Upon receiving the call, Xia Congwen rushed to the school, but he insisted that Xia Mingyue was innocent.
“You must have made a mistake. My daughter wouldn’t cheat. Her grades are so good, she’s always been in the top ten of her grade, and she even got in the top three in the last monthly exam. What reason would she have to cheat?”
"Top three?"
The teachers exchanged meaningful glances, then looked at Xia Mingyue, who was pale as a ghost, and understood everything.
Then the homeroom teacher took out the report cards from the previous monthly exams.
Xia Congwen took the report card and looked through it under Xia Mingyue's fearful gaze.
A few minutes later, Xia Congwen closed the report card and took a deep breath.
His face flushed red and then turned pale, he was so embarrassed that he wanted to disappear, and his gaze toward Xia Mingyue was terrifyingly gloomy.
"Were the report cards you showed me before fake?"
Xia Mingyue said with a sob in her voice, "I'm sorry, Dad. I'll definitely do better next time, I..."
Before she could finish speaking, Xia Congwen, unable to bear it any longer, slapped Xia Mingyue across the face. Several teachers quickly came over to mediate.
"Mr. Xia, please don't hit your child. It's normal for grades to fluctuate, but cheating is indeed wrong. You can educate him properly when you get home."
Xia Congwen looked at Xia Mingyue and said, word by word, "There will be no next time."
The teacher said with satisfaction, "That's right. Every child makes mistakes. She definitely won't do it again next time."
Xia Mingyue looked utterly hopeless.
She knew that what those words really meant was that she wouldn't have another chance.
Xia Congwen strode out of the school, his long-suppressed regret clearly written on his face.
In fact, he had already regretted it, but his vanity wouldn't allow him to admit it or admit it.
But a wave of regret washed over him, telling him that he had made the wrong choice.
Xia Mingyue limped after him, calling out, "Dad, wait for me, wait for me..."
Xia Congwen didn't pause for a moment. He drove straight out of the school gate, got into his car, and left without even glancing at Xia Mingyue.
Xia Mingyue was sprayed with exhaust fumes. She stood there, staring at the departing car, and finally couldn't hold back anymore. She squatted down and burst into tears.
When she finally got home on the bus, she heard Lin Zhi's joyful voice.
"Honey, I found Pianran's school. It turns out she's in another top-tier high school just a few stops away from us."
I even found her picture on the school forum. Come look, she's so beautiful now! Everyone calls her the school beauty.
"Do you know how much she has improved in her studies? She was still last in the first diagnostic test, failing every subject."
In just a few months, she's already in the top ten of her class.
Xia Mingyue stood at the door and heard Lin Zhi boasting incessantly, sometimes crying and sometimes laughing.
Although Xia Congwen did not speak, he stared intently at Lin Zhi's phone, his face clearly filled with regret.
Xia Mingyue's last glimmer of hope was extinguished.
They regretted it.
Xia Mingyue thought to herself, since that's the case, she also needs to make plans for herself.
After the cheating incident, Xia Mingyue became virtually invisible at home, and her reputation at school plummeted.
The video from her hospital room was also circulated to her school, and her classmates, who knew her identity, looked at her with strange eyes.
Some even called her a fake heiress or an imposter to her face.
Like Yao Wangdi in her previous life, she began to be isolated and bullied.
Lacking confidence, she dared not resist and lived in constant fear, both at home and at school, with no interest in studying whatsoever.
Mr. and Mrs. Yao were penniless and unwilling to return empty-handed, so they came up with the idea of asking the Xia family for money again.
But the security guard already recognized them and wouldn't let them into the community.
So the two of them started collecting trash and scraps near the Xia family's neighborhood, waiting for their prey to come to them.
The Xia Congwen couple were informed in advance by the gatekeeper that they should use a different gate to enter and exit, thus avoiding them each time.
So, half a month passed, and Yao's parents did not run into Xia Congwen and his wife. They only saw Xia Mingyue once, and she even managed to sneak away from them.
Mr. and Mrs. Yao racked their brains trying to figure out how they could legitimately extort money from the Xia family.
Until one day, they saw someone holding up a banner outside the community.
The man cheated on his wife, and the mistress lived in this neighborhood. The wife brought a group of people to the entrance of the neighborhood and displayed a banner that read:
Ms. So-and-so from Building X, Unit X of XX Community is in love with my husband and has come to arrange for him to take a concubine.
This scene attracted numerous reporters to take pictures, and the man and his mistress were instantly exposed, with all their information being revealed.
Suddenly, the lightbulb in Yao's parents' heads lit up.
The two of them desperately collected scraps and even gritted their teeth and sold their blood twice, hoping to raise money to create a big news story.
Lin Zhi went to Pianran's school repeatedly to find her, begging for forgiveness with tears in his eyes and constantly giving her money, which annoyed Pianran to no end.
Finally, Qi An went to the school, and the school gatekeeper refused to let Lin Zhi in again.
However, afterwards, many girls suddenly started trying to get close to Pianran, asking her about her brother.
Pianran replied with a single sentence: "My brother is super handsome, right? Too bad I already have a sister-in-law, the one who picks me up in her Maybach every day."
The girls had no choice but to give up in disappointment.
Unable to enter the school gate, Linzhi waited at the school entrance and caught a glimpse of Pianran from afar as she got on and off the bus.
However, she soon forgot about performing the act of a remorseful mother at the school gate.
Xia Mingyue has disappeared.
They also took all the gold bars, cash, and precious jewelry from Linzhi that were locked in the safe, totaling tens of millions of yuan in value.
Upon hearing the news, Lin Zhi's asthma flared up immediately, and she collapsed at the entrance of Pianran School. Passersby called 120 and she was taken to the hospital.
Xia Congwen had just called the police when he received a call from the hospital, and rushed off to the hospital to take care of Linzhi.
After Lin Zhi woke up, she broke down and cried for a long time. Xia Congwen finally stopped being stubborn and cried with her.
"Yangyang is right, we were really stupid. We spent sixteen years raising a thankless child who hurt our two children."
"Honey, we can't make another mistake. Let's find Yangyang and Pianran; they're our own flesh and blood."
"Okay, whatever you say. I'll go apologize to them and beg them to come back."
They thought this was the worst possible situation, but soon something even more devastating happened.
The couple had just made up their minds to find Xia Zhiyang and his sister, but before they could take any action, the school leaders called Xia Congwen's cell phone.
As soon as the call connected, the school leader, who was usually very polite to him, started swearing at him.
Even over the phone, the spittle was practically spraying onto his face.
"Xia Congwen, you idiot, can't you handle your own family's trivial matters properly? The reputation of our century-old institution has been ruined by you two clueless fools."
Upon learning what had happened, Xia Congwen's vision went black, and cold sweat instantly broke out.
Lin Zhi, who had just left the hospital, almost went back in.
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