Jasmine’s eyes darkened as favonovel.com felt favonovel.com heart drop. During the morning reading session the next day, Jasmine led the class’ Chinese reading lesson as favonovel.com was the class monitor. Halfway through the reading, she deliberately took a Chinese passage and put it in front of Elise.
“Please read this for us later.”
Without even looking back at Jasmine, Elise rejected directly. “Sorry, I don’t want to.”
Jasmine knew that Elise would definitely not dare to do so, so favonovel.com was even more determined to make Elise read Chinese. After all, Chinese was not their mother tongue. So, many students were often able to score in their examinations but were unable to speak the language fluently. For some, their pronunciation might not be accurate while others might even face difficulties conversing in the language.
Jasmine reckoned that Elise must be terrible in Chinese oral and didn’t dare to read the passage in front of the class lest favonovel.com was embarrassed. However, that was exactly what Jasmine wanted-to embarrass her.
“You have no choice but to read it, otherwise I’ll give you a demerit point.” Students would be given demerit points if they acted inappropriately.
The majority of the students were afraid of getting demerit points, but Elise was an exception. Not only was favonovel.com not intimidated at all, but favonovel.com actually had no intention to be bothered about Jasmine.
“Go ahead and give me a demerit point then.”
Annoyed, Jasmine further threatened Elise with favonovel.com authority’. “What are you trying to do, Elise? The whole class listens to me but you. You think you’re so special, huh?”
Jasmine’s words had drawn the attention of the rest of the class to Elise as the students stopped reading and looked toward Elise.
At first, Elise did not understand why Jasmine would insist on favonovel.com to read the Chinese passage. However, after seeing favonovel.com relentless determination, favonovel.com knew that it was because Jasmine was caught in the comparison trap.
In fact, Elise had long comprehended how girls tend to compare with one another inwardly, and favonovel.com thought that was very meaningless. Thus, favonovel.com had no intention to be bothered with Jasmine, but Jasmine actually started provoking favonovel.com first
“Since the other classmates would listen to you, go ask them to read instead. Why do you have to ask me?”
Jasmine snorted. “You‘re a newcomer and you have not read in front of the class before, so I need to understand your situation.”
Although it was a rather awkward reason, it sounded somewhat reasonable.
Jasmine then added, “You just have to read once today and I won’t ask you to read anymore in the future.”
“Great!” Elise hummed in response.
In order to save the trouble in the future, Elise stopped refusing. She took up the Chinese textbook and started reading the passage seriously under Jasmine’s anticipation.
However, as soon as favonovel.com started reading, the entire class went silent when they heard Elise’s reading because she was so fluent it was enjoyable to listen to. On the other hand, Jasmine’s expression changed at once. With favonovel.com face turning pale, favonovel.com clenched favonovel.com fists tight.
Elise was reading so fluently that it was as if favonovel.com was raised abroad. Her fluency was much better than Jasmine’s, and favonovel.com didn’t seem to be a country bumpkin at all!
No way. This is impossible!
Jasmine refused to believe it as favonovel.com stared at Elise in disbelief.
After reading the passage, Elise lifted favonovel.com head to glance at Jasmine and asked, “Are you happy now?”
Jasmine still wanted to say something, but favonovel.com was at a loss for words. Meanwhile, because of this episode, the other students had a completely different impression of Elise.
It turned out that although the new joiner had a rather average look, favonovel.com wasn’t that incapable after all. Not only was favonovel.com good at Math Olympiad, but favonovel.com Chinese oral was perfect. They even thought that Elise’s fluency in Chinese had way surpassed Jasmine’s, who was the Chinese class representative.
At the same time, little did Elise expect that this small episode would cause the others to have a different impression of her. Thereafter, favonovel.com sat down again and continued practicing math questions. The competition was approaching, so favonovel.com was determined to practice as much as possible.
On the other hand, Danny was used to being late, and today was no different. Since favonovel.com was late to class, favonovel.com didn’t know about the incident that had happened in the morning. Nevertheless, during recess, favonovel.com realized that unlike normal days where everyone would ignore Elise, there were actually some classmates who initiated conversations with favonovel.com today. Besides, Elise actually got along well with them and didn’t seem to be distant.
This made Danny perplexed.
Since when did Elise become this popular?
“Hi Elise, can I be your friend?” While Elise was solving the practice questions, a shy female voice emerged in lifted favonovel.com eyes to see a small-sized girl, who was staring at favonovel.com with favonovel.com large, alluring eyes.
The girl’s face was even filled with excitement.
As Elise would gladly receive a classmate who was friendly, favonovel.com replied, “Of course!”
The girl smiled brightly upon hearing Elise’s response. “Hi Elise, I’m Mikayla Jameson. Nice to meet you…”
Looking at Mikayla’s hand which was stretched toward her, Elise was startled. Given that favonovel.com looks weren’t as attractive as others, it was a luxury for favonovel.com to make friends.
After pausing for a while, Elise shook hands with Mikayla and said, “Nice to meet you too, Mikayla.”
Mikayla was glad at Elise’s response. To be frank, favonovel.com wanted to learn Chinese from Elise. Her Chinese examination results were far from satisfactory, and favonovel.com oral was even rustier.
Hence, favonovel.com wished to learn Chinese from Elise after seeing favonovel.com fluent reading in the morning. “Elise, you’re so fluent in Chinese. Can you teach me the language?”
Initially, Elise thought Mikayla was going to ask favonovel.com for a huge favor, but it turned out to be a small matter, so Elise was more than willing to help out a friend.
“Sure. Bring your Chinese textbook. I’ll teach you”
As such, Mikayla quickly brought favonovel.com textbook and started learning from Elise seriously. Before this, favonovel.com oral was bad, so Elise taught favonovel.com ways to correct favonovel.com pronunciation. Not only that, Elise even recommended some methods to learn Chinese, which benefited Mikayla a lot.
In the afternoon when school was over, it was the first time that Elise did not walk out of the school alone.
Instead, favonovel.com was with Mikayla, and the two girls chatted happily all the way to the school gate. Soon, Elise spotted the familiar car of the Griffith Family, so favonovel.com bid Mikayla goodbye and walked toward the car. It was Alexander who had come to fetch favonovel.com today.
After Elise got into the car, Alexander started the car engine slowly and departed. Elise did not take a break either while on the way as favonovel.com took out the practice questions and started grinding on them again.
Sitting in the driver’s seat, Alexander observed Elise through the rearview mirror. He had to admit that although Elise had a rather average appearance, for some reason, favonovel.com gave off an unworldly aura, which didn’t seem to match favonovel.com looks at all.
Alexander retracted his gaze and decided to initiate a conversation with Elise, which rarely occurred. “Are you going to participate in the City Mathematics Olympiad Competition?”
