Free Web NovelChapter 140: Chapter 140: To Stab Nina
That one comment caused a massive stir.
But when they thought about it, it really did seem possible for Chloe Sinclair.
When Genius was airing, its popularity index had surpassed a hundred million, and it had stayed on the trending charts for three days before being pushed down.
And Chloe Sinclair’s follower count had already reached five million.
Most of her followers weren’t very active, but those who followed her were almost all heavyweights from the academic world.
This just went to show how highly these prominent figures regarded Chloe Sinclair.
[Honestly, it’s totally possible that Chloe Sinclair is the top scorer. She performed so well on Genius, and I heard she even applied for a patent. All the big names in various academic fields can’t stop singing her praises. So yeah, I’m certain the top scorer is Chloe Sinclair.]
[Have to admit, Chloe Sinclair is a beast when it comes to Physics, but saying she’s praised nonstop by the heavyweights of the Physics world is laying it on a bit thick, don’t you think?]
[You’d better believe it. I’m one of Professor Howard Thorne’s students. Ever since our professor got back, he’s been talking nonstop about how incredible Chloe Sinclair is. The old man just doesn’t know how to use Weibo; otherwise, he’d probably argue with you for three days and three nights.]
[I’m one of Professor Sutton’s students. The professor was actually planning to retire this year. Emberfall University had hoped he would stay on for another year or two, but Mr. Sutton politely declined every time. Who would’ve thought that after returning from the show, he’d go and tell the school he could teach for another four years!]
At first, netizens didn’t believe it, but then they clicked on the two commenters’ profiles to check.
They discovered that both were indeed students at Emberfall University, with follower counts in the tens of thousands. Most importantly, they also had official verification tags.
Only then did it dawn on the slower users: Chloe Sinclair really was the real deal.
The online debate raged until noon, when one user ran over to announce:
[Chloe Sinclair just posted on Weibo! Go look, everyone!]
Since Chloe Sinclair had no intention of hiding her results from everyone, she posted a screenshot of her scores on Weibo the moment they became available.
It was peak time for students to check their results, so online traffic was immense.
Many people began sharing it, some with emotional comments:
[I was already won over by Chloe Sinclair when my school organized a viewing of Genius. All that stuff about 3D quantum mechanics, the Hodge conjecture, and biological hypotheses... those are things a teenager should have no contact with, but Chloe Sinclair understood it all so thoroughly. I love her for it! For context, when I was eighteen, I was busy fighting for my life with my teammates in the Rift.]
[My grades weren’t that great. After learning about Chloe Sinclair’s story, I studied like crazy for the final month leading up to the college entrance exams. My scores came out today, and I got over five hundred! I just barely met the cutoff for a tier-one university. I might get waitlisted, but my old scores couldn’t even get me into a tier-two school.]
[Am I the only one who wants to share this? Praying to Chloe Sinclair for a good score next year!]
Before long, Chloe Sinclair’s post had more shares than comments.
Chloe Sinclair glanced at it as she was heading out and didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
’I’m not some lucky charm. How could I possibly bless them?’
’When does success ever come so easily?’
Putting her phone away, Chloe Sinclair slipped on her shoes and prepared to head out.
She had turned eighteen a few months ago, and the Sinclair Family had signed her up for driving school. She had already gotten her license over the break.
So today, Chloe Sinclair was driving herself.
The class reunion was booked at the city’s most famous hot pot restaurant.
There weren’t many people, exactly twenty in total.
Summer Beckett had originally planned to pick Chloe Sinclair up, but she immediately chickened out at the thought of the head of Chloe’s family.
So all she could do was constantly bug Chloe Sinclair on WeChat, telling her to hurry up.
"Chloe, when are you gonna get here?"
「Five minutes later.」
"Chloe, are you here yet?"
"Are you here?"
"Still not here?"
Chloe Sinclair could hear her phone buzzing the entire way, but she was driving and couldn’t look at it.
Once she got to the hot pot restaurant, Chloe Sinclair parked her car and finally glanced at her phone.
Seeing the twenty-three messages Summer Beckett had sent her, Chloe Sinclair’s mouth twitched.
She replied with one sentence:
"I’m here."
Then she blocked Summer Beckett.
Chloe Sinclair was dressed simply in a gray and white sweatsuit, her hair tied up high. The voluminous hair at the back of her head gave her a sunny, carefree look.
The moment she walked in, she drew quite a few stares.
Chloe Sinclair paused at the entrance, scanning the room, and quickly spotted a few full tables in the corner.
Summer Beckett’s eyes lit up when she saw her, and she quickly waved.
"Chloe, what took you so long? We’ve already gone a round." freeωebnovēl.c૦m
Chloe Sinclair replied, "Something came up at home. Sorry."
After a pause, she added, "It’s my treat. Order whatever you want."
Everyone in the class knew Chloe Sinclair was the young lady of the wealthy Sinclair Family and that a few thousand yuan was nothing to her, so no one bothered to decline her offer.
As soon as Chloe Sinclair sat down, several people said, "Congratulations on being the top scorer in the college entrance exam."
"That’s right. And our Class 7 did great overall in the exams. Not a single person fell behind. Class 1, on the other hand, didn’t perform very well. Their highest score was only 687."
Chloe Sinclair froze, a little surprised.
She had a vivid memory of the college entrance exam from her past life.
If she remembered correctly, Nina Sinclair had scored 725 in that timeline.
The classmate seemed to understand Chloe Sinclair’s confusion and sighed. "It’s not just you who finds it strange. Even the teachers at school are tearing their hair out over it, especially the Class 1 teacher. He’s probably getting an earful as we speak."
Chloe Sinclair asked, "Who was first in Class 1?"
"Nina Sinclair, who else? Her grades were normally pretty good, and she always scored above seven hundred. Nobody expected her performance to be such a train wreck this time..."
Before she could finish, a classmate beside her nudged her.
The girl looked confused, so her friend could only whisper an explanation. "Nina Sinclair is in the private room right inside. Don’t let her hear you."
The student who had been talking immediately clammed up. She glanced cautiously toward the private room and also lowered her voice. "Good thing you reminded me. If she’d heard that, I’d probably be accused of bullying a fellow student."
Once that little episode passed, the Class 7 students continued to get along splendidly.
The Class 1 students in the other room, however, were feeling rather uncomfortable.
This was especially true for Nina Sinclair herself.
They were in the private room right next to Chloe Sinclair’s party, and they’d heard every word from outside with perfect clarity.
"A bunch of people who can’t even get into a tier-one university have the nerve to judge someone else. Our Nina’s score is more than enough to get into Emberfall University!"
Far from being comforted, Nina Sinclair felt that the speaker was actually mocking her.
She shot the speaker a look, her face pale. "Don’t say that. My score really isn’t as good as Chloe’s."
The Class 1 reunion hadn’t included anyone else; only the top ten students from the class were there.
Seeing Nina Sinclair look so wronged, a few of the boys felt a surge of protectiveness, but their words only twisted the knife.
"You might not be able to beat Chloe Sinclair, but you’re her older sister, after all. Just you wait, we’ll go teach her a lesson for you!"
