What did Nathalie an by that? Did she deliberately ntion an impossible score to humiliate her?
As soon as Nathalie saw her face turn beet red and the look in her eyes when she glanced at herself, she realized, ah, she had said too much.
She thought for a mont and subtracted ten points from her guess.
"610?"
She actually didn’t an to humiliate Ghania; she was just making a normal guess about the score.
After all, she was the kind of freak who could casually take a test and score around 650; could you expect her to guess a more reasonable score based on her own standards?
Justin Wafford and Jhovany Sullivan knew Nathalie’s personality; they understood she didn’t an to disgust Ghania, but seeing Ghania’s face alternating between red and pale made them unable to suppress a laugh, releasing a breath of schadenfreude.
"Nathalie... make a lower guess," Justin Wafford said, brimming with a smile that poisoned the air.
Nathalie appeared quite surprised and said, "Wasn’t my guess low-key enough?"
"I think it could be even lower key!"
Hahaha, actually, he was about to die of laughter!
Nathalie, sowhat annoyed, pressed the brim of her cap and squinted through her sleepy cat eyes; her thin lips lightly offered another score: "600?"
In her impression, the scores from past Joint Entrance Exams were never bad, as they were taken by top students from schools all over the country. Even if the questions were a bit harder than those on the college entrance exam, the resulting scores generally ranged from 500 to 630.
Judging by this, it was certain that Ghania had won admittance to Tsinghua University.
The students from Class B even held a special dinner to celebrate for her, suggesting Ghania’s score could be higher than average.
She didn’t think it would fall below 600 points.
She didn’t notice the mont she finished speaking, Ghania’s face went completely dark, a shade of iron blue, her eyes brimming with barely suppressed rage.
Even though she was fuming with anger, she still had to maintain her image in front of dozens of classmates; Ghania’s face color slightly sank, her mouth struggling to pull into a semblance of a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, she said softly, "My score wasn’t that good, just 588 points."
When she said 588 points, her voice was slow, her diction clear, loud enough for all present to hear clearly.
Her chin also lifted with pride, completely at odds with the modest tone of her voice.
Wenny Taylor had just been baffled by Nathalie’s score guessing antics, but now she recovered and imdiately explained, "This ti the Tsinghua Joint Entrance Exam questions were particularly difficult, and many people didn’t do well. I used to score around 580 points on the previous test papers, but this ti I got only 500 points, barely making it to the second round. Ghania followed the arts student path, and scoring 588 points is already a high score. Not many people who attended the Joint Entrance Exam scored higher than her. With this score, if she were to take the regular college entrance exam, she’d definitely get over 600 points and be admitted to Tsinghua University."
It was as if she intended to sicken Nathalie with praise, glorifying Ghania as she said, "I really didn’t expect Ghania to score so well, she has improved so much. If she hadn’t transferred schools, she would definitely make it into the top three of our grade in next month’s monthly exam."
The top three of No. 1 Middle School’s grade have always been the seedlings for major universities.
They are aiming for top institutions like Tsinghua and Southern University.
Wenny Taylor had always been in the top three of the grade...
After Nathalie transferred here, during the last exam Nathalie beca the first in the grade, Justin Wafford the second, and under normal circumstances, Wenny Taylor should have been the third. However, Freddy Cagwin had returned, and after a half-year of dropping out, he ca back and scored third place, only 5 points behind second-place Justin Wafford but 20 points ahead of her fourth place. Because of this, Wenny Taylor had always felt uncomfortable.
Especially seeing how Jhovany Sullivan, Justin Wafford, Freddy Cagwin, and others always hung out with Nathalie, the class seed to be united because of Nathalie’s arrival.
Even soone like Clerent Miller, who didn’t like to study, was getting along with them, and she had recently started to take her studies seriously.
In comparison, Wenny Taylor beca increasingly perceived as socially awkward and out of place in the class.
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