Chapter 40 – Who ranked first? (Part 2)
The boy who had seen the list and stayed nearby once again heard An Xiaoqin address Lin Mumu by her name, and finally shouted:
“Everyone, give way! Let our Liberal arts top-scorer go in!”
Liberal arts top-scorer?
Is that the liberal arts champion who even crushed the science students? What a dog, if some liberal arts student can get such a high score, why doesn’t he just go and ascend to heaven?
(TN: Calling the top scorer a dog in this context is a means to express disapproval, annoyance. Also, when you tell someone ‘why don’t you just ascend to heaven?’ it’s like you’re challenging someone whose feat was so exaggerated he might as well try soaring through the sky. It also had a ‘if you’re this awesome, why bother with us lowly mortals’ kind of feeling, in a mocking/annoyed/jealous way. One last thing, the ‘just go and..’ kind of phrasing usually has an insulting connotation, like ‘get lost/out of my sight and do that’.)
The mathematics and science subjects were usually the weakness of the liberal arts students and had lower marks than science students in those tests. However, in this Beijing University’s examination paper that was twice as hard as the college entrance exam, a liberal arts student actually overshadowed the science students!
This kind of person, of course everybody wanted to check out!
The crowd unconsciously parted to leave a path, and Su Xinlan proudly nodded and walked in with an arrogant smile on her face.
Who would have thought that the boy who just spoke loudly would suddenly rudely push Su Xinlan and bypa.s.s her to get behind the crowd.
Then, right in front of Su Xinlan’s startled eyes, he politely showed the way to Lin Mumu with an inviting gesture:
“Cla.s.smate Lin Mumu, quickly go take a look. This time, you really gave us liberal arts students a lot of face.”
(TN: to give someone face means to respect them, in this context, it means she made them proud.)
Su Xinlan abruptly stopped walking halfway and her arrogant smile instantly crumbled. Her face was fiercely burning as she looked at An Xiaoqin proudly pulling Lin Mumu towards the bulletin board.
Yun Ruoshan was still unwillingly to believe it. She grabbed Su Xinlan’s arm and roughly dragged her to follow the exclusive path opened for Lin Mumu. In front of the board, she raised her head and looked at the name of the first ranked on the list of the liberal arts’ preparatory cla.s.s: Lin Mumu.
“Impossible! She must have cheated! She had never attended high school, and didn’t even take the college entrance examination! How can she get such a high score?!”
Lin Mumu didn’t even bother talking to her as she disdained her att.i.tude. Here was Beijing University and not a vegetable market.
Sure enough, Yun Ruoshan was treated like an idiot, and the crowd started verbally attacking her with all kinds of words that made her start to doubt her whole life.
When she looked for her enemy Lin Mumu, the later had already disappeared without a trace to have dinner with her three roommates.