Chapter 92: Mu Shaoyan Angrily Confronts He Guang (Contains Little Xi...)
Ninety-two:
Mu Shaoyan was eating candied hawthorns, and Ye Qingxi was with him.
His ranking improved significantly this time, and his score was quite good compared to his previous scores. So, when Duan Yi passed by the candied hawthorn cart on his way home from school, he had already picked out some for Ye Qingxi, but after thinking about it, he also got a skewer for Mu Shaoyan as encouragement.
When Mu Shaoyan saw the string of candied hawthorns, he could hardly believe it.
"Is this...buy one get one free?" Mu Shaoyan guessed. "Or is the second one half price?"
Duan Yi: ...
Duan Yi was speechless. Why didn't he just say to add one yuan for a freebie?
"If you're not going to eat it, give it to me." He held out his hand.
Mu Shaoyan immediately took a bite of the candied hawthorn. He was joking, it was rare to get a candied hawthorn from Duan Yi, and it wasn't even discounted. Even if he had one, he would still eat it, let alone have no prejudice against candied hawthorn.
Otherwise, wouldn't that be letting Duan Yi benefit?
Mu Shaoyan ate the top hawthorn and handed the grapes next to it to Ye Qingxi, saying, "Xiaoxi, you eat this."
Duan Yi bought strawberry for Ye Qingxi today, while Mu Shaoyan got a mix of hawthorn and grapes.
The two strings complement each other perfectly.
So before long, the uncle and nephew were eating together.
Duan Yi looked at it and inexplicably found the scene somewhat cute.
He shook his head. How could Mu Shaoyan be cute?
She must have been influenced by Ye Qingxi to appear cute.
Duan Yi nodded: That must be it.
"Brother, aren't you going to eat one?" Ye Qingxi handed him another candied hawthorn, "You just ate one."
Duan Yi shook his head, "You can eat it."
"Would you like this skewer?" Ye Qingxi pulled Mu Shaoyan's hand and handed the candied hawthorn in his hand to Duan Yi.
"No need," Duan Yi said gently.
Ye Qingxi released her hand only after he refused.
Mu Shaoyan then held the candied hawthorn to Ye Qingxi's mouth, urging him to eat the last one.
After finishing the candied hawthorns, Duan Yi began to explain the questions that Mu Shaoyan had gotten wrong.
Ye Qingxi listened along with Mu Shaoyan.
Looking at Mu Shaoyan's test paper, he felt that he had indeed made a lot of progress. Before, there were large blank areas on the test paper, but now, there were no such large blank areas.
"Very good, keep it up!" Ye Qingxi silently cheered him on in her heart.
It wasn't until after explaining the questions to Mu Shaoyan and Mu Shaoyan pulled Ye Qingxi away that Duan Yi had time to do two more sets of test papers.
He finished washing up around 1 p.m. and went to bed.
It was getting late, so Duan Yi stopped using his phone and didn't see the discussions about Mu Shaoyan on the forum.
Mu Shaoyan didn't see it either.
He has never liked browsing forums, and besides, he is currently in a high mood for studying and busy consolidating his knowledge from his second year of high school.
It wasn't until the next morning, when Duan Yi was on the bus to school, that he discovered the forum was flooded with posts about Mu Shaoyan.
A friend told me that Mu Shaoyan seems to have improved his ranking a lot this time. Could he have cheated?
The building next door is too tall, I'm too lazy to climb it. Has anyone figured out if Mu Shaoyan cheated?
Why are you saying Mu Shaoyan cheated?! Is there any evidence?!
Can someone help analyze this? Did Mu Shaoyan cheat on his grades?
"He's been in class consistently for the past month and has been paying close attention. Isn't it normal that he's doing better on his tests than before?"
"I don't think someone like Mu Shaoyan would cheat. Does the person who said he cheated have any evidence?!"
Why am I seeing Mu Shaoyan all over the place when I woke up? Did he cheat? He actually cheated?!
Duan Yi: ...
Duan Yi clicked the report button one by one.
He has never been one to argue with people, nor is he a particularly enthusiastic person. If it weren't for the fact that Mu Shaoyan and he are now considered teacher and student, a month ago, Duan Yi would have simply scrolled past this post without a second's hesitation.
After submitting the report, he flipped through a few pages but didn't see any valuable posts, so he left the forum.
When Mu Shaoyan arrived at school, he had just sat down and was about to put his schoolbag into his desk drawer when he saw a folded piece of workbook paper inside.
Mu Shaoyan took it out, and the paper unfolded naturally, revealing the words on it: "[Someone on the forum said you cheated, and many classmates are discussing it now.]"
Mu Shaoyan: ? ? ?
Mu Shaoyan: ...
Mu Shaoyan put his schoolbag inside, folded the paper and stuffed it into his shirt pocket, then took out his phone and opened the school forum.
As the words on the paper say, there are several of his posts on the homepage, and it even appears that many have been deleted.
He saw several headlines like, "What happened to that long thread about Mu Shaoyan cheating? It's gone! Did Mu Shaoyan report it and delete it out of guilt?"
Why were my posts deleted? Is it true that Mu Shaoyan cheated and no one is allowed to speak out?
Did the administrator take money from Mu Shaoyan? Are they now deleting posts for him?
Mu Shaoyan: ...He doesn't even know who the administrator of their forum is, okay?!
Mu Shaoyan left the forum, too lazy to bother with it.
In a sense, the "what's the use" attitude he had during his second year of high school also helped Mu Shaoyan develop a strong heart that didn't care much about what others said.
Anyway, he's nobody to Mu Shaoyan, so Mu Shaoyan doesn't care at all.
As Duan Yi entered the classroom, he saw Mu Shaoyan sitting in his seat with a book open on the table, seemingly reciting something.
It's normal; it looks the same as usual.
Didn't you see the rumors on the forum?
That makes sense, Duan Yi thought, Mu Shaoyan doesn't usually browse forums.
He walked to his seat, thinking that since Mu Shaoyan didn't know, he shouldn't tell him either, otherwise, given Mu Shaoyan's personality, he would definitely get angry again.
Duan Yi opened the forum and found that new posts had appeared. Helpless, he clicked the report button again.
However, as soon as he put the phone down, Duan Yi picked it up again.
He re-entered the forum and chose to post a thread.
Duan Yi originally wanted to post that Mu Shaoyan hadn't cheated, and that the reason he was making such rapid progress was because Duan Yi was tutoring him.
But after he had already edited the text, he deleted it.
Mu Shaoyan maintained a certain distance from him at school, and although he had tutored him for a month, it was limited to his home.
At first, he would specifically take him out of the classroom and ask him questions at the deserted stairwell.
Later, he became his tutor, so Mu Shaoyan stopped asking him questions at the stairwell and only left the questions he didn't know to him at his house after school in the afternoon.
He didn't seem to want people to know about their teacher-student relationship.
Duan Yi revised the text, saying: "Mu Shaoyan did not cheat; he wouldn't do such a thing."
Someone immediately replied: "He's a school bully, wouldn't he do something like this?"
[The original poster is speaking with such certainty, what, are you Mu Shaoyan himself?!]
[You saw him during the exam, can you guarantee he didn't cheat?]
[My god, Mu Shaoyan has so many fans! What do you guys like about him? His face? Or is it his money?]
"You're saying he wouldn't do something like that? You talk as if you know him perfectly well."
[Could it really be Mu Shaoyan himself? Mu Shao, I believe you! With your status, you don't need to cheat!]
The person upstairs is such a sycophant, it's almost unbelievable.
Duan Yi: ...
Duan Yi reaffirmed once again that not everyone in this world has a brain.
Perhaps it's not that they're brainless.
Mu Shaoyan is handsome, comes from a wealthy family, and is popular. Many people like him, but many others dislike him.
For those who dislike him, nothing you say will make a difference.
They didn't care whether he actually cheated or not; they just wanted him to cheat.
Duan Yi started reporting again; reporting was still more effective.
Campus life is boring, and anything with even a little bit of buzz is enough to pique everyone's interest, let alone something as prominent as Mu Shaoyan, or something as serious as cheating.
So when Mu Shaoyan went to the restroom after his first class in the morning, he discovered that people from other classes were discussing him.
Mu Shaoyan: ...They're really free.
He patted the other person on the shoulder.
The other person turned around, and upon seeing him, immediately shut their mouth in fright. They then gave an awkward laugh and quickly made up an excuse to run away from him.
Mu Shaoyan calmly went to the toilet, calmly washed his hands, and calmly left.
He heard arguing on his way back to class.
"Who said Mu Shaoyan copied me! He didn't even turn his head, how could he possibly copy anything?!"
When Mu Shaoyan heard his name called, he turned around and saw Gao Heng, his former classmate from the first year of high school, who had been in the same examination room as him.
He didn't know who he was arguing with, but the two of them started fighting. Gao Heng was clearly at a disadvantage. Mu Shaoyan frowned and walked quickly toward the other party.
Gao Heng looked at the person in front of him, so angry that his hands were trembling as he fought.
He just didn't understand. He was in the same exam room as Mu Shaoyan, and Mu Shaoyan's grades had improved a bit this time. So why did everyone start saying that Mu Shaoyan improved by cheating on him?
Even his friends came over to ask him if it was true.
Gao Heng denied it, but his friends believed him while others did not. Behind his back, they said that Mu Shaoyan must have threatened him, and he was afraid of Mu Shaoyan's retaliation, so he dared not admit it.
Gao Heng: ...
Gao Heng almost suffered a heart attack.
He was already angry about those words, and when he went to the restroom and heard similar remarks, he exploded.
Unable to contain himself, he shouted at the other person, "Who said Mu Shaoyan copied me! He didn't even turn his head, how could he have copied anything?!"
In public, the other person also had to save face. He felt he had lost face after being yelled at like that, so he yelled back without saying a word.
Both of them were hot-tempered and young, and before they knew it, they were fighting.
However, Gao Heng had never been in a fight before, and after only a few exchanges, he was already clearly at a disadvantage.
Just as the opponent's fist was about to land, Gao Heng had no time to react before he was suddenly pulled away from where the fist was about to fall by a force from behind.
Gao Heng turned his head and saw the school bully standing next to him with a gloomy face.
The next second, before Gao Heng could react, the person opposite him had already been kicked to the ground by Mu Shaoyan.
Mu Shaoyan released him and walked up to the other person.
The other person took a solid kick from him, and seeing his gloomy face, suddenly panicked.
"Try touching him," Mu Shaoyan said coldly.
The other person looked at him, not daring to speak.
Mu Shaoyan turned to look at Gao Heng, "Are you alright?"
Gao Heng shook his head.
"I'm in Class 1. Within a year, no matter when or who causes you trouble, whether it's inside or outside the school, you can come to me and I'll help you solve it."
After Mu Shaoyan finished speaking, he turned around and glanced at the person who stood up from the ground, his meaning very clear.
Gao Heng was somewhat surprised.
"Thank you," he said softly.
"Then I'm leaving," Mu Shaoyan said.
Upon hearing this, Gao Heng quickly called out to him.
"What's wrong?" Mu Shaoyan asked, puzzled.
Gao Heng: ...
Gao Heng simply couldn't understand how he could act like nothing was wrong when he had suffered such a severe heart attack. "Did you check the forums?"
"I hadn't seen it before."
"So, it seems that you don't want to find a way to refute the rumors?" Gao Heng was even more anxious than him. "You clearly didn't copy me, you didn't cheat, and they're saying those things about you. Aren't you angry?"
Mu Shaoyan thought to himself, who do they think they are, that they're not worth getting angry over.
If he were to get angry over something like this, he would be furious after a year of self-destructive behavior.
only……
Seeing Gao Heng like this, Mu Shaoyan knew that although he didn't care about these things, it was obvious that Gao Heng cared a lot.
This matter seems to have caused him considerable trouble.
"I'll handle it." Mu Shaoyan patted his shoulder reassuringly.
Gao Heng wasn't entirely at ease, but it was good that he was willing to resolve the issue.
"Then hurry up," he urged him. "Otherwise, if the rumors spread too far, it will be really hard to refute them."
"Okay," Mu Shaoyan replied.
He returned to the classroom, opened the school forum, and sent the link to the forum to Mu Zheng.
Mu Shaoyan: [Help me find out who's spreading rumors about me.]
Mu Zheng clicked on it and saw the debate on the homepage about whether Mu Shaoyan had cheated.
Mu Zheng: ...Can't they just let his younger brother focus on his studies?!
Mu Zheng: [I'll handle it.]
Mu Shaoyan refused: "I can handle this myself. You just need to investigate the person for me."
"Okay," Mu Zheng replied.
He sent the forum address to his subordinates.
Not long after, Mu Shaoyan received a reply from Mu Zheng.
The discussion about his cheating originated from a post titled "I heard from a friend that Mu Shaoyan seems to have improved a lot in rank this time. Could he have cheated?"
This post has been deleted by the forum administrator, but the person who posted it did much more than just this one post. It can be said that he kept posting all night, trying to make this matter more popular.
Mu Zheng: [It's your classmate.]
Mu Zheng: [His name is He Guang. Do you have any issues with him?]
He had a good memory and had seen Mu Shaoyan's ranking list, so when Mu Zheng saw He Guang's name on the email, he felt that it looked familiar.
As it turns out, when I checked Mu Shaoyan's ranking list, it was indeed true.
Mu Shaoyan: ...
Mu Shaoyan was speechless.
When Ye Qingxi said that He Guang was looking at him unkindly, he didn't understand. They didn't have much interaction, so where did he get such a big grudge against him?!
Now, Mu Shaoyan was speechless.
What's he after?!
What on earth did He Guang do to deserve this?!
How could he hate me to this extent, to stay up all night spreading rumors about me? Doesn't he get tired?!
That's why it's hard to be a good person.
If I had known better, I would have ignored him that day and let him stay. He would have been happy when he got beaten up.
Mu Shaoyan replied to his elder brother: 【Understood, I will handle it.】
Mu Zheng: [Hmm.]
Just as Mu Shaoyan and Mu Zheng finished their conversation, the bell rang to signal the end of get out of class.
Mu Shaoyan stood up and walked to He Guang's seat.
He gestured to his deskmate, He Guang, signaling him to leave.
He Guang's deskmate, unaware of what was going on, wisely stood up and left.
Mu Shaoyan looked at He Guang, "Is this interesting?"
Feeling guilty under his gaze, He Guang instinctively tried to avoid him.
"I don't know what you're talking about," he said, then stood up and left.
There was a wall behind him, so He Guang pretended to be calm and tried to walk past him.
But he didn't succeed.
Mu Shaoyan leaned back against the table behind him, raised his leg, and stepped on the edge of He Guang's table with his long leg. He crossed his arms and said, "Did I say you could leave?"
He Guang was taken aback by his reaction and suddenly felt like he had lost face.
"What are you doing?! I need to go to the toilet."
“It’s simple,” Mu Shaoyan laughed, “Either explain clearly, or…”
He raised his index finger and pointed downwards, "Crawl through."
He Guang: !!!
He Guang instantly felt humiliated!
"Mu Shaoyan, don't push your luck!!"
"What if I insist on going too far?" Mu Shaoyan asked with a contemptuous tone.
Looking at his attitude of not taking him seriously at all, He Guang felt as if his dignity had been stripped off, thrown on the ground, and trampled on.
Is it meaningful for you to humiliate me like this?
"What's the point of spreading rumors that I plagiarized?"
Instantly, all the students' eyes turned to He Guang.
"What does Mu Shaoyan mean? He Guang is spreading rumors that he plagiarized?!"
"So the post on the forum saying Mu Shaoyan plagiarized was posted by him?! How could he do that?!"
"Oh my god, I always thought it was sent by someone from another class! How could it be him?!"
"We're all in the same class. Mu Shaoyan has been sitting in the classroom every day for the past month. Doesn't he know that others don't?!"
"I was wondering how people from other classes knew Mu Shaoyan's grades. Could it be that someone in our class framed him? I didn't expect it to be true!"
He Guang listened, and the more he listened, the more grating it became.
He hurriedly said, "You're talking nonsense, Mu Shaoyan, stop slandering me!"
"Am I slandering you, or are you slandering me?" Mu Shaoyan asked calmly. "Should I expose your IP address?"
He chuckled. "He Guang, you don't really think that just because you're anonymous you can't be identified, do you? If I want to find something, do you think I can't? You're underestimating me!"
He Guang instantly felt his heart being gripped. "Mu Shaoyan, you're violating someone's privacy!"
"Likewise, if you don't spread rumors about me, I won't invade your privacy. If you're the one who's unkind, then I naturally don't care."
He Guang: ...
He Guang was so angry that his breathing became rapid.
"So it really is him," a classmate behind him whispered. "It really is him who slandered Mu Shaoyan for plagiarism."
"I didn't!" He Guang turned to look at them. "I didn't slander him! He knows his own character, he knows his own test scores, how could he suddenly improve so much in a month? It's possible! He copied Gao Heng's answers! If Gao Heng hadn't been sitting behind him, would he have improved this much?!"
"Maybe." Suddenly, a voice came from not far away.
He Guang turned his head and saw Duan Yi standing at the classroom door.
He was called away by the teacher as soon as get out of class ended. After finally finishing his conversation with the teacher, he returned to the classroom and heard He Guang's angry roar as soon as he entered the door.
Duan Yi did not walk towards the crowd; instead, he calmly walked to his seat.
With his back to Mu Shaoyan and He Guang, he flipped through the test paper he was preparing to write and said, "If he had copied Gao Heng's, it would have been impossible for him to improve his scores in Chinese, Math, English and Science. Especially Chinese, which has fewer multiple-choice questions, so copying can only improve the score to a limited extent. But his Chinese score is more than 40 points higher than last time. This is something that copying cannot achieve."
"How do you know?" someone asked.
Duan Yi said casually, "I glanced at it when I was looking at the rankings."
"Maybe you've misread it," He Guang said, desperate and grasping at straws.
Duan Yi chuckled and turned to look at him. "Are you doubting my memory?"
He asked, "Would you like me to tell you your grades in each subject, your class ranking, and your grade ranking?"
He Guang: ...
He Guang blushed. "Even if you remember correctly, it doesn't mean he didn't cheat. What if Gao Heng, out of fear, let him copy the rest as well? Besides, his score in Chinese was already low last time. Chinese isn't difficult; you can easily improve your score by writing a little. Since he was prepared to cheat, he would naturally write more this time than last time."
"If he really didn't cheat, does he dare to do the other papers right now? Does he dare to show everyone his 'improvement' in front of everyone?!"
Duan Yi didn't expect him to say that.
He looked at He Guang with a hint of amusement in his eyes, "You seem to care a lot about him, even remembering how many points he got in Chinese class last time."
Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look at He Guang, their expressions subtle.
He Guang quickly replied, "I just happened to see it before, and I just happened to remember it!"
"Really?" Duan Yi said casually. "I didn't realize you had such a good memory. How come you didn't memorize it last time?"
"It must be the teacher's method of spot-checking that's wrong; it's the teacher's problem."
Mu Shaoyan couldn't help but burst out laughing.
He Guang: !!!
He Guang just couldn't understand what this had to do with him!
He's nobody to Mu Shaoyan!
Can't he just shut up?!
He ignored Duan Yi and turned to look at Mu Shaoyan, "Do you dare?!"
"Dare what?" Mu Shaoyan didn't follow his train of thought.
"Do you dare to take one of the other test papers right here and now?!"
Mu Shaoyan chuckled, "Who are you? You think you can just do whatever you want? How dare you?"
"Then you're guilty, you're cheating!"
Mu Shaoyan: ...
Mu Shaoyan looked at him and nodded slightly.
He slowly withdrew his leg from He Guang's side, stood up straight, and looked directly at He Guang.
Then, he grabbed He Guang by the collar and pulled him outside.
He Guang tried desperately to pry his hands open, but he couldn't.
"What are you doing?!" he shouted angrily.
"Didn't you say I was guilty? Well then, I'll show you that I'm not guilty at all," Mu Shaoyan chuckled.
The students in the class followed curiously.
Duan Yi put down his pen and went outside.
Mu Shaoyan dragged He Guang all the way to the teacher's office.
He let go, throwing He Guang in front of the homeroom teacher.
The homeroom teacher asked in surprise, "What are you doing?"
“He Guang spread rumors that I cheated, and he still insists that I cheated. He said I was guilty, so I simply decided not to be guilty and show him.”
"Teacher, you should know who the proctors are in our exam room, right? If I successfully cheat, and I successfully cheat in all four exams, then it's the proctors' dereliction of duty. I wonder which teacher is so negligent? Could they step forward and talk to He Guang to see if they neglected their duties and He Guang has to uphold justice? If so, shouldn't we thank He Guang for finding and correcting our mistakes?"
"Am I right, teacher?"
After he finished speaking, he turned to look at He Guang and said, "Now that I've said this, I shouldn't feel guilty anymore, right?"
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