The Unlucky Ling Kai

After a few moments of silence, everyone began to rush over to Ling Chen's seat to congratulate him. The dumbstruck Ling Kai and his underlings were mercilessly pushed away. It could not be blamed on the people after all - Ling Chen's 100 points meant that he had scored full marks in the exam! Even though there were some subtle differences, nearly every family used a similar test to evaluate. They were all very clear on the fact that no one in the past 200 years had managed to get a full score in the Scholar Exam.

This meant that Ling Chen's future would definitely be extraordinary. If they could build up a connection with him now, then it would definitely benefit them in the future. Ling Chen just nodded and greeted everyone, but asked them to come to his business building if they wanted to discuss partnerships.

Looking at everyone swooning over Ling Chen, veins bulged on Ling Kai's forehead and he shouted "Impossible, how can a trash like him score full marks? even Ling Mu only got 92. Yes that's it, you must have cheated!"

Everyone now had an idea off what was going on. Family strife was quite common and they could spot it at a glance. Ling Kai had probably used Ling Mu to try and steal the family's spot for business to act against Ling Chen. But now that he had failed, he had lost himself.

Ling Kai was oblivious to his surroundings, pointed at Ling Chen and continued shouting "Ahaha I know, you asked the Fifth Elder to give you the answers and that's how you got full score."

All of a sudden, a tremendous pressure filled the entire room. Not only from Ling Xiao and the other Elders of the Ling Family, but also from the guests. The Fifth Elder, Ling Haizhong was a well renowned scholar that was the pride of Shengyang City. Every single family respected him for his achievements and especially because of the fact that he was always strict in his teachings. Some of the current guests had even studied under him for a short while and knew his behavior very well. So when he was insulted, they could not hold back their calm.

Even Ling Chen was surprised at the stupidity of Ling Kai. He had thought that the old fox Ling Kun would have educated him well, but never expected that he could loose his cool this easily. Suddenly he had an idea and telepathically explained his thoughts to Ling Xue. She was taken aback at first, but then realized the huge opportunity that could be grasped from his idea. She then transmitted a thought to her father about the idea.

As Ling Xiao received the transmission, he was a bit startled at first but then grew excited at the result it would bring. He shouted "Silence!"

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Ling Xiao to see what his response was. Ling Kun was also amongst the. He had not expected his plans to go off rails by this much. First was the loss of his son and the people from the Song Family. Now the scenario he had created to trap Ling Chen had unexpectedly bit back. He felt a bad premonition as Ling Xiao opened his mouth.