Chapter 9 — The Bookbreaker Suddenly Got 749 Points, After Investigation... The Whole School Was Silent

Van Hac Nien looked at her.

"The person who was surrounded, defamed, and forced by you to publicly reveal his mother's last words..."

“Also a child.”

Ky's mother was completely speechless. The hospital nurse looked at her watch.

“Tham Te Nguyet, the farewell ceremony is forty minutes away.”

I took the exam card and was about to put it back in my pocket. At that moment, an old voice suddenly sounded outside the door.

“Te Nguyet…”

Grandma stands with a cane in the hallway. In her hand she held her mother's photo. In that black and white photo... my mother still smiled as gently as ever. Grandma's eyes could barely see clearly anymore. She groped along the wall and walked in, the tip of her cane tapping on the tile floor, making trembling sounds.

“The hospital said he was at school.”

"I'm afraid you won't make it in time..."

She gave me my mother's photo. The photo frame is very old, one corner of the paint is chipped off. Some people instinctively step back. The parents who were the loudest were now even breathing unconsciously. Grandma didn't know what happened. She just touched my sweaty palm and immediately panicked.

“Did they bully you?”

No one dares to answer that question. Uc Dung stepped forward, his voice hoarse.

“Uncle… I'm sorry.”

Grandma raised her head.

“Who are you?”

Uc Dung's lips trembled.

“I am Te Nguyet's homeroom teacher.”

Grandma was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly slammed her stick on the ground.

“Are you the teacher who said he was lazy?”

Uc Dung's face turned pale. Grandma couldn't see her clearly, but still turned exactly in that direction.

“His mother is so sick that she can't stand, but she always tells me that teachers are very busy, and teachers don't have it easy.”

“But my nephew carries his schoolbag to the hospital every day, and studies while walking on the way.”

“Where is it lazy?”

At the end of the hallway, a female student burst into tears softly. To Nhue buried her face in her palm. Phuong Man stood next to the wall, not daring to raise her head. Ky Minh Triet seemed to have been drained of all his strength. Van Hac Nien signaled the security guard to clear the way.

“Take Tham Te Nguyet to the hospital first.”

The principal immediately arranged the car. But as soon as I got downstairs, the front gate of the school was filled with people. The news has spread out. Someone picked up the phone and apologized. Someone whispered "sorry". There were also people who pretended to have just arrived and quietly retreated back. Ky Minh Triet suddenly rushed out.

“Tham Te Nguyet.”

He stood on the steps, his eyes red.

“Your scores are real, I admit it.”

“But you don't need to push me to the end like that, right?”

I stopped walking. That one sentence from him caused all the surrounding phones to turn this way again. Ky's mother quickly rushed up to pull her son back.

“Stop talking.”

But he seemed to be clinging to his last layer of mask.

“I just denounced it.”

“That is the right of each contestant.”

“Now you let the Department of Education investigate me, and let the police find To Nhue and them…”

“Don't you think you're too much?”

The coldness that had been pressing in my chest for a while now finally dissipated, turning into something harder. I looked at him.

“Denunciation is a right.”

“Slander is not.”

“Doubt is the right.”

“But blocking my way, digging up my mother's medical records, livestreaming the scene of me being interrogated... no.”

"If you are not satisfied because I tested higher than you, you can request to re-check my exam."

“But you I can't trample my life into the mud and still say I just want justice.”

Ky Minh Triet opened his mouth. But no sound came out. Van Hac Nien stood next to me and signaled me to get in the car. Right before the car door closed, Uc Dung chased after him. She handed in a piece of paper. It is a letter requesting disciplinary suspension from school. Written on it:

"Tham Te Nguyet repeatedly affected classroom order and proposed to cancel the eligibility for consideration for the title of outstanding graduating student."

The signing date... is one day before the test score announcement date. I looked at that paper. Uc Dung's tears finally fell.

“She was originally going to submit it.”

“Sorry, Te Nguyet.”

Grandma in the car groped for my hand.

“Don't accept.”