From Sidekick to Bigshot

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

As soon as the Institution said that it would hold a press conference to talk about a new paper that was getting released and respond about the plagiarism incident, He Yan began to laugh.

Jian Yiling was going to be sentenced in public. And there was nothing that anyone could do to stop it from happening.

He Yan knew that by now, Jian Shuxing and Wen Nuan must be very anxious about their daughter. Their baby daughter’s future was going to be ruined. Were they going to beg Grandma and Grandpa Jian to help them?

When He Yan imagined Wen Nuan’s anxious and tearful expression, her heart felt incredibly content.

When the time comes, she would definitely go to ‘comfort’ her sister-in-law!

She would not only comfort Wen Nuan, but she would also go and comfort Jian Yiling.

When she imagined that brat’s desperate look, He Yan felt that the things that she had been suffering during this period of time had lessened a lot.

It turned out that students indeed knew what could ruin another student.

The future.

Jian Yiling’s entire future.

No matter how much Jian Yiling changed, there was always going to be a stain on her name. Whatever she did in the future would be in vain.

All the hard work that she had put in would be for naught.

After studying so hard for so many years, it would be devastating for something to happen right before her college entrance examinations. He Yan could imagine the devastated expression on Jian Yiling’s face.

Not to mention, such a thing would also extinguish any hopes that Jian Yiling had of entering the entertainment industry in the future.

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Jian Yiling’s matters had also become a big deal at Shenghua High School.

The campus forum had opened a thread that was dedicated to this matter. In fact, there were more students that paid attention to this matter than the time when Mo Shiyun had gotten criticized.

Now that their real names were displayed, the student’s hostility had been tempered. They started to become more careful and more mindful about things that they said.

[No no. I’m not going to take sides anymore. My face still hurts from the last time.]

[But this time, the news article seems to be published by a certain authoritative organization. So I feel like there’s a pretty good chance that it’s true…]

[I heard that the mysterious surgeon is going to respond to this matter at noon today. Let’s see what he has to say.]

[What can he say though? Of course, he’s going to say that Jian Yiling plagiarized his article. He published the article in the first place. He can’t say that Jian Yiling had a hand in it could he?]

[Yeah, I wonder if she plagiarized. I want to know how the Institution will respond to this as well. However, if they can confirm that Jian Yiling submitted that article, then she will not be able to get away with plagiarism.]

[…]

However, everyone else on the Internet was not so polite.

Some students from other schools and other people on the Internet still criticized Jian Yiling. Those people were still hiding behind nicknames and online personas.

[Wow, she’s disgusting. Does she even take a look at herself in the mirror before she dares to copy a professional article? Is her brain bad or something?]

[I strongly urge the school to disqualify such a student from taking the college entrance examination. Furthermore, I request for all the universities to blacklist her name. What’s the point of studying if you’re academically incompetent?]

[Strongly support expelling such a student! Such conduct is more abominable than bad grades! It’s inexcusable!]

A lot of people on the Internet started to verbally abuse Jian Yiling. They didn’t care that it was a student that they had never met before.

At this time, a press conference was being held at a hotel in downtown Hengyuan City.

The Institution’s influence had always been very good. And thus, as soon as the word got out that a press conference was going to be held, many journalists had arrived at the hotel.