Refusing to Go Home

He had been teaching for decades and had taken care of many students. Su Xue was the most outstanding of all the students he had taught. Yet, here was someone insinuating that Su Xue had poor grades - so poor that her sister had to dumb down her answers to be on par.

That this had been a regular occurrence for the past three years was just the icing on the cake.

Fifth Sister's homeroom teacher felt like a bolt from the blue had struck him, rendering him gobsmacked.

Pin-drop silence descended on the staffroom. It posed quite the contrast to the noisy chirping of cicadas outside. The dozen or so teachers who were busy and the teachers who were preparing to invigilate the examination hall all quietened down.

Many of them were covered in sweat, and their shirts were soaked.

"Then, then...Then, when Fifth Sister asked to take the college entrance examinations... Does that mean she was the one with good results?"