When I walked out of the head teacher's office with my monthly exam report card, I ran into Jiang Zhou just in time.

Seeing me, he snatched the report card from my hand.

Looking at the scores on it, he let out a disdainful snort from his nose.

"Studying every day, to the point of idiocy, and this is all you get? Ha."

After saying that, he slammed the report card hard on my forehead.

"Truly a pig's brain—so stupid it's unbelievable!"

The report card slipped from my hand. I ignored the pain on my forehead and quickly reached out to catch it.

Then I bit my lip, lowered my eyes, and pretended to be timid and cowardly.

"Yes. If only I were half as smart as you, brother."

Hearing my admiring praise, Jiang Zhou raised an eyebrow.

"What can I say? When it comes to life, you have to accept your fate."

He didn't say anything else, slinging one hand into his school uniform pocket and walking past me.

I lifted my head, watching his receding figure, and the timidity in my eyes disappeared in an instant.

I glanced at the ranking on the report card—I had barely squeezed into the top 100, which was completely incomparable to Jiang Zhou's fifth place in the grade.

But oh, brother—my grades had improved by more than 50 places compared to last time.

While you fell from the top spot, which you had firmly held, to fifth place.

A month later, the third monthly exam arrived.

I moved up from 100th to 85th in the grade.

The progress wasn't very obvious this time, but at least I was moving forward.

After all, the higher you climbed, the more talented people you encountered, and the harder it was to surpass them.

What I needed to do now was to take steady steps—prioritizing stability over speed while making progress.

But Jiang Zhou fell from fifth to tenth in the grade.

Although this result was still impressive, many people sensed a crisis—everyone except Jiang Zhou himself.

He was still immersed in the excitement of Zhou Qianqian being "reborn" and their passionate love affair.

Even for the private tutoring sessions my parents arranged for him every week, every time the teacher came to the door, he would push me out to attend in his place.

Then he would happily go to find Zhou Qianqian, having the family driver take them out for rides and fun everywhere.

After all, my parents only paid the fees. They were too busy with company matters to come home often during the day, and they firmly believed that Jiang Zhou was a sensible and trustworthy child.

Especially when it came to his studies, they never had to worry about him.

And the tutor only knew she was supposed to teach at our house—至于 who she was teaching?

Jiang Zhou had never appeared in her sight, and with his careful arrangements, she naturally assumed she was there to teach me.

He manipulated my parents and the teacher, fooling them both, and neither side ever suspected a thing.

While the tutor sitting next to me was correcting my exercise books, Jiang Zhou would send me a series of photos.

Photos of him and Zhou Qianqian sharing a bowl of shaved ice, photos of him teaching her to catch dolls hand in hand.

Compared to me, struggling to study here, his life was simply too "comfortable".

"Thanks a lot! Otherwise, I'd be the one sitting there attending that boring class right now!"

Seeing this message from Jiang Zhou, I twitched the corners of my lips and smiled helplessly.

My dear brother, it should be me thanking you.

After all, compared to studying alone, having someone to guide me is twice the result with half the effort, isn't it?

What he disdained was something I had been longing for!

And I didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, devoting all my energy to my studies.

But learning from the lesson of the high school entrance exam, I made sure to take good care of my health while working hard.

Balancing work and rest, and strengthening my exercise.

Without a healthy body, everything else is meaningless.