Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman

41-45

“Yes yes…” The girl that sat behind Gu Xiqiao nodded in agreement. “Whenever I ask her about physics questions, she would reply with a single glance and get it right! I couldn’t even solve it in hours, do you know how much it shocked me?!”

“Hey, are you bragging that you can ask her questions whenever you want? I even have to bribe the person that was going to ask her a question first before I could even ask her for help! Burn, you showoff!”

“…” The class monitor waved his hand in the air, seeing the conversation starting to get out of hand. “Cut it out, guys! I’m going to treat everyone to skewers in celebration of our improvement, and of course to congratulate our Beauty Gu for getting first place!”

The average marks of the Parallel Class had increased by a whopping thirty-five marks, and was such an extreme improvement that even Old Ban didn’t believe it at first! Even though they were still weaker than the Rocket Class, but they could already be compared with the Experiment Class.

Ever since the grades came out, the disciplinary had accused the class of cheating, and even the other students in First City high thought so too. The first place in school was in their class after all, so it was probably quite easy to cheat.

The students of the Parallel Class didn’t mind all that much because they could prove themselves on the actual national finals, no?

They weren’t all that confident in themselves, but they had a borderline religious belief in Gu Xiqiao.

When lunch break came around, the Parallel Class had a barbecue party at a stall near the school, and Wu Hongwen shamelessly joined the party even though he wasn’t in the same class as them. “Hey, can anyone give me a grilled fish…Hey, Xiao Yun, can you…Fine, I’ll have grilled veggies instead!”

“You know.” Gu Xiqiao nibbled on her food slowly. “You resemble a puppy without a muzzle.”

“…” Wu Hongwen squinted at this statement of hers before his expression turned into one of awe. “Enough about that, do you know how scary it is that you surpassed that Luo Wenlang? Let me tell you, a professional tested his IQ back when we were in middle school, and they said that it was 155, which was the highest that had ever appeared in Hua Xia! For some reason, no one ever sponsored him…But that’s not the point, the point is that you surpassed his grades, which means that your IQ is definitely at least 155, and even higher!”

“This doesn’t have anything to do with IQ, it’s mostly because you’re dumb…” Gu Xiqiao glanced at him before finishing her food and getting ready to leave. “I have something to attend to, so I’ll be leaving first. Have fun, yeah?”

She and Mu Zong had planned to meet that day, and as she thought of this she reached for her backpack that held the plans that she made for Mu Zong in the virtual space the day before.

Gu Xiqiao was already gifted in finance, and she had a decade’s worth of foresight, so if she were to get involved in the market… It would definitely be much more incredible than getting a measly first place!

The place where they chose to meet was quite far away from the school, so Mu Zong had already been waiting for her when she arrived.

“Where’s Tong Tong?” Gu Xiqiao sat down across him.

“Her immune system is too weak, so she’s still in quarantine.” Mu Zong was barely thirty years old himself and was at the age where he was supposed to show his skills, but he was unfortunately scammed of all his efforts over the last decade. His daughter suddenly became chronically sick, and his wife eloped with his money, and his employees left too, leaving him with nothing than his skills and an empty husk of a company.