When the Family 238

“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.

words left her mouth, the classroom

sold

“Seriously?”

and made money

“That’s nuts!”

tone was firm and a little urgent.

more solemnly, “This isn’t an invasion of

looked around at each

claim had just taken things

the questions–he’d allegedly sold

eyes, but he didn’t look especially panicked. He pulled out his phone and opened the Market app, handing it to the principal. “Go ahead and

but when his eyes

his stare.

principal scrolled carefully through Sunny’s account page, his fingers moving slowly

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238 The Evidence

could’ve just deleted the listings, right?” the principal asked,

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