"Is that Su Ge?" Song Xia and Ji Ye strolled to the vicinity, looked at Su Ge squatting on the ground crying for a while indifferently, and then prepared to turn around and leave.

"Ji Ye, it's you again! What did you do to Su Ge?" Just then, Xiao Mo arrived, because Su Ge had been bullied by Ji Ye.

Song Xia opened her mouth, was speechless for a moment, and then said, "Xiao Mo, her crying has nothing to do with us. We just happened to be passing by."

Xiao Mo glared at the two of them, then comforted Su Ge: "Don't be afraid, just tell me what's wrong, I'm not afraid of the Ji family."

Su Ge simply clutched her report card tightly, bit her lip, glanced at Ji Ye, and sobbed without offering any explanation.

Seeing that Xiao Mo was about to get angry again, Song Xia crossed her arms and chuckled, "There are surveillance cameras in the trees, so don't accuse people unjustly. We were just passing by. As for why she's sad, maybe you can take a look at her report card."

Su Ge finally spoke up. Her voice choked with sobs, and her expression was one of humiliation as she said, "Ji Ye, do you look down on me now? Let me tell you, this was just an accident. I will definitely catch up with you and Bai Xinyi in the next exam."

Ji Ye's expression remained cold: "What you do has nothing to do with me."

Unexpectedly, these words seemed to provoke Su Ge even more anger: "In short, I will not admit defeat."

Ji Ye pulled Song Xia and turned to leave, not even bothering to give her another look.

Su Ge continued, "What's there to be proud of? People from privileged backgrounds like yours will never understand the pain of someone like me who can't even afford tuition. You can just casually say you have countless excellent teachers tutoring you. Is getting first place such a big deal?"

Song Xia didn't like hearing this. She stood still and said seriously to her, "Is your poor family background an excuse for your bad grades? If a child from a mountainous area said this, I could understand, since the teaching resources are relatively poor. But the teachers who are teaching you now are all top-notch teachers hired by this school at high salaries. Everyone is attending the same classes."

"Besides, it's already amazing that our Xiaoye got first place. You only know that he has tutoring after school, but you don't know that he only tutors things unrelated to academic subjects. He has learned much more than you do. He studies until at least 10 p.m. every day. What do you do in your spare time? Are the other specially admitted students in different conditions than you? Why is it that you are the only one who did so poorly?"

"Your family background is not an excuse for your poor grades. Miss Song, speaking of which, my family situation is similar to yours. I also have a sick mother and a gambling father. I even have a young brother with special talents. But I have never felt sorry for myself. I was admitted to university with the highest score in science in the city. What about you?"

Su Ge retreated repeatedly after hearing Song Xia's words, her face growing paler and paler.

Song Xia continued to sneer: "I don't understand why you never explain when your boyfriend misunderstands our Xiao Ye. Please restrain him and don't drag innocent people into this because of you."

Su Ge roared, "Do you all look down on me?"

"First, you need to do things that people can respect. Second, you have nothing to do with us, and we have no opinion about you."

After finishing her sentence, Song Xia turned to Ji Ye and said, "Didn't we just say we were going to go to the art studio to see your past works?"

Xiao Mo stood aside, feeling neither angry nor embarrassed. It turned out that the other person really was just passing by: "Su Ge, why didn't you stop me just now?"

Su Ge's tears flowed even more fiercely: "Even you blame me? Am I really that bad?"

"No." Xiao Mo scratched his head in frustration. "That's not what I meant. I just don't want to yell like an idiot for no reason."

Su Ge seemed to have made up her mind: "Xiao Mo, let's break up. I'm serious this time. We won't be deskmates next semester. I just want to focus on my studies."

Xiao Mo's eyes instantly blazed with fury: "You want to break up with me just for exam results? If you want to study hard, I can hire a tutor for you!"

Su Ge simply shook her head: "Continuing to get entangled with you will only distract me, and I don't want others to say that I rely on you or anything like that. I don't want to be looked down upon."

Xiao Mo clenched his fist: "Anyone who dares to look down on you, I'll shut them up."

"You still don't understand, Xiao Mo. Let's just leave it at that. We're from different worlds. Maybe we shouldn't have been together in the first place. I can't let my mother down because of you."

After she finished speaking, she turned and ran away, while Xiao Mo kicked the tree next to him hard.

Song Xia didn't inquire about what happened between the two afterward. Recently, she discovered something and was wondering whether to tell Ji Ye.

"What's wrong?" Ji Ye quickly noticed that something was wrong with her and asked with concern.

[It should be fine to say it, anyway. Xiao Ye's relationship with them is already like that, and I haven't done anything, and Ji Jianfei hasn't even started implementing anything.]

Hearing these unusual words, Ji Ye paused in his eating. Lately, he had mostly heard Aunt Song's concern for him, and he hadn't hesitated like this in a long time. "Over there?" Did she mean Mei Xue and the others?

Finally, Song Xia decided to speak up: "Xiao Ye, the investigation results regarding Ji Jianfei's emails are in. Don't be angry, and don't cause trouble for them."

"Was it made by Mei Xue?" Ji Ye asked directly.

“Hmm.” Song Xia nodded. “All the evidence points to her. I guess she wants me and Ji Jianfei to have some kind of romance, and then she’ll win you over. Anyway, we can’t prove that she has any malicious intentions, and her methods are too low-level and won’t work at all, so let’s just forget about it.”

"Forget it?" Ji Ye's eyes turned slightly cold. Was she really that jealous of him? It was rare for Aunt Song to be kind to him, and she was scheming to take that away? Did she think that without Aunt Song, he would yearn for her pitiful maternal love again? And then give his Ji family's assets to her and Mei Jiao?

“Xiao Ye, she can’t touch us right now. There’s no need to waste your time and emotions on this. I’m telling you this just so you know she hasn’t given up yet, not to make you feel bad.”

"Yes, Aunt Song, I understand."

Ji Ye lowered his head and resumed eating. He wouldn't let it go so easily. Since there was so much free time over there, he would find some things for them to do.

So while they were taking a walk, he turned around and contacted Han Jie: "Doesn't your family own an entertainment company? One of your studios employs two really skilled paparazzi?"

"what are you up to?"

"Have them follow and film these two people to see if they can find any dirt on them. I'll pay them double the usual rate."

Han Jie didn't ask what it was about. After asking the people in the studio, he readily agreed. Meanwhile, Mei Xue and Mei Jiao were unaware that their beliefs were about to collapse.