<h4>Chapter 853: Conversation Round—I’m Picking Her</h4>


    With so many people around her who were staring at her, it went without saying that Yun Jian could not immediately sense that she was being targeted. Currently, she was standing in front of Lawson urging thetter to hurry back to his judging area.


    Although Lawson wanted to talk more to Yun Jian, he was urged by the teacher who had been guiding him just now just when words reached the tip of his tongue. He could only walk away while turning back continuously—even pausing on his track to tell Yun Jian, “Yun Jian, wait for me after thepetition endster. You have to take me around Country Z since I’vee all the way here! Make sure you do!”


    Pressing her lips together, Yun Jian’s delicate face looked pure yet intentional. “Mn,” she nodded with a hum.


    Then, Lawson ran back to where he was supposed to go as a judge.


    Seeing that the show was over, the crowding students dispersed as well.


    The foreignnguagespetition began shortly.


    There were more participants this time and the teachers who led students from their schools had already arranged their students before they came to thepetition venue. Each student here was ranked into four levels, A, B, C, and D.


    Students in Level A wouldpete against each other and vice versa for the rest of the levels. Needless to say, students in Level A were also those who scored the best in their school. Coming to Level D, they would be the ones with the worst speaking skill across the schools.


    The ranking of levels were tested by a few teachers who specialized innguages several days ago as they went to the students who were taking part in each school.


    Without a doubt, Yun Jian’s speaking level was A, so she was put in the Level A group.


    The goal of grouping them like this was to speed up the process of thepetition since they had more participants this time. When the list was out, the first group topete was students in Group A.


    Yun Jian was already standing in Group A’s area but she did not see Ning Lan. It was thus deducible that she was not in Group A.


    As for thepetition venue, they were on the big field of Foreign Languages High School’s junior high division. The English speakingpetition was not a closed event, so all the participating students could watch the contest. The only catch was that they must not make noise.


    Currently, students in Group A were already in the midst of thepetition. It was divided into two rounds with the first round being dictation. The first round was simple. One would only have to recite an English conversation printed by the organizer and the judges would score each participant ording to their performance.


    Yun Jian spoke well—everyone there had already heard her earlier, so when she read the long chunk of conversation eloquently, no one was too shocked like how they were in the beginning.


    With Yun Jian as theparison, Ji Xuetang who held the title of “foreignnguages prodigy” did not seem as outstanding. This only made thetter resent Yun Jian more.


    The second round of thepetition gathered all Group A participants to stand together and pick their own opponent for a foreignnguage conversation round. Both parties would talk in a foreignnguage until one party failed to reply, meaning another party won. The party who won could select their next opponent while the one who lost wouldpete against another participant who lost. The one who won, on the other hand, could rise up the round and thest two parties who gain victory all the way wouldpete against each other, thus resulting in first, second, and third cing.


    When Group A students chose their opponents, the audience was nervous. The two people who received the most attention were Ji Xuetang who was called the “foreignnguages prodigy” and Yun Jian who was able to talk easily with a foreigner.


    Before the conversation round began, Ji Xuetang pointed at Yun Jian right at the start of the selection of their opponents and spoke arrogantly, “I choose her!”