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

"..." Something about what he said just doesn't feel right.

Xu Su couldn't detect anything wrong with it, so she could only nod, and the two walked back to the dormitory side by side.

~~~

After accepting Xi Zirong's watch, Xu Su didn't wear it for several days.

Later, when Xi Zirong asked her about it, Xu Su reluctantly put it on her wrist.

She realized that Xi Zirong seemed to have really taken the advice, "Don't be so humble," to heart.

Xi Zirong, who has always been gentle and polite in front of Xu Su, seems to be gradually becoming more assertive.

Many times, Xu Su would deliberately say things to annoy him and try to drive him away, but Xi Zirong would pretend not to hear and continue to talk to her.

Sometimes, Xi Zirong would coincidentally hand Xu Su a can of soda as he walked out of the cafeteria after finishing his meal. Of course, he was also very considerate, so he didn't forget to give Huang Feng and Qian Jia theirs as well.

Sometimes she would proactively highlight key points for Xu Su in the classroom, just like she did when she tutored her last year.

In order to secure the scholarship for this semester, Xu Su could only watch as he scribbled and drew in his textbook.

Then, based on the key points he circled, I developed a review plan.

After this happened several times, rumors began to spread that the two of them had gotten back together.

However, given the previous year's news of their "puppy love," this reconciliation didn't cause much of a stir.

After all, students' main task is to study hard. Apart from chatting about it over tea, no one really spends much energy paying attention to gossip.

Time passed slowly, and as June arrived, the weather grew hotter and hotter. The college entrance examination for the third graders was over, and all the teachers regained their 'freedom'. The teachers of the advanced classes gradually returned to their posts.

No school requires students to wear school uniforms every day, so nowadays you can see some girls who love to dress up wearing dresses on campus.

Even Huang Feng took out her newly bought summer clothes and put them on, but Xu Su always wore her school uniform every day.

The only difference is that the school uniform changed from autumn to summer.

With final exams just over ten days away, the study atmosphere in the class is starting to get tense.

At this point, the rumored changes to the scholarship system, which had been circulating among students for months, were finally officially announced by the school.

Previously, only the top 50 students in each grade could receive scholarships from No. 1 High School, and this time it hasn't changed; only the top 50 students in each grade are eligible for scholarships.

The school leaders at No. 1 High School seem obsessed with the top 50 students in their grade. Perhaps in their view, only those in the top 50 can be considered outstanding students and be eligible for awards.

The number of places remains unchanged, but the amount of each scholarship tier has been significantly increased.

The reward amounts are different for the three grades.

For the first year of high school, the top student in the grade receives a prize of 5,000 yuan, the top three receive 3,000 yuan, the top ten receive 2,500 yuan, the top twenty receive 2,000 yuan, and the top fifty receive 1,000 yuan.

The scholarships for the second and third years of high school are even more generous than those for the first year.

After Mr. Wu announced the change in scholarship details in class, the students in the top-performing class became incredibly motivated to study.

This is more than double the scholarship amount from before!

Some well-informed students even found out that the scholarship award system this time had the opinions of the donors involved.

There are also reports that this "social entrepreneur" who made the donation donated a full five million yuan to No. 1 Middle School in one go.

Five million!

It wasn't just the top-performing class that was excited; every student in the remaining classes of the first year of high school, who had even a slight chance of getting into the top fifty of the grade, wanted to work hard to achieve that goal.

Whether I can have a good summer vacation depends on my final exam results.

Xu Su no longer cared whether Zhou Mochen was the one who donated the money. After learning that her scholarship would be doubled this semester, she began to study with all her might.

Occasionally, when he encounters a question he doesn't understand, he will take the initiative to ask Xi Zirong, and he has even done several sets of test papers that he created himself.

Xu Su felt even more nervous about this exam than about last year's final exam.

Xu Su originally planned to work during the summer vacation to earn a few hundred yuan to supplement her living expenses.

But if she can get the 3,000 yuan scholarship this time, she can go back to the countryside to spend the summer vacation with her grandmother.

Three thousand yuan is enough for her living expenses next semester, and Xu Weiping and his wife won't even have to pay for her tuition; they'll even have some left over.

Perhaps considering that the current students in the elite class would be reassigned to other classes after the second year of high school, Mr. Wu gave a special pre-exam pep talk during evening self-study two days before the final exam.

Teacher Wu said, "This final exam is the last exam for the first year of high school. Next year, some of you will be assigned to other classes, and I don't know if I will still be able to teach you then."

"After a year of teaching and learning, I hope you will give it your best and do well on the exam! Even if you are assigned to another class in the second year of high school, you will still be from our elite class. No matter which class you go to, you will always be the focus of your teachers' attention. Don't let down the elite class."

After a year of being classmates, familiar classmates and teachers, they had to leave their familiar class because of the class division. Originally, they didn't think much of it, but after Teacher Wu said that, many students who chose humanities started to cry.

Huang Feng, for example, chose liberal arts.

She was already regretting it. She clung tightly to Xu Su and started to cry: "Can I apply to come back? I don't want to leave."

Xu Su was both amused and exasperated. She patted Huang Feng's head and comforted her, "Class 1 isn't that far away. If you miss us, just call out anytime. Apart from not being in the same class, we're still in the same dormitory."

In an atmosphere permeated with competition and sadness, the first-year high school final exams arrived as scheduled.

Xu Su was assigned to the same examination room as Xi Zirong this time.

When Xu Su saw the familiar figure on her right, she was stunned for a long time until Xi Zirong smiled brightly at her before she came back to her senses.

Xi Zirong waved the pencil case in her hand and said with a smile, "Do you want me to pass you the answers during the exam?"

The students from other classes who were listening intently nearby gasped in shock. How could the top student in the grade be so terrifying when it came to dating? Could he even talk about cheating so openly?

Xu Su twitched her lips, glared at him, and said, "Focus on your exams. Just pretend you don't know me, and I'll pretend I don't know you either."

They even gave me the answer! Hilarious!

Xu Su was confident in his abilities; he wouldn't say he was 100% guaranteed to be in the top three, but he had at least a 50% chance of making it.

Even if they make a mistake, they should at least be in the top ten.

With these results, there's no need to risk cheating.

Xi Zirong was just saying it for fun, and Xu Su noticed that this person had been enjoying teasing her lately.

After finishing the exam, Xu Su quickly went to the restroom. When she returned, she found Xi Zirong sitting in her exam seat.

He was looking at her draft paper.

Xu Su:...