Seventies Sweetheart: From Breakup to Billionaire-Chapter 181: Test Paper

Chen Xiangqin used her textbook as a fan to disperse the nearby smell, saying with lingering fear to Lin Xiang, "Good thing you didn’t eat anything from Kong Jingjing, otherwise, tsk tsk..."

After the tsk tsk was a long line of sentiment, but Chen Xiangqin didn’t say explicitly why it couldn’t be eaten, or what the consequences would be.

It wasn’t until the class bell rang that Kong Jingjing returned to the classroom.

But that smell had already clung to her clothes, faintly seeping into Lin Xiang’s nose.

Fortunately, Lin Xiang had thoroughly entered a study state and wasn’t affected by Kong Jingjing.

On the first day of school, Lin Xiang adapted very well to this state.

Her learning progress was completely on track, too.

At the same time, at the Ge Family.

Aunt Ge pushed a cart back home, finding Mrs. Lin already cooking, with smoke billowing high from the chimney.

Aunt Ge hurriedly placed the cart in the yard and rushed into the kitchen, "Lin Family sister, didn’t we agree that I’d take care of meals?"

"Mrs. Ge, you let me and the girl stay at your place for free, already a big help for us, how could I further impose on you to provide meals? I discussed it with the girl, and we decided to handle the afternoon meal ourselves."

"What are you saying..."

"Mrs. Ge, go check on the kids first. I brought them lunch at noon, but neither of them ate it."

The noon meal was relatively simple; Mrs. Lin made noodles, but when she brought the meal into the room, by the afternoon she brought it out unchanged.

Aunt Ge, hearing this, rushed into the room.

"Yuanxin, Yuanyi, why aren’t you eating?"

The room’s windows were closed year-round, and the curtains were drawn. As soon as the door was pushed open, a stifling sense from the lack of air circulation could be smelled. In the dim light, the people lying in the two beds were motionless, and no one answered Aunt Ge’s question.

Aunt Ge sat down on a stool. "Are you both upset that mom let someone move in without your consent?"

"The girl is a good kid, and mom can now make money selling pancakes thanks to her idea!"

"The house was empty anyway, it’s better to let them move in so we can look after each other if something happens. At least I won’t have to worry about you two so much when I go to the market every day."

The siblings still didn’t respond at all.

Aunt Ge continued to persuade for quite a while, until finally Ge Yuanxin spoke up.

"Mom, I’ll eat later."

"Okay, fine! Later, mom will personally bring your meals in for you."

Just as Aunt Ge was leaving the bedroom, Lin Xiang also returned home.

"You’re back, girl. How was school today?"

"Not bad, the teachers and classmates are quite easy to get along with, and I can keep up with what’s being taught in class."

"That’s good. Make sure to study hard and aim to get into a good university next year so your mom can have a better life with you."

"Thud..."

There was the sound of something heavy falling in the room again, and Aunt Ge’s expression changed, running into the room hurriedly.

Mrs. Lin wiped her hands on her apron and handed the spatula to Lin Xiang. "You go stir-fry the vegetables first, I’ll go in and see what’s happening."

Aunt Ge thought it was Ge Yuanxin who had fallen off the bed again, but upon entering, she saw Ge Yuanyi climbing back onto the bed from the floor.

"Yuanyi, are you okay?"

Ge Yuanyi covered her head with a quilt, muffled, "I’m fine, can we not let strangers come in? I don’t want to see people."

The stranger referred to was Mrs. Lin, who followed them in.

Aunt Ge instinctively looked at Mrs. Lin, just about to apologize, but Mrs. Lin gave her a look and quietly left.

Aunt Ge went to the bedside, "Where did you fall just now? Does it hurt? Let me get some ointment to rub on it."

"No need," Ge Yuanyi turned around, back to Aunt Ge, her head always covered with the quilt, "After all, I’m just a disappointing child. Not only can’t let you enjoy a good life, but also bring you shame, I’ve ruined the Ge Family’s reputation entirely, just ignore me and let me fend for myself."

Aunt Ge slapped Ge Yuanyi on the back, "What nonsense are you saying? If I hear you say that again, I will..."

"Disown me completely?" Ge Yuanyi’s voice held a bit of a sob. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Aunt Ge’s arm was raised high. "I’ll give you a good beating!"

"Mom, I’m hungry."

"Stay hungry then! You refused to eat lunch after all!"

Despite her words, Aunt Ge still went into the kitchen to cook with Mrs. Lin.

"Sister, is the child alright?"

Aunt Ge shook her head, looking serious, "My Yuanyi recently encountered some incident, and it hit her too hard, so her personality also changed a bit. What she said just now had no other meaning, don’t take it to heart, sister."

Mrs. Lin was nonchalant, "We’re both mothers, we understand, I definitely won’t take it to heart."

Lin Xiang, who was picking vegetables beside them, suddenly felt a jolt in her heart.

Yuanyi.

Ge Yuanyi.

This name, it was exactly the same as the name Chen Xiangqin and Kong Jingjing mentioned.

She tentatively asked, "Aunt Ge, how old is Yuanyi this year?"

"About your age. Actually, she could have been your classmate, but unfortunately... Forget it, forget it, let’s not talk about it anymore. Is the dish ready? Let’s have a meal."

Her suspicion was confirmed.

The Ge Yuanyi mentioned by Chen Xiangqin was precisely Aunt Ge’s daughter.

Yesterday, listening to Kong Jingjing, it seemed that Ge Yuanyi experienced something terrible, having to drop out of school.

Judging by Ge Yuanyi’s current state, the impact was indeed huge.

However, she had just arrived and wasn’t close enough to pry into others’ privacy, so she had to suppress her curiosity.

After dinner, Lin Xiang returned to her bedroom.

She found her desk had been moved again.

The papers she created under her textbooks seemed unchanged at first glance, but upon closer inspection, every blank space had been written on and then erased, leaving only very faint traces that were hardly noticeable.

Looking at the pen holder on the desk, both the pencil and eraser had been moved.

Yesterday, she only wrote two sets of exams, one in math and one in physics.

Lin Xiang sat at her desk, carefully lifting the contents from the faint marks in the blanks, and compared it with the answers.

The content she uncovered had a correctness rate as high as seventy percent.

The difficulty of her exam is modeled after future college entrance exams, much harder than today’s exams.

With such a high rate of correctness, there was no denying that Ge Yuanyi had real academic talent.

Lin Xiang moved her textbook aside and prepared two more exam papers.

Math and chemistry.

Among the subjects, math was the hardest, while Chinese required skill in answering questions, and writing exams didn’t have much of an effect. Lin Xiang had yet to figure out how to handle politics, so she could only write exams in math, chemistry, and physics.

After finishing the exams, Lin Xiang deliberately placed them in an obvious spot.