Words Kill!

Cheating!

Anyone who knew Li Mu Yang's usual grades and saw this test paper would have this thought.

In the past, Li Mu Yang could only scribble random answers on the simplest questions, leaving most of the rest blank. But this time, the paper submitted was not only mostly completed, but even worse, it was all correct.

You must know that although Zhao Mingzhu had said verbally that the question types this time were not difficult and were all previously encountered, she knew very well in her heart that this diagnostic exam was quite challenging. She had even deliberately set several trap questions commonly used in written exams.

Li Mu Yang had even perfectly answered the trap questions, and his answers were even more correct than her own correct answers.

If this isn't cheating, what is? Is the ignorant Li Mu Yang more knowledgeable than herself, a teacher with twenty years of experience?

It was currently exam time, and most students were racing against time, bent over their desks answering questions. Except when Li Mu Yang submitted his paper, they had looked up and snorted dismissively. At other times, they could only focus on their own test papers. They didn't even have time to mock Li Mu Yang now.

The questions this time were very difficult, and the volume of questions was very large. Apart from the self-abandoned Li Mu Yang, they couldn't finish answering them easily.

Even Cui Xiaoxin, the top student in the class, had just finished the last question and placed her pen on the desk to check her paper.

Hearing Zhao Mingzhu's angry roar, everyone looked up at the podium in shock.

Crash—

Zhao Mingzhu pushed her chair back with her backside, grabbed Li Mu Yang's test paper, and stood up. She stared fiercely at Li Mu Yang and shouted, "Li Mu Yang, explain to me, what is going on?"

Hearing Zhao Mingzhu's questioning, everyone's gaze shifted back to Li Mu Yang's face.

They were filled with schadenfreude, thinking, everyone in the class knows your academic performance—no, everyone in Fuxing Middle School knows. What's the point of cheating now?

Besides, what's the difference between twenty points and thirty points?

Only Cui Xiaoxin calmly checked her test paper, not even glancing at the commotion. She had already anticipated this outcome.

Li Mu Yang had already returned to his seat and looked up at Zhao Mingzhu, saying, "Teacher Zhao, I don't understand what you're talking about."

"You don't understand?" Zhao Mingzhu let out a cold laugh. "How could you not understand? All your answers are correct. Give me an explanation, what's going on?"

"All correct?" A happy smile appeared on Li Mu Yang's face, and the heavy stone that had been weighing on his heart finally fell. When he was answering many questions, he felt like he had seen them before, but the memory was very distant and vague, and he couldn't be sure if he had answered them correctly himself—now that Teacher Zhao said they were all correct, it meant he could get a very good grade this time.

"Li Mu Yang—" Zhao Mingzhu grabbed her ruler, intending to strike the desk again. But remembering the incident where she broke the ruler last time, she forcefully suppressed this barbaric behavior. She really didn't want her name to be associated with Li Mu Yang again. "I asked you for an explanation. Do you think I'll let you off by avoiding the question?"

"Teacher—" The smile on Li Mu Yang's face gradually faded, and he said, "I just answered the questions correctly. Why do I need to explain to you? Explain what? Because I worked hard, so I answered correctly?"

Bang—

Zhao Mingzhu slammed her hand on the desk and sternly shouted, "Li Mu Yang, do you think we're all idiots? I created this test paper, I chose the question types, and I know better than anyone how difficult it is—you not only submitted your paper half an hour early, but you answered all forty-eight questions, and every answer is correct."

Zhao Mingzhu scanned the entire class and asked with a hint of mockery, "Do you believe it? I can't believe it anyway."

Whoosh—

The entire class erupted!

"No way? Li Mu Yang answered all forty-eight questions? I haven't slacked off for a moment, and I still have half left to do—"

"All correct? Is he trying to fool ghosts? How is that possible with his grades?"

"This guy is so stupid he's bubbling. Even if he cheated, he should have made a few mistakes. He has no experience in battle—"

—

Cui Xiaoxin finally looked up at the podium, her delicate eyebrows slightly furrowed, as if rippled by the gentle breeze outside the window.

After observing Li Mu Yang's expression, she lowered her head and returned to her own work.

"Teacher Zhao—" Li Mu Yang sat in his chair, his originally thin body straightened. At this moment, those classmates who had always ignored his appearance or had a fixed impression of his looks realized that Li Mu Yang seemed to have grown taller, his body had become more solid, and even his skin tone was no longer as dark and shiny as before.

He had transformed into a boy with bronze skin, eyes like stars, lips like cherries, and ink-black hair tied up with a snow-white ribbon. He was radiant and full of spirit. He was no longer the deformed monster they had humiliated and attacked before.

A withered sapling had suddenly sprouted new buds, giving a refreshing feeling.

At this moment, Li Mu Yang's expression was extremely serious, as if he were stating a momentous event. For a student, being wrongly accused of cheating by a teacher, wasn't that a momentous event?

"Your student answered the questions correctly and has made great progress compared to before—as his teacher, shouldn't you be happy for him?"

"If he made such progress and achieved such results through diligent study, step by step, I would naturally be happy for him. However, if that student achieved such progress and results by cheating and copying, besides being disappointed in his learning attitude, I would also be disappointed in his character—in my opinion, such students are truly beyond saving. I am ashamed to have such a student."

Zhao Mingzhu had decided to expel him. To expel him through this cheating incident. She didn't want him to stay in the classroom anymore, didn't want this black sheep to continue to affect the studies of other students. With only one month left until the written exam, she and her students needed to make full use of this short time, and they couldn't get angry or waste another second on this good-for-nothing.

Expel him!

Having made this decision, Zhao Mingzhu calmed down instead. She waved her hand and said, "Li Mu Yang, you don't need to say anything more. Pack your things and wait in the school's library. The result of the xử lý will be announced later. It's exam time now, don't disturb other students."

"Teacher Zhao—" Li Mu Yang's eyes were slightly red, and even his voice became hoarse. That was anger, that was grievance, that was the coldness of being wrongly accused and unable to speak.

Since childhood, apart from his parents and sister, no one had been close to him, no one had cared for him, no one had suddenly come up and put an arm around his shoulder saying, 'Brother, let's go play cuju after school.'

He was always alone, like someone isolated from the world. The whole world stood against him, pointing at him from a distance and saying: Look, that's a monster.

He wasn't a monster; he was just a child, a young man.

He also longed for friends, longed for recognition. He longed for someone to pass him notes during class, longed for someone to put an arm around his shoulder and eat mung bean cakes with him after school—even the students deliberately avoided choosing him to pass notes, as if the handwriting on the paper would disappear if he touched it.

He hadn't done anything wrong, so why did everyone treat him so cruelly? It was unfair to him.

"Teacher Zhao—" Li Mu Yang stubbornly raised his face, so that the tears gathering in his eyes wouldn't fall. Otherwise, those guys would say, 'Look, Li Mu Yang is crying, our class's Black Charcoal is crying—'

Li Mu Yang had never cried, not even when those people pinned him to the ground and forced him to be a sheep.

This was the only thing he could do to defend his dignity.

"Teacher Zhao, even if you suspect me of cheating on the exam, shouldn't you first conduct an assessment and confirmation before reaching such a conclusion that attacks my heart?" Li Mu Yang looked at Zhao Mingzhu and said word by word, "Do you know what your words mean to me?"

Li Mu Yang's voice choked, fearing he couldn't continue, fearing he couldn't persevere: "Teacher Zhao, you're trying to kill me."