Chapter 75 Chapter 75 Second Place
After that night, Tao Ning had been living in a state of repeated fever and coma. He was rarely awake, but whenever he opened his eyes, he could always see Zhao Jingqun's gentle yet forced smile.
The man had a new kind of stubble on his face, a look Tao Ning had never seen before. He looked a bit fierce, but his voice was extremely gentle. "Be good, baby. When you get out of the hospital, your husband will tell you good news... Now, I'll give you a bath."
"......Hmm." Tao Ning's voice was not obvious through the ventilator.
Because he was afraid of infection and fever caused by bathing, he had not touched water for a long time. Zhao Jingqun would carefully wipe his body with a towel soaked in hot water every few days. This would make Tao Ning feel much better, but not much better, because his whole body was still in pain and he couldn't muster any strength. Also, due to the long-term fever, his mind was completely blocked by the heat wave and he couldn't think.
Occasionally, when the ventilator was removed, Tao Ning would ask blankly, "...Will I die?"
The man who was wiping his body froze in an instant. Under the incandescent light, his deep and somewhat ruffian face changed unpredictably. Finally, all the emotions were mixed together, and his whole face looked distorted. After a while, he continued to wipe.
After a long while, the man said in a very stiff tone, "Tao Ning, you are tearing flesh from my heart when you say these words."
Tao Ning was stunned: "Sorry, I won't say anything more."
Although he felt that separation and death were normal, there was probably another reason his second and third sisters disliked him. They thought this adopted brother was a heartless ungrateful person who hadn't shed a single tear when his parents died. When asked why he didn't cry, little Tao Ning simply said, "Everyone dies."
The second and third sisters were very upset about this matter and thought he was a heartless person. It would be better to send him away. Later, Tao Yuan took over his custody and they let it go.
Tao Ning's lips were kissed by the man, and she could clearly feel Zhao Jingqun's body trembling slightly. At that time, he was no longer the omnipotent man in Tao Ning's heart. Zhao Jingqun would also be afraid, and the sadness coming from the bottom of his heart enveloped Tao Ning like a tide.
So Tao Ning only realized now:
Death is a hopeless thing for the living, so he must live well.
Fortunately, God was kind to Tao Ning. After running a fever for over a week, his mental state finally improved. During this time, he had been injecting a biological agent called "ATG". When he was able to get out of bed and walk, Zhao Jingqun brought him six test papers. His frown relaxed, and he said, "Daibao, look what I brought you."
Six papers were unfolded in front of Tao Ning one by one. They were the papers of his midterm exams in the previous two cycles. He was a science student, and except for Chinese, where he only scored 115, the other subjects were close to full marks, with full marks in mathematics and physics.
Tao Ning was very surprised, but remembering that Oxent's total score also had to take into account his personal behavior, his total score would definitely be greatly reduced. However, Zhao Jingqun smiled and said, "Daibao, you got second in the grade."
"Really?" Tao Ning opened her eyes wide, her pretty face flushed with excitement.
Zhao Jingqun couldn't help but touch his soft hair. "Really, I received the news a few days ago and bought a gift to celebrate."
Sun Laoer's voice came from outside the door, "Hey, be quiet when you go in, don't disturb our young master." The door opened, and Tao Ning looked over, only to see two workers carefully moving a transparent box that was two meters long and half a meter wide. Seeing the carefully packed things in the box, it gleamed with a silver metallic luster under the light, and countless complex parts pieced together to form a huge object.
Tao Ning's eyes widened and she exclaimed in surprise, "It's Optimus Prime!"
In addition to liking Ultraman, Tao Ning also loves all toys related to machinery, such as Transformers. However, when he is at home, he will only stop at the door of the stationery store to look at them for a while, but will not buy them.
Now, Tao Ning suddenly received an extremely huge Transformer, and he had two joys. What's more, after the installed giant Optimus Prime came in, another box of the same height came in from outside the door. The outside of the box was covered with the Transformers' iconic slogan "TRANSFORMERS".
"That one just now was already installed," Zhao Jingqun smiled when he saw Tao Ning's sparkling eyes. "This one needs to be assembled by the baby himself. When the baby feels better, I will help you assemble it, okay?"
Tao Ning couldn't wait to come to the two toy boxes that were several heads taller than him. Through the transparent packaging, he couldn't let go and touched and poked them left and right. "Hmm! Good."
Zhao Jingqun followed him, holding his shoes, and said helplessly: "Baby, put on your shoes..."
Tao Ning's attention was completely drawn to the giant Transformers toy, and he had forgotten about his grades. Unbeknownst to him, his concern for his grades, which ranked behind Optimus Prime, had already caused a stir in Oxente.
A post titled "The person I bet on lost all his money, who is the second in that grade?" was posted just ten minutes after it was posted, and five or six pages of posts followed it.
One-third of the people were explaining the gossip between Tao Ning, the "Second Young Master of the Song Family," the "First President of the Grade," and the "Mysterious Person Outside the School." Another third of the people were discussing "Tao Ning is a transfer student from a remote area. Did he get such high grades by cheating?" The last third of the people were studying what Tao Ning looked like without glasses, and attached a lot of secretly taken pictures.
Until someone named [Study Hard] posted a comment: "He definitely cheated. I was in the same exam room as him. He didn't touch his draft paper during the math exam and was just daydreaming the rest of the time. It's impossible for him to get such a high score. I've reported it to the Academic Affairs Office. Let's wait and see the results."
There are those who agree with the statement, and of course there are also those who have doubts.
[Uh uh uh]: [I support 129L. I heard from his classmates that Tao Ning is often on sick leave. How could such a sickly person possibly get such high scores?]
[Ok Leader All**]: [His English is terrible, but he still scored 148... Haha, let's wait and see the results.]
[Love Milk Tea with Snails]: [I'm also waiting for the results, but is it true that none of you knew that he passed the Olympiad class?]
[Fei Peng Spreads His Wings]: [129L, if he cheats, I'll expel him from school. I'm Wang Peng from Class 5. If it's fake, I'll make sure you can't stay in this school.]
......
Inside the villa, Wang Peng was about to explode with rage. He had just been bragging about his family's well-being, only to have them surprise him by scoring over 400 on the test! Wang Peng felt incredibly impressive. After all, he had studied for over a decade and had never even scored 200. Even if he had copied Tao Ning's score, he still felt incredibly impressive, and his belief that Tao Ning was a genius was even stronger.
He was just about to call Tao Ning to give her some gifts, but he didn't expect to see a post from an ID named [Study Hard] while browsing the posts. Wang Peng was so angry that he started to criticize Tao Ning. He knew best whether Tao Ning had copied or not. He got more than 400 points by copying Tao Ning. What made him want to shout "awesome" the most was that he got all the multiple-choice questions right!
If this isn't a genius, what is it? ? Where did this blind person come from to shout in this post?
Because posting on Oxent requires real names, and the spokesperson's identity could not be found, Wang Peng immediately contacted a friend in the student union and asked him to find out which class the person behind the ID was from and what their name was. He also asked him to block the post. The student union member replied: "This person is Liu Yuliang from Class 2. The president has already blocked the post."
Wang Peng: [Liu Yuliang, right? I'll remember that.]
Wang Peng: [That's not right. Didn't Xu Jun take a leave of absence from school?]
Opposite: [Not yet.]
After a while, Wang Peng was puzzled. He found that the post that provoked conflict was still there, but all the scandals about Tao Ning and those three people were gone. There were only sporadic things related to Tao Ning and Xu Jun. All other remarks that were unfavorable to Tao Ning were deleted, especially the photos. Not a single one was left.
Only the ID name [Study Hard] and the following comments are still there. It seems that the person who deleted the post deliberately kept these comments.
At the same time, in the four-person dormitory in Oxente, Liu Yuliang was gritting his teeth to solve a few math problems while replying to private messages asking him whether Tao Ning cheated or not. He replied that it was true.
"Why is it wrong? Why..." The score column on the math test paper was a glaring 100, which was much worse than his math score in his previous school. Liu Yuliang attributed this to the fact that Oxent's questions were too difficult. He had just transferred to the school not long ago and had not yet adapted to it, so it was understandable.
But Liu Yuliang couldn't accept that Tao Ning had gotten a perfect score on the math test! He had clearly seen Tao Ning's draft paper was blank, she hadn't even touched a pen, and she was just staring blankly. How could she have gotten a perfect score?!
Liu Yuliang believed that Tao Ning must have gotten the answers in advance, because he knew that Tao Ning had connections with those powerful children and was roommates with Xu Jun. Therefore, Tao Ning must have gotten the scores by cheating. When the results came out, Liu Yuliang saw that Tao Ning ranked second in the grade, while he was ranked outside the top 100. Although he did not have to transfer schools, he was still very angry and went to the Academic Affairs Office that day to report Tao Ning for cheating.
The people from the Academic Affairs Office said they would investigate and verify the matter and asked him to wait for the results.
So when Liu Yuliang saw the provocative post, he immediately accused Tao Ning of cheating. But when he saw the comments under his ID, he became uneasy and hurriedly began solving math problems he had wrong one by one, until he could no longer confirm which ones Tao Ning had said were wrong.
Liu Yuliang asked his roommate: "Your class has started discussing the math paper, right? Can you lend me yours to check the answers?" Their dormitory was full of transfer students from different classes, and all the midterm exam papers were only discussed after the scores were out, but the progress of each class was different, and Li Yuliang's class had not discussed this exam yet.
The roommate handed him the test paper and asked, "Which subject is it from?"
"......math."
Liu Yuliang took the test paper away, and his heart skipped a beat when he saw the familiar answers, "Are your answers right or wrong?" Because the questions he was unsure about were exactly the answers that Tao Ning had already given.
The roommate didn't like Liu Yuliang very much, as he was stubborn and troublesome. Hearing this, he said speechlessly, "If you think it's wrong, don't look at it. Give it to me." He pulled the paper back.
Liu Yuliang gritted his teeth and said, "You copied it wrong. I'll give you the correct answer tomorrow."
Roommate: “…” Confused.
The next day, as soon as Liu Yuliang got up, he found that his private messages were flooded with questions, all asking him about the results. This made Liu Yuliang feel more confident, and his original anxiety instantly subsided.
Because he figured these people, so focused on the results, must have thought Tao Ning's grades were cheated. After all, a transfer student from the countryside, no matter how talented, would be stumped by Oxente's questions. How could he possibly be second in the grade? He must have cheated!
Liu Yuliang, also a transfer student, naturally knew the difficulty of this exam, so he firmly believed that Tao Ning had obtained the answers in advance from those powerful children. He hated this kind of dirty work the most. He also received a private message from the ID named [Fei Peng Zhan Chi] who had argued with him yesterday:
[I'll be waiting for you at the Academic Affairs Office.]
He blocked the person without hesitation and posted a message before leaving the dormitory: [The results of Tao Ning's cheating are out, everyone has been waiting for a long time]
It seems that many people have been waiting for the result of the cheating case involving the second-highest grade student. As soon as Liu Yuliang posted, there were dozens of replies.
[Ok Leaders]: [I support you, brother. I've been annoyed by Tao Ning's aloof demeanor for a long time. He usually doesn't even say a word, but then he licks Xu Jun and Song Yucong like a lapdog. ****]
[Uh uh uh]: [The fun is about to begin. When will the results be announced?]
[No Rain in Tokyo]: [1L, you're so disgusting. You must have broken my defense when I ignored you.]
[Invincible Thunderbolt Bunny]: [Am I the only one who is eagerly awaiting the result this time?]
......
The post quickly became the most popular one, and Liu Yuliang's hand began to tremble as he held the phone. After coming to Oxent, he was everywhere filled with disdain and contempt for transfer students. He used to be a star in school with his excellent grades, but after arriving at Oxent, he was nothing.
He suffered a huge psychological gap and it had been a long time since he had received so much attention.
Liu Yuliang's vanity quickly overwhelmed him. He glanced down at the path to the Academic Affairs Office and quickly and politely replied, "Don't worry, everyone. I'll have the results soon. I always believe that while fairness may be far from us, justice will never be late!"
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