It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 156

Chapter 156: The Plight of an Unprecedentedly Perfect Daughter (1)

Chairman Yoo suddenly changed the mood.

” ……? “

Earlier, it was a serious atmosphere as if he was about to give his granddaughter some life lessons, but now it was the atmosphere of a mischievous country boy full of playfulness.

It was similar to when they went to eat pork ribs at Seolha Galbi last time.

━Remember that friend of yours from your class that we saw at Seolha Galbi, Kyung-joon?

” Yes. “

Of course she remembers.

He’s probably in the top 3 people she’s talked to the most, so there’s no way she wouldn’t remember.

……Come to think of it, the few words they exchanged at the restaurant were enough to put him in the top 3.

Yoo Seol-ha felt a bit bitter, but she thought that they wouldn’t see each other anyway after a while, even if they became close.

” But why are you suddenly bringing him up? “

She asked Chairman Yoo.

━Come to think of it, I forgot to tell you this, Seol-ha…….

What came back was a very shocking news, comparable to the news that the North Korean regime suddenly collapsed one morning a year ago.

” What? Me and him made a bet on who would win? About tomorrow’s exam? “

━To be precise, this old man made a bet with him.

” But why am I the subject of that bet?! “

Yoo Seol-ha had become the subject of the bet without even knowing it.

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The next morning, the first day of midterms.

“Then please be careful on your way, Miss.”

“……Yes.”

Yoo Seol-ha got out of the limousine with a very sullen look on her face and entered the school gate.

It started to get chilly in October, but for some reason, it felt like the temperature around her was even lower.

“Wow, today is even colder……”

“The cooling function of the Seolha Group refrigerator is the best in the world.”

“Hey, hey, if you keep talking like that, you’re going to get hit hard by her bodyguards.”

The students passing by Yoo Seol-ha murmured as they avoided her and looked at her sunken face.

“But why does she look so upset? Did something bad happen to the Seolha Group?”

“I don’t think she looks upset…… she just looks really determined?”

“Determined?”

“Didn’t you hear she was super pissed off because she missed one question on the math section of the last finals? She’s probably trying to get rid of that and get a perfect score this time.”

“Wow…… If that’s true, she’s a real-life super-genius. That’s awesome……”

“I usually look like that when I can’t poop in the morning.”

“You idiot. You’re really going to get dragged away if you keep talking like that.”

Every student passing by on their way to school whispered to each other as they looked at Yoo Seol-ha.

Well, she is the granddaughter of the world’s No. 1 Seolha Group.

Even if they couldn’t talk to her carelessly, they were greatly interested in every single one of her expressions.

“……”

Despite her surroundings, Yoo Seol-ha walked as if she didn’t care, like cold sleet falling in early winter.

This kind of situation was so familiar to her.

Actually.

She had other things on her mind.

If it were like the past, she would have already made up problems in her head for today’s exam, made solutions, and even written down an incorrect answer note……

Now, Yoo Seol-ha was thinking about something completely different.

‘……The bet.’

It was about Kyung-joon.

The bet between her grandfather and Lee Kyung-joon was simple.

Could Lee Kyung-joon beat her in the exam or not?

In other words, they made a bet on who would take her place as the top student in the entire school.

It sounded like……

『If I win against Yoo Seol-ha, please give me your granddaughter…!』

……Fortunately, there were no such old-fashioned stories.

Even if there was, it would have been something insignificant, like her grandfather slightly supporting him.

‘Now that I think about it, nothing specific was decided, like what to give and what to do if I win or lose?’

So it’s no big deal and she can just ignore it……

‘…No, I can’t ignore it. How can I ignore this?’

Yoo Seol-ha also knew her and her grandfather’s position.

The chairman of the Seolha Group made a bet with a male student who was nothing.

If he thought his granddaughter would win unconditionally, he wouldn’t have even made a bet.

That’s the kind of person Yoo Geun-chul is.

Nevertheless, he bet on Kyung-joon.

He said if he was so confident, he should try to beat his granddaughter.

He told him to win and take first place.

If her grandfather, who is like the top of the current world, said such a thing, it means that Lee Kyung-joon definitely has something.

‘What the. Grandpa. Did you really think I could lose?’

Yoo Seol-ha wasn’t really interested in what her grandfather expected from Kyung-joon.

No, rather than not being interested, she was more concerned about other things.

‘He seemed to have hinted at that intention when we were talking about the grilled short ribs last time…… Was he serious, not just joking?’

At that time, Chairman Yoo seemed to secretly want his granddaughter, Yoo Seol-ha, to lose.

Yoo Seol-ha vaguely felt it too.

‘Me, lose?’

She has never lost first place in her life.

From major subjects such as Korean, English, and Math to arts and physical education subjects such as Physical Education, Music, and Art.

Performance assessment, written exams, practical exams, she has taken first place in everything.

She has always been number one, has worked hard to keep that number one spot, and has never thought of herself as anything other than number one.

Yoo Seol-ha was not a person who settled for the present like other ordinary top students.

‘I can’t lose.’

She was number one from the moment she was born.

From her family background to her actual skills, there was no one in her age group who could beat her.

That’s why she fought every day.

With herself, who has always been number one.

In order for tomorrow’s self to be better than yesterday’s self, she constantly studied.

But.

Despite all that.

Her grandfather was acting as if she might lose.

This bet was proof of that.

“……I will never lose.”

A very small voice, like snowflakes falling.

No one heard the voice, and it disappeared somewhere in the chilly October wind.

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“Alright, today’s last exam is math. Everyone take your seats and fill out your OMRs. Oh, and don’t flip the test paper over yet.”

Math, the last exam on the first day of midterms.

It was also the culprit that had prevented Yoo Seol-ha from getting a perfect score on her finals last semester.

‘This time, I’ll definitely get a perfect score.’

She had already gotten a perfect score on her first-period Earth Science exam, which had been a breeze.

She was confident that she would get a perfect score on that one too, even though it hadn’t been graded yet.

And if she got a perfect score on this math exam, her goal of getting a perfect GPA would be that much closer.

‘Yeah. What does Lee Kyung-joon have to do with it?’

If she could just get a perfect GPA, then her grandfather’s arbitrary bet wouldn’t matter at all.

Of course, if he also got a perfect GPA, things would be a little different, but……

‘There’s no rule about ties. It’s impossible in the first place.’

Cheongshin High School was a regular high school, but its exams were notoriously difficult.

Some people even said that they were harder than some private school exams.

This trend had become even more pronounced after Yoo Seol-ha had entered the school.

She wondered if the company had somehow gotten involved, but that was probably not the case. It was more likely that the school was just trying to be more rigorous.

After all, the more difficult the exams were, the more clearly the students could be ranked.

Regardless of how difficult the exams were, Yoo Seol-ha always came in first place. In fact, she preferred it when the exams were especially difficult, because it made her first-place finish look even more impressive when everyone else’s scores were lower.

Just then,

Creak.

The front door of the classroom opened and a male student walked in.

He had silver-rimmed glasses and neat-looking hair.

He looked like the type of student who would be very good at studying, but in reality, he had always been terrible at it. However, he had recently started to improve rapidly, and was now ranked second in the entire school.

Kyung-joon had returned to the classroom just before the math exam began.

“Nice of you to join us, nice of you to join us.”

The teacher scolded Kyung-joon as he walked in, tapping him on the head with a stack of OMRs.

“When are you going to start coming to class on time?”

“I’m sorry. I had a headache, so I went to the infirmary to take some medicine.”

“A headache?”

Kyung-joon’s expression didn’t look very good.

He was holding his hand to his forehead and frowning, as if his head was throbbing.

The teacher asked Kyung-joon, puzzled.

“Why do you have a headache on such an important exam day? Did you stay up late studying last night?”

“No, it’s not like that…… I was just studying a bit……”

Kyung-joon looked like he was having trouble saying something.

He didn’t have any dark circles under his eyes, and his skin looked healthy, so it didn’t seem like he had stayed up all night.

However, the way he kept pressing on his head suggested that he really did have a headache.

The teacher, however, took Kyung-joon’s headache as a sign that he had been studying too hard.

“Oh my…… Goodness gracious, Lee Kyung-joon. I know you’ve been studying hard lately and getting good results, but you need to take breaks. If you keep pushing yourself too hard, you’re going to overheat. And you still have a year left until the college entrance exam. You need to pace yourself. Don’t you know that the college entrance exam is a marathon?”

The teacher continued to nag Kyung-joon in a typical teacherly fashion.

“Anyway, go to your seat and fill out your OMR. Quickly.”

“Yes.”

Kyung-joon returned to his empty seat and quickly began filling out his OMR card.

Yoo Seol-ha watched Kyung-joon and thought that she was lucky. She didn’t think that it would be a problem to beat him.

‘It’s his own fault for not taking care of himself on exam day.’

Yoo Seol-ha was not the type of person who tried to belittle others in order to win. She simply wanted to push herself to the limit and achieve her full potential.

So she just thought to herself that it was a shame.

A few moments later, the bell rang, signaling the start of the exam.

“Turn your test papers over. Begin.”

Rustle, rustle.

The sound of test papers being turned over filled the room as the exam began.

Yoo Seol-ha also received her test paper and immediately began working on the problems.

But something was wrong.

There was no sound.

Despite the fact that it was a math exam, there was no sound of pencils scratching paper.

‘Let set A=…’

By the time Yoo Seol-ha had finished reading the first part of the problem, her hand was already on the answer.

‘……What is the value of a+b? Number 4.’

Click.

By the time she had finished reading the entire problem, she had already filled in the answer.

And so it went on, click, click, click.

‘Whew.’

Before she knew it, Yoo Seol-ha had finished all of the multiple-choice questions.

Was it because the questions were easy?

It was impossible to say.

Up until now, Yoo Seol-ha had never thought of any of the school’s multiple-choice questions as being either difficult or easy.

After all, she could solve any problem that was put in front of her, and she always tried her best to solve them, regardless of the difficulty level.

‘Yup. Everything’s going smoothly.’

Now, all she had to do was finish the essay questions, and she would definitely get a perfect score on this math exam.

‘This will bring me one step closer to my goal of getting a perfect GPA, and the chances of Lee Kyung-joon beating me…… Hmph. I don’t even need to worry about that. Let’s just focus on the questions.’

Since she had already finished the multiple-choice questions, she moved on to the essay questions.

Yoo Seol-ha began reading the first essay question with a confident expression.

But then,

‘……Huh?’

Suddenly, her expression hardened.

And then, ten seconds later,

‘Are you kidding me? They’re making us do this? And on a high school essay exam?’

She couldn’t help but panic.

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