"86?!" The man almost coughed out when he announced the score himself.
Everyone stared at Jiang Meiying like she was an alien who landed from planet mars.
Unbelievable! They all thought.
She sat right there on her desk and maintained a straight face, staring blankly at the teacher like the score wasn't surprising to her.
The Liu Twins paled when they heard the score. She had even scored fourth highest in the class! She had beat Jiang Ming!
Jiang Ming who wasn't used to being 2nd best when it came to competing with her sister, suddenly got up, slamming her hand on her desk, thereby pulling Mr. Shui from his reverie likewise the other students.
"Teacher Shu, I suggest we search her. She's probably with a cheat note somewhere, or a note book!"
Whispers broke out in the class. Since Jiang Ming was much popular and the most beautiful sister of the two, they all supported her idea of searching Jiang Meiying.
Mr. Shui had a little feeling that she could have cheated. How was it possible that someone who couldn't spell most words could get such a perfect score in a core subject like mathematics.
"Quiet everyone." He almost yelled, and at the voice of their teacher, there was a pin drop silence in the class. He glanced at Jiang Meiying who just sat there, not saying a word during the entire pandemonium. "I'm sorry Jiang Meiying, but we have to be sure... for the sake of the peace in this classroom."
Without hesitation, Jiang Ming and Liu Rong moved to start ransacking her just as she stood up, but with just one cold look from her, they gulped and froze up.
Jiang Meiying turned to the teacher.
"They think I cheated and you'll just let them harass me like a criminal because of a silly accusation?"
Mr. Shui felt a bit guilty about it. After all, he had rounded up the class during the test and had not seen her look away from her book.
However, Jiang Meiying didn't let him speak and added.
"I must have a say in this, don't you think?"
Mr. Shui sighed.
"Continue."
Jiang Meiying glanced around the classroom.
"How many of you think I cheated? Come on! Raise your hands."
There were exactly 30 students in the classroom (including her) and at words, 27 people raised their hands in the air.
Obviously, Li Fu and Hai Bo didn't raise their hands. They had gotten 30 and 48 in the test respectively, and all it took was just one lesson to get such scores which was quite high compared to the scores they badged before.
The look on Mr. Shui's face was priceless when he had come across both their scores earlier.
They hadn't used any cheat notes and they didn't believe Jiang Meiying could use one either.
"I see." Jiang Meiying's eyes turned cold with a hint of amusement. "Then if you're all so confident about it, I'd suggest you pay to me 5 dollars each if your accusations happen to be fake."
A blonde haired girl with green eyes snobbishly said.
"If our accusations happen to be true, which of course it is, you'll pay us 5 dollars each instead!"
Everyone nodded In agreement and Mr. Shui stared at the betting committee in own his classroom, bewildered.
'Could she pay to everyone, 5 dollars each? Wasn't that too much?'
He expected she'd back out of the bet and was ready to defend her, but she agreed and insisted they search her quickly.
Jiang Ming and Liu Rong hesitantly moved forward, not sure what to expect from the violent girl.
"Make sure to look under her chins too! She might be hiding the cheat notes there!" Someone yelled in the classroom, and everyone laughed scornfully.
Jiang Meiying barely cracked a smile. Her face was stoic as the two girls searched her like a criminal. With each unsuccessful search in a particular pocket, the whole class began turning hysterical.
They even searched her hair, her socks and requested to check inside her shoes. To everyone's dismay and to the surprise of the teacher, they found nothing.
"Teacher Shui!" Jiang Ming yelled, sounding pitiful. "You really can't expect all of us to give her 5 dollars each. This is robbery!"
Jiang Meiying simply scoffed and sat back down as everyone looked at her. Some in awe, some in surprise, some in amazement.
"I'm sorry Jiang Ming, but you all suggested that yourselves." He nonchalantly replied and walked towards Jiang Meiying's table, calmly dropping her test sheet on her table.
"Good job Jiang Meiying." He proudly announced to the annoyance of many students.
"Thank you Teacher Shui."
He congratulated some other people like Billy and Lawrence, and after sharing out their test sheets, he leaves the classroom.
Once he did, Jiang Meiying suddenly walked towards the door and shut it Incase anyone else tried to leave.
They had a 5-minute break in-between periods and the next class was in the next 4 minutes.
That would be enough time to get her pay from everyone.
Everyone stared at her in ridicule, not serious about handing over the money. They just sat there and stared at her like she was a boring fat insect.
A boy approached her at the door.
"Step aside. I want to use the restroom!" He told her arrogantly. He was taller than her by a head but not as bulky as she was.
However, he could beat her up as usual.
"Before anyone leaves, they'd have to pay me. It was a bet after all, and you all agreed to it. I suggest everyone of you simply hand over the money or I'll take it myself!"
The boy looked back at the students and they looked at him before they all burst out laughing.
He suddenly turned, feeling everyone's eyes on him and made to grab her hair but she grabbed his neck with her fat hands and threw him across the teacher's desk.
He was tossed across it like a rag doll and everyone gasped as he landed on the other side of the table, writhing in pain.
They all looked up to see Jiang Meiying sit on the teacher's desk. Looking at her, you wouldn't believe she had enough strength to push a toddler to the floor talk more of flinging a muscled boy across a table.
As the boy got up, he met with her spine-chilling eyes. His head hurt from the fall, and he could feel tears forming at the edge of his eyes.
He didn't want to start crying Infront of the others so he threw the dollar notes on the table and dashed out of the class.
"26 more students to go." Jiang Meiying announced and glanced at them, coldly.
Some were reluctant to budge from their seats until Li Fu got up and said.
"You all have to be ashamed of yourselves. You accused her of doing something unfilial, something she didn't do in the first place, and now you won't keep to your part of the deal. You're all so shameless!"
Many of them began walking towards the table to drop their money. Some quickly dropped it and ran back to their seats just incase Jiang Meiying decided to throw them across the table. They all felt a bit guilty after hearing Li Fu's words.
Jiang Ming and her friends walked up to the table and with scorn in their eyes, they dropped the money and left to their seats.
As Jiang Meiying leaned forward to count her money, she didn't notice the look of anger and disgust every one directed at her.
Suddenly the pop up screen, interface, appeared before her,
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