Me, a Nobody, Became the Villainess's White Moonlight? - Volume 1 Chapter 66

Chapter 66: Some Are Happy, Some Are Worried

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Whether it was due to the teacher’s criticism or being disturbed by Yu Chuyao’s light laughter and wanting to prove herself.

Su Yingying’s subsequent performance was particularly zealous, so much that even Xie Jin beside her felt it was a bit too much.

If one ignored Su Yingying’s somewhat affected reading style, her presence on stage was actually quite acceptable. With her good looks, she really could fool the teacher who was angry with her just moments ago.

But even so, her flaws had to be pointed out. Otherwise, with such an affected reading style, forget about the principal and leaders, even the students below the stage couldn’t bear to listen.

“But I think there’s nothing wrong with my reading?” As a result, Su Yingying argued with the teacher like this.

This kind of self-satisfaction is usually built on the person’s personality. Actually, this reading style could be heard through one’s own ears, but because the person thinks this style is normal and cute, there’s no self-awareness at all.

At this point, even Xie Jin couldn’t stand it anymore and leaned over to whisper: “Yingying, your reading is indeed a bit affected.”

At this, Yu Chuyao and Tang Xiaorou were covering their mouths and giggling on the side, now even the follower couldn’t stand it anymore.

Su Yingying, being contradicted by Xie Jin, became embarrassed and angry. She raised her little pink fist and pounded on Xie Jin: “So you’re saying you despise me now!”

“Not at all, not at all, just saying if you don’t adjust a bit, the teacher might really replace you.”

Unexpectedly, before they could wait for Yu Chuyao to have problems, Su Yingying herself was showing signs of being kicked off.

This wouldn’t do. If Su Yingying got replaced first, then even if Yu Chuyao had performance issues, she would have to stay.

“And you, stop laughing.” At this point, the teacher also turned towards Yu Chuyao: “When I asked you to read just now, couldn’t your voice be a bit louder? And there were pauses in the middle. This is just reading, when the time comes for you to recite it from memory, won’t it be even worse?”

Ugh… sure enough, she couldn’t escape this ordeal.

Actually, Yu Chuyao was already reading with all her might =-=. Unfortunately, her voice was naturally very soft, and even if she strained her throat to shout, the effect couldn’t compare to others. Forget about Xie Jin’s baritone, she couldn’t even match Tang Xiaorou and Su Yingying.

She couldn’t help this…

“This is already my loudest, teacher.” Yu Chuyao explained helplessly.

Surely they wouldn’t make them stand there and shout without anything when the time comes? Plus with background music, how could human voices possibly compete with loud speakers? So there must be microphones!

When holding a microphone, wouldn’t her soft voice problem have no major impact?

“You still need to smooth out the script, don’t pause for so long in the middle.”

Hey, could it be possible that my eyes can’t keep up with my mouth? Yu Chuyao’s voice was soft but her speaking pace was fast. When reading textbooks or such, her mouth moved faster than her brain, words came out before her eyes and brain could process the information.

So it would be better if memorized.

Great, only realized the trouble when the fire burned to oneself.

“It’s okay, it’s just rehearsal, take it slow,” Tang Xiaorou consoled her from the side.

Yu Chuyao glared at her fiercely: “Isn’t this thing written by you? Why did you write it so long!”

“But didn’t you also add several strokes to it?” Tang Xiaorou smiled helplessly: “Many of my words were very simple, you made them more complex yourself.”

This was another case of lifting a rock only to drop it on one’s own feet.

“I… I…” Now the responsibility couldn’t be pushed onto Tang Xiaorou anymore, Yu Chuyao stuttered for a while, unable to find any supplementary reasons.

Both sides were secretly competing, seemingly not wanting to have problems themselves and be criticized by the teacher.

Yu Chuyao’s situation was still okay, the pauses were simply due to unfamiliarity, and would become smoother after several more attempts. It wasn’t like stuttering which was a physical issue, so the teacher could be more understanding.

But Su Yingying was completely different. Her daily speech had no problems at all, but once it came to formal pledging, it became so affected that people couldn’t stand to listen.

After being corrected by the teacher several times, she seemed unable to adjust.

“We… we… let us…” For a simple sentence of less than 10 words, Su Yingying had to try several times before she could shout it out normally, looking like a child learning to speak from the beginning.

It seemed like she had overcorrected.

Back in the classroom, the classmates very obviously noticed the different states of the three people. Originally when leaving, Su Yingying was very proud, but now returning to her seat she was silent, brooding alone.

If people didn’t already know that Su Yingying and Xie Jin had been getting close lately, someone would have gone over to comfort her.

Yu Chuyao and Tang Xiaorou were fine though, seemingly unaffected.

Although the few people called over didn’t need to worry too much about their studies, they couldn’t be delayed for too long either. Each time they came here for rehearsal was just to go through the process once, and as for the problems that Yu Chuyao and Su Yingying had, they could practice more on their own after.

This made Su Yingying look as bitter as if she had eaten Chinese goldthread and bitter gourd. Originally with her looks, she was definitely qualified, and in people’s eyes it was even a bonus point, and she had made full preparations to show herself.

However, reality gave her a harsh blow, not only was her proud image not well-received, but her state was also picked apart for flaws, and she even fell behind Yu Chuyao.

Yu Chuyao: What do you mean fell behind me! When did I become a unit of measurement!

But Yu Chuyao was fine, she felt that since her problem could be solved just by becoming familiar, then memorizing it in spare time would solve everything.

This was their mother tongue after all, much easier to memorize than English vocabulary!

“There should be enough time, right?” Yu Chuyao hadn’t paid attention to when the general assembly would be, so she felt no pressure: “This isn’t hard to prepare for.”

“Hm? Don’t you know? The time is set for next Tuesday, so there are 4 days left.”

4 days, today was Friday, just enough time to rest half a day on the weekend, should be enough anyway.

However, Tang Xiaorou then gave an unexpected answer: “But we have physical examinations for two days on the weekend, so we probably only have one or two more chances to rehearse.”

Yu Chuyao: …

How could she have forgotten about the physical examination.

Looking at the time, it was indeed that time, even quite late actually.

For students, physical examination was even a time when they could relax a little.

“But since we’re having physical examinations, this week’s rest might be cancelled,” Tang Xiaorou, who knew the school’s nature well, made this judgment.

The school was quite clever – physical examination required students to leave campus, so wouldn’t this opportunity of not having classes be perfect rest time?

They already let you leave campus, what more do you want.

Yu Chuyao felt sad about this, sure enough she had overestimated the school’s mercy.