"..." Yunya's words left Jiang Yunli particularly embarrassed.
That had all happened five years ago.
Jiang Yunli did not even remember it anymore.
But she knew perfectly well how good she had been at studying back then.
If she had not taken Shen Yunzhi's place, she probably could not even have passed the language classes for a worthless overseas master's degree to burnish her credentials.
Yunya's reminder left Jiang Yunli feeling guilty.
Jiang Yunli could only explain, "...A-after all, it's been ages since I studied that material. Maybe I just remembered it wrong at the time."
She glanced at Shen Yunzhi's reaction out of the corner of her eye. Only when she saw that Shen Yunzhi's expression had not changed did she relax a little.
She thought, Still, thank goodness. Shen Yunzhi probably doesn't know about the admission letter.
Back then, before the admission letter had even reached Shen Yunzhi, Shen Yonggui and Wang Dezhen had taken it straight to Jiang Yunli to curry favor with her.
Later, when the matter had happened to come up at the Jiang Family home, Shen Yunzhi had found it strange that she had failed to get in, but had not thought much of it.
She had assumed that events in her life had affected her performance on the exam.
With the lollipop An Zhizhi had given her in her mouth, Yunya needled Jiang Yunli in a muffled voice. "Some top Jing University student. I'm more surprised that Yunzhi didn't get into Jing University."
Shen Yunzhi currently had no evidence that Jiang Yunli had taken her place. Even if she spoke up, no one would believe her.
Hearing Yunya say that, she did not respond.
That idiot Chi Zong walked in just in time to hear Yunya's remark.
He had no idea what had led up to it and chimed in without thinking. "What's so strange about that? We're talking about Jing University. Isn't it perfectly normal to underperform on the college entrance exam?"
The Jiang Fans, who had just been feeling rather embarrassed by Yunya's remark, immediately perked up again.
[Shen Yunzhi, underperforming? Hahahahaha.]
[She'd need to be possessed by the Wenqu Star to get into Jing University.]
[At her normal level, she could probably get into a vocational college, hahahahahaha. This little girl will even lie through her teeth to suck up to Shen Yunzhi. So fake.]
[Shen Yunzhi finally has a bootlicker. Cut her some slack, hahahahahaha.]
The live comments were filled with mockery.
Chi Zong's fans really did not want him getting involved in Jiang Yunli and Shen Yunzhi's conflict.
After all, those two fandoms fought the fiercest, and anyone careless could easily get caught in the crossfire.
So Chi Zong's fans generally stayed out of it.
Who could have expected their idol to blunder in and stir up the conflict himself?
Chi Zong's fans cringed so hard their toes curled and played dead.
The haters happily posed as fans in the live comments.
[Please, please, stop making our Chi Zong play idiots. He's too convincing.]
[A zombie opened up Zong's brain and left in disappointment, but the dung beetle next to it was delighted.]
[Forgive Zong. He traded his brains for his looks, after all.]
[If the Shen Fans attack us later, remember to sell Zong out first thing.]
[Spread your wings, Chi Zong! Deal with the consequences yourself!]
An Zhizhi told Chi Zong, "Nobody will think you're mute if you keep your mouth shut."
This time, Chi Zong really was innocent. He looked utterly bewildered. "What did I do now?"
Shen Yunzhi ignored Chi Zong and instead said to Yunya, "Your Yunli really is a top Jing University student. Ask her about these problems. She might explain them better than I do."
[Not bad. At least she knows her limits.]
[She's just afraid she won't be able to explain anything and will embarrass herself.]
[Yunli, don't bother with her.]
At Shen Yunzhi's words, Yunya reluctantly pushed her workbook toward Jiang Yunli, jutted out her lips, and asked, "How do you solve this one?"
The moment Jiang Yunli saw those mathematical symbols, her mind stalled.
"Well... um..."
Yunya said, "Do you actually know how or not? Forget it if you don't."
Jiang Yunli could only push ahead. "I... it's just been so long since I dealt with this stuff that I've forgotten a little. Let me think..."
Just moments ago, the Jiang Fans had been bragging in the live comments.
Now Jiang Yunli was the one who could not explain anything.
Seeing this, Yunya rolled her eyes again and snatched her workbook back. "What would that brain of hers know? Yunzhi, it has to be you."
The Jiang Fans in the livestream all inwardly went, "What the fuck?" and prepared to start flaming the little brat.
But the next second, Shen Yunzhi took Yunya's workbook and actually began explaining.
The haters had already been ready to pick her apart.
Was she just forcing herself to spout nonsense because she was on a livestream?
But when they watched...
The haters were stunned.
[...She actually didn't get anything wrong.]
[Could this be a script from the production team? They're really going to great lengths to clean up her image.]
[This brat is a plant, right?]
The Shen Fans had been putting up with them for a long time.
[Script, script, script. It's always a script with you. The director already proved there wasn't any script.]
[Are you people out of your minds?]
[Some people are losing it because their precious idol won't even dare explain a problem.]
The Jiang Fans got mad and did nothing but get mad:
[Who are you taking digs at?!]
Shen Fans: [Whoever answers.]
Jiang Fans: [All you ever do is bark.]
Shen Fans: [People bark when they tease dogs. I was just worried you wouldn't understand human speech.]
It had started.
It had started again.
These two great criminal factions were fighting again.
Everyone else could not get away fast enough.
They were terrified of getting dragged into it again.
It would be a completely undeserved disaster.
In the livestream.
Yunya finished a problem and showed Shen Yunzhi her answer.
Shen Yunzhi looked at it and fell silent for a moment.
Yunya wrung her hands, nervous.
Only after a long while did Shen Yunzhi say speechlessly, "For this problem... you're saying these goods originally cost only sixty cents each, but after some of the shipment was lost, each item had to sell for a hundred million just to break even?"
Yunya said, "..."
The other guests nearby laughed so hard they squealed like pigs.
Xiao Yao laughed aloud, munching an apple on the sidelines as he made a snide remark. "If the answer to this problem really is what you calculated, Mathematics Building A has collapsed, because now there's a Mathematics Building B."
Yunya said, "..."
The viewers:
[I think Shen Yunzhi explains things pretty well. She doesn't seem like a bad student at all.]
[So where did the rumor that Shen Yunzhi was bad at school come from?]
[She didn't get into university, and she attended the best high school. How else could she have gotten in except by paying?]
But graduates of that high school soon came forward to clear things up.
[You can't buy your way into our school, okay? Everyone gets in through exams.]
[The name Shen Yunzhi sounds really familiar. I think I heard some teacher mention her. Supposedly, her grades were pretty good.]
Shen Yunzhi's haters did not believe a word of it.
[Good grades? Must be someone with the same name.]
[They'll come up with anything to clean up Shen Yunzhi's image.]
Even the casual viewers were speechless.
Soon, someone posted photos of their school life and their student ID online.
[What is there to clean up? Shen Yunzhi really is on the Outstanding Students Display Board.]
They also posted a picture of the Outstanding Students Display Board.
In one corner, a newer outstanding student's photo had fallen off, exposing a photo underneath that could not be peeled away.
It was unmistakably a photo of Shen Yunzhi.
Although glue marks covered her forehead and the photo had weathered with age, her youthful, exceptionally fine features still made it recognizable as Shen Yunzhi.
-Outstanding student of the class of XXX, first place in every subject, Shen Yunzhi of Class XX.
As soon as the photo appeared...
The viewers flooded the comments with question marks.
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