The inexperienced young team members had already decided to swallow their anger.

A girl with a ponytail, her face flushed, carried her basin of water out of the room. As she passed Qiu Shiyue, she whispered, "I'll go to your dorm to get my socks later."

“That’s more like it.” Qiu Shiyue tilted her head and looked at her. “Choosing the wrong side can have serious consequences. Since you corrected yourself quickly, you don’t need to pay back the money. Here, take the necklace and wear it while you’re at it.”

She casually picked a bunch and threw it into her basin.

The ponytail's suppressed anger really pleased her.

Blizzard stepped forward, making sure the phone camera was clear, and said, "You're saying you gave everyone the same thing?"

“They’re the same. Go and compare them if you don’t believe me,” Qiu Shiyue shouted.

So what if we're different?

It's been so many days, and the difference is because you switched to a fake one. No matter what, I'm in the right.

She felt that she had no flaws whatsoever.

"Qiu Shiyue," Blizzard said emotionlessly, "how can you prove that they were all given the same thing?"

Qiu Shiyue seemed to have been prepared, and took out her phone to send her an invoice.

"398 per item, 28 in total, tax invoice included. This is the price you get for something that costs one yuan. Nothing proves this better than an invoice, right?"

Blizzard hissed: "You opened this shop yourself, right? Doesn't that mean you can just open it anywhere? Is it legitimate or not?"

"Are you blind? It's a VAT invoice, you bumpkin."

"Oh, I really don't understand."

Seeing her back down, Qiu Shiyue became even more smug. "I really don't want to talk to you poor bastards."

Blizzard left with the basin of water, looking helplessly at Xiao Li: "There's nothing I can do to help."

As he passed Qiu Shiyue, he turned his head and whispered, "Didn't you redeem the bottle cap for the prize?"

He left the story half-finished, and seeing Qiu Shiyue's puzzled expression, he continued.

"That's because after I got back to Beijing, I knew that the prize redemption period had ended."

"You threw it away on purpose?" Qiu Shiyue gritted her teeth.

"I didn't mean for you to pick it up."

Blizzard left with a smile.

Stepping out of the washroom, Qiu Shiyue angrily kicked the puddles on the floor.

The water splashed onto the team members' pants, but they didn't dare to utter a sound.

Venting their anger on Blizzard, unable to contain their resentment:

"They not only didn't help us, but they also unpacked our goods. Even if I sold them as secondhand items, they would still be worth ten yuan. Four hundred yuan? I could buy a lot of things with that money."

"Exactly, exactly! Do you think Blizzard might have switched the parts? Qiu Shiyue, listen to us, we really didn't tamper with it."

"That's right, Xiao Li, aren't you close to her? Say something!"

The blizzard has gone far away; I wonder if Xiao Li has spoken yet.

It was 10 p.m., and the moon and stars were few.

Beside the rubber track outside the training base, on a bench on the sidewalk, Blizzard's face was ashen from the light of his phone screen.

After replying to Sasha and telling her to go to sleep, I looked towards the stadium entrance.

A figure approached from afar, its face becoming clearer.

"You're here."

Xiao Li, clutching the plastic pearl necklace, walked over and sat down next to Blizzard. "You must have had your reasons for doing that."

What if I really don't want to get involved?

Xiao Li said, "You always stood up for me when Qiu Shiyue bullied me before, so why are you letting it go this time?"

Blizzard kept replying to messages while looking down, his mouth never stopping:

"It's not entirely for you. I just got angry after finding out what Qiu Shiyue was up to. I can't stand her using the eels and the others to achieve her goals. The real pearl pleases Team One, while the fake one manipulates Team Two. She doesn't lose out either way. Adulthood really makes a difference."

Xiao Li fiddled with the beads in his hand, watching them collide with each other, making a low sound.

"I know you're being polite to me. I used to say I needed to grow up and wouldn't let you interfere, but you've already contradicted me."

She paused and said, "But I really have no other choice. I hope you can help me."

Blizzard looked up at her. "I want to ask you a question. I'll believe whatever you say."

"it is good."

"After I left, those junior team members said they blamed me. What about you? Before I sent you a message asking you to come here tonight, did you ever blame me?"

She was silent.

Blizzard understood, said no more, and took out his phone to make a call.

"I'll make a phone call, and you can listen in."

The call was answered quickly.

"Are you busy?"

There was a rustling sound of papers on the other end of the phone. "I'm reading, waiting for your call."

Blizzard: "It's what I told you, is there a solution?"

Jiang Hao placed his phone aside, turned on speakerphone, took out a piece of paper summarizing all the information Blizzard had provided, and explained it to Blizzard point by point:

"I've seen the video you gave me. Can you prove your innocence?"

Blizzard: "They didn't know beforehand that Qiu Shiyue would send the pearls, and during training camp, many security cameras can prove that they didn't have a chance to go out and switch them."

Jiang Hao: "Qiu Shiyue's words in the video confirm that these items are the goods listed on the tax invoice, so she is issuing false invoices and evading taxes."

"The invoice was issued by a certain international trade company to a certain cosmetics company. The international trade company and the company are all related to Qiu Shiyue's father, but they are not the direct beneficiaries. If we report them, it will likely result in tax rectification and fines. If they show a good attitude in admitting their mistakes, this amount will not involve detention or criminal detention."

Blizzard: "It's alright. Qiu Shiyue cares so much about money, fining her family isn't a bad idea."

"Alright, leave the rest to me. I'll be there when the Olympic simulation tournament starts in August, then you can give me the evidence. It'll only be a few days anyway."

"Okay, thanks. I'll treat you to dinner when I get back."

Jiang Hao added, "I just really can't understand how Qiu Shiyue, whose father is such a big boss, would buy counterfeit goods?"

"Greed knows no bounds; like a snake trying to swallow an elephant, wanting to be clever and good all the time, you end up shooting yourself in the foot."

After hanging up the phone, Xiao Li asked Blizzard, "So, does she want money?"

“No,” Blizzard said. “But you heard, she won’t be here for a few days.”

"That's alright," Xiao Li thought, "It's good that it's free."

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