Chapter Thirty-One: Another Bet

  Sat back in his own seat, at 7:01, classmates started coming into the classroom one after another. Like Qin Yanran, they were all surprised to see that Su Lin, the king of tardiness, was actually earlier than themselves, thinking to themselves, "Is the sun rising from the west today?"

  Today is the day to announce the results, two days of exam time, classmates are not relaxed, and teachers in Class 3 also cannot slack off, tightly grasping and slowly rushing to finish correcting all the test papers overnight. This is the last mock exam before the college entrance examination, with less than ten days left until the college entrance examination, and this time's exam results can basically determine a person's college entrance examination results.

  Most of the time, exams don't go well, and those dark horses that suddenly soar to great heights on the college entrance exam are extremely rare. The majority of people perform normally, and many even perform abnormally due to nervousness. Therefore, whether it's teachers or classmates' parents, almost everyone is staring at this one exam score.

  "Wow! Linzi, have you taken your medicine today? Why did you come so early?"

  At 7:30, Su Lin's deskmate Li Hao walked into the classroom, putting down his bag while touching Su Lin's forehead, "Not even a fever!"

  "Get out of here, Haozi! You guys look down on me like that? Can't I just work hard a bit?"

  Su Lin was so depressed in her heart. She wasn't just arriving at the classroom more than an hour earlier than usual, did she need to be stared at by everyone as if they were looking at a monster?

  "Diligent? Lin Zi, you didn't mean what you said the day before yesterday, did you? Are you really going to work hard for Qin Yan?"

  A bit surprised, Li Hao and Su Lin have been together since childhood, how could he not know what kind of person Su Lin is?

  "What? Kosuke, you don't believe me either?"

  "Believe it! As your brother, I unconditionally support you in pursuing the school flower on this great cause that seems to have no end in sight. However, even if you work hard now, it's too late. The school flower is talking about this time's exam results, can you get into the top 50 of the grade?"

  Facing Li Hao's questioning, Su Lin also knew that he couldn't convince him now, so he just smiled slightly and said with a pretentious tone: "Whether we can or not, the results will come out today, won't they?"

  "You really think you're something, Su Lin? You want to be in the top 50 of your grade? With your trash grades, it's impossible for you to even move from the bottom one or two hundred to the top three hundred."

  A sneer, it was Li Yan, the deputy class monitor of Su Lin's class, also the second best student in Su Lin's class since high school, always being suppressed by Qin Yanran. Of course, he is also Qin Yanran's admirer, but even with his grades and family background, he didn't dare to confess to Qin Yanran, so he was extremely disdainful of Su Lin's public confession to Qin Yanran the other day, speaking with a sour tone.

  "Li Yan, what did you say? What makes you look down on others. Don't think that just because you ranked second in the class, you're someone special."

  Su Lin hadn't spoken yet, but Li Hao suddenly stood up and started arguing with Li Yan.

  "Hey! Haoko, is this how you talk to your brother?"

  Raising an eyebrow, Li Yan smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, looking at Li Hao with great disdain. That's right, Li Yan and Li Hao were cousins, Li Yan's father was Li Hao's uncle, and Li Yan was born only a month or so earlier than Li Hao. However, Li Yan had always acted as if he were the older brother since childhood, and his grades had always been good, so everyone in the family doted on Li Yan while neglecting Li Hao.

  "Alright, Haozi. Let him talk! Once the results come out later, I'll know whether I can get into the top 50 of my grade or not."

  Su Lin stopped Li Hao, who knew that since high school, Li Hao had been at odds with his classmate and cousin Li Yan.

  "Sulin, you really are so confident. Boasting isn't done like this, fine... I'll just wait and see how you wrap things up after your boasting bursts! Haha..."

  Li Yan intentionally raised his tone, and almost the entire class heard him mocking Su Lin's words. Classmates looked over one after another, nearly all of them knowing about Su Lin's "ambitious remarks" two days ago. Being among the top fifty in the grade is that easy to achieve?

  The entire Jian'an No. 1 High School has ten classes in the third year, if we calculate based on an average of five people per class entering the top fifty in the grade. Then Su Lin would have to be ranked at least fifth in Class (2) of the third year.

  Now Su Lin's grades can be said to be around the bottom ten in the class. To say that he can go from the bottom ten to the top five is simply a fantasy.

  Apart from Su Lin himself, no one thought that Su Lin could achieve this condition. Everyone was waiting to see Su Lin make a fool of himself, especially those boys who also had a crush on Qin Yanran, they were even more delighted to see Su Lin burst his own bubble, who let him dare to set his sights on Qin Yanran after eating leopard gallbladder.

  Human nature is like this, when seeing others doing what they want to do but dare not do, it will produce jealousy and the hope that others fail.

  "Li Yan, don't be too arrogant. Lin Zi said that if he can get in, he will definitely get in, don't think that our class only has you with good grades."

  Seeing everyone waiting to see Su Lin's joke, Li Hao couldn't help it and stood up to speak for Su Lin.

  "You two are dragging each other down, your grades are so terrible, yet you're always daydreaming about soaring to great heights. Hopeless, laughable."

  Seeing Li Hao get angry, Li Yan felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart, but Su Lin's heart was moved by Li Hao at this time. He knew that Li Hao actually didn't believe from the bottom of his heart that he had the ability to be among the top fifty in the grade, it was just because he was his buddy, even if it meant bragging, he would help him brag without hesitation.

  "Li Yan, since you're so sure I won't be in the top 50 of our grade, are you daring enough to make a bet with me?"

  Li Hao is so self-righteous, Su Lin also wants to take this opportunity to help him vent his anger.

  "Hah! It seems you're not ashamed enough, and you've become addicted to making bets. Do you want to lose so badly? Alright, I'll make a bet with you. If you can really get into the top 50 of our grade, I, Li Yan, will apologize to you in person and call you "big brother" three times. But if you lose, you must admit in front of the whole class that you were bragging, and that you're a toad who wants to eat swan meat. And... from now on, you are not allowed to harass our class monitor Qin Yanran in any way."

  As he spoke, Li Yan deliberately raised his tone in the last sentence and turned around, intending to say it for Qin Yanran to hear. He also wanted to take this opportunity to show off in front of Qin Yanran.

  "Alright, I'll do it if I lose. But if you lose, you can't get off that easily. Not only do I want a face-to-face apology from you, but also, just like Haozi apologized, you have to call Haozi 'Big Brother' three times."

  Su Lin agreed to Li Yan's terms, but also put forward his own conditions. Yes, he just wanted to help his sworn brother Haozi vent his anger and kill Li Yan's arrogance.

  "What? Let me call this kid 'big brother'? No way, I'm his older cousin. Let me call him 'big brother', absolutely impossible..."

  Li Yan immediately refused, but after thinking about it, he absolutely couldn't lose. Since he wouldn't lose, the conditions didn't matter, so Li Yan paused for a moment, his expression returned to normal, and he smiled at Su Lin, "Alright, I'll agree to your terms. However, if you lose, I also want to add a condition that Li Hao must loudly call me 'brother' three times."

  Because of their close age, Li Hao had always been straightforward and rude to Li Yan since childhood. No matter who tried to persuade him, it was more painful for Li Hao to call Li Yan "brother" than to die.

  "Go! No problem."

  When Li Yan took the bait, Su Lin's mouth corners slightly curled up, flashing a triumphant smile. However, Li Hao beside him couldn't laugh anymore. After Li Yan left, he scowled and called out to Su Lin: "Linzi, this time I'm really in trouble because of you! We blew up this cowhide together. Later when it bursts, 'Boom!' I'll be blasted into the sky..."

  Even now, Li Hao still can't believe Su Lin could get into the top fifty of their grade.

  "Don't worry, Haohzi, I won't harm you. Just sit tight and wait for Liyan to call you 'big brother'!"

  Su Lin clasped her hands together, a confident smile spreading across her face. Just then, the class bell rang and their teacher, Lin Qingxue, walked in wearing high heels and carrying a stack of English papers.

  "Teacher Lin looks really beautiful today, Lin Zi, have you noticed that Teacher Lin's complexion is much rosier today? Her previous complexion was a bit pale, but today it looks good and she doesn't look as fierce as before."

  Li Hao, although also afraid of Lin Qingxue like before, still secretly evaluated and criticized Lin Qingxue's dressing with Su Lin. When Su Lin heard Li Hao's words, she smiled complacently in her heart: "I'll tell you, it's because I taught Lin teacher how to release her desires by herself last night, that's why her face looks so good today?"

  Indeed, Su Lin had previously seen some messy magazines where experts said that whether it's a man or a woman, properly releasing desires in this aspect is beneficial to the body, regardless of whether it's with a loved one or by oneself. Of course, this requires an appropriate frequency, as being too frequent would be all harm and no benefit.

  As Lin Qingxue walked into the classroom, she was stared at by Su Lin in such a straightforward manner that she no longer had her usual calm and serious demeanor. She found that being looked at by Su Lin like this made her heart beat inexplicably faster and faster. And thinking back to last night's scenes, those embarrassing scenes, that feeling of being unable to help herself, her emotions suddenly boiled up.

  But this is in the classroom! She, Lin Qingxue, was the head teacher of English, and as a model for others, she had to maintain a calm and serious demeanor. Collecting her thoughts, Lin Qingxue closed her eyes slightly, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled, standing at the podium, putting down the English papers in her hand, feeling a bit calmer.

  She didn't dare to meet Su Lin's piercing gaze again, and could only deliberately avoid it, looking elsewhere, adjusting her state, clearing her throat, and speaking in a low voice to the whole class: "Classmates, the day before yesterday and yesterday we had our last mock exam. The test papers have been graded by the teachers overnight, and the scores have been counted. Although this time the difficulty of the paper has increased, but when grading the papers, I found that our classmates also have a good ability to cope with more difficult papers."

  The results are out, and Su Lin didn't expect the exam scores to come out so quickly. According to past experience, next, Class Director Lin Qingxue would definitely start announcing each classmate's score and ranking one by one. Su Lin felt a sharp gaze staring at him, he turned his head to look, and indeed it was Li Yan, with an expression of waiting to see him make a fool of himself.

  Opening the ranking sheet in front of her, Lin Qingxue had just received it from the grade director and hadn't opened it to look yet. But now, taking a slight glance, as usual, she first looked at the top few rankings in her class, but immediately froze.