Sentence play.
Dong Chaoming.
Yu Chu.
Dong Chaoming is male.
Yu Chu is a female.
Dong Chaoming is a bad-spirited man with a poisonous mouth and a good look.
Yu Chu is a selfish woman with no conscience.
Yu Chu held the newly issued transcript with black letters on a gray background, and read the items: Language, Mathematics, English… until the bottom line was printed with a small “2”.
She stared at the number, laughed absurdly, and clasped her transcript into a ball with both hands.
Second?
Why is she second?
Yu Chu walked through the corridors of the school and swept through the sultry summer wind. With a cold face, she pushed open the door of the second-seventh class of senior high school. Nearing the evening for self-study, many people from the class have come back one after another, all holding a report card, happily or bitterly, to discuss together. Yu Chu’s second place transcript was tucked in her pocket like rubbish. It’s just that people will not be able to see it.
Yu Chu worked hard on this exam. The head teacher had already foreseen two weeks before the exam that this preliminary exam was a reference for the school when it was a small class in the third grade. Yu Chu will naturally take it seriously, and she pays attention to every exam. Even though her grades have been stable in the top three since she was promoted from junior high school, most of the time, she was the first. She also went all out in this examination. The teacher revealed that the question type was a variant of the previous college entrance examination, so she found the top five reviewers. For the real questions of the college entrance examination in 2015, she started with mathematics and organized them one by one. The error-prone question types were practiced with special papers until they no longer fell into the trap of the question maker.
She doesn’t like to be second, and she doesn’t like to be third. She only likes to be first.
Maybe she stayed up too late. In the second semester of high school, the school added a late self-study. When she went home, she had to light up a lamp to study hard. Her period was a few days earlier, and she was hitting the day of the exam. Yu Chu’s body was cold, whether in winter or summer. She always get cold, and she haven’t escaped the dysmenorrhea. When she reach her menstrual period, it is like a knife in the uterus. Yu Chu was dizzy from the pain in the examination room. She held her eyelids for the four exams, put a whole pot of brown sugar ginger soup on her feet, and leaned on the table to endure the pain.
Yu Chu aced two major essay questions and did a good job in the test. The problem was in English. This time they changed the score for listening to one third. Yu Chu was in a bad state. She was a little sweaty after writing the composition, and she left when listening to the dialogue. She lost her mind, missed the key words, got two wrong answers when she checked the answers, and lost six points in listening portion, which is a point she shouldn’t lose.
Yu Chu held the pen tightly and stared at the exercise book in front of her, the printed fonts gradually blurred in her eyes from neatness, as if out of focus.
Who is the first?
Is it her? Or him? Or is it someone else?
Yacheng High School is private, but the victory lies in its tight study. The school facilities are even stronger than many universities. In the past few years, the principal was changed. The new principal raised the signboard of comprehensive training and added golf and equestrian sports as elective courses. Not to mention that the well-known English group teaching was deliberately blown into the city’s aristocratic school by people with interest. Some parents in the city followed suit and sent their children to Yacheng. The last year’s graduates did well in the exam, and the they caught up with other prestigious schools. Yu Chu enrolled this year, the Yu family still entrusted the Dong family to get the place for the entrance exam.
The cicadas in the summer were overwhelmed by the sound of the hard-working air-conditioning in the classroom. The class bell rang on time, and the current spread to every corner of the huge campus. Dong Chaoming, who was climbing the stairs, was violently pushed by Chu Yi behind him and almost fell. Dong Chaoming slapped his backhand. Chu Yi dodged his hand dexterously and shouted at him,
“Hurry up! Tonight, go with Lao Tian for self-study.”
[Lao = Old. They are calling their teacher Old Tian]
He always add the last name.
Every class teacher will have a respectable name.
The name of this man successfully suppressed him, and Dong Chaoming shook off his hand that had just rushed through the pool outside the stadium and quickly jumped up the stairs.
“Wow!”
The front door of the classroom was pushed open vigorously, and Yu Chu, who was sitting in the first row, sensitively noticed the heat coming from outside the door and the two people who came in, they smelled like the the plastic from the stadium, making her frown uncontrollably. She actually did not look up. She also know who it is, but she and Dong Chaoming always have an inexplicable magnetic field, which makes Yu Chu look up from the book and fly over to the two, especially the one with the loose tie.
Chu Yi was accustomed to being injured by mistake, closed the door and returned to his position. Dong Chaoming sneered, walked around Yu Chu’s table and squeezed out her water container unintentionally, and when it was about to land, he picked it up and put it in place, raising his eyebrows, “I’m sorry.”
Yu Chu’s eyes were too lazy this time . For her, he played this childish trick for six years, and he expected her to have any fresh reactions.
As soon as Dong Chaoming sat down for a second, Lao Tian’s figure flashed past the window of the back door, and then appeared in the classroom. Yu Chu was sitting in the first row in front of the podium, the closest, and she caught a glimpse of a piece of paper in his hand.
It is the top class list.
Yacheng said that it pays attention to the privacy of students. The transcripts will only be sent to students individually, and the list will not be announced. Only the teacher will have the list. But the seventh class is the key class, and Lao Tian caught their results to the point of being frantic. Every time they took the exam, he would post the class list on the blackboard, but only announce it for one evening study and torn it off the next day, in order to let them understand the gap between them. To motivate them to learn.
Yu Chu looked through the dictionary while listening to the head teacher.
Tian Zuohao shook the transcript in his hand, cut out a short piece of tape, and pasted the A4 paper on the lower right corner of the blackboard.
Yu Chu’s movements paused for a moment.
She knew that the forty-three people in this room, although they didn’t say a word, were all buried in the desk, but they were all secretly looking at the piece of paper just like her.
Who is not curious?
Yu Chu’s sensitivity to grades was no secret. As soon as the bell rang for the end of the evening self-study, she skipped the steps of packing up her schoolbag and stood still at the blackboard.
The first place is on top of her name, with three words written impressively:
Yu Zhuyue.
It turned out to be her.
Yu Chu turned around in a ghostly manner and saw the girl standing quietly outside the crowd, her back straightened like a small white flower. She caught Yu Chu’s sight, and smiled softly at her.
She saw the faint pride in her eyes.
Yu Chu squeezed out the crowd, cleaned up the table hastily, and walked out of the classroom without looking back.
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