Chapter 23: Being Reported

Growing up in a renounced family like the Gu Family, Gu Wei has become accustomed to calculating the benefits between human relations. Lu Zhenye often said that he is treating him like his own grandson; but, Gu Wei knew that if he were not the alpha grandson of the Gu Family, Grandpa Gu would not value him this much, and Lu Zhenye would never even look at him.

Even though he knew all of this, when a conflict really happened, the interests were being calculated and displayed in broad daylight. Does not matter the surname is Lu or Gu or whether he is the grandson or not, the differences are quite vivid, Gu Wei still felt extremely unhappy.

"That...I'm going back first."

Yue Fei put the new phones on the table and said cautiously.

He thought that Gu Wei would nod and let him go, but he didn't expect that Gu Wei, who had been trapped in his own thoughts, suddenly raised his eyes to look at him. Then for a moment, Yue Fei felt the danger of being stared at by the predator.

Gu Wei remembered when Yue Fei proposed negotiated conditions with him when they first met, the boy was young but pretending to be sophisticated.

"I'm not feeling well." Gu Wei said.

Yue Fei: "Huh?"

"Side effects." Gu Wei locked his eyes on the boy, and reached out to him, "Come here."

Yue Fei took a step back: "I haven't finished moving my things. If you feel unwell, I will ask Sister Chen to call a doctor."

Gu Wei put down his hand.

Yue Fei opened the door of the study and walked out.

When the door was about to close again, Yue Fei looked up and saw Gu Wei's gaze falling on the broken phone in the corner, half of his face sunken in the shadow, as if he was being abandoned by the world, lonely and lost.

With a click, the study door closed.

The sound of footsteps that should have been far away got closer and closer. Gu Wei turned around, and the person who had just fled in fright came to him.

Yue Fei raised his hands, took the person sitting in the chair into his arms, stumbling and saying, "That... just for a bit."

Gu Wei was lost in his thoughts about how to destroy the Lu Family, he was taken aback by the sudden embrace. 

...Right, he will think about the Lu Family matter at a later time.

Being moved from the first floor to the second floor, except for the frequent encounters with Gu Wei when entering and leaving the room, there was no change in their daily lives. 

The two days weekend passed by very quickly.

Back to school on Monday, Yue Fei was dragged over by his roommate Zhao Zhi as soon as he entered the classroom.

"Did you look at the class groups and forums over the weekend?"

Yue Fei: "No."

"No wonder you can still be happy. Now I have bad news and good news to tell you, which one do you want to hear first?"

"Good news?"

"The midterm exam results came out last week, and the class committee posted the results in the class forum. You did well in the exam."

"Wow!" His hard work of several weeks was not in vain, and the corners of Yue Fei's mouth rose.

"Don't be too happy yet. There is bad news." Zhao Zhi looked serious.

Yue Fei: "What's it?"

Zhao Zhi: "There is an idiot who is in the same examination room as you. In the forum, he reported that you cheated on the exams and the matter is currently being investigated by the school administrators."

Yue Fei: "Cheating, me?"

"He posted your test scores from the previous semesters, and compared them with your results this time. Many people believed him. Now the post got pinned in the school forum. I guess the counselor will come to you later."

Another roommate interjected: "I asked my friend to check who it was. The one who reported you is an omega from the next class. I heard that he is a good friend with Yin Xinchen, and he has a good family background."

Yue Fei: "..." Although the plot is a bit unfamiliar to him, he is not surprised at all.

The protagonists haven't appeared for a long time, and he almost forgets that he is in a book.

Just like Zhao Zhi said, the counselor came over and called him out before the first class was over.

In the office, Lan Lili looked at the calm beta with an angry heart.

"Yue Fei, I know you always want to fight for the best, but you never cheat on your exams. Why did it happen this time?"

This sentence seems to have affirmed that Yue Fei has cheated.

Yue Fei: "Teacher, I did not cheat."

Lan Lili: "The examination room has a security camera."

"Then check the security camera." Yue Fei will not admit something that he does not do. 

Lan Lili: "You really didn't cheat?"

Yue Fei: "No, I didn't."

Yue Fei's hard-hearted attitude made Lan Lili not want to waste any more words: "I remember that you are from the city. Based on the impact of this incident, the school decided to temporarily suspend you before the investigation's results come out. Now you can call your parents to come to take you back."

"I can go back by myself."

"No." Lan Lili worried that Yue Fei would do something to harm himself on the way home. It was not like something similar has never happened at the school before. 

After thinking for a while, Yue Fei took out his phone: "May I ask my partner to pick me up?"

Lan Lili was taken aback: "Partner?" Not a boyfriend, but a partner, which means that Yue Fei is married.

Yue Fei: "Yeah."

Lan Lili thought for a while: "Yeah, that's fine."

Yue Fei lowered his head, licked his dry lips, and called Gu Wei.

Gu Wei was in a meeting when he called.

Yue Fei had rarely called Gu Wei. When seeing the caller ID, Gu Wei raised his hand to pause the speaker.

"Hello?"

The familiar low tone came from the earpiece. Yue Fei thought that he really does not care about the sudden slander, and even thought that he was just an onlooker of this incident. He felt that he was just following along with the plot, but upon hearing Gu Wei's voice, he suddenly felt that he was being wronged for nothing. 

"Can you come to my school now? If you're busy, then you don't have to."

Hearing the frustration in his voice, Gu Wei was taken aback, made a gesture to dismiss the meeting to his subordinates, got up and left the conference room.

"I'll come over right now, What's wrong?"

"It's..." Yue Fei suddenly couldn't say it. Although he knew he didn't do it, he was not sure what Gu Wei would think.

He then realized he shouldn't involve Gu Wei into this matter, if Gu Wei came over and be recognized, isn't that him shaming Gu Wei!

In actuality, he could have called Father Yue and Mother Yue to come, but Yue Fei's first thought was Gu Wei, and now he regretted it. 

"You don't have to come in person, just let the secretary come in your place, they should be able to handle it." 

Gu Wei didn't ask anything else but said: "Take a rest first, and I will be there soon."

Hanging up the phone, Yue Fei only felt that his cheeks were hot, his family members were being called into school due to such an incident, which was a very strange experience for him.

While waiting for Yue Fei's family to come, Lan Lili let Yue Fei sit on the side and started to do her own thing.

Yue Fei, prior to transmigrating into this book, is a very well-behaved student in school. Although he would skip class to work part-time, he never goes against the teacher. Although he was being embarrassed due Lan Lili's attitude at the moment, he still endured it and stood silently by the table, waiting for Gu Wei to come. 

Yue Fei was standing sorely for quite a long time, when suddenly several footsteps were heard from the door of the office, obviously many people were approaching.

The office door was opened.

"Principal!"

Seeing someone coming, the teacher who was in the office immediately stood up and greeted the bald man who came in.

Yue Fei looked up and saw Gu Wei at a glance, and Tang Yue standing behind Gu Wei, and finally the principal in the teacher's mouth.

"Professor Lan, what is the matter with Yue Fei?" the principal started and asked directly.

Lan Lili didn't expect that he came here for Yue Fei's business: "Principal, this is the case. Over the weekend, someone reported Yue Fei is cheating on the midterm exams, which caused an extremely bad influence on the forum. After a meeting, I decided to temporarily suspend Yue Fei first while waiting for the results of the investigation, and we will see how to deal with this incidence once the result is out."

Principal: "How can students be suspended before the results of the investigation? Isn't this delaying students' studies and affecting students' lives? Let Yue Fei go back to class immediately. I will tell the inspection team to put full force on investigating this case and have the results by end of today."

After finishing speaking, the principal turned his face to the man behind him and said, "President Gu, what do you think of this?" 

"Principal Tang." Gu Wei, who has been silent, said, "The investigation results need to be released as soon as possible, but Yue Fei still goes home to rest for a while, because being falsely accused also affects his mood."

The principal nodded awkwardly: "Of course."

"Come here." Gu Wei reached out to Yue Fei.

Yue Fei jutted out his lower lip, walked to him with his head hanging low and gently took his hand.

No longer looking at other people, Gu Wei took Yue Fei and left the office.

Gu Wei's presence gave Yue Fei a great sense of security.

When the counselor asked him to call his parents, he actually thought about calling Father Yue or Mother Yue, but he was afraid to call them. The first sentence they would say to him would be did you cheat or not. 

Only Gu Wei knows his efforts during his studying period, Yue Fei thought in his heart that Gu Wei would believe in him, his thinking was rational, but emotionally he was still very uncertain.

When Gu Wei did not ask him whether he cheated or not, instead the man affirmed that he was wrongly accused. The man defended his dignity in front of other people and called him to his side to make it clear that he was taking care of him. Yue Fei's heartbeat accelerated.

Tang Yue stayed behind, facing the principal with an awkward smile and the counselor with an ugly face, he smiled and said, "We have entrusted a lawyer to follow up on the whole process. The student who reported the matter, please inform him that he needs to bear legal responsibility for slandering others."

When Tang Yue left, whispers sounded in the quiet office, and those who had witnessed the whole thing couldn't help but gossip.

Lan Lili tremblingly asked: "Principal, Gu Wei is Yue Fei's partner?"

Who does not know of Gu Wei, the noble single Alpha, appearing daily in various financial magazines, and is the ideal partner of all betas and omegas, who are of legal ages.

Principal Tang: "Do you need to care what kind of relationship they are? Either way, it is not a relationship we can afford to offend."

The money that the Gu Group donates to the school each year is enough to build a few lecture halls. If Gu Group stops donating, many of the on-going projects in the school will face funding difficulties, and his assessment this year will be in bad standing.

Compared with the funds worth a few buildings, whether a student really cheated or not, he doesn't care.

But immediately, what Lan Lili said made Principal Tang's face instantly turned pale.

"Uh, Principal, it is your son who reported Yue Fei."