CHAPTER 38: CHAPTER 38: HOW ARE YOU EVEN MORE ARROGANT THAN ME?

The boy on the rooftop seems to be in a good mood at the moment.

Possibly because he was talking to a female student around his age, so he wasn’t as agitated.

Meanwhile, the police officers and the boy’s mother downstairs were holding their breath, not daring to interrupt the emotional exchange between the two.

Chu River knew even without using mental tentacles that someone had already sneaked in through the window on the first floor.

But whether they did or not made no difference to her.

After all, the worst outcome was the boy jumping from the rooftop—just catch him, right?

Wasn’t really a big deal.

She was wearing a loose school uniform, arms crossed, looking like a campus big sister, speaking directly like one too—

"So according to you, you didn’t do well in the exams?"

The onlookers: Whoa—

Isn’t this just provocative?!

Sure enough, the boy choked up—

"I didn’t want to, but the exam paper was just too hard..."

Chu River felt quite sympathetic at this moment, nodding in empathy:

"I understand, I understand, after all, people’s brains are only so big; sometimes it’s normal not to learn much..."

Don’t be fooled by her being first now, but in all the big and small exams of the Star Sea Federation, as long as brains were needed, she’d never come close to the top.

—Still not superior in IQ.

Honestly, she really understood the mediocrity of these ordinary people.

...

The police downstairs cursed silently at the damned fire department for taking so long, and their hearts were in their throats—

This girl’s approach was not about comforting with gentle words, her words were getting more and more provocative!

If the boy couldn’t take it and jumped off, she might get in trouble too...

This was giving them a headache.

But they didn’t dare to intervene now either...

Old Chen stood next to the police, afraid of startling the student and didn’t dare to raise his voice. At this moment, both hands were on his chest, breathing heavily, and even without a heart condition, he should be nervous by now.

Chu River caught a glimpse—

Well, having a student like her, Old Chen didn’t have it easy either.

As an old saying from the Mountain and Sea Star goes: This is fate!

...

However, regardless of how nervous the people below were, Chu River’s casual response resonated with the boy on the rooftop.

"Yeah," he sobbed, even letting go of one arm to wipe his tears, making the people below take a sharp breath.

Whether the boy found a kindred spirit in underachievers, he kept rambling:

"Do you know there’s a girl in the rocket class? I heard she sleeps deep during the day, and sleeps deep at night too, never stays up late, but she’s always first in exams..."

"I burn the midnight oil, studying until one or two o’clock without slackening, but just can’t learn!"

"Especially English, what a garbage education system! Why learn English? I’m not going abroad, why should I learn English? I only scored 60 in the mock exam, and I don’t feel good about this time, definitely worse... boo hoo..."

Chu River: ...

She couldn’t reply to the earlier part, because if she admitted it right here... it would be quite stimulative.

But she strongly agreed with the later part, nodding continuously at this moment:

"You’re right, I also think the education system is poor—why learn English?"

She raised her voice:

"Don’t get agitated, scoring low on English this time doesn’t count for much. In 10 or 8 years, maybe Zheng Country’s language will be unified globally, who will still learn the dialect of these small rural countries?"

The boy on the rooftop: ...???

He stood there stunned, suddenly inhaled the snot nearly escaping with his tears, muttering:

"How can you be crazier than me?"

Not sure what crossed his mind, but he suddenly felt invigorated, grabbed the railing, swung a long leg, and flipped back.

The crowd below: ...Oh my gosh.

Finally a sigh of relief!

But before they could catch their breath, the boy leaned over the railing again, looking down.

Seeing Chu River still standing there, he raised his voice:

"Classmate, although I don’t know which class you’re from, seeing your mindset, you must have scored worse than me."

Because it’s well-known, top students never critique the exams, only underachievers come up with all sorts of excuses.

The worse the grades, the more refined the excuses.

And as Western countries are technological giants, their global standing is solid, even if he’s ignorant, he wouldn’t dare to be this outrageous—

or 8 years to globalize Zheng Country’s language?

Their Zheng Country is indeed still a developing country.

The boy found someone worse than himself and felt relieved.

He was quite willing to correct himself:

"I was wrong, I apologize to everyone, and I apologize to my parents, for making you all worried!"

He craned his neck looking at his mother, still sitting on the ground speechless, and earnestly shouted:

"Mom, don’t worry, I won’t do this again!"

"Even worse-scoring people are so confident, so willing to face the future, I will work harder too!"

"If I don’t do well this year, I’ll take it again next year!"

The mother: ...

She looked at Chu River in the center of the empty ground with an awkward and guilty expression, and with the help of two police officers, she struggled to get up.

"Classmate, sorry, my son was just too emotional, so he..."

Before she finished speaking, Old Chen darted forward:

"Little He, Little He, are you okay?"

"You silly kid, how could you stand out? What if they find out you’re the top of the grade, wouldn’t that be more stimulative!!"

Old Chen wasn’t thinking just about that!

But with so many people present, he could only use this reason to remind his student.

Nowadays, doing good deeds isn’t easy.

But in everyone’s ears: ...Oh!!!

The boy’s mom: ...

Her expression stiffened inch by inch. She looked at Old Chen, then at Chu River, and finally at the staircase on the first floor, turning to run there.

And as soon as her son appeared, she hugged his head and pressed it tightly into her arms:

"Son, you scared me, let’s go home—"

The son mumbled, making indistinct sounds—

"Mom, I haven’t talked to that girl—"

But the mother’s hands grew stronger, determined not to let him raise his head to look.

...

Seeing the commotion end, the students on site relaxed their tense bodies, and gradually followed the parents who had watched the excitement home.

Meanwhile, Little Curls Li Yi, due to nervousness these past few days, had a bit of constipation and stayed in the bathroom a while longer.

When he came out, he didn’t find his anxious parents, but instead saw the academic prodigy draping an arm around Old Chen’s neck, looking even more manly than himself—

"Not easy, Old Chen! It’s too hard being my teacher—let’s go, I’ll treat you to a drink!!!"

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