On the day the results came out, I logged into the school's official website and took a look.

I immediately stood up from my seat.

"What's wrong? Does sitting affect your signal?" Honghua looked at me puzzled.

"I, I'm the first!" I excitedly hugged Honghua and spun around like crazy, as if I had won the lottery!

"You, you've got to be kidding me. How could you be first in the final exams? Is that even possible?" Honghua rubbed her exhausted head and couldn't believe that my self-perception could be so unclear.

"No, not just first in the final exams, I also won the first prize in the Challenge Cup!"

According to the college regulations, only students who have completed the required credits in their first year of study can apply for the national scholarship. Exchange students can only apply if they are recipients of the national scholarship!

And winning a first prize in the Challenge Cup is worth 8 credits!

All the hard work I put in since I started school, enduring hardships to earn credits, has finally paid off.

I promptly opened my email and started writing a letter.

According to the school regulations, exchange students, just like scholarship recipients, need to submit their application letters to the institution themselves. I pressed the last letter and sent both application letters with one click.

Done!

Suddenly, my phone rang.

The caller was my advisor -

Teacher Liu.

I answered the call, and she said directly, "Deng Sui, come to the administrative building. I want to talk to you about something."

Thinking that I still needed to get the college's seal on some of the application materials after submitting the letter, I organized a few documents and brought them to the administrative building.

As soon as I arrived at the office door, I saw Zhulinjia there too.

She didn't seem surprised by my arrival at all and deliberately smiled at me.

Teacher Liu asked me to sit across from Zhulinjia.

"Deng Sui, this is how it is. Our college has five national scholarship slots this year, but we have six students who meet the criteria. According to the evaluation rules, your ranking advantage is not significant."

"Teacher, I ranked first in the final exam scores for my major. Isn't that an advantage?" I couldn't understand it. I was deeply shocked.

When it comes to awarding scholarships, does it not matter if you're the top scorer? Are they evaluating sports awards?

"Nowadays, the country advocates comprehensive development, and the school needs to consider all aspects of the students." Teacher Liu still had that calm and composed look, with an expression that said, "You don't understand."

Indeed, I didn't understand.

"Isn't this a scholarship? A 'study' scholarship! And I'm not just studying, I have enough credits and quality development points, and I have awards from competitions! I completely meet the scholarship evaluation criteria!"

"There have been some changes to this year's evaluation criteria, and you no longer meet the requirements." Seemingly impatient with my persistent questioning, Teacher Liu frowned.

"Then who does meet the requirements?" I suddenly looked towards Zhulinjia. Can it be her?

"Of course it's me." Zhulinjia raised her eyebrows, her eyes constantly glancing at me with a proud look.

"Of course, Teacher also knows that you work hard in your studies, but that's how life is, there are always times when things don't go as planned. You have to learn to accept it all and try harder next time."

After saying that, she went out into the corridor to answer a phone call.

"Pfft!"

Zhulinjia couldn't help but laugh next to me.

"Deng Sui, what are you competing with me for? Can you beat me?"

"Do you think you've won over me just by becoming the class monitor? Take a good look at yourself in the mirror, do you even know where to sit in a restaurant? Hahaha."

She finished speaking and fiercely bumped into me with her bag before leaving.