Chapter 83: Chapter 83: Rankings, Shocking!

"I see, do you want me to help look for it?" The female student was quite warmhearted.

Liang Qian was a bit embarrassed, "Thanks, but wouldn’t that delay your own work?"

"Not at all, I don’t really have much to do anyway." She had already started looking as she spoke.

Liang Qian followed her, slowly making her way to the computer, fixating on the USB flash drive inserted into the CPU.

Lin Xuanze followed her backstage as well, but he did not enter, hiding by the door and peering secretly.

His intuition told him that she was about to pull some kind of stunt.

He had been watching her for quite some time, and honestly, he had never realized before how much she deserved a lesson.

Watching her pull out the computer’s USB flash drive and plug in her own prepared one, swapping out the computer’s files with an amused look in her eyes.

What kind of drama was she preparing?

Quite bold of her, daring to pull off such a switch.

After she finished swapping the files, there was a malicious smile on her lips, clearly up to no good.

The students and teachers nearby were all busy with their own tasks, completely unaware of her actions. She covertly pulled out a hair clip from her pocket and held it in her hand.

"I found it." She turned around with a smile to the female student.

The female student saw the hair clip in her hand and nodded with a smile, "Good."

"Thanks for your help, I’ll treat you to bubble tea later." Liang Qian waved goodbye and left. The female student was a bit embarrassed, but she was still happy to hang out with Liang Qian. After all, being with her provided the chance to encounter Shen Xuan.

Once outside, no one around had noticed her behavior. The tense expression on her face relaxed, a hint of malice creeping into her eyes.

She hurried away from backstage—she had to be there to witness the scene unfold.

Lin Xuanze emerged from around the corner, his gaze lingering on her retreating figure with a hint of deep contemplation before he decided to enter backstage.

"President, what are you doing here?"

Some students from the student council were slightly starstruck to see him. He had been the student council president since his freshman year.

"I came to check if there were any oversights." Lin Xuanze’s cold demeanor pressed heavily on the few council members.

"Don’t worry, we’ve carefully checked every single procedure, there won’t be any oversights." A male student looked at him.

Lin Xuanze headed straight for the computer, "Bring up the prepared PPT."

Everyone was taken aback—could there be something wrong with the PPT?

The male student nervously opened the file on the desktop, only for a video to pop up immediately.

It was a video of Yun Yue fighting at a vocational school, and even earlier footage of her fighting in high school.

The video was violent and bloody as she beat people until they were bloody and needed to be hospitalized.

He pressed his lips together, a coldness flashing in his eyes. Liang Qian was skillful indeed to have found such a video. If this was released, the parents would definitely pressure the school to expel Yun Yue.

Even though he disliked her, she was, after all, his own sister. She was his to mess with; outsiders had no right to interfere!

"Pres-President! What in the world is going on? How did a perfectly fine PPT turn into this kind of video?"

The members of the student council went pale at the sight of the video, their legs felt weak, and panic settled in their hearts. If this video got out, the parent-teacher meeting would be completely ruined, and it might lead to a serious incident.

Lin Xuanze tried to shut off the video but discovered the computer was infected with a virus, unable to close it no matter what he tried. He let out a cold laugh—she really came well-prepared!

Fine strands of hair clung to his forehead, obscuring his frosty gaze.

"Is there a backup of the PPT? Switch computers, and if word of today’s incident gets out, I’ll make sure you can’t get by in First Middle School."

Lin Xuanze stood erect, his presence overwhelming, his handsome face colored with a chill, and his eyes landed on them.

"Rest assured, President, we will keep our mouths shut," they said.

They were extremely nervous. The PPT turning into such a video was due to their own negligence and they couldn’t escape responsibility if it was to be questioned, not to mention that Lin Xuanze was putting pressure on them.

He was indeed capable of making it difficult for them to stay at First Middle School.

He watched them fix the PPT and equipment and only after triple-checking for mistakes did he leave the backstage.

Had he been too easy-going recently, causing those people to forget his temperament?

Returning to the event, he glanced in Liang Qian’s direction. She was intently staring at the screen with a wicked smile at the corner of her mouth.

He snorted coldly, in your dreams!

He’d turn around and find a bunch from Class Seven to throw a sack over her head and give her a good thrashing!

The vice principal’s speech was also coming to an end.

"Finally, I would like to congratulate our Lancheng High School on achieving excellent results in the national college entrance examination next year and wish every senior student here a place on the honor roll and a bright future," he said.

Thunderous applause broke out from the audience.

The vice principal raised his hand to quiet them down and read from his manuscript, "Next, we will commence the award ceremony. At the suggestion of the class that ranked first in this month’s exam, we will now award the top ten students with a big red flower, a certificate, and a prize, and have a photo taken for the memory. Students ranked 11-100 will be honored by name."

Liu Xiaoyan’s face, which had eased for a moment, turned completely dark at hearing this—whose parent-teacher conference was this anyway?

Why hadn’t there been such a practice before?

To embarrass her on purpose?

"Tenth place, Class One, Shen Xuan; ninth place, Class Seven, Rong Li; eighth place Class Seven... fifth place, Class Seven, Yang Xing; fourth place, Class Seven, Zhang Ziyue; third place, Class One, Lin Xuanze; second place, Class Seven, Gu Yue."

The audience was already in an uproar, and the parents were very unsettled.

"What’s going on? Why are all of the top ten in the grade from Class Seven? Isn’t Class Seven supposed to be the bottom-ranked class?"

"Shen Xuan has fallen to tenth, we know very well what those students from Class Seven were like before. Did they cheat on the exam as a group this time?"

"I think it’s very likely they cheated; otherwise, with their abilities, even a full year wouldn’t be enough for them to catch up to Class One!"

"Didn’t you hear? Lin Xuanze is third, Gu Yue second! Who could have the capability to pull those two down from the first and second positions!"

"Hilarious! It couldn’t be someone from Class Seven again, right? How much did Class Seven give the school for them to blatantly cheat like this, and even bring it up at the parent-teacher conference for praise—I’m ashamed!"

Hearing her own name, Shen Xuan maintained a restrained veneer with a modest smile. Last month she fell out of the top ten, and this time she had fought hard to squeeze back in, even cutting short her piano practice time.

Yun Zhonghai also found it unbelievable. He knew how hard Lin Xuanze worked, and Gu Yue consistently taking the top spot in the grade spoke for itself. But who else could be better than the two of them?

Wasn’t that Yun Yue’s class?

To perform so well?

This was a direct leapfrog over Class One. With Class Seven holding six spots in the top ten, it seemed quite mystical.

The students of Class Seven naturally heard their discussions, but they didn’t pay much attention. If it had been the last monthly exam, they would indeed have cheated, but this time they had earned their scores fair and square. They had nothing to fear when their conscience was clear; they were worthy of the awards and honors.

"Who on earth is first in the grade? Can anyone be more impressive than you and Gu Yue?" Yun Zhonghai looked at the person beside him.

This vice principal was playing coy; it had been a minute and he still hadn’t announced the first place. The parents in the audience were already growing restless.

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