A Certain Someone ( The On1y One ) Chapter 082 – Weekly Exam

You’re a Little Hard to Catch Up to.

The case of the body in front of Fuzhong’s gates wasn’t a difficult one to solve, and a conclusion soon came out. It was even largely similar to what the old man in the neighbouring bed said.

The one who went to claim the body was indeed that woman’s same-sex lover, the killer was a friend of that woman from before. Reasons included money, included those daily little things, and also a bunch of relationship issues that couldn’t be helped, both simple and complicated. As for the actual nuances, they were the only ones who knew deep down.

Someone placed a bouquet of lilies by the corner of the river in front of the east gate. The passing by students saw it, and talked about it in hushed whispers when they went back in class. And then it was no more.
Happiness and sorrows are not universal in this world — a person’s life and death separation could possibly be reduced down to only a bouquet of flowers in someone else’s eyes.

The day this news made it to the office, the result of the weekly exam came out too.
Song Sirui made a trip to the office to deliver homework, and when he came back, he flopped to Jiang Tian’s table, shock written all over his face but also at a loss for words at the same time.
Gao Tianyang tapped him heavily, twice. “Eh! Are you possessed or what? Hello?”
Song Sirui’s eyes were falling out of his sockets. “I saw the positions list……”
“And?” Gao Tianyang asked.
“The first place isn’t Tian-ge,” Song Sirui said.
“Huh???”

The first place seriously isn’t Tian-ge. This, to the entire level, was a major once in a lifetime incident. The news instantly spreaded all over.

Class B’s last period just so happened to be PE. Sheng Wang came back from the sports ground, wearing his jacket, and raised his hand to receive a basketball another boy tossed over. Just as he was about to enter the classroom, he overheard this line from a passing student, and the ball that was spinning on his finger fell to the ground with a bonk.

There were already people discussing this in class. A few boys sat in a circle on the surrounding chairs, and said, disbelieving, “Who started this? Did they see the positions chart? It doesn’t seem that likely?”
Sheng Wang bent over to pick up the fallen ball, and tossed it onto the rack in the corner of the classroom.

Shi Yu shouted at Sheng Wang across the table, “Sheng-ge! Have you heard, Tian-ge isn’t the first place this time round?”
“I’ve heard,” Sheng Wang went back to his seat, and draped the jacket on the back of the chair. “You think he’s really running on hacks? That he can still be the first without doing so many questions?”

With that, the people then remembered: Sheng Wang’s and Jiang Tian’s exam situation wasn’t normal — they had to send someone to the hospital, and came in late because of that. Just with that bit of time, there was absolutely no way they could finish the paper.

Jiang Tian was famous for how quickly he solved questions, but there were still around 30 marks worth he did not have the time to do. If it was anyone else, they would have collapsed on the spot.

Even with these circumstances, the fact that there were still people who were shocked that he wasn’t the first place could only indicate how exemplary he was on a normal basis.

Sheng Wang drank water as he listened to them ramble on. He appeared composed on the surface, but his mind was in havoc.
He wanted more than anything to snatch the homeroom teacher’s little mic, and tell everyone: Sorry, the hack named Jiang Tian already belongs to me.
But at the same time, he was also a little concerned. He knew that Jiang Tian wouldn’t flunk too ridiculously bad, but he still wanted to know the actual results.

It was the first time the young master had waited so eagerly for the homeroom teacher’s arrival. Thankfully, the teacher did not let him down, and entered the classroom with the position chart in hand bright and early.

The homeroom teacher looked rather pleased, flattening the list on the table. “Our class did relatively well this time, the average score for nearly every subject improved, there were even three students who squeezed into the top 45. The first in our class is ranked #12, and has greatly exceeded my expectations. Also—”

He enthused for quite a while, only when he looked up then he discovered that nobody was actually paying attention. Most people looked like they were way more interested in finding out about the gossip. The boy who sat in the front row couldn’t resist, and softly asked, “Teacher, can you say who’s first?”

The homeroom teacher stopped. He scanned around the classroom, exasperated, and said, “The first in the level is Class A’s Li Jia.”
Sheng Wang softly let out an “ah”, internally saying, little chili has done well this time.

The homeroom teacher then said, “I know you guys aren’t actually interested in who’s first, you’re interested in how Jiang Tian did this time. You think I can’t tell?”
The students below all cleared their throats.
The homeroom teacher let out a cold laugh, his fingers crooked as he knocked on the table. “Here, let’s do it like this. How about you guys guess? Let me set this straight: that student did not touch a single word of 36 marks worth of questions.”

Only a small minority of people heard Sheng Wang’s explanation just now. With what the homeroom teacher said, the entire class realised.
Students were all like this: when they heard of things in relation to results, they liked to imagine themself in the other person’s shoes. The people thought about it on instinct: what if 36 points get erased from their total score……jesus christ, that’s a suffocating thought.

It was still the boy at the front row who couldn’t resist that spoke up again, “could it be he’s still stuck in the top 30 or even 20?”
He was the cream of the crop in Class B, but squeezing into the top 20 in the level was already an arduous enough task for him. Therefore, he subconsciously picked these positions in his guesses.
The homeroom teacher shook his head. “Nah, it wasn’t that.”
Just as the people wanted to let out an “oh”, indicating that even the guy running on hacks was just so-so, they heard the homeroom teacher take a deep breath, and finally continue, “He’s the 9th place.”

Fuck.
There was only this word flashing in everyone’s minds, even Sheng Wang exclaimed that internally. And then the corner of his lips quirked uncontrollably.
Isn’t he a badass?
He’s mine.

This was the worst Jiang Tian had scored ever since he entered Fuzhong. But on a certain level, this was more provoking than his countless #1s, enough to numb.

The buzz of discussion in Class B lasted for quite a while, the homeroom teacher had to knock on the table before peace was restored to the class. “Done gossiping? Done with finding thrills too, right? Can you finally listen to your own grades now?”
A bunch of people drawled in reply. “Yeeees.”

The homeroom teacher said, “Then according to the norm, let me first praise a few students. Cao Ziya improved by 3 places in class, 12 places in the level. This improvement doesn’t sound that big, right? But! After you improved by 12 places, you’re the 43rd place now. What does it mean? It means, if you keep this up at finals, you can move up a class.”

“Lu Wei improved by 12 places in class, 33 places in the level. I like the way this is going, keep it up.”

“Guo Can, you dropped by one place in the class, from the first to the second.” As the homeroom teacher spoke, he looked at the active boy in the front row.
Confusion was written all over the person’s face. “……Didn’t you say that praises come first?”
“I’m not reprimanding you,” the homeroom teacher said, “although your class position dropped, your level position improved. You’re the 18th place. I remember that your mid term exam was quite the pity, you nearly made it into Class A. You improved every exam ever since then. Steadily keep this up, and don’t get too full of yourself, okay?”

The boy said, “I’m not getting too full of myself, teacher. Now, I’m more curious who is the first in class this time, they pushed me off.”
The homeroom teacher pushed up his spectacles. “This time, the first place in our class goes to a student who came down from Class A. Back then, when there was a change in classes, the teachers in the level all found it quite a pity. The truth is gold can’t help but shine after all, what ought to shine will still shine, the ability is already there. Right, Sheng Wang?”

The homeroom teacher looked over with a smile, the entire class all twisted their necks to turn to look.
Sheng Wang stopped, and then said half-jokingly, half-indifferent, “Yep.”
Students: “???”

This group of people had never stayed in Class A before, they had never learned of young master Sheng’s peacock tail opening behaviour and shamelessness. They didn’t manage to react properly on first instinct, only wanting to spit at him.
Only when the teacher moved on to the next topic and was ready to begin the reprimanding, the boy named Guo Can suddenly let out a “what the fuck”, and turned around again.

“What?” The homeroom teacher may have slightly higher tolerance towards students with good grades, but that did not necessarily mean that he would allow him to interrupt with cursing at the same time.
Guo Can said, “Wasn’t he late for the exam too???”
The homeroom teacher nodded. “Correct!”

The people were stunned, and then they realised what exactly was he cursing over — Sheng Wang was in the same situation as Jiang Tian, his exam was severely delayed. If Jiang Tian had 30+ marks worth of questions left blank, then Sheng Wang wasn’t any better.
Under these conditions……first in Class B? 12th in the level? Doesn’t that mean he’s not far from being Jiang Tian already???

The homeroom teacher said, “Sheng Wang basically didn’t make any mistakes for the other subjects, thus rescuing his overall score. He kept a cool head.”
The people internally said, that’s not having a cool head, that’s called being absolutely mental.

After this period, other than Jiang Tian, Sheng Wang’s name was also passed around the level.
The feeling of acting recklessly side-by-side wasn’t bad, actually. The young master was relatively satisfied. It was just that he felt slight regret over the few positions that separated him and Jiang Tian.
He pondered, and sneakily sent a message on WeChat to the person upstairs—

You Say That Again: I’ve finally caught you slipping for once, yet I’m still 3 places behind you
You Say That Again: you’re a little hard to catch up to
Someone: ?
Someone: I’ll help you catch up.

Sheng Wang stared at the chat interface, and suddenly felt it was time to move the suggestive personal nickname behind the scene. The matching couple names were clearly there, what a waste it would be if he doesn’t look at them.
Therefore, he deleted everything in Jiang Tian’s alias, and the chat was refreshed.

You Say That Again: you’re a little hard to catch up to
Ok: I’ll help you catch up

*
It was always like this when it comes to exams: there will always be tears of both happiness and sadness. Class B did well as a whole, but there were still some who flunked. For example, those who got too full of themself after they improved last time, or those who were affected and distracted from being in a relationship.
Therefore, after the results were released, the general atmosphere in the class was more or less a little sullen. Quickly enough though, the mood was improved by the notice of a break.

Even though the case of the female corpse by the river was already clear, Fuzhong still kept to its words. They really did stick all the way to giving them an entire week of break from night self-study. Since the school’s dormitory and that river was merely separated by a single wall, a lot of students signed out, and went home after school for a while.

Qiu Wenbin’s grades improved with flying colours this semester — he learned quite a few tips and tricks from Jiang Tian and Sheng Wang. After weeks and weeks of exams, his exam venue jumped from Class 12 to Class 8, his results went from the last few places to nearly middling. His relations with his family improved because of that too.
His parents were afraid that what happened outside the school would affect Qiu Wenbin’s state of improvement, so they fetch him home in a hurry.

Shi Yu initially did not want to sign out — he wanted to take advantage of the lack of night-self study and spend more time with his little girlfriend. However, He Shi did not think the same.
Firstly, she wasn’t quite brave, she was scared of ghosts of the dark of all sorts of things. Ever since a body was fished out from the river, she did not even dare to go towards the direction of the east gate, nor did she dare to stay in school until night.
Secondly, she messed up for this weekly exam and was in rather low spirits. She was in no mood to be dating.
Shi Yu did not find any fun in being in school by himself, so he decided to go back home for a while. Therefore, a room for four became a room for two, and in the blink of an eye only Sheng Wang and Jiang Tian were left.

Sheng Mingyang initially wanted to get the two of them to go home too, but Sheng Wang came up with an excuse, saying that he wanted to “teach Gege how to play the guitar”, thus convincing Sheng Mingyang and Jiang Ou.
Sheng Mingyang agreed out of the gladness he felt towards witnessing their deep brotherly bond, and did not want to ruin the scene. As for Jiang Ou, she was surprised. Never would she think that Jiang Tian would actually agree to participate in the school cultural festival — she acted like a rare species has been discovered, she dare not to disturb it.

Hence, Sheng Wang found actual time for the two of them to be alone at last, and “mucked around” with his Ge for a week.
Next, the cultural festival arrived not a second late.

TO BE CONTINUED.