Volume 2: The Ripples Begin Chapter 60: The Dimming of the Stars

  At the dinner table, when adults are talking, children cannot interrupt, otherwise they will be scolded. Liang Mingyue has been scolded many times and now doesn't dare to speak up either. Originally, she was anxious too, but grandma decided what she wanted to do, so she felt at ease. Humph, Yun Qingran, you are just a child that our Liang family doesn't want, I will definitely prove that I am better than you. Whenever Liang Mingyue thinks of Yun Qingran's princess-like appearance with everyone fawning over her, her heart burns with anger.

  Liang Mingxing still lowered his head and ate in silence, but the flickering of his eyes revealed that his heart was also not calm.

  At night, the communication device on Yun Qingran's hand, which had never lit up before, flashed green. Yun Qingran, who was about to fall asleep, sat up in confusion, wondering what could have prompted Su Mengye, who hadn't initiated contact with her for over a year, to send her a message.

  "Anything wrong?" Ye Ningxuan had just come out of the bath when he found Yun Qingran staring thoughtfully at his wrist, which was flashing rapidly.

  "Yes, let's go back to the Yun residence." Yun Qingyan said seriously. Without asking much, Ye Ningxuan's mind moved and his sleeping clothes were replaced by the divine clothes transformed from the space. He bent down to hug Yun Qingyan, and with a leap from the window, they flew over the low houses like a wild goose.

  "Something's happened, Su Ying." Yun Qingran directly brought Ye Ningxuan to the underground city beneath the Yun Manor. As soon as they entered her private study, the TV wall automatically turned on, and Su Ying's figure appeared on the screen.

  Surprise only flashed for a moment, and Su Ying's gaze swept over Ye Ningxuan before returning to Yun Qingran: "Miss, I observed the stars tonight, and several stars in your constellation have dimmed. I couldn't detect any signs of your trajectory, nor could I see clearly the people around you, so I can only tell you to be prepared."

  A hint of understanding flashed through Yun Qing's astonished expression, and after calculating the time, it was about right, but she didn't know what changes there would be compared to her previous life.

  Jin Se reported on Friday, and the next day was the weekend when everyone gathered at Yunfu. Yun Qingran returned to Ye's house with Ye Ningxuan in the evening and only went back with Ye's father and mother the next afternoon. The people from Yun's family and Ye's family just filled up that huge round dining table.

  "Uncle, when are you at home? I'll send someone to install a monitor and listening device for you, and teach you how to use them." Yun Qingran said as they sat together resting and chatting after finishing their meal.

  Everyone was surprised by Yun Qingran's words. Yun Xiang put down the cup in his hand and looked at her with suspicion: "Qingran, there is nothing valuable in our house that can be stolen, what's the point of installing that thing? Just let people live safely in the Yun Mansion."

  Ye Ningxuan smiled, his smile a bit strange. He glanced at Yun Qingran with a flowing gaze: "Big uncle, it's not that you're afraid of thieves stealing things, but rather that you're afraid of thieves sending you things. Someone secretly sent them to you, you can take a look and see who is so 'kind-hearted', and then repay them in the future."

  Ye Ningxuan's smile was radiant, but it made people feel a chill. However, they had already gotten to the bottom of things in their hearts. Yun Xiangyan smiled and said: "Ranran, can you let them go to An on Sunday evening? We'll be back on Sunday. It's still Ranran who thinks ahead, I've forgotten about this."

  "But can't you be a bit more considerate, also give your godfather's family some face?" Ye Wen Hao teased Yun Qing Ran, he was getting more and more fond of this goddaughter.

  "Great!" Yun Qingran nodded and took out five strings of prayer beads from her small bag: "Grandpa, grandma, uncle, auntie, and cousin, these are the Buddhist rosaries I've brought for you. They can bring peace and safety. Among them, there is also a bead that can record your words, just press this bead."

  Jin Se School is different from other schools, it doesn't start classes early in the morning and finish late at night. Instead, it starts classes at 9:00 am and finishes at 12:00 pm, then has another session from 2:30 pm to 5:00 pm, with no classes at night. Moreover, elementary school only has cultural classes in the morning, while the afternoon is for quality expansion classes. At night, the school offers various interest courses, which students can choose to take or not, but if they do choose to take them, they need to pass an assessment, and if they fail, they need to retake it, otherwise, they cannot graduate.

  Liáng Míng Yuè was extremely excited today, getting up early in the morning. She imagined herself arriving at school, skipping a grade to third grade, and then surpassing Yun Qingran in every exam, seeing her depressed face made Liáng Míng Yuè ecstatic. Her father had already arranged for someone to teach her math and language courses for third grade, so taking second-grade exams was simply effortless, using the words she learned in class, it was not worth mentioning.

  Principal Huang was taken aback again when he saw the parents coming to find him, wondering why there were so many children starting school ahead of schedule this year. However, since they had made a request, he decided to give them an opportunity. Jin Se didn't care much about the age for reading books as long as it wasn't too old: "Alright, I'll have someone send you a set of entrance exam questions..."

  "I'm not going to first grade, I want to go to third grade." Before Principal Huang could finish speaking, Liang Mingyue hastily shouted loudly.

  "Ah, Moon!" Liang Huatian saw Principal Huang furrow his brow and scolded in a low voice, before turning to Principal Huang: "Principal Huang, I'm really sorry about this. This child is too excited, that's why she interrupted you. I'll make sure to teach her some manners when I get back." Liang Huatian accompanied his words with a smile. This principal was not someone he could afford to offend. Not just him, but even high officials and wealthy businessmen had to be polite in front of him. Over the years, Jin Se's students were either rich or noble, and their parents were extremely grateful to Principal Huang for making their children so excellent.

  Since the parents have already said so, he didn't want to argue with the children too much. He just made a phone call and asked Sun Laoshi to bring over two sets of second-grade final exams. Then, he observed the two children. First, looking at Liang Mingyue's confident and complacent expression, he mentally crossed her off. Looking at Liang Mingxing, Principal Huang nodded slightly, thinking that this child was not bad, although far inferior to those two children he saw the other day, but among peers, he was outstanding, even surpassing some older kids.

  Teacher Sun received a call from Principal Huang and hastily brought up the test papers. The impression of the two children that day was too deep, could it be that there is another child who skipped grades today?

  Liang Mingyue was still smiling and looking proud before she got the test paper, but as soon as she saw the questions on it, her face turned pale and she let out a shrill cry: "This isn't even a second-grade test! Second-graders haven't learned any of this knowledge!"

  Upon hearing this, Teacher Sun frowned and looked over: "Jin Se's curriculum is different from other schools, with a broad scope that goes beyond just language and math classes, as everyone knows."

  When she heard this, Liang Mingyue wanted to retort something, but looking at Liang Huatian staring at her with a fierce gaze, she swallowed the words that had reached her lips and slowly picked up her pen to write.

  Liang Mingxing took the test paper and wrote quietly, occasionally stopping to think for a while. There were also some blank spaces that he couldn't do. As for Jinse, he had heard of her before and wanted to get into this school, so he usually read books not limited to language and mathematics. He didn't know how she did on the exam, but he should have done well if he could skip grades smoothly! Thinking about it, he also thought of Yun Qingran's elegant appearance as she walked down from the escalator like a fairy.

  In three hours' time, Liang Mingxing had only used half of it and put down the pen in his hand. "Is it done?" Principal Huang asked kindly, looking at Liang Mingxing.

  "En." He lightly responded, nodded and stopped talking, only handing his test paper to the principal. Principal Huang lowered his head, judging with a red pen, occasionally scoring points. En, not bad, neat handwriting, except for the blank unanswered ones, all others were correct. Two hundred and fifty-eight, except for that girl who was like a demon that day, his score was the highest.

  Here is the translation:

  Having lingered here for a long time, Liang Mingyue saw that Liang Mingxing had already finished and rolled up his paper, while she herself hadn't answered many questions, and was on the verge of tears. But no matter how hard she thought, she couldn't think of anything else, so with red eyes, she put down the pen in her hand.

  Teacher Sun, who had been frowning since the beginning of the test, frowned even deeper when he saw this exam paper. The paper was covered in black marks, with neat handwriting, and the red pen in his hand drew a big X on every answer without stopping. Seventy points, only the cultural courses got some scores, not finished yet.

  Principal Huang looked at the two test papers and handed them to Liang Huatian, saying: "This boy can directly go to third grade, as for this girl, let her start from first grade."

  After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for Liang Huatian's response and directly called the class teacher to pick them up.

  Digression

  If only school were really like this...