The entire week was spent on the First monthly exams and An Qinyan personally dropped and picked up her daughter at the school gate like the very first day.

An Xiulan spent a lazy Sunday with Betty and Augustine, cuddling with them and feeding them. By the time Monday came, she had to run to school to appear for the second monthly exams. And all she could do was that she was exhausted only after the first month exams. What was she supposed to do now?

Never mind, she dragged her tired and stressed body to the school. She didn’t know if it counted as a consolation but seeing the frowns and scowls etched on her classmates’ faces as she entered the school gate provided her another kind of cooling effect that even the expensive balms couldn’t.

It was as if she knew that she wasn’t stuck in this problem alone.

Thankfully, Jingyuan High changed its rule for the first time and instead of appearing for all the exams in a single day, the students would have to appear for a single exam on one particular day. This made all the students sigh in relief.

Lately, Jingyuan High has been trying to reduce the unnecessary stress in students during their high school years. And this step was one of them.

“Xiuxiu,” Qiao Wei hugged her as soon as she saw her little sister who she hadn’t seen for a week. Since she wasn’t reading her yaoi boys for a week now, she was missing her beam of sunshine even more. But if someone were to ask her to choose between her beam of sunshine or Yaoi boys who she had to read in the darkness of night, she would always choose the latter without any second thoughts.

Because…why not?

“I missed you so much in class,” Qiao Wei said as she hugged her even tighter.

“Uhuh…” An Xiulan didn’t know how to deal with sudden warmth.

“Where is everyone else?”An Xiulan further asked.

“Oh, Mona forgot her admit card at home. Can you believe it? Who forgot the admit card at home?” Qiao Wei sneered. Suddenly, her eyes widened as she realized, “Xiuxiu, I forgot to bring a pen with me. What do I do now?”

“Who forgets a pen at home when you are coming for an exam?” An Xiulan asked as she blinked her big doe eyes.

“Me, “Qiao Wei pointed at herself. But why did she feel like it was a jibe aimed at her? Nope, her baby Xiuxiu will never do that to her!

An Xiulan had an urge to roll her eyes. Another thing that she had learned from her desk mate. She grabbed a pen out of all the extra pens that she had received from the staff at home who gifted her pens to wish her luck for the exam and passed it to her silly friend.

“Thank you, baby Xiuxiu, ” Qiao Wei clung to her like a vine and said in a babyish voice. “It’s time. Let’s go to the examination centre.”

The students were seated at their places and coincidentally Han Zixin was sitting at a desk before her. The invigilator entered the classroom after the students had taken their seats and ripped the seal of the question papers before distributing them to students one by one.

An Xiulan poked the nib of pen into Han Zixin’s back, making him wince and whispered, “Cheat Prince, all the best.”

Han Zixin didn’t know whether he should glare at her or smile but in the end, he just sighed.

“No talking!” A teacher’s voice boomed and An Xiulan turned her eyes back to the question paper.

Oh, did she mention anything about the first monthly exams that she gave last week?

Apparently, the result was out.

And she had passed two subjects!

Yes, two subjects.

Mathematics and English.

Never mind, they celebrated the happy news of Mathematics and English by enjoying honey chicken.

As for all the failed subjects?

She ate black forest cake while mourning those failed subjects. She felt like crying while savouring the last chunk of the delicious cake.

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Lu Xuan’s suspension was uplifted today and he had arrived to appear for the monthly exams. He wasn’t happy with his suspension uplifted too soon but he believed that it had something to do with a certain tutor. Not that he was going to blame someone here.

None of his buddies was in this class but Orange was sitting behind him in the examination hall and this was for a lot of reasons.

“F*ck Off!” Lu Xuan boomed as Orange made a wish wish sound and signaled him to let the latter copy his answers.

No way in hell that was going to happen.

However, Orange still jumped when he saw that the teacher was talking to the pretty and young invigilator. Even he was mesmerised by the beauty of the pretty woman and how could the teacher resist it? Good good. He was happy that the teacher was too lost to care about anything else.

For the first time in life, Lu Xuan was confused.

Today was maths exams and he knew at least 50% of the answers of the question paper. It had to be incorrect, right? How could he know the answers to the question? It didn’t make sense to him.

In the end, he still marked those answers and Orange who was sitting behind him skillfully copied all the answers. He has heard that Lu Xuan had jumped ranks and even if all of the answers were not correct, some would surely be true.

As long as Orange didn’t get peeled by his father’s belt, he was ready to trample on his own dignity and copy Lu Xuan’s answers.

So what if he was copying Lu Xuan’s answers? His loyalty still belonged to Boss Han.

It was like sleeping with Lu Xuan but his heart still belonged to Han Zixin.

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