“Sunny, is that true?” one of the students, too curious to hold back, turned to Sunny and asked him directly.
Sunny shot him a cold glare, clearly annoyed. “You just believe whatever she says? Don’t you have your own brain?”
That made everyone pause–and then suddenly snap out of it.
Yeah, why were they taking Jean’s word for it?
She might sound serious, and her tone might be calm and confident, but that didn’t make what she said
true.
She hadn’t shown a single shred of evidence!
“Jean, would you quit your act already?” another student suddenly shouted in frustration. “If you really want to prove your innocence, bring out some damn evidence. Stop pulling stuff out of thin air!”
Jean raised an eyebrow and let out a light, cool laugh. “The evidence is that one week before the placement exam, Sunny got his hands on the questions and listed them for sale on the Market.”
The Market was a secondhand goods app where people could also sell study materials and resources.
As soon as the words left her mouth, the classroom erupted into a frenzy of gasps and whispers.
“What? He sold the questions?”
“Seriously?”
“She’s saying he leaked them and made money off of them?”
“That’s nuts!”
“Sunny.” The principal finally spoke, cutting through the rising noise. His tone was firm and a little urgent. “Let me see your Market account. Right now.”
Then he added, more solemnly, “This isn’t an invasion of privacy. This is part of an official investigation.”
The students all looked around at each other, stunned and speechless.
Jean’s claim had just taken things to a whole new level.
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