After dinner, in the classroom.

"Ahhhhhhh!!"

"What's going on, Bao Wei, why are you howling like a dog?" Lin Li frowned as he and Bai Bufan walked into the classroom, looking at Zhou Baowei.

Just a moment ago in the corridor, they were startled by Bao Wei's howl—they thought Xue Jian couldn't wait for the new year to kill Bao Wei.

If Xue Jian had a feast and didn't invite them, they would indeed be angry.

"I messed up the easy questions!!" Zhou Baowei was holding a freshly handed-out answer sheet, looking quite dejected.

"Explain in detail." Their joy is built upon their friend's pain, so Lin Li and Bai Bufan immediately perked up.

"I..." Zhou Baowei looked at his answer sheet, sighed, and said hopelessly, "Wasn't there a fill-in-the-blank easy point question in history about Germany blitzing Poland?"

"Yeah, what's up with that?"

Zhou Baowei: "I don't know what I was thinking during the exam, but I ended up writing Germany blitzes Berlin and even checked it several times without realizing it was wrong."

Lin Li and Bai Bufan: "..."

Lin Li chuckled, "You seem like the kind of person who would write that the United States attacked Pearl Harbor."

Bai Bufan chuckled, "You seem like the kind of person who would write that China is a developing country, so the United States is a developing US country."

Zhou Baowei listened to their sarcastic comments and couldn't help but burst out laughing, covering his face with his answer sheet (barely covering his big face), laughing uncontrollably.

Once the laughter subsided, Zhou Baowei leaned back with the chair, balancing precariously on the chair legs, laughing and cursing at Lin Li and Bai Bufan:

"People can't imagine things beyond their perception. I seriously suspect that these two answers came from you guys before."

As everyone knows, acting so cockily in the last row is asking for trouble.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan moved forward in sync, pulling sharply on the chair's back from the left and right.

"Oh my god! You damn dogs!!" The already teetering chair tilted violently, and Zhou Baowei quickly grabbed the desk's edge tightly, face turning pale, feeling half scared out of his wits.

"Are you trying to cause an earthquake!" Qin Zeyu realized what was happening and questioned them in horror, "Have you ever thought about what would happen if you let Bao Wei fall to the ground?

Can you handle the aftermath of causing an earthquake!!"

Lin Li and Bai Bufan: "Sorry."

Okay, originally planning to beat Lin Li and Bai Bufan, Bao Wei's anger shifted to the person sitting next to him instead.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan returned to their seats, picking up their history answer sheets to look at them.

"Bufan, didn't the teacher grade my answer sheet, why is there no trace of red pen on it at all, your sheet is full of red marks, I'm so envious..."

Flipping both sides of the answer sheet, Lin Li looked at Bai Bufan's answer sheet with envy.

"You damn beast," Bai Bufan couldn't help but point at Lin Li's nose, laughing and cursing, "it's disgusting that someone like you gets such good grades, the heavens are blind."

The monthly exam isn't as prestigious as midterms or finals, although the multiple-choice questions are still machine-graded for convenience.

But for fill-in-the-blank questions, scanning them to a computer for teachers to grade with a mouse would just be an unnecessary hassle, so teachers still grade directly on the answer sheets.

Hearing this, Lin Li shrugged and said, "Who says the heavens are blind, I've heard that heaven is fair and rewards the good, punishing the wicked with beef hotpot."

Zhou Baowei, lying on top of Qin Zeyu, pricked up his ears and turned his head: "What beef hotpot?"

Realizing what Lin Li was saying, Bai Bufan shivered, "So cold."

Zhou Baowei's eyes lit up, "It's winter, we should have hotpot! I want some too."

"..."

Zhou Baowei: "Why is no one paying attention to me?"

Lin Li and Bai Bufan didn't even turn their heads, leaving Zhou Baowei feeling a bit left out.

In contrast, Zeyu still treated him well, always responding—whether it's a groan when being punched.

After some playing around, as evening self-study was about to start, Xue Jian walked into the classroom and posted the results sheet on the class notice board, speaking flatly, "Monthly exam results and rankings, check if you're interested."

"Wang Ze, what rank am I in the grade this time?" Being too far away, Lin Li didn't bother squeezing in and shouted at Wang Ze, who was already leaning on the board.

"Stop barking like a dog." Wang Ze merely raised a middle finger towards the back without turning his head, laughing and cursing.

"What barking, so what's my rank? I really want to know." Seeing Wang Ze was unwilling to tell, Lin Li realized he had to rely on himself and got up to walk to the notice board.

"You're first—" Wang Ze turned back with some amusement, looking at Lin Li, "Satisfied now?"

"Damn, Lin Li, with your attitude, you should go work at the docks, plenty of cargo there, suit you well."

From Wang Ze's perspective, everything Lin Li was doing now was just to brag about his first-place grade again through him.

"First? First in the grade?" But Lin Li knew he wasn't, and froze upon hearing this.

Especially when he glimpsed Xue Jian's meaningful smile at the front of the class, his face changed, and he quickly walked towards the notice board.

Arriving, he checked.

His name was indeed at the top, the grade ranking clearly marked with "1".

The student quality at Nansang Middle School isn't so poor that even after giving away sixty points, someone can't get first place.

Lin Li's gaze snapped towards the front of the class at Xue Jian: "Teacher, I want to see the detailed scores for each subject!"