120 The Forgotten Semester Exam (2/2)

Ning Que sat down to look at Chu Youxian next to him, and asked with a smile, ”Do all people know that I got a cliff jump and have become a little jealous and hateful?”

This was a joke, of course. However, cheerful and easygoing Chu Youxian had no smile on his face this time. He stared at Ning Que's face and seriously asked, ”You really don't know what happened?”

”I don't know.” Ning Que spread both hands and innocently said, ”The Empire began attacking Northern Yan again? Today there is an etiquette class and the Lecturer is a bad-tempered Yan. So it's really worth worrying.

”Will it be a bit improper when joking at this time?”

Chu Youxian watched him and sighed, saying, ”The entire Academy, from instructors to students, were staring at the semester exam the day before yesterday so as to see which one, you or Xie Chengyun, could win that gamble in the end. But nobody could predict that he took a plus in five courses but you didn't take the exam at all. This is why you think people behave weirdly.”

Ning Que was slightly startled and, after this reminder, finally remembered what had happened after Xie Chengyun and other Grade A Dormitory students broke into Classroom Three that morning, and that the semester exam in that gamble had ended the day before yesterday.

What was he doing then? At that time he was leaning on the wall of the second floor of the old library, becoming unconscious as his chest still had an invisible spear stuck in it, and waiting to die in the company of a bowl of water and two cold steamed buns.

”It turns out that the semester exam was the day before yesterday. I really forgot it, but I remember asking a female professor to take leave for me,”

Ning Que explained with a smile.

In his eyes, it was very naive and funny to gamble with Xie Chengyun on the semester exam scores. At that time, however, he had to accept it because of the anger of Situ Yilan and his Classroom Three classmates.

Now as the semester exam and the gamble had missed because of other things, what had already happened could not be changed. Although it was indeed a pity to miss the chance of winning against that high-profiled Xie master, he would not lament, feel deep sorrow, or cry like a high school sophomore who forgot to take his admission card for the entrance examination.

In that morning when the Academy held the quiet and serious semester exam, he killed a man of strong cultivation at a small lakeside house and spent a very enigmatic time on Vermilion Bird Avenue. Having been back and forth between life and death, he met the greatest crisis of his 16 years of life and the greatest fortune. Compared with these things, that gamble meant nothing.

”The problem is that you asked for leave.” Chu Youxian looked blankly at him and said, ”As long as you participated in the exam, even if the final result was bad, far worse than Xie Chengyun's, we wouldn't have any opinion of you. There is no doubt that nobody can always win in exams, and you accepted the gamble just for proving your courage that day... However, no one ever thought that you were too afraid to attend the exam, which made everyone so disappointed in you.”

After listening to these words, Ning Que could not help but be slightly startled. A moment later he said with a smile, ”What the hell? Does it mean I have courage if I struggled to go straight into the exam room regardless of my illness, looking pale and trying hard to hold the brush to take the test, and answered every question vomiting blood, and ended in only answering half of the questions with the snow-white papers all dyed red, and then I died due to blood flowing non-stop?”

The remark was funny, but it revealed his extreme sharpness and anger.

”You were really sick?” Chu Youxian felt his angry tone hiding in the words and said after a shock, ”But now you look so well, who will believe you?”

Then he sighed and said, ”Yesterday the exam results were announced. Linchuan Wangying took an A+ for one course and Xie Chengyun got the remaining five A+. I heard that he studied extremely hard during these months to beat you.

”Now there are rumors in the Academy that you came up with the idea of asking for sick leave because you knew you couldn't beat him but you also didn't want to lose in the exam.”

Ning Que frowned and said, ”It is shameful to retreat without a fight, not to mention to not even participate in it. Although I think this semester exam gamble is boring to the extreme, I wouldn't be afraid, because I have promised it. If it was really like what you said, that I wasn't ill but asked for sick leave to avoid the semester exam, then wouldn't that be a coward's behavior?”

Chu Youxian at this time really believed that he was very ill the day before yesterday. He looked at Ning Que sympathetically and patted his shoulder to comfort him. ”I believe you, but the problem is that others, especially Grade A Dormitory students, don't believe you. In their eyes and even most Academy people, now you... are a coward.”

Ning Que became speechless and could not help but smile and shake his head. He had been kind of angry and unwilling in his heart. But thinking of those wonderful feelings last night, he decided not to think about these things. Since now he was a genius student of cultivation, why should he be angry with these naive kids?

The word ”show” was a very simple noun and required interaction between the two parties when becoming a verb. He did not want to have a show for the classmates who thought of him as a coward, but he could not stop some, who were automatically victorious because of his quitting, from showing off in front of him.

And this was where most conflicts of the youth idol drama came from.