America's Greatest Villain: I Defeat Magic with Magic

Seeing Vivian's ambiguous smile, Chen Yuan frowned slightly.

Although I didn't expect her to speak well of me, it was a bit too cold of her to go straight to the point right away.

He then gave a cold laugh and said:

"Cooperation qualifications? Vice President Sinclair, I think you've got one thing wrong."

Facing Chen Yuan's unfriendly gaze, Vivian smiled instead of getting angry, revealing an expression of willingness to hear more.

Chen Yuan calmly straightened his suit cuffs before speaking in a deep voice:

"I'm not sitting here today to beg for a qualification certificate from you bunch of student bureaucrats who are just playing house."

Upon hearing this, the administrative secretary and others nearby gasped. Olivia stared wide-eyed in disbelief, as if looking at a madwoman.

Ignoring the shock of the crowd, Chen Yuan continued slowly and deliberately:

"My restaurant invited several international students to participate in social practice and public service activities, which fully complies with all California laws."

"If today, you insist on using the fabricated procedural charge of 'illegal employment' to smear me and Ms. Su Nian."

"Then tomorrow, my private legal team will formally file a lawsuit against the USC Student Council in California court, accusing you of abusing your public power to engage in racial discrimination and commercial persecution!"

Upon hearing this, the temperature in the conference room seemed to drop to freezing point instantly.

Apart from Vivian, who remained calm and detached, the rest of the group were completely bewildered.

As the name suggests, the "Student Council" is a campus body with considerable power.

If they have sufficient reasons and evidence, they even have the authority to recommend that the university expel any USC student.

However, today, some students are actually threatening to sue the USC student council?

The school discipline assistant, who had remained silent until now, finally couldn't help but sneer out:

"What are you thinking, kid? Even if you have some spare cash and can afford a lawyer, this is USC. Our law school's elite are far superior to those half-baked street lawyers."

The international student program coordinator on the other side burst into laughter:

"This is the funniest joke I've heard all year. I think we should just recommend to the board of trustees that he be expelled and see if he can still get into USC with the help of those so-called lawyers."

Despite the mockery from the two student bureaucrats, Chen Yuan showed no fear.

He slowly turned his head, looked at the red information panel above the school's disciplinary affairs assistant's head, and revealed a sinister smirk:

"Brian's assistant. Last weekend, a group of white fraternities on campus engaged in drug use and bullying. In handling the incident, you privately accepted a $5,000 cash bribe and deliberately destroyed the surveillance footage, turning a serious crime that could have expelled ten people into a simple physical altercation."

Chen Yuan suddenly moved closer to the other person, staring at his face which had instantly lost all color, and whispered:

"What would you do if I told you that the club has more than one security camera, and I even have a high-definition backup of it?"

Brian's smile froze on his face, his mind went blank, and he blurted out instinctively:

"Impossible... I clearly cleaned up all the surveillance footage from that time!"

Chen Yuan shook his head mockingly: "We Chinese have a saying: 'If you don't want others to know, don't do it in the first place.' Taking bribes to protect drug addicts, yet wanting to become a lawyer upholding justice after graduation. Brian, don't you find that disgusting?"

He then turned directly to the international student program coordinator on the other side without giving the other person a chance to refute him:

"As for you, David, the coordinator. In the past month, you have used your authority to allocate high-quality CPT positions on campus to not only resell fake internship certificates for two thousand dollars each."

"They even repeatedly used the pretext of visa renewal to imply and coerce two Latino female students from impoverished families..."

Seeing David's arrogance instantly replaced by fear, Chen Yuan turned his head and looked at Vivian, who had already lost her smile, and asked in a cold voice:

"To leave such scum on campus. Vice President Sinclair, when did USC become such a breeding ground for filth?"

Looking at the international student program coordinator, who was so shocked she couldn't even utter a rebuttal, Vivian said disdainfully:

"I will have the disciplinary committee immediately investigate. If everything you've said is true, I guarantee he'll be expelled from USC tonight."

Chen Yuan ignored her businesslike statement and instead turned his judgmental gaze to Olivia's administrative secretary.

"Ms. Amy, you just accused my restaurant in the meeting of illegally hiring international students from the university to perform unauthorized profit-making work?"

Looking at the pale-faced administrative secretary, whose body was already trembling slightly, Chen Yuan ruthlessly tore off her fig leaf:

"So, two days ago, you took advantage of your position to secretly include your boyfriend's heavily plagiarized sociology paper in the final shortlist for the annual outstanding scholarship, and even forged the signatures of two reviewing professors. Was this behavior in accordance with the regulations?"

"You...this is all your imagination! It's a completely baseless accusation!"

Amy screamed like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"A frame-up?" Chen Yuan laughed again. "More than 80% of the data in the paper your boyfriend plagiarized came from original research published in a domestic journal by a Chinese scholar. Did you think that just by translating it slightly, no one on the other side of the Pacific would know?"

After saying that, Chen Yuan ignored the administrative secretary who was slumped in her chair, finally turned to meet Vivian's gaze, and said firmly:

"Vice President Sinclair. My accusations against them are easily verifiable. If the USC student council is full of hypocritical criminals like this, then I would drop out myself without your expulsion!"

"But before that, I will publicly expose all the dirty deeds of every bureaucrat in the student council to the major mainstream media outlets in Los Angeles!"

Despite Chen Yuan's series of shocking scandals that could cause a major earthquake in the USC student council, Vivian remained calm and composed.

"A very brilliant counterattack, Chen. I will personally verify everything you've said and will handle the matter fairly in accordance with school regulations."

At this point, a meaningful smile suddenly appeared on Vivian's lips.

She suddenly produced a document and handed it to Chen Yuan.

"However, before you take the student council to court and put us on the front page, you might want to take a look at this document first."

Chen Yuan's gaze sharpened. He took the thin sheets of A4 paper from the other person's hand, quickly glanced at the title above, and subconsciously read it aloud:

"Explanation of the Temporary Pilot Program for Off-Campus Community Observation and Service Learning?"

"That's right."

Vivi sat down on an empty chair, her long legs elegantly crossed.

"This is a temporary agreement that I just applied for from the school's academic affairs office."

"While there are many student entrepreneurs at USC, it's unprecedented to open a restaurant in South Los Angeles and get involved in homeless charity work."

"Therefore, after discussions between the Board of Trustees and the Student Council, it was decided to allow your Rongding Pavilion as a temporary official pilot project. This will allow some on-campus students in need to participate in community service and service learning practices in a compliant manner. The project can be directly used to support course observation, documentation, or interviews related to students' majors."

Chen Yuan, clutching the document bearing the official seal of the USC Academic Affairs Office, froze on the spot.

According to the document, Su Nian was not working illegally at Rongding Pavilion; on the contrary, she could legally obtain academic credits!

"So, you called me here today just to have me sign this document?"

"Of course." Vivian gave a mischievous smile. "It's just that the administrative process for this document is taking a little longer than I expected, plus you arrived early today."

"As a result, some people who were eager for quick success took advantage of the situation and tried to force a characterization of the matter before I arrived, so as to gain so-called political capital."

She glanced at Olivia and the others, whose faces were ashen, before turning her gaze back to Chen Yuan.

"But thankfully, that's why I was able to witness such a wonderful scene."

A strange light flickered in Vivian's deep blue eyes as she softly asked:

"So, are you going to accept this perfectly legal official agreement, or do you plan to continue hiring lawyers and take us, this bunch of corrupt student bureaucrats, to court?"