After the minor character transforms into a beauty, she steals the heart of a tycoon's son.

Ruan Tang moved the light screen to the side. "Her intervention is exactly what I wanted."

"If Lin Xiaokui gets eliminated midterm and drops out, who will cause me trouble in the future?"

"Without her little tricks, I would have far fewer opportunities in the deacon group."

She looked at Lin Xiaokui on the screen and said in a calm tone, "However, I'm not afraid of her harming me, but I'm afraid she'll expose me."

"With her meager cleverness, she can't even outwit Cheng Jin, let alone Si Lin."

"If Si Lin finds out that she harmed herself to frame someone, it won't just be a matter of dropping out of school."

"If he really goes all out, I'll lose a natural accomplice in creating conflict."

The system fell silent. "Tangtang, are you trying to go with the flow?"

Ruan Tang turned off the light screen and pulled the blanket over her legs. "Yes, I still have to help her. I need to make it look convincing so that Si Lin can't see through me easily."

The system's soft, childlike voice said, "Although I'm not entirely convinced that she framed you, I'll help you if you say so."

"Anyway, we can benefit from the good fortune."

-

There weren't many people in the hallway during the self-study period the night before the exam.

The lights suddenly went out, leaving only a dim light coming from the classroom next door.

Ruan Tang carried a stack of documents upstairs, with a paper cutter on top, which she had casually placed there while disassembling the documents.

Lin Xiaokui came out from around the corner and blocked her way.

She looked a little flustered, her fingers twisting together. "Ruan Tang, I was too harsh with you last time in the equipment room. I apologize."

Ruan Tang stopped and glanced at her. "That matter is long gone, I don't care. Is there anything else?"

"I..." Lin Xiaokui took a step forward, holding a pen in her hand, looking somewhat nervous.

"I know I was wrong before. You've helped us so many times, and I still blame you."

Ruan Tang didn't reply, she just looked at her.

Lin Xiaokui took another step forward, and somehow the pen in her hand slipped from her grasp, fell to the ground, rolled around, and rolled to Ruan Tang's feet.

She bent down to pick it up, and as she got closer to Ruan Tang, she took advantage of the dim light to reach out and touch the top layer of the stack of documents in Ruan Tang's arms.

There was a paper cutter there.

Lin Xiaokui's heart skipped a beat.

She had actually prepared a utility knife, intending to cut herself later to frame him.

But Ruan Tang actually brought a knife with him.

God help her too.

This plan will be flawless.

Lin Xiaokui quietly slipped the paper cutter into her sleeve, then pretended to squat down to pick up a pen.

In the darkness, she gripped the knife, aimed it at the back of her right hand, and slashed it forcefully.

Lin Xiaokui didn't see the fleeting mockery in Ruan Tang's eyes the moment she lowered her head.

She came to frame someone without any preparation, and now she has to deliberately use this paper cutter to cover for her.

Then, the real show began.

"ah--"

Lin Xiaokui cried out in alarm and fell to the ground, covering the back of her right hand with her left hand. Blood was gushing out from between her fingers, a shocking sight.

She looked up, her face pale, her eyes red-rimmed, and her voice loud enough for everyone in the classroom to hear.

"Ruan Tang, why did you do this?"

The classroom door was pushed open.

Su Nian was the first to run over. Seeing how dark the corridor was, she casually pressed the switch on the wall.

The lights came on, illuminating Lin Xiaokui sitting on the ground, the bloodstains on her hands, and the bloodstained paper cutter at Ruan Tang's feet.

The place was a complete mess, with nowhere to hide.

Things happened so fast that Ruan Tang stood there, bewildered.

Seeing Lin Xiaokui's hands covered in blood, Su Nian quickly knelt down and supported her shoulders. "Xiaokui! What happened?"

Lin Xiaokui clutched her wound, tears welling up in her eyes from the pain.

She didn't speak, but looked at Ruan Tang with her eyes full of hurt and disbelief.

Su Nian followed her gaze to Ruan Tang, her expression becoming complicated.

"Ruan Tang, is this knife... yours?"

Ruan Tang nodded, "It's mine, but I don't know how it fell down."

"Xiao Kui walked over by herself just now..."

Lin Xiaokui looked up and interrupted, "Ruan Tang, I know you didn't mean it."

Her voice trembled, and tears finally streamed down her face. "But tomorrow is the midterm exam, why did it have to be my right hand that got injured?"

More and more people started walking down the corridor.

Some people peeked out of the classroom, some stopped in their tracks, and some took out their phones to take pictures.

The first to speak was Liang Jing. She leaned against the classroom door with her arms crossed, her gaze sweeping over Ruan Tang from head to toe. "Tsk, how come everyone who has a grudge against Ruan Tang either drops out of school or gets injured?"

Another girl with curly hair chimed in, "Didn't I hear they were good friends? Ruan Tang is so ruthless; she can even betray her friends."

Another girl sneered, "She's just arrogant because she has Young Master Si backing her up. She really thinks she's someone important."

"She's really in for a lot of trouble for maliciously injuring someone."

The aristocratic girls chatted amongst themselves.

They don't care who's right or wrong, or what the truth is.

Even though the upper class is used to this kind of drama, they can still tell that Lin Xiao Kui is just pretending to be pitiful to gain sympathy.

But so what?

Compared to Lin Xiaokui, who is not respectable, it is natural to use the greatest malice to speculate about and smear Ruan Tang.

It would be best to stomp her into the mud.

Because she, as a special student, climbed too high, so high that even the nobles found her an eyesore.

The resistance fighters also gathered around.

A girl squatted down next to Lin Xiaokui, took out a tissue and pressed it against her wound, then looked up and glared at Ruan Tang, "Ruan Tang, are you crazy?"

"Xiao Kui is working hard to prepare for her midterms, and you actually went after her? Didn't you see the new school motto?"

Another guy chimed in, "We thought you were genuinely helping us, but you're just an ingrate!"

"Just because you've joined the deacon council, you think you can look down on us?

Ruan Tang was surrounded by them and didn't say anything.

Her eyelashes drooped, and her lips were pressed tightly together, as if she were frightened.

Su Nian stood next to Lin Xiao Kui, but didn't say a single word in defense of Ruan Tang.

The knife did indeed belong to Ruan Tang, and Xiao Kui was indeed injured.

She had no reason to favor Ruan Tang.

The noblewomen were not to be outdone, resorting to sarcastic and sarcastic remarks.

"Ruan Tang is really something, she can make both sides hate her."

"A complete shrew."

Cheng Jin, holding the attendance sheet, walked over from the other end of the corridor. Upon seeing this scene, she immediately guessed what had happened.

But he did not immediately step forward to intervene.

Because Liang Jing and those other aristocratic girls are not people he, as a special admission student, can confront directly.

He retreated to the outer edge of the crowd, took out his phone, and sent a message to Si Lin: "Young Master Si, something happened in the teaching building."

"Miss Ruan Tang is surrounded by people."

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