CH 146 Overestimate
Translated by The BL Muse (ko-fi)
The reporter looked exaggerated, and his excited voice seemed to burst out from his widened eyes: "748, I remember that the highest score in previous years did not exceed 740, student, you wouldn't happen to be the legendary number one top scorer of sciences in Yan City, would you?!"
——Bang.
The vase hit the TV, shattered, and fell silently on the carpet.
He Qianjian stood in the middle of the room, his chest heaving violently.
The quality of the TV was good, there was no crack on the screen, and it was still playing: "This reporter went to the old Antique Street to interview students of various school ages today, and I did not expect to be lucky enough to interview Jiang Chen, the top scorer in the sciences on the college entrance examination this year. This time, student Jiang Chen’s score on the college entrance examination was 748 points, and only two points were deducted for his Chinese language essay, out of a total score of 750 points. This has never appeared before student Jiang Chen, and he broke the record for the highest score on the college entrance examination in previous years.”
"Not only that, but coincidentally, before meeting on Antique Street, this reporter from our station also interviewed Jiang Chen at the gate of Chenghua Academy. This was the report at that time..."
"At that time, there were about ten students who participated in the interview together. When this reporter asked which questions were the most difficult on the comprehensive science examination paper of the college entrance examination, most of the students said..."
He Qianjian saw his own face on the screen, and thought of the mocking and ridicule on the Internet since the news was published, his eyes turning red with anger. He strode to the TV and pulled the wire with one hand. The veins in the hands holding the wires bulged, and the trembling couldn't stop.
"Jiang Chen!"
He squeezed out the name from his throat, and his breaths became heavier each time.
Downstairs.
Yang Yun was talking to He Qianyu when the helper auntie at home came over and asked, "Young master Qian Jian hasn't gone downstairs today, should we go up and have a look?"
He Qianyu blinked and looked at Yang Yun.
Yang Yun paused slightly, and the smile on her face faded: "Let him be."
The helper auntie nodded, and thinking of the rubbish swept out of He Qianjian's room in the past few days, she opened her mouth to say something, but after thinking about it, she swallowed it back.
That was also a pitiful child, it was better to forget it, she thought.
When the helper auntie left, He Qianyu hugged Yang Yun, looked up and asked her: "Mom, Dad said that Brother Qian Jian was restricted from leaving the country because he wanted to harm Brother before. Is it true?"
Yang Yun patted her head, and said softly: "This matter has not been investigated clearly, and we cannot make a conclusion without evidence."
"But Brother Qian Jian always bullied Second Brother before. He did a lot of bad things. I think the police uncleS should be right."
Yang Yun frowned, puzzled: "How do you know that he has done a lot of bad things?"
"Second Brother told me!" He Qianyu pursed her lips and said, "I'm not a child anymore, I still know that my Second Brother asked me to go live with him at my Brother's adoptive parents at that time, just because he was worried that he would harm me too. "
"That's what your Second Brother said?"
"No." He Qianyu sat up straight and said solemnly: "I guessed it myself. Our teacher said that rabbits bite people when they are desperate, and dogs jump over walls when they are backed in a corner. If the police uncle really wants to arrest Brother Qian Jian, he will definitely not be willing to be put in jail."
Yang Yun asked: "Then why do you think Brother Qian Jian will harm you? Has he done anything to you before?"
He Qianyu shook her head: "No."
"Then why do you think Brother Qian Jian will harm you?"
He Qianyu pouted: "Then why did he harm my Brother and my Second Brother? Before he hurt them for the first time, he didn't do anything to them. I am preparing myself mentally in advance so that I wouldn't be like Second Brother, foolishly being wronged for so long."
Yang Yun didn't expect He Qianyu to think this way. She pauses in rubbing her back, unable to explain what she was feeling.
It turned out that when her youngest son and eldest son were hurt by He Qianjian one after another, her youngest daughter saw this all, so she secretly worried about her own safety at home, even though He Qianjian had never hurt He Qianyu. However, it was undeniable that if He Qianjian really wanted to hurt her, and the two of them were under the same roof, Qian Yu would definitely be hurt at such a young and defenseless age.
When you never put up your guards against a person, you wouldn’t think that person was scary no matter what direction you think from, but once you think that this person was very dangerous, and might even hurt the people you love the most, this kind of paranoia would be endless, finding itself in your head in various ways, making you even more tense.
*
As expected, the interview on the old Antique Street became the news with the highest ratings on Fang Yuan's TV station this holiday season.
During this period of time, Fang Yuan walked with the wind, humming cheerfully, and sighing over his good luck over and over again.
"Brother Fang." A colleague from the editorial department stopped him and waved at him: "Look at this old man, the one next to Jiang Chen. I read someone recognized him from an online post, saying that he is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he is in the field of computing technology research. I heard that he taught at Hua University before, didn’t you graduate from Hua University? Do you have any impression of Professor Xiang?”
Fang Yuan leaned closer to the computer to look at it, carefully looking at the blurry shot of the old man in the picture. He smacked his mouth, pointed at the computer and said, "I seem to remember, my high school classmate is from the math department, wait, I'll make a call and ask."
After a few minutes, Fang Yuan came back and said, "He taught at Hua University before, and my classmate took his class."
The eyes of the colleagues in the editorial department lit up, and they made a mysterious expression. Fang Yuan said: "The number one in the college entrance examination, Hua and Yan Uni must be rushing to get him. I sneaked into their school forum for a long time, and many students in their school said that Jiang Chen has received pre-admission notices from the two schools before, and he will choose from one of them..."
Fang Yuan had been a reporter for so many years, so naturally he had keen senses.
He thought thoughtfully, "Professor Xiang is from Hua Uni, so Jiang Chen's choice might be Hua Uni's Department of Mathematics?"
"Yeah!" The editor clapped his hands and said excitedly, "Now our station has won a lot of praise just from reporting on Jiang Chen. I heard that other news stations also recognized his value, and they went to interview him one by one. Although he has never accepted interviews from other channels, what if Jiang Chen suddenly agrees? Other channels will definitely catch the points we missed, and filling out the college choice is definitely the top priority!"
"However, I also found my way to Yan City No. 1 High School's forum before. Many people revealed that Jiang Chen wants to apply for the Department of Computer Science of Yan University. We are not sure which school he applied for, and we aren't sure he will not accept an interview again, so we don’t have evidence and can’t report it.”
"Why is there no evidence?" The editor asked, "Isn't Professor Xiang the evidence? Jiang Chen, a prospective college student, is walking with a former professor from Hua University. If it isn't Hua Uni then what would it be."
Fang Yuan thought for a while, but still felt that something was wrong. He shook his head and said, "I'll go and verify this matter. If he tells me, we'll report it. If not, forget it."
"Okay." Seeing him leave, the colleague turned around and pulled out his cell phone.
…
The discussion on the Internet had been hot for a long time. Jiang Chen had been busy working with the research team with all the members recently, and had not been affected in any way.
When he received the call from Fang Yuan, Jiang Chen was discussing the project with Shi Fengyue, the bumps in the car were like yesterday, but don't know if it was because of the accidental kiss before the one in the car, or because he was distracted by the interview after talking with Professor Zhang. The way the two get along was still the same as before, without any embarrassment or change.
It was as if it was just an accidental episode that could be left behind at will.
"C can't do this." Regarding the topic of this discussion, Shi Fengyue came to a conclusion: "Him always refusing to communicate with the team will definitely drag the team back in the end."
Jiang Chen also knew that C going on like this was not a long-term solution, but his psychological problems could not be changed just like that. He was also slowly leading C to communicate with everyone, hoping to let him integrate into the team subconsciously.
"Currently, the part that C is responsible for does not have much overlap with other people's work, and his work has not been affected. We can..."
When the phone rang, Jiang Chen signaled and pressed the answer button.
"Hello."
"Hi, I'm Fang Yuan, the reporter who interviewed you twice before." Fang Yuan didn't wait for Jiang Chen to ask, and said concisely: "Our station broadcast the news about your college choice yesterday, and I want to explain to you, that was not my subjective behavior, but another group made their own decisions and broadcast it without verification, I am very sorry."
Right after Jiang Chen picked up the phone, he heard an apology, so he was a little curious: "May I know where you got my number from?"
"I stayed downstairs at your house for two days, met your mother, and got your number from her after explaining what happened." Fangyuan apologized again: "I'm really sorry, I apologize to you in place of my colleagues."
Jiang Chen didn't think it was such a big deal, and told the reporter directly that he didn't mind, but the reporter would call him specially, it shouldn't be as simple as apologizing for broadcasting a piece of news.
"Who is it?" Shi Fengyue asked casually.
"The reporter who interviewed me on Antique Street. His colleagues from the same station reported the news about my college choice. He called to apologize because they didn't have my consent."
Thoughtful, Shi Fengyue turned on a computer casually, deftly opened a social media platform, and saw what he was looking for in the title of the top post.
——The most handsome top science scorer in Yan City, he will be my Hua Uni junior at the beginning of term, calling all Hua Uni's senior brothers and sisters to report in.
Shi Fengyue clicked in, and the discussion on this post was very heated. Many current Hua Uni students and incoming Hua Uni students were commenting, and there were also many passers-by. Most of them were welcoming Jiang Chen, and some were discussing which department Jiang Chen would enter, and more people shared the photos of him and Professor Xiang at that time, proving that he would enter the mathematics department, causing the students in the mathematics department to rejoice.
In a warm and festive atmosphere, there were also some disharmonious voices. Since ancient times, literati have looked down on each other, and students from the two top universities in their country couldn't help but compete with each other. This time because Jiang Chen supposedly chose Hua Uni, Hua Uni's students were happy but also at the same time prideful, feeling that this was a recognition of Hua Uni's status.
At first, it was just the students from Hua University celebrating, but later students from Yan University came in. Some people were sure that Jiang Chen had said that he would choose the computer department of Yan University, and the students from the two schools quarreled even more happily.
The post was still being updated even now. The quarrel between the two famous schools had now focused on Jiang Chen, saying that he was too scheming and stirring up chaos. When he was in school, he said he would report to Yan University, and after the interview, he reported to Hua University. After attracting social attention, not only did he not come out to clarify he just let the students of the two colleges quarrel for him. Blaming him for disturbing the harmony before he even entered college and stating that it would be a landmine for any college to accept him.
Jiang Chen followed along as Shi Fengyue scrolled through the post, and after seeing this remark, he couldn't help but laugh.
He actually overestimated He Qianjian. After laying the groundwork for so long, this was all he could do.