Chapter 235: Chapter 234 All Matched Up
The classroom fell silent for a moment.
One by one, the students opened Weibo, their mouths widening in slow motion.
They huddled together in small groups, too shocked to speak.
Twenty signed books have been delivered…
Could they interpret this as Ya Qing having signed a total of twenty books, all given to the same person? Along with that statement about no cooperation with the Bai Family, the implication was clear as day.
This clarifying Weibo post was so opportune it seemed tailored to resolve their dispute, highly targeted in its timing.
The situation immediately took a turn.
Lu Mian, the person who had changed the game, nonchalantly returned to his seat after his statement, his demeanor as calm as still water, like a true boss!
Yuan Hao couldn’t fathom the intricacies, but he understood that someone had been firmly slapped in the face by the real deal.
He unapologetically snatched the book from Xu Jiahui’s hand, sneering, “Can you see who’s real and who’s fake now? If you don’t have a brain, don’t just blindly pick sides!”
Xu Jiahui stood there dumbfounded, not his first tangle with Lu Mian and his group, and this time it was even worse. He had thought it would be a perfect opportunity to suppress Lu Mian but ended up slapping his own face instead.
Especially since these three were once the bottom three in rankings, the underachievers trailing behind him. The last monthly test had been humiliating enough when it dropped him to the absolute last place, and now Yuan Hao was rubbing salt in the wound with his taunts, losing all face.
“Ya Qing never worked with the Bai Family at all, so I wonder where our class president got her signed book from…” Yuan Hao said, patting the book in his hand, and looked toward Bai Fangfei with a tsk-tsk.
The words were too straightforward, leaving no face intact.
Bai Fangfei, pale as a ghost, could barely stand straight. She tried to defend herself, “No, it’s not what you think…”
“Mine is real! Even though the Bai Family didn’t manage to secure a deal with Ya Qing, getting a signed book is still very easy for me…”
“Class President Bai, you might as well save it!”
Pang Hao could no longer bear listening, impatiently digging in his ears, “Just look at the autograph in your book, then look at Ya Qing’s public signature. Are they the same? All twenty authentic signed books are right here with us!”
The classmates nodded in agreement.
Indeed, with the original author’s own images available, a simple comparison would reveal the truth.
They hadn’t given it much thought previously, instinctively valuing scarcity.
Now upon comparison, it was apparent–the “astronomical” twenty books that Lu Mian had acquired were authentic, while Bai Fangfei’s single book was fake!
Incredible, but it happened.
“Class President Bai, that signature… you signed it yourself, didn’t you.” No matter how many times she practiced, a resemblance could not make it real.
Bai Fangfei, struck to the core, was left speechless.
“Pretending to be something you’re not, yet you didn’t expect the real deal to personally clear things up on Weibo!”
“Parading around with a self-signed book, deceiving us, isn’t your vanity a bit too inflated?!”
A circle of people looked at Bai Fangfei with mockery and disdain.
Bai Fangfei stood there stiffly, suddenly recalling Ya Qing’s phone call over the weekend.
At the time, she felt Ya Qing’s phrases sounded somewhat familiar; now, upon reflection, they were all things she had said to Lu Mian!
How could Ya Qing know these things?
With a bit of thought, Bai Fangfei understood. It must have been Lu Mian who bumped into Ya Qing and badmouthed the Bai Family, leading Ya Qing to say the Bai Family had offended the fans, thus canceling the collaboration.
Thinking this, everything fell into place!
Lu Mian! It was all Lu Mian!
If her uncle found out that Lu Mian had sabotaged the Bai Family’s deal, he would never let Lu Mian off!