Staring blankly with widened eyes, Lilian thought, Emily is really something. After she returned to her seat to continue correcting the papers, she searched for the paper with the score of 149 and clucked.
“Emily’s English score is 149.”
“Really? No way!”
“Did she manage to revise properly at home despite what happened? She’s amazing.”
The other teachers were all envious of Class A as they babbled on, “Class A is really full of talents.”
A satisfied smile spread across Lilian’s face. After marking through so many papers earlier, there were no other students with a score above 140. Could it be Emily who will top the class this time? she wondered. Then she flipped through Janet’s test papers and was stunned when she saw the results column. How can this be?
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When Janet walked out the school gates, she immediately saw Mason’s car and climbed in the back seat when she saw Mason in the passenger seat and Henry in the driver’s seat.
“Ms. Janet, are classes over already?” Henry asked her.
“Yeah, we’re having exams today,” she replied nonchalantly while scrolling her phone.
“Wow, are you a genius in studies as well? You finished so quickly!”
“I simply wrote in the answers,” she answered blandly. With the idiotic English teacher and Emily in Class A, she already decided that she wanted to go to Class F in the next term because it was just too annoying and tiring with them around.
Chuckling softly, Mason glanced at her and asked, “Do you know anything about racing?”
“Racing?” she repeated and continued without even batting an eyelid, “I’ve seen it on TV before.” Sure enough, after telling so many lies, she got so good that even she started to believe her own lies.
“What do you think about it?” he asked in a low voice.
“It’s rather exciting!” she answered coolly, sensing that he was trying to sound her out from his tone of voice.
“Do you know Night Shadow?” he probed, and heard Henry take a deep breath.
“Young Master Mason, do you mean the top racer, Night Shadow?” Henry knew a little about Night Shadow as he was also interested in car racing.
“What are you trying to ask?” Janet looked at Mason’s side profile with a glimmer of curiosity in her eyes.
“Oh, nothing. I was just asking,” he said with a smirk, giving her an innocent look.
Without thinking much about it, she said casually, “I’ve heard about him before.”
Just then, the car Henry was driving had reached the Royal Circuit and they could hear the excitement of the crowd which was a few hundred metres ahead of them.
Not only was the Royal Circuit the biggest race track in Sandfort, but it was also a common turf shared by the Moss and Lowrys.
The moment they set foot in the circuit, they saw a huge screen hanging in front of them which showed the race in real-time.
Thrill, excitement and speed were the best words used to describe car racing.
Fixing his gaze on Janet, Mason asked, “Have you participated in a car race before?”
“No.”
Hearing that, his eyebrows shot up and asked, “Do you want me to take you for a ride today?”
Janet nodded with a grin. “Sure!” she agreed, eager to find out his driving skills.
Taking a step closer to them, Henry asked Mason, “Are you going to take part in the race?”
Answering on his behalf, Janet shook her head, saying, “No, he’s just taking me for a ride. Do you want to join us?”
“No thanks. I can have fun by myself as well,” Henry said confidently as he gestured at his sports car.
In fact, Henry was no pushover in racing. Barely two minutes had passed when he overtook their car, and his red sports car was always ahead of Mason’s black sports car.
Tickled by the situation, Janet jested, “Young Master Mason, you’re so slow.”
Smirking at her words, Mason’s eyes were filled with wild pleasure as he raised an eyebrow and warned, “Then you better sit tight.”
As it had been proven time and again, men could easily be provoked when someone else doubted their abilities, and Janet’s sarcastic remark had incited his desire to win.
Before this, he was worried because it was Janet’s first time in a race car, so he had slowed down on purpose. However, he didn’t think that she wouldn’t appreciate it all and even ridiculed him.
