CH 69.1

Cheating Disputes (1)

At the side of the outdoor table, the few boys shockingly clicked their tongues. “Are the two bosses placing themselves above the common populace? Does this mean they have lost their way?”

“Our Ruan-ge is very muddled-headed. It’s a regular thing. He even sleepwalks at night. He’ll be gone soon after going to bed.”

“Liar. What the hell do you mean gone?”

One boy from Li Zhiyong’s dorm shouted,“It’s true. I’m not lying. When I went to pee in the middle of the night, Ruan-ge’s bed was empty. He was also not there when I woke up in the morning.”

Huang Ya curiously approached him. “He also didn’t come to our dorm…”

Before he could finish speaking, Bai Jing covered his mouth. “Shut up. Ruan-ge went to your dorm to sleep!”

Huang Ya said, “Wowowo –”

Someone suddenly shouted, “Fuck. What is this?”

Huang Ya held his phone and furiously scolded. “Some bitches are slandering our Ruan-ge, even your class monitor!”

The boys hurriedly fished out their phones. “Where? Where?”

“Both in the QQ group and forum!”

A blatant post was floating on the forum’s front page and the QQ group was in an uproar.

<<A certain someone’s grades soared in many subjects. Was this fucking abnormal rank his actual ability?>>

Opening it, they saw an anonymous person had made it.

“He ranked more than six hundred in last year’s semester, but now he rose to two hundred and ninety. His Chinese and English could get into the standard of the honors class. Such defying progress, hehe. Any observant person could see that he must’ve cheated, right?

“The class exchange during the exam was between Class 1 and 9. The one sitting beside Ruan Qingmu was the first in grade Qin Yuan. Based on their relationship, they must be trying to pull a fast one on everyone. They’re lying if they’re saying he didn’t cheat and passed on answers.

“It’s not my problem, but I feel it’s disgusting. I have to pour out my mind! One person was pretending to be a model of high morality and also a big shot in the discipline department. But now? He openly let an underachiever copy his answers! Another one was pretending to be a genius defying heaven. But unfortunately, his most improved subject was the one most easily to be copied, which was English. Still, he couldn’t do anything with major subjective questions such as math, physics, and chemistry. Have we unmasked him and exposed the whole truth?”

The responses below were intense, with several new never before seen IDs leading the chat. They agreed along with the OP, expressing that Ruan Qingmu’s grades were beyond reasonable. More people with real names scolded the person starting the rumors.

“That’s right. Even a fool knows this grade could not be correct, am I right?”

“Agreed. They said Ruan Qingmu only got 50 more points in English at the school opening mock exam and 90 more points in the monthly exam. He was worthy of the name of a super underachiever. But suddenly, he scored 127 points after a little over a month. Did he sit on a rocket?”

“Just now, when the result of that betting post came out, I already felt that it was weird. As expected, many people feel strange like me…”

A bunch of entirely different groups of people passionately cursed them below. “Pah! Do you have proof? Since when can you splash dirty water at people based on a feeling?”

“Your grades are bad, so you’re not allowing other people to fly. Go treat your pink eyes*!”

*T/N: Pink eyes: envy or jealousy.

“Bullshit! Even if Ruan Qingmu cheated, he was the one who peeped. Those getting our class monitor involved are NMSL*.”

*T/N: NMSL (你妈死了): an Internet slang used as an insult, meaning “Your mom is dead.”

“I don’t know whether Ruan Qingmu peeped or not. Our class monitor won’t take the initiative to let others see his answers. This is violating his principle.”

“Don’t reason with rubbish. Our class monitor’s morality level is in heaven. They’re like mother pigs in the mud.”

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The boys angrily made a clamor in front of the small vendor’s stall. They were about to engage in war with their phones when someone suddenly posted a reply below the post.

“Honestly speaking, I did hear the invigilator teacher call out Ruan Qingmu’s name several times, telling him not to look randomly and do his papers – I’m not lying. There were many people on the scene that day. Oh right, the teacher also said something.”

That reply looked righteous. “I have a deep impression of that line. The one supervising the back was that cold-blooded school doctor. He even said, ‘Are you guys going to make eyes at each other all day long?’”

Huang Ya, who was preparing to do the battle, suddenly froze.

Bai Jing frowned and looked at him. “What happened?”

Another Class 9’s boy slightly hesitated. “This reply… is actually the truth.”

Another Class 1’s boy at the side who participated in the class exchange also whispered, “Mm. I’ve heard it too. This isn’t a rumor.”

Huang Ya suddenly ground his teeth. “Ruan-ge isn’t the same as us. He won’t copy answers! Last time on the monthly exam, I took the initiative to pass a cheat sheet to him, but he tore it into pieces.”

The boys became silent. Although they didn’t want to believe in this anonymous post… Ruan-ge’s grades did look a little too earth-defying.

Besides, Boss Qin and their Ruan-ge’s relationship was indeed very good.

It seemed they had become such good friends where they could go through the wall and eat dinner together from being utterly incompatible in the school opening in the short period of two or three months.

As the final time for the dormitory building to close was approaching, the boys silently ran to the school’s back wall. Bai Jing looked at his phone uneasily and finally secretly sent a message to Ruan Qingmu.

“Ruan-ge, you guys should return quickly. Look at the forum.” After not getting any reply, he became anxious and sent another message again. “How about you discuss this with Boss Qin first? Should we look for the forum administrator to delete that rumor posting?”

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