Seeing the sharp eyes of the chief judge, Su Yun secretly said in her heart: I was careless, and was too eager to win points, which backfired.

If her skills were mediocre, perhaps the three judges would give her a sympathy point that would not affect the final result; but this time she had to strive for the top spot to qualify for the semi-finals, so the chief judge lost his previous sympathy factor and became extremely strict.

From the expressions of the other two judges, we can tell that her performance was good enough to get full marks. However, since Su Yun also got full marks in the first two items, if she got full marks in this music item, she would be the first in the list by temporarily changing the competition materials, which would inevitably lead to criticism and dissatisfaction from other parties.

This also made it difficult for the chief judge to deal with her.

If the two judges beside her hadn't been speaking for her, the main judge would probably have announced her score directly, thus cutting off her chance of qualifying to the top of the list for the semi-finals.

"I can confront the people from Yinghua Primary School and prove that they were the ones who touched my competition equipment." Su Yun was silent for a moment before speaking.

"Go immediately and call all the people assigned here by Ying Hua Primary School to the conference room next door. We need to investigate this." Unexpectedly, Su Yun, who had been vague just now, now broke the news so directly. The chief judge immediately turned around and spoke sharply to the staff next to him.

"Little boy, go back to your seat and take a rest. We will discuss your score again." The female judge who has always supported Su Yun gently advised Su Yun, "Don't worry."

Su Yun nodded, picked up the bench and walked back to the audience seats.

"What happened? Why isn't your score in the music event?" After the contestants on the stage finish their performances, the chief judge should come out to announce the scores on the spot, but Su Yun walked off the stage directly. Zheng Guoguang, who was unaware of the backstage accident, saw that Su Yun only had scores in two events on the scoreboard on the wall, and he couldn't help but ask with great concern.

"They said I performed well, but not taking good care of the competition materials is also a very serious problem. Now they are re-discussing my score in this event." Su Yun briefly explained to Zheng Guoguang and others.

"Since we want to confront each other, then bring Zhou Xinheng along!" Wang Jia suddenly clapped his hands and prepared to go backstage to arrest him.

"Forget it, I can deal with them." Su Yun stopped Wang Jiaju who was ready to fight.

The judges will call her over later. It would be good if she could defeat Yinghua - but if she can't, the video recorded by the system will be the most powerful evidence.

There was no need to even use high-definition video. She could just make a pair of tapes and pretend they were recorded evidence, and the corrupt Ying Wah Primary School would be doomed to fail.

With this winning mentality, Su Yun did not expose Zhou Xinheng who had temporarily gone astray: after all, we should leave a way out for future encounters. If Zhou Xinheng could correct his mistakes after this experience, there would be no need to kill him all at once.

What Su Yun didn't expect was that when it was Zhou Xinheng's turn to play in the next round, no one showed up.

"What's going on? Shouldn't there be a competition for students from the Xinhui Chamber of Commerce School in this round?" Zheng Guoguang took Su Yun and others back to the backstage to ask the staff.

"You are Zhou Xinheng's teacher, right? Zhou Xinheng said he had a stomachache and needed to go to the restroom before he went on stage. I looked for him for a long time but he didn't come out. I went to the restroom to look for him and found this at the sink." The staff handed over a piece of paper and said speechlessly, "You don't have to apologize. We will automatically forfeit if you are not on time..."

Looking at the note that read "I'm sorry everyone, I give up my rights", Su Yun and others looked at each other in bewilderment.

"When Su Yun was competing before, he kept his head down and didn't say a word. I think he really knew he was wrong..." After all, having known each other since childhood, Lai Kit-fen could probably guess what Zhou Xinheng was thinking, "and Su Yun hadn't exposed him just now, so he felt too much pressure in his heart, so he secretly left here..."

It was unexpected that Zhou Xinheng, who had been committed to this competition, would be forced to leave in such a way. Not to mention others, even Su Yun, the biggest victim in this incident, was a little disappointed.

"Tsk, what a cowardly bandit." Seeing Su Yun's look, Wang Jia suddenly clicked his tongue in anger.

Su Yun also shook her head secretly: After the people from Yinghua were defeated by her, it was still unknown whether they could transfer to another school. Zhou Xinheng actually gave up the competition and left. It was a waste of the opportunity she had kindly reserved for him to show his talent.

But she didn't have time to think about it now - the staff in charge of judging the competition came to find her and asked her to go to the conference room.

After thanking Zheng Guoguang and others who wanted to come to help because they were worried about her, Su Yun followed the staff into the conference room with a calm face.

As soon as I entered the door, I immediately saw the middle-aged male teacher who went to Zhou’s Appliance Store that night.

At this time, the middle-aged male teacher was slamming the table and glaring at her: "Why do you say that it was us from Yinghua who damaged your competition equipment? You should know that we from Yinghua did not have any contestants who entered the semi-finals this time! We came here purely because the competition stipulated that every participating school had to send someone to participate in the competition work, so we showed up here!"

"If you continue to make unwarranted accusations against us, we at Ying Hua Primary School will sue the Xinhui Chamber of Commerce for defamation!"

Su Yun didn't bother to pay attention to this scoundrel who was trying to turn the tables on her. She turned to look at the chief judge and reorganized her words to describe how someone from Yinghua had asked Zheng Guoguang to open her package on the pretext of inspecting the competition supplies when she was competing in a technology project.

"It wasn't just us, Sir Zheng, at the time. Other people in the backstage should also be able to testify to this." Su Yun's decisive words blocked the middle-aged male teacher's way of saying that their own people would definitely speak for their own people.

The middle-aged male teacher had not expected this little girl to be so difficult to deal with. He looked around and finally grasped a clue: "The people in the backstage should have been able to see your teammates there, right? Why didn't you say that your teammates were jealous of your high scores, so they secretly tampered with your things?"

"Su Yun, why didn't you say that your teammates were there at the time?!" Upon hearing this, the chief judge's eyes fell sternly on Su Yun again.

"Is there anything else to say? It must be her teammates who did something behind the scenes. She was in a hurry and couldn't blame her teammates, so she just pushed us, the Yinghua team, into the trap!" The middle-aged male teacher sneered, "But I think you are too stupid. No one from Yinghua is participating in the competition. You can't hurt us at all!"

Seeing this guy talking nonstop, Su Yun simply took a deep breath, her expression was about to cry, and she looked like a pitiful person who had been wronged but couldn't say anything: I'll let you continue to babble for a few more sentences, let me win the sympathy of others first, and then I'll use my ultimate move to kill you in an instant!

The middle-aged male teacher was so arrogant that the chief judge turned around and looked at him with a little dissatisfaction: as the chief judge of the competition, he had seen all kinds of unspoken rules of those competitions. The middle-aged male teacher kept emphasizing that no one from Yinghua participated in the competition and just reported that Zhou Xinheng from Xinhui Chamber of Commerce was absent without reason, which made him realize something.

Could it be that Yinghua Primary School recruited Su Yun's teammate Zhou Xinheng, and in order to help Zhou Xinheng secure a place to transfer to a prestigious school without taking an entrance exam, Su Yun, a kind-hearted child, was reluctant to say that her teammate and Yinghua had conspired to harm her, and could only remain silent here and be verbally attacked by the people from Yinghua.

People always sympathize with the weak. Su Yun performed extremely well and strongly in the previous competition, so the chief judge subconsciously raised his expectations of her. Now that Su Yun is standing here pitifully and being questioned speechlessly by a middle-aged male teacher, an adult, her status has instantly changed from a strong person to a weak person, making people want to be more tolerant of her.

"You should say less. How much can a little kid understand? Ask her school teacher to come over!" Sure enough, some people in the jury were fed up.

"Call me if you want, then show me the evidence if you can!" The middle-aged male teacher snorted, "Otherwise, I have to leave, we still have a lot of things to do in school--"

Before he finished speaking, the door of the conference room was suddenly opened from the outside.

"I have evidence!" Zhou Xinheng pushed open the door breathlessly and raised a box of tapes in his hand.

"Is there a lot of things going on in the elementary school recently? How come I didn't know about it?" Then, an old man came in from outside.

Su Yun did not recognize this old man, but the other judges present, who were originally teaching and research staff from various primary schools, were very familiar with him - the visitor was none other than Mr. Ellis, the current principal of Anglo-Chinese Primary School, Jielong Secondary School and Anglo-Chinese College.

Every move of a famous school always attracts other schools to learn from it. For example, during his tenure, the old principal Ellis established the club system, held large-scale events such as the first swimming meet, graduation ceremony, open day, charity bazaar, and was also responsible for the launch of the school magazine, making Ying Wa College one of the first schools in Hong Kong to have a school newspaper.

He even tried to break the tradition of boys' schools by admitting 15 girls into the Form 6 class a few years ago, which became a controversial topic at the time.

Except for St. Paul's Co-educational High School, which pioneered coeducation, most other schools in the region that only accept boys or girls will not break the tradition and change the status quo. Some people talked about the move of the old principal Ellis, while others thought it destroyed the tradition; however, the controversy finally ended as he was about to retire this year.

For these reasons, the independent old principal of Ying Wah College is well-known in the Sham Shui Po district.

"I met Mr. Ellis when I visited Ying Hua School to see my brother working on the school magazine, so I rushed over to invite him over..." Zhou Xinheng explained to Su Yun as he put the tape on the table, "I'm sorry, I know I was wrong."

"If I had entered Yinghua by taking a wrong path, not only my family members, but also my brother would not forgive me." Zhou Xinheng bowed deeply to Su Yun, "Thank you for always protecting me, but I must admit this mistake!"

When the middle-aged male teacher from Ying Hua Primary School came to talk to him, he was helping to repair a tape recorder, so he kept an eye on it.

Now, it really comes in handy.

At the same time, the old principal, Mr. Ellis, also apologized to the judging panel and explained: "Many years ago, because the school building on Oxford Road could not accommodate the primary department, the students and teaching staff of the old primary department were transferred to Kei Wah Primary School to continue their classes. When we were preparing to merge and rebuild the primary department this year, some people pointed out that there were problems in the handover of the old and new teaching staff, which led to a decline in the quality of secondary school students..."

The one-stop system allows primary school students to go directly to their respective secondary schools without having to compete. At the same time, poor management of the primary school department will cause hidden dangers for the secondary school department.

Although Kei Hwa Primary School afternoon school inherited the name of Anglo-Chinese Primary School, in reality, because the school building was far away from the secondary school, the inconvenience of managing the secondary school led to the development of the primary school department astray, resulting in a group of teaching staff whose level did not meet the requirements of a prestigious school infiltrated the school.

The old principal, Ellis, wanted to reform but time was running out. However, at least after hearing the news, he still tried his best to solve the problem of middle-aged male teachers.

With Ying Wa College and Zhou Xinheng voluntarily admitting their mistakes, the truth of the accident finally came to light.

Back in the audience, Zheng Guoguang, who heard about this, nodded in understanding: "No wonder it's like this. I was wondering why such a decent school like Ying Wah would have such a teacher and staff..."

"No matter what, it's a good thing that you can turn over a new leaf! Work hard to get into CESL, you can do it!" Wang Jiaju and Li Jiefen also encouraged Zhou Xinheng.

"Thank you..." Zhou Xinheng managed to endure the two people's fierce beatings and turned to look at Su Yun, "Your score..."

"The last round of competition is almost over. They should have come up with the results soon, right?" Su Yun looked towards the stage. When she saw the chief judge coming up with the form, she quickly called out to the others, "Here he comes!"

As if sensing Su Yun's gaze, the always serious chief judge smiled and signaled the staff to re-record a score on the scoreboard on the wall.

"10 points, 9 points... 10 points! Su Su, you still got 99 points! You still got the highest score in the semi-finals!"

Amidst the excitement caused by the team’s dramatic comeback from the middle of the total score to first place, the chief judge smiled calmly and slowly read out the names of the finalists:

"The finalists of the inter-school knowledge competition for primary school students in the 18 districts of Hong Kong are——"

"Hong Kong Four Districts Federation of Commerce and Industry Xinhui Chamber of Commerce School, Mary Sue Su Yun!"

Su Yun's smile froze instantly: Wait, what's with the English name at the end? !