“Stop sleeping, get up and study, hurry up.” Alaricka rubbed her eyes and was pulled up by Jaylene. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw a bunch of blank exercises.

Jaylene said, “You’ve been running around with me these days and haven’t had time to study. The monthly exam is next week; you need to get ready soon.”

Alarieka took a deep breath, her voice still a bit hoarse from just waking up: “Got it.”

To Alaricka’s surprise, Kieran didn’t come to school to see her for several days.

Maybe it was because she deleted and blocked him; Kieran couldn’t swallow his pride, so he didn’t come to her.

Alarieka let out a sigh of relief. That was fine too; this way, she could focus on getting ready for the upcoming monthly exam and exam week.

The day they announced the monthly exam results, it was a gloomy, rainy day. It was supposed to be daytime, but it was almost dark outside. The rain was pouring down, hitting the windows with a scattered sound.

Alarieka sat in her seat, quietly working on problems in her workbook.

A boy ran into the classroom from outside, his voice filled with the kind of excitement and thrill everyone knew.

“God, I got my midterm results! You guys would never guess who got first place?”

Jaylene, who was next to Alarieka, looked up curiously. That boy was waving his report card, and his excited eyes fell on…

Everyone looked over.

It was Alarieka!

Noticing the looks from people around, Alarieka slowly and confusedly looked up, just in time to see everyone staring at her with surprised and weird eyes.

Alarieka was embarrassed: “…Looks like there’s something wrong with your eyes.”

The boy holding the report card suddenly shouted, “Alarieka is number one, top of the grade! That was twenty points higher than the top student!”

The classroom suddenly got noisy: “Awesome!”

Jaylene stood up, grabbed the report card, then looked at her with bright eyes: “Alarieka, you really were number one!”

Alarieka couldn’t quite believe it. Her grades before were pretty good, but still way below first place, and she hadn’t even made it into the top ten. She hadn’t expected that this time, she would actually get first place.

Her head felt a little fuzzy, and when she took the report card, there was a knock at the classroom door.

Knock, knock, knock.

Everyone looked over when they heard the sound and saw a student standing at the door, looking a bit pale. The student said coldly, “The dean wants you, Alarieka. Everyone’s waiting for you in the office. Go now.”

Alaricka put away the report card and said calmly, “What is it?”

She recognized that this student had been taking AP courses and was also one of Clarissa’s little followers. She often saw her doing things behind Clarissa.

The student gave a mocking laugh and said, “You know exactly what you did. Everyone’s looking into it. You’d better have a good explanation.”

Alarieka probably already knew what she was talking about.

The classmates around frowned: “What is she saying? Why can’t I understand?”

Jaylene was also confused: “Alarieka, maybe you shouldn’t go.”

Alarieka handed the transcript back, put both hands in her pockets, and shook her head: “It’s fine; I’ll be back soon.”

When Alarieka got to the director of teaching’s office, before she even went in, she already heard someone crying inside, along with a few teachers comforting them.

“Alright, alright, you already did really well on the test; no need to cry; just try harder next time.”

“I already tried really hard; the first place should’ve been mine; why did Alarieka get to cheat and take it?”

“Don’t say that,” someone said hesitantly, “there wasn’t any evidence that Alarieka cheated.”

“What evidence do you want? Look at Alarieka’s grades before; when did she ever get first place? She didn’t even make it into the top ten. This time in the exam, she didn’t even bother to pretend, just beat the second place by more than twenty points. Is this a score she could get?”

That was Clarissa’s voice, sounding all sarcastic. Alarieka almost wanted to laugh.

She stood at the office door and knocked politely.

Alarieka smiled, “So lively; I came at just the right time.”

In the office, the teachers and students all had different looks on their faces; in short, it was just amazing.

Alaricka walked over and met a boy’s angry, tearful eyes. She gasped in surprise.

“Why are you crying? Did something happen that made you sad? Tell me about it so I can have a laugh.”

The dean frowned right away: “Alaricka, what did you say?”

Clarissa immediately said sarcastically, “Alaricka, you still have the nerve to show up?”