It turns out that the worst-case scenario wasn’t a lose-lose situation. Instead, it was… Ye Jian being unaffected and his daughter had gotten into trouble!
After hearing the information his daughter had passed on to him, Ye Zhifan’s heart sank terribly. Unfair, why…? They even mobilized the armed police and mobilized Yunnan province’s famous academics in the Mathematics world. Unfair… Is there any room for unfairness?
His gaze swept across Ye Ying’s face, then glanced upon Ye Jian’s face; he felt everything but happy.
“Mr. Ye, Ye Ying had violated the discipline of the exam hall and has targeted First Provincial High examinee, Ye Jian, purposefully. After investigation, Ye Ying had intentions to frame student Ye Jian. Therefore we have decided, Ye Ying’s current mathematics results will be recorded as zero.”
Getting the parent here was just to inform him, inform the parent what his child had done wrong, and what punishments she would face.
As to the ‘unfairness’ Ye Ying was talking about, that was untenable.
After sitting down, Ye Zhifan asked with a chilled expression: “You’ve truly investigated it clearly? As the parent, do I have the right to know what happened exactly?” His daughter had staked her future on this, yet Ye Jian was unaffected at all; how would Ye Zhifan resign himself to this!
“Play the recording to Mr. Ye.” An executive from the Provincial Education Bureau gently nodded in approval at an armed policeman. The armed police could be seen pulling out a recorder from his army-green satchel; he then recorded the conversation before and after the test paper validation in the exam hall.
“Papers sealed in advance.” “Indeed, everything was completed.” “Compared to the answers on a paper strip, I’m more willing to believe my answer on the paper.”
Ye Zhifan had heard the important points and clenched his hands secretly; no wonder his daughter failed! Who would’ve thought she’d finished her test ahead of time!
“Why is my mark getting nullified while Ye Jian gets away with everything! Why, why?”
Ye Ying’s piercing scream came out of the recorder. With hands clenched till his knuckles showed through skin, Ye Zhifan’s eyes instantly changed. That sentence… this sentence… was her biggest downfall! And had become the most direct evidence!
Idiot, idiot!
Hearing her voice being replayed, Ye Ying was stunned in place, how… did they record it? Why have they recorded everything?
“This was the second half; I wonder if Mr. Ye still needs to hear the first part?” The Provincial Education Bureau’s executive bellowed sternly, “Five minutes before Mr. Ye entered, I also received a phone call from the Provincial Department. The Governor himself had personally intervened in the matter. Mr. Ye, as a member of the Provincial Department’s cadre, don’t you think you need to give a personal explanation to the Governor!”
What?
The Governor had personally intervened!
How did a matter involving two people cheating during Gaokao alarm the Governor?
With drastic astonishment in his heart, Ye Zhifan made a prompt decision and lowered his tone: “My discipline was lax, and had allowed Ye Ying to make a big mistake while I wasn’t paying attention. Not to hide the truth from the leaderships, though Ye Ying and Ye Jian are cousins, they had deep grudges against each other, sometimes as a parent, there’s nothing I could do.”
“Dad!!” Hearing that, Ye Ying seemed to have realized something as her voice went up several octaves and screeched, “What are you trying to say, dad…”
“You shut your mouth!” For his career’s sake, Ye Zhifan wouldn’t allow Ye Ying to speak up once more. “Now only one of your subjects is nullified, so you better take the other subjects properly! If you try to pull anything, see how I’ll settle you!”
The heartless expression on his face made Ye Jian’s lip arch upwards; she had known since her last life that Ye Zhifan could disregard any and all relationships for his career.
Even the Governor knew about how can Ye Zhifan try to fight for his daughter? Unless he was confident about making the Governor believe him, obviously, he didn’t have it right now.
That’s why there’s no way he would help Ye Ying reverse black and white.
