Chapter 336 - Chapter 336: The Real Thing
Chapter 336: The Real Thing
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Sun Yunyun, it’s up to you this time.” Sun Yunyun’s homeroom teacher entered the classroom with a textbook, addressing her student seated in the middle of the first row. She smiled kindly and said, “Your results aren’t half bad, and you’re still improving. As long as you maintain this standard, you’ll certainly enter university.”
Cheers and congratulations poured from her classmates.
Sun Yunyun stood up, shy and modestly accepting the praise. “Teacher, I will work hard. I won’t let everyone down.” Just the previous night, Sun Yunyun had dreamed of the general contents of the exam.
Although she did not know the specifics, she knew she could answer at least 70% of the questions.
It was a secret she would take to the grave. Only she deserved the limelight of entering university in Clear Water County. The opportunity was hers and hers alone; it was her chance to bring glory to Clear Water County and herself.
“Despite your leave of absence, your grades have not dipped. I’m very pleased with your hard work. Keep it up.” Sun Yunyun’s homeroom teacher beamed at her favorite student, her gaze so warm that it even put her love for her child to shame!
Having been a teacher her whole life, she had come to see the joys of nurturing the next generation.
Sun Yunyun was her pride and joy, the bearer of her hopes and dreams.
“Teacher, don’t worry! Sun Yunyun is capable. We believe in her!” The class monitor and student council members praised Sun Yunyun to the high heavens.
“That’s right! We’ve known Classmate Sun for so long and think highly of her.”
“We were wrong. We shouldn’t have believed the lies of malicious actors, doubting Student Sun’s character.”
“Teacher, we shall all endeavor to be like Student Sun; I’m sure it won’t be long before we receive good news!”
Sun Yunyun was intoxicated by the praise and admiration of her teacher and peers. Some even apologized for believing in those awful slurs about her. This was what she wanted—the love and adoration of everyone around her. As long as she set her sights on something, there was nothing she could not get.
All that had happened in the village was an outlier to the rule. It was Su Wen’s viciousness that had ruined everything!
“Humph!” A discordant note interrupted Sun Yunyun’s happiness. “If she is so capable, why does she always make mistakes in her day-to-day work? She’s always stammering out answers, pretending to be more than she is.”
The noisy class quietened down. Everyone turned to the one who had spoken up in surprise.
It was Di Juan.
Di Juan was the only person in the class who did not see eye to eye with Sun Yunyun. Rumor had it that Di Juan and Sun Yunyun had never gotten along because of some fault the former had had with the latter when they first met. All of their classmates were used to them being at loggerheads.
Hence, it was not a surprise that Di Juan would take this opportunity to put in a negative word or two, if only to be contrary.
Di Juan’s family lived in town and were fairly well-off. Moreover, Di Juan was beautiful, had good grades, and was exceedingly popular with her schoolmates. It had been that way since she was young, or at least, it should have been. Were it not for Sun Yunyun, Di Juan would have reigned unopposed as the undisputed school idol. Sun Yunyun’s appearance had, thus, been a thorn in her side, and she constantly found fault with the former, hoping to ‘unmask’ the lies Sun Yunyun had managed to convince her peers with.
None of her peers took her retort lying down. In their eyes, Sun Yunyun was the kindest, most hardworking person they knew, and they could not stand by as Di Juan sullied her name.
“Di Juan, if Sun Yunyun isn’t as capable as you say she is, why can’t you beat her in our tests? Why did she do better than you in our mock exam?” A male student who had a crush on Sun Yunyun lambasted Di Juan for looking down on her.
“My thoughts exactly! How can you explain this discrepancy?” Sun Yunyun had quite the following, and several male students idolized her. They could not bear to hear the smart, kind, meek Sun Yunyun being despised by their classmate..