At dusk, in Chen Shi's office, Lin Jie met Lai Haoming for the first time.

He followed behind Shijing Mountain, somewhat cautiously entering the office. He was a tall, skinny young man with fair skin and black-framed glasses, exuding the typical look of a university student, refined and scholarly!

Seeing him like this, if Lin Jie hadn't deliberately discussed the matter with Ling Mengjiao, who had been to this person's hometown, and learned some inside information, he might have thought he had wronged him.

"Professor Chen, hello!"

Lai Haoming greeted Chen Shi politely before turning his gaze towards Lin Jie.

He hesitated for a moment, took a step forward, and said, "Lin Jie, I need to apologize to you. I shouldn't have recounted your matters to my parents back home, which led to the video plea incident."

Lin Jie chuckled lightly and said, "No need to apologize, because you will bear the consequences of this matter. What I have said will not change."

These words made Lai Haoming and Shijing Mountain freeze.

They didn't expect Lin Jie to lay everything bare so bluntly, even in front of Chen Shi, without any hesitation, which was too bold!

Lai Haoming, both angry and aggrieved, looked at Chen Shi and said, "Professor Chen, you see..."

Chen Shi waved his hand and said, "I heard the things you were discussing outside the teaching surgery room in the evening. I don't care whether you intended for me to hear it or it was just a coincidence."

"I called you both here to have a face-to-face confrontation with Lin Jie and clarify everything!"

He pointed at Lin Jie and said, "Lin Jie, you go first!"

Lin Jie said softly, "Of course, I wouldn't accuse classmate Lai Haoming without reason. I have evidence; it was spoken firsthand by that mother of six children."

"She informed the staff from the Anlin Charity Fund who went to help Qiqi that the video was shot by classmate Lai Haoming's father using his phone, and those words were taught by classmate Lai Haoming's father."

"I wonder how classmate Lai Haoming will explain this? You don't think I or the charity staff would purposely lie and frame you, do you?"

"I wouldn't think that at all!"

Lai Haoming said sincerely, "You and the staff from the Anlin Charity Fund don't even know my name, so how could you frame me? There may be a misunderstanding here."

He looked at Chen Shi and said, "Professor Chen, I want to call my father to confirm this matter."

Chen Shi nodded slightly and said, "Go ahead!"

Lai Haoming took out a regular domestic smartphone, dialed a number, and pressed the speakerphone button.

The phone rang four or five times before it connected, and a mid-tone male voice with a strong accent and elongated vowels came through, "Mingzai, calling at this time, what's up? Have you had dinner?"

Lai Haoming smiled awkwardly and quickly said, "Dad, Professor Chen from the academy is listening beside me! Professor Chen wants to understand the specifics of the video plea incident involving Brother Wang Min's family back home!"

"This matter has blown up quite a bit now, please explain what happened specifically!"

"Oh, so Professor Chen is listening!"

Lai's father's voice immediately became a bit more serious, with the accent reduced, "Hello, Professor Chen!"

Chen Shi instantly replied, "Hello! The purpose of this call is to ask you to recount how that family's video plea came about!"

"Alright! I'll tell you!"

"Professor Chen, one day my son Mingzai called, excitedly telling me he met a medical genius, a very impressive talent named Lin Jie, whom he's learning from and aspiring to follow."

Hearing these few sentences, Lin Jie felt like rolling his eyes.

This Lai Haoming must be very envious of him deep down, how could he possibly praise him like this to his family?

Lin Jie already understood that this kid must have rehearsed this story with his family.

Then Lai's father's voice continued through the phone, "He mentioned a few things about Lin Jie to me."

"To be honest, Professor Chen, my son Mingzai seldom admires anyone!"

"For Lin Jie to receive such praise from him naturally piqued my curiosity."

"A few days later, while running errands in town, I went online at a friend's place and remembered what Mingzai had said about Lin Jie, so I casually looked him up!"

"Wow, this Lin Jie is truly remarkable!"

"It turns out he had a severe heart condition, and after recovery, his medical talents were recognized by a major corporation that gave him a big house and a luxury car, truly impressive!"

"After finishing my errands, I returned to the village. I happened to run into Wang Min's wife and, remembering that one of her daughters also had a heart condition, shared Lin Jie's story with her."

"I even advised her not to be stingy with money and to treat her daughter's illness early. Maybe she could show some talent like Lin Jie and be noticed by someone influential, getting a luxury house and car!"

"Clearly, Wang Min's wife was tempted and continued to ask about Lin Jie. Without much thought, I told her everything I knew!"

"A few days later, some outsiders came to our place and took one of Wang Min's kids, and that's when I realized that Wang Min's family had received help from someone influential."

"Sigh..."

Lai's father sighed heavily over the phone, saying, "To be honest with you, Professor Chen, the wife of Wang Min has a poor reputation in our village."

"They've had so many kids, with their family's difficult living situation. As neighbors, we help whenever we can."

"But Wang Min's wife always finds excuses about one child being sick, borrowing money for treatment. Another day, another child is sick, borrowing money again."

"Everyone in the village has been asked to lend her money!"

"Borrowing money and not paying it back isn't a big issue, as long as it's used for the child, we can understand."

"But she used all the borrowed money to buy delicious food! If it was for the child, we could accept it, but she ate most of it herself."

"Over time, everyone in the village knew that not a single word from her mouth was true, so they stopped dealing with her."

Hearing this, Lin Jie couldn't help but say "respect!" in his heart.

Lai's father's words directly negated the basis of his own evidence, that a woman full of lies is not worth trusting at all.

Chen Shi glanced at Lin Jie and said into the phone, "You don't know about the help video matter?"

Lai's father replied on the phone, "I know! Of course I know!"

"Wang Min's wife flaunted to us that her daughter Qiqi was taken to a big city for treatment without spending a penny of their own. It was only then I found out she had made a video and uploaded it online!"

"After that, I told Mingzai about the video incident!"

Chen Shi then briefly asked a few more questions and signaled for Lai Haoming to end the call.

After hanging up on Lai's father, Lai Haoming continued to explain, "After the graduate exams, I've been interning at the Linjiang District People's Hospital, and I'm so exhausted every time I come back that I just fall asleep on the bed."

"I really haven't been paying any attention to what happens outside, nor do I have the energy for it."

"It wasn't until I received my dad's call that I learned about this. Checked online and realized how serious this thing had gotten. Knowing it stemmed from my slip of the tongue, I wanted to find Lin Jie to explain and apologize!"

"I've always been worried that my explanation wouldn't be persuasive, as this matter has blown up quite a bit, and now that several days have passed, why only now has it been resolved and I think of apologizing!"

With a bitter look on his face, Lai Haoming said, "The problem is, I really only just found out recently. Yesterday, when Senior Shi noticed my unusual behavior and asked about it, I finally told him."

"Senior Shi said that coincidentally there was a gathering in the evening and that Lin Jie would attend, so he would help explain a thing or two!"

Shijing Mountain immediately spoke after, "The facts are as Lai Haoming said, but Junior Brother Lin simply refused to listen to my explanation, directly asking me to relay to Junior Brother Lai not to consider being your graduate student."

"Teacher, the graduate exams have long been over, this isn't, this isn't..."

Saying this, Shijing Mountain glanced at Lin Jie discontentedly and stopped speaking!

Lin Jie let out a cold snort and said, "Lai's father, Qiqi's mother, who the hell is lying..."

"Professor Chen, Senior Shi, Lin Jie!"

Lai Haoming interrupted Lin Jie's words, loudly saying, "I know my father's words lack persuasiveness because he is my father. But Wang Min's wife's words are also one-sided and unreliable."

"This concerns my medical career future, I beg Professor Chen, Senior Shi, Lin Jie to go back to my hometown with me for an on-site investigation, you'll know what kind of person Wang Min's wife is."

Lin Jie snorted again disdainfully, "Lai Haoming, you want us to go to your hometown for an on-site investigation, aren't you afraid we'll find out your home is a two-story villa-like building, with a BMW and a truck, while you're receiving the college's scholarship?"

This remark immediately changed the way Chen Shi looked at Lai Haoming!

The college's scholarship is meant to help students who are in difficult financial situations but are still diligent and studious, if Lai Haoming's family is well-off yet he is receiving the scholarship, that speaks volumes about his character.

Lai Haoming, however, didn't change his expression at all, and explained lowly, "What Lin Jie said is true, my house does indeed have a small building, a BMW, and a truck."

"Actually, my family also has a pig feed factory, but..."

"It's been struggling these past few years; Father has been running it at a loss with loans, hoping to hold out until things get better!"

"In fact, we still owe the bank and relatives tens of thousands that can't be repaid. Both the house and the cars are mortgaged for loans. Actually, one could say our family has gone bankrupt!"

Dang, this left Lin Jie speechless for the moment, should an on-site investigation really be conducted?

If what Lai's father said was true, the investigation would surely reveal Qiqi's mother to be a compulsive liar.

If Lai's father was lying, he might have already set things up so that the neighbors would uniformly say that Qiqi's mother is a compulsive liar.

After all, judging from reality, Wang Li's family, given their current situation, should have no standing in the village!

The situation seems somewhat troublesome! Could I have been misled and wronged Lai Haoming?

Deep in thought, Lin Jie suddenly thought of something and said, "Qiqi's mother said the video was taken by Lai Haoming's father; surely, it was also Lai Haoming's father who uploaded it online."

"I wonder if it's possible to use technological means to determine what model of phone the original video was shot with and which phone or number uploaded it?"

"Wouldn't that be quite difficult?" Shijing Mountain said uncertainly.

Chen Shi, feeling stubborn, said in a deep voice, "I'll contact the Computer Science Department right now and ask them to find a hacker expert. We must get to the bottom of this matter."

Needless to say, Professor Chen's reputation was quite effective!

After explaining the detailed situation to a vice dean of the Computer Science Department, within half an hour, the phone rang.

"Professor Chen, I've got a piece of definite information here, not sure if it's of any use to you?"

"What information?" Chen Shi asked urgently.

Lin Jie, Shijing Mountain, and Lai Haoming all eagerly perked up their ears.

"The first sites where the help video appeared were all uploaded from this IP address 58.34.233.255, which is an IP address from our school!"

The voice from the phone hadn't even finished before Chen Shi's gaze, like a sharp sword, focused on Lai Haoming!

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