Near dusk, No.4 Middle School's campus was bathed in the last rays of sunset. One by one, Solar Street Lamps lit up beside the winding pebble-paved paths.
Yang Sheng strolled along, pinching a red banknote between two fingers.
The Chen Siyu sisters could hardly believe it. Overwhelming delight struck them both, and the joy of recovering what they had lost made them doubtful. "You mean you switched out the money beforehand?"
Yang Sheng snapped her fingers.
"I noticed something was off about her, so I made preparations in advance. I used my real money to exchange for the fake money in your hands."
"So the banknote you took to confront her with wasn't fake. It was real."
She explained the whole situation to them.
Chen Siyu finally understood. "So the money you threw at her afterward was actually fake?"
Chen Siqing was doubtful. "But what if... what if she'd accepted the fake money we gave her?"
Yang Sheng continued strolling forward and said calmly, "No need to worry. I would have stepped in."
Chen Siyu stared at her cool back and suddenly thought she looked unbelievably awesome.
Outside the school.
After scamming a hundred yuan, the middle-aged woman was immensely pleased. She hurried to change locations, walking along with a smile on her face as she took out the hundred-yuan bill to inspect it.
Gradually, she realized the bill didn't feel right.
She held it up to the western sun for a look, and her mind buzzed. Fake money! Fake money!
Her kindly face was filled with shock.
The money the students had paid her afterward was actually fake! She checked it again and again, only to discover in horror that it really was counterfeit.
The middle-aged woman was furious. She had hunted geese her whole life, only to