Fake Alpha Daughter's Self-Help Notes - Chapter 10

Gu Qingqing‘s eyes immediately became somewhat subtle.

Gu Fei resisted the urge to get angry, she gritted her teeth, and handed over her phone as if nothing had happened, “Oh, and while I’m at it, I came to add you on WeChat.”

When Gu Qingqing went into her room to get her phone, Gu Fei added, “It’s not like I’m worried about why you’re still up this late or anything! I just suddenly realized, you’ve been living here for a while now, and we haven’t even exchanged contact info yet. That’s…that’s not good!”

“Ng, ng, I know,” Gu Qingqing scanned the code and returned the phone to her.

Gu Fei：“……”

It had only been a few days, and she had already gotten used to Gu Qingqing’s perfunctory tone.

“Then I’ll go back to my room, and you should go to bed early too,” Gu Fei took a step back.

“Hm, good night, Gu Fei,” Gu Qingqing watched Gu Fei walk back to the room and close the door, then she chuckled as she stepped back.

Gu Fei sat on the bed and glanced at Gu Qingqing’s chat window. The profile picture was a yellow-and-white cat, and the ID was just the character “Qing.” Her Moments weren’t set to private, but they were almost empty, only one photo posted a year ago.

The grayish-yellow kitten nestled against its mother, looking up and acting spoiled.

Gu Fei looked at her backpack again, and there was a cat charm hanging on it. ‘It seems that Gu Qingqing likes cats very much?’ Gu Fei also likes this kind of small animals, but she herself was a little princess who has been spoiled and is not very good at taking care of other creatures. As for letting the nanny raise a cat, Gu Fei always feels that cats raised by others were not close to her, so she has never raised one.

If Gu Qingqing likes them, maybe ask her sometime if she’d like to try raising a kitten?

Gu Fei thought about it and clicked on the big picture in Gu Qingqing’s circle of friends. She suddenly saw that there was a glass door behind the two cats, with Gu Qingqing’s reflection projected on it.

Although she couldn’t see clearly, Gu Fei somehow felt that the look in Gu Qingqing’s eyes through the glass door was one of envy.

Envious of the big and small cats snuggled up together.

Gu Fei suddenly remembered that Gu Qingqing posted this on WeChat Moments a year ago, when Gu Yuan suddenly fell ill and she dropped out of school to work. Gu Fei immediately exited WeChat Moments and returned to the chat box to type.

[Good night.] She was angry just now and deliberately didn’t say good night to Gu Qingqing.

After thinking for a while, Gu Fei added: [Go to bed early.]

Gu Fei likes to send cute emoticons when chatting with others, but she can’t explain why. When she sent a message to Gu Qingqing, not only did she not act cute, but her tone also seemed a little serious.

Gu Qingqing quickly replied: [Okay.]

[Good night.jpg] Cute little kitty emoji.

Gu Fei recalled Gu Qingqing’s cold profile just now and couldn’t help but bent down and laughed out loud. It felt like their roles online and offline were reversed.

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The next day, as soon as Gu Qingqing arrived at school, she was called to the office by her head teacher.

A few girls, led by Yang Xiaoxiao, whispered to each other, “Are the results out?”

“That illegitimate daughter didn’t get the last place in the exam, did she? Hahahaha, Sister Wang must be so pissed off. Our class already has poor grades, and now a country bumpkin is forced in.”

“She’s also an ordinary person who can’t get into school through the special admissions exam, tsk tsk.”

In the office.

The head teacher, Ms. Wang was a female Omega in her thirties, who teaches English and has curly chestnut hair.

“Qing-Qing, I know President Gu, so I’m also aware of your situation. You’ve been out of school for a year, and the curriculum at your previous school was different from ours, so it’s only natural that you’d find things a bit difficult. That’s why I spoke with the subject teachers yesterday and asked them to grade your tests first,” Teacher Wang said, handing a stack of test papers to Gu Qingqing. She continued, “I honestly thought you’d be at the bottom of the class, but to my surprise, your total score actually exceeded the class average, and you passed every subject. Qingqing, I really underestimated you.”

Gu Qingqing glanced at the half-empty papers with a calm expression.

She used to…be able to get full marks.

Back at her old school, she had no friends, no one liked her, and as an undifferentiated ordinary person, the only thing that made others take notice was her grades. But now, after just a year, even the one thing she was proud of, her academic performance, was gone.

Gu Qingqing remained silent, and the atmosphere in the office grew a little cold. The homeroom teacher didn’t mind and continued gently, “Qingqing, your fundamentals are solid. In this exam, every question you attempted, you got right. With just a bit more effort, you should be able to reach the top 100 in the grade within half a year. Although our school usually requires a top 50 ranking to transfer classes, your situation is special. President Gu personally spoke with the Academic Director; if you make it to the top 100, you’ll be allowed to transfer to the International Class or the Rocket Class.”

Gu Qingqing was taken aback. Gu Hupo had never told her that she had actually spoken with the teachers and the academic director at the school ahead of time for her sake.

The head teacher stood up and patted her shoulder gently, “Go back to study.”

“…thank you, teacher.” Gu Qingqing clenched the test paper in her hand, and when she walked out of the office, her fingers had lost their strength.

When returning to the classroom, Gu Qingqing heard the classmates whispering, “She really did poorly on the test and got scolded by Sister Wang, right?”

“Country bumpkins should stay in the countryside. Why come to our school? They’ll lower our average score.”

Gu Qingqing acted as if she didn’t hear it. She sat back in her seat and quietly corrected the papers.

The last class in the afternoon was self-study. The head teacher came in with the test papers and the class transcript. After asking the class representatives to distribute the papers, she projected the transcript on the blackboard for everyone to see.

Gu Qingqing didn’t even put on her glasses and continued to do the questions.

But Yang Xiaoxiao’s group couldn’t help but whisper excitedly, “Look, the illegitimate daughter is too embarrassed to raise her head, hahaha!”

After the head teacher finished the projection, she walked out of the classroom. Yang Xiaoxiao couldn’t wait to look up at the bottom of the report card, but Gu Qingqing’s name was not there. Yang Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, and continued to look up. Several names in a row were not Gu Qingqing’s.

“What’s going on? Just because Gu Qingqing is a transfer student, her name wasn’t included?” Yang Xiaoxiao muttered.

Then, as she looked further up and spotted her own name near the bottom of the score sheet, a bad feeling suddenly crept over her.

Sure enough, just a few names above hers, she saw the three words: Gu Qingqing.

There were a total of fifty students in the class, and Gu Qingqing was ranked exactly twenty-fifth. Judging by her score, she was a few points above the class average.

“Impossible?” Yang Xiaoxiao frowned in disbelief. Several other girls also chattered beside her, “Maybe she cheated?”

“Even if she didn’t cheat, if this were a major exam, being ranked 25th in our class would only place her around 300th in the entire grade, that’s still among the underachievers. Just a country bumpkin, no way she can keep up with our school’s pace.” The girl who said this had no idea her own score was actually lower than Gu Qingqing’s.

“I bet she just got lucky this time. She’ll definitely show her true colors in the next monthly exam, hehe.”

That night, in the early hours of the morning, Gu Qingqing still had her light on, sitting at her desk, scribbling away. Even though she was already extremely sleepy, she kept drinking cheap instant coffee while gripping her pen tightly. The ballpoint pen made a constant “swish swish” sound as it moved across the paper.

In just one year, she had forgotten too much, she had to fight desperately, relentlessly, to catch up.

The villa was very quiet in the dead of night. Suddenly, a faint sound of air pressure shifting came from her door. Gu Qingqing paused, realizing it was Gu Fei again, opening the door to get some water.

She originally wanted to step out and greet Gu Fei, but when she looked up and caught sight of her bloodshot eyes in the desk mirror, she gave up on the idea.

She didn’t want Gu Fei to see her in such a state.

After a while, Gu Fei’s door closed again and Gu Qingqing’s cell phone lit up.

Xiao Fei: [Good night. Go to bed early.]

Gu Qingqing could almost picture Gu Fei being all tsundere,  clearly worried about her, yet insisting on putting up a cold front like she didn’t care. Smiling gently at the screen, Gu Qingqing sent over two adorable cat stickers in a row.

[OK.jpg]

[Good night.jpg]

Gu Qingqing put down her phone and continued to immerse herself in the sea of ​​questions.

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Physical Education class on Wednesday.

The final wave of summer heat swept across Haicheng as late summer gave way to early autumn. The scorching sun hung high in the sky, and the school felt like a steamer from the oppressive heat.

Gu Fei lazily lay on the table enjoying the air conditioning, not wanting to go to class at all.

“Gu Fei, Sister Fei——” Xi Wan dragged out her voice as she tugged repeatedly at her sleeve, “Come on, let’s go to PE class. The first period is just free activity, we don’t have to do any real exercises, it won’t be tiring at all.”

“No.” Gu Fei turned her head away mercilessly and lay down in another direction.

“Come on, let’s go. What if Mr. Yang comes looking for you if you don’t show up? You know how scary he is,” Xi Wan continued to persuade her.

Gu Fei thought for two seconds and said, “At most, he’ll just tell my parents. But my mom and mommy dote on me, they’d never scold me. So nope, I’m not going!”

Xi Wan deflated and got up in defeat. But after just a few steps, her eyes suddenly lit up and she turned back excitedly, “Sister Fei, Gu little Fei! I heard your sister’s class is having PE with us too. Can you take me to see her? Please? I promise I won’t scare her, I just want to take a peek. Just one look, that’s all!”

“I’m really curious about what your sister looks like. I’m so curious…”

Xi Wan was still chattering away when Gu Fei suddenly sat up, “Did you say Qing-Qing’s class also has PE today?”

Xi Wan’s eyes sparkled and she nodded heavily.

Gu Fei finally stood up, “Okay then.”

When they arrived at the sports field, it was just as Xi Wan had said, the PE teacher gave a brief talk and then let the students engage in free activities. Several other classes on the field were also gradually dismissed.

Xi Wan’s eyes lit up, and she placed her hands on her eyes like a clairvoyant, looking in the direction of the regular class, “Gu Fei, which one is your sister?”

Gu Fei also looked over.

Gu Qingqing should’ve been easy to spot, there weren’t that many students in the regular class, but even after Gu Fei scanned the whole field, she still couldn’t find any sign of her.

A vague sense of unease rose in Gu Fei’s chest, and the next moment, that familiar electronic voice rang out in her mind, “Task issued: Lead the isolation of Gu Qingqing. Task reward: +10 Villainess value. Bonus reward: Depends on task completion level.”