Chapter 45

Blocked at the School Gate

Ruan Mengmeng’s beautiful almond eyes narrowed.

If she had to stand and listen, how would she be able to use her phone?

Half-thinking of the game, she said softly, “Feng Tang has gotten old, this sentence describes how it is difficult to accomplish one’s ambition when old. Li Guang is difficult to seal,he has lots of contributions but does not get awarded with a high rank, destiny is being cruel to a person.”

Ruan Mengmeng’s intonation was not high or low. Her voice was soft and gentle like a stream of water.

When she answered the question, those bright almond eyes of hers welcomed Li Xiuli’s gaze.

Li Xiuli frowned. “What about the allusion behind it, are we not going to discuss that?”

“Teacher, I am not done speaking yet.” Ruan Mengmeng raised her lips. She knew Li Xiuli would not let her go easily.

“The allusion Feng Tang has gotten old is from the Historical Records of Feng Tang Biography. Feng Tang was not utilized during Emperor Han Wen and Emperor Han Jing’s reign. By the time he was recommended by Emperor Han Wu, he was over ninety years old and was too late, “she said without rush.

“As for Li Guang, as a famous general during Emperor Han Wu’s reign, he fought against the Huns plenty of times with outstanding military merits, but he never got the title in the end.”

Such a perfect answer, the students of all 13 classes listened in shock.

“Did you all see that? She didn’t even read the notes when she answered.”

“That’s right. She actually memorized everything, not even missing a single word.”

“Tsk, what was that? It’s nothing but rote memorization,” Lu Wenwen dismissed.

Although she said so, the students still looked at Ruan Mengmeng in adoration.

At least in Class 13, not many of them could even memorize such a significant amount of material word for word.

However, even though Ruan Mengmeng answered perfectly, Li Xiuli did not let her sit down immediately.

Instead, she looked her up and down twice with her inquiring eyes and waved her hand. “Sit down.”

Ruan Mengmeng did not hesitate to sit down. She reached into the drawer with both hands, picked up the phone and then operated it.

Li Xiuli, who was standing on the podium, lost her focus for a moment.

She lowered her head and noticed a test paper wedged in between the lesson plan.

It was an entry assessment test paper on language with the name ‘Ruan Mengmeng’ written.

Seeing that the classical Chinese translation was not written on the top, Li Xiuli frowned even more.

She grew increasingly incapable of understanding the girl named Ruan Mengmeng.

The Preface to Tengwang Tower was obviously a topic that Ruan Mengmeng was familiar with. Why should she leave it empty and not write a word?

*

After a day of class (a day of playing games), lessons for the day had finally concluded.

Ruan Mengmeng packed her schoolbag and followed Mu Jingxing and the others to the school gate.

“Meng Meng, how will you go back? Will your family arrange for someone to pick you up?” Mu Jingxing asked, worried about Ruan Mengmeng.

During the day, Ruan Mengmeng had told already Mu Jingxing that her mother was not dead, moreover even mentioned that she had remarried.

However, she did not mention Li Junyu’s identity, only that her mother married a rich man.

Although Mu Jingxing thought her mother was terrible, that she and Ruan Shishi had been neglected for so many years, now at least Ruan Mengmeng has shelter, which was better than the Ruan family.

“I told them not to pick me up after school. I want to go to your house first.”

“Why do you want to go to my house?” His house was a villa next to the Ruan’s house. It would mean trouble if they coincidentally bumped into the Ruan family.

“Go get my gear.” Ruan Mengmeng gave him a look. “You forgot that my sister confiscated all my gear that one time. I hid it a set at your place.”

Earning by helping people play mobile games was too slow and she needed to pick up some equipment for the bigger, more popular games.

The laptop the housekeeper prepared for her performed well, but she was not used to the keyboard nor the mouse, and the headphones were not good.

“Alright then, you can have dinner at my house, go back then…” Before the sentence was finished, a group of people suddenly blocked them at the gate of the school.

Among the crowd, surrounded like how stars cup themselves around the moon (TN: Chinese idiom describing how people, or a group surround a revered leader), was a man Ruan Mengmeng had been fascinated with for many years, Gu Xuan.

She attached great importance to looks. Gu Xuan had good skin, a tall figure, and a confident handsomeness. He also held a kind of noble coquettishness, but when he laughed and smiled, he gave off the tenderness of a big brother next door.

They grew up together. Before the illegitimate mother and daughter came into the picture, he was the best brother figure to her.

And now… looking at the man she once admired appear in front of them, holding onto a helpless looking Ruan Jiaojiao.

Ruan Mengmeng suddenly realized that the appearance that she had been infatuated with was not much now.

When compared to Li Junyu’s handsome deep-seated features, Gu Xuan had a plain face.