The Regent's Little Wife

Everyone's eyes instantly focused on the principal of No. 25 Middle School who broke into the room. His appearance shocked everyone, even Gu Nian was shocked: "Why is the principal here?"

Gao Liang had never expected that Qin Yong would reprimand him in public. He hurriedly defended himself, "Principal Qin, if you have something to say, why not say it in a nice way? Why are you being so rude?"

Qin Yong pointed at Tang Xiao angrily: "I am making trouble? You imprisoned my students privately, which is really ridiculous!"

Gao Liang hastily clarified: "We are not fooling around, it's just a routine investigation. After all, she is suspected of cheating."

"You concluded that he cheated based on mere speculation? Did you catch him in the exam? Do you have solid evidence? How can you accuse him of cheating without any basis? Gu Nian is not yet an adult, but you are making groundless accusations in front of everyone. This is neither fair nor groundless."

"Since she has finished the test, why did she stop him from leaving? Physics competitions should be a fair place, how can you do what you want?" Principal Qin Yong rarely gets angry on weekdays, but today, out of consideration for his classmates, he got so angry at a teacher of the same age.

Gao Liang defended himself, "Qin Yong, please don't talk nonsense. We didn't imprison Gu Nian. We were only investigating her for suspected cheating."

Qin Yong responded tit for tat: "Did you witness Gu Nian cheating?"

How could Qin Yong tolerate Gu Nian being accused of something unjustified as she was Qin Yong's student? Moreover, he was the one who facilitated Gu Nian's participation in the physics competition, so he would not sit back and watch her being bullied.

"Well... we haven't found any conclusive evidence yet and the case is still under investigation. That's why she needs to stay for the time being." Gao Liang said frankly.

Qin Yong pressed on: "In other words, you don't have any solid evidence yet?"

Gao Liang was speechless. The other invigilators all looked at him in confusion.

"The evidence is not yet conclusive. We were just about to start an investigation, and you just happened to run into us." At this time, another invigilator spoke up.

Qin Yong stepped forward and said in a firm tone: "If there is no solid evidence, how can you slander my students? There are many invigilators here, and there are all-round surveillance cameras. Since there is no evidence, I will take my students away immediately." After that, Qin Yong resolutely took Gu Nian's hand and strode out of the examination room.

The remaining invigilators looked at each other in bewilderment and kept silent. Although Qin Yong was currently only the principal of an ordinary high school, he enjoyed a very high reputation in the academic world and no one dared to provoke him easily.

The test results will be announced within five working days. Since that day, Gu Jingxiu has been inexplicably depressed and has made many mistakes during experiments, either missing equipment or forgetting steps. In desperation, he decided to take three days off to rest.

Today was the day when the results were announced, and he suddenly had the idea to see how many points Gu Nian could get. So he went to the multimedia classroom of the senior high school.

The way of marking papers is different now. The paper marking has been replaced by computer marking, which greatly improves the efficiency. In just five days, the results were announced, and the accuracy rate reached 100%.

At this moment, the results of the computer grading have been settled, and only the teachers are waiting for the final review. After that, there will be the exciting ranking session, followed by the announcement of the results. He walked into the multimedia classroom and saw more than a dozen teachers busy checking the results.

Seeing him coming, the teachers stood up and respectfully addressed him as Teacher Gu. Gu Jingxiu smiled and waved his hand to signal them to continue. An hour later, the ranking was settled.

"How are the grades? The one with the highest score must be from a prestigious school, right?"

Jingxiu picked up the thermos cup at hand, gently filled it up for himself, and drank it leisurely.

At this time, a teacher sighed: "Young people are really formidable. The highest score this year is as high as 298 points."

Hearing this, Gu Jingxiu put down his water cup in disbelief and nodded slightly: "It seems that we are really old. It is true that the Yangtze River water, the back waves push the front waves. This student is really amazing. Which school is he from and what is his name?"

An invigilator looked embarrassed, looking at the name, hesitant to speak. The words lingered on his lips, difficult to speak. "It's... Gu Nian."

There was a hint of disbelief in his voice. "What? How could it be her... the one who is despised by everyone?"

Gu Jingxiu snatched the test paper and looked through it carefully. The paper was neat and the answers were clear, especially the difficult questions, which were answered perfectly.

The only two points she was deducted were for not answering a simple multiple-choice question. If she could solve those difficult questions, how could this simple question stump her?

Obviously, Gu Nian left the blank on purpose. Didn't you say she cheated? She was clearly capable of getting full marks in this competition, but she chose to leave two points.

Gu Jingxiu clenched his fists, feeling extremely embarrassed. He had once asserted that Gu Nian cheated in the examination room, but none of the dozen invigilators noticed anything unusual, and Gu Nian still scored full marks. Wasn't this like slapping himself hard in the face?

Although the other teachers did not express their doubts directly, they looked at Gu Jingxiu with doubts. After all, Gu Jingxiu was a doctor, a wise man and a role model in their minds, so why would he have friction with a student?

However, Gu Jingxiu quickly recovered his normal state with his high emotional intelligence, and still maintained his gentle and elegant demeanor. "Dear teachers, you have been very hard-working these past few days. My family has recently developed a new set of cosmetics, which has not yet been released, but is being promoted internally. Later, I will ask my assistant to send a set to each teacher."

Most of the teachers present came from ordinary working-class families and had heard of the high-end cosmetics of the Gu Group. The prices of these cosmetics were often over six figures, which were luxury items that they could not afford on weekdays. But now, the fourth son of the Gu family generously gave them this gift, which was undoubtedly worth a lot of money, and they were secretly delighted.

Gu Jingxiu's move was not without purpose. He knew that his behavior in the past few days was a bit inappropriate. Once the results were announced, the dozen examiners and those students that day might talk about it behind his back.

He was not worried about the students' comments, but he was worried about the examiners' comments. If these comments were caught by the hostile companies of the Gu family, it would be extremely disadvantageous to the Gu family. Therefore, he hoped to calm the anger of the examiners and calm the storm invisibly through this set of cosmetics.

On the day when the results were announced, Qin Yong looked at the report card and a bright smile appeared on his face. He had long seen that Gu Nian was a rare genius, and sure enough, Gu Nian stood out as the best among the best students.

However, Qin Yong also felt sorry for Gu Nian's life experience. Gu Nian claimed to be an orphan, and no one in the school knew her true identity. The prize money for this physics competition was as high as 200,000 yuan. Qin Yong thought that with this money, Gu Nian would not have to work hard for living expenses after going to college next year.

In fact, Gu Nian often worked part-time in a bar on weekends. The life of a senior high school student was intense and busy, and the price of study materials was not cheap.

Gu Nian's meager living expenses were simply not enough to support her. So she could only work in a bar on weekends to earn money. However, the Gu family didn't know all this because they never really cared about Gu Nian and only regarded her as a useless person.

After the results were announced, the classmates all looked at Gu Nian with envy, especially the class monitor Wang Fang, whose family was poor and whose parents had divorced and each had formed a new family, and ignored her.

Her grandparents neglected to take care of her because she was a girl and eventually sent her to an orphanage. Wang Fang and Gu Nian grew up together in the orphanage and had a close relationship.