Reborn as a Mortal Heiress Pampered by Big Shots
Chapter 168 - 166 this is going to be exciting now

Chapter 168: 166 this is going to be exciting now

Ten minutes later, in the main hall of the old Xia family house.

Qiao Yufen pinched Xia Yourong’s Chinese test paper scored at 91, frowning tightly, her face unable to hide her disappointment and incomprehension.

"How could this be? I just got calls from two people congratulating me, saying my granddaughter scored the only perfect mark in the whole city on the Chinese exam. Wasn’t one of them your guidance counselor? I saved her number when I went to the parent-teacher conference..."

As she was speaking, Xia Yourong realized the issue.

Xia Yourong: "Grandma, since I transferred to No.3 Middle School, the school hasn’t held a parent-teacher conference yet... The one you mentioned, wasn’t she the guidance counselor from First Middle School...?"

Xu Qing initially did not catch on, then looked at Xia Yourong: "You’ve transferred, why would the First Middle School’s guidance counselor be calling your grandmother? And she clearly stated over the phone that it was your grandmother’s granddaughter..."

As soon as the word "granddaughter" was mentioned, including Qiao Yufen, the three of them fell into silence.

The granddaughter the guidance counselor was talking about... could it be Xia Ye?!

Just at that moment, Qiao Yufen’s mobile phone rang again, she hesitated for a moment before pulling out her phone.

It was a call from her son.

The moment the call connected, Xia Yuzheng’s words, brimming with pride, directly confirmed their ludicrous suspicion: "Mom, let me tell you some good news, Yeye scored full marks on her Chinese exam this time!"

Qiao Yufen was utterly speechless!

The granddaughter on the phone whom everyone had been congratulating her about, who they were full of praise for, was actually Xia Ye, the one she believed would only bring misfortune to the Xia family, the one who would only make the Xia family lose face...

Hearing no response from her, Xia Yuzheng thought she was unaware of how difficult the Chinese exam was this time and how impressive it was to score full marks, so he explained it to her with great pride and without any hint of annoyance.

After who knows how long, Qiao Yufen responded in a weird and embarrassed tone: "I, I know."

After hanging up, Qiao Yufen, for some unknown reason, looked up another number in her contacts.

Xia Yourong, still not recovered from the shock of Xia Ye scoring full marks in Chinese, saw this and felt a pang of anxiety: "Grandma, who are you calling?"

Qiao Yufen: "I’m calling your class teacher to ask if the overall city rankings from the third mock exam are out yet!"

Xia Yourong had only shown them her own results, saying that the rankings weren’t out yet, and they would probably have to wait until tomorrow.

She had hoped to stall for a bit longer, but her grandmother was in such a hurry.

Seeing that her grandmother had already dialed the number, Xia Yourong’s face turned ashen.

There are about five top high schools in the entire city.

She ranked 11 in the entire school, which probably put her around 50 in the city.

"They’re out?" Qiao Yufen spoke to the phone, her smile not very natural: "Then, I’ll trouble the teacher, please help check where our Xiaorong ranks in the city this time..."

Her granddaughter, on whom she had spent so much effort nurturing, had scored lower than Xia Ye on a subject.

She was extremely uncomfortable and did not want to admit she had made a poor judgment, but she wanted to know Xia Yourong’s overall scores right away.

Only if her overall scores were still outstanding could she regain her balance.

The class teacher checked and after less than a minute, Qiao Yufen patiently held the phone while waiting.

Xu Qing squeezed Xia Yourong’s hand, signaling her not to be nervous and to stay confident.

Soon after, there was a response from the other end of the phone.

Qiao Yufen, full of anticipation, replied to the phone and after hearing the teacher’s response, her facial expression suddenly changed, and a second later, her tone abruptly rose: "What? Only 102nd place??"

The strength of Xu Qing’s grip on Xia Yourong’s hand sharply increased.

Qiao Yufen: "Not even in the top hundred? Teacher, are you sure you didn’t make a mistake? I am Xiaorong’s parent! This is Xia Yourong!"

The result was clear, the teacher couldn’t have made a mistake.

Xia Yourong swayed backward slightly.

She was ranking even lower than she had anticipated.

Even though she was 11th in her school, in the city rankings, she was actually...

Moreover, there were citywide rankings at the end of last semester, and at that time she was ranked 19th in the city.

How could she not only have failed to improve over these few months but actually regressed so much?

To drop out of the top hundred?

Qiao Yufen thought of the jubilation on Xia Ye’s side, then looked down at Xia Yourong’s paper in her hand that scored only 91 points...

A mix of emotions churned inside her, indescribable...

**

The next day, Xu Qing took Xia Yourong to ask her class teacher once again if it was just Chinese that pulled down her rank.

After examining the rankings, the class teacher said that even without the Chinese score, Xia Yourong’s rank wouldn’t have changed much.

The college entrance exam was approaching, and the scores of the top students at the front were very close.

First Middle School accounted for a significant proportion of the top 100 in the city; No.3 Middle School’s overall scores weren’t very ideal.

Xu Qing was so angry she gritted her teeth; it was because her sister hadn’t put in the effort to keep Xiaorong at First Middle School that led to such a regression.

This time, Xia Yourong’s scores didn’t even surpass the "demure young girl", and she was completely devastated. She had the most top-secret revision materials, so how could her results turn out like this?

She made a point of asking the "demure young girl" about it and the answer was baffling.

The review materials she considered a secret weapon had already spread throughout First Middle School!

First, within Class 19, then the other classes taught by the same teachers, and later on, practically everyone in the grade had a copy.

She had no advantage whatsoever.

Rowing upstream, if you don’t advance, you fall back!

Everyone was disappointed in her, and the reason for all this was Xia Ye!

**

Xia Yuzheng didn’t just tell Qiao Yufen about Xia Ye’s perfect score in Chinese; he also called each of his sons to brag about it.

Not one son failed to praise Little Tiangao to the skies.

Now, each of the three sons had a copy of Yeye’s essay, and they were close to memorizing the whole thing.

The youngest son even said Yeye was definitely a genius in this aspect and could become a writer in the future, maybe even pen a timeless masterpiece!

Xia Yuzheng laughed heartily at this.

However, when night fell and it became quiet, he found it hard to sleep after his earlier elation.

Xu He teased him, saying he was too happy during the day to sleep at night.

But Xia Yuzheng knew that wasn’t the case.

He thought that Yeye, having just been rescued from kidnappers, couldn’t possibly know anything.

But in this time, Yeye had made it into First Middle School on her own effort, scored a perfect mark on such a difficult test, concocted a medicine that was improving his wife’s illness, and even the flower she picked up turned out to be a new species unknown to mankind.

He truly didn’t understand his daughter well enough, nor did he have enough faith in her.

It was guilt that made him toss and turn through the night.

**

The frenzy over the third mock exam lasted for more than a week.

And Xia Ye’s perfect-scoring essay was broadcast over the school’s loudspeakers for more than a week straight.

For the first two days, writing essays in classical Chinese became the craze at First Middle School.

But after giving it a try, everyone quickly gave up.

It was genuinely difficult!

With their level of knowledge, they were better off just admiring Xia Ye’s work.

Returning to the classroom after lunch, the school broadcast once again started playing the reading of Xia Ye’s essay.

Xia Ye looked up at the buzzing loudspeaker outside the window: ...

She really wanted to give it a roundhouse kick and send it flying.

Brainwashed by the looping broadcast of her own essay, she simply threw the review materials into her desk and couldn’t concentrate anymore.

In the back corner, Zou Wu was playing ranked matches on his phone.

That reminded her, she had planned to update her ’Yeshen’ account after the exams.

She shook Jiang Yunyang on WeChat.

Jiang Yunyang, having been summoned again after half a month, appeared in one second!

Your husband in kindergarten: Sister Little Tiangao, my deskmate Mei Ni wants to join too, can we bring her along?

Xia Ye saw that it was a ’she’ and agreed right away.

A soft and cute little dumpling, she thought, would be nice to squeeze.

Your husband in kindergarten: That’s great! Do you have any friends on your side who want to join in? We can squad up and play as five~

Xia Ye pondered for a second, glancing at Tang Tianjiao and Zhou Yao discussing problems next to her.

"Do you two... know how to play King of Glory?"

Zhou Yao, puzzled by the intensity of her studying, "What King of Glory? Is it a new study material?"

A second later, she realized, "Oh! Xia Shen’s King of Glory! I often watch his matches... but I’ve never played before..."

Tang Tianjiao scratched his face: "I’ve heard about it, and I’m good with my hands, so I probably wouldn’t be too bad at games? How about... I give it a try next?"

Zhou Yao agreed: "I want to try it too!"

Xia Ye’s slender fingers tapped her chin, a mischievous smile curling at the corner of her mouth.

Two kindergarten kids over there, plus two who have never played before, this was going to be interesting...