Huo Junshan immediately went to find the dejected Zhao Xingguo.

Zhao Xingguo's face was extremely ugly!

He remembered the bet he made with Huo Junshan.

He chuckled and said, "Brother Huo, Brother Huo, I can't drop out of school."

"This is the school I finally got into."

"If I drop out of school, my mother won't be able to survive."

Huo Junshan smiled and said, "I didn't say you should drop out of school. I just wanted to ask who was behind this."

As he spoke, he looked at Chen Xue.

Chen Xue's face turned deathly pale.

She didn't dare to look at Huo Junshan, feeling as if he had seen right through her.

Huo Junshan is basically just teasing her now.

Zhao Xingguo looked at Chen Xue, his lips trembling as he said, "I don't know that person. She gave me money, so I helped her."

Huo Junshan chuckled twice, and Ning Wenhao said angrily, "You're lying! Are you covering for someone else?!"

"Let me tell you, if you don't tell the truth, you can expect to be expelled from school!"

"We have already submitted that bet to the academic affairs office."

"This matter has a significant impact on the school. Do you think the school will let things develop without investigating the matter thoroughly?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Xingguo panicked and involuntarily looked at Chen Xue.

But Chen Xue was trembling all over.

She dared not look into Huo Junshan's eyes; his eyes seemed to see through everything.

She kept praying in her heart that Zhao Xingguo would not expose her.

She didn't want to be seen as a bad apple by her classmates.

Huo Junshan sneered: "Zhao Xingguo, are you sure you want to give up your studies for a woman?"

"They don't like you at all."

"You're a college student, yet they still look down on you."

"If you really drop out of school, she'll only look down on you even more."

Have you thought this through?

No one else knew what Huo Junshan was talking about.

But after hearing Huo Junshan's words, Chen Xue's legs went weak.

She can't even stand properly.

A classmate next to her helped her up: "Chen Xue, what's wrong? You look terrible!"

Ning Wenhao looked at Chen Xue, whose face was deathly pale and whose legs were so weak she could barely stand.

Is there anything else you don't understand?

Zhao Xingguo hesitated. It was true that he liked Chen Xue, but over the years, Chen Xue had only said a few words to him.

If it weren't for him helping Chen Xue publicize Huo Junshan's connections...

Chen Xue would never give herself a chance.

Huo Junshan is right. Chen Xue doesn't like him at all; she's been using him all along.

Why would someone like that choose to drop out of school for the sake of her reputation?

Now that his promising future was over, Chen Xue wouldn't even glance at him again.

After thinking it through, he looked at Chen Xue and said slowly and deliberately, "It was Chen Xue who gave me five yuan to spread the word about how you used connections at school."

Huo Junshan continued to add insult to injury: "Oh?? She's really stingy. Shen Mingzhu gave her a hundred yuan, and she only gave you five yuan?"

"Zhao Xingguo, don't you think you're ridiculous?"

"They're using you as a scapegoat!"

"Chen Xue, I have no grudge against you, why are you spreading rumors about me?"

Chen Xue could no longer stand.

The students next to her learned that she was the one who did all of this behind the scenes.

He abruptly released her, not forgetting to spit out a mouthful of saliva.

"Pah! I really didn't expect that Chen Xue, who usually seems like such a gentle and kind girl, would dare to do something like this!"

"They'll stop at nothing for money!"

Chen Xue blushed deeply. She wanted to explain, but she had no idea how to do it.

"I didn't mean to."

She only said that one sentence before she fainted.

I just don't know if it's real dizziness or just an act?

Several female classmates helped her to the infirmary, and that was the end of the matter!

Ning Wenhao was furious: "Brother Huo, aren't you angry? How can you still laugh?"

Huo Junshan: "Why not? She did something wrong, but I did nothing wrong. Why should I be angry?"

Ning Wenhao: "You're just going to let them go like that!"

Huo Junshan shook his head: "What good will it do if we don't let them go? Will I make them drop out of school? Do you think I'm the principal?"

"Such a person will eventually be trapped by his own actions!"

The school leaders learned the whole story: it was all a prank orchestrated by Shen Mingzhu to get revenge on Huo Junshan.

The matter was handled swiftly, and Chen Xue issued a public reprimand.

He publicly apologized to Huo Junshan and returned the 100 yuan given to him by Shen Mingzhu.

If he makes the same mistake again, he will be expelled immediately.

Zhao Xingguo, the person in charge of spreading the information, received a verbal warning.

She had already received a verbal warning because of Shen Mingzhu's matter.

This time the situation is more serious; knowing they were wrong, they still made a mistake, so we had to resort to harsh measures.

When Chen Xue learned of her fate, her face turned extremely pale.

Huo Junshan suffered no loss whatsoever, but she endured having to write a self-criticism and apology letter in front of the whole class for just one hundred yuan.

They also had to apologize publicly in class.

They've completely lost face and dignity.

Several classmates who used to get along well with her no longer wanted to associate with her.

However, they only have one more semester left before graduation.

Everyone else graduates in the summer, but they are spring students and are supposed to graduate in the spring.

That is, I will graduate before the end of the year.

It was the weekend.

Huo Junshan and Yun Ningyan were both at home.

Yun Ningyan suggested going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy him clothes and shoes.

I'll be going abroad in a month, and there's still so much to prepare.

The two of them went to the supply and marketing cooperative together.

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