Once We Come Across Love / Exclusive fairytale

Chapter 3: You are Publicly Known as Ling Chao's Girlfriend

Later on when Xiao Tu was seven years old, she was about to start elementary school.

On registration day, Ling Chao's mother also went with her son.

The school gave every child who enrolled a placement test. Normal students would just start school, while some irregular students would be advised to first go through kindergarten. Xiao Tu was unfortunately in the minority.

Contrary to expectations, her mother didn't care. It wasn't like it affected her daughter's life or death.

If she went to kindergarten, then wouldn't Ling Chao be ahead of her by a grade? How could the older sister be one grade below the little brother? Xiao Tu could not accept this. She annoyed her mother, complaining that she must go to first grade.

Her mother was annoyed to the point where she had no other options but to go and speak with the principal.

The first time they went, they failed.

The second time they went, they brought along two jins of apples, and the principle agreed.

As a result, Xiao Tu carried her backpack to go and start first grade, while Ling Chao started second grade.

What? You ask how come their grades were different? The reason was simple; during the placement test, Ling Chao had gotten full marks, becoming the only new student to start directly in the second grade.

In the end, Xiao Tu was still a grade lower.

As a result of Xiao Tu's foundation being poor and her unwillingness to go to kindergarten, learning in class was difficult. During final exams, she and Ling Chao had both gotten one hundred points.

However, Ling Chao got a hundred in both language and math, while she only got a hundred points in language and math combined.

Holding these two pieces of tragic test results, Xiao Tu's mother felt miserable: "Heavens, how could you bully a child who was born premature like this?"

So she decided to get Xiao Tu a tutor.

The first tutor she hired was an old retired teacher. After teaching for two days, he left shaking his head while repeating: "Rotten wood cannot be carved, and children cannot be taught...."

Mother couldn't understand what the old man said and decided to find a younger tutor.

The second tutor was their next-door neighbor, Grandma Wang's granddaughter, who was staying for summer vacation. It was said that she was studying to be a teacher, and her performance was very good.

Unfortunately, after two days of teaching, she packed up her stuff and ran away with an excuse that she had some matters at home that required her attention.

Later on, Grandma Wang mentioned that her granddaughter had applied to change majors. However, that was a story for another time, one that could be ignored.

The issues of finding a tutor for Xiao Tu worried her mother endlessly. When she was hanging the laundry in the courtyard, she accidentally mentioned the issue to Ling Chao's mother. His mother suggested on the spot, "It would be better to let Tu Tu do her homework together with Ling Chao. If she doesn't understand something, she can just ask."

This suggestion really suited Mrs. Xiao. That night, she sent her daughter to the Lings' house.

That day, Xiao Tu unexpectedly finished her homework before eight. The next day she even received a star.

From then on, she never did homework at her own house.

When the term ended, Xiao Tu's two exam results' overall score went from one hundred points to one hundred and fifty points for the very first time. Ling Chao still had full marks.