Madame is Pretending to be an Academic Slacker Again!

The members of Qin Xin’s group walked over, and the mentors immediately greeted them with smiles, their attitudes completely changed.

But the smiles were aimed at Jing Zhichen: ”Young Master Jing, how did it go? A tiger father certainly doesn’t have a dog for a son, your results must be impressive.”

Jing Zhichen modestly replied, ”It’s all thanks to the team.”

Then, he took out ten Spiritual Pearls.

All the students present let out a collective ”Wow--” in amazement, ”Young Master Jing is incredible! No wonder he was the first of our empire’s younger generation to awaken supernatural abilities.”

Jing Zhichen remained humble, ”Not bad.”

Then he signaled for the members behind him to submit their results as well.

Each member of Group 1 started to pull out Spiritual Pearls from their backpacks one after another, leaving everyone around dumbfounded, envious, and green with jealousy.

By this time, the students from other groups who had already submitted their results gathered around. Among them, a well-dressed girl kept her eyes on Qin Xin, paying particular attention to her every move during the submission.

Qin Xin calmly looked back at her.

The girl quickly averted her gaze again.

The timid voice of Little Douding came from behind, ”Sister.”

The girl immediately hid behind other team members, pretending not to hear.

Little Douding looked very disappointed, lowering his eyes in dejection.

Qin Xin: ”Is that the sister who left you in Group 10?”

Little Douding: ”Yes. My name is Ding Dou, and she’s Ding Yu.”

Qin Xin: ”Biological sister?”

Little Douding gave a bitter smile, ”Yes. Maybe she thinks I’m useless, unable to hunt even one Spiritual Pearl, and is afraid that I’ll drag down her grades.”

Qin Xin patted Little Douding’s head, her expression deepening, ”Dou, go submit your paper.”

She handed Little Douding a small bamboo box.

It was one of their achievements from the past few days.

Little Douding hesitated, ”Sister Xin, these were hard-earned by you.”

Qin Xin casually remarked, ”It wasn’t hard at all. Just playing around.”

Little Douding’s lips twitched a few times, ”Cough cough...”

If anyone heard this, they might want to beat up Sister Xin for being so arrogant and annoying.

He nervously handed the box to the examiner.

The examiner didn’t pay much attention, thinking it was impressive enough for such a young child to have captured any Spiritual Pearls at all, ”Hey, we don’t need a box, little guy. You’re overdoing it, using a big box for tiny Spiritual Pearls? Open it up quickly!”

Little Douding nervously fumbled with the lid of the bamboo box.

He was so nervous that he failed several times, provoking laughter from the surrounding crowd, even Ding Yu, his own sister, turned away, not wanting to be associated with him for fear of recognition.

She at least managed to get a fingertip-sized Spiritual Pearl from a rabbit.

She thought her useless brother must have gotten only sesame seed-sized bird pearls, fussily packed in a big box, which would be quite ridiculous.

Amidst the laughter, Qin Xin stepped forward, raised a delicate hand, and with a flick of her slender finger, ”Pa—-”

The bamboo box opened in response.

The next second, everyone present was breathless.

Inside the bamboo box, it was packed full of Spiritual Pearls.

And they were all large and round, even the smallest was bigger than a jujube quail egg, indicating they came from Red Wolf-level spirit beasts at least.

At a glance, there were dozens!

More than all the Spiritual Pearls everyone else there had combined.

How was this even possible?

Even Jing Zhichen only hunted down ten.

Yet this unassuming Little Douding had dozens???

Even the other members of Group 1 were dumbstruck, spending three or four days together, how did they not notice Little Douding had such skills? Such abundant resources?

Evidently, each of them only had two or three pearls, thanks to Jing Zhichen’s leadership.

Now, they’ve been completely outdone by this little guy.