"OMG, Chen Chen, they seem to be here for steak too!"
Mizhu Zhu said, and quickly pulled Liu Chen to turn her head to the side and look into the restaurant. After scanning around, it was probably dinner time on the weekend. Although the price of steak was relatively expensive, only their table and the one behind them were left.
Liu Chen quickly signaled Zhu Zhu to pick up the waiting card and switch to the table behind them. Although the view from that table was not as good as this one, only half of it had a glass window overlooking the pedestrian street below.
Just as they had switched seats, Hu Qian's affected voice came from behind.
"Zhou Ran, I'm really, so upset. How can my sister say that about Dad? Although Dad and Aunt Liu divorced because there was no love between them, he still doted on his sister."
"Qian Qian, don't be upset. You know Liu Chen. She's arrogant. She's short and fat, her grades are poor, yet she's so proud. We boys don't understand what she's so proud of. Only girls as fat as pigs, like Mi Zhu Zhu, hang out with her."
"Alas, Zhou Ran, I'm sorry. It's my fault. I, I thought my sister liked you before, so for her sake, I persuaded you to confess to her. I didn't expect my sister to be such a person..."
Suppressing the furious Mi Zhu Zhu's shoulders, Liu Chen showed Mi Zhu Zhu the screen in her hand, which displayed a recording of 59 seconds. Then she gently shook her head.
"It's okay, Qian Qian. How can people like us understand people like them? Qian Qian, I, I like you..."
Liu Chen, however, frowned and began to ponder. In her previous life, she had dropped out of school early. She only learned about Hu Qian in fragments from Zhu Zhu's mouth. However, one thing was certain: Hu Qian definitely did not date early, or at least, it was not exposed.
"Zhou Ran, I, I still hope to focus on my studies. We are both third-year high school students now. If you really like me, then I hope you can wait for me on a university campus."
Hmm, a good strategy of prioritizing studies. In her previous life, she had been played by Hu Qian, and it wasn't entirely unfair.
"But, Qian Qian, why did you then ask me to date your sister?"
Liu Chen rolled her eyes at this statement. Yes, Hu Qian still thought her grades weren't bad enough and wanted to send someone for a honey trap. Fortunately, she hadn't fallen for it in her previous life.
"My sister's grades... you know, the possibility of her getting into university is indeed small, so I wanted to make her senior year more fulfilling. After all, this might be her last year of student life, isn't it?"
Hearing this, Mi Zhu Zhu couldn't hold back. She stood up and rushed over, slapping Hu Qian across the face.
"What the hell! All day long, your mind is on how to mess with people! Pfft! Last year of student life? My Chen Chen will definitely go to college!"
"Mi Zhu Zhu? What are you doing here?! You were eavesdropping!"
Zhou Ran, seeing Mi Zhu Zhu suddenly rush out and hit someone, was first angry, then embarrassed.
He was, after all, a school bully at No. 12 Middle School. If the fact that his confession to Hu Qian was rejected was spread by Mi Zhu Zhu, he wouldn't want to go to school anymore!
Liu Chen, worried that Zhu Zhu would be at a disadvantage, and unsure if Zhou Ran would hit girls, also stood up, shielding Mi Zhu Zhu. She glanced at the flustered Hu Qian and said to Zhou Ran:
"Eavesdropping? We arrived first. However, Zhou Ran, can't you see that Hu Qian is just using you, trying to distract me and prevent me from getting into university?"
"Besides, Hu Qian, did you forget to tell him that you are my half-sister? Your mother was just a mistress in love for more than ten years."
"You're talking nonsense!" Hu Qian glared at Liu Chen with red eyes, as if she were hearing this for the first time.
"Am I talking nonsense? Alright then, if you're not Dad's daughter, I'll record it and send it to Hu Xingfa, what do you say?"
Hu Qian's hands, hanging at her sides, clenched her clothes tightly, but she remained silent.
At this point, even Zhou Ran understood. He felt a bit uncomfortable, but seeing Hu Qian's pale face and distressed expression, he instinctively explained:
"It's not Qian Qian's fault!"
Liu Chen glanced at Zhou Ran thoughtfully, smiled, and thought that with such intelligence, it was no wonder he didn't care about his own future, always skipping class and fighting, and thinking he was so cool?
"You cannot discuss ice with summer insects, nor the sea with a well frog." Liu Chen said this and left with Zhu Zhu.
Zhou Ran, standing at his spot, finally realized that Liu Chen was, perhaps, quite good-looking. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
With such a commotion, there was no time to eat. The two of them went to Haagen-Dazs for a cold treat before parting ways. Zhu Zhu went back to pester her dad to buy a house, while Liu Chen went to her cram school.
After half a month of cramming, Liu Chen vaguely felt that her knowledge was more solid now, but she wasn't quite sure how much she had improved.
Conveniently, the cram school handed out a paper today, saying it was this year's college entrance examination paper and asking them to take it home and try it.
Others could take it home to do, but Liu Chen couldn't...
She was taking many subjects, and to wake up early the next morning, she went to bed very early at night. Therefore, she could only do the paper during the ten-minute breaks between classes, her lunch break, and the time she spent selling goods in the morning.
Thus, she barely managed to complete what she could on the paper before classes started for each subject.
"Liu Chen?"
"Here!"
"Your grades are very good, and your foundation is solid. Except for some difficult problems, you basically don't lose points. At your level, you could have skipped the first half a month."
Similar conversations were repeated by the teachers in every class. Liu Chen herself added up the scores of the six subjects that had been graded.
Out of a total of 750 points, she scored 450 points.
This score might not seem high, even a bit low, but Liu Chen knew that the undergraduate admission score for Province S this year was only 426 points. This meant that after half a month of tutoring, she had already reached the admission line for a second-tier university.
However, Liu Chen's goal was far from reaching the second-tier university line. In fact, with the recent improvement in her memory, Liu Chen found herself gradually recalling some of the questions from the 2009 college entrance examination.
After dropping out of school in her previous life, perhaps due to her obsession with the college entrance examination, she had seriously taken a college entrance examination paper. However, after completing it, no one could grade it for her.
Now, the test papers she had taken gradually surfaced in her mind.
This time, she would make Liu Fang proud of her.
The only thing that troubled Liu Chen was how to get the system to count her sales income even when she wasn't at the store.
After all, she could still squeeze in half a day during the summer vacation to help at the store, but once school started, Liu Fang, who prioritized academics, would not let her go anymore.
Did she have to give up the biggest secret of her rebirth – the system?
Liu Chen frowned deeply before closing her eyes, but she couldn't think of a solution.