Lifting his gaze, Mason answered calmly, “That picture merely looks like her, but it’s not her!”
“Young Master Mason, did you pretend that’s not her because you’re afraid that someone will snatch her from you since she’s good at everything?” Henry asked with a smirk.
Caught speechless, Mason then warned, “Stop spouting nonsense, or I’ll seal your mouth shut.”
Covering his mouth, Henry then placed his phone back into his pocket. A few seconds later, Mason asked softly, “Can you make some time to go to the Royal Circuit tomorrow?”
Grinning, he replied, “Don’t forget to bring Ms. Janet along.”
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The next day was the last day of final exams in Star High School, and the classes would be divided again based on the results. Therefore, the students in Class A held it in great importance.
Emily had returned to the school to take the exam and she saw Lilian the moment she stepped into the school grounds.
Initially, she thought that Lilian would give her a scolding or simply ignore her, but she actually called her into the office and explained the final exam to her.
“Emily, did you revise when you were at home?” Lilian asked sternly as she pushed her glasses up her nose.
Nodding, she said, “Yes, I revised everything.”
“Your results were not bad the last time, so are you confident that you’ll do better than Janet this time?”
“I don’t know,” she said, shaking her head.
Besides surpassing Janet, she also wanted to be the top of the grade by obtaining full marks so that she would leave a good impression on the principal and teachers. That way, she could diminish the bad impression her schoolmates had of her from before.
By then, all the higher institutions in the country would beg for her to enroll.
Janet is nothing. So what if she can paint? She doesn’t know anything and just got lucky in the exam. I’m sure she won’t be able to be at the top of the grade again this time.
Patting her shoulder, Lilian assured, “I have faith that you’ll rise from the ashes and get the number one spot.”
Lowering her head, her tone was humble as she answered cautiously, “I’ll do my best, Miss Lilian.” Although she spoke timidly, her heart was full of arrogance.
“Alright, go ahead then. The exam will begin in half an hour.”
After nodding in acknowledgement, Emily hurried back to Class A, where her classmates started whispering when she entered. Even Madelaine seemed to be ignoring her.
Fuming, she thought that Madelaine was indeed someone who only cared about themselves. Madelaine fawned over her when she was in the limelight and avoided her now that she ran into some problems.
Soon, Janet came into the classroom and all eyes turned to stare at her, only to see her placing a 2B pencil and a ballpoint pen on her desk before bending over and starting to nap.
Blinking in disbelief, Abby asked, “Janet, did you only bring these two things? What about an eraser?”
“Oh yeah, I forgot about that!” she raised her eyes and said lazily.
Rummaging through her backpack, Abby placed an extra piece of eraser on her desk and said, “Here, this is for you.”
“Thanks,” Janet said, giving her a nod.
Just as she was about to continue with her nap, her phone suddenly pinged. Glancing at it, she hesitated a few seconds before replying the text: ‘What’s up?’
Mason: ‘Are you free today?’
Janet: ‘How can I help you?’
Mason chuckled, feeling a little helpless at her reply. He then texted, ‘There’s a race at the Royal Circuit today. Will you be free?’
The mention of a race sounded very tempting to her, so she replied, ‘What time?’
Mason: ‘It starts at three o’clock in the afternoon.’
Three o’clock? Janet thought about it and remembered that she would still be in an exam at that time. However, she replied, ‘Okay, come pick me up.’
Exam was about to start by the time she finished replying and the paper was language. Since it was Mr. Smith who invigilated the exam, nobody dared to cheat in the test and they all started to complain.
In the exam hall, sounds of pages being turned over and pens dropping on the desk could be heard as well as the sighs of the students. Two hours later, the bell rang and their cries could be heard all over as they grumbled, “Oh my god, I’m definitely going to be at the bottom of the class.”
