Chapter 500
Sarah nudged Sophia’s shoulder. Sophia, who was standing in front of the bulletin board, was as
nervous as most top students as she watched the staff post the result on the board. Written on it was the
winner of the National Schrship. There was only one winner per school, so the schrship was
extremely precious. All of Sophia’s friends were waiting to witness her glory…
After the result was posted, everyone flocked to see it, so the bulletin board was very crowded. Sophia
searched for her name excitedly but to no avail! She thought she had read it wrong, but after reading it
again, she still didn’t see her own name.
There was only one winner of the National Schrship from the School of Business Management this
year, but it was not Sophia. She looked at the results nkly, suddenly feeling puzzled.
“Stop searching. Your name isn’t there!”
A cold and ironic voice suddenly sounded from her side. Sophia looked sideways and saw Natasha
standing next to her. Natasha wasn’t looking at Sophia but straight at the result on the bulletin board.
Staring at the name ‘Natasha Mitchell’ on the board, her eyes shone brightly. Natasha was the only
student who received a National Schrship from the School of Foreign Languages this year. She
believed that no one could get this award except herself.
Natasha left triumphantly but Sophia stood in front of the bulletin board, making no move or speaking.
Sean soon realized that something was wrong and hurriedlyforted her, “It’s okay; it’s only 8,000. It’s
nothing. The appraisal process for this kind of schrship is particrly shady, so don’t take it to heart.”
Stanley also quickly persuaded her, “Exactly! It’s only 8,000. Come on, I can give it to you.”
Many students were not satisfied and started whispering among themselves as they stood around the
bulletin board.
“Why did Natasha win the National Schrship? As far as I know, the National Schrship requires the
comprehensive development of morality, intelligence and physical fitness. The topic of the stage name
and marriage incident is still trending and she’s the infamous ‘Mrs. Murray’. How could someone like her
win the National Schrship?”
“Keep it down…”
Sophia rushed back to her ssroom without saying a word and found the ss representative. “ss
representative, I hope to see our final result confirmation form again.”
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The final score of the selected schrship was abination of academic performance and conduct
evaluation scores. Sophia knew how much she scored in exams, but her conduct scores were evaluated
by the ssmittee. She was confident in her exam scores and her conduct assessment as she had
participated in many clubs and in manypetitions, managing to receive tons of awards and trophies.
Plus, she had never been absent from the collective charity activities organized by the school. These
were all rted to her conduct. She also published several papers in national journals, participated in
two or three nationalpetitions and the global Esports World Championship, all of which were written
in her application form.
She had investigated otherpetitors in advance and no one had a better track record than she. Even
if something fishy was going on, she had to know exactly how she lost and who was the stumbling block!
Sophia rushing into the ss and questioning the ss representative had ced the ss
representative in a very difficult position, so she couldn’t help but say loudly, “You have not been selected
this time, so you should try again next year. There’s no point for you to say anything else now.”
Sophia asked calmly again, “I just want to know why I was unsessful.”
Seeing that Sophia wasn’t about to give up, the ss representative found her score sheet and showed
it to her. “Look for yourself.”
In her transcript, her test scores were fixed. No one could change it even if one wanted to. The only thing
that could be changed was the behavior score. These scores would be evaluated by the ssmittee
in a unified meeting. After taking a look, Sophia could see that she still had several items that deserved
extra points, such as the Esports World Championship, which were not counted.
After getting a look at the score sheet, Sophia kept silent. Meanwhile, Nathan followed her into the ss
and looked at her. Suddenly, she received a text message. Picking up her phone, she saw that the
message was sent by her ssmate Molly, who was also one of the ssmittee. ‘Sophia, don’t
worry about this. Our ssmittee would also love to see a student from our ss win the National
Schrship, but I’m sure you know that some people don’t want you to get the schrship. You can try
again next year.’
Sophia looked at the winner from their school for this year’s National Schrship again. The winner’s
results were not as good as her, nor did she participate in as manypetitions as Sophia. Why did she
get the schrship? That was because herst name was Mitchell.
That day, Michael went home early. When he reached home, he saw Sophia ying with the cats in the
living room, seeming to be in a bad mood. Michael was about to coax her when he suddenly saw Stanley
calling him. Why is this stupid dog calling me? Does he want toe over for a free meal again?
After he picked up the phone, Stanley said, “Uncle, you’re going to cook something delicious today,
right? Sophia did not win the National Schrship which she applied for and her ss only gave her a
constion prize. She must be in a bad mood, so hurry up and make something delicious to coax her…”
It turned out that Sophia was upset because of the schrship; no wonder she seemed to be in a bad
mood. Michael walked over and petted the kitten in Sophia’s arms before nudging her forehead with his
lips. “What’s the matter? Are you upset?”
Sophia lowered her head and mumbled, “No.” She knew that her score was good enough and that
something shady was going on. Plus, she didn’t really care about the 8,000 either. However, everytime
she thought about it, she still felt upset. She hugged the cat and leaned her forehead on Michael’s. She
felt like she could forget all her worries as long as her idol hugged her.
Whenever something didn’t go well for her, Sophia would think to herself, I already managed to sleep
with my idol, so what else would bother me? So what if she couldn’t find her dad? What if she didn’t win
the National Schrship? She had such a handsome man!
Since the winner of the schrship was announced, Sophia didn’t want to continue to work hard
anymore. It was just a mere title anyway. But in Michael’s eyes, this matter was a major one. Anything
that made his wife unhappy was a big deal!
The next day in the vice chancellor’s office, the vice chancellor put on his reading sses and looked at
the pile of reports in his hand. The winner of the National Schrship of the School of Economics and
Business Administration—a student with the surname Leonard—was suspected of cheating in an
internationalpetition, falsifying results and privately bribing the examiner.
Also, Natasha Mitchell, a junior foreignnguage student, was suspected of bribing and threatening the
examiner in an international piano solopetitionst semester.
The whistleblower, Michael, came in person today and he sat in front of the vice chancellor as he said
very solemnly, “As far as I know, National Schrship winners requireprehensive development of
morality, intelligence and physical fitness but these two students have major moral problems. Therefore, I
feel that it is inappropriate to grant the National Schrship to the two of them.”
The vice chancellor looked at Michael’s report with a serious expression as he thought to himself, How
impressive. It was obvious at first nce that Michael had done his research. The video of the person
concerned admitting to the ordeal and the information about the Mitchell Family threatening and bribing
the examiner were all included, and the document totalled up to tens of pages.
For families like the Mitchell Family, their pride was very important. Thus, their children must obtain some
kind of title. A surefire way for them to do that was to participate in any internationalpetition. It was
not umon for them to sponsor thepetition, inform the judges and get the first ce. This was a
verymon thing to the Mitchell Family.
The vice chancellor was ced in a difficult position as he stuttered, “I-If news about this gets out,
everyone will get into trouble. Isn’t it just a trivial schrship? It’s only worth 8,000 and you don’t exactly
need that 8,000…”
However, Michael replied, “I don’tck money; I justck the title of a National Schrship winner.”