Don't Mess with the Girl with Candy novel Chapter 155

Call her his master? At that, Juniper blinked, her pretty face a mask of sincerity. “Oh, I don’t know… wouldn’t that be a little awkward?”

The math teacher choked, sputtering in anger. Did she really think she could pull it off?

“Pfft—” Before the math teacher could recover, a sharp laugh echoed through the room.

Everyone turned to see the physics teacher, Keith, sitting on the sofa with his arms crossed and his eyes closed, a wide grin on his face.

“Keith, what’s so funny?” the math teacher demanded, his face dark with confusion. Was his declaration that ridiculous?

“Nothing, nothing,” Keith said, opening his eyes and waving his hands dismissively. But a second later, he let out another snort of laughter. The image of the math teacher calling Juniper his master was just too much to resist.

The math teacher was silent. So were the other teachers. Juniper’s expression was one of wide-eyed innocence.

“Keith,” the Dean interjected with a frown, “be serious. This is a serious situation.”

“Right.” Keith immediately wiped the smile off his face and closed his eyes again. The situation was serious, sure. Whether the matter at hand was, he wasn’t so certain.

“You claim you earned this score yourself. Can you prove it?” the Dean asked coldly. It wasn’t just the perfect score. It was the fact that she had finished each exam in about an hour. He refused to believe such a prodigy existed.

The other teachers nodded in agreement. They didn't believe it either.

“This problem here,” the math teacher said, pointing to the second part of a major question. “Tell me how you solved it.” It was a tricky question, with several twists that required some effort.

Juniper glanced down, not even bothering to look at the original question on the paper before launching into her explanation. “Assuming x equals 3 and y equals 4, then…”

Juniper wrote slowly, detailing every step.

“There's another way to solve it?” the math teacher thought, scratching his head. Just as he was about to ask a question, she filled the page and flipped it over to continue.

Five minutes later, the complete solution was laid out on the paper, dense with calculations that made the other subject teachers’ heads swim.

“Let me check this…” The math teacher eagerly took the paper and reviewed it several times. The steps were detailed, and the answer was entirely correct.

“But this one problem took you five minutes,” one teacher pointed out. “How could you have finished the entire exam in an hour? The other problems required just as much work.”

“I was afraid if I simplified it too much, you wouldn't understand.”