In the office.
Gao Fei entered without any reservations, smiling and nodding slightly.
"Hello, teachers!"
In the teachers' eyes, they no longer saw the usual timidness of this underachieving student.
What they saw was confidence emanating from the bottom of his heart!
Huang Zhicheng, the director of academic affairs, had dealt with Gao Fei quite a bit.
Delivering breakfast to girls, getting into trouble with the school team, leading classmates to skip class...
Gao Fei had done everything a student shouldn't do over the past three years.
Because he had repeatedly violated school rules, the two of them had often held talks in the disciplinary office during their three years together.
Seeing Gao Fei now, full of confidence and a smile,
Huang Zhicheng suddenly felt that this was a completely different person from the Gao Fei of three days ago.
He coughed softly and said euphemistically, "Student Xiao Gao, we actually wanted to ask you about your results on the preliminary examination."
"Actually, I had already anticipated this when I came to the office.
I also guessed that after seeing my results, all of you teachers would suspect that I had cheated..."
Gao Fei was neither humble nor arrogant, and in a few words, he expressed the teachers' suspicions.
He faced all the teachers' scrutiny and continued, "I can guarantee that I, Gao Fei, did not cheat!
I also know that a verbal guarantee is too unconvincing.
But to prove my innocence, I am willing to take another test, and all of you teachers can supervise."
Huang Zhicheng, who had originally intended to suggest a re-examination tactfully, now heard Gao Fei propose it himself.
Well, there was no need for him to be subtle!
Gao Fei's confident words and demeanor made the teachers present quite astonished.
Was this still the Gao Fei they had known for the past three years?
He was like two different people!
Since the matter had been brought into the open, Huang Zhicheng didn't waste any more words.
He glanced at the teachers present, asking them which subject to start with!
But before any teacher could speak, Gao Fei stepped forward again.
He looked at the foreign language teacher, who had been waiting to see him make a fool of himself, and said with a playful smile, "Director Huang, let's start with foreign languages. It's simple and quick!"
"So confident?"
Huang Zhicheng was quite surprised, as most students would find foreign languages daunting.
Gao Fei then gave a meaningful glance at Teacher Wang and said with a smile, "How difficult can a foreign language be? I'll take it first!"
Stared at, Teacher Wang knew that this kid was challenging her!
She went to the head of the foreign language department, whispered a few words, and immediately took a test paper from her desk to present it.
Gao Fei took the test paper and glanced at the types of questions, a cold laugh bubbling up in his heart.
The difficulty of these questions was already higher than the preliminary examination!
He noticed the foreign language teacher, whose smile didn't reach her eyes, her gaze seeming to say, "Just you wait, you brat, let's see how you fail!"
But the foreign language teacher didn't know that Gao Fei possessed a vast amount of condensed knowledge from the simulator.
This level of difficulty was merely a waste of his time!
Since there was no listening comprehension, Gao Fei picked up his pen and buried his head in the questions.
In less than two hours, in fact, in just one hour and ten minutes, he had quickly finished answering the questions.
During this time, the teachers had expected Gao Fei to look at the ceiling when he encountered difficult problems, or to show embarrassment after boasting.
But throughout the entire process, he remained focused on the test, like a ruthless question-answering machine.
After he finished the test, the head of the foreign language department quickly graded it.
However, upon seeing the types of questions, the head frowned and cast a meaningful glance at Teacher Wang.
A few minutes later, the head announced the score.
"Excluding the thirty points for listening comprehension, Student Gao Fei's score is ninety-five points, with twenty-five points deducted!"
In the College Entrance Examination for English, ninety-two points are considered passing.
Gao Fei's score of ninety-five meant he had only just surpassed the passing line by three points.
This was a huge discrepancy from his preliminary examination results!
But before the teachers could voice their suspicions, Gao Fei calmly said, "Teacher, can you show the test paper to everyone?
Using a TOEFL test to examine me is clearly an act of malicious intent!"
As he spoke, several gazes fixed on Teacher Wang, who was holding the test paper.
Even Director Huang frowned and looked at the head of the English department questioningly.
The head, who had intended to conceal the truth, gave an embarrassed smile and nodded, "This test paper is indeed a TOEFL test."
To score ninety-five on a TOEFL test!
This score was astonishing.
For a high school student to attempt a TOEFL test, the difficulty was already higher than the College Entrance Examination for English, requiring professional training.
Huang Zhicheng cast a cold glance at Teacher Wang, who was holding the test paper, his meaning clear.
Seeing Teacher Wang unwilling to accept defeat, gritting her teeth, Gao Fei felt a surge of smug satisfaction.
He even said with a hint of sarcasm, "How can a foreign language be compared to our Dragon Country's culture? If it weren't for the college entrance exam, even a dog would shake its head.
But I'm not targeting anyone with this statement, I'm just telling certain people.
If you haven't even learned your own country's culture well and are always blindly imitating foreign things, and if the moon is so much brighter abroad, why don't you stay there? Why come back to pretend to be a king and make money."
This remark was clearly aimed at Teacher Wang.
Hearing herself compared to a "king" (or "wangba," which also has derogatory connotations), Teacher Wang's face instantly turned extremely ugly.
Seeing that she was about to lose her temper and unleash her "little princess" tantrums,
Director Huang showed no leniency. He directly said to the head of the Chinese language department, "Teacher Xu, find a Chinese language test paper for Gao Fei. The difficulty should be close to the college entrance examination level."
"Alright!"
The head of the Chinese language department immediately found a test paper for Gao Fei.
He still took thirty seconds to scan the paper before picking up his pen to start answering.
Meanwhile, Teacher Wang, feeling neglected and receiving killing glances, slunk out of the office.
She had deliberately made things difficult for the student and had been exposed on the spot. Although it was not explicitly stated, she had lost face and could no longer stay.
Two hours later, Gao Fei put down his pen.
The head of the Chinese language department immediately picked up the test paper to grade it.
A few minutes later, a Chinese language test paper with a score of one hundred and forty-six was presented to the teachers.
Out of a possible one hundred and fifty, Gao Fei had only lost four points on the composition, with all other questions answered perfectly.
At this moment, the teachers were once again shocked by the strength Gao Fei displayed.
As for their earlier suspicion of him cheating?
More than a dozen teachers had been supervising the entire process, and the test papers had been randomly selected on the spot.
To doubt him further would be for the teachers to be prejudiced against him.
Director Huang Zhicheng looked at the test paper filled with red ticks and felt that he had experienced all the shock he would have for the year.
Now, he finally realized that the problem student he had once had the lowest expectations for, the one who was second to last in his grade and constantly violated school rules,
was actually a hidden genius who enjoyed controlling his scores.
If Gao Fei could achieve the same results on the college entrance examination as he had on the preliminary test, he would undoubtedly be the top scorer in the city and even the province.
With a top-scoring student, he, as the director, could potentially be promoted to deputy principal next year.
Putting his thoughts aside, Huang Zhicheng looked at Yang Xu from the mathematics department.
Before he could speak, Group Leader Yang said bluntly, "Gao Fei's mathematics does not need to be retested. His perfect score is well-deserved!"
He then recounted the events of the past two days and mentioned the temporary replacement of the preliminary examination papers.
After hearing the full story, Gao Fei was no longer seen by the teachers as the problem student who had been coasting for the past three years.
Instead, he was seen as a top student, shining with a golden aura and bearing the words 'Top Scorer' above his head.
Feeling the unusual gazes of respect, Gao Fei felt a slight sense of satisfaction.
However, what he was even more looking forward to now was tomorrow, when the results would be announced, and the high-and-mighty top students would see him leap to become the number one in the grade. He wondered what their expressions would be then.