Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat

Chapter 27: Chapter 024 Song Jiawen’s Grades Chapter 27: Chapter 024 Song Jiawen’s Grades Monday, Municipal No.1 High School.

Today, the test papers and scores from last week’s quiz would be distributed. Since the first period in the morning was English, the English teacher had Zhu Jin go to the office to get the test papers during the morning reading session.

When Zhu Jin got the test papers, she froze at the sight of the top one.

“Surprised? I was too when I saw it, but even with her essay, I couldn’t find a single point to deduct. Zhu Jin, this is something you could discuss with Song Jiawen. If you improve your essays, maybe you could get a perfect score, or close to it.”

Zhu Jin was a good student who could accept others’ advice. She decided that starting from today, she would learn from Song Jiawen how to write a full-score English essay.

After Zhu Jin left, the office returned to its peaceful state. Teachers had mixed feelings and for a moment didn’t know what to say.

But this did not include Mr. Gao.

He was complacently holding his thermos cup, thinking to himself that he let them choose first in the beginning, but they didn’t want Song Jiawen. Now, it was too late for regrets.

Indeed, many homeroom teachers were already regretting it. Although it was just a small quiz, Song Jiawen’s results were enough to demonstrate her strength.

In the classroom, as soon as Zhu Jin got back, she handed the test paper to Song Jiawen first.

The fellow students, in the midst of morning reading, stopped and looked over as they saw her distributing the test papers and then heading straight for Song Jiawen. After passing the test paper to her, Zhu Jin also asked, “Can I borrow your essay to look at later?”

Song Jiawen nodded, taking the test paper and casually placing it on her desk.

Wang Xiaole, from the front row, turned his head and saw the bold red number on the paper and exclaimed, “A hundred and fifty?”

The whole class went silent in an instant.

Zhu Jin calmly glanced at everyone’s expressions, feeling somewhat comforted that she wasn’t the only one surprised.

However, she remembered lending her English notes to Song Jiawen, who even went to photocopy them….

Zhu Jin cast a suspicious look back at Song Jiawen. Could it be that her perfect score was related to her notes?

At this point, everyone had come to their senses, and a clamor rose in the classroom–
“Really?”

“A perfect score in English? Even more extreme than Zhu Jin?”

Zhu Jin: ….

My thanks to your whole family!

Xiao Qi, across the aisle, craned his neck to see the test paper on Song Jiawen’s desk, where the red 150 was glaringly obvious, and he couldn’t help but blurt out a “Damn.”

Then he looked towards Jiang Yan, and just at that moment, his paper came down, 78.

Xiao Qi smiled contentedly. That was more like it.

The class had two transfer students; it’s impossible for both to be freaks.

He patted Jiang Yan’s shoulder, comforting him, “Don’t worry, brother, my English isn’t great either. I’ve never gotten into triple digits. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.”

As he spoke, Xiao Qi grabbed his own test paper and showed it to him.

Jiang Yan glanced at the two nines on the paper and turned his head, expressionless.

“Brother, although my English isn’t that great, my math and physics are strong. Next time you have a question, just ask me. I’ll make sure you understand it clearly.”

Xiao Qi was often anxious watching Song Jiawen explain problems to Jiang Yan, since she spoke little and only demonstrated with equations on paper.

Xiao Qi thought that as a girl, Song Jiawen’s perfect English score indicated she was good in the humanities, but certainly not as good as him in the sciences.

He was confident in his ability to tutor Jiang Yan.

During English class, the English teacher made a point of praising Song Jiawen. She knew of the girl’s arrival, but as she wasn’t the homeroom teacher, she hadn’t been involved in deciding which class Song Jiawen would join.

But now, she felt fortunate that Mr. Gao had assigned her to Class 1 because she only taught Class 1 and Class 2. If Song Jiawen had gone to another class, she wouldn’t have been her student.

Although this quiz was not too difficult, she was the only one who managed to score full marks, and there were only two who had scored above 140.

After English, it was time for math, and the homeroom teacher, Mr. Gao, came in through the front door with a stack of papers in hand.

“Zhu Zhen, distribute the papers.”

Zhu Zhen was the top student of the grade and the math class representative. His math scores had always been the best, and no one had ever surpassed him, but now…

Zhu Zhen looked at the top paper, 150, Song Jiawen.

“This test wasn’t too difficult. In our class, there were two full scores, Zhu Zhen and Song Jiawen. The rest of the students also did well. Everyone should continue to work hard and try to maintain this level for the monthly exam.”

Hearing that Song Jiawen had also scored full marks in math, all the students whipped around in unison to look back at the rear rows.

The person was calmly receiving the test paper from Zhu Zhen’s hand and placing it on the table.

Xiao Qi, sitting on the other side of the aisle, gaped at her, at a loss for words for a moment.

Soon, his test paper came down and, seeing the score, he breathed a sigh of relief, 132, not too bad; his previous boasting hadn’t been disproven.

Turning to see how many points Jiang Yan had scored, he thought about treating him to lunch at noon to cheer him up if the score was too low.

But when he saw the glaring 145 on Jiang Yan’s test paper, Xiao Qi fell silent…

In the third class, Chinese, Song Jiawen scored 146, the highest in the class.

The Chinese teacher used her essay and classical Chinese reading comprehension answers as examples for the class and emphasized once more that they should learn from Song Jiawen’s handwriting so that the teacher wouldn’t need to use eye drops after grading the papers.

The first class in the afternoon was physics, and as the comprehensive science papers were handed out, the students turned to look at Song Jiawen, with even someone calling out to Wang Xiaole, “How much did the back row score?”

Upon hearing this, the physics teacher laughed from the podium and answered for Wang Xiaole, “Don’t bother looking, Song Jiawen scored full marks on the comprehensive science.”

The class fell silent for a moment, followed by a loud buzz of discussion—
“Except for Chinese, she scored full marks on everything else, isn’t that freakish?”

“Seriously, who was it at the beginning who said Song Jiawen came from the countryside and had poor grades? Who was it? I promise not to beat them to death.”

“Zhu Jin even warned Song Jiawen to work harder and not to drag our class down.”

Zhu Jin turned her head and said calmly to that classmate, “Stop talking nonsense, I never said that.”

Behind her was Zhu Zhen, and Zhu Jin poked him with her pen, asking, “You’re closest to me, did you hear me say that?”

Without lifting his head, Zhu Zhen responded, “No.”

The corners of the mouth of the students around twitched. These two Zhu’s were truly something, denying it in front of the whole class, just the kind of thing they would do.

Xiao Qi went to check Jiang Yan’s comprehensive science score, 278.

Then looking at his own, 260.

Dammit, how can we have fun together now?

Yu Hang also saw Jiang Yan’s scores, and Song Jiawen’s goes without saying.

He looked thoughtfully at the two of them, beginning to ponder the real reason behind their transfer to this school.

Before long, the entire grade knew that the new face of Class One, who had transferred in, had performed even better than the top student Zhu Zhen, surpassing him by more than twenty points in this quiz.

More than twenty points! It wasn’t just the students of Class One who were shocked; students from other classes also found it unbelievable.

Of course, amidst the curious and astonished voices, there were always a few who were skeptical and made sarcastic remarks, saying the quiz wasn’t strict, the paper was simple, and her score might have been a result of cheating.

And it was just a minor quiz after all, what did it prove?

If she could, let’s see her take first place in the monthly exam at the end of the month. Could she do it?