Sarah nudged Sophia’s shoulder. Sophia, who was standing in front of the bulletin board, was as nervous as most top students as she watched the staff post the result on the board. Written on it was the winner of the National Scholarship. There was only one winner per school, so the scholarship was extremely precious. All of Sophia’s friends were waiting to witness her glory…
After the result was posted, everyone flocked to see it, so the bulletin board was very crowded. Sophia searched for her name excitedly but to no avail! She thought she had read it wrong, but after reading it again, she still didn’t see her own name.
There was only one winner of the National Scholarship from the School of Business Management this year, but it was not Sophia. She looked at the results blankly, suddenly feeling puzzled.
“Stop searching. Your name isn’t there!”
Natasha left triumphantly but Sophia stood in front of the bulletin board, making no move or speaking.
Sean soon realized that something was wrong and hurriedly comforted her, “It’s okay; it’s only 8,000. It’s nothing. The appraisal process for this kind of scholarship is particularly shady, so don’t take it to heart.”
Stanley also quickly persuaded her, “Exactly! It’s only 8,000. Come on, I can give it to you.”
Many students were not satisfied and started whispering among themselves as they stood around the bulletin board.
“Why did Natasha win the National Scholarship? As far as I know, the National Scholarship requires the comprehensive development of morality, intelligence and physical fitness. The topic of the stage name and marriage incident is still trending and she’s the infamous ‘Mrs. Murray’. How could someone like her win the National Scholarship?”
“Keep it down…”
Sophia rushed back to her classroom without saying a word and found the class representative. “Class representative, I hope to see our final result confirmation form again.”
The final score of the selected scholarship was a combination of academic performance and conduct evaluation scores. Sophia knew how much she scored in exams, but her conduct scores were evaluated by the class committee. She was confident in her exam scores and her conduct assessment as she had participated in many clubs and in many competitions, managing to receive tons of awards and trophies. Plus, she had never been absent from the collective charity activities organized by the school. These were all related to her conduct. She also published several papers in national journals, participated in two or three national competitions and the global Esports World Championship, all of which were written in her application form.
She had investigated other competitors in advance and no one had a better track record than she. Even if something fishy was going on, she had to know exactly how she lost and who was the stumbling block!
Sophia rushing into the class and questioning the class representative had placed the class representative in a very difficult position, so she couldn’t help but say loudly, “You have not been selected this time, so you should try again next year. There’s no point for you to say anything else now.”
Sophia asked calmly again, “I just want to know why I was unsuccessful.”
Seeing that Sophia wasn’t about to give up, the class representative found her score sheet and showed it to her. “Look for yourself.”
That day, Michael went home early. When he reached home, he saw Sophia playing with the cats in the living room, seeming to be in a bad mood. Michael was about to coax her when he suddenly saw Stanley calling him. Why is this stupid dog calling me? Does he want to come over for a free meal again?
Whenever something didn’t go well for her, Sophia would think to herself, I already managed to sleep with my idol, so what else would bother me? So what if she couldn’t find her dad? What if she didn’t win the National Scholarship? She had such a handsome man!
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