Lulu froze when she was looking at the zero-score answer sheet. Nicole had taught her the solutions
for similar math problems. And Nicole’s approach was much clearer and simpler than the standard
answers. She wondered how Nicole got zero marks.
Lulu turned to look at Nicole, who was reading a book. “Is this Maths Olympiad test paper with a zero
score really yours?”
Nicole looked at the computer screen; it had been indeed uploaded to the school forum. “Yeah, it is
mine. Why?”
Lulu was even more surprised when Nicole admitted it. “But you could answer all these questions.
You have even taught me. How was it possible for you to score a zero mark?” “I forgot how to
answer.” In fact, Nicole just did not bother to write all the steps. She had gotten the answers in her
mind after writing only a few steps. So she skipped most steps and stated the answer directly. With
Mr. Louis’s level, he must not have understood Nicole’s train of thought, so he gave a zero mark for
her. Lulu stared at Nicole suspiciously, doubting Nicole’s words. When Lulu got stuck during her
revision earlier, Nicole had taught her how to approach the math problems after casually taking a
glance. ‘Nicole can memorize everything she read. How could she forget about the solutions? When
Lulu was trying to ask for clarification, June suddenly said, “Lulu, just stop already.” Lulu had always
been a little afraid of June, whose tone made her think she had disturbed her. She felt a little
discontent but did not continue to speak.
Nicole glanced at June. She knew June stopped Lulu from asking further because June knew she did
not want to explain.
Interesting Nicole looked thoughtfully at June, whose back was to her. June seemed to have sensed
Nicole’s stare and was on pins and needles. She glanced back at Nicole and then immediately buried
herself in the exercise.
Nicole raised an eyebrow but said nothing. There was a sudden, loud noise outside the door. Lulu
patted her thigh and shouted, “By the way, I forgot to tell you two that some seniors are coming to
spot -check the room today. Let’s clean up the room now!” After saying that, she realized that she
was talking too loud and hurriedly covered her mouth. As soon as her voice trailed off, the door was
rudely pushed open. “Spot check. Everyone, out!”
Lulu was startled. Nicole calmly walked out while June followed her.
As they came outside, a few girls stood there with stern looks on their faces, looking at them
with unfriendly eyes.
The leading figure was a fat girl. When she saw Nicole’s beauty, anger and jealousy almost burst out
of her eyes.
“For coming out too slowly, you all are indolent. I’ll deduct ten points.”
The dorm score in each dormitory was ten percent of the total score at the end of the semester, and
there would be extra points for the excellent dormitory. So each dormitory attached great importance
to the spot check. Other students poked their heads out to rubberneck They gloated and snickered
when they heard that the fat girl in the corridor outside Nicole’s room had started deducting points.
Nicole’s expression turned frosty when points were deducted for no good reason. ‘This fat girl
seemed to single out our room.’
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