108: 108 Beyond the Syllabus Additional Questions 108: 108 Beyond the Syllabus Additional Questions The person who texted her.

Was not Yourong’s mother at the Xia Family’s house.

It was her birth mother, Xu Qing.

Yourong pinched her phone with her fingers and, after a long while, did not reply to the message.

She felt conflicted.

She placed her phone on the bedside table, covered herself with the “Gold List Title” blanket, turned over, and faced the other direction.

As for Xu Qing, she had met her a few times when she was young.

The rest of the time, Xu Qing had been abroad.

She didn’t know her very well.

However, Qiao Yufen liked Xu Qing a lot.

From this point, her birth mother was probably also a presentable woman who wouldn’t embarrass her.

Actually, if it weren’t for being driven out of the Xia Family now, she definitely wouldn’t have bothered with her birth mother, whom she felt was a stain on her name because Xu He favored Xia Ye since Yourong wasn’t her biological daughter; therefore, she didn’t want to get too close to Xu Qing.

But times had changed.

Xu Qing’s return at this time might just be her turning point…

Thinking this, Yourong felt a stir of excitement within her.

She threw off the blanket, got out of bed, dispelling the previous gloom, and took a set of review materials from the shelf.

They were internal review materials created by a professor from Beijing University, given by her elder brother.

This material was exclusive to but a few top students even at Beijing University Junior High School; no teacher or student at Beijing No.

1 Middle School had them.

Oh, right, Xia Ye also had a set.

But she could be disregarded.

Such a treasure was a waste on her.

In the battle for favor, Xia Ye was certainly her biggest rival.

But in terms of academic performance?

She should just step aside.

Every year, the cutoff score for the college entrance exam was not fixed; if students generally had high scores, the cutoff would rise, and if generally low, it would drop.

Under this system, having a set of exclusive and top-secret review materials in hand was her winning weapon.

No matter where she transferred, she would shine in this year’s college entrance exam!

**

When Xia Ye arrived home, from the outside of the villa, it seemed like the lights in all the rooms were off, silent and still, but once inside, she realized that there was a small lamp still on in the living room, and Xu He was waiting for her.

The spring evening was cool, and Xu He had draped a camel-colored cashmere shawl over her shoulders, something usually only needed in winter.

She couldn’t help it, she had always been frail, a real pill-taker.

She was half-asleep, eyes half-closed, but she woke up immediately when she heard Xia Ye enter the house.

Her smile was tender and poignant, resembling a beauty from the Jiangnan Water Towns under a paper umbrella.

Xu He playfully scolded Xia Ye with a smile, “Where is that no-good elder brother of yours?”

Even her angry words carried a unique charm when she spoke them.

Xia Ye curled her lip slightly, “He’ll be back in a bit.”

Xu He was just making conversation, as long as her Little Tiangao was back, that was enough; sons were just bonus perks.

She stood up, draped her arm around Xia Ye’s shoulders, and escorted her back to her room, “Next time, if your brother still wants to take you out, just call me…

Xu He kept talking all the way, escorting Xia Ye to her door before patting her cheek and heading back to her own room.

Yuzheng was about to turn off the bedside lamp and saw her come in,

Xu He laughed, “Were you waiting for me?

Or for Little Tiangao?”

Yuzheng, always stern, grunted quite seriously, “I just finished.”

Xia Ye, after bathing, with her hair half-dried, didn’t go to bed immediately but took out the peculiar leaves she had picked in the garden that morning and plucked a piece from her own pot of the blue exotic plant, embarking on a late-night invention.

Within a few days, the plant that absorbed the Spiritual Energy had changed again, its stem originally straight, now curved, with sharp thorns protruding, complemented by blue translucent leaves, presenting a truly fantastical appearance.

**

The next day.

After morning self-study, Class 19’s classroom came alive.

Tang Tianjiao gently patted Xia Ye, who was wearing her hat and had taken a nap during the morning self-study: “Desk mate, classes are over, time to wake up.”

Classes are over, time to wake up.

Listen to this, is this human language?

Xia Ye sluggishly rose from her desk, her delicate peach-blossom eyes half-closed, her pale face warm from just waking up.

She grabbed a can of drink, pulled open the ring with her index finger, tipped her head back, and drank it in a few gulps.

With one hand, she easily crushed the can, raised her arm, and in a perfect parabola, the can swiftly landed into the plastic bag that Zou Wu hung beside their desk for trash.

Accurate and swift, so fast that no one even noticed what had just happened.

Zou Wu ‘swooshed’ his head up, quickly shaking it left and right.

What was that sound just now?

The first period was math class, and there were five minutes left before it started.

Zhou Yao came into the classroom holding the math test she took yesterday.

Zhou Yao had taken this test back when she was in Class 1, the one Zhao Yuhuan claimed was so difficult that it was a waste for Class 19 students to attempt.

Now that Zhao Yuhuan no longer taught Class 19, the new teacher had them take it.

Although the results were as Zhao Yuhuan had predicted, aside from Zhou Yao who had nearly scored full marks having taken it once before, there were only three others who passed, while the rest scored around 40.

Upon seeing Zhou Yao distributing the math papers in front of her, Tang Tianjiao remembered that Xia Ye hadn’t finished explaining the math problem from the previous night’s self-study.

Before Xia Ye came to Class 19, studying was irrelevant to Tang Tianjiao.

Even now, it wasn’t that she loved studying much, but sometimes when Xia Ye was in a good mood, he would explain problems to her, not from the booklets but rather a set of revision materials.

Those materials Tang Tianjiao had never seen before.

But as she rarely listened during class, she wasn’t surprised by this unfamiliarity.

As long as Xia Ye explained it to her, she would listen attentively and study earnestly.

Xia Ye uttered an ‘Oh,’ took out the math revision materials, found the incomplete problem from before, picked up a pen, and began explaining as she made notes.

While Yourong’s set of materials was still brand new, hers looked as if it had been through an explosion.

It wasn’t that she studied a lot, rather she just wasn’t very conventional.

Xia Ye’s approach to explaining problems was always different from the solutions in the materials, which Tang Tianjiao found extremely easy to understand.

If she couldn’t grasp other problems, so be it, but how could she not learn the ones even Xia Ye knew?

After finishing the problem, Tang Tianjiao nodded thoughtfully, about to say ‘It’s quite simple’ when Zhou Yao brought the test papers over to them…

Tang Tianjiao scored 31.

Xia Ye scored 32.

Tang Tianjiao looked at Xia Ye admiringly, “As expected of my Xia Ye, scoring even one point higher than me!”

Zhou Yao, who scored 143, twitched her lips, recalling that even the first time she took it in Class 1, she had scored 119…

Glancing down at the two ‘little fools” revision materials, she noticed the problem they were working on…

it seemed somewhat familiar.

A moment later, she suddenly remembered, it was once explained by Zhao Yuhuan, a competition-level high-difficulty bonus question.

Zhou Yao spoke earnestly, “No wonder you two can never score high, you shouldn’t waste time on these impossible-to-understand bonus questions.

I can’t even solve them.

You should spend more time on basic problems to boost your scores quickly.”

Tang Tianjiao was stunned.

What?

Is this problem difficult?

After Xia Ye explained it, she thought it was quite simple?