I'm a senior in high school, and the Emperor Development System has arrived!

Chapter 56 If you're itchy, rub it with sandpaper, but don't rub it on me!

The intense sunlight, like melting gold leaf, seeped in through the gaps in the classroom curtains.

Li Bin was biting into a lollipop that was still in its original packaging.

Sensing something was off about the atmosphere near the bulletin board, his legs, which had been crossed on his desk, suddenly slipped down.

There are melons to eat.

This isn't like the daily competition on some other site, where you have to do it.

Li Bin squeezed to the outer edge, his height of less than 1.7 meters bouncy as he peered inside, repeatedly asking:

"What happened?"

"???"

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Li Bin puffed up his cheeks like a frog, and in a fit of anger, he had no choice but to unleash his ultimate move.

He suddenly clutched his stomach and hunched over, his voice tinged with a hint of anguish:
"Hey! I can't hold my diarrhea anymore, make way!!"

Before the words were even finished, the crowd parted like a hornet's nest that had been poked.

He took the opportunity to hunch his shoulders into a streamlined shape, like a slippery eel that burrowed in.

He could barely read the words on his report card, but he was nearsighted and didn't usually wear glasses.

He squinted to decipher the ink on the report card, trying to make out the rankings:

"First place... Chen Zhou, 613 points?"

The lollipop fell to the ground with a "clatter." He first grinned, then rubbed his eyes.

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

He pointed at the report card and smiled sideways:
"Who the hell posted this unauthorized notice? Are they deliberately messing with my elbow?"

Even Li Bin, who trusted Chen Zhou so much, never imagined that he could get the top score in the class.

"I put it there."

A cold voice came from the back of my neck, like a block of ice suddenly stuffed into my collar.

Jiang Yutong crossed her arms and looked at the ranking list from afar, her expression complex.

Clearly, she also had many feelings about losing her position as the top student in the class.

"Courageous!"

Li Bin was about to turn around and yell at her when he saw Jiang Yutong squinting at him, so he immediately changed his tone and said:

"So cool... Anyway, it's going to rain, so I'm going home to collect the laundry."

Li Bin dared not argue with the class monitor. He smiled apologetically, but after taking a step, he suddenly remembered something, turned his head to look again, and jumped in fright:

"What!!!???"

"My brother Zhou got first place in the class?"

These words ignited the curiosity of the entire class, like a spark igniting an oil drum.

"Holy crap!! Chen Zhou got first place?"

Holy crap! This is a technological monster!

"Really? Li Bin, are you hallucinating?"

"He copied it! If Chen Zhou can really get first place, I'll just stand upside down and fan myself with a five-speed electric fan!"

"..."

There was limited space on the bulletin board, and since this was just a test at the start of the school term, many people didn't pay attention to it.

Who in their family takes exams seriously when school starts?

Are those who take exams seriously still decent people?
Despicable!!
But you, Chen Zhou, can't stoop so low as to get first place in the class!
How are people supposed to live then?
Although Chen Zhou is suspected of cheating, he is still amazing to be ranked first in the class by cheating.

Thinking this, many people gathered around, eager to see if it was true that Chen Zhou had gotten first place.

But there were too many people, and the people at the back couldn't squeeze in at all. Not everyone is as shameless as Li Bin.

Left with no other choice, they had to squeeze in, which highlighted the contradictions:

"Damn it! Stop pushing! You're squeezing my egg out!"

"Which scoundrel is itching? If you're itchy, rub it with sandpaper, don't rub it all over me!"

"OMG! Push harder! Keep going!"

"..."

Soon, someone couldn't take it anymore and begged for mercy:
"Alright, alright, stop pushing! Chen Zhou got first place! He and Jiang Yutong tied for first place with 613 points!"

Upon hearing this, the classroom was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

"Holy crap!! Tied for first place?!" "How is that possible? Chen Zhou copied my homework last semester, and he got first place this semester?"

"What merit does Chen Zhou possess to be ranked alongside Goddess Jiang as number one?"

"Impossible! I'm going to report this; there's something fishy going on!"

"..."

The classroom erupted into chaos, like boiling water.

Zhou Xinglun consistently ranked near the bottom of the class and never paid any attention to who was higher or lower in the class.

But when he heard that Chen Zhou had come in first place, his eyes lit up like firecrackers:

"Damn it, Hei Zi, speak up!"

He slapped his thigh as he stood up, the stool dragging on the floor with a screeching sound.

"Brother Zhou is awesome!!"

Bai Qianqian, standing beside her, looked on with admiration and kept praising:

"So...so awesome!!"

Sitting by the window, Fei Chai, who outwardly seemed indifferent to his score but had actually been listening intently, looked on with astonishment:
"What? Chen Zhou is number one?"

Fei Chai, who was already a dark horse, felt like the sky had fallen when he saw Chen Zhou, an even bigger dark horse, emerge and rise to prominence.

In his mind, this should have been his script.

"impossible."

Zhou Mo's pen smeared ink on the notebook, and he squinted, biting the pen cap, his eyes filled with surprise and uncertainty.

The thought that Chen Zhou, who had been his rival, had gotten the top score in the class made Zhou Mo feel incredibly sour, like a spilled jar of vinegar.

He squinted again:
"No, we can't let Chen Zhou be so smug. He has no ability to get first place. Needless to say, he bought the answers from somewhere."

Zhou Mo closed his eyes completely and murmured to himself:

We need to think of a way...

Wang Rui, a physical education student, was wiping away sweat with a towel, his biceps stretching the sleeves of his school uniform taut.

But when he heard the exclamations coming from the front of the classroom, he was stunned:

"No, bro, you're usually unremarkable, but you really pulled ahead in your senior year of high school!"

This time, Chen Zhou was elevated to a completely new level in his mind:
They are not to be trifled with, nor dared to be.

It's better to keep a distance from each other in the future.

As Chen Zhou's deskmate, who sat across the aisle from him, He Lili didn't pay much attention to Chen Zhou's grades.

She just looked at the report card and asked with some confusion:
"How come they both got the same score, but Chen Zhou is ranked higher?"

Someone answered her very quickly:

"In the college entrance examination, if students have the same score, they are ranked according to their Chinese score. But in our school's regular exams, they are ranked according to the first letter of their surname."

"So, what's going on? Why is your class so lively?"

Wang Zhinian had just finished using the restroom when she passed by Class 8 and was drawn to the commotion.

She happened to overhear He Lili's question, answered casually, and then squeezed in out of curiosity, asking He Lili:

"Is Jiang still number one in your class? He's incredibly strong, a clear number one!"

Faced with her friend's question, He Lili's expression was complicated:
"It's hard to explain in a short time, you'll have to see for yourself."

Seeing that He Lili refused to speak, Wang Zhinian could only squint at the rankings and then look on in surprise:

"Huh? The first place isn't Boss Jiang?"

She squeezed forward another step and read it word by word:
"The first one is... Chen Zhou, 613?"

"What? Chen Zhou got first place in your class?"

Wang Zhinian's eyelashes trembled instantly, like butterfly wings ruffled by the wind.

He Lili rested her chin on her hand and said:

"It's not that I don't believe Chen Zhou, but he only scored less than 500 on his final exam. Can he really improve by 100 points in one summer vacation? Do you think that's possible?"

After speaking for a while without receiving a reply, He Lili turned her head away.

She looked left and right with a puzzled expression, searching for Wang Zhinian's whereabouts:

"What about people?"

(End of this chapter)