Chapter 513: Chapter 175: 80s Drama Queen Forced to Become a Top Student (10)
Sheng Leyun had sharp ears, and she naturally caught every single word the child said, their volume control still lacking.
’Tsk, tsk. What should I do? I feel like turning the tables on them. Would that be considered bullying children?’
After they ate, Ren Xingchen handed over the backpack bought on yesterday’s shopping trip, already filled with essential stationery like pencils, erasers, and notebooks.
Xiao Xuezhen pedaled his bicycle toward the school with Sheng Leyun riding on the rack behind him.
Along the way, whenever they met someone he knew, Xiao Xuezhen would greet them enthusiastically.
"Chief Editor Xiao, are you taking Leyun to school?"
"Yes, it’s her first day, so I’m taking her to show her the way," Xiao Xuezhen said with a smiling nod. "The school is close, so from now on, she can come home with her older brother and sister."
Sheng Leyun, on the back seat, rolled her eyes as she listened to him burnish his reputation.
Although it was only elementary school, nearly a year of instruction had passed. Under the guidance of their respective teachers, each class had begun to develop its own distinct character. During this period, some parents had even secretly arranged to have their children moved to different classes.
As a result, the gap between the classes gradually widened. Xiao Xuezhen, believing Sheng Leyun had no academic foundation and was just there to get used to school life, directly stuck her into the bottom-ranked class.
According to the little loudmouth, Xiao Hailan, the last class of every grade was filled with "bad kids" who didn’t like to study. Those kids especially loved to bully people; in short, they were a presence that even upperclassmen avoided.
A young female teacher led Sheng Leyun into the classroom. The rowdy room fell quiet for barely a second before everyone went back to their own business, the buzzing drone of their voices enough to give someone a headache.
Sheng Leyun’s lips curled into a slight smile. She could tell with a single glance that these kids weren’t simple. They were either from filthy rich families, had relatives in high positions, or had ties to the criminal underworld.
Neither they nor their parents cared about academics, as long as they were enrolled in a school. Each one was either the youngest in the family or the sole heir, spoiled rotten and used to getting whatever they wanted.
However they dominated at home, they continued to act just as arrogantly at school. Their tempers were already set in stone and not easily changed, so even the teachers didn’t dare to discipline them too strictly.
"Everyone, quiet down. We have a new student in our class..." The teacher spoke from her podium, but the students paid her no mind, not even bothering to look up.
They were arrogant. Anyone who wasn’t of equal status or from their circle wouldn’t gain their acknowledgment or acceptance.
After briefly introducing Sheng Leyun, the teacher pointed to a spot and told her to sit there.
It was, of course, the seat in the very back corner of the classroom, right next to a trash can. The weather was already starting to get warm, and the mix of fruit peels, food wrappers, and cold drink pouches gave off a faint, sour stench.
Everyone watched her, gloating.
Many of them actually preferred having a whole desk to themselves. It wasn’t that there were no other seats, but the only welcome a newcomer could expect was a spot next to the trash can.
And this was definitely the first step in their "welcome" for a new student. School life was boring; they had to find some fun, right? What’s more, they’d heard this new classmate was older than them and had come from some village in the south.
What they found even more unacceptable was that her mother was here to be someone’s stepmom!
Sheng Leyun calmly walked down the aisle. When she reached the middle of the third row, she slammed her backpack down on a desk with a THUD. "Excuse me, mind moving over?"
The entire classroom fell silent. A little boy had been sleeping soundly on that desk, and he had just been violently jolted awake.
Before he even opened his eyes, he viciously kicked the desk. "Who the f—"
Before he could finish, Sheng Leyun tapped him on the head with her book—not too hard, not too soft. Her eyes curved into a smile as she said, "Classmate, no sleeping during class. And as students, we should know better. You’re getting your *Three Character Classic* all wrong."
"What *Three Character Classic*? I never—" The boy, like a little lion in a rage, gritted his teeth and glared at her.
Sheng Leyun chuckled, shaking her head smugly. "’Men at their birth, are naturally good. Their natures are much the same; their habits become widely different...’"
Her enunciation was perfect, and without even pausing for breath, she recited the entire *Three Character Classic* from memory.
The other students, who had never been mentally crushed by an academic prodigy before, were stunned. Someone even gave her a thumbs-up.
Sheng Leyun’s memory was naturally formidable. Her mind contained a system-packed bundle of general knowledge, but since the original owner of her body hadn’t studied, it was like a television with sound but no picture.
"Why are you reciting that at me?" The hot-tempered kid was completely baffled. It was only after she had finished the entire recitation that he remembered to be angry and let out a frustrated growl.