si-mexico Chapter 407
Chapter 407
Lu Yao's breath hitched.Zhang Xue and Liu Nana had been trying to figure out how to ease the tension, but hearing this, they were both dumbfounded.
"Si, Sister Si Nian, you got a perfect score in English?"
"Are you serious?"
After her initial shock, Lu Yao's face was filled with suspicion.
Taking it easy every day, eating, drinking, and having fun—in her eyes, Si Nian was just a wealthy young lady who came to college to experience life.
She got a perfect score?
Who would believe that?
There probably weren't even a handful of people in the entire country who could get a perfect score, right?
Si Nian didn't bother to argue, calmly stating, "You can go ask the counselor."
Originally, Si Nian had been invited to give a speech on stage as a freshman, but she found it too troublesome and refused. She didn't want a high profile; she just wanted to quickly finish college and go home.
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She never expected that this would lead to misunderstandings.
Although Lu Yao might just be the type of top student who couldn't stand people who didn't like to study, her lecturing tone still made Si Nian quite uncomfortable.
Lu Yao's grip on her pen tightened.
After moving into the dorm, she had asked about the scores of her other two roommates, and neither was as high as hers.
She had never even seen Si Nian study. Hearing Zhang Xue and the others mention that Si Nian must be very rich, she hadn't thought much of it.
She assumed Si Nian was just an ignorant and incompetent rich girl.
But she never expected her to be like this.
Si Nian didn't pay her much more attention and went to her bed to sleep.
After classes in the afternoon, Zhang Xue and Liu Nana insisted on dragging her to a mixer.
They said she was experienced and had a better eye for judging people.
In short, the two were shy and treated Si Nian as their leader.
Si Nian figured she had already told Zhou Yueshen she would be back late today, and since she was a bit curious herself, she agreed.
"Lu Yao, are you really not going?"
Seeing that Lu Yao hadn't left the classroom yet, Zhang Xue and the other called out to her again.
Lu Yao looked at the three of them walking arm in arm, her frown deepening as she refused, "No."
Seeing her cold expression, the two didn't say much more.
Lu Yao walked to the counselor's office and found the counselor.
Hearing her mention Si Nian, the counselor was a bit surprised. "I remember the two of you were assigned to the same dorm. Is something wrong?"
Their dorm assignments actually followed certain rules; students with good grades were grouped with those with average grades to encourage studying.
Lu Yao was the one with the good grades.
Seeing her come in, the counselor worried that the girls might be having a conflict.
"Teacher, I wanted to ask about Si Nian's college entrance exam score."
Lu Yao still couldn't quite get past it in her heart.
After all, someone she had always considered inferior to herself suddenly claimed to be better than her.
How could she feel comfortable with that?
Lu Yao was too competitive. She had always been like this in class, wanting to be the best at everything.
It wasn't that she couldn't stand Si Nian being better than her; she just felt that someone who never studied or read books had no right to be better than her.
Hearing this, the counselor paused again, surprised. "You don't know? I thought you all would have known by now."
Lu Yao frowned. "Why do you say that?"
"Si Nian is the provincial top scorer whom our school leaders flew a long way to recruit. It caused quite a stir back then. She got perfect scores in several subjects. I thought you would have asked her long ago."
The counselor continued, "She used to be an English teacher at a famous foreign language elementary school. I heard several genius students from her class are being closely observed and cultivated by the school. They'll probably be highly sought after when they grow up. It's a good thing you were assigned with her; you can learn from and exchange ideas with each other."
Lu Yao's face looked awful. "Provincial top scorer..."
The counselor said, "Right. I heard you were also a school top scorer. You are both very outstanding talents. You must not have any conflicts, understand?"
Originally, the special treatment the school offered Si Nian was a single dorm room.
But Si Nian felt it was a waste of school resources and that being singled out for special treatment would draw unwanted attention, so she declined, hoping to keep a low profile.
Therefore, the school didn't mention the matter much.
Seeing her terrible expression, the counselor guessed what was going on and sighed.
There were too many students with good grades, especially at a school like theirs.
Before getting into college, these kids were all the cream of the crop at their respective schools, thinking highly of themselves.
However, after coming to their university, they realized there was always someone better out there, and they took a huge blow to their pride.
It wasn't anything strange.
Si Nian returned to the dorm, and the two girls started getting dressed up.
Zhang Xue changed into several outfits but wasn't satisfied with any of them. Looking at how good Si Nian looked in whatever she threw on, she couldn't help but say, "Sister Si Nian, I want to discuss something with you."
"What is it?"
"Um, could you, could you lend me the dress you wore on registration day? Don't worry, I'll wash it clean for you," Zhang Xue said ingratiatingly.
Si Nian frowned. She knew that some good friends and sisters would share clothes, but she was a neat freak. She naturally wouldn't lend out such close-fitting clothes to others, not to mention that those clothes were all bought for her by Zhou Yueshen.
So she refused directly, "I'm sorry, Zhang Xue, but I don't lend out my personal clothing."
Zhang Xue said, "Oh come on, I'm just going to wear it once, it's no big deal. I'll wash it clean for you afterwards, don't worry. Please, pretty please?"
Having just arrived at college, she had seen too many beautiful girls and felt terribly inadequate.
Today, she naturally wanted to look beautiful for the dance.
However, no matter how she dressed, it just didn't feel right; she felt she looked tacky.
Si Nian didn't waver in the slightest. "No. If you want to buy one, I can recommend a place, but my clothes are not for loan."
Seeing her absolute and uncompromising tone, a hint of resentment appeared in Zhang Xue's eyes.
She felt that she treated Si Nian as a friend, yet Si Nian was treating her like this.
Feeling somewhat disappointed, she pursed her lips, said nothing, and turned back to getting dressed.
Liu Nana frowned but didn't say anything either.
Before they finished getting ready, Yang Haoran and his group sent someone to call them.
Zhang Xue blushed, hurriedly applied some lip gloss, and anxiously rushed downstairs.
Who would have thought that Chen Haoran wouldn't even glance at her carefully dressed self, but instead ran straight toward Si Nian, enthusiastically calling out, "Sister, Sister, are you going to the dance too?"
After saying this, he added in a low voice that only the two of them could hear, "Does Uncle Zhou know?"
His dad had told him to call Si Nian 'Auntie' when he saw her.
But Chen Haoran had high emotional intelligence. Besides, Si Nian was as beautiful as a fairy; calling her 'Auntie' would be an absolute insult to her peerless looks.
So he chose to do it his own way and call her 'Sister', which was both polite and sounded nice.
Hearing this, Si Nian paused, slapped her forehead, and suddenly realized, "Right, how could I forget? As a married woman, it's probably not appropriate for me to go to this kind of dance, is it?"
Although it was billed as a networking event to get to know each other, bluntly speaking, it was for finding a partner.
Sigh, she had almost forgotten that she had a husband.
She had actually thought of herself as an innocent female college student for a moment.
"Forget it then, I won't go. You guys go ahead."
She waved her hand.
Seeing how familiar the two were with each other left a bitter taste in Zhang Xue's mouth, even though she knew Si Nian was already married and had a child.