Studying Makes Me Rich - Chapter 9

 【For each subject in the final exam, if the grade reaches the top 10% of the grade, a reward of 1000RMB will be given】

【For the monthly exam, if the total score of the class reaches the top 5%, a reward of 500RMB will be given】

【For English, if the vocabulary reaches 5000 words, a reward of 500RMB will be given. Additionally, a reward of 10RMB will be given for each memorized lesson】 

【For Chinese language textbooks in regular high schools, if the memorization of each section can be recited fluently in reverse, a reward of 500RMB will be given】

【For mathematics textbooks in regular high schools, if the proficiency in solving problems reaches "finding a connection from one example to another", a reward of 500RMB will be given】 　　

【For chemistry textbooks in regular high schools, if the memorization of formulas and principles can be achieved "without forgetting after seeing", a reward of 500RMB will be given】 　　

…… 　　

【Rewards for various competitions will be randomly dropped】 　　

【Random rewards will also drop in daily life】 　　

The sound of notifications constantly rang. 　　

The system threw out many rewards, thinking that it would see Zhou Xiu's face wrinkling with the burden, but Zhou Xiu pursed her lips and her eyes sparkled with satisfaction. 　　

She buried her head and wrote her schedule, listed several tasks she could achieve, and developed a new study plan. 　　

System: 【...】 　　

... 　　

On Monday, a photo quietly went viral on Weibo. The Weibo title was "Oops, it's the feeling of love." The photo was taken secretly, but the picture quality was very good. It showed a young man in sportswear sitting on the steps, pouring mineral water over his head. His hands holding the mineral water were particularly long and slender. The 500ml mineral water bottle in his hand was as delicate as a perfume bottle. In the winter sun, the side profile of the male protagonist was handsome and clean, and his eyes were as pure as mineral water. A teardrop mole was visible at the corner of his eyebrow, shining brightly.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah, AWSL! What kind of hands are these? Hand fetishists are crying!"

"I estimate that the male lead has a 9-point face value and he's incredibly handsome without makeup!!!"

"Is this a new advertisement for Wahaha?"

"Oops, it's the feeling of heart throbbing."

"Who's the trainee and from which company? I've never seen him before. He should be an unknown."

"This person begs for the male lead's name."

"I know the answer to this question! He's not a trainee or a star. The background of the picture is the teaching building of C Province No.4 High School, and this handsome guy is from No.4 High School! He should be the school grass of No.4 High School!!"

…

On the hot search, this Weibo quietly gained a "new" tag and received tens of thousands of likes. After seeing it, students from Yu De high school quietly forwarded it to the person involved.

"Is this you, Xi Shaoyuan?" asked the message.

Early in the morning, Xi Shaoyuan, who was still lying on the desk feeling drowsy, opened the post with bleary eyes and exclaimed, "Wow, what the f***!"

He immediately reported the post.

Xi Shaoyuan complained, "I'm obviously 1.88 meters tall, with a sturdy back and powerful build."

 After two classes, Xu Qing walked by outside the window and reminded him, "Xi Shaoyuan, remember to check Weibo."

Xi Shaoyuan opened Weibo and was immediately wide awake.

In the next class, Du Feiyang excitedly said to Tan Ming, "It seems like your goddess confessed to Xi Shaoyuan yesterday."

"Can you stop talking nonsense? I saw Xujie went on a date yesterday," Tan Ming retorted, still immersed in his own breakup.

Tan Ming's goddess is Lu Lingshan, while Du Feiyang secretly loves Hua Xu.

Receiving the attack, Du Feiyang held his chest in disappointment and returned to his seat.

Recently, Xu Jie became much gentler, and it seemed that she really had the signs of being in love.

Tan Ming opened Weibo with a heavy heart and clicked on the hot search list, randomly clicking on a post that ranked lower. He saw Shao Yuan's face with the title "It feels like falling in love is a disaster."

For a moment, it felt like the two-dimensional world and the three-dimensional world were connected.

What a garbage title, Tan Ming thought. He kept quitting and reopening Weibo, but still clicked on it.

He was completely frustrated, wondering why some people could just show their hands and become famous.

After a while, the post disappeared from the hot search list, like a small wave that quickly sank into the ocean.

However, this incident caused a lot of discussion among Yu De High School students.

"Shaoyuan made it to the hot search list today, did you know?"

"I didn't know, my god, Shaoyuan is so awesome. Can I start selling his photos?" A male student from class 25 rubbed his chin and wondered.

"I have to say, Shaoyuan is so good-looking that he could have been a model," another student remarked.

"He's too ferocious in personality, he would have been torn apart long ago." said the girl from class 25.

At lunchtime, the class flower of the Rocket class, Lu Lingshan, pushed the lunchbox she had made to Xi Shaoyuan's table, sitting close to him and trying to feed him several times.

Clearly, she also knew about the hot topic and pursued Xi Shaoyuan even more fiercely.

There were lively discussions in the cafeteria.

Hua Xu and her three friends were also eating lunch.

Hua Xu was bombarded with loads of gossip and said impatiently, "It's annoying. It's no big deal to pursue Xi Shaoyuan. Everyone knows she's in love. What's so great about that?"

"Yan Qingyan, please don't mention Lu Lingshan again. I don't want to hear her name. It's none of my business who Lu Lingshan likes," Tang Ming said.

"Look at Xiu Xiu. She never gossips about these things. Wait, Xiu Xiu, what are you doing?" Hua Xu looked at Zhou Xiu, who seemed disconnected from the world. She lowered her head slightly, murmuring to herself, completely undisturbed by the outside world.

She leaned closer to hear what Zhou Xiu was saying, and then she heard clearly what Zhou Xiu was reciting: "Don't have melancholy and resentment, silence is better than sound... When the silver bottle bursts, the water and paste splatter, and the iron medicine suddenly appears, the knives and swords ring."

Hua Xu was startled, looking at Zhou Xiu's eyes as if she was looking at an alien. Wait a minute, didn't she only bet on math with Lao Huang? Why was she reciting literature in the cafeteria? Why was she reciting literature in the cafeteria?

"If you're busy, you can go ahead. Don't wait for us," Hua Xu said.

Zhou Xiu, who had finished her lunch, nodded and took her lunch box to the sink to wash it.

The abandoned trio said decisively, "..."

When Zhou Xiu returned to the cafeteria after washing her lunch box, she looked at the person at the center of the topic not far away.

Xi Shaoyuan had not eaten dinner yet and was on the phone, sitting next to a girl in a school uniform.

The girl had fair skin and graceful lines. Her coquettish manner was particularly sweet, even Zhou Xiu, as a woman, couldn't resist it.

She tried to get closer to him and leaned in to kiss Xi Shaoyuan. But he mercilessly pushed her aside.

Zhou Xiu remembered that Xi Shaoyuan had once said that if she saw him at school, she should keep her distance and stay away from him.

Zhou Xiu pretended not to see him and walked away

...

Top of Form

 After school in the afternoon, Zhou Xiu went to the playground to exercise. She ran around in circles while reciting a textbook. After half an hour of running, she had memorized an English text.

【Ding - Reciting an English text earns a reward of 10 RMB.】

Halfway through her run, Zhou Xiu ran into Xu Qing. Xu Qing deliberately slowed down his pace and followed Zhou Xiu's rhythm. His status as a top student prompted him to stop and correct Zhou Xiu's pronunciation of a few words.

"Your /p/ /t/ /k/ /s/ // /t/ /f/ /θ/ sounds are not very standard. Follow me and say them."

Xu Qing's pronunciation was very standard, in the authentic Oxford accent.

Zhou Xiu stumbled over her tongue, but followed him and said the words a few times.

Xu Qing suggested, "Just listen to the recording more. Next time when you go for a run, wear headphones, and listen while you run. It will be very effective."

Zhou Xiu had wanted to buy a cellphone for a long time, but was too poor to afford one. Nevertheless, she nodded and thanked him sincerely, "I will. Thank you."

Xu Qing nodded slightly, picked up his pace, and gradually pulled away from Zhou Xiu.

When Zhou Xiu returned home to the Xi residence, she put the scarf in her backpack and went out to sell it at a cheaper price. She had asked her classmates and found out that receipts from the store's counter could be used to sell the scarf quickly at a reasonable price.

Zhou Xiu went to a second-hand market and received 3,600 yuan for the scarf. She went to a mall and picked out a new phone and headphones for herself.

Zhou Xiu listened eagerly to her new phone's English exercises. After a while, she heard footsteps climbing the stairs.

"Yuan Ge, you must not have eaten dinner, have you?"

The voice of Lu Lingshan could be heard.

The sound quickly approached Zhou Xiu's door, "Are there still people staying in the guest room at your house?"

Zhou Xiu forgot to lock the door. At this moment, she frowned irritably.

Lu Lingshan's family was rich, and Xi Shaoyuan's family was also rich. The two of them were a golden couple, and in Zhou Xiu's dreams, their relationship was blessed by many people. Only the old "Zhou Xiu" chasing after Xi Shaoyuan was like an ugly duckling.

The current Zhou Xiu had already started a new life and didn't want to get involved in the relationship between these two people.

With a "click," the door was twisted open. Lu Lingshan walked into the guest room of the Xi family and found that it was clean, except for a few textbooks lying idle on the desk, there were no signs of anyone living there.

Xi Shaoyuan found that Lu Lingshan had entered Zhou Xiu's room without permission, and his irritable mood reached its peak.

Xi Shaoyuan followed and walked into the room, impatiently grabbed Lu Lingshan's hand and tried to pull her out. "Who told you to come in here?"

But at the moment Xi Shaoyuan entered Zhou Xiu's room, he found that there was nothing in the room. Zhou Xiu's room was clean and maintained the same way as when she first moved in. There was no trace of her belongings, including Zhou Xiu herself, who had already returned home. The room was empty, as if she had never existed.

But Xi Shaoyuan knew that she had already come back because he saw her shoes at the entrance.

Xi Shaoyuan tightly pursed his lips, angrily drove Lu Lingshan out of Zhou Xiu's room.

After a while, Xi Shaoyuan returned to Zhou Xiu's room, gently pushed open the closet, and saw the girl in the closet quietly looking down, playing on her phone with a shimmering light shining on her chin. She was sitting on the messy clothes and sheets that she had just put away.

Xi Shaoyuan's expression suddenly became complicated. He stood in front of the cabinet and asked Zhou Xiu condescendingly, "What does it mean for you to hide from Lu Lingshan like this?"

Xi Shaoyuan stared at the bowed Zhou Xiu. His voice carried deliberate sarcasm and coldness, as if he was an emotionless machine mocking her foolish behavior.

He took off her earphones. The newly purchased phone had clear sound quality, and a fluent female voice in English said: "The price of the shirt is nine pounds and fifteen pence."

The sound was very loud, and the sudden sound shocked both of them.

At that moment, Xi Shaoyuan was stunned. Zhou Xiu, who was immersed in the world of English, finally took off her other earphone and asked in disbelief, "What are you doing?"

Xi Shaoyuan turned his face away and asked coldly, "What does it mean for you to hide from Lu Lingshan?"

After a while, he hugged his shoulders and said, "Let me guess, it's because you like me too much... so when you see Lu Lingshan, you feel guilty?" He paused for a moment and said coldly, "Zhou Xiu, you're making me very uncomfortable."

"My mother is willing to sponsor you, but she hopes you will cherish the opportunity to study..." Zhou Xiu interrupted him and turned off her English listening on the phone.

"I don't have any feelings for you, please don't emphasize it over and over again. If you keep emphasizing it, I'll think you like me." Zhou Xiu laughed at herself and walked out of the closet.

At that moment, Xi Shaoyuan was shocked and stunned in place. He couldn't imagine that the girl who had just reached his chest would say such shameless words. Did he like her?

He turned his head and gritted his teeth, "Who likes you?"

"Zhou Xiu, don't be so presumptuous. It's best if you think that way." Zhou Xiu coldly glanced back and took out her test paper from her bag and started writing.

Xi Shaoyuan looked at her cold and angry eyes, as if he had seen this little girl angry for the first time. He carefully looked at her for a few moments and then walked out of Zhou Xiu's room in a daze.

Downstairs, when Lu Lingshan saw Xi Shaoyuan, she came up to him and blinked her eyes, asking, "Yuan Ge, who were you talking to upstairs just now? You told me there was a girl up there, right?"

Xi Shaoyuan saw her and coldly drove her out of the Xi family. "I don't want to see you again in the future."

Lu Lingshan asked aggrievedly, "What did I do wrong? Yuan Ge, I'm sorry, please don't be angry--"

"Can't you hear me? I told you to get out." Xi Shaoyuan said angrily.

…

The monthly exam is approaching and Zhou Xiu is studying diligently, making every second count in order to win the reward for being the top scorer in her class.

Xi Shaoyuan, having been scolded by Zhou Xiu, has been keeping his distance from her like an invisible man, coming and going early and late without many chances to see her, and Zhou Xiu is not exactly inviting him to join her for meals either.

Xi Shaoyuan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the problem had been solved.

Time passed like flowing water, and the long-awaited December monthly exam finally arrived. To prevent cheating, seats were randomly assigned for this exam.

In the office, the teachers talked about Zhou Xiu, and one of them joked: "I heard Zhou Xiu has a bet with Mr. Huang. If she performs well in this monthly exam, Mr. Huang will let her attend classes again."

"Why would a teacher bother to compete with a student?"

Mr. Huang didn't worry about Zhou Xiu's performance at all. He contemptuously said: "This student is very sharp. How can she do well on the exam? Nowadays, students have their eyes on the top of their heads. As a teacher, I need to teach her some lessons."

Before the exam, Hua Xiu patted Zhou Xiu's shoulder and said, "Good luck. Give it your all on the math exam."

Zhou Xiu nodded.

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