Chapter 446 Counterattack
Vice Minister Qi glanced at him and shook his head. "Never mind, I've just taken office and I'm very busy lately, so I won't be accepting graduate students for the time being. Zhao, why don't you ask other teachers?"
After saying that, he waved and left.
Zhao Shucheng, "..."
He chased after him for a few steps, still feeling indignant.
Catching a glimpse of Yao Jianshu leaving, she became even angrier.
No, what's so great about Yao Jianshu that makes everyone want her, instead of me?
When Vice Minister Qi left, the other students who were picking up scraps also scattered in a swarm.
Zhao Shucheng returned to his dormitory, seething with anger, and ran into Jin Nan packing his things to leave school. He couldn't help but give him a sarcastic remark.
Jin Nan glanced at him but ignored him.
Seeing that he couldn't say a word, Zhao Shucheng vented all his resentment on him, cursing and swearing until Jin Nan finished packing his luggage.
"Finished yelling?"
Jin Nan straightened up and stretched his wrists and ankles.
Zhao Shucheng's heart skipped a beat. "What do you want to do? You want to hit me?! Let me tell you, Jin Nan, you're no longer a graduate student at the Foreign Languages University. Pack your bags and get out of here!"
"I will leave, before I leave..."
Jin Nan tilted his head and gave Zhao Shucheng a sinister smile, "Of course, I'll settle scores and avenge my grievances!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he threw a punch.
Zhao Shucheng called out and turned to run out of the dormitory.
Jin Nan took two quick steps after him, and just as Zhao Shucheng grabbed the dormitory doorknob, he kicked the door shut, grabbed the man by the back of his collar, pulled him back, and threw him to the ground.
Then, he turned around, bent down, and pressed down on Zhao Shucheng, punching him in the abdomen again and again.
He hit me and said, "I'll teach you a lesson for being two-faced! You put on a fawning act on the surface, but secretly you're seducing Liu Yue to harm me!"
Zhao Shucheng shouted in response, "Ah!"
He hit me once, then said, "I asked you to testify so I could get arrested!"
Zhao Shucheng, "Ah!"
Jin Nan, "I called you..."
Zhao Shucheng, "Ah!"
When Jin Nan got tired of beating him, he pushed up his glasses, picked up his luggage, and left. Zhao Shucheng was already curled up in a ball, pleading for help from the people who were peeking in to laugh at him.
"Help! Jin Nan is going to kill someone..."
"Someone call the police for me. I... I want Jin Nan to spend the rest of his life in jail..."
The students who peeked in glanced at him, then at Jin Nan, and then silently walked away.
Zhao Shucheng was so angry that he screamed and cried. He was in so much pain that he was covered in sweat. It took him a long time to finally gather the strength to get up from the ground and go to the school clinic to get painkillers.
Deputy Minister Li was transferred to the archives department as Director Li, which gave him a lot more free time. He would go to the school every few days to check on Yao Jianshu and Deputy Regiment Commander Luan's study progress.
They were also given access to the database, allowing them to browse the materials whenever they had free time.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' database is many times richer than the documents in university libraries.
A week later, Zhao Shucheng was exposed for falsifying his written test scores. The real owner of the scores was Zhao Shucheng's cousin, Zhao Xiang. Zhao Xiang's father was seriously ill, and Zhao Shucheng's parents gave him 10,000 yuan for medical treatment. They bought out Zhao Xiang's scores and had her write Zhao Shucheng's name on her answer sheet.
As for the interview, Zhao Xiang studied some of the questions that Vice Minister Li often asked when recruiting graduate students over the years, and wrote down the answers word by word in advance, which Zhao Shucheng memorized sentence by sentence.
Although it sounds absurd, Zhao Shucheng managed to get it done.
After the school confirmed the facts, they immediately expelled Zhao Shucheng and kicked him out.
When Yao Jianshu learned of this news from one of Vice Minister Li's graduate school seniors, she was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a while. She thought of the phone call her sister-in-law had given her the night before the investment promotion conference, in which she had also told her, "Zhao Shucheng's grades might be fake..."
In a daze, she turned her head and called Sister-in-law Yao.
"Sister-in-law, is that Zhao Xiang the girl you mentioned before?" Yao Jianshu asked.
Sister-in-law Yao nodded. "The time Zhao Shucheng went to cause trouble and got slapped in the face by you, I had someone follow him and found out that the girl he went to see was Zhao Xiang. It's a pity that the girl is far more outstanding than Zhao Shucheng, but she ruined her future because of 10,000 yuan."
He sighed again.
Given the choice between her father's life and her future, it's only natural that she would choose the former.
Sister-in-law Yao just felt sorry for the girl.
She could have had a brighter future.
On the phone, Yao Jianshu also sighed, "It's such a pity. Zhao Shucheng's first place should have been hers. She is the one who truly deserves to be number one."
Sister-in-law Yao smiled.
"My sister-in-law is also very outstanding. Getting second place isn't easy; she's second in the entire capital city, so it's quite prestigious. How are you getting along with your senior classmates?"
"...She treated me very well. The news was specially given to me by my senior sister over the phone. Sister-in-law, I don't know if I'm overthinking it, but I always feel that there's something more to what she said," Yao Jianshu said.
Sister-in-law Yao laughed and said, "If others can use you as a starting point to bring down Vice Minister Li through the butterfly effect, then Vice Minister Li can naturally use Zhao Shucheng as a scapegoat to pull out the radish and bring out the mud."
"...Is this a counterattack by Vice Minister Li?" Yao Jianshu understood immediately.
Sister-in-law Yao smiled and said yes, let her just observe and see how those in power deal with their enemies.
Yao Jianshu glanced at the microphone and asked his sister-in-law, "Is it your fault that Zhao Shucheng's grades might be fake, sister-in-law..."
"yes."
Sister-in-law Yao hadn't intended to hide it from her.
“Jianshu, if you don’t choose this path, what I’m doing is to vent your anger. But if you choose this path, what I’m doing is just testing the waters for you. Zhao Shucheng… Vice Minister Li has already investigated Zhao Xiang’s case regarding the falsified grades. I just found Zhao Xiang’s father before they did…”
"Sister-in-law..."
Yao Jianshu's heart softened, and her eyes welled up with tears. Unbeknownst to her, her sister-in-law had done so much for her in silence.
Sister-in-law Yao noticed the sob in her voice and smiled. "Silly girl, I've raised you for over ten years, treating you like a younger sister and a daughter. Now that I have the ability, I'll naturally pave a smooth road for you and help you go further. Don't think too much. If you want to climb up, then give it your all! We're all behind you, so just keep moving forward boldly!"
"……good!"
Yao Jianshu clenched his fist and looked up at the distance. Li Banxia was squatting down to wipe Le Bao's face, which was covered in sugar water. Noticing Yao Jianshu's gaze, she looked over, her eyes full of care and affection.
Yao Jianshu smiled as she thought about the hardships her mother-in-law had endured. Her child's third uncle was schemed against by Lin Jiefang, her mother-in-law was forced to retire from her good job due to illness by Zheng Huaixin, and when she gave birth, she almost lost all three of her twins because of a single sentence from Zheng Huaixin!
If you lack the ability, you can only endure it. But if you have the ability, why not fight for your family?
What if!
"Sister-in-law, I understand what you meant earlier."
Sister-in-law Yao was taken aback. "What?"
"We work so hard so that the people who love us and the people we love can live a good life," Yao Jianshu said.
On the day Zhao Shucheng dropped out of school, he went to find Liu Yue.
"Whose fault is it? Is it my fault?"
Liu Yue's face was extremely ugly. "It's your own fault for being so useless..."
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