After the audience and guests entered one by one, the awards ceremony began. The host started his speech, and after the host talked for a long time, the awards ceremony finally arrived.

The music at the event became more powerful and intense, instantly creating a sense of tension for the audience, and the host's voice accompanied the music.

"Now I announce that the winner of this competition is... Wei Xue, the second place winner is Cheng Ruoshui, and the third place winner is..."

"Please come up to the stage to receive your award."

Ruoshui, Wei Xue, and others went up to the stage one after another to receive their awards. They stood in a row in the center of the stage, waiting for the presenters to give them the awards one by one.

Wei Xue stood next to Ruoshui, her smile radiant, yet she spoke in a tone just loud enough for the two of them to hear:

"I told you long ago not to be too happy."

At this moment, the award presenter came up, took the trophy from the ushers, and was about to present the award to Wei Xue.

"Wait a minute!" Suddenly, a middle-aged man rushed up from the audience.

"I want to report that the person who won first place cheated; the painting that won her the prize wasn't painted by her."

The audience immediately erupted in chaos.

"My God, what's going on?"

I smell gossip in the air.

"I knew it! I didn't know who this woman was before. How did she suddenly appear and win first place? Turns out she submitted someone else's work."

"Don't jump to conclusions before the situation is fully understood."

There were originally a few junior reporters at the scene, who just planned to take a few quick photos and leave, since these kinds of award ceremonies are usually not very interesting. But now, things have really gotten interesting; there's big news going on.

The news that the first prize in a nationally renowned painting competition was won through cheating is sure to be of great interest to ordinary people.

So the reporters started snapping photos of the person who had suddenly interrupted the awards ceremony.

Wei Xue was completely panicked. "He's just here to cause trouble. He's a madman. Get him out of here, quick!"

The host and security guards at the scene saw the reporters snapping photos and, fearing that their writing might implicate them, dared not rashly ask the person to leave.

The host could only ask in a gentle tone, "Sir, do you have any evidence?"

The man glanced at Wei Xue with disdain. "Evidence? Of course I have it. When I was painting this picture, my wife said I looked most handsome when I was focused, so she recorded a video of me."

After saying this, the man presented a USB drive to the host, saying, "If you don't believe me, you can project it onto the big screen so everyone can see."

“My son came to me a few days ago and said he really liked this painting and asked me to give it to him, so I gave the painting to my son.”

"If I hadn't received a phone call yesterday telling me about this, I wouldn't have known that my painting had inexplicably won first prize."

"These young girls nowadays, though young, are quite cunning. I don't know what kind of seductive tricks they used to seduce my son and get him to help them scheme against an old man like me."

The host took the USB drive from the person and played the video on the big screen.

The person in the video is clearly painting, and you can clearly see that the painting that won Wei Xue the award is halfway through.

"So you really did submit someone else's work to the competition?"

"How shameless! They'll do anything for their reputation."

"I was just supporting her, thinking that person was just causing trouble, pshaw!"

The reporters' flashes blinded Wei Xue, and she stood there, her hands and feet cold, thinking, "It's over, everything is over."

Ruoshui's tone was as calm as still water, making it impossible to discern her emotions.

"I'll return what you just said to me verbatim. Don't get too excited too soon."

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