Free Web NovelChapter 981: Chapter 981: Unworthy of Being a Teacher
Summer Monroe looked puzzled. "Haven’t I already finished answering? What else do you need me to prove? Do the problem all over again?"
"No, no!" Principal Payne, along with Teacher Sutton, hurriedly waved their hands.
Principal Payne explained, "Summer Monroe, from beginning to end, neither I nor Teacher Sutton nor any of the other teachers ever doubted the authenticity of your perfect score in Cisco. The only one who doubted you was Professor Osborne."
Teacher Sutton nodded and said, "Yes. According to the agreement we made with Professor Osborne at the time, after you answered three questions, he needed to apologize to you in public. He also needed to apologize for what happened before with Rachel Ross, and for..."
"No need." Summer Monroe cut him off with a wave of her hand. "I don’t care."
She couldn’t accept his apology; not everything could be forgiven just because of a single "sorry."
Since she wasn’t going to forgive him, she couldn’t be bothered to stand on stage listening to whatever nonsense Mio Osborne might say.
However, Summer Monroe’s attitude unintentionally infuriated Mio Osborne.
"Summer!" Mio Osborne glared furiously, eyes bloodshot. "What do you mean you don’t care? You looking down on people?"
Summer Monroe lifted her gaze, meeting Mio Osborne’s eyes with disgust. She said coldly, "I’m not looking down on you. I just... have never cared about you at all."
Mio Osborne’s face darkened.
Clearly, not having to apologize should have been a good thing for him, but hearing what Summer Monroe said made him feel like his heart was being cut to pieces.
It was even more painful than being slapped in the face by her solving all three questions.
"Then..." Summer Monroe, too lazy to look at Mio Osborne again, turned her head toward Principal Payne. "I’ll go back to my seat now."
Principal Payne nodded and didn’t make things harder for her. He stepped forward, took the microphone from Mio Osborne’s hand, and said, "Since Summer Monroe doesn’t want to hear your apology, I’ll speak in your place."
"Principal Payne, I..."
Mio Osborne opened his mouth, but he had no idea what to say.
Say that he’d rather apologize himself than see Summer Monroe treat him like he didn’t exist?
If he said that, how was he supposed to explain what he was thinking?
Falling for the student he’d always looked down on—there was no way he could ever say something like that out loud.
Principal Payne ignored Mio Osborne, lifted the microphone, and said, "Regarding what Professor Osborne said at the beginning, I’d like to make a correction. It’s not that the entire school doubted the authenticity of Summer Monroe’s score; it was only Professor Osborne who believed that Summer’s成绩 had water in it."
As soon as he said that, the prep-class students all showed an "oh, so that’s how it is" expression, without the slightest surprise in their hearts.
After all, everyone in the prep class knew that Mio Osborne couldn’t stand Summer Monroe.
"But isn’t what Professor Osborne did this time way too much? The questions he gave were so hard—if our queen couldn’t answer even one of them, wouldn’t she have been directly branded a cheater?"
"If she was ruled to have cheated, she’d be pressured to withdraw, right? Why does Professor Osborne hate Summer Monroe so much that he’d push her this far?"
"Come to think of it, with what Professor Osborne did this time, he really doesn’t deserve to be a teacher!"
The prep-class students were all sitting in the front rows, and Mio Osborne heard every single word.
A huge sense of humiliation spread through his whole body, making him want to find a crack in the floor and disappear into it.
But he couldn’t. He could only stand there and listen.
Clearly, before this, he had been really looking forward to getting on stage tonight to publicly expose Summer Monroe’s cheating.
But now, every second he stood on stage had turned into torture.
And the most humiliating part was still yet to come.
