Chapter 420: It’s Just a Compet.i.tion and You Should Get Used to It
Zi Yi looked at the female student standing before her and said with indifference, “I don’t know, you can find her mother for such matters.”
To her, there was no difference between Zi Xuan and a stranger. She did not wish to waste her time on this person.
The female student was stunned for a moment, before she then looked at her with a strange gaze and furiously said, “Your sister has suicidal tendencies and yet, you’re so indifferent about it?”
Zi Yi’s expression turned chilly. “If she has suicidal tendencies, you should go and look for her parents. Since you’re her cla.s.smate, you should know that we don’t have a good relations.h.i.+p. What’s the use in telling me all these things?”
By the time she said that, there was already a crowd around them.
There were many who got angry when they heard what she said.
“How can Zi Yi do this? Her sister is about to commit suicide and she can still be so indifferent about it? She doesn’t care for her in the slightest.”
“That’s right. Previously I had thought that she was amazing to have won the International Painting and Calligraphy Compet.i.tion and had brought about great honor to the school. But in my opinion right now, even if she has won a prize, someone with a bad character is merely so-so.”
“It’s really disappointing.”
“I was still thinking of voting for her if she ran for the campus belle. But right now, I feel that I won’t vote for her even if I must choose another person!”
Zi Yi heard everyone’s comments and looked at those people who were glaring at her in anger. She took out her phone with a cold expression and swiped across the screen for a while. Following that, she tapped on her screen and Zi Xuan’s unhappy voice sounded from the phone.
“Don’t mention her in front of me. What rights does she have to be my sister? She’s just an idiot, and doesn’t even deserve to be considered my family.
How could that be? How could an idiot enroll into M.Uni? She must have gotten in through underhanded means.”
Zi Yi put away her phone as everyone looked at her with expressions of shock. “This is a recording of her saying these things when she was on the phone with her high school cla.s.smate. Why do you think someone like her would have suicidal tendencies?”
Speaking up to here, she paused for a second before she swept her gaze across the people around her. “Before knowing the full story, I would advise you guys not to jump to conclusions. Otherwise… don’t blame me for being rude.”
Everyone looked at her in shock and she left.
After Zi Yi had walked some distance away, one of the male students suddenly said, “Could it be that Zi Yi’s younger sister is unable to accept that Zi Yi is better than her and so, has suicidal thoughts?”
The others found it hard to believe what he said, but the expression of Zi Xuan’s cla.s.s monitor darkened.
She still remembers what Zi Xuan said to everyone in the cla.s.s after they returned from the national holiday. That appearance of hers truly looked like she could not accept that Zi Yi was better than her.
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that she had realized the truth. The female student left with a darkened expression.
After Zi Yi had walked some distance away, she took out her phone and checked the school forum. No one had uploaded the incident that transpired earlier and she put away her phone after she had finished checking it.
The Archaeology Major had an independent courtyard at the School of Language. There was a three-story high building where lessons were held and every floor had at most three cla.s.srooms.
If one went around the teaching building, they would see another building. The exterior of the building looked older than that of the teaching building and there were two floors. The first floor was where all kinds of historical and archeological books were displayed, while the second floor had many archeological relics collected from various places.
There were not many people who took this major. There were only a total of two cla.s.ses for freshmen, and each cla.s.s had 20 students.
Throughout the whole of the freshmen cohort, there were only two female students. Zi Yi and Li Xia. Together, the whole department of archaeology only had a few dozen female students.
By the time Zi Yi found the cla.s.sroom, everyone was already present. The moment they saw Zi Yi walking in, they were all excited.
“Zi Yi, you’re finally here!”
As soon as Li Xia spotted her, she enthusiastically waved at her. “Zi Yi, come over here and sit.”
Zi Yi walked over and sat beside her. While the male students were stealing glances in her direction, she put down her bag.
Li Xia looked at her in admiration. “Zi Yi, you’re so amazing. You won the first place position of the International Painting and Calligraphy Compet.i.tion during the National Holidays.”
Zi Yi acknowledged her and opened her backpack to take out her books.
Li Xia had even more admiration at how calm she was. “Zi Yi, are you not excited that you won first place?”
“Not really,” Zi Yi said with a calm expression. ” It’s only a compet.i.tion, so it’s fine as long as you get used to it.”
Everyone present: “…”
Listening to her words, why do they feel that she would continue partic.i.p.ating in numerous compet.i.tions in the future? Moreover, would she also win several more first place positions?”
Wasn’t she too confident in herself?
Just then, the professor came in and everyone quickly went back to their seats.
The first lesson was on Ancient Chinese Literature. The teacher was a middle-aged man in his fifties who had his hair combed backwards. He was wearing a slightly worn-out linen robe. In his hand was a tea urn and he gave off the feeling that he had reincarnated from a previous era.
Li Xia blocked her head with her book and reminded Zi Yi in a soft voice. “Zi Yi, this teacher’s name is Gu Qian. Do take note shortly. Teacher Gu likes to choose students to answer questions during lesson time and those who can’t answer will have their marks deducted.
Zi Yi nodded her head.
Just then, teacher Gu turned to look at her. He flipped open the teaching materials and asked, “The female student who is attending cla.s.s for the first time, you must be Zi Yi?”
Li Xia hastily said to her, “When answering teacher Gu’s question, you have to stand up.”
Zi Yi stood up and answered, “Yes.”
Gu Qian did not allow her to sit down and he continued asking, “I heard that you partic.i.p.ated in a painting compet.i.tion during the holidays, correct?”
“That’s right.”
“Since you partic.i.p.ated during the holidays, why didn’t you show up for lessons last week? Do you know that if you are absent for a week, that’s how much progress you have lagged behind in?”
Zi Yi pursed her lips and said, “I’ve already read the entire textbook.”
Gu Qian furrowed his brows at her words and said with a serious expression. “Just because you had read the textbook, does it mean you can play truant at will?”
“Teacher Gu, I applied for leave from the school.”
“Applied for leave? Did you get my approval? I’ve seen plenty of students like you. Don’t think that you’re all that great just because you’re slightly capable. There is no limit to learning and it is you who will suffer if you learn less.”
After he said that, Gu Qian picked up a piece of chalk and tapped it on the podium before he said, “I’ve mentioned it before during the first lesson. Whoever finds my lessons boring and doesn’t feel like learning, as long as you can answer the question I ask you, you have the freedom of attending the lessons as and when you like. I won’t deduct a single mark.
On the contrary, if you are unable to answer the question, then you better pay attention in cla.s.s. Don’t think of graduating from my cla.s.s if you don’t understand the contents well.”
The other students buried their heads into the books.
What they feared the most was the teacher bringing up this matter.
Zi Yi thought for a while and calmly said, “Go ahead and ask.”
Everyone present: “…”
Gu Qian was also momentarily stunned and he thought deep down, “As expected of a student who doesn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth.” With that, he directly started to ask Zi Yi his questions.
In the beginning, Gu Qian asked questions that could be found in the textbook. He did not expect Zi Yi to have answered them all correctly.
He then increased the difficulty of the questions and even started to ask questions from the contents that they would study in their Second, Third, and Fourth Year.
Unknowingly, half the lesson pa.s.sed.
A group of students looked at Zi Yi with their mouths wide open as Zi Yi answered the questions easily.