Tang Yue sat upright, her posture extremely proper. In her previous life, she started wearing glasses after entering Senior High School, but this time she was determined to protect her eyes at all costs.
She wrote down answers swiftly, almost immediately after looking at each question once.
The math teacher stood behind Tang Yue, watching every problem she wrote, every problem she solved. Her handwriting was beautiful, graceful and yet genial, neat and well-organized, which made it a pleasure to behold.
Some students felt it took too long and began to doze off, getting sleepy in the sunshine.
Twenty minutes later, Tang Yue stood up and said, "Teacher, I’ve finished."
"All correct." The math teacher announced after reviewing and then passed it to other math teachers from different classes. Eventually, after several math teachers had confirmed, the test paper was indeed error-free.
The classmates were immediately in an uproar. The test paper started being passed around, and seeing the exemplary work, they couldn’t help but think of their own scribbled and hastily corrected papers which, compared to the one they were looking at, looked like chicken scratch.
Many thought their first take away from the incident was to practice their handwriting, aiming for a good penmanship.
After discussing with several teachers, Qin Hong announced to the entire grade that Tang Yue had not cheated. Meanwhile, the test paper was specifically circulated for everyone to see.
Tang Yue stepped forward and said, "Teacher Qin, about the matter of Xu Zhenzhen imitating my handwriting..."
"Enough, Tang Yue! Don’t push people too far, who imitated your handwriting?" Xu Zhenzhen glared furiously at Tang Yue. Just now, when Tang Yue was writing the paper, many boys beside her praised her.
Saying her writing posture was beautiful, saying her profile was beautiful, saying the way she concentrated on her homework was beautiful.
She thought the previous issue was over, but hearing Tang Yue bring it up again, Xu Zhenzhen flared up in anger.
"You." Tang Yue didn’t even bother to look at her, saying: "Please, teacher, take out Xu Zhenzhen’s examination paper and compare it with the cheat sheet, then you’ll know."
Xu Zhenzhen’s heart skipped a beat, and subconsciously, she wanted to stop it.
"My problem-solving process, and the one on the cheat sheet, are not the same," Tang Yue explained. If she were not fully aware of it, such a minute detail would be easy to overlook.
When she solved problems, she always did so very thoroughly, even more detailed than the correct answers in the textbook.
Xu Zhenzhen’s paper, however, followed the textbook step by step, which was somewhat different from Tang Yue’s.
"Also, the formulas in my math problems are different. My ’a’, ’s’, and ’i’ are all distinct. If you compare them carefully, you will notice the differences," Tang Yue noted.
When Xu Zhenzhen wrote these letters, she might not even have noticed herself, but she always added a little extra flourish.
Even if she tried to imitate Tang Yue’s handwriting, these small habits would surely remain.
Tang Yue guessed that Xu Zhenzhen thought math cheat sheets were easier, whereas for Chinese, she could memorize everything, and the risk of getting caught was much higher.
But actually, Xu Zhenzhen was mistaken. If it had been regarding Chinese, it would be more difficult for Tang Yue to find evidence, unless handwriting analysis was brought in.
Xu Zhenzhen’s eyelid twitched, and she was greatly startled. Picking up the papers and cheat sheet, she noticed indeed what Tang Yue had described. Her hands trembling, she had never noticed such habits when writing the letters.

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