My Inner Thoughts Are Heard by the Entire Noble Academy

Chapter 17

On Monday, when the monthly exam results were released, Shi Li suppressed her urge to argue with people.

She held it in, but her mind was constantly cursing.

The classmates who could hear Shi Li's inner thoughts suffered, as she would curse every time she remembered this incident for several days.

Everyone was miserable but didn't understand the reason for her irritation.

They collectively elected a representative to help Shi Li resolve her troubles.

When Shi Qiuyu asked her what was wrong, Shi Li didn't hide anything.

She recounted everything that happened on Saturday.

After listening, Shi Qiuyu felt indignant but found it difficult to empathize with Shi Li's level of anger.

She patted Shi Li's shoulder, "Alright, don't be angry about this anymore. When the competition results come out, I want to see how many points she'll score."

The competition results wouldn't be out for another half month.

When the results were released, the class was in a self-study period.

Teacher Zheng entered the room, "Everyone, please put down your work. I have some good news to announce."

"The results for the Four Holy Grails competition that Shi Li participated in have been released."

"Teacher, you said it's good news, so Shi Li's results must be quite good, right?"

Teacher Zheng nodded with a smile, "Indeed, they're excellent. She got the only perfect score and won the individual gold medal for the Four Holy Grails."

A wave of cheers erupted from below, rising and falling.

Teacher Zheng tapped the blackboard to quiet everyone down, "Your Teacher Wu said that to celebrate this great news, there will be no physics homework today."

This time, the cheers grew even louder, almost loud enough to lift the roof off.

Shi Li, as the physics class representative, was puzzled, [But we don't have physics class today, so there shouldn't be homework anyway]

The cheers were too loud, and Shi Li's inner thoughts were drowned out, unnoticed by anyone.

The jubilant atmosphere in the classroom lasted for less than five minutes before gradually quieting down.

"Alright, everyone continue studying."

As Teacher Zheng was preparing, Shi Qiuyu raised her hand and asked, "Teacher, how did the classmate who competed with Shi Li do?"

Mentioning this, Teacher Zheng's expression was inevitably a bit complicated.

How did they do?

It was certainly far from satisfactory.

As a teacher, Teacher Zheng couldn't evaluate another student in front of the class, especially when the evaluation was negative.

Bringing this up made Teacher Zheng feel as if he'd been kicked in the gut.

Given Shi Li's score, if her partner had performed at a normal level, not too badly, the school could have won another team award this time.

With Shi Li having the highest score, yet their school ranking last in the team competition, one could imagine how poorly her partner must have done.

When asked about Shi Li's partner's specific score.

It turned out to be a very auspicious number.

Not ninety-nine, not eighty-eight, not even sixty-six, but straight to the lowest price!

Today, for just eight points, you can take home the Four Holy Grails physics competition paper!

A lonely eight points, without even a companion nearby, not even eighteen points.

This wasn't an ordinary eight points, but a great and glorious eight points.

Thanks to this eight points, Qianpu Middle School suddenly became the laughingstock of its brother schools.

Even though Qianpu had a double perfect score first place this year, no one cared about that now.

Shi Li was firmly overshadowed by the brilliance of the eight-point genius.

Eight points, there had never been such a low score in history.

All the students in Class 1, Grade 10, were suddenly at a loss for words.

They didn't know what to say.

The students in the front row, who often interacted with the teacher, liked to chime in and spoke frankly, "Teacher, did you just say eight points? As in one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight?"

"The one called 'eight' in English?"

Teacher Zheng was a serious person, and everyone doubted they had heard correctly, never thinking Teacher Zheng would joke about this.

It wasn't their fault; eight points really did seem like a joke.

Teacher Zheng gave that boy a side-eye, "Yes, exactly that eight points you mentioned."

[She's even more impressive than I imagined]

Shi Li's sarcastic comment echoed what others were thinking.

Everyone was truly shocked by this eight points.

It's not that they looked down on someone who scored eight points.

It depends on the context, right?

To push others aside to participate in the competition, one would think your level must be quite high.

In the Four Holy Grails competition, even eighty points would be considered a low score.

She had suddenly refreshed everyone's understanding.

[Her score is so low, I don't even feel comfortable mocking her]

Everyone: Alright, we can feel your schadenfreude, but eight points is really too ridiculous, hahaha.

Actually, Liang Rongrong's score wasn't that outrageous. The morning exam was more basic, with most of the content being something she had studied before, and she scored over sixty points.

Under the halo of eight points, even Shi Li, the gold medal winner with a double perfect score, seemed unremarkable, let alone her other barely passing score.

After Teacher Zheng left, Shi Li took out her phone and typed in the chat box [Teacher Wu, did Liang Rongrong really score eight points in the physics competition? QAQ]

Shi Li received Teacher Wu's reply [Yes]

Then Shi Li turned and sent this good news to Shen Qinglin [Let me tell you something, Liang Rongrong, who snatched your competition spot, scored eight points in the competition]

Shen Qinglin: [......]

Shi Li: [Really, I'm not joking, our teacher just told us]

Shen Qinglin: [How did you do?]

Shi Li: [Crying.jpg Compared to her, I'm just too ordinary]

Shen Qinglin thought she hadn't performed well, so he didn't pursue the matter further.

When asking about homework in Teacher Wu's office, Shen Qinglin casually inquired about Shi Li's competition results.

Only then did he realize that she hadn't done poorly at all; in fact, she had done exceptionally well.

Seeing his proud student's somewhat aggrieved expression, Teacher Wu thought she was envious of Shi Li.

After some inquiry, he learned about the whole situation.

Teacher Wu explained on Shi Li's behalf, "Compared to Liang Rongrong in your class, she is indeed quite ordinary."

Perfect scores weren't unheard of in previous years, but an eight-point score truly was unprecedented.

This year, Qianpu's competition results included an embarrassing incident. According to other school leaders' thinking, they'd prefer to act as if the school hadn't participated in the competition at all.

As long as we don't acknowledge it, we won't be the ones embarrassed.

Following the usual practice of previous years, the school would commend students who won awards in the competition to encourage them to keep up the good work.

"Let's not make a big fuss about giving awards to students this year. We've already embarrassed ourselves enough."

But the principal waved his hand dismissively. "We'll do it. Why shouldn't we? Not only will we do it, but we'll also make it a grand affair."

"This way, we'll prevent the public and parents from thinking our teaching standards are subpar, that we only have students scoring eight points."

"We still have students who won gold and silver awards. This is enough to prove that our teaching quality is not an issue."

"As for the student who scored eight points, it was because she felt unwell during the exam, which affected her performance. Otherwise, this student of ours would have won an award too."

To prove the authenticity of this claim, the school went to great lengths to put on a show.

The school had initially planned to discipline the head teacher of the first-year high school class, but this disciplinary action was kept hidden from the public. In reality, the punishment was practically nonexistent.

During the break between classes, the school held a brief award ceremony.

Shi Li wasn't the only one receiving an award. There were many other students from various subjects who had won prizes in the Four Holy Grails competition, as well as students from other grades.

Everyone had obviously heard about the dazzling eight points and was eager to get more information from Shi Li, their junior who had participated in the physics competition.

Shi Li was a warmhearted person who never refused to answer questions when asked.

As a result, during the award photo session, every student receiving an award was grinning from ear to ear. Those unaware might think they were happy about winning, but in reality, it was the power of gossip at work.

Carrying the trophy back to the classroom with her classmates, they happened to run into Liang Rongrong walking towards the classroom.

"Of all times to run into you."

"I'm supposed to be the vicious supporting character. If I don't do something now, I'm not living up to my role."

The voice of sarcasm, which had been quiet for a long time, suddenly rang out in front of the Class 1 students.