Chapter 17 I Don’t Accept Your Apology!

Li Muyang’s life before today was the same as his skin color. It was dark without any brilliance.

It was also because of this that when Cui Xiaoxin took the initiative to approach the Beast-faced Pavilion to help him, he was full of gratitude. When Cui Xiaoxin was attacked by the assassin, he risked his life to save her without any consideration.

It was also because of this that when his study improved little by little and his life had become a little bright, he cared more than anyone else. It was more important to him than anything else.

It was like a small flower in the desert. He took care of it carefully, waiting for it to bear good fruit. However, someone came over and trampled the flower to death, killing his hope and the little light in his heart, which made him fall into a darker world again.

He was so desperate and angry.

Seeing Li Muyang’s expression, everyone was stunned.

They could feel the grievance and the irrepressible hostility in his heart. They could clearly see the bulging blood vessels on his neck and his fist holding the writing brush tightly.

“Crack!”

The brush was broken, and black ink flowed all over his black palm.

As he had said, even if the teacher suspected that he had cheated on the exam, she had to think of a way to prove her speculation before she directly put the big cap of “cheat” on the student’s head.

This kind of slander was like the word “morning” carved on the table by a knife. Even if the piece was dug out and smoothed out, it would still leave an ugly scar in people’s hearts many years later.

Hearing Li Muyang’s question, Zhao Mingzhu’s face became extremely gloomy.

“Li Muyang, do I need to prove it? Don’t you know what kind of student you used to be? Do you think I am not clear about that, or that your classmates are not? You can answer the test paper like this just after a few days’ leave? Do you think you are a genius?” Zhao Mingzhu’s tone was still sharp and harsh, but her voice was weaker. “Well, if you want evidence, okay, I’ll give you the evidence.”

She glanced at the students around Li Muyang. His deskmate was called Yang Jun, and he was Zhang Chen’s best friend. He was also a cuju member of the school. He was only at the middle-level, so it was impossible for him to hand over such a perfect paper.

So, she looked up at the girl in front of Li Muyang’s seat and said, “Chen Yuanyuan, bring your test paper to me. Let me have a look.”

Chen Yuanyuan rubbed her eyes, looked up at Zhao Mingzhu, and said, “Ms. Zhao, I haven’t finished yet… I still have one-third of the questions to do.”

Zhao Mingzhu frowned. Chen Yuanyuan was a good student in her mind, and also the best student near Li Muyang. But she still had one-third of the questions to answer, so it was impossible for Li Muyang to have copied her paper.

“Zheng Fang, have you finished your paper?”

“Teacher, I haven’t,” the petite girl answered in a low voice. She was afraid that Zhao Mingzhu would blame her.

“Chen Lei…”

“Teacher, I’m finished.”

“Bring it up and let me have a look.”

Chen Lei handed over the test paper. Zhao Mingzhu opened it excitedly as if she had found evidence of Li Muyang’s cheating.

As she looked through the paper, her face turned green. She directly threw Chen Lei’s test paper away and scolded her. “Chen Lei, are you so stupid? I’ve talked about the first and the third questions countless times. Obviously, those are the easy-scoring questions. But you still gave the wrong answers. Do you have any memory? Do you still want to go to college? Take it back and redo it.”

Chen Lei picked up the test paper from the ground and ran back to his seat with a red face.

Zhao Mingzhu looked around and asked, “Anyone has finished the test paper? It’s fine if you still have two or three questions left…”

No one answered.

“Not a single person?” Zhao Mingzhu’s expression grew even uglier.

Li Muyang stood up.

He pushed the chair away and walked to the lectern step by step.

“What do you want to do, Li Muyang?” Zhao Mingzhu shouted.

“There’s no need to go through so much trouble,” Li Muyang said in a low voice.

He walked to the lectern and stood side by side with Zhao Mingzhu.

He took out a piece of paper that was blank from the table. Then, he began to answer the questions on the paper with Zhao Mingzhu’s brush that she used to correct the paper.

Zhao Mingzhu’s eyes widened and the muscles on her face kept twitching.

“This guy who doesn’t know the immensity of the world wants to answer questions on the spot?”

Just as Zhao Mingzhu thought, Li Muyang was standing beside her, slightly leaning forward and answering the blank test paper one question at a time.

“Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh…”

His brush was moving, but he rarely lifted up his wrist.

The questions were solved by him one by one, and the blank test paper was filled up little by little.

In the classroom, there was dead silence.

No one spoke, and no one answered. No one even had a mocking expression on their face.

Everyone looked up at Li Muyang, who was focused on answering questions at the lectern. They were going to witness a miracle as well as Li Muyang’s innocence.

The class bell rang, but no one went out. The class was not over.

When Li Muyang finished the last question, it had only taken him just over 30 minutes, because he had answered these questions once and he didn’t need to think.

Once again, he handed the test paper to Zhao Mingzhu and said, “Check it again.”

Zhao Mingzhu took over the test paper mechanically, but she looked at Li Muyang with a confused look.

The good-for-nothing student in everyone’s eyes had undergone a drastic change.

No matter whether he answered right or wrong on the test paper, he bravely stood up and fought back. He strode to the lectern and answered the questions in front of the whole class. He was no longer the timid, weak, muddle-headed student who had no sense of existence.

“Of course, you may say that I have memorized the answers in my mind because I have copied them once.” Li Muyang stared sharply at Zhao Mingzhu, and his voice contained an irresolvable hatred. He said, “In order to avoid such accusation, I have answered many of the questions in different ways. Ms. Zhao, please take a closer look at the answers and see what the difference is between the answers from the first paper.”

“Wow!”

The classroom went into chaos again.

“What? He said that he has solved the problems in different ways?”

“It’s impossible, isn’t it? Has Li Muyang eaten a divine elixir—Otherwise, how could he become so smart?”

“Was this guy playing dumb all along? Did he deliberately do poorly on the exams to paralyze us and had planned to surprise us in the Liberal Arts Exam?”

…

Zhao Mingzhu ignored the discussion in the class, and her eyes finally fell on the test paper in her hand.

As she looked at the answers from the top, she compared them with the correct answers in her mind.

Li Muyang did not lie. He had indeed changed many of the solutions. She could not tell which one was better, but they were all the standard answers in her mind.

Just like the first test paper, there were still two blank questions on this one. They were the questions that he could not answer.

Such a result, such ability, even Cui Xiaoxin, who was the best student in the class, might not be able to do it.

It was certain that Li Muyang did not cheat. Li Muyang did the test paper twice all by himself.

Zhao Mingzhu grabbed the test paper, as if she was holding a handful of burning charcoal.

Her expression changed. Finally, she managed to squeeze out a smile, then patted Li Muyang’s shoulder, and said, “Yes, Li Muyang didn’t cheat. You finished the test paper on your own. You should keep it. You have made great progress.”

Zhao Mingzhu looked up at the class and said, “You can go, Li Muyang. The other students are taking the exam.”

“Ms. Zhao…” Li Muyang stood in front of Zhao Mingzhu and did not move.

“What?” Zhao Mingzhu raised her head suddenly. A fierce glint flashed in her eyes. She had proven his innocence. Did this guy want to ask for more?

“You’ve been a teacher for so many years, but you’ve never apologized to a student, have you?” Li Muyang asked.

The air seemed to freeze, and every student felt that the back of their neck was cold.

They thought that Li Muyang must be crazy for daring to ask the well-known old-fashioned woman of the school to apologize to him.

“What are you trying to say?” Zhao Mingzhu’s hands clenched into fists. She wadded Li Muyang’s test paper into a hard ball.

“If you haven’t, then do it.” Li Muyang looked straight into Zhao Mingzhu’s eyes and said word by word, “Let’s start with me.”

“Li Muyang…”

“Does Ms. Zhao think that what you did and what you said are not worth an apology to a student? If that’s the case, I will report to the school what happened today, and I will complain to the Etiquette Department about your slander and insult to me…”

Zhao Mingzhu stared at Li Muyang and said, “Li Muyang, are you sure you want to do this?”

“Yes, teacher. I’m very sure.”

“Well, I apologize to you. I’ve just said something wrong. I shouldn’t have said that you cheated before I investigated it clearly. I’m sorry, Li Muyang,” Zhao Mingzhu said in a hoarse voice.

This was something that she had never done before.

It was also something that she had never thought of.

“I didn’t cheat,” Li Muyang said to the students in the class.

…

Li Muyang turned to look at Zhao Mingzhu and said, “I don’t accept it.”

“What?”

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“I said—I don’t accept Ms. Zhao’s apology,” Li Muyang said again.

He stepped down from the lectern and walked toward his seat.

He put all the books, brush pens, and water-drinking cup on the table into his schoolbag, and then walked out of the classroom with a bulging bag in his hand.

This time, his back was straight like a cold pine in the valley.