Return of the Antagonistic Lady Boss

Chapter 865 - 839: Qian Will Never Let You Off

"This topic is very difficult, there are several questions I couldn’t solve, and Qian’s speed..."

Fugui felt a bit frustrated, he suspected he had earned a fake doctorate.

Although the doctorate in psychiatry is not quite the same as Chen Xiaoqian’s major, even with some interdisciplinary overlap, it was normal to struggle with certain questions. Yet despite this, he could see this exam was unusual, it was quite a challenge for him, but Chen Xiaoqian managed to finish quickly.

Am I really just too mediocre, or is Qian simply out of this world?

"Ah! I wonder if our Qian’er can make it, I’m so nervous that even the sunflower seeds taste bland."

Jia Xiufang was so nervous she stopped eating sunflower seeds.

"Although the questions are hard, judging from Qian’er’s expression, it should be fine," Fugui said truthfully.

"Alright then, dear, pass me the basket of sunflower seeds, I’ll keep eating." Upon hearing Fugui say this, Jia Xiufang immediately felt like snacking again.

Mr. Liao handed her some peeled sunflower seeds, and Jia Xiufang ate them handful by handful, with Mr. Liao watching her with amusement, she’s such a genuine mom.

Just as Fugui anticipated, Chen Xiaoqian indeed answered the questions effortlessly and happily.

Exiting the live broadcast studio, she had to wait for others to finish, and the judges would announce the scores an hour later.

Outside the studio, Mrs. Yu was clad in a cheongsam, looking every bit the part in her formal attire, treating her daughter-in-law’s competition with utmost importance, she even wore light makeup.

The young Yu led Panpan, tagging beside Mrs. Yu.

"How did it go?" Mrs. Yu immediately inquired upon seeing Chen Xiaoqian come out.

"Piece of cake, I told you guys you didn’t need to come." Chen Xiaoqian wasn’t concerned about the matter at all; seeing Mrs. Yu arriving had her mind spinning in the morning.

Xiaoqiang, the chatty man, was busy with work without being able to come to the site, but he took the opportunity while Chen Xiaoqian was asleep last night to call on the balcony and notify everyone.

Both sides of the family knew about Chen Xiaoqian going on TV to participate in a very important competition. Mrs. Yu got up at three o’clock and came over directly carrying a soup that clears heat and boosts the brain.

"Just play normally, it’s uncertain whether the camera caught you, everyone in our community is waiting to see you."

"Community...?" Chen Xiaoqian’s mouth twitched.

Such a trivial matter, yet it’s announced to the world, Xiaoqiang, the ultimate chatterbox, is entirely exhausting!

"Yes, after he was done calling last night, your dad made calls one by one to inform them, and everyone who had nothing to do in the community will watch today. If he didn’t have a meeting today, he would have wanted to come see for himself. Your sister-in-law has a surgery today and can’t come, it’s driving her nuts."

Mrs. Yu was particularly proud of being able to be there in person, as if she had scored a huge bargain.

Seeing Mrs. Yu’s expression, Chen Xiaoqian suddenly understood why Xiaoqiang’s flaunting is inherited from someone; the Yu family is simply a gossip-loving bunch!

"The young Yu, did you do it?"

During Chen Xiaoqian’s answering the questions, the young Yu was also answering them simultaneously.

The young Yu silently handed over the answers, Chen Xiaoqian glanced at them and nodded.

"Only ten questions wrong, of which six are things you haven’t learned, if you were competing you’d qualify."

"The standard answers haven’t been announced, have they?" Mrs. Yu asked curiously.

Chen Xiaoqian casually replied, "I am the standard answer."

Another participant who had just come out heard Chen Xiaoqian’s words and snorted disdainfully.

A mere youngster dares to be so arrogant? Everyone who has done this set of questions knows the difficulty; even those who have been working for a while can’t say they’re 100% correct — where does this little girl get her arrogance?

"There’s some time left until the results are announced, should we go out for a coffee?" Chen Xiaoqian was in no hurry at all.

Mrs. Yu handed over a thermos cup, it contained tea to clear heat.

"Just wait here, don’t wander off and miss the score announcement."

Chen Xiaoqian felt helpless, everyone around her was more nervous than she was.

In a suite at Lishi’s best hotel, Mr. Qio was watching TV with Aka, who was distracted.

"Boss, Qian is participating in a competition today, why aren’t you concerned?"

On the hotel’s TV, the show "Princess" was playing, the part where Xiaoyanzi was recognizing her father — the boss was watching with enthusiasm.

Aka truly wanted to change the channel, she wanted to watch Qian!

"What’s there to be concerned about?"

"This doesn’t sound like something you’d say." Aka thought the boss would seize the opportunity to assert his presence vigorously.

"With her level, it’d be difficult not to pass, nothing worth watching. Oh dear, she’s not your daughter, a father can’t be randomly recognized!" Mr. Qio watched intently, even offering commentary.

Aka was speechless, "What’s so great about watching this? Qian never watches these kinds of shows."

"She doesn’t watch them?" Mr. Qio rigidly turned around.

"Qian said watching melodramas wastes life, watching too much makes people dumb, and lowers logical thinking."

"I think she’s right, truly there’s nothing interesting here, in this crappy show a father can be randomly recognized; if we’re not watching, then we won’t watch."

Mr. Qio rotated the remote and ultimately stopped at the city TV station.

As the competition was held in Lishi, the city’s TV station was the first to broadcast.

The channel changed over just as the scores were being announced, Aka craned her neck to watch.

It was like scoring in sports contests, you could immediately see the leaderboard.

"Ah! Qian scored full marks!" Aka exclaimed happily.

Mr. Qio yawned.

"It’d be weird if she didn’t score full marks, that kind of question isn’t very interesting, tomorrow’s won’t be much fun either, I’m curious about what she will do the day after tomorrow, they’ve arranged people to try and trap her, haha!"

Aka was speechless.

If not knowing the boss is on Qian’s side, just by listening his tone really sounded like he was gloating.

"Boss, by your words, you knew the questions beforehand?"

"This kind of competition works in the country, taken abroad it’s of little technical substance; how could I not obtain the questions? Just casually ask someone and they’d have them."

"Then reveal some questions to me, I’ll tell Qian!"

"Do you think she relies on cheating to win?"

"But you already said, the finalists are set up to trick her. They’ve got bad intentions, why should we foolishly play by the rules?"

"If she loses—"

Aka craned her neck, waiting for the continuation.

Mr. Qio flicked her forehead, "Then I’d make those bullying her go insane."

Aka rolled her eyes, "After losing you retaliate, what’s the point!"

"I have a hunch, she won’t lose."

Mr. Qio glanced at the screen’s scoreboard; Chen Xiaoqian’s name was towering above, truly a battle for fame.

But this alone wasn’t enough, Qio Yu Xuan thought, she could do better still, the little girl still competes with him. Mr. Qio knew her assessment of him was particularly defiant.

"This reminds me of when I was young, participating in competitions, triumphing from amidst a group of white people. Her opponents aren’t anything special; maybe I’ll position your senior brother as a judge and give her the lowest score? People, if they grow too smoothly, tend to become conceited."

"... If Qian found out she’d totally claw at you."

"Alright, I was just joking."