My Co-renting Lady Boss
Chapter 688 - 0688: News of One’s Background

Chapter 688: Chapter 0688: News of One’s Background

The final exam consisted of four subjects: math, language, foreign language, and a combined test, each one lasting two hours, spread over two days.

After the first subject ended, students rushed to the cafeteria for lunch during the break.

Today, the group joining Tang Ming for lunch in the ordinary cafeteria was rather impressive. Zhou Dafu, Chen Cang, and Liu Mengting, all three girls, accompanied him and monopolized a round table filled with Tang Ming’s favorite dishes, all of which they had helped gather for him.

"Hehe, this treatment is really nice. If I had this many people serving me meals every day, it would be awesome."

Tang Ming sighed while he ate.

"Eat, eat, eat, that’s all you know. How did you do on the language exam this morning?"

Liu Mengting impatiently waited for Tang Ming to ask.

The others stared eagerly at Tang Ming, especially Chen Cang, who looked particularly anxious. Although he trusted Tang Ming’s abilities, the fate of the Chen Group hung in the balance, leaving him uneasy.

"It was okay, I guess."

Tang Ming smiled and responded casually.

"What do you mean ’okay’? Did you do better than Mo Hongsheng or not?"

Chen Cang stared anxiously at Tang Ming, wishing he could peer inside Tang Ming’s head to see how he had answered.

"Well, it’s over now, and I don’t know the answers, so naturally, it was okay!"

Tang Ming answered, his mouth full of food.

"There are answers now, there are answers."

Just then, Zhou Dafu raised his phone and said, "I’ve got someone to make a standard answer sheet for our test immediately. Ming bro, take a look and see how you did?"

"Fatty, read the answers for the multiple-choice questions first, let’s see how we all did, huh?"

Li Xiaoli urged immediately.

Then Zhou Dafu started to announce the correct answers, and everyone at the table except Tang Ming, who kept eating, began silently comparing their own answers.

Sitting not far from Tang Ming and his group, Xiao Wen perked up his ears to listen for the answers, then closely observed Tang Ming’s expression, but even after a long time, he couldn’t tell how well Tang Ming had responded!

"Young master, they actually got the answers, do you want to compare them too?"

Xiao Wen looked worriedly at Mo Hongsheng.

"There’s no need for that, right or wrong, it’s already decided. Knowing the answers now is meaningless."

Mo Hongsheng elegantly ate a piece of steak, not even glancing at Tang Ming and his group, full of confidence in his abilities.

"That’s true, discovering they were bad could affect the later exams."

Xiao Wen nodded and again looked toward Tang Ming, frustratedly saying, "How can that guy not show any reaction, did he get everything right?"

"That’s impossible. The language exam has many subjective questions with no precise answers. To enhance the perceived difficulty of the college entrance exam, teachers often intentionally lower the scores of such questions, so it’s impossible to obtain full marks."

Mo Hongsheng explained calmly.

"So that’s how it is..."

Xiao Wen kept his gaze on Tang Ming and the others as he cut his steak.

"Xiao Wen, focus more when you eat; you’ve cut your steak to pieces."

Seeing Xiao Wen slashing at an empty plate, Mo Hongsheng reproached him, exasperated.

"Ah... sorry, sorry, I’m just too nervous."

Xiao Wen bowed his head, embarrassment written all over his face as he gathered the steak pieces back onto his plate, his expression growing more somber.

In the following two subjects, both Tang Ming and Mo Hongsheng were in the same state, always remaining indifferent, especially Tang Ming, who spent most of the exam time asleep.

Facing such attitudes from Tang Ming and Mo Hongsheng certainly distressed their supporters. They finally understood what it meant when they said, "The Emperor isn’t in a hurry, but the eunuch is."

The next day at noon, after the comprehensive exam had ended, Tang Ming walked toward the cafeteria surrounded by three beauties and a transvestite. The past two days of exams had been the most leisurely days for him. Liu Mengting and Li Xiaoli, who were always very particular, accompanied him to the ordinary cafeteria for two consecutive days — an unprecedented treatment.

Just like the first day, after Tang Ming started eating, Zhou Dafu obtained the exam answers and began checking them against the answers.

Xiaowen and Mo Hongsheng were still sitting not far away, just much calmer than yesterday.

"Can you all stop being annoying? Every meal you start checking answers. Even if you find mistakes, can you go and correct them?"

Tang Ming, his mouth full of food, complained with an expression of disbelief.

"You don’t understand, this is called being prepared."

Liu Mengting rolled her eyes at Tang Ming and said irritably, "Who is like you, who does nothing but eat and sleep all day. I wonder how you’ll manage after you’ve lost Chen Group’s company?"

"I..."

Tang Ming was about to speak, but his phone rang.

"Hello, Uncle Ma, what’s wrong?"

Tang Ming answered the phone, puzzled. This call was from Ma Benyue, who usually wouldn’t call Tang Ming unless there was something important since he was from one of the major families.

"Young Master Tang, the matter you asked us to look into has made progress."

The solemn voice of Ma Benyue resonated.

"What matter?"

Tang Ming frowned slightly, temporarily not understanding the meaning of Ma Benyue’s words.

"About your origins."

Ma Benyue responded.

"Everyone, quiet!"

Tang Ming slammed the table and warned everyone, then urgently asked, "Uncle Ma, please continue."

"We received information that this morning someone was at the North Suburb orphanage inquiring about Tang Ming. Indeed, that orphanage did take in a child named Tang Ming eighteen years ago," Ma Benyue quickly explained.

"Do you know who was looking for the child?"

Tang Ming’s voice trembled a bit. He had come to Songlan City with two objectives: to annul an engagement and to unravel the mystery of his origins.

"We’re not clear about the identity of the visitor yet. I’ve sent people there, but the director said the person seemed very anxious. When they heard the child wasn’t there, they prepared to leave, but I asked them to try to detain them."

Ma Benyue sighed somewhat helplessly. The visitor might be Tang Ming’s parents, and he didn’t dare to use force.

"No matter what, you must detain them. I’m heading over right now."

Tang Ming quickly wiped his mouth and stood up, ready to leave.

"Tang Ming, brother, we still have an English exam this afternoon. Where are you going?"

Seeing Tang Ming about to leave, Chen Cang asked anxiously.

"I’m going to handle a very important matter. I’ll definitely come back before the exam ends. Don’t worry."

Tang Ming reassured them and reached out to Li Xiaoli, "Xiaoli, give me your car keys."

"Okay." Seeing Tang Ming so anxious, Li Xiaoli didn’t ask further and directly tossed the keys to Tang Ming.

After receiving the keys, Tang Ming quickly ran out of the cafeteria and left.