He said I was soft and nice

When Xu Zhou received the call from the school, he had just returned home from filming in the hospital.

His wrist was torn and dislocated by Xu Chen yesterday. Even if he recovers, the pain is unbearable. Now he can't stop shaking while holding a report. When he walked out of the hospital, passers-by looked at him very strangely, and subconsciously avoided it. He, as if he was an epileptic patient who would have a seizure at any time.

Xu Zhou endured strange stares from others all the way, and when he returned to Xu's house, he felt that the servants were also laughing at him behind his back. Those people had seen it yesterday, so they must think he is very good, right?

He returned to the room, closed the door, and the indifference on his face was replaced by sternness in an instant. He gritted his teeth and tore up the report card in his hand.

The room in front of him was dark and narrow, with no sunshine all year round. When he first entered the door, he could even smell the damp and stuffy smell faintly. This made Xu Zhou's resentment towards Xu Chen reach its peak.

If it wasn't for Xu Chen, he wouldn't have been forced to move from the biggest room into this small bedroom with a back door, and he wouldn't have kept promises to his mother at home, for fear of offending Xu Chen and causing unnecessary gossip, let alone He would be forced to go to the company to look at him every day and act in fear every day, fearing that he would be kicked out of the project team.

And Qi Ling...

He remembered Qi Ling's attitude towards him recently, and his expression became more ferocious.

It was Xu Chen's appearance that broke everything completely.

However, as long as he endures these last few days and the project is successfully concluded, he can start his own counterattack.

Xu Zhou forced himself to calm down. He already knew that Xu Hanhai was obviously biased towards him, and was even planning to transfer the shares held by Xu Chen to his own. , only Xu Chen is an outsider, and he will be excluded by them sooner or later.

Even the Xu family will fall into his hands sooner or later. After he graduates, with the help of Yu's family, there is no need to worry about Xu Chen making trouble.

Qi Ling just thought about it for the time being. When he has more power, Qi Ling, who has no background at all, will not be able to disobey him.

Xu Zhou felt a lot better when he thought of these things, the corners of his mouth lightly raised, and he even hummed a little tune in a good mood, but the good mood disappeared the moment he received the school call,

"Xu Zhou, I'm a teacher of the Academic Committee of University A. Now someone has reported you for plagiarism. We need you to come to the school as soon as possible with relevant materials."

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Professor Jiang looked at the report materials handed over by Qi Ling in front of him, his eyes became more and more solemn, "This is the notebook of my former student Xu Chen."

Xu Chen has taught for two years, and he is particularly familiar with this notebook. Xu Chen never left his body during school, and it recorded many of his thoughts.

Qi Ling heaved a sigh of relief after hearing Professor Jiang's words. Professor Jiang remembered this notebook, so what he said would be more credible, "Yes, this is indeed Xu Chen's. What Xu Zhou published in the xx journal is exactly the same."

"I still have some scattered experimental notes here, all written by Xu Chen five years ago."

He looked at Professor Jiang, "Professor, since you remember this notebook, you should have seen Xu Chen write many things in it."

Professor Jiang nodded, "Yes, I supervised Xu Chen's first thesis, and I often watched him record it in his notebook."

After finishing speaking, he opened the content in the middle of the notebook and showed it to other teachers, "This is the research process of my apprentice's first thesis. At that time, he took many detours, and finally succeeded, and it was also included in the xx journal. That was five years ago."

Professor Jiang's tone was a little sad, but also a little proud. After all, Xu Chen was his most satisfied student.

The other teachers followed suit, and they could clearly see the serious and rigorous attitude of the owner of the notebook between the lines. Thinking of what Qi Ling was going to expose, their faces were very serious.

They will never allow plagiarists to occupy other people's research results!

Qi Ling had a panoramic view of the teachers' reactions, and his tone was lighter, "The teacher can compare the depth of the handwriting before and after, and you can see that this notebook has not been used for more than a year."

"With Professor Jiang's words, it can also show that the last paper recorded in the notes was written five years ago."

One of the teachers listened and asked him: "I agree with your point of view, but this is not direct evidence. It can at most prove that Xu Zhou may have borrowed the ideas of the notebook owner."

He picked up Qi Ling's remaining data and looked at it, "Another point is that the experimental data you provided is too fragmented, and some of them can't be seen what the data are. This alone cannot prove that Xu Zhou That paper was plagiarized."

"If you only have these, then there may not be enough evidence to say that Xu Zhou's paper plagiarized."

The teacher's tone was a bit regretful. In fact, based on their experience, they could already guess the result, but this kind of thing needs to pay attention to evidence, Qi Ling and these are not enough to convict Xu Zhou of plagiarism.

After talking so much, he originally thought that the young man who came to report would be very disappointed, but the other party's expression did not change. Instead, he said slowly as if he had expected it: "I know the teacher's concerns, so I asked Xu Zhou to report that part. The sample data and the bibliography used are brought over in full."

"I will prove that the data of Xu Chen's paper in my hand is exactly the same as Xu Zhou's, and I will also prove that the paper was indeed written by Xu Chen five years ago."

As soon as this remark came out, all the teachers present were stunned, and they all felt that the young man couldn't accept this fact, and it was just a rhetoric out of shame.

When Xu Zhou comes over later, if he brings complete experimental data, the situation will only be more unfavorable to Qi Ling.

Only Professor Jiang was thoughtful, downloaded and printed out Xu Zhou's paper from the computer, and read it carefully again.

His eyes fell on a certain place, his eyes were slightly focused, it was here.

Xu Zhou came very quickly. When he brought over the materials the teacher said, he opened the door and saw Qi Ling's figure. He was not surprised.

After the teacher said that someone reported him for plagiarism, he guessed it was Qi Ling, but he didn't expect the other party to move so fast.

"Teacher, this is the part of the experimental data you requested." Xu Zhou obviously ran all the way here. He wiped the sweat from his brow, bent down and handed the materials to the teacher with a respectful and polite attitude.

But even if he lowered his posture, the teachers in the office didn't treat him well.

Even if the evidence is insufficient, they are all human beings, and they don't see any tricks in it. They really don't have any favors for this kind of students.

Xu Zhou also noticed the subtle attitude of the teachers in the office, and his heart sank slightly.

You must know that the teacher of the Academic Committee of University A is at least at the associate professor level. If he offends him all at once, it will have a great impact on his work after graduation.

He looked at Qi Ling who was waiting quietly beside him, and said in a deep voice: "Qi Ling, I know you don't like me very much now, and you are also afraid that I will take away Professor Jiang's last apprenticeship, but you shouldn't use this method to frame me. I."

"Now that I have brought the information, do you have anything else to say?"

But after he said so much, Qi Ling just glanced at him and didn't respond. He felt like he had punched cotton.

Qi Ling looked up at the teacher who was looking at the data, and said politely, "Can I have a look?"

The teacher handed him the information, feeling a little unbearable in his heart. They all took a cursory look at it, and found that the data link of what Xu Zhou handed in was complete, the logic was clear, and there was no problem at all.

If Xu Zhou was held accountable for being reported indiscriminately, the student would not be able to escape punishment.

Seeing the sympathy in the eyes of the teachers, Qi Ling took the documents as usual and flipped through them, and when he saw something, he raised his lips slightly, "Xu Zhou, can you guarantee that the things you hand in now are written by yourself? Are you sure you are responsible for the content above?"

Seeing Qi Ling's expression, Xu Zhou was inexplicably a little apprehensive, but with so many teachers watching, he could only pretend to say without hesitation: "Of course I can!"

"I want to see if you can find out where I plagiarized!"

Xu Zhouqiang calmed down. All the data and materials are in his hands. Qi Ling got a little leftovers at most, which are not evidence at all.

Qi Ling looked at Xu Zhou, who was still dead-mouthed, and the curve of his lips became wider. He pulled out two pages of information, and took the page of information he brought and folded them together, " Teachers look at this small piece of data."

Xu Zhou thought that he had found similar data between the two, but he felt relieved and said sarcastically, "Qi Ling, that's all the data I can collect for this topic, so what does the similarity mean? You accuse me of plagiarism based on this? It's too ridiculous!"

But as soon as he finished speaking, the teachers all over the office looked at him with extremely weird eyes.

Xu Zhou was stunned, and now he was completely panicked, "Teacher, is there a problem?"

Professor Jiang was furious. He slapped two pages of paper on Xu Zhou, "Look at it for yourself!"

Xu Zhou took it subconsciously and glanced at it, but he didn't see why, but he also heard the anger in Professor Jiang's words, and asked cautiously, "Is there any problem?"

When Professor Jiang saw him like this, he knew that his understanding of this paper was very low. Xu Zhou, who claimed to be the author of the paper, couldn't see the mistakes they saw at once!

The teacher next to him saw that Professor Jiang was about to lose his temper, and quickly patted him on the back, "Don't be angry, don't be angry, what do you do if you are so angry?"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Xu Zhou, who was bewildered, with disgust in his eyes, "Not only are your data exactly the same as others', but even the basic algorithm errors are the same, how dare you say that this data is your own?"

The data provided by Xu Zhou has a very insignificant addition and subtraction error, which does not affect the conclusion, but this error is completely consistent with the data in Qi Ling's hand. What does this prove?What Qi Ling brought over was exactly the same as what Xu Zhou was holding!

Qi Ling looked at Xu Zhou's flustered look of looking for data errors over and over again, and pointed it out for him very kindly, "Look, when you copied your brother's papers, you didn't check them, and copied everything, why are you so stupid?"

Qi Ling's tone was light and light, but Xu Zhou immediately tore off his hypocrisy, his face flushed, and he said viciously: "So what, maybe Xu Chen read my paper and copied mine!"

Seeing that he was still stubborn, Qi Ling took out another piece of paper. This was the bibliography provided by Xu Zhou. It contained a lot of content, both in Chinese and English. It was clear that a lot of hard work had been spent on it.

These were written by Xu Chen little by little, but now they are in the hands of someone like Xu Zhou.

He suppressed the distress that surged up, raised his eyes, and looked at Xu Zhou coldly: "Here you quoted two documents by Professor Jiang."

"One was published by the professor seven years ago, and the other was published five years ago."

Xu Zhou bit the bullet and said, "So what? Is there still a mistake in citing past documents?"

"That's right." Qi Ling's tone was unhurried, but every sentence made Xu Zhou's heart dance on the tip of a knife.

Qi Ling looked at the fine sweat oozing from his forehead due to nervousness, and knew that the other party was completely in a mess, so he smiled mockingly, "But, you even cited the wrong documents."

"Professor Jiang's paper five years ago was published once in the school's journal at that time, and it was withdrawn and revised a few months later before republishing. But your paper published in the second half of last year actually used professor five The content of the previous year, the article number is also old."

Every time Qi Ling said something, Xu Zhou's face turned pale, his lips trembled, and he wanted to explain something, but he didn't know where to start.

First report him for plagiarism, let the school force him to hand over part of the complete data, then point out the same low-level mistakes in the data as in Xu Chen's draft, and finally the documents, one ring after another, nailing his plagiarism to death dead.

Qi Ling had planned everything completely and was just waiting for him to be caught.

Professor Jiang looked at Xu Zhou's pale face, trembling uncontrollably, snorted coldly, and handed the printed documents to other teachers, "This is the document I retracted earlier, and what Xu Zhou's paper mentioned is indeed I haven’t modified the content before, and the article number on it is also old, I have withdrawn these online, and most people can’t find them.”

Qi Ling nodded cooperatively, "I spent the whole afternoon looking for this unrevised paper."

The professor's thesis was not published in a large journal at the beginning, but it appeared in the school magazine once in response to an event of the school, but it was withdrawn soon.

If Xu Zhou had only started preparing this thesis last year, it would be impossible to use the correct literature instead of the literature five years ago with such a small spread of error.

Professor Jiang thought of something, and his tone was very heavy, "I remember that Xu Chen took a leave of absence to go abroad in his sophomore year, and my article was only revised after he left."

Xu Chen didn't have time to find out that Professor Jiang had changed the paper, so he still used the one published by the professor, and Xu Zhou copied it intact.

When the matter developed to this point, a teacher in the office contacted the person in charge of the xx journal, "Hi, there is a student in our school who is suspected of plagiarism in a paper published in your journal. I will submit the relevant evidence to your journal in the future. I hope You can take the paper down."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Zhou had a look of disbelief. He obviously had the complete data in his hand, so why was he found plagiarized?

He was still struggling and wanted to say something, but Qi Ling took out his mobile phone and clicked on an audio recording. It was a recording of the two quarreling in Xu's house——

"The paper published in the xx journal is not your own, right? Is it shameful to steal your brother's things?"

"how do you know?"

The voices of the two were clear and distinct. Qi Ling handed the USB disk containing the recording to the teacher, "This is the audio that Xu Zhou personally admitted to plagiarizing. The teacher can go to the professional department to verify whether this recording of mine has been edited or synthesized."

The teacher took the USB flash drive and looked at Qi Ling in shock. This student should have identified Xu Zhou's plagiarism early in the morning, and he had such important evidence in hand, so he just waited for the matter to come to a conclusion before giving it to Xu Zhou. Final blow.

Why didn't he get this recording out sooner?

But after a while, he figured it out. If this recording appeared at the beginning, they might not believe it at all. On the one hand, the authenticity of the recording has not been confirmed, and on the other hand, this passage is easy to be misleading, full of with uncertainty.

But if it is presented now, it will become the key evidence at once, completely crushing the possibility of Xu Zhou's recovery, and Xu Zhou will not be able to escape the charge of plagiarism.

Therefore, Qi Ling calculated every step clearly from the beginning to ensure that there would be no mistakes in the middle link before reporting.

This student looks quite small, but he is very stable in his work.

Seeing that the matter had settled down, Qi Ling admired Xu Zhou's bewildered and sluggish expression, and then greeted the teachers, "Then I won't delay the teachers' work on follow-up matters, Xu Zhou must have plagiarized other people's papers like this. The person who also published the article in the xx journal will definitely be punished as it should be?"

He believed that Xu Zhou would face many things in the future.

Withdraw the published papers, cancel all previous grades, and announce on the school’s official website. If the impact is large, it is also possible to expel the student’s status or delay graduation.

Seeing that he was still hinting there, the teacher couldn't help feeling amused, "Okay, there will be no less punishments that should be given."

Now that they knew about it, they would never let it go. Even if they wanted to release the water, Professor Jiang would not let it go.

The teacher glanced away and found that Professor Jiang had already written relevant proof materials in front of the computer, obviously to fight for his previous learning.

Only then did Qi Ling feel relieved, and said politely, "Then I'll go first, thank you teacher."

After Qi Ling left, Professor Jiang worked hard all day, running up and down, asking the journal to withdraw the manuscript as soon as possible, and the school issued a punishment notice.

He couldn't bear to see that plagiarist put Xu Chen's thesis under his own name, and it would be a torment for one more second.

In fact, in retrospect, he noticed a lot of details.

That year, Xu Chen was busy writing and preparing data, except for basic courses. He was often invisible. At that time, some colleagues said that his students looked busier than him as a professor.

Was this thesis what Xu Chen prepared?No wonder he felt so familiar and inspired when he saw this article. If Xu Chen had not been abroad for a long time at that time, he would have subconsciously thought that it was written by his students.

Professor Jiang sighed, looked at the time, returned from get off work, and when he walked downstairs to the school apartment, he saw a familiar figure unexpectedly, "Why are you here?"

This person is obviously Xu Chen. He is dressed in a suit and should have come directly from the company.

Xu Chen nodded immediately: "It's been a long time since I came to see the teacher, now I come here and hope the teacher doesn't find the students annoying."

Professor Jiang glanced at Xu Chen's shrewd and capable appearance with complicated eyes. He was ashamed of calling Xu Chen teacher.

Xu Chen probably didn't know that his thesis was plagiarized after he went abroad, but he let this thesis dangle under his nose for nearly a year, and he used him as a typical example when he was still in class. How much vanity did Xu Zhou add to Xu Zhou's vanity?

As long as he had learned more about what Xu Chen was writing in the first place, or had discovered the familiarity of Xu Zhou's writing, Xu Chen would not have been stolen for so long.

He turned around and led Xu Chen upstairs, and the two entered and sat on the sofa in the living room.

After hearing Xu Chen's reason for coming, Professor Jiang didn't expect it: "Are you here for Qi Ling?"

Didn't Xu Chen come to him because of plagiarism of his thesis?

Xu Chen paused, thinking that Professor Jiang thought he had crossed the line, pursed his lips and said, "I know it's a bit inappropriate for me to come here now, but I still hope you can listen to my words."

"Qi Ling's project report, he did a lot of homework, and the project report only presented part of it. I think the other contents are also very good, so I sorted it out and brought it here for you."

He has been with Professor Jiang for so many years, and he knows what kind of students the professor admires most——

Spiritual and hardworking.

Qi Ling does not lack the former, but since the professional courses have not overlapped with Professor Jiang, the teacher may not be able to see Qi Ling's intentions. He hopes to help Qi Ling make up for it.

Even if Qi Ling didn't say anything, Xu Chen could tell that he really wanted this spot.

Professor Jiang looked at the information that Xu Chen handed over, and couldn't laugh or cry, "Xu Chen, are you here to give that kid Qi Ling a back door? You can do it! You've been working in the workplace for a long time and you're quite proficient at this."

The same is true for the last candidate. If Xu Chen hadn't mentioned it, he might not have found Qi Ling at all.

He straightened his face: "Xu Chen, you should know my character, I don't like this."

Xu Chen paused, clasped his fingers, and fell silent.

However, he straightened his back and did not take back the materials in his hand. After a long while, he said, "Teacher, I only need 10 minutes for you."

Professor Jiang looked at Xu Chen's stubborn appearance, and suddenly remembered the student who would fight with him on stage when he was a student. He saw these traits from Xu Chen.

He was about to continue teasing Xu Chen, but someone slapped him on the back.

Mrs. Jiang rolled her eyes at Professor Jiang, "You old man is very bad! Just relying on Xu Chen's respect, you won't go against you, right? I don't know who was holding Qi Ling's project report and saw it in the middle of the night, and laughed." From ear to ear, I still have to hold it here!"

She poured a glass of water for Xu Chen, "Xu Chen, don't listen to your teacher fooling you, since after reading Qi Ling's report, he has confirmed the final spot. He doesn't know what you are holding now. How itchy to see it!"

Professor Jiang was about to quietly take that part of the materials from Xu Chen's hands, but unexpectedly, his wife would mercilessly dismantle his platform, and immediately speeded up her hands and put the materials into her arms, coughing solemnly on her face Cough, "Xu Chen, don't listen to your teacher's wife's nonsense, before the result comes out, you are not allowed to leak the news, otherwise..."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly stopped, "Otherwise, I will bully Qi Ling as hard as I can when he gets under my command!"

After finishing speaking, he poked his wife with his elbow complacently.

Mrs. Jiang looked at him a little speechlessly, "Okay, you guys talk, I'll cook, Xu Chen, wait a minute, the food will be ready soon."

Seeing this, Xu Chen immediately sat up, "Master, I won't eat here, I have an appointment, I'll leave later."

Mrs. Jiang knew his temperament, so she didn't keep him any longer, "That's fine, after your master takes your friend under the door, you bring someone over for dinner."

Xu Chen didn't refuse this time, but said hello.

Seeing that Xu Chen was really about to leave, Professor Jiang wondered, "You came here only for Qi Ling? He didn't tell you about Xu Zhou's plagiarism?"

He thought Qi Ling and Xu Chen had discussed this matter together.

When Xu Chen heard this, he stopped suddenly, "What?"

After the conversation, Xu Chen immediately left to look for Qi Ling. On the way, the sound of sirens kept ringing around, but what Professor Jiang said just now was in his ears.

"That kid came to the academic committee's office aggressively early in the morning and said that he wanted to report Xu Zhou's plagiarism with his real name. The evidence was one by one, and Xu Zhou had nothing to say."

"You didn't look at Qi Ling like that at the time, looking at Xu Zhou as if it had been frozen. People who didn't know thought that Xu Zhou plagiarized his own thesis."

Stepping on the brakes, Xu Chen looked at the neighborhood where Qi Ling was in front of him, but a sentence kept echoing in his mind,

"He really protects you."

Xu Chen leaned on the back of the chair, raised his hands to cover his eyes, and concealed the complicated and turbulent emotions in his heart.

He couldn't imagine how Qi Ling found evidence from those fragments, and he didn't know how he had the courage to report Xu Zhou's plagiarism in front of so many professors. Once the report failed, whether it was Professor Jiang or others, Qi Ling favorability will be greatly reduced.

He would even lose his only chance to become Professor Jiang's student because of this.

But Qi Ling still went, and on the first day of school, he couldn't wait to give himself justice, never thinking about the negative impact this incident might have on him.

Even though Qi Ling would often act coquettishly and show weakness to him, and seemed to be an existence that needed to be protected, every time he encountered something, Qi Ling would stand in front of him without hesitation.

Even if Xu Chen closed his eyes, he could recall everything that happened before, vividly——

At the hotel in Qingshui City, when he felt that Yao Peilan and his wife might threaten him, Qi Ling stood in front of him.

Last time when he was drunk and Xu Zhou grabbed him by the collar, it was Qi Ling who shot him back.

This time, Qi Ling stood up again and took back the research results of his student days for him.

In fact, he didn't even care about it anymore. He used this paper to win enough benefits for himself, and he was no longer his young self, so that paper didn't have much value to him.

But Qi Ling silently snatched it back from Xu Zhou's hand.

He held an umbrella for Qi Ling, and Qi Ling also held his hand tightly, protecting himself in his own way.

At this moment, he couldn't continue to lie to himself, he actually cared.

He cared about what was taken away by Xu Zhou, and hated his powerless self before. He buried these things deep in the soil, but in the end, Qi Ling gently turned them out, washed off the dirt on them, and held them in front of him, "Look , washed clean, this is yours."

He felt the throbbing in his heart, the missing corner had already been filled unknowingly, a certain emotion was hot and enthusiastic, and the fullness was about to overflow, completely engulfing him.

Xu Chen thought, he is finished.