PPS Chapter 83

Xie Haoran hadn’t been causing any trouble recently, but on Friday, news spread that he had injured his hand, coincidentally, his right hand.

Chu Zhaoyi didn’t react much to this news, as if he had known all along that Xie Haoran would pull some trick to avoid the finals. His attempt to lose the fourth round had failed, so now he was resorting to a self-inflicted injury.

Chu Zhaoyi righteously directed Gu Yusen to spread rumors online that Xie Haoran was afraid of the fight, deliberately absent, plagiarizing, and things of that nature.

Because of the confrontation between the two, the finals’ popularity had beenhyped up exceptionally high, so even these unsubstantiated rumors would have some impact.

Coincidentally, Xie Haoran was the kind of person who particularly cared about his reputation.

Sure enough, on Saturday morning, Chu Zhaoyi saw Xie Haoran at the entrance of the venue, with a bandage wrapped around his hand.

He looked like he was bravely fighting with an injury.

Gu Yusen stroked the boy’s head, and only after the boy’s attention returned to him did he say with slight dissatisfaction, “Tell me if you need brother’s help later.”

How could he not know what Chu Zhaoyi was up to? He, Gu Yusen, wasn’t stupid. His precious Chu Zhaoyi cared so much about him, yet he let the unfriendly comments about the two of them ferment online, he must be scheming something.

At first, he wasn’t too clear on what Chu Zhaoyi meant by saying he would handle it himself, he just thought that if Chu Zhaoyi dared to say that, he must have his own plans, so he hadn’t interfered.

Until two weeks ago when he saw Xie Haoran’s second-round work, wasn’t that Chu Zhaoyi’s painting?

Considering that Chu Zhaoyi had suddenly said a few days ago that he wanted to put all the paintings in the dormitory, how could he not know that Chu Zhaoyi was setting a trap?

At the same time, he also realized that Xie Haoran’s hostility towards Chu Zhaoyi wasn’t simply because of jealousy.

He checked Xie Haoran’s past experiences, focusing on the artwork submitted at school, and he found that Xie Haoran’s skill level fluctuated greatly, and many of the paintings he submitted for competitions were extremely similar to Chu Zhaoyi’s style.

Plagiarism.

Even long ago, when Xie Haoran was in elementary school, he had already started plagiarizing.

Did Chu Zhaoyi know?

Yes, he knew.

When things first started brewing, Chu Zhaoyi looked like he knew exactly who was pulling the strings.

Chu Zhaoyi didn’t proactively tell Gu Yusen, so Gu Yusen naturally wouldn’t ask too much. Even though he had many questions in his mind, he never asked a single one, he would give Chu Zhaoyi all the power.

Including hiding his own little secrets.

Even though he was being fiercely criticized online along with Chu Zhaoyi.

Not asking didn’t mean he wouldn’t do it, when Chu Zhaoyi asked him to do things, he still did them well.

The result was that he did too good of a job.

Although there was no evidence for Xie Haoran’s plagiarism, he steered the rhythm so well that the plagiarism was practically confirmed.

Xie Haoran’s reputation plummeted.

So people without skills really shouldn’t mess with online traffic carelessly. People online are easily influenced, and even without seeing evidence, they will easily suspect and use the greatest malice to speculate.

What puzzled him was that the Xie family hadn’t taken any action on this matter, as if they had given up on this son.

Gu Yusen sighed, and separated from Chu Zhaoyi, he went to the audience seats, and Chu Zhaoyi went backstage to prepare things.

Because Professor Qin and Professor Li had special identities as the contestants’ teachers, they were not invited to be judging experts this time.

Gu Yusen sat down next to them.

Ten easels were neatly arranged on the stage.

As expected, the rule this time was on-site painting.