CHAPTER 94: CHAPTER 94: AFRAID YOU’LL BE BULLIED

An Yan looked at Mu Enyu with admiration. Her little deskmate was quite smart.

"It doesn’t matter. Let them do whatever they want. In the face of absolute power, any conspiracy or trick is in vain!"

When Mu Enyu saw how certain she was, she relaxed. "Exactly, our paper is so perfect. Even if An Shimeng and her group are strong, the best they can hope for is a draw!"

An Yan smiled. Her little deskmate was too naïve; such a draw was impossible. And the draw that An Shimeng’s group was hoping for was also impossible. An Shimeng was waiting to see her become a laughingstock. And she was waiting for the chance to smoothly get the members of their thesis group to contribute Yezi to her.

"Sigh! Who knows when Su Siming and Liang Chen will come back?"

"Before, when they went to competitions, Su Siming was practically live-broadcasting the event on his Moments, as if he was afraid people wouldn’t know he was winning glory for the school. This time it’s strange. There was only a photo from when they boarded the plane!"

"An Yan, you don’t think something happened to Su Siming and the others, do you?"

Hearing her little deskmate’s concern, An Yan kindly reminded her, "You don’t need to worry about Su Siming; he’s not meant for you."

"As for Liang Chen, if you can maintain your current academic performance, you should receive his confession by your senior year..."

Mu Enyu became anxious. "...What are you talking about? I am just worried about them as classmates!"

"And, I don’t like Liang Chen! Don’t talk nonsense!"

An Yan saw the little girl get so flustered her face turned red, and smiled indulgently. "Okay, I know. I’ll stop."

As the two were playfully teasing each other, the class advisor came in. "An Yan, come out with me for a moment."

Mu Enyu’s eyes widened with surprise and excitement. "Is it about our paper being published?"

The class advisor didn’t respond, turned around, and walked away with An Yan.

The members of An Shimeng’s group exchanged glances, their expressions smug.

The more Mu Enyu watched them, the more she felt they must be up to something no good! She became so nervous that her heart seemed to shrink. If Liang Chen and Su Siming were here, they would surely have a way to help An Yan. But they weren’t here! What to do, what to do?

Mu Enyu, anxious, her face flushed, reached into her bag and grasped her phone. If An Yan couldn’t handle it, she would call her eldest cousin! Her eldest cousin was Mu Chenyuan, known as Young Master Mu. Although he hadn’t fully taken over the family business, he was already well-known. He would want to help her, wouldn’t he? No matter what, if Big Brother wasn’t willing, she would beg him! In any case, her friend absolutely could not get into trouble!

About fifteen minutes later, the class advisor returned, his face grim, and said, "Chen Xiangyu, Ma Chao, Lin Jiahang, Song Yushu, Sun Wenbin—you few, step out and come with me!"

The class immediately erupted. "What’s going on? Please give us a hint, Class Advisor!"

"Yeah, why are you calling them out, Class Advisor?"

"..."

The class advisor looked at everyone with an expressionless face and said coldly, "It’s none of your business. Don’t be so curious. Just focus on your review!"

Mu Enyu sprang to her feet. "Class Advisor, I want to go too!"

"What for?" the class advisor asked, displeased.

"They’re one group, and I’m with An Yan! An Yan is by herself! How can they have so many people?"

The class advisor paused. "Fine, you can come along."

Mu Enyu quickly clutched her phone tighter and followed them out.

「In the meeting room.」

Apart from the president and several professors, there were two unfamiliar men with computers in front of them. An Yan sat together with the president and the professors.

Seeing Mu Enyu also come over, An Yan raised an eyebrow.

Mu Enyu quickly moved next to her. "Are you all right?"

An Yan pulled out the chair beside her. "I’m fine. What are you doing here?"

"I’m worried they might bully you!"

As soon as Mu Enyu sat down, she placed her phone on the table.

An Yan glanced at the screen of her phone, which displayed Mu Chenyuan as the contact. She only needed to press the call button for the call to go through.

An Yan’s lips curled up slightly. "Don’t worry! They can’t bully me."

While the two whispered, Chen Xiangyu and the others were anxious and restless. Mu Enyu had a seat as soon as she arrived, but they had been asked by the class advisor to stand there. It felt like they were on trial!

Suppressing his panic, Chen Xiangyu led everyone to bow to the professors and greet them. Then they stood there obediently, waiting.

A refined-looking man wearing gold-rimmed glasses took out a printed manuscript and pushed it in front of them. "Could you students confirm that this is the paper you wrote?"

Chen Xiangyu came forward, took a look, and nodded. "Yes, it is. Is there a problem?"

The man’s gaze was sharp, and his voice was even. "Upon investigation, this paper is suspected of plagiarism. The reason we’re here today is to find out who you copied from and where you copied it from."

Several people shook their heads. "We didn’t copy anything; we wrote it ourselves."

"Yes, Professor. We can prove that we indeed authored this paper."

As he spoke, Chen Xiangyu took out a video of them conducting experiments in the laboratory. In the video, there were a few shots of An Shimeng typing on a computer. Although not very clear, the few visible lines of text confirmed it was indeed the paper the professor had just presented.

"Well, you all must be quite the geniuses then." The man spoke as he slid a tablet towards them. "Take a look at this video first, and then tell me where you really got this paper from!"

Chen Xiangyu and the others quickly looked down at the screen. On the screen appeared an old notebook with a pale blue cover. As the video played, the pages of the notebook were turned, and the content inside was the content of their paper!

"This..." Chen Xiangyu was stunned. "Professor, where did this come from? I swear we have never seen this notebook!"

The others also spoke up in unison. "That’s right, Professor, we’ve never seen this notebook."

"Never seen it before? Look at this part..." This professor, who also seemed to enjoy explaining things, carefully pointed to the relevant content. "I’ve just confirmed with the school; the experimental instruments you used are incapable of measuring this value! So, how did you obtain this value?"

Chen Xiangyu and the others: "..."

Who could have thought that a single value would expose their actions? And it wasn’t even as if this value was particularly important.

"Speak up!" President Liang slammed his hand on the table.

For his own students to plagiarize someone else’s research findings was something absolutely intolerable in academia.

The students were all startled and hung their heads. They all knew that, with things having come to this point, there was no chance of clearing themselves anymore.