Chapter 100: Chapter 100: That’s the Provincial Top Scorer
"Young Master Lu, you overstate things. If you need something, please just say so. It wouldn’t be a bother at all."
Li Zhe looked at Lu Cheng, his face a mask of alarm. He looked as though he wished he could beg Lu Cheng to give him some task.
Anyone who didn’t know better would have thought Lu Cheng was the director here, and Li Zhe was the one asking for a favor.
"My wife took the college entrance exam this year and achieved an excellent score. However, her score report was stolen from the school and destroyed by someone with malicious intent. They even tried to get a relative working in the Education Bureau to tamper with and replace her scores."
Lu Cheng explained this to Li Zhe with a calm expression. Before he could even state his purpose, Li Zhe was already seething with rage.
"How outrageous! To think something like this could happen! Young Master Lu, rest assured, our Education Bureau will absolutely not tolerate its employees engaging in such behavior! We will investigate this matter thoroughly! As for Mrs. Lu’s exam scores, the bureau keeps all student results on file. I’ll have someone pull them up right away. I guarantee Mrs. Lu will have a new score report in her hands today!"
"Really?"
Shen Nian’s face lit up with surprise. She had been wondering how she could possibly get a new copy of her score report, but she never imagined it would be this easy.
’It really is easier to get things done when you know people in power! No, I should say when you have someone *above* you. For Director Li, Lu Cheng is obviously "the person from above"!’
"Please rest assured, Mrs. Lu. I’ll go make the arrangements right away. Um, could you please tell me your name?"
Seeing Shen Nian’s reaction, Li Zhe assumed she was anxious to get her score report. He decided to take care of it immediately, without waiting for a prompt from Lu Cheng.
However, after taking only two steps, Li Zhe remembered he still didn’t know her name and quickly turned back to ask.
"My name is Shen Nian. I’m one of this year’s exam candidates from L County First Middle School."
Shen Nian had nothing to hide, so she gave her name outright.
She expected Li Zhe to leave immediately to make the arrangements after learning her name. She didn’t expect that upon hearing her words, his eyes would go wide as he stared at her.
"Shen Nian? Shen Nian from L County First Middle School?"
"Yes, that’s me. Is there a problem, Director Li?"
Now, it wasn’t just Shen Nian staring at Li Zhe. Lu Cheng’s gaze also shifted toward him.
"No problem, no problem at all! I was just a bit surprised. Mrs. Lu is this year’s provincial top scorer for H Province!"
"Provincial top scorer?"
This time, it wasn’t just Lu Cheng who was surprised—Shen Nian was utterly astonished as well.
She knew her exam scores were good, but she never knew they were *this* good! ’The provincial top scorer! With scores like these, I can get into any university I want!’
And yet, in her past life, Shen Nian had known nothing about being the provincial top scorer!
No, wait. She remembered now. In her past life, she seemed to recall hearing that the provincial top scorer that year had been extremely low-key, rejecting all honors and interviews from both the county and the province. They had even refused all media coverage.
But back then, her mind had been completely consumed by the divorce, so she hadn’t paid much attention. That little tidbit was all she knew.
Looking back, there was definitely something suspicious about that incident in her previous life.
No wonder! No wonder Qin Xueling had been trying every trick in the book to keep her from leaving the house back then. It was all because she didn’t want her to find this out!
’The provincial top scorer! If she had known in her past life that she’d done so well on the exam, she would have moved heaven and earth to go to university!’
She had thought that in her last life, Qin Xueling had merely stolen her chance to go to university. She never imagined that what Qin Xueling had so carefully plotted to take from her was an honor as great as being the provincial top scorer!
’How hateful! How truly, utterly hateful!’
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