Chapter 350: Campus Academic System (22)

Xie Yang has been a bit busy lately—

The Preliminary Tournament for the middle school volleyball league is set to kick off next week, and the school team has been having intensive training sessions recently.

She has a prior promise from Principal Feng, so she really doesn't have to go if she doesn't want to.

But since she has joined the school team, she still has that sense of responsibility.

However, because of this, she has no time during the lunch break to help Jiang Yinian grind Tasks, and she has to go to the volleyball court early for assembly during the self-study period before school ends, and her two weekend days have also been contributed to the unified training.

Jiang Yinian does not attend evening self-study; he has to tutor two other middle school students.

The only time left to help him grind Tasks is the ten-minute breaks between classes and the physical education activity period.

Consequently, students in the Experimental Class often see Jiang Yinian spending an entire activity period explaining problems to Xie Yang, or Xie Yang chasing after him to recite vocabulary and texts, making it seem as if he is her recitation group leader.

The actual recitation group leader, Du Huaiyao, is confused and asks Xie Yang while scratching his head: "Don't you not have to recite?"

He thought she had special privileges and didn't need to come to him every day to recite Chinese and English like the other students, so he never kept track of her name.

Xie Yang raises an eyebrow: "Who said I don't have to recite?"

"... Ah? You need to recite?" Du Huaiyao is stunned, "But your monthly exam scores weren't counted toward our class average, so I thought..."

It would be impolite to say more.

Du Huaiyao retracts his head.

"Don't mind him." Jiang Yinian looks up and comforts her with a sentence.

Xie Yang shrugs, not caring much: "What of it? It's a fact that my grades are at the bottom."

She took the monthly exam one week after transferring; although her grades weren't exactly disastrous, they were indeed a cliff-like bottom-tier existence in the Experimental Class, which is crowded with top students.

The head teacher likely feared her grades would affect the class ranking, so before the monthly exam, she specifically applied to the principal to have them excluded from the class average.

Doing this also benefits Xie Yang personally: no matter how poorly she scores, she will not leave the Experimental Class.

Principal Feng had already promised Mr. Xie that he would keep his daughter in the Experimental Class, so he naturally agreed readily.

Since the grades aren't counted in the average, the teachers of various subjects no longer stare fixedly at Xie Yang's homework and test papers.

She can hand them in if she wants, or not if she doesn't.

Sleeping in class, zoning out, or doing homework for other subjects is also fine by her, as long as she doesn't disturb other students during class.

That is why Du Huaiyao was puzzled when he saw her reciting vocabulary and texts with Jiang Yinian.

Why be so proactive when it's not required?

Even if she wanted to recite, shouldn't she be looking for him, the recitation group leader?

"I don't know why, but I feel like the Study God and the transfer student are a bit off!" After turning his head back, Du Huaiyao nudges his deskmate with his elbow and asks in a lowered voice, "What do you think?"

"What's off about them?" The deskmate is engrossed in grinding competition problems and asks without lifting his head.

"..."

If he could clearly point out what was off, would he even need to ask?

In fact, it is not just Du Huaiyao who has this feeling; the girls in Class 11 and even other classes who have a crush on Jiang Yinian had this feeling even earlier than he did.

"Who is that next to the Study God? Why do I always see her sticking to the Study God?"

"I heard she's a new transfer student. The teacher arranged for her to sit with the Study God because she's afraid she won't keep up with the pace of the Experimental Class."

"If she can't keep up, shouldn't she transfer out of the Experimental Class? I was the one who was at the bottom for several consecutive monthly exams and got transferred back to a parallel class."

"She's different; she seems to be a sports student."

"A specialty student! No wonder she dyes her hair and wears ear studs; the school doesn't even care."

"Doesn't the school not care because her dad is the richest man? The Shiyan Lou that's about to be built is sponsored by her dad."

"But her sports ability seems really impressive; she joined the school volleyball team as soon as she arrived, and she's even a main attacker."

"Main attacker? Her? With her height and build, she can't be a main attacker, right?"

"Who knows! By the way, we're missing two main attackers this year; can our school still make it to the City Tournament?"

"What day is the district tournament? I want to go watch."

"Friday afternoon against Wenli High School, and we drew Second High School for Saturday morning. Can't watch on Friday, but we can go on Saturday."

"I can't, I have class."

"I can, my class is in the afternoon."

"Then let's go together."

When girls from other classes pass by Class 11, they often glance in Jiang Yinian's direction, and when their peripheral vision catches Xie Yang, they can't help but mutter a few words.

Xie Yang's five senses are so sharp that every word spoken behind her back enters her ears without missing a single syllable.

She touches that tuft of granny-grey bangs, forgetting to find time over the weekend to dye her hair back.

She touches her right ear again, also forgetting to make an appointment with a beauty salon to remove the ear studs.

If she goes on the court to play in a match with that eye-catching granny-grey hair and a row of ear studs, won't she tarnish the image of First High School?

Xie Yang rubs her chin and thinks for a moment, then takes out her phone and sends a message to Song Shu, telling him not to come pick her up after school today, as she needs to go to a beauty salon to remove her ear studs first, then go to a hair salon to dye her bangs back to black, and she will take a taxi home herself once she's done.

A few minutes later, her Ms. Deng sends a voice message over; she figures Song Shu must have reported to her.

"My dear girl! Just take Lao Song's car back after school; leave the ear studs and hair dyeing to Mom! Did you forget? Your Auntie Xue invested in a beauty and hair salon last year, and I'm a gold card member! I'm calling her right now to have her pick a skilled technician and a chief stylist to come over, so it won't delay your dinner."

Deng Youmei is happy as she speaks.

Oh my, her daughter is finally willing to dye her hair back to black and take off the ear studs!

Never mind just inviting a beauty salon technician and a hair salon stylist home; even if she had to pay to open a beauty and hair salon on the spot, she would be happy to!

This shows that her daughter has really grown up! Her aesthetic has become normal!

To be honest, every time she saw her daughter at such a young age sporting a tuft of grey bangs, she always wanted to clutch her chest.

Like her, when she reached her age and found one or two white hairs, she couldn't wait to dye them black immediately; her daughter, on the other hand, had such beautiful, dark, and lustrous black hair, yet insisted on dyeing it greyish-white.

And the ear studs too... she supports getting earlobes pierced to wear earrings, but getting a row of four diamond studs pierced through the ear cartilage just looks painful.

Fortunately, she is finally willing to take it off and dye it back now!

A good thing! A huge, wonderful thing!

After Deng Youmei finished sending a voice message to her daughter, she immediately sent a text to her best friend to have her arrange for people to come over, then she reported the good news to her husband, busy and enjoying every moment of it.

Xie Yang: "..."

Even though she has traveled through so many planes, parents who dote on their daughter as much as President Xie and Ms. Deng are truly rare.

As the Preliminary Tournament approached, every school organized a cheerleading squad.

First High School did not originally have an official cheerleading squad; the school authorities were not happy about students spending time on such things.

But this year, the girls from the Experimental Class spontaneously formed a cheerleading squad, saying they wanted to go cheer for Xie Yang, and since the principal and teachers saw that they hadn't fallen behind in their studies, they just turned a blind eye.

After all, it was the richest man's daughter participating in a competition for the first time, so giving a little positive encouragement was only right.

The day before the competition, after Xie Yang finished evening training and returned to the classroom to get her schoolbag, she saw the girls rehearsing a cheerleading routine at the back of the classroom while evening self-study had yet to begin, each holding a pair of metallic pom-poms, shouting as they danced:

"Xie Yang, Xie Yang, a fierce tiger enters the countryside! Whoever comes to challenge, we'll knock them all down!"

"Xie Yang, Xie Yang, unstoppable! Crushing the whole field, the strongest on earth!"

Xie Yang: "..."

The classmates had mysteriously hinted that they wanted to give her a surprise at her debut match; could this be it?

She felt like she was going to crack.

Why was there a sense of slight embarrassment?

Also, aren't fierce tigers supposed to come down from the mountain? Why the countryside? Is there some historical allusion to this?

"It rhymes!"

"..."

Xie Yang closed her eyes, speechless.

In order to prevent this "Cheering Song" from repeatedly popping up during her competition, she decided to finish the battle quickly!