As soon the homeroom teacher finished speaking, the classroom fell silent.
Then, almost in unison, everyone turned to look at Ye Shaohua.
“No wonder she said she could get first place!”
The students were struck by sudden understanding, immediately followed by looking at Ye Shaohua as if she were a fool.
“Jiajia, how is this relative of yours so different from you? Buying answers?” a few classmates sitting near Ye Jia couldn’t help but whisper. “Does she even have a brain?”
Ye Jia shook her head and smiled sarcastically. “Who knows?”
“Come with me to the office.” The homeroom teacher’s gaze at Ye Shaohua was stern, but lacked the mockery and disgust everyone else showed.
The hallway outside was empty. Before they reached the office, the homeroom teacher stopped.
He looked at Ye Shaohua very seriously. “I know you’re going through a confused period in your life, but Ye Shaohua, you must remember that life isn’t only about the college entrance exams. I remember you like oil painting—you could develop in that direction too.”
“Remember, when we get to the office, apologize properly to the principal and Director Zhang. I’ll do my best to help you,” the homeroom teacher said, softening his tone as he saw Ye Shaohua looking down. “Come in with me.”
Truth be told, if this student weren’t so rebellious, she could be very well-behaved.
If it weren’t for what happened in her family…
At this thought, the homeroom teacher sighed.
He pushed open the office door first.
Behind him, Ye Shaohua’s phone buzzed. It was a message from Uncle Ye:
【Shaohua, Uncle is on his way. Don’t be afraid. No one knows about buying the answers. They can’t do anything to you!】
Reading this, Ye Shaohua curled her lips into a mocking smile.
“Ye Shaohua, where did you get the answers?” A sharp woman’s voice cut through the air as soon as she entered.
Ye Shaohua casually picked her ear and glanced lazily at the woman, a playful smirk on her face. “Wrote them myself.”
Hearing Ye Shaohua stubbornly cling to her story, the homeroom teacher felt a pang of despair.
He whispered in her ear, “Ye Shaohua, don’t you care about your future? If this gets investigated, your life is over. It’s okay for young people to make mistakes. Just admit it honestly, and there’s still a chance to make things right.”
This woman was Gao Wen, Ye Jia’s aunt and also an English teacher at Yunshui High School.
“Wrote them yourself? Forget English, even my subject—but you scored higher in math than Ning Yunshu?” Gao Wen glanced at Teacher Li and sneered. “Teacher Li, tell me, wasn’t this math test difficult? And she claims she scored higher than Ning Yunshu! Also, you finished the entire exam without using scratch paper? Not a single draft? Do you think you’re some kind of genius?”
After Gao Wen finished, Teacher Li remained silent, his expression still complicated.
“Teacher Li, why aren’t you saying anything?” Not getting Teacher Li’s support, Gao Wen turned to look at him.
Director Zhang was furious. He couldn’t believe there was still such a lawless student.
“You wrote them, you say? Fine,” Director Zhang slammed the table hard. “Teacher Li, give her the test questions. Have her do them right in front of me. If she doesn’t get a perfect score, just you wait!”
The homeroom teacher started to speak, but was cut off by Gao Wen’s mockery. “What? Did you give Ye Shaohua the answers? Is that why you’re defending her so much?”
The homeroom teacher opened his mouth, but seeing Director Zhang’s icy glare, his heart sank.
Teacher Li coughed and said nothing, simply placing a freshly printed set of questions on the desk for Ye Shaohua to retake.
It was only two pages, with questions from all six subjects.
They were basically on par with the difficulty of the actual exam.
The homeroom teacher immediately noticed that the physics question he taught was a bit beyond the syllabus—harder than the last problem on the physics exam. It combined electromagnetic fields with mechanics, plus an out-of-syllabus spatial motion topic.
This was something only touched on in university physics. Even he would need some time to solve it.
Never mind at Yunshui High; even in university, few people could solve this problem.
The homeroom teacher lowered his head. “Ye Shaohua, you…”
Before he could finish, Gao Wen pulled him back. She looked at Ye Shaohua scornfully. “We’ll stay here with you for two hours.”
“Wait.” Ye Shaohua suddenly spoke.
Director Zhang and the principal frowned.
“What, having second thoughts? I’m telling you, it’s too late…” Gao Wen said coldly.
“No, it’s too long.”
“What?” Gao Wen was stunned.
Ye Shaohua put her phone down with a thud and rolled up the wide sleeves of her school uniform. “The exam time is too long. Twenty minutes is enough.”
The office suddenly fell quiet.
Several teachers watched as Ye Shaohua, after making her arrogant statement, began to write.
She started with English, almost glancing at the questions and marking answers as if guessing randomly.
When she moved on to math and physics, everyone in the office noticed that Ye Shaohua wasn’t using the scratch paper provided.
Some teachers walked over to look at the formulas and numbers she was writing.
One physics teacher watched Ye Shaohua solving the physics problem. The formulas and analytical methods she used were correct. After writing the formulas and numbers, she didn’t hesitate before writing a string of numbers after the equal sign—
9.2854.
The teacher’s eyebrow twitched. He quickly took out his phone, opened the calculator, and did the math. The result was 9.285396457!
He stood there frozen.
He knew this test well—the teachers present had just written it. There were no answers available yet.
Which meant Ye Shaohua was—
Calculating it all in her head?
Mental math? She could do mental math?
He stared blankly at Ye Shaohua, watching her breeze through the questions as if it were a game, feeling a sense of utter absurdity.
It wasn’t just the physics teacher. The other teachers noticed too, their expressions shifting from disdain to shock.
What the hell…
This was shattering their worldview!
Meanwhile, Gao Wen was still talking to Director Zhang. “Even though Ye Shaohua is my relative, I would never shield her. Ye Shaohua has gone too far. Jiajia tutors her every day, and she pulls this stunt. It’s so disappointing.”
Director Zhang knew Ye Jia was also a top student at the school. Hearing this, his impression of the Ye family improved significantly.
“What’s wrong?” Gao Wen, mid-sentence, noticed the teachers had stopped abruptly after walking over to Ye Shaohua.
Puzzled, she also went over to Ye Shaohua.
Seeing the English answers Ye Shaohua had written first, her eyes widened in shock!
Ye Shaohua finished the last question and realized twenty minutes hadn’t passed yet. She mused that the brain development boost from the post-apocalyptic world was seriously OP.
At her previous speed, these questions would have taken a full twenty minutes.
As soon as she put down her pen, the teachers nearest her rushed to grab her test paper.
Director Zhang was no fool. Seeing the teachers’ expressions, he sensed something was off. He looked at Teacher Li, the only one who seemed relatively calm.
Teacher Li didn’t need to look to know Ye Shaohua had probably gotten everything right.
“If there are no surprises, Student Ye Shaohua should have answered everything correctly,” Teacher Li said with a smile.
As if to confirm his words, the math teacher exclaimed, “Student Ye, have you self-studied university courses? How do you know Taylor’s formula?! And you can do mental math too?”
Ye Shaohua rubbed her nose. Was mental math… that impressive?
Why did they all look like they’d seen a ghost?
She was a bit puzzled. After so many worlds, she’d met countless people who could do mental math.
Director Zhang’s stern expression faltered.
For the first time in many years, he was somewhat flustered, staring in shock at Ye Shaohua.
As for Ye Shaohua’s homeroom teacher, his hands trembled as he snatched her test paper. He flipped to the physics section and stood there, rooted to the spot, not coming back to his senses for a long time.
But the other teachers didn’t laugh at him; they wore similar expressions of disbelief.
After all, Ye Shaohua had done it right under their noses. They didn’t even have the answers themselves, let alone Ye Shaohua.
The principal was the last to take the test paper Ye Shaohua had written on. His mind went blank, thinking: So she really is a genius?
Then came elation. He looked at Ye Shaohua as if she were a treasure!
One teacher asked eagerly, “Classmate Shaohua, are you interested in participating in the Olympiad?!”
The teachers began enthusiastically inviting Ye Shaohua.
Just then, a middle-aged man rushed in from outside.
Seeing so many people in the office, the man wiped sweat from his forehead. “Teachers, I’m sorry, sorry. I’m late.”
As he spoke, he looked at Ye Shaohua. “Shaohua, quickly apologize to the teachers.”
Ye Shaohua glanced at him raised an eyebrow, but said nothing.
Seeing Ye Shaohua like this, Uncle Ye’s eyes held a hint of concealed mockery, though his tone remained earnest. “Sorry, teachers. Shaohua is usually like this. She’s caused you trouble this time. She’s still a child, please don’t blame her. It’s all my fault as her uncle.”
