It's the students' fault if they are too popular.

"Grades are important," Tong Yao saw a chair beside the runway and walked over to sit down, "but it's not good if you take grades too seriously. Do you think your family will be disappointed if you don't do well in the exam, and I will be more relaxed if I just teach good students?"

She sat and looked at the little girl's face, stretched out her hand, and tapped her forehead. "Ruanruan, it is a very happy thing to make other people's future better. Caring for others will also make you feel warm. I don't think teaching you is a troublesome thing at all."

Ruan Qian was startled by the soft touch on her forehead. She looked at Teacher Tong and suddenly felt flustered and spoke incoherently:

"Teacher Tong...I..."

"I know, you're still nervous about the exam, right?"

Tong Yao tilted her head, motioning the little girl to sit next to her.

"Nervousness is not easy to overcome."

She changed the subject, "But, I have something to say to you -

“There’s pressure because you know you have a chance to succeed.”

There are only two kinds of people who won't be nervous: those who are confident, which is very rare, and those who know nothing.

After all, the ignorant are fearless.

"It's not that you can't do it, you're just too nervous."

She said seriously.

"The teacher believes in you."

Ruan Qian looked at her blankly, and for a moment, some emotion surged in her heart, filling her with courage and confidence.

But she felt ashamed.

Nervousness became her excuse, but she didn't dare tell Teacher Tong how much effort she put into painting.

In the past month, she barely had a good night's sleep, firmly believing that she could do it. After an exam, her belief was shaken, but Teacher Tong's words made her firm again.

She can still hold on.

She wants to be a student that makes Teacher Tong proud.

She sat next to Teacher Tong, and the wind seemed to blow the teacher's long hair, flying between the two of them.

"Hey, why are you crying again?"

Tong Yao took out a piece of paper and tapped the corner of her eye.

Are you crying again?

Ruan Qian blinked, and the dampness on her face left a trace of water.

It seems like I have been a child who cries easily since I was young.

But I always endure it.

After meeting Teacher Tong, I couldn't help myself.

But she had cried enough and would not cry anymore.

"In fact, you have made progress. You have risen by 70 or 80 places in the grade," Tong Yao said with a smile. "You went from failing in math to over 100. That's great. Do you want a reward?"

"That's because the entrance test was too difficult..." the little girl protested coquettishly, but when she thought of the reward, her heart began to stir again.

I feel embarrassed to ask for a reward because I did poorly on the exam.

No...but I can't bear to do that.

——Ruan Qian, can you have some courage? Do you dare to say you will get the baby after you pass the exam? !

She shrank and uttered a word shyly:

"think……"

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I returned to school on Monday night after National Day. I took exams for two days and waited for two days. I coaxed the little girl yesterday and today is already Saturday.

After school in the afternoon, Ruan Qian didn't even write down the homework on the blackboard and ran straight out the door.

"Ruanruan, do you want to have dinner together?" Yin Jiali called.

"No, I'm busy!"

The little girl walked hurriedly.

She ran to the school gate and saw a green lotus among the crowd.

The man was wearing a beige coat and a small hat, smiling at her faintly, wearing gentleness all over his body. Not wanting to make him wait any longer, she ran over and shouted:

"Teacher Tong!"

"Soft."

Tong Yao glanced at the time, clenched her fist, and pointed her thumb behind her: "Get in the car."

Ruan Qian was stunned.

Behind Teacher Tong is a car.

I don’t recognize the brand, but it is wider and larger than other cars, and should be more expensive.

Although he is only two years older than her, Teacher Tong seems to be able to do anything.

"Sit next to me." Tong Yao said as she sat in the driver's seat.

Ruan Qian recalled the experience of riding in Tong Hua's car that day.

as well as……

"Is it a rule for you little girls to only sit in the passenger seat if you have a girlfriend?"

The echo of Tong Hua’s words that day lingered in my ears.

Well...teachers and students...Lily.

Her brain felt like it was burning up.

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The reward that Teacher Tong promised to give her was a movie.

There were a lot of people in the cinema. It was Ruan Qian’s first time in this big shopping mall and she almost got lost.

They were going to watch a newly released movie with a good reputation, and Ruan Qian was standing in front of this poster -

"Hot Girls at the Bottom".

"Let's go, Ruanruan." Tong Yao took two tickets and shouted from a distance.

Ruan Qian responded and ran away quickly.

This is a story about a girl who was at the bottom of the class but worked hard from her sophomore year in high school and was finally admitted to Keio University.

She understood what Teacher Tong wanted to tell her.

There weren't many people in the cinema, and only half of the seats were occupied sparsely.

Tong Yao found a comfortable half-lying position. She had seen this movie in her previous life, so she was not very interested. In this life, it was released earlier and the female lead was played by a different person, who was not as pretty as the previous one, so she felt even more sleepy.

"Sayaka, everyone should have dreams, right? What is your dream?"

“That kind of thing…I don’t have it.”

"You have to have it, right? How about getting into Keio University? This is it!"

"Eh, really?!"

Sayaka Kudo studied hard for two years. She failed and felt discouraged. She thought about giving up and abandoning herself. She even had a stomachache in the examination room and was once in despair.

But she has a good mother and a good teacher.

I have it myself.

An unprecedented sense of resonance appeared in the little girl's heart.

At the end of the movie, Sayaka walked into the gate of Keio University.

Ruan Qian turned her head and saw the person next to her with his eyes closed. She didn't know whether he was awake or asleep.

Teacher Tong...

She swallowed and moved closer.

Perhaps she was thinking of the plot of a comic book, her flushed face was frighteningly hot.

"finished?"

Tong Yao opened her eyes. She had not been asleep, she was just lying there.

Then he saw the little girl very close.

"...Ruanruan?" Her voice was soft and sleepy. "What's wrong?"

The little girl retreated back to her seat like lightning, feeling extremely ashamed:

"I want to wake you up..."

Chapter 38: So-called Luck, So-called Happiness

The flaming honor roll arrives late but surely it will.

A group of students gathered in front of the list, checking their own and others' information.

"No. 714... is too perverted."

"100 of the top 35 students in Class are from that class."

"There's a guy from Class 7 in the top 20, that's awesome."

Amid the noisy voices, Yan Zhi looked up and found herself at number 156 in the third row.

It is an acceptable score.

Ruan Qian sat in her seat. The efficiency of the results announcement was very low this time. She did not ask Teacher Tong about her results. She only knew that she had made some progress. Although she was still a little disappointed, after being comforted by Teacher Tong, she had regrouped and started preparing for the midterm exam.

As for the results this time, she doesn't need to look at it, there will naturally be nosy people who can't wait to tell you.

"Ruan Qian, guess your Chinese score! 130! th in the grade!"

"Ruan Xi, Ruan Xi..."

Sure enough, in less than ten minutes, she knew who was ahead and behind her in the ranking and how many points they were ahead of her.

After the sports meet, Ruan Qian's popularity has indeed improved a lot. The classmates were surprised as if they had dug up a treasure from an ordinary piece of land. Who wouldn't like a pretty, cute, hardworking and diligent girl? Although she had poor grades and was caught in an Internet cafe and criticized in a notice, these dark histories were instantly illuminated by her advantages and disappeared without a trace.

In the Chinese class, Li Hanqiang threw down his textbook and started a class meeting to summarize the learning achievements of this month.

"I want to especially praise Ji Chen," Li Hanqiang tapped the blackboard. "Excellent people work harder than you do. This is the most terrifying thing. Don't complain about this or that. Does it make any difference whether you are in the experimental class or not? Look at Ji Chen. He can also get excellent results through his own efforts!"

Ji Chen was ashamed in the audience. The teasing looks from his classmates made him feel extremely embarrassed.

Being singled out by the teacher for praise is both a proud and painful experience.

"I would also like to commend a few students who have made great progress, Ruan Qian, He Xueyu..."

Ruan Qian lowered her head and concentrated on doing the exercises.

She knew full well that her progress was not that great.

The reason why Laogai praised her was that she felt that she, a poor student, had turned over a new leaf. In the eyes of others, she was still far from being excellent. Perhaps in the eyes of Teacher Tong, she was just an obedient and hardworking child.

By the weekend, she had changed her online name to the name of the movie heroine, Sayaka Kudo, and her ambition was obvious.

She didn't know where she got the courage from, but after the movie ended that day, she said to the man:

"Teacher Tong, if I do well in the midterm exam... will there be a reward?"

Teacher Tong did not ask her what "good test results" meant, nor did she hesitate. She smiled and said to her, "Okay, I'll give you whatever you want."

Can you ask for anything...?

Teacher Tong just thought she was a good child.

But she didn't want to be just a child.