I'm in Senior Year, and the System Says I'm Going on a Blind Date with My Childhood Sweetheart

Chapter 217: Chapter 147: Li Zhi Raised the Stakes

"What is it?"

That slightly serious expression immediately made Tong Churou want to back down.

However, Tong Churou bit her lip, hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to speak. "I... I actually wanted to ask about Shen Yuan."

Li Zhi raised an eyebrow, clearly a little surprised by Tong Churou’s question.

She had originally thought Tong Churou wanted to talk to her about something else; she never expected it would be about Shen Yuan.

But Li Zhi quickly realized what Tong Churou truly wanted to ask.

Li Zhi’s voice held a hint of teasing as she spoke. "You want to ask about Shen Yuan’s current grades?"

"Ah!" Tong Churou looked at Li Zhi in surprise.

Even though Tong Churou hadn’t interacted much with Shen Yuan lately, she wasn’t blind. How could she not have noticed Li Zhi and Shen Yuan looking like a couple everywhere they went?

’She had thought that when she approached Li Zhi to ask about Shen Yuan, Li Zhi’s first reaction would be to see her as a love rival or something.’

’But now, it seemed things were a little different.’

However, this also illustrated one thing.

Li Zhi hadn’t even considered the possibility of a love rival.

After all, Shen Yuan was a pretty good catch.

In a high school environment surging with hormones, plenty of underclassmen girls were bound to develop a crush on Shen Yuan.

Of course, the same could be said for Li Zhi.

But what Tong Churou couldn’t wrap her head around was this: Shen Yuan had pursued *her* before. Now that she was asking about him, did Li Zhi really not feel the slightest bit wary?

With this in mind, Tong Churou continued, "Yeah, he scored higher than me last time. I’m a little bitter about it."

The moment the words left her mouth, Tong Churou’s gaze fell on Li Zhi’s face. She noticed the corners of Li Zhi’s lips curve upward into a subtle, inscrutable smile. It looked like mockery, yet it also seemed to hold a hint of disdain, making it impossible to read.

Li Zhi, seemingly oblivious to Tong Churou’s scrutiny, kept smiling and said in a taunting tone, "Shen Yuan’s goal this time is 650 points. If you’re so confident, maybe you should try a little harder too."

Upon hearing this, Tong Churou froze as if struck by lightning. She stared at Li Zhi in disbelief, her words echoing in her mind.

points?

’How long has it been? How could Shen Yuan already set his sights so high?’

"He..." Tong Churou mumbled, her voice filled with astonishment and confusion.

Li Zhi, as if having anticipated Tong Churou’s reaction, let her smile widen. "He really has been working hard lately," she said softly. "He gets up at 5:10 every morning to start studying."

Tong Churou froze.

It wasn’t hearing the specific time from Li Zhi that shocked her, but the fact that Shen Yuan was truly studying so diligently.

Meanwhile, He Zhiyu was also staring blankly at Li Zhi.

If Tong Churou weren’t still there, the little author would have already grabbed Li Zhi’s arm and started questioning her.

’How do you know what time Shen Yuan gets up?!’

Why would Li Zhi know?

Because, with the exception of today, Shen Yuan had been the one waking her up for the past few days.

How could she possibly not know?

In the end, however, He Zhiyu never got to ask her question.

Because before she could ask, the exam proctor signaled for the students to enter the hall.

With Li Zhi about to walk into the examination hall, there was naturally no way for He Zhiyu to ask.

But bottling up a question like this was absolute torture!

This led to a moment during the exam when a proctor walked over to He Zhiyu and saw that the little author’s scratch paper was filled with a whole bunch of "Why"s.

It startled the proctor, who almost thought the kid was having a mental breakdown.

Meanwhile, in the exam hall for Year 3, Class 7, Shen Yuan was diligently answering the questions.

’Based on his own assessment, Shen Yuan knew there was little room for improvement in his Chinese score. The goal now was just to maintain it.’

’Around 120 points. He wasn’t aiming for more; as long as he could keep it stable at 120, that would be enough.’

’Then, if he could raise his Math score to 110, keep English stable at 140, and pull his Science Composite score up to 270, that would be 640 points!’

’His English score was definitely over 140, so it all came down to how much he could improve in Math.’

That afternoon, after receiving the math test, Shen Yuan scanned the questions and frowned.

This math test was a little harder than he’d expected.

’But it was fine. Just a little difficult, that’s all.’

After a month of Old Zhou’s review sessions and absorbing the system’s reward—an enhancement to his logical thinking—Shen Yuan was now somewhat confident in his math skills.

’Alright, let’s do this!’

’I’ll show Li Zhi. My progress is just that fast!’

’Ehehe, it’s not *really* cheating if it’s just a little bit!’