Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts

"With long sighs cloaked in tears... Brother Fan, wait a moment, let me memorize this poem first." Xiao Ruawen didn't even look up, just writing on the page with her finger.

By the time she finished writing down the poem and marked the characters she didn't know, the four girls could hardly wait and had already come upstairs to find them.

"Okay, Brother Fan... ah~ why did you guys come up!" Xiao Ruawen looked up and saw her group of sisters.

"We waited for a long time downstairs, so we came up to find you." Lin Wanning stood beside Xu Qingfan, curiously observing Brother Qing Fan's classmates.

"Let's go outside to talk, don't disturb others who are studying." Xu Qingfan tugged at her sleeve, since there was an exam tomorrow and many classmates were still studying.

Xiao Ruawen obediently packed her bag, and the six quickly left the classroom.

But even after the six had left, there was still a fair amount of gossip among the classmates.

"They must be the prettiest girls in our grade."

"Grade? School!"

...

On the way back, Xu Qingfan started a trend, and the six took turns reciting ancient poetry.

"The people of Qin didn't even have time to mourn for themselves, and the later generations mourned for them."

"Later generations mourn them and do not take warning, they cause later generations to keep mourning them as well!"

"Hehe~ After reciting the Assignment on Afang Palace, Brother Qing Fan, I'm hungry, it's time for a night snack!" It was Lin Wanning's turn, just as she finished the last verse of the Assignment on Afang Palace.

"It's páng, not fang." Xu Qingfan corrected.

Lin Wanning stuck out her tongue and then repeated, "páng."

"That's right now."

"Hehe."

...

Three days flew by quickly,

Wednesday afternoon.

"Everyone stop writing, remain in your seats and wait for the teacher to collect your answer sheets."

The final chemistry exam of the midterms had just finished, and it was only just past four in the afternoon.

Xiao Ruawen and Xu Qingfan were in the same exam room, and as soon as the invigilator announced dismissal, Xiao Ruanwen couldn't wait to start comparing answers with him.

Since it wasn't an official examination, neither the answer sheets nor the rough work were collected.

"Brother Fan, the chemical reaction equation is written like this, right?"

"Did I get this process question right, could you take a look for me!"

Xu Qingfan handed his own test paper to her, pushing her to leave the exam room.

After comparing answers and realizing she and Brother Fan had written exactly the same things, Xiao Ruawen immediately felt competent again.

"Hey~ I feel like I got at least 95 in chemistry this time."

"The teacher called me to collect the test papers, Brother Fan, could you come with me!"

It was the third day of exams, and the test papers of the previous two days had already been marked.

"Alright." Xu Qingfan nodded, agreeing to her request.

Back in the classroom, the students who had finished their exams early were already moving tables.

Xu Qingfan and Xiao Ruawen joined them and their group quickly restored the first set.

After moving the books and miscellaneous items back into the classroom from the hallway, the emptied exam room reverted to the disordered classroom.

The two headed to the second floor of the school building to the large office, where Wu Lingyu and Xie Rui happened to be in line to collect their papers as well.

"Brother Fan, Ruan Wen!" Wu Lingyu saw them first and tiptoed to wave at them.

"Wow~ Yu!" Xiao Ruawen broke away from the line and ran up excitedly to meet Yu.

Xu Qingfan, who still had to wait in line civically, just nodded at them from where he stood.

The first day, they had exams in Chinese, Politics, Physics, the second day they held exams in Math, History, Biology, and including the English exam that morning, all of those were already graded.

"Brother Fan, we're going back." Wu Lingyu, holding several stacks of test papers, came up to Xu Qingfan and spoke to him before leaving.

"Okay, we'll talk in WeChat." Xu Qingfan patted Yu's head and watched her and Xie Rui walk away.

After a few more minutes, it was finally his and Xiao Ruawen's turn in the line, and they gathered the test papers for class 16. Xiao Ruawen took a stack while he took the rest.

"98...103....135 this one belongs to Long Tongyin, wow, Brother Fan, I found yours, a perfect 150!" Xiao Ruawen held the stack of math test papers, flipping from the beginning, and quickly found Xu Qingfan's when she was about a third through.

"Making a fuss over nothing, isn't a perfect score just basic for me?" Xu Qingfan said nonchalantly, though he still glanced at the beautiful "150."

Xiao Ruawen ignored him and continued to search for her own paper.

"No way, why is that!"

"I got everything right, why deduct two points from me!"

With a mixture of surprise and excitement, Xiao Ruawen flipped through her paper, but instead of the perfect score she expected, she found a 148, with two points deducted.

Feeling annoyed, Xiao Ruawen kept flipping until she finally found the error on the second page.

"Damn!"

"I give up!"

"Seriously, I give up!"

Curious from what she said, Xu Qingfan leaned over to take a look and immediately burst into laughter.

"Hahaha!"

"Xiao Ruawen, are you a pig, hahaha!"

The two points Xiao Ruawen lost were because she had ruined the auxiliary graph printed on the answer sheet and then drew an identical one next to it with a ruler.

Then, the teacher who was correcting the paper put a big question mark on the graph.

"I didn't get the question wrong, why did he deduct two points!" Xiao Ruawen said with a constipated expression on her face. She had done the same thing in middle school without ever losing points from a teacher.

"I've told you before, use a pencil for auxiliary lines, a pencil, but you had to use a marker. Now you've met a teacher who's strict about it," Xu Qingfan said as he bumped his head against hers, "You better beg the math teacher for mercy tomorrow, maybe he can get your points back, hahaha!"

Seeing Xiao Ruawen's expression as if she had swallowed something awful, he couldn't help but feel delighted.

"Brother Fan, don't celebrate too soon; maybe your scores in other subjects are not even as high as mine!" Xiao Ruawen said, crossing her arms and giving him a glare before stepping into the classroom.

After the exams, all the students had gone to relax and play, so when the two of them returned to the class, it was completely empty.

"Leave it here, we'll pass them out tonight; let's go eat first," Xu Qingfan, who entered a step later, said after placing the papers on his desk.

"Seriously, Brother Fan, aren't you curious about your scores in other subjects?" Xiao Ruawen found his calmness baffling.

How strong does one's self-control have to be to not even glance at the papers immediately after an exam?

"Looking at the scores won't change them, but if we don't go eat the pork rice at the cafeteria now, it really will be gone," Xu Qingfan perhaps had a different mentality, not really caring much about exam scores.

"No, I want to know my scores right now!" Xiao Ruawen said as she sat down, took a stack of papers from Xu Qingfan's desk, and started searching through them.

Xu Qingfan shook his head helplessly and sat down to watch her get serious.

His index finger and thumb played 'parkour' on the girl's hand, and Xiao Ruawen, busy with the papers, did not shoo him away.

Soon, they found their Chinese papers. Xu Qingfan scored 132, and Xiao Ruawen scored 125.

"Why, my essay only got 43 points. Brother Fan, can you check it out for me!" After seeing Xu Qingfan's essay score of fifty, Xiao Ruawen handed her paper to him.

"We're supposed to write argumentative essays in high school, but you wrote a narrative, of course, you scored low," Xu Qingfan said nonchalantly. After all, he had undergone a year of Devil's training in his previous life, handling a little argumentative essay was a piece of cake.

"What argumentative essay, narrative essay, aren't they all just essays?" Xiao Ruawen continued to search for other subject papers, temporarily setting aside the matter of Chinese.

Their papers for the other subjects were quickly found; besides politics, where both scored just over eighty, Xu Qingfan scored perfect in physics, biology, and English.

Xiao Ruawen performed normally, losing a few points here and there.

"Okay, are we done? Can we go eat now?" Xu Qingfan placed his hand on the girl's head.

"I feel like our scores are pretty similar, so why do you end up with dozens more points than me when we total them up?" Xiao Ruawen said, feeling down after calculating their total scores on her phone.

"You should think of it this way," Xu Qingfan said as he pinched her head.

"Hmm?" Xiao Ruawen looked up at him.

"If you got all the careless mistakes right, wouldn't your total score be higher than mine?"

"Definitely!" Xiao Ruawen nodded vigorously.

"There you go, it shows you still have a lot of room for improvement, while I've already maxed out," Xu Qingfan then pinched her face.

"I feel like you're bamboozling me, but I can't spot the flaw right away," Xiao Ruawen wrinkled her nose.

"How could I, Ruan Wen? You're too smart for anyone to deceive!"

"That's true,"

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