"Chen Feng's injury assessment report will be available soon. The preliminary diagnosis is indeed a comminuted fracture of the nasal bridge and multiple abrasions all over his body. Do you have anything to say about this?"

Faced with such an accusation that could ruin a student's future, any ordinary high school student would be somewhat frightened by what they saw.

But Jiang Che's face remained completely expressionless.

Such acting skills might be considered brilliant by his contemporaries, but to him, it was nothing more than a last-ditch effort after running out of ideas.

"Director, please don't rush to convict me."

Jiang Che pulled Su Qinghe, who was about to confront him, behind him, then looked at the organizing committee director with a slight smile. "You have to have evidence to back it up. Since these people say I deliberately hurt someone, then I'd like to ask, the road is so wide, why did this contestant Chen Feng have to run right up to my back? And even lose his balance and crash into me?"

Chen Feng had anticipated this turn of events. Long before Jiang Che arrived, he and the other two had already discussed what they were going to say.

He stubbornly straightened his neck, glared at Jiang Che with wide eyes, and even raised his voice to increase his imposing presence: "I was bumped into by someone else! You think I wanted to fall down for no reason? I wouldn't win the championship just to deliberately fall down and mess with you, am I crazy?"

"Oh? That's quite unfortunate. I was just wiping my eyes because some sweat got in them."

Jiang Che spread his hands innocently, "Since everyone's situation was an 'accident,' how come in your mouth I'm the one who did it on purpose?"

"You're talking bullshit! What the hell is so good about what I'm doing...?"

"Alright, shut up, all of you!"

Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, the organizing committee director immediately stopped the argument and then asked someone to bring over a computer. "We have retrieved the real-time monitoring footage from the drone. Chen Feng, Jiang Che, take a look for yourselves."

After some fiddling by the staff, the image on the computer was projected onto the white wall next to it.

Everyone immediately turned their attention to the screen—

Although most of the footage was as Jiang Che had expected, capturing the entire process of Chen Feng rushing over and falling to the ground.

In reality, because that section of road was a bend and uphill, and the drone happened to be in a blind spot when shooting from above, the footage only showed Chen Feng losing his balance and crashing into Jiang Che, then Jiang Che raised his hand, and then Chen Feng flew out.

As for whether Jiang Che's action was "wiping sweat" or "elbow strike," it was indeed ambiguous from that blurry angle.

Chen Feng had clearly also noticed the flaw in the footage, a flash of joy crossing his eyes, his arrogance growing even stronger: "Look! Isn't this action obvious? He's the one who did it!"

"Director, you absolutely must give me an explanation, or I'll call the police! I want the whole society to know what kind of people the students at Lincheng No. 1 High School are!"

While shouting for Jiang Che and the others to give an explanation, Chen Feng secretly reached out and made a gesture to his accomplices behind him, out of sight of the others.

His accomplice immediately understood and secretly raised his phone to record the crucial few seconds on the projector.

Soon, this truncated clip was paired with a highly provocative caption and posted on social media.

Today is the day of the Lincheng Marathon, and the eyes of the entire city are on this sporting event.

Short videos with explosive tags like "Lincheng Marathon" and "High School Students Using Malicious Tactics" quickly attracted huge traffic on local channels after being posted.

First, locals in Lincheng saw the video themselves, and then these people forwarded it to their relatives and friends.

In this way, the video spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, quickly reaching every corner of China from Lincheng.

In less than half an hour, the video's views surpassed one million.

The number of comments below was skyrocketing at a rate of dozens per minute, with most of them being netizens who were unaware of the facts and were frantically stirring up trouble, verbally attacking Jiang Che.

Meanwhile, Jiang Che and his companions, who were still arguing with Chen Feng, were completely unaware of this.

If Wang Kai's friend, with whom he played games, hadn't shared the video with him on social media, the group would probably have remained in the dark for quite some time.

"Brother Che, quickly check the internet!"

Wang Kai shoved his phone screen in front of Jiang Che's face, furious. "These bastards actually secretly recorded this and posted it online! Now the trending topics are all about your malicious assault!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Che frowned deeply, then lowered his head, his gaze quickly sweeping over the dense, malicious comments on the screen.

"Are high school students these days willing to do anything to win?"

"How could this kid be so vicious? He broke a professional athlete's nose!"

"We recommend canceling the results and imposing a lifetime ban!"

"His family must have connections. Let's see if the organizing committee dares to investigate."

Su Qinghe also rushed to Jiang Che's side anxiously. The moment her eyes fell on those vicious words, the veins on the back of her fair hand bulged.

The dark emotions in the girl's eyes surged wildly like a tidal wave.

Looking at Chen Feng's arrogant and incessant chatter, she felt a surge of madness coursing through her head.

I wish I could grab a pair of pliers, rush over, and pull out all his teeth.

If Jiang Che hadn't held her wrist firmly, she would have lost control long ago.

But for Chen Feng, the uglier the expressions on Jiang Che and Su Qinghe's faces, the more successful his scheme was.

As the saying goes, if you're going to act, you have to go all the way. Chen Feng deliberately looked at the others with a puzzled expression, then picked up his phone from the table next to him and opened a video on social media.

While scrolling through the vicious comments in the comment section with great interest, he pretended to sigh a few times.

"Tsk tsk... Oh dear, the eyes of the masses are discerning."

Chen Feng turned his phone screen around and waved it at Jiang Che with a mocking expression, his face full of smugness. "I say, Young Master Jiang, you've really made a splash in front of netizens all over the country."

"There are quite a few calls online for a lifetime ban on you."

Seeing Chen Feng's smug expression, Jiang Che was not angered at all. Instead, he said lazily, "Fine, since you insist that I hurt you, tell me, how do you want to resolve this?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Feng's heart began to beat faster.

Ha! Jiang Che is scared!

They're just naive high school students who haven't seen much of the world. They chickened out without daring to utter a word when pressured by online opinions.

Chen Feng's greed was impossible to hide. "How do you plan to resolve this? My nose is comminuted, and I'll need reconstructive surgery. Add to that lost wages, compensation for emotional distress... you have to pay me a million!"

Chen Feng shamelessly set his price: "Also, you have to publicly announce that you're handing over the championship title to me today! As long as you agree to these two conditions, I won't report you to the police, and as for what happened online, I can issue a statement saying it was a misunderstanding..."

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