My Co-renting Lady Boss
Chapter 691 - 0691 Delaying Time

Chapter 691: Chapter 0691 Delaying Time

"Hehe, of course, he never came back."

Xiaowen laughed and looked down at her watch, "Now there’s only half an hour left. Even if he could rush back, it’s absolutely impossible for him to finish the test now. You’re sure to win, young master."

"Such a victory feels somewhat hollow."

Mo Hongsheng slightly furrowed his brow, feeling some resistance in his heart.

Hearing this, Xiaowen moved her lips, as if she wanted to say something but stopped herself.

"No whispering."

An elderly teacher with graying hair and wearing spectacles knocked on the blackboard and warned. This was the most senior teacher in the school, renowned throughout Songlan City for her teaching abilities, having been poached from a public school at great expense by the school, and she held considerable authority.

Mo Hongsheng and Xiaowen stopped communicating. He began to seriously check his own answers, while Xiaowen watched the clock with a cold smirk.

Could such coincidences really happen in the world? Just at this critical juncture, Tang Ming received a call that he absolutely had to answer? All of this was a scheme orchestrated by Xiaowen.

Since the bet between Tang Ming and Mo Hongsheng was of great importance, and upon noticing that Mo Hongsheng didn’t have his usual confident demeanor, Xiaowen feared an unpredictable outcome. Therefore, she analyzed all the intelligence on Tang Ming overnight.

After some analysis, Xiaowen discovered an interesting fact: Tang Ming had made visits to various orphanages in Songlan City to inquire about his origins.

Having discovered this, Xiaowen was certain Tang Ming must care greatly about his identity, so she began to plan and scheme.

She finally decided on Tianyang Orphanage as the location for her plan because there was an orphan’s file with the name Tang Ming, and she found a middle-aged couple who were looking for Tang Ming. She leaked the news to them...

And this morning, she secretly checked Tang Ming’s car’s fuel tank. After calculating and reasoning, she left just enough fuel for the car to travel from the school to the orphanage. For the calculating Mo Family, this was a simple task, and as for opening the fuel tank, it was even easier for them, as they had no problem handling mechanisms.

At the final critical moment, Xiaowen passed the news about the couple looking for their child to the contacts from the Ma Family who had been helping Tang Ming with information about his origins.

Just as Xiaowen had predicted, upon hearing the news, Tang Ming left school immediately for Tianyang Orphanage. Right when he got to the orphanage, his car ran out of fuel—everything was within Xiaowen’s calculations.

According to Xiaowen’s calculations, given the distance between Tianyang Orphanage and the school, even a martial master would absolutely not be able to return to school on foot before the end of the exam, so Tang Ming was sure to lose this time.

"Hmph, dare to compete with our young master? I won’t even give you the chance to compete." Xiaowen glanced at the time; there were only twenty minutes left until the end of the exam. Such a short time meant that even if Tang Ming could rush back, he absolutely couldn’t finish the test paper, and right now, she was confident Tang Ming couldn’t possibly make it back.

"I’m sorry, I’m late."

Just when Xiaowen was full of confidence, thinking Tang Ming couldn’t possibly return, the classroom door was pushed open, and Tang Ming, gasping for breath, rushed in.

"The exam’s almost over, how come you’re only just arriving?"

The elderly teacher looked at Tang Ming with puzzlement.

"My dear Tang Ming, you’ve finally come back." Seeing Tang Ming, Chen Cang was on the verge of tears; coming back was always better than not coming back at all.

Li Xiaoli and Liu Mengting, among others, wore faces of despair. With so little time left, even if he was back, they feared it wouldn’t be possible to finish the exam.

"Sorry, I was delayed by something, I’ll start answering the paper now," Tang Ming wiped off his sweat, apologized to the teacher, and hurried back to his seat to quickly start answering the questions with pen and paper.

"He, he actually made it back?"

Little Wen was shocked to see Tang Ming scribbling away, but he didn’t take it too seriously. Seeing that the exam was about to end, even if Tang Ming had returned, it was impossible for him to finish all the questions in such a short time. He would still lose miserably when the time came.

After Tang Ming appeared, Chen Cang and the others lost all desire to answer their own papers, constantly turning their heads back to see what Tang Ming was doing. Seeing him writing furiously, Chen Cang and the others were extremely nervous.

Xia Wei’er looked at Tang Ming with a complex expression, holding her pen and hesitating for a moment before she crossed out the name she had filled in on the paper and rewrote another.

No one had noticed that the name Xia Wei’er had previously written on her paper was actually Tang Ming’s.

Unlike the intense anxiety of Liu Mengting, Chen Cang, and the others, upon discovering that Tang Ming had not arrived on time, Xia Wei’er had taken the test even more seriously. However, the girl had written Tang Ming’s name on her paper, intending to help him through difficult times in this way, even if it meant sacrificing her own grade for this subject.

But now that Tang Ming had come back, Xia Wei’er could no longer continue with this plan. Otherwise, having two papers with Tang Ming’s name on them would cause even bigger trouble.

Tang Ming was answering at a breakneck speed, but time was ultimately insufficient. When the bell signaling the end of the exam rang, he was still furiously writing, and despite his intelligence and proficiency in foreign languages, there were still too many questions left incomplete.

"Alright, the exam is now over. Please check your papers, I will be collecting them," the old teacher announced, knocking on the desk and starting to collect the papers from the student in the first row.

"We must figure out a way to help Brother Ming buy some time," Chen Cang and Zhou Dafu exchanged a glance, with both their heads practically smoking from anxiety. But since the exam had ended, they could only feel agitated as they couldn’t come up with any ideas at the moment.

"Liu Mengting, it’s time to hand in your paper," the teacher approached Liu Mengting and gently urged her.

"Please wait a moment, teacher," Liu Mengting straightened up, slowly arranging her paper while speaking seriously, "My father is a shareholder of the school. As the daughter of a school director, I must set an example and organize my paper very neatly for others to follow."

"Mhm, mhm, very good. As Director Liu’s child, having this awareness is commendable," the old teacher nodded repeatedly. He was very pleased to see that Liu Mengting, unlike other children of influential families, was well-mannered and did not act arrogantly.

Liu Mengting organized her paper very slowly, making sure it had not a single crease, and only after arranging it neatly did she hand it over to the teacher.

"Is that even allowed?"

Seeing Liu Mengting manage to delay for a full minute, Chen Cang and Zhou Dafu were both astounded.

"Ah, I wrote my name wrong," Li Xiaoli exclaimed dramatically when the teacher came to her, "Sorry, teacher, please wait a moment for me, I wrote my name incorrectly."