Chapter 431-432

Chapter 431: Effortless, Crushing Strength ... His little wild kitten had never been a kind person, and he didn’t want her to be too kind. If she was too kind, she wouldn’t be able to safeguard her position as the Young Marshal’s wife in the future. The situation on the stage began to heat up, but it was very one-sided. The questions Zhou Chengzhe asked were getting more and more esoteric. Some of his questions were about things that many participating students in the audience had never even heard of. Yun Xi answered his questions without hesitation, and she drew unanimous praise from many judges and teachers. 　 　 Originally, Zhou Chengzhe had had the upper hand in the contest. After all, he’d scored the highest in the game so far and had won a lot of applause and admiration. And now, suddenly, a little girl who hadn’t even been noticed before began to snatch victory from his grasp. Fighting all the way to the end, she’d become the only pillar of the red team that had survived to the end. People were very surprised that the ninth-place performance hadn’t paled in comparison to the first-place performance. Once the questioning and answering between the two sides started, Yun Xi never missed a single question. The difficult questions Zhou Chengzhe asked all seemed easy for Yun Xi. The situation on Zhou Chengzhe’s side was quite the opposite. He gave Yun Xi questions that added points, but Yun Xi gave him questions that deducted points. Her questions weren’t as difficult as the questions Zhou Chengzhe asked, but they were the questions most easy to miss if one didn’t pay close attention. Zhou Chengzhe kept getting points deducted, and Yun Xi kept getting points added. Right from the start, Zhou Chengzhe was being pursued and defeated by Yun Xi. The audience began to whisper, and even the teammates standing behind Zhou Chengzhe started talking. “This is the first time I’ve ever seen the ninth place gaining the upper hand over the first place. How exciting!” 　 　 “Yes! It’s almost as if the ninth place must have been hiding her true strength from the beginning.” “Have you noticed that she asks simple but error-prone questions?” “Our team keeps getting points deducted. We’re on our way to losing.” “What’s going on with Zhou Chengzhe? How can he answer such a simple question wrong?” “The red team is winning. And by asking such simple questions, it’s obvious they aren’t even trying.” They all knew the answers to Yun Xi’s questions, but things kept going wrong for Zhou Chengzhe. Listening to everything that was being said behind him, Zhou Chengzhe’s face became livid with anger. How could he not see that despite the fact that Yun Xi hadn’t used all her strength to compete against him, she still remained invincible, and she was obviously simply humiliating him. Seeing his score deducted to 30 points, Zhou Chengzhe also began to worry. Now Yun Xi was trouncing him with 120 points, four times his score. The time wasn’t up yet, and the blue team was waiting for Zhou Chengzhe to counterattack. Finally, Zhou Chengzhe answered one question correctly, but, after regaining a little confidence, he got the next question wrong again. He answered one question correctly, then the next question wrong, then one question correctly and the next questions wrong again and again. It was as if Yun Xi was playing him. His score was kept below 60 points. 　 　 Their classmates who were watching the contest from the audience could also see that their classmate on the red team didn’t take Zhou Chengzhe seriously at all. Previously, she’d been asking easy questions to trick him, but now she was controlling the rhythm of how the other party answered questions. She was playing him like a monkey. As they realized this, the classmates started to regard Yun Xi with reverence, and then with awe. This female classmate was too frightening. She was not only able to correctly guess the rate of her opponent’s correct answers, but also she could then control the frequency of the right or wrong answers. Even if she had been a roundworm in her opponent’s stomach, it would still have been impossible to understand her opponent that much, and more impossible to estimate whether the opponent would answer the question correctly or incorrectly. But she could, and she even played him for a fool. Li Sinuo also discerned Yun Xi’s true intentions. She had stalled at trouncing him, thus successfully giving him a glimmer of hope before crushing him ruthlessly. This kind of psychological torture of giving him hope then extinguishing his hope mercilessly...when Zhou Chengzhe realized what she had been doing, he would definitely despise her. This woman was too cruel. Upon being shamed in front of everyone, Zhou Chengzhe might not be able to recover this time. ***** Chapter 432: Truly Deserving of a Good Spanking ... Half an hour passed, and the judges pressed the bell to end this entertaining question-and-answer round. Unwillingly to give up, Zhou Chengzhe turned to look at his score on the big screen. When he saw that the time was over, he slammed his fist on the podium in front of him with regret. Thinking of how he’d kept answering questions wrong as if he had been bewitched, Zhou Chengzhe didn’t know what had gone wrong. “Jury, this wasn’t fair. She asked very tricky questions.” Zhou Chengzhe’s resentful voice could be heard on the microphone, and the noisy venue immediately fell quiet. 　 　 Jing High School’s teachers and Zhou Chengzhe’s homeroom teacher were also taken aback by what Zhou Chengzhe had said. What did he plan to do? He’d already lost, but now did he want to dishonor Jing High School as well? Class 1’s homeroom teacher quickly walked over and shouted at Zhou Chengzhe from the audience, “Zhou Chengzhe, what are you doing? Winning or losing is no big deal. It’s nothing to obsess about. Come down here quickly, and don’t do something embarrassing up there.” It was already bad enough that he had lost, yet his brazenly bad behavior was truly disappointing. Zhou Chengzhe glanced at his homeroom teacher’s warning eyes and clenched his fists. Several teammates looked at him contemptuously and started whispering. “Is he that much of a sore loser? Anyone with a discerning eye could see their differences in academic strength.” “Yeah! The red team didn’t even try their best, yet he lost to them so badly. He blames his own failings on other people. How ridiculous.” Zhao Yumo had finally found a chance to exact her revenge, so she was even harsher. “Zhou Chengzhe, if you can’t afford to lose, just say it instead of embarrassing Jing High School. In the last round of questions, most of us didn’t even know how to answer your questions, and some of them were university-level knowledge. Would you dare to say that your questions weren’t tricky? But we all knew the answers to Yun Xi’s questions. If you’re stupid, you can’t blame others for being too clever.” Yun Xi had dug a big hole and made Zhou Chengzhe jump down it of his own accord. Upon being ridiculed, Zhou Chengzhe turned his head abruptly and gave Zhao Yumo a vicious look. He felt a burning rage in his throat. 　 　 At this moment, all the judges on the stage were looking at him, so he dared not recklessly lose his temper. But losing to Yun Xi was worse than death. “Young man, your time is up. As you can see from the questions just now, you must have some knowledge of university-level biology. Compared with the female student’s questions, yours were more tricky and more difficult.” The judges on the stage stood up and looked at Zhou Chengzhe and then looked at Yun Xi after making their objective judgment. “However, this female student was able to answer perfectly. It seems that she has also studied university-level biology. Very good! Today’s competition was very entertaining, so let us appreciate high school students’ passions and pursuit of biology...” The judges on the stage went on and on, and the results were clear. The question-and-answer match had given them many surprises. Yun Xi looked at Zhou Chengzhe indifferently with a sullen expression on her face. The bearing of a winner, in front of the loser, was provoking no matter how low-key. However, what she wanted was to shame Zhou Chengzhe in front of everyone. If he had the audacity to challenge her, then he had to face the contempt and disdain of everyone. Now that her goal had been achieved, she felt gratified. In front of so many teachers and classmates, they’d demonstrated each other’s strengths. She was the first in the entire grade and had won honorably. 　 　 He was third in his grade, and he didn’t lose unjustly. In the corner, Mu Feichi looked at his sly little fox on the stage. She obviously looked calm, but when she cocked her head to gaze at her opponent arrogantly, the look on her face seemed especially patronizing. It was truly deserving of a good spanking, yet also extremely adorable. Retracting his gaze, Mu Feichi cocked his head and asked Feng Rui beside him, “Have you recorded it all?” “It’s all here.” “All right then. One copy will be delivered to the Mu residence, and the other will be delivered to Si Wenxuan so that she can see the gap between her and my woman, lest she harbors delusional daydreams about me.” “Young Marshal Mu, she harbors delusional daydreams about you because you’re so handsome.” “Why doesn’t that little girl daydream about me? How dare she refuse the position as the Mu family’s madame?” “Um...perhaps her EQ ran away from home.”