Chapter 206
Cui Yujie went to the counselor's office with trepidation all the way. The resentment she had when she couldn't find Jiang Ning at the sports meet and the hatred and disgust she had felt when she almost broke her leg while running, all turned into guilt and trepidation at this moment.
The door of the counselor's office is always open. Cui Yujie came to the door of the counselor's office and carefully poked her head out. When she saw Jiang Ning sitting inside, even though she had already prepared herself mentally, her heart still skipped a beat. Her voice, which was usually full of energy, now sounded light and timid: "Counselor, what is the matter with you calling me over?"
The counselor had finished his meal and washed the dishes. Seeing Cui Yujie's expression, he couldn't help feeling annoyed. This was a stupid thing that did not benefit herself at all but disgusted others. He didn't know why this junior girl did this.
He said: "I came here this time to discuss the issue of Jiang Ning not participating in the sports events he signed up for without reason during the sports meet."
Cui Yujie immediately said, "Then just punish him however he should be punished."
The counselor was almost amused by Cui Yujie and said, "But Jiang Ning said she knew nothing about her being registered."
"How is that possible?" Cui Yujie said loudly, and then looked at Jiang Ning: "You signed up yourself, how could you not know?"
Jiang Ning didn't smile at all, and her face turned cold. She asked her, "I heard from the counselor and the class monitor that you are in charge of the girls' registration for the sports meet. So, I registered with you?"
Cui Yujie said loudly with a guilty conscience: "Of course! If you didn't sign up with me, how come your name is here?"
Jiang Ning said: "Then please tell me in detail when and where I told you about the registration."
"Just...just..." Cui Yujie's eyes rolled around, trying to say a specific time and place.
Of course she could make up a story, but she was able to get into Peking University. Although she was a native of Beijing and had a high acceptance rate, it was still a very difficult task. Her IQ was not bad, she was just mentally immature. So she knew very well that even if she made up a time and place, it would be easily exposed, because she knew what she was doing at what time and place, but she didn't know Jiang Ning's. What if there were other witnesses around Jiang Ning at the time and place she mentioned?
Even if she said she was in the cafeteria or in a public place like the dormitory building, there might be witnesses on Jiang Ning's side, or she might be following Liu Yan, and they might know her time and route.
Moreover, she also saw Jiang Ning at the Wanhua Film Festival. Although she had never participated in the Wanhua Film Festival, she knew from Shen Xinlan that those who could walk the red carpet and go to the Wanhua Film Festival had invitations.
Large film festivals like the Wanhua Film Festival usually send out invitations to the crews and individuals who want to participate in the festival one or two months in advance.
It just so happened that the time of their Beijing University sports meet and the Wanhua Film Festival overlapped. Jiang Ning knew that it was impossible for her to sign up for so many sports events after taking out her invitation letter to show that she had already received the invitation to the Wanhua Film Festival in advance.
She knew she had no way to defend herself, so she stammered and could not say anything. Instead, she turned the tables and said confidently, "Everyone has to participate in the sports meet. You can't see me all day long, so is it wrong for me to sign you up? Who told you not to be in class? I can't find you, so how would I know which one you wanted to sign up for? I only signed you up for the running event because I saw you go out for a run every morning. The other events have already been signed up!"
The more she spoke, the more she felt that this was the truth, and her originally guilty and short-tempered expression suddenly became one of righteousness.
Jiang Ning was almost laughing at her. She said to the instructor, "I remember that the sports meet is voluntary, right?" She looked at Cui Yujie again, "I'm not in the class, but we're in the same dormitory. I go back to the dormitory every night. It's been such a long time, and you signed me up, but you didn't even mention it to me, didn't even tell me?"
Cui Yujie stiffened her neck and said, "Who would remember your affairs every day? I have so many things to do and I am so busy!"
Jiang Ning said to the counselor: "Whether she forgot, abused her power, or abused her authority, isn't this a serious dereliction of duty? This incident has also hurt my reputation and spirit. I hope the school can deal with this matter seriously. If it is let off lightly this time, does it mean that in the future, as long as they are class leaders or other cadres in the school, they can abuse their power and do things that use their power for personal gain?"
"I...how did I abuse my power for personal gain? What did I abuse for personal gain?"
Jiang Ning looked at him coldly, "Taking revenge for personal gain, how can that not be an abuse of power and using power for personal gain? Now you are just in school, and a small class leader dares to do this. When you enter society and become a full-time employee in a government department, how else do you want to abuse your power? Use power for personal gain? Or in your mind, do you have to embezzle hundreds of millions to be considered as using power for personal gain?"
Originally, it was not a big deal for Cui Yujie, who had already suffered backlash. Cui Yujie, who almost broke her legs during the sports meet, was accused of "abuse of power" and "using power for personal gain" by Jiang Ning, which made the counselor serious. He said that he would submit the matter to the department and see how the school would discuss how to deal with the matter.
Afraid that Jiang Ning would be unhappy, he said to Jiang Ning, "Don't worry, I will tell the school and have them deal with it seriously." He also said to Cui Yujie, "Please suspend all recent class activities."
This is almost equivalent to directly removing Cui Yujie's position as deputy class monitor.
Cui Yujie was also scared at this time. She had always felt superior because she was a native of Beijing. For the first time, she cried and yelled at Jiang Ning: "I have already apologized, what else do you want? Aren't you fine too? Now I can't be the deputy monitor anymore, are you satisfied?"
She was anxious and afraid, not knowing how the school would punish her. The most tiring process was the unknown process of waiting for the trial results.
She couldn't help but show some resentment in her eyes, and stared at Jiang Ning fiercely.
Jiang Ning's eyes were still cold: "Shouldn't you be satisfied? What hatred or grudge did I have with you before that made you do such a detrimental thing to me behind my back?"
The reason why Jiang Ning handled the matter so seriously was actually the same as the way he handled Liu Ping at Wucheng No. 1 Middle School. That is, at the very beginning, you clearly draw your bottom line and let others know that your bottom line cannot be touched. If it is touched, you will not only die, but you will also be skinned. The next time others want to do something to you, they will think twice.
If someone has obviously bullied you and you just keep tolerating, compromising and keeping silent, the next time others will know that you are a soft persimmon and they will just pinch you because there are no consequences anyway, so they will keep pinching you.
Especially for people like Cui Yujie. Even if you have no grudge against her, she will do something to you in a way that harms others and does not benefit herself. Once she finds out, she will attack you without any consequences, and she will keep bullying you afterwards.
More importantly, if Jiang Ning was only famous among sophomores last year, after the disaster relief operation this summer, Jiang Ning has become a well-known figure throughout Peking University.
This is when her Ningmeng vest has not been exposed. Once the Ningmeng vest is exposed, the influence will be further enhanced. At that time, any small problem will be magnified infinitely, and people will look at you through a magnifying glass.
For someone like her who has a clear goal to enter politics in the future, she cannot have a bad reputation. This incident can be big or small, but if the school does not deal with it seriously and does not clarify it, it may become a stain on her that is difficult to justify in the future.
Even if it is just a small stain, it may not affect you in any way, but if there are many small stains accumulated like this, you never know when, when you are not aware of it, it will affect other people's perception of you and affect your promotion.
Unless the truth already existed back then.
Because after the passage of time, no one cares about the truth of the past. Others will only judge whether you are trustworthy or not based on some things passed down by word of mouth.
If others hear about an incident like this, where you signed up for a sports meet but then disappeared, almost causing the school sports meet to be shelved, their first impression of you will be that you are unreliable.
Not to mention the long-term consequences, in the short term, it may even affect Jiang Ning's admission to graduate school or postgraduate entrance examination.
The counselor didn't know that Jiang Ning's goal plan had been set for ten years later, or even thirty or forty years later. He didn't have any demands on Jiang Ning, and felt that it was justified. He first removed Cui Yujie's position as deputy monitor. As for the school's punishment, it still needed to be discussed.
Cui Yujie, on the other hand, had no way of accepting the fact that she had been stripped of her position as deputy monitor, and there might be consequences for her in the future.
In her opinion, she had only played a little prank, a prank that made her suffer the consequences. She had already suffered the retribution, so why should she be treated like this?
She ran 3,000 meters, 800 meters, and 400 meters. Her legs were almost broken. Isn’t that enough?
Several people in the dormitory saw that Cui Yujie came back crying, like a plucked rooster, with all her original spirit and pride gone. As soon as she returned to the dormitory, she climbed onto her upper bunk and cried facing the wall.
Liu Yan, who was writing something at the square table in front of the window, was surprised for a moment. She stopped writing and looked at Cui Yujie who came back crying in surprise. Then she looked at Jiang Ning who came back after her and asked her in a low voice: "What happened?"
Jiang Ning didn't hide it, and said, "I was registered for so many events in the sports meeting without my consent or even my knowledge, and I didn't even know about it. Of course I have to ask for an explanation, otherwise people will think that I deliberately registered for the sports meeting and then didn't go." She smiled, but there was no smile in her eyes as she said, "This is our school's sports meeting, so it's okay. Later, there will be the Beijing University Games, the National Universiade, and even the World University Games. If they do this all the time, and if they don't like someone, they will secretly register her without telling her, and then accuse her of having no collective consciousness, wouldn't that be a mess?"
Cui Yujie, who had been listening with her ears perked up, couldn't help crying and said angrily, "How can it be that serious? Besides, didn't I run for you?"
Jiang Ning frowned when he heard that and said, "What do you mean by running for me? Did I ask you to do it for me? Did I ask you to sign up for me without my consent? You still think you are not wrong, right?"
Cui Yujie bit her lip, said nothing, and ignored Jiang Ning.
Even though the people in the dormitory had guessed the truth before, they couldn't help but feel complicated when they heard Jiang Ning say in person that Cui Yujie had secretly signed her up for the sports meet without telling them, and then heard Cui Yujie admit it.
They had all just finished their three years of high school and had entered college life, which had only been less than two months.
Although I had conflicts with my classmates in high school, they were all minor frictions. I have never encountered someone like Cui Yujie, who was completely self-defeating and did not benefit others.
Even if what she did was to harm others and benefit herself, they could understand it, but for someone like her, who was a classmate of the same department and class and had the chance to be together in the same dormitory, and then stabbed her in the back for no reason, they still felt chilled to their hearts.
Especially Liu Yan, who was closest to Cui Yujie, and Zhang Min, who was always arguing with everyone in the dormitory and always spoke her mind and was never polite.
Jiang Ning also said to the other girls in Dormitory 401 in a slow tone, "We are classmates, which is a rare fate. We still have a long way to go in the future. If I have offended you in any way, please tell me in person. I will try my best to change what I can. If I can't change, let's seek common ground while reserving differences. Instead of stabbing you in the back silently." She smiled and said, "You know, I will retaliate."
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhang Min, who was worried that Cui Yujie would stab her in the back, said loudly: "That's right, I have a straightforward personality and usually speak directly. I say whatever I want to say, but I really don't have any bad intentions. If I have offended you in any way, or if what I said makes you unhappy, I will definitely not be angry if you say it to your face. Just don't do anything behind your back." She pouted, glanced at Shen Xinlan's upper bunk and said: "This time it's Jiang Ning, who knows whose turn it will be next time?"
These words, which were obviously meaningful, made Cui Yujie stop crying and turn her back to them without saying anything.
Yu Qianqian and Shen Xinlan nodded with lingering fear.
Yu Qianqian has a soft and simple personality. When she was in high school, she was a very simple girl who only focused on studying. She even held a position in the class as the study committee member. She didn't have to do anything else but study hard and be a role model for the class.
After arriving at university, because there was Jiang Ning, the exam king who had already started studying sophomore and junior courses in her freshman year, in her dormitory, and the other girls in the dormitory also followed suit, she had nothing else in her mind except studying, and she didn't know how to deal with any messy interpersonal relationships.
She didn't expect that in the dormitory where she lived, there would be someone like Cui Yujie who did not play by the rules and did things behind others' backs. This made her feel a chill on her back, and she wanted to change dormitories.
Help! She is really scared to live in the same dormitory with such a person!
She was a little afraid of Cui Yujie, fearing that she would do this to her someday if she disliked her. She had a soft and avoidant personality and really couldn't handle these things!
Shen Xinlan has a harmonious family and was raised like a little princess by her parents. She is usually quite self-centered. Cui Yujie had always wanted to get close to her, but she didn't like Cui Yujie's arrogance towards other people in the dormitory and her fawning attitude towards her, so she ignored Cui Yujie. She didn't know if she had offended Cui Yujie, but she knew that there was definitely no conflict between Jiang Ning and Cui Yujie. She was doing this behind the back of such a person without any conflict. She might have offended Cui Yujie, so wouldn't she be hated by her?
Whenever Shen Xinlan thought that there was someone behind her, waiting to make things difficult for her at any time, and thinking about her, she felt a chill in her heart and her eyes turned a little colder.
Even Liu Yan, who had always been close to Cui Yujie, did not try to smooth things over or come over to comfort the crying Cui Yujie. Instead, she continued to write something with her head down. For a while, the dormitory 401 was a little quiet.
Even the question that I originally wanted to ask Jiang Ning whether she was Ning Meng was forgotten. Everyone was doing their own things in the dormitory.
When they went out to eat together in the evening, no one called Cui Yujie. Liu Yan spontaneously went out with Zhang Min, Yu Qianqian, and Shen Xinlan. Sometimes when she saw Jiang Ning in the cafeteria, she would also call Jiang Ning to join them.
Although no one was trying to isolate anyone, they all distanced themselves from Cui Yujie without any prior agreement.
He was severely punished and removed from his position as deputy monitor.
At this time, another incident that shocked the entire Kyoto University occurred. A female student from the class of 1995 committed suicide for unknown reasons.
I don’t know if it was affected by this incident, but the hospital quickly made a decision on the punishment of Cui Yujie, and actually gave her a demerit.
The demerit will be recorded in the file, and will have a great impact on a series of subsequent bonus assessments, admission to graduate school, application for party membership, and even future job hunting. Cui Yujie never expected that she would receive such a severe punishment for such a small act, even though she had already reaped the consequences.
This was a huge blow to Cui Yujie, who had always thought highly of herself and was addicted to power.
Cui Yujie didn't say a word in the dormitory, and looked completely depressed.
She appealed to the school several times, and even approached her parents to see if she could use their connections to find the department head and have the disciplinary record in her file changed, but to no avail.
Although her family is from Beijing, they have no connections at all. It was a blessing from her ancestors that she was able to be admitted to Peking University. Who would have known that something like this would happen?
She never thought that such a small thing could have such serious consequences.
From then on, Cui Yujie's temperament suddenly became gloomy. Her hair, which was always combed behind her ears to expose her forehead, was no longer combed back. Instead, she left thick bangs and combed her hair forward, covering most of her face with long hair hanging on both sides of her chest.
She always felt that someone was talking about her behind her back, laughing at her, so she always kept her back straight and her head held high, but she couldn't help but lower her head slightly, trying to hide herself.
This situation lasted for about half a month. Suddenly one day, when they returned to the dormitory at noon, they suddenly found that all the things on Cui Yujie's bed had been moved away and the bed was empty.
Probably when they went to class in the morning, she asked for leave and asked someone to move out.
Only after she moved did they realize that she had moved to another girls' dormitory in the School of Mathematics.
Liu Yan and the others all breathed a sigh of relief. The atmosphere in dormitory 401, where Cui Yujie was not around, became more relaxed. No one was as cautious as before, fearing that if they had offended Cui Yujie in some way, they would be retaliated against behind her back.
After the decision on Cui Yujie's punishment was made, the counselor also called Jiang Ning and the people in dormitory 401 over and told them that Cui Yujie's incident was over and she had received the punishment she deserved. He also expressed his concern for Jiang Ning and her situation in dormitory 401 and told them that if they had any problems, they must tell him and the school and not keep it in their hearts.
The school will solve it for them.
I said that the matter was over now and asked them not to tell anyone about it.
The school was afraid that something might happen to Jiang Ning and the others, but they also didn't want to punish Cui Yujie too much. They thought it would be best to make a big deal out of a small matter.
After all, it is not a good thing. Being laughed at by other departments is a small matter. The only thing is that we are afraid of another student suicide.
What’s past is past. If they study hard, Cui Yujie will be able to start over.
Cui Yujie's application to change dormitories was approved by the counselor. After what happened, Cui Yujie was also given a minor warning. The counselor probably knew that it was impossible for Cui Yujie and Jiang Ning to reconcile, so he agreed to it after getting the consent of a girl from another dormitory.
There were three people from Beijing in that dormitory, plus Cui Yujie, there were four in total. The counselor also felt that since they were all from the same place, they might get along better.
After Cui Yujie left Dormitory 401, the atmosphere in the dormitory became extremely harmonious. None of the girls were troublemakers. Even Zhang Min was of the type who would not offend others unless they offended her. She was not a gossiper and of course would not tell anyone else about it.
Jiang Ning is even less likely to do that.
She didn't even spend much time in the dormitory. On the one hand, after the Wanhua Film Festival ended, many people called her off-campus rental house to discuss with her the remaining copyrights of the two works "White Snake" and "Song Dynasty".
The film copyright of "The Song Dynasty" has been signed to Director Yu and Boss Wang, with whom Jiang Ning had worked before. Because the contract was for profit sharing, Jiang Ning has not received any money yet. The TV drama copyright of "White Snake" is still left.
Jiang Ning looked at several teams that wanted to buy the copyright, and she only asked them to start filming within two years. If the work still had not been approved after two years, she could sell the TV drama copyright of the work to others.
This condition is the most demanding. Some people even come to Jiang Ning to discuss copyright, not for filming, but to be middlemen, wanting to buy from Jiang Ning at a low price and then sell it at a high price.
However, there are people who sincerely want to buy the TV rights to Jiang Ning's "White Snake". Among them is a director who is very optimistic about the work being made into a TV series. He painted a lot of rosy pictures for Jiang Ning, describing the prospects very well and the team as good. The only thing he wants is not much money.
Jiang Ning didn't care and told them that they could discuss the copyright in the form of profit sharing.
After a TV series is finished, it must be sold to TV stations. With the current popularity of Lemon Studios' works, there is no need to worry about no TV station being willing to buy them at a high price.
If this really becomes a profit-sharing cooperation model, the copyright price will increase by more than several times, which makes the team that wants to buy her copyright very hesitant.
Wang Shao and Director Yu, who had signed the copyright contract for the film "The Song Dynasty" after getting drunk, wanted to come to Jiang Ning to discuss the copyright fee for this work and see if the profit sharing could be changed to a one-time buyout as before. They even offered a sky-high copyright fee of 500,000.
As a result, they saw that Jiang Ning's phone calls never stopped, all of which were from people wanting to buy the copyrights of her two works, "The Song Dynasty" and "White Snake".
Wang Shao was young after all. He was stimulated by these calls. Thinking of the money he had earned, he gritted his teeth and said, "This is the contract. I won't change it!"
He and Director Yu both thought of the time when Tong Jingang kept saying at the dinner table that Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai were lucky, and that Jiang Ning had been particularly lucky since childhood.
If they just think about Jiang Ning's journey, how he got into a key high school, and was admitted to Peking University with a gold medal, and how several of his works sold millions of copies, which led to the rise of "Wuxia" magazine, and how many ratings and box office successes several of his works had. The more they think about it, the more they feel that this brother and sister are really lucky.
In order to take advantage of Jiang Ning and Jiang Bo's luck, they decided to invite Jiang Bo to play the important role in the film!
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