High School Belle Fell in Love with Me-Chapter 75 - 74: Scores
On June 24th, many parents were also eagerly looking forward to this day.
Happened to be a Sunday, Jiang Yaoting took Dou Ying and Jiang Banxia out for a meal.
He couldn’t possibly know the college entrance exam scores in advance; in fact, if he didn’t specifically check, he would find out later than ordinary students.
Because this database, compared to theirs, is delayed; only on the morning of the 25th can the education bureau get the full list for sorting.
If they wanted to know, they could only inquire through the provincial website.
Jiang Banxia didn’t particularly care about how many points she scored; as long as she could get 680, no one would blame her, even if last year’s Qingbei line was 681.
After eating, Dou Ying took her shopping, bought her several new outfits, and even bought a suitcase specifically.
She spent most of the time chatting with Li Yang.
"I feel so hypocritical. Actually, I really like the things my family buys me. My stepmom has really good taste, but... I still want to deliberately find fault..."
Li Yang replied, "Why find fault?"
"I don’t know, maybe I’m just a coward."
The conflict between Jiang Banxia and her family mainly stems from not seeing a future.
Perhaps related to being abandoned once, she doesn’t dare to believe she won’t be abandoned again.
She also can’t accept the role of being marginalized. Asking her to compromise at home is something she can’t do.
But she’s about to become bolder soon, having earned more than two hundred thousand just days before, only lacking a bank card.
The bank card she’s currently using is her dad’s.
Much like Li Yang, during their middle school phase, personal payments mostly came from their parents.
Since she doesn’t get many opportunities to use a card, she never applied for one.
She’s planning to tell Li Yang after saving enough for a house, and then give him a surprise.
"Would you want to try being a bit bolder?"
Li Yang responded.
He had been awake for several hours and even went downstairs to buy breakfast for Xue Ning.
After all, he went to bed early last night, which left Xue Ning to spend the night on the sofa.
He was originally going to sleep on the sofa, but Xue Ning insisted against it, even locking the bedroom from the outside after Li Yang went in, and then threw the key through the door gap inside to prove her innocence.
He didn’t know if there was a spare key, either way, he slept for twelve hours straight.
After waking up, it was just a little past five in the morning. He planned to wake Xue Ning up so she could sleep in the bedroom, but couldn’t wake her no matter what.
Eventually, he carried Xue Ning inside himself.
One hundred and six pounds, no pressure for him at all.
Xue Ning woke up past nine; he immediately went downstairs to buy breakfast, and after breakfast, he was reading textbooks while Xue Ning went out for something.
During the chat with Jiang Banxia, he could sense Jiang Banxia’s struggles.
Jiang Banxia isn’t foolish. She knows who treats her well and who doesn’t.
But she’s too sensitive to make a decision on this matter, always pondering, "what if I fail?"
Without sleep yesterday afternoon, Xue Ning told him some situations about Jiang Banxia’s family.
From an outsider’s perspective, Jiang Banxia’s parents already did well enough; it’s just that Jiang Banxia is too sensitive, and her parents are not very good at communication.
Of course, Jiang Banxia didn’t actually do anything wrong...
Jiang Banxia replied, "Then have you thought about being my support yet? If you have, I can be a bit bolder..."
"Uh... let’s wait a bit longer..."
Jiang Banxia: "..."
Wait a bit longer? By then, I’ll be your support...
She quickly shook this thought out of her mind; being someone’s support doesn’t suit her. Let Li Yang spend a few hundred bucks, and he will be the support instead.
The past couple of days, she even picked out a house, just near the No. 1 High School.
Smaller houses cost more than three hundred thousand, larger ones over five hundred thousand.
"Well... actually there’s something I need to tell you, I didn’t score 690..."
"Hmm? But the scores haven’t been released, right?"
"My math wasn’t perfect; I missed one multiple-choice question."
"You’re really stupid; seems like I’ll have no chance to wait for you at Jing University. Just honestly retake, strive to be my junior sister next year... By the way, are you going to fail again next year? That means the year after next... If not then... I’ll go find you post-graduation and teach you!"
Jiang Banxia: "???"
Isn’t this my line?
Why did it suddenly land on Li Yang?
"Hahaha, even though I missed one choice question, I definitely still have a big chance at Qingbei; don’t underestimate me!"
"Really? Perfect, then you can send me a love letter then."
"Ahhh..."
Jiang Banxia felt she couldn’t muster the curse that Li Yang wouldn’t score six hundred even if she wanted to.
"Fine, if you actually score over six hundred, I’ll send you a love letter!"
Li Yang fell silent for a moment and asked, "Could it be you really won’t get into Qingbei?"
Jiang Banxia immediately got angry, "I can! I can! I can!"
"No wonder you’re lacking confidence, little repeater student..."
"Ahhh... I’m not a repeater!"
"Then when the scores come out tonight, send them to me for a look."
"Then you also send me yours! A slacker who can’t score six hundred!"
Finally cursed him out!
Jiang Banxia felt a strange relief.
Sometimes, Li Yang is truly obnoxious.
...
Li Yang was actually looking forward to Xue Ning’s lunch; after all, he never experienced it in his past life.
Operating on the principle of presumption of innocence, he never doubted.
Until she accidentally spilled half a bag of salt into the pot...
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"Stop, stop, stop! Let me do it!"
This is damn near murder.
Too much salt is bad for the kidneys, Xue Ning struck right at the weak spot.
His kidneys may be young, but they can’t handle that much salt.
Xue Ning hadn’t reacted yet, "I thought I did okay... I scooped out the extra salt..."
"Ha ha ha ha..."
Li Yang didn’t give her the chance, and directly accepted the task of cooking.
Xue Ning was surprised to find that this guy Li Yang actually cooked with some skill.
When she tasted it, the shock seemed to have traveled somewhere unknown, directly off her face.
"This guy can cook this well?"
Is there any justice left?
So handsome, so good at making money, so hardworking, and he can still cook such delicious food.
The longing soul, just recently subdued, inexplicably awakened again.
"With such delicious dishes, can I have some wine?"
"Dream on!"
"Boo hoo hoo..."
...
Liu Dayou has been in a pretty good mood lately, especially with his daughter Liu Meng estimating her score to be 590, keeping him happy for several days.
Although there’s no hope for a top-tier university, considering the previous cutoff for tier-one schools was around 550 or 560, she’s surpassed it by 30 or 40 points, she can definitely go to a good tier-one school outside the province.
This has been an unexpected result. Previously, Liu Meng’s highest was just 550 points. As for the 580 in the fourth mock exam, that doesn’t count; he had coached her on two particularly difficult original questions beforehand. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
After dinner, he copied all the student IDs and identity information from the class into a TXT file, ready for easy copying later.
A phone call can check scores, but it’s too slow.
He logged into the website directly; with over forty students, he could note down all the scores in half an hour.
The waiting time is long, but he’s very happy.
He placed Liu Meng’s student ID and identity number first, with Jiang Banxia’s in second.
At this moment, Liu Meng came over and said, "Dad, I’m going to sleep first."
This action confused Liu Dayou.
Tonight the scores are coming out!
She’s actually going to sleep?
But he still cheerfully replied, "Go ahead, after these busy days, we’ll go on a family trip."
In his eyes, his daughter’s actions clearly showed she was very confident.
If she weren’t confident about scoring 590, could she sleep?
How could she sleep?
With his daughter being confident, he was even more confident. After all, it’s his daughter taking the college entrance exam, and this year’s question difficulty is moderate.
Except for math.
Math was generally still difficult; last year’s tier-two cutoff was 500 or 510, maybe this year it’ll be around 490.
But this slight increase in difficulty only affects the tier-two cutoff, and won’t have much impact on the tier-one.
As per usual, he should have at least close to thirty students crossing the tier-one line.
However... this competition is quite fierce, with some slipping through the cracks.
If he could have twenty properly admitted to tier-one schools, he’d be considered competent.
These are elite classes for fresh graduates; don’t even think about the regular classes, having seven or eight cross the tier-two line would already be considered very impressive.
The reason is simple, the sources of students have dispersed.
The neighboring county sends ten to fifteen students to Qingbei each year; the neighboring second high school even has a tier-one pass rate of 35% and a tier-two pass rate of 90%. Who would even want to stay in Jiang City’s awful place anymore?
But this year, it’s Liu Dayou’s opportunity to help the school recover its student sources.
"I can’t hold it, gotta have a drink!"
Forty-something, first time this excited.
The prosperity within reach is right in front of him.
His daughter’s grades are so good, it’s practically double happiness!
It was only 11 PM, without noticing, he’d already drunk too much.
As soon as 11:45 PM arrived, he immediately entered his daughter’s student ID and ID number.
The result... the page wouldn’t refresh.
Too many people were using the website at the same time.
He frantically refreshed, and after about ten seconds, finally it appeared.
When he saw the score displayed, he froze for two full minutes, suspecting his eyes were playing tricks.
He checked several times to see if he entered the wrong student ID and identity number, maybe entered that dog’s Li Yang’s information by mistake.
Because... only 490?
How is that even possible!
No matter how poorly his daughter studied, she never scored under 490. It should at least be over 510, right?
He couldn’t care about anything else now, gritting his teeth, eyes red, he roared, "Liu... Meng!"
He got up and rushed to his daughter’s bedroom door, ready to barge in.
But after struggling for a while, he couldn’t open it.
He knocked on the door forcefully.
"Liu Meng! Open the door for me! Tell me why you only scored 490?"
"Tell me quickly!"
He practically shouted hysterically!
There was no response inside, fueled by alcohol, he kicked down the bedroom door.
The door wasn’t very sturdy to begin with and was kicked open by him.
