After Biting the Female Lead, the Vicious Female Supporting Character Turned Alpha [Transmigration] - Chapter 18: 018
Jiang Xuenian naturally had no objections either.
Xu Jie acted as the invigilator, with Shi Qingfan and Meng Baichun supervising from the side.
Jiang Xuenian and Luo Yue sat on opposite sides.
Shi Qingfan distributed the papers to both. Xu Jie raised her wrist and checked the time: “It’s 6:50 PM now, ending at 7:20 PM. Any problems?”
“No problem,” Jiang Xuenian said.
She had just scanned the question types. This set of questions was clearly designed for average students, with a large quantity of simple questions. Half of the questions were multiple-choice, accounting for half of the total score. The long-answer questions required rote memorization, mainly testing students’ foundational knowledge.
If there were no time limit, it would truly be difficult for Luo Yue and Jiang Xuenian to determine a winner.
Luo Yue looked at Jiang Xuenian with a determined gaze, and Jiang Xuenian returned a smile: “Good luck.”
Luo Yue’s expression subtly changed, and she wondered: *Why is Jiang Xuenian still smiling?*
“Alright, begin,” Xu Jie said directly, not giving Luo Yue more time to think.
Jiang Xuenian picked up her pen and read ten lines at a glance, continuously filling in options in the brackets. In less than five minutes, the front side was completed.
In contrast, Luo Yue usually took her time with questions, fearing traps in the wording. Even with a time limit this time, she still read through every word and sentence. She knew she was slow and felt a bit flustered. Midway through, she found three questions with traps.
Just then, Luo Yue heard Jiang Xuenian turn a page.
She quickly looked up at Jiang Xuenian, not anxious, but rather pleased.
Writing quickly meant unclear understanding of the questions. Those three multiple-choice questions alone were worth nine points.
Luo Yue was convinced her speed was fine and continued to carefully analyze and answer the questions.
By the time Jiang Xuenian finished two long-answer questions, Luo Yue finally turned the page.
Meng Baichun wasn’t familiar with the question types. Seeing Luo Yue’s slow pace, her forehead broke out in a sweat from anxiety.
Shi Qingfan wasn’t worried at all. Jiang Xuenian had been continuously expanding her knowledge over the past few days. Her current knowledge base was at least double what it was during the semi-finals.
At 7:19 PM, Jiang Xuenian put down her pen.
Luo Yue was still writing furiously. The answers had too many words. Even with her fastest writing speed, she still couldn’t catch up to Jiang Xuenian, who answered questions faster than her.
The last two long-answer questions combined were worth fifteen points. When the clock’s hand pointed to 7:20 PM, Luo Yue had just finished the second-to-last question.
Luo Yue wrote too fast, applying too much pressure, and her hand was still slightly trembling after putting down her pen.
Xu Jie collected both their papers. “Meng Baichun, you grade Jiang Xuenian’s. Shi Qingfan, you grade Luo Yue’s.” She handed each a red pen.
Meng Baichun asked, “Director Xu, the answers…”
Xu Jie said, “I have the answers in my head. I’ll read one, and you grade one.”
“AABCC, CDABD, BCBDA, CBDAA.” The total score was 150. Each multiple-choice question was worth three points, totaling sixty points.
Meng Baichun knew how fast Jiang Xuenian completed the multiple-choice questions, but she thought Jiang Xuenian had sacrificed some choices for speed to gain points on the long-answer questions. To her surprise, as she listened to the answers and graded, the more she graded, the more astonished she became.
Jiang Xuenian had gotten everything correct!
*How is that possible?! It only took five minutes…*
Luo Yue was confident in her answers, so she kept an eye on Meng Baichun’s side, guessing how many questions Jiang Xuenian had gotten wrong from her movements.
When the answers reached the middle section, Luo Yue tightly watched Meng Baichun’s hand, hoping she would mark an X on the paper.
However, Meng Baichun’s pen didn’t drop even once until all the multiple-choice answers were read.
Luo Yue was disappointed and couldn’t believe it.
*How is that possible? Jiang Xuenian wrote so fast, how could she not have made a single mistake?*
For the subsequent long-answer questions, each major question had several small points, each worth one to two points. As long as the answer was related to the solution, full marks or half marks could be awarded.
Meng Baichun did mark her pen this time, but it wasn’t an X; it was a checkmark.
The first major question had two parts, each worth eight points.
The first part had two answers, each worth two points. Meng Baichun looked at the answers on the paper, which were ninety-nine percent similar to the answers Xu Jie was reading, and tremblingly made two small checkmarks.
The second part had four answers, each worth one point. This time, Meng Baichun made four small checkmarks.
Next, the second major question, the third… until the very end, Meng Baichun’s hand was numb from making checkmarks.
From initial disbelief to the final “as expected, all correct again,” Meng Baichun underwent a drastic psychological shift.
“Alright, write the scores on the papers and bring them to me,” Xu Jie said.
Shi Qingfan stood up and handed the graded paper to Xu Jie.
Xu Jie glanced at the score. “Luo Yue scored one hundred and twenty-five, not bad. Time was limited, so she didn’t write the last two long-answer questions, which subtracted fifteen points. The previous questions only subtracted ten points. Getting this score in just half an hour for a ninety-minute paper is good.”
Luo Yue’s face showed a slight smile. She was also satisfied with her score. If she had been given more time, she definitely could have checked the previous wrong questions and finished the last two long-answer questions.
As for Jiang Xuenian, Meng Baichun had been writing and drawing all over her paper, so she probably made a lot of mistakes.
Luo Yue grew increasingly confident.
Xu Jie finished praising Luo Yue, and still didn’t see Meng Baichun bring Jiang Xuenian’s paper over. She asked suspiciously, “Meng Baichun?”
Meng Baichun lowered her head, her body motionless. Hearing Xu Jie’s voice, her body trembled violently, as if someone sleeping had suddenly woken up. She dazed, held the paper, stood up, and handed it to Xu Jie.
Xu Jie looked at Meng Baichun strangely, seeing her covered in sweat, and asked, “Meng Baichun, are you feeling unwell?”
Meng Baichun shook her head blankly, her voice hoarse: “Director Xu, I’m fine.”
“If you’re feeling unwell, you must say so…” Xu Jie said, then lowered her head to look at the paper.
In the blank space at the top of the paper, “150” was boldly written.
“Hmm?” Xu Jie thought Meng Baichun was not well and had written the wrong score. She quickly scanned the multiple-choice questions: no problems, all correct.
Then she flipped to the long-answer questions, and the entire page was filled with Meng Baichun’s small checkmarks.
“Are you sure you graded it correctly?” Xu Jie asked Meng Baichun.
Meng Baichun’s mouth was dry. She swallowed, her mood complex. “No problem.”
Luo Yue sensed something was off. Xu Jie and Meng Baichun’s reactions were both too strange.
She subtly gave Meng Baichun a look, but unfortunately, Meng Baichun was distracted and didn’t receive her signal.
“Jiang Xuenian, this paper you did…” Xu Jie said slowly, her brow furrowed.
Luo Yue’s heart rose, feeling like she was about to win, but the next moment, Xu Jie’s words dashed her hopes.
“Absolutely perfect!” Xu Jie’s furrowed brow smoothed out, and she smiled, showing them the paper. “Thirty minutes, full marks!”
Shi Qingfan looked at Jiang Xuenian. Jiang Xuenian smiled happily at her, her dark eyes filled with starlight, the tiny mole on her nose becoming even more prominent against her fair skin, her red lips curved in a smile.
Shi Qingfan felt her heart lightly struck by something, her body slightly numb, and she seemed to hear the sound of bl00d flowing within her body. Her ear tips felt hot.
“Thump!” Luo Yue couldn’t accept reality. Her legs went weak, and she stumbled back two steps, her ankle hitting the iron table leg with a loud clang.
Jiang Xuenian, distracted, turned her head, not noticing Shi Qingfan’s unusual reaction.
“Luo Yue, are you okay?” Meng Baichun quickly went to help her up.
Luo Yue’s features were scrunched in pain. After standing upright, she pushed Meng Baichun’s hand away. “Baichun, did you grade it wrong? How could Jiang Xuenian possibly get full marks?”
Meng Baichun looked down at her pushed-away hand in surprise. Hearing Luo Yue’s words, she frowned and looked up, staring directly at her: “You suspect me of helping Jiang Xuenian? Luo Yue, we’re friends. Why would I help Jiang Xuenian? How could you suspect me?”
Meng Baichun couldn’t believe it. She had actively helped Luo Yue question Jiang Xuenian after hearing Luo Yue’s suspicions. Now that Jiang Xuenian had proven herself with a perfect score, Luo Yue was suspecting her.
Luo Yue snapped out of her daze in Meng Baichun’s unfamiliar gaze. She still needed Meng Baichun as a friend and absolutely could not break ties with her.
“Baichun, I didn’t suspect you. I was just too surprised just now and spoke without thinking. I’m sorry.” Luo Yue actively reached out to grab Meng Baichun’s hand.
Meng Baichun took a step back, dodging her.
She thought she needed to re-evaluate her relationship with Luo Yue. Luo Yue said she spoke without thinking out of surprise, but it was hard to guarantee that her true feelings weren’t exposed in that moment of agitation.
Perhaps the real Luo Yue wasn’t the Luo Yue she thought she knew.