Chapter 17: Be a Qualified Malicious Supporting Character

Chapter 17

On Monday, when the monthly exam results were released, Shi Li suppressed her urge to argue with people.

She held it in, but her mind was constantly cursing.

The classmates who could hear Shi Li's inner thoughts suffered, as she would curse every time she remembered this incident for several days.

Everyone was miserable but didn't understand the reason for her irritation.

They collectively elected a representative to help Shi Li resolve her troubles.

When Shi Qiuyu asked her what was wrong, Shi Li didn't hide anything.

She recounted everything that happened on Saturday.

After listening, Shi Qiuyu felt indignant but found it difficult to empathize with Shi Li's level of anger.

She patted Shi Li's shoulder, "Alright, don't be angry about this anymore. When the competition results come out, I want to see how many points she'll score."

The competition results wouldn't be out for another half month.

When the results were released, the class was in a self-study period.

Teacher Zheng entered the room, "Everyone, please put down your work. I have some good news to announce."

"The results for the Four Holy Grails competition that Shi Li participated in have been released."

"Teacher, you said it's good news, so Shi Li's results must be quite good, right?"

Teacher Zheng nodded with a smile, "Indeed, they're excellent. She got the only perfect score and won the individual gold medal for the Four Holy Grails."

A wave of cheers erupted from below, rising and falling.

Teacher Zheng tapped the blackboard to quiet everyone down, "Your Teacher Wu said that to celebrate this great news, there will be no physics homework today."

This time, the cheers grew even louder, almost loud enough to lift the roof off.

Shi Li, as the physics class representative, was puzzled, [But we don't have physics class today, so there shouldn't be homework anyway]

The cheers were too loud, and Shi Li's inner thoughts were drowned out, unnoticed by anyone.

The jubilant atmosphere in the classroom lasted for less than five minutes before gradually quieting down.

"Alright, everyone continue studying."

As Teacher Zheng was preparing, Shi Qiuyu raised her hand and asked, "Teacher, how did the classmate who competed with Shi Li do?"

Mentioning this, Teacher Zheng's expression was inevitably a bit complicated.

How did they do?

It was certainly far from satisfactory.

As a teacher, Teacher Zheng couldn't evaluate another student in front of the class, especially when the evaluation was negative.

Bringing this up made Teacher Zheng feel as if he'd been kicked in the gut.

Given Shi Li's score, if her partner had performed at a normal level, not too badly, the school could have won another team award this time.

With Shi Li having the highest score, yet their school ranking last in the team competition, one could imagine how poorly her partner must have done.

Then Shi Li turned and sent this good news to Shen Qinglin [Let me tell you something, Liang Rongrong, who snatched your competition spot, scored eight points in the competition]

Shen Qinglin: [......]

Shi Li: [Really, I'm not joking, our teacher just told us]

Shen Qinglin: [How did you do?]

Shi Li: [Crying.jpg Compared to her, I'm just too ordinary]

Shen Qinglin thought she hadn't performed well, so he didn't pursue the matter further.

When asking about homework in Teacher Wu's office, Shen Qinglin casually inquired about Shi Li's competition results.

Only then did he realize that she hadn't done poorly at all; in fact, she had done exceptionally well.

Seeing his proud student's somewhat aggrieved expression, Teacher Wu thought she was envious of Shi Li.

After some inquiry, he learned about the whole situation.

Teacher Wu explained on Shi Li's behalf, "Compared to Liang Rongrong in your class, she is indeed quite ordinary."

Perfect scores weren't unheard of in previous years, but an eight-point score truly was unprecedented.

This year, Qianpu's competition results included an embarrassing incident. According to other school leaders' thinking, they'd prefer to act as if the school hadn't participated in the competition at all.

As long as we don't acknowledge it, we won't be the ones embarrassed.

Following the usual practice of previous years, the school would commend students who won awards in the competition to encourage them to keep up the good work.

"Let's not make a big fuss about giving awards to students this year. We've already embarrassed ourselves enough."

But the principal waved his hand dismissively. "We'll do it. Why shouldn't we? Not only will we do it, but we'll also make it a grand affair."

"This way, we'll prevent the public and parents from thinking our teaching standards are subpar, that we only have students scoring eight points."

"We still have students who won gold and silver awards. This is enough to prove that our teaching quality is not an issue."

"As for the student who scored eight points, it was because she felt unwell during the exam, which affected her performance. Otherwise, this student of ours would have won an award too."

To prove the authenticity of this claim, the school went to great lengths to put on a show.

The school had initially planned to discipline the head teacher of the first-year high school class, but this disciplinary action was kept hidden from the public. In reality, the punishment was practically nonexistent.

During the break between classes, the school held a brief award ceremony.

Shi Li wasn't the only one receiving an award. There were many other students from various subjects who had won prizes in the Four Holy Grails competition, as well as students from other grades.

Everyone had obviously heard about the dazzling eight points and was eager to get more information from Shi Li, their junior who had participated in the physics competition.

Shi Li was a warmhearted person who never refused to answer questions when asked.

As a result, during the award photo session, every student receiving an award was grinning from ear to ear. Those unaware might think they were happy about winning, but in reality, it was the power of gossip at work.

Carrying the trophy back to the classroom with her classmates, they happened to run into Liang Rongrong walking towards the classroom.

"Of all times to run into you."

"I'm supposed to be the vicious supporting character. If I don't do something now, I'm not living up to my role."

The voice of sarcasm, which had been quiet for a long time, suddenly rang out in front of the Class 1 students.