

Tang Xiuxia glanced at him with a flat expression, used the chopsticks to pick up some noodles, and ate them with elegant movements.

Qin Tian suddenly realized what was happening and cried out in grievance, torn between laughter and tears:

"Mom, this is a grievance!"

"A grievance?"

Tang Xiuxia narrowed her eyes, staring at him with a meaningful gaze.

"Yes, a massive grievance!"

Qin Tian nodded heavily.

"Then explain to me, how did you go from being at the bottom of the class to suddenly being first in the whole school?"

"Also, your Teacher Li said on the phone just now that I should educate you well and tell you not to be so pretentious."

Qin Tian: "..."

You good "King of Hell Li," playing a backstab, are you!

I will never share the sky with you!

Just like that, Qin Tian didn't receive the praise and rewards he was looking forward to; instead, he was lectured severely by his mother.

It wasn't until eleven o'clock that his mother finally let him go, telling him to go shower and rest.

Qin Tian hung his head and left listlessly to wash up in the bathroom in the back room.

However, what he didn't know was that as soon as he walked out of the room, a long-lost, brilliant smile bloomed on his mother's face.

She picked up those answer sheets from the coffee table and browsed through them again and again.

In the room, the sound of his mother muttering in a low voice and a slightly strange laugh could be heard.

"First in the whole school, my son? Hehe... Teacher Li said a stable spot at Tsinghua or Peking University? Oh my god, right, right, I have to find time to go back to my hometown and burn incense for the ancestors."

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After taking a cold shower, he changed into clean shorts.

Qin Tian returned to his room, lay on the bed with his arms crossed behind his head, and stared blankly at the ceiling.

He didn't need to worry about his studies for the time being.

Next, he just needed to find a way to improve his subjective questions and essay writing skills to secure the title of Provincial Top Scholar in the College Entrance Examination; completing the system's task shouldn't be a big problem.

"Right, what was the Chinese essay topic during the College Entrance Examination in my past life?"

A flash of inspiration hit him, and he frowned, lost in thought.

If he could remember the topic, he could collect some writing materials around it, which would give him more confidence.

However, for him, the College Entrance Examination of his previous life was over ten years ago; the memory was too distant, and he couldn't recall it for a moment.

He could only put this thought aside for now; perhaps a sense of déjà vu would appear at some point, and he would suddenly remember.

"And the money-making thing. I wonder how Xu Hao is doing with the boosting shop. I'll go check after school tomorrow afternoon. Also, those few orders, I need to find time to play them!"

Thinking of this, Qin Tian felt a headache.

After all, he was in his third year of high school, and he didn't have much free time to play games.

The accumulation of this first pot of gold was still very important to him.

The "dog system's" soul retention mechanism was like a Sword of Damocles hanging over his head; only by having enough money as a guarantee could he feel at ease.

Moreover, he also needed money to open a clothing store for his mother to lighten her burden.

"Are there any other ways to make some money!"

Thinking this, Qin Tian opened the system's Treasure Pavilion page and browsed through the items one by one.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up slightly, and his gaze fell on one of the products.

【Advanced Clothing Design Experience Pack: 999 System Points】

This was one of the items in the Treasure Pavilion that currently required the most points.

If he redeemed this experience pack, he might be able to combine some elements of popular clothing from the future to create a few design drafts and make some money.

More importantly, if he opened a clothing store for his mother later, this should also come in handy.

After struggling for a while, Qin Tian gritted his teeth and used the redemption opportunity he had obtained from the previous task to redeem this experience pack.

In an instant, a massive amount of information regarding clothing design flooded into his brain.

Soon, he became a clothing designer with solid professional knowledge and rich experience, as if he had learned it without a teacher.

He opened the system interface and looked at the skills column, and sure enough, he found two new skills related to clothing design.

Painting Lv4, Clothing Design Lv5.

Except for the Comprehensive Combat Lv5 obtained from the previous task, these were the two highest-level skills he currently had.

"System Daddy is awesome!"

Qin Tian flattered it again, very submissively.

"Sleep, sleep, I'll deal with other things tomorrow!"

He pressed the button on the bedside lamp to turn it off, closed his eyes, and yawned; sleepiness soon swept over him like a tide. *** **CHAPTER 50** **【50-0】 A Cute and Respectable Teacher**