Locking away my heart and love! Going back to 2000 to be a top student again.

Stared at by several pairs of eyes, Xu Su thought for a while but couldn't figure out what type she liked.

"She should be smart, rational, and have a good personality. She shouldn't be ugly. She should be at least 1.8 meters tall, not too fat, and not too thin." Xu Su gave a general description, and then added, "Her academic performance shouldn't be too bad, at least not worse than mine. She should be smart and ambitious."

Upon hearing these requirements, Qian Jia exclaimed softly, "The class monitor perfectly meets your standards!"

Qiu Dandan said, "There are only three boys in our school who have better grades than you, and the other two are not even 1.8 meters tall. The class monitor looks quite tall, but I don't know if he meets your height standard."

Several people looked over with probing eyes.

"Shh!"

Xu Su was startled. She quickly turned around to look behind her. Xi Zirong was a day student. She had come to the classroom after finishing her meal. The two of them were two rows apart.

Fortunately, he didn't seem to hear the discussion and was resting on the table.

"I don't like anyone." Xu Su gently patted Qian Jia: "Don't talk nonsense. I just want to study hard and hopefully get the scholarship this semester. I don't want anything else."

Xu Su asked them, "Do you know how to get scholarships at our school?"

Huang Feng knows all the rules of No. 1 Middle School like the back of her hand. "It is calculated based on the final exam results each semester. I remember that the top three in the whole grade get 1,500 yuan, the top ten get 1,000 yuan, the top twenty get 800 yuan, and the top fifty get 500 yuan."

Everyone gasped in surprise.

"So many!"

"What's so great about it? There are about two thousand students in one grade. The top fifty out of those two thousand students are hard to come by. This scholarship is not easy to get."

"Don't be fooled by the fact that our advanced class has better entrance exam scores than other classes. There is still a lot of student turnover in the advanced class every year, and scholarships are not all received by students in the advanced class."

Huang Feng looked at Xu Su and encouraged her, "But our Su Su is the top scorer in the Kang County high school entrance exam. Getting this scholarship is definitely not a problem. It's just a matter of which level she gets."

Huang Feng knew that Xu Su's family was not well-off, and that they kept their food expenses to within 1.5 yuan per meal, and they didn't even have extra money to buy study materials.

If I could actually get a scholarship, it would solve my immediate problem.

Ever since learning about the generous scholarships at No. 1 High School, Xu Su has become even more enthusiastic about studying.

In the third week of school, all the teachers agreed to hold a diagnostic test.

Without prior notice, each teacher brought the exam papers into the classroom before announcing the start of the exam.

When it was time for the math test, Ms. Wu said, "This is a mock exam before the monthly exam. Just treat it like a regular monthly exam. The questions on the test are all from what you've learned in the last two weeks. Let's see if you've absorbed the material. Do your best on the test."

Upon receiving the exam paper, Xu Su sighed. Teacher Wu said that the questions on the exam were all from the material learned in the past two weeks, but he probably created each question himself. Several of the more difficult questions even required the use of more than three formulas to solve.

It was significantly more difficult than a regular exam.

Fortunately, Xu Su has been truly focused on her studies during this time, especially mathematics. As the math class representative, she has a deep love for it.

On the third day after the exams, the test papers for each subject were handed out one after another. Xu Su did the best in English, and she was one of the three students in the class who got full marks.

She ranked third in math and also third in Chinese thanks to her excellent memory and beautifully written compositions.

The subjects that dragged down my score were politics, physics, and chemistry. My total score dropped from fifth in the class when I entered school to eleventh.

She accepted it calmly. Although she had been cramming during this period, she had forgotten most of the basic knowledge from junior high school. This ranking was the result of her best efforts.

On the evening of the day the results were released, Mr. Wu took turns calling several students to his office for tea.

The student who went in before Xu Su was Zhou Dongdong, who ranked second in the entrance exam and was also the class representative for Chinese. He ranked ninth in the class this time. After returning to the classroom, he passed by Xu Su's seat and asked her to go to Teacher Wu's office.

As the grade head, Ms. Wu has her own private office. When she saw Xu Su come in, she pointed to the empty chair opposite her and said, "Sit down."

Xu Su felt uneasy. Returning to the age of sixteen and becoming a student again, she was still as afraid of her teacher as ever.

“Before you enrolled, I had already looked at your junior high school records. Your grades in all subjects were stable, and you had a very good foundation.”

Teacher Wu got straight to the point, "But in this exam, the mistakes you made were all very common ones. Logically speaking, with your junior high school foundation, you shouldn't have made such mistakes."

After the test papers were handed out, Xu Su also noticed the problem. She lowered her head and remained silent.

She couldn't say she was reborn; she probably only recently started catching up on her junior high school knowledge.

"Is it because you're not adjusting well to the new school?"

Xu Su shook her head: "No, teacher, I really like the learning environment at our school."

Seeing that she didn't want to say more, Teacher Wu didn't force her and encouraged her, "Your teachers have all seen your attitude towards learning. Although your grades have slipped a bit this time, I believe you will catch up soon."

He took out a stack of rolled-up test papers from the drawer, which looked like twenty or thirty sheets. "These are the test papers I got from the junior high school teachers. They cover all subjects. Do them when you have time."

"Go out and call Xi Zirong over here."

Xu Su took the test paper and bowed slightly: "Thank you, teacher."

Back in the classroom, Xu Su placed the test paper on her desk and walked to Xi Zirong's seat. Xi Zirong was looking down at an English book, without a Chinese translation.

"..." Xu Su reached out and tapped on his desk. "Class monitor, Teacher Wu wants you to go to his office."

The classroom was quiet. Xi Zirong looked up and saw it was her. She paused for a moment and said hello.

This was the first time the two had met since the rumors of their relationship surfaced, and they were both poised and confident in front of the whole class.

The National Day holiday is just around the corner, and the first monthly exam is scheduled for after the holiday. Compared to the seniors in grades 11 and 12, the first-year students will still have a National Day holiday.

We had a three-day holiday.

Xu Su had told Chen Shulan and her husband a few days in advance that she planned to go back to Kang County to visit her grandmother during the National Day holiday.

Thinking of her own mother who had taken care of her child for more than ten years, Chen Shulan was unusually generous. After giving her the round-trip fare, she also took out an additional two hundred yuan for Xu Su, telling her to keep it for the old woman to buy something she wanted to eat.

Xu Su and several junior high school classmates took the same bus back to Kang County. After arriving in the county town, they transferred to another bus to go back to their hometown.

The journey took a total of four hours. She set off from Changshi in the morning, and with the transfer time, she didn't arrive at the place where she was reborn until after 1 p.m.

Grandma Xu's house didn't have a telephone line, so Xu Su didn't contact her before coming back. When she arrived home, the door was locked, and her grandmother wasn't home.

She walked familiarly toward her uncle's house next door.