Chapter 284: Chapter 277: Can’t Bear It

Therefore, compared to class five, the teachers found themselves favoring class one students more, finding them unpredictable yet flexible, with a promising potential for academic improvement.

However, rather than being merged with class five, class one was combined with class three after the school assessed the overall strength of the classes.

Class three was another elite class in the school, with students scoring average grades. The important thing was that the head teachers of these two classes had a very good relationship and whenever either class held a minor event, they would band together. The students were familiar with each other, the teachers knew each other. As such, the merging of the classes felt as if they were already one.

A humanities class and a science class.

Mr. Jin was leading the humanities class, while the teacher from class three was in charge of the science class.

There was no shortcut for the humanities class, only memorization, and rote learning.

However, for these three years, Tang Yuxin and her classmates hadn’t taken a break. Hence, their mastery of some knowledge was excellent.

Once they reached their senior year, things got even busier.

Regardless, Tang Yuxin returned to Li Tang Village every week to visit her younger brother. After all, how could a child who grew up in a place with such clear mountain air and water not have a good health?

True to siblings, whenever he saw his sister Chengcheng, he would break into a big smile. He would smear her face with his drool, a testament of his affection for her because she loved him too.

And Tang Yuxin, she practically raised Chengcheng like her own son. Chengcheng’s health was excellent; he barely fell ill. But when he did, it was Tang Yuxin, his older sister, who nursed him back to health. Hence, another reason he liked his sister was the care she provided. As long as his sister was near, he felt comforted. And in his little heart, as soon as his sister returned, everything was made better; he could sleep soundly.

However, the curriculum for senior year was increasingly intense. They practically had no time for rest. They had to study at school, and study at home. They couldn’t go to sleep early at night, and couldn’t sleep late in the morning.

Their parents were worried and anxious looking at their children’s situations, but they were helpless.

In the house rented by Lin’s father, the students were divided into two groups, humanities and science, requiring them to study till around ten o’clock.

Tang Yuxin prepared a kind of herbal tea for them. After drinking it, it was helpful for sleep. It was thanks to this tea that many students could sleep soundly, otherwise, many of them would probably stay awake due to extreme pressure, affecting their learning.

Tang Yuxin’s herbal tea was almost seen as a miracle worker. In reality, it wasn’t a miracle cure. Besides helping them sleep, it also provided psychological comfort.

And that was exactly what they needed in those moments.

Entering the classroom, the seat Tang Yuxin occupied was one every student admired. She was intelligent and beautiful, and it seemed as though the luck of those who approached her improved, boosting their academic performance as well.

But, in reality, Tang Yuxin didn’t possess any supernatural abilities; she couldn’t simply blow on someone and improve their grades. The success of others was not because of her, but their own efforts.

After the merge with class three, the union of both classes was a culmination of two groups’ academic efforts. Unsurprisingly, Wei Jiani found a way to switch to class three. From the first day, Tang Yuxin knew, she just didn’t care about Wei Jiani and treated her as if she never existed. She would help her classmates with their questions, and if someone asked for her herbal tea, she would give some to them. Of course, she never sold it, not because she didn’t want to, but because there was too little. If she started selling, they themselves would be left with nothing.

To occasionally give away a few packets, she considered it an act of friendship among classmates.

At first, when Wei Jiani was in the same class as Tang Yuxin, she was determined to have her mom persuade Tang Yuxin to tutor her. Otherwise, how would she pass her college entrance exams? With average academic performance and no outstanding qualities, Wei Jiani could not understand why her sister would not help her and instead help outsiders?

As soon as she got home, she complained to Sang Zhilan that Tang Yuxin wouldn’t even talk to her, let alone tutor her. Apparently, Wei Jiani had forgotten how she used to look down on and ridicule Tang Yuxin in junior high school.

As the saying goes, ‘thirty years on the east bank of the river, thirty years on the west’. Who would have predicted that merely a few years later, her status in high school would be insignificant.

Students prettier than her, better at piano, better at academics, there were plenty.

Meanwhile, Tang Yuxin was consistently in the spotlight, ranked number one throughout her three years. She had transformed from an ugly duckling into a swan, from a plain Jane into Snow White. Yet Wei Jiani remained the same as before, she wasn’t ugly, but she certainly was no match for Tang Yuxin.

Listening to Wei Jiani’s complaints, Sang Zhilan felt both angry and aching.

She had visited the Tang Family twice, but Tang Yuxin was not willing to tutor Wei Jiani. She could even feel Tang Yuxin bearing a grudge against her and Wei Jiani.

She was utterly helpless to make Tang Yuxin tutor Wei Jiani, and she knew very clearly in her heart that Tang Yuxin could tutor anyone but Wei Jiani.

She realized that Tang Yuxin had learned of some secrets, such as her own extramarital affairs. Whenever she thought of it, her face alternated between pale and flushed. It wasn’t just a matter of getting Tang Yuxin to tutor her daughter, she even lacked the courage to face her own daughter.

In their senior year, everyone’s time is precious and not enough. Who would disturb their future for someone who is not related to them? To ask Tang Yuxin to tutor Wei Jiani, first ask if Tang Zhinian would agree.

Although Sang Zhilan was selfish, she was not stupid. She knew very clearly that if she dared ask Tang Yuxin to tutor Wei Jiani at this time, Tang Zhinian would never let her off.

If some secret were to be exposed then, if some face was to be shredded then, she wouldn’t be able to handle it.

Now she deeply regretted not realizing how much of a diligent student Tang Yuxin was. If she had known earlier, no matter what, she would have kept her at home, and then none of this would have happened.

If Tang Yuxin could hear Sang Zhilan’s thoughts, she would probably scoff at them.

Indeed, Sang Zhilan was unchanging. She never considered Tang Yuxin as her daughter. Regardless of how many lifetimes passed, in her heart, Tang Yuxin was nothing more than a tool and someone she could exploit.