Pet Addiction: The Prince’s Desire to Spoil His Pet - Chapter 156 - Deceiving Uncle Sheng (55)

Chapter 156: Deceiving Uncle Sheng (55)

After she finished eating, Sheng Qianmo asked Shu Nuan about the academy matter.

He was holding her as they sat on the couch when he asked her about it. She bowed her head and pulled at his silk cuff, saying softly, “Shu Nuan did not cheat.”

“This Prince knows you didn’t.”

Shu Nuan’s hand paused and she lifted her head to face him.

Sheng Qianmo was glancing at her from the side. His eyes were warm and his voice was assured.

Shu Nuan bit her lower lip, turned to look around, picked up her bag and turned it over. After looking through its contents for a while, she remembered that the examination paper had been taken away by Master Ji. She looked up to Sheng Qianmo and said, “They found out the test questions that Teacher Li had lost in my bag, saying that I stole them and knew the test questions in advance. So I could get high marks.”

Sheng Qianmo listened to her calmly. He looked at her bag and stretched his hand out, causing Shu Nuan to hand over the bag.

While browsing through it, Sheng Qianmo muttered, “Someone planted it on you.”

Sheng Qianmo’s expression became subtle. He thought of what had happened to Shu Nuan and his tone became heavier. He remembered the aggrieved the look in her eyes. Not to mention, she had been wronged and slandered by some people in the academy. No matter what her temperament was, she was just a little girl. How could she stand such slander?

If he hadn’t shown up while it was still day, how would she have spent a night in the dark prison alone?

As soon as he thought of this, Sheng Qianmo knew he couldn’t tolerate this matter.

Shu Nuan knew as well that it’d been planted by someone. She even knew why it’d been done.

Those days the students had been spreading rumors that the academy had been infiltrated by a spy from another country.

Shu Nuan knew from the kidnapping incident that someone suspected her.

Xuan Jiu’s appearance must have only helped that person’s speculation. So this time she had been put into the confinement area. If it weren’t for Sheng Qianmo coming to rescue her in person, perhaps those people had been waiting for Xuan Jiu to appear again, so they could take them both as inside and outside agents in one stroke.

But what neither Shu Nuan nor that person had thought was that Sheng Qianmo would come in person and bring her out of confinement

“It’s easy to prove that you didn’t cheat, but this Prince has to look into the person who framed you for cheating.”

……

The next day, Sheng Qianmo personally took Shu Nuan to the Yulin Academy.

If Sheng Qianmo wanted to clear Shu Nuan’s crimes, there were many ways, the simplest of which was to his identity as deterrence. But for once he wanted Shu Nuan’s innocence, and not by relying on anyone, but to use her own ability to prove her innocence. This way everyone in the academy would accept the result wholeheartedly.

Therefore, Sheng Qianmo found Teacher Li and asked him to produce another examination paper with the same difficulty as the previous one for Shu Nuan.

After hearing this, Master Chen naturally refused at first. After all, they’d declared that she’d cheated with such certainty. If Shu Nuan cleared the charges, wouldn’t that be an indirect admission by the academy that they’d been negligent in their duties? When the news broke out, what would happen to the academy’s reputation?

But unexpectedly, Teacher Li was on Sheng Qianmo’s side.

He looked steadily at Shu Nuan, then looked up at the Fourth Prince and greeted him courteously. “Alright,” he said.

An hour later, Teacher Li wrote out the test paper and pointed to the desk nearby.

“I’ll give you an hour. I’ll invigilate myself.”

End of Chapter