Chapter 7: Exam

Lu Lin put his daughter down, holding her by the waist as he emphasized, “Your mom will come back.”

Bai Xia narrowed her eyes, “Do you like to nap during the day?”

Lu Lin stared at his daughter, not understanding what she meant.

“If not, then why do you always like to daydream?”

Bai Xia couldn’t even be bothered to roll her eyes at him.

She dragged him out of her room and slammed the door shut with a loud “thud.”

The female lead will come back?

Is he planning to force his way again?

What would happen if he went a day without throwing a tantrum?

The female lead isn’t some cold-hearted person.

If he would just admit his mistakes, say that everything before was just nonsense and he was out of his mind, maybe the female lead would actually sit down and have a good talk with him.

But no, he insists on throwing fits and never apologizes, acting like he doesn’t understand human language at all, just lost in his own world.

And he still wants the female lead to come back?

He might as well just stay lost in his own world for the rest of his life.

Who knows, maybe next year he’ll see the female lead and the second male lead’s first child born.

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After a nap, Bai Xia went downstairs for dinner in the evening, only to find that she was the only one left in the whole villa.

Even Lu Ye Nian had disappeared somewhere, and Lu Shuo had been sent off to school.

Apparently, Yao Yun didn’t dare let her son show up for the time being.

Other people just say things in passing, but when the male lead is ruthless, he’ll do anything.

After all, he’s the kind of person who teaches his daughter to cut herself.

Even though she was alone, the kitchen still made a huge table full of dishes.

Bai Xia had no choice but to tell the butler not to prepare so much food in the future.

How much could a little kid like her possibly eat?

Even though the incident at the kindergarten had just happened, the next day Lu Qi Hui still personally sent her to kindergarten, as if afraid his granddaughter would be wronged.

He thought being good to his granddaughter could help him break the ice with the male lead, but in reality, the male lead had already seen right through this old man.

The people of the Lu Jia really were one stranger than the next.

Today, the classroom was unusually quiet.

The teacher specially arranged for her to sit in the best seat in the front row.

“That’s not fair! We all had to take an entrance exam, so why doesn’t she have to?”

The same girl from yesterday continued to protest.

“Yeah, she’s just going to drag down our class’s IQ,” Qi Mo grumbled, giving Bai Xia a reluctant glance.

His mom told him to stay away from Bai Xia and try not to offend her, but why should he have to put up with a little wild brat?

The female teacher frowned, patiently explaining, “Bai Xia is an outstanding student. I believe she’ll catch up with our progress very quickly.”

“She probably can’t even write her own name, totally unfit to be our classmate,” Qi Mo said, tilting his head back.

Sitting in the front row, Bai Xia politely raised her hand: “Teacher, I’d like to apply to take the entrance exam.”

Hearing this, the female teacher looked a bit troubled.

Class A wasn’t just any class; everyone got in through a bilingual exam.

She didn’t know what Bai Xia’s foundation was like.

If she didn’t pass, how could she explain it to the Kindergarten Principal?

Rumor had it that Lu Zong had already bought the entire Zhichai Kindergarten.

She decided to just give this young lady a simple test to go through the motions.

About ten minutes later, the teacher brought over a test paper.

The others all snorted in disdain, not believing that a wild child just brought back could possibly pass the bilingual exam.

She probably didn’t even know what “abcd” was.

When Bai Xia got the test paper, she was filled with question marks.

Then she handed it back to the teacher, “I don’t want to do this one. Please give me the English version, at the fifth-grade entrance level.”

The whole paper was just simple addition like “one plus one equals what.”

She was too embarrassed to even start.

“Her?”

Qi Mo almost burst out laughing.

The others just watched the show silently.

Even though their families had warned them not to mess with Bai Xia, that didn’t stop them from enjoying the spectacle in private.

They’d all received multilingual education since childhood.

Why should Bai Xia get to use the back door?

Wasn’t everyone rich?

Why was she the only one allowed to break the rules?

The teacher hesitated for a moment, but since Bai Xia had made such a request, she could only prepare an English version of the test, this one at the fifth-grade level. Still, she would be the one grading it—so even if Bai Xia failed, she could just say she passed.

The whole class was silent.

Many watched Bai Xia take the test with schadenfreude, waiting to see her embarrass herself.

A wild child brought back like her dared to bully them?

To Bai Xia, these questions were no different from “one plus one.”

She finally understood what it felt like to be a top student: in less than fifteen minutes, she finished answering and handed in her paper.

Seeing how fast she finished, the teacher couldn’t believe it, assuming she must have just scribbled randomly.

But when she saw the answers on the test, her expression gradually changed.

Even though it was a bilingual kindergarten, the kids’ vocabulary was still limited.

There were plenty of complex sentences on this test, but Bai Xia not only answered everything neatly—even the short essay at the end was especially outstanding, almost at a high school level.

Lu Zong’s daughter is actually this smart?!

The teacher finally let out a sigh of relief, looking at Bai Xia with utter disbelief.

Just three and a half years old and already at this level—she was a genius!

The education of the wealthy really did start young.

“Full marks!”

She nodded and clapped.

“Bai Xia is an excellent student. I’ll post this test on the bulletin board for everyone to see.”

They all thought she’d just scribbled, but upon hearing the teacher’s words, Qi Yan was the first to object, “Impossible!”

He didn’t care about discipline at all and suddenly ran up to the podium to grab the test.

But after a round of looking, he could only understand a few questions; the rest he could barely stumble through.

Impossible.

This brat was so fierce, she clearly hadn’t gone to school before.

How could she possibly do questions this hard?

Seeing his strange expression, the girl who’d questioned Bai Xia before also came over.

But after looking at the test, her face changed too, her eyes filled with shock and doubt as she looked at Bai Xia.

Even if the teacher had leaked the questions, memorizing so much vocabulary word for word wasn’t easy.

Not to mention, there was a lot she herself couldn’t do—how could Bai Xia know all of this?

“Who’s dragging down our class’s IQ?”

Bai Xia lazily swept her gaze over the two of them.

Qi Mo wanted to say something, but in the end could only return to his seat with a red face.

Impossible!

How could this little wild brat be so amazing?

“Alright, from now on everyone should be united and friendly. What happened yesterday must never happen again,” the teacher patiently reminded.

“Yes.”

Everyone replied lazily.

This was an art class.

Everyone else had some foundation, and the female teacher worried that Bai Xia had never learned before, so she took the opportunity to come over and teach her.

But when she saw the vivid sketch on Bai Xia’s drawing board, she couldn’t help but be amazed.

Lu Zong’s daughter really is a genius!

Qi Mo was unwilling to admit defeat.

He secretly craned his neck over, only to see a picture of a little boy sitting on the ground, clutching his head and bawling his eyes out.

The more he looked, the more familiar it seemed—wasn’t that him?

Damn it!

He gritted his teeth and started drawing on his own board, but his eyes kept drifting to the girl in front.

Her skin was pale with a rosy glow, her eyes were big, and her smile was sweet.

The more he drew, the more he stopped, staring strangely at the person on his paper.

Damn!

How could he draw this brat so pretty?

He put down his pencil, about to crumple the paper and throw it in the trash.

But after glancing at the girl in front, he gritted his teeth and secretly stuffed it into his desk.

As soon as class ended, everyone flocked to the bulletin board to look at the test the teacher had posted.

They all scratched their heads, unable to understand it, but that didn’t stop them from using their phones to search for answers.

But the truth was, every answer Bai Xia wrote was correct.

She was clearly younger than them, yet could answer such hard questions—she was way too smart!

From then on, everyone looked at Bai Xia with respect and shock!

“She’s amazing! These are fifth-grade questions—I can’t even understand them.”

“What’s so great about it? She grew up abroad, so of course she knows English. I bet her Chinese is terrible, which is why she asked for the English test. If she’s so good, let her do a math test. I don’t believe she could write that!”

Bai Xia realized that the little girl who’d always been hostile to her was named He Yuehua.

Her family was in the food industry and was a leader in their field.

In fact, most of the time, kids don’t have so much inexplicable hostility.

It’s just what their families have instilled in them.

Most likely, their parents told them that she was the Lu Jia’s illegitimate daughter and didn’t deserve to play with them.

Of course, these kids believed it.

That’s why family education is so important—it easily gives kids the wrong values.

Of course, she hadn’t taken the exam just to slap a few kids in the face.
She just didn’t want everyone to grow up thinking that having money means you can break all the rules.

Society is cruel, yes, but that’s between different classes.

Now that they’re all in the same class, they should follow school rules.

“You, come here.”

She waved at the girl.

The girl, wearing a pink princess dress and little braids, looked very proud.

But hearing Bai Xia call her, she still walked over with her head held high.

“What happened yesterday was because you all spoke out of turn.

I was just defending myself. We’re all civilized people—cursing isn’t what good students do.

If you doubt me, you can come up with the questions.

If I can’t answer them, I’ll drop out. But if I can, you have to apologize and call me ‘big sister’ from now on.” Bai Xia’s brows arched slightly.

Hearing this, the little girl froze for a second.

Seeing how confident Bai Xia was, she smirked, “You’re the one who said it. Just wait, I’ll bring the test tomorrow. Don’t regret it!”

Bai Xia nodded, then turned her gaze to Qi Mo, who’d been secretly peeking at her, looking displeased.

“And you—if you sneak a look at me again, I’ll dig out your eyeballs.”

This kid kept sneaking glances at her during class—did he think she hadn’t noticed?

Thinking of this, she glanced at Lin Yan sitting in the corner.

He sat upright reading his book and hadn’t peeked at her again.

Sure enough, dealing with these little brats required being fierce.

To deal with these brats, you needed both ideological education and an iron fist to keep them in line!

“I wasn’t peeking at you. Stop flattering yourself.”

Qi Mo retorted, turning his head away.

“Besides, everyone else is looking at you. Why can’t I?”

Bai Xia frowned and slapped his desk.

“You can’t look. Even looking is a crime. If you have complaints, wait until your teeth have all grown in before talking back.”

Hearing her mock his baby teeth, Qi Mo pouted and snorted, refusing to speak to her again.

Since class hadn’t started yet, he secretly went over to Lin Yan, unable to help worrying, “Why haven’t my teeth grown in yet? Will they never come in?”

Lin Yan glanced at him, his voice childish, “Just eat more calcium tablets.”