Chapter 1961 - 1955: I’m the Smartest

Gu Qingcheng sneered. "The excuse you’ve found for yourself really sounds nice."

"Excuse or not, you know perfectly well. Why do you hate me so much? Isn’t it because that one time I was only one point behind you? Back then the whole school was crying and shouting that you were going to be knocked down, that there was no way I could just be one point short, I must have cheated. But that time I was already really on edge. I deliberately did several math problems wrong, just to end up one point behind you. Even so, I still got scolded like crazy for coming in second that once. The next time, I hurried and left two big questions blank, and just like that, I dropped to around thirtieth place in the school. The teacher came to talk to me, asked if I was in bad shape, how could I fall so fast. But I knew perfectly well it was because I’d been cursed out by your supporters so much I didn’t dare answer properly. I’ve been a genius since I was a kid, but because I don’t look good, I look like some bookworm, everyone thinks I must be insanely hard‑working. Yet I know I don’t need to work hard at all and I can still score really, really well..."

The people in the back listened, growing even more incredulous.

Ye Ning just looked at him. "Yun Tian, this is just the result of your own lack of confidence. It has nothing to do with anyone else."

"Nothing to do with anyone else? No. Look, even you can’t help but stand on his side. Why? Because he’s handsome. I was clearly the one who met you first, but later on you still did everything together with him. Why? Because when you’re with him, people envy you. When you’re with me, you get nothing at all."

Ye Ning said, "My attitude toward everyone is the same, Yun Tian. Because I have someone I like, and that person is the only one who’s special. As for other men, I don’t have any other thoughts about them. You’re the one overthinking it."

Yun Tian froze for a moment.

Gu Qingcheng also looked over just then.

Ye Ning went on, "So from the beginning, you decided to kill off the top students one by one, didn’t you?"

"Heh, it’s not like it didn’t start with them. They were the ones who couldn’t resist and came to buy drugs from me."

"Where exactly did your drugs come from?" Ye Ning kept pressing.

But at that moment, the Police had already come up from behind. "All right, time for us to go. Make way, we’ll take it from here. Kids, go back and study hard, don’t worry about this. Move, move, everyone move."

Yun Tian lowered his head and was led away by several officers.

Ye Ning didn’t follow them out. She just heard someone inside screaming shrilly, "What are you doing? How can you take my son away? What’s wrong with my son, you... what’s wrong with him, he was fine..."

"Enough, he’s a suspect now."

"What, what suspect? No, if you’re taking someone, take me. You can’t..."

Ye Ning shook her head and stepped out for the moment.

Gu Qingcheng followed from behind. "Hey."

Ye Ning turned her head. "What is it?"

"Are you actually Sherlock Holmes?"

"No." Ye Ning smiled.

"Then how did you know?"

"Oh, I’m just a bit interested in this kind of thing. But I’m still puzzled. Where did that drug actually come from? Han Xu, has he ever told you?"

Gu Qingcheng frowned and shook his head. "That... he only said he bought it from a student. He didn’t tell me the details."

Ye Ning muttered, "Logically speaking, he’d been taking it for a long time. But Yun Tian shouldn’t have been dealing for that long."

Gu Qingcheng said, "But you guessed it was him just because of those notes? Strange. When Gu Xuan died, he was in the hospital. Everyone at the hospital can testify to that."