The Unveiling of Secret Queen

Chapter 852: Someone is scheming behind the scenes, should we investigate?

Nathalie Quinlan grunted an acknowledgment, her voice leisurely as she said, "I’ll call back later."

"Okay."

Mr. Zachmann was actually just worried that Nathalie would be influenced by the online tempo. Since Nathalie took the initiative to say she would call back, Audrick felt relieved.

At the other end of the sofa, the man with his legs crossed lifted his eyelids slightly and cast his deep-set eyes towards the girl engrossed with her phone, saying in a low voice, "Someone must be deliberately stirring things up online, should we check into it?"

Nathalie raised her head, their eyes met for a moment before she was the first to look away. She pulled down her hat, her delicate jawline smooth, without refusing, her expression indifferent.

"Let’s check."

She didn’t care about the voices outside, like those on No. 1 Middle School’s forum, where someone might post out of curiosity to discuss her grades. She thought it was normal, curiosity was common, and gossiping about high school exam results when they came out was to be expected.

She had seen the online rhythms, they were indeed starting to deviate, being used by certain people to attack Tsinghua University and Shawn Norton, and there were even signs of slander directed at her.

When the other party deliberately attacked the people close to her, that was crossing her line.

It would be good to look into it.

Nathalie topped the joint entrance examination, and her high school exam results wouldn’t affect her admission to Tsinghua University, but Audrick couldn’t help caring about her high school exam results. Mainly, he was bothered by the online pace and couldn’t swallow that feeling. Seeing how Nathalie and Amadeus Yancey exchanged a few words and were tacitly prepared to investigate the people leading the charge behind the scenes.

He walked over to Nathalie with his hands behind his back, like a little old man, and said, "Nathalie, since those online narratives are false, do you know roughly how many points you scored yourself?"

He was quite nervous when he asked the question, his face was tense, and he was afraid Nathalie would see his nerves, trying his best to hide his anxiety.

Alfred Garland, on the other hand, was much more composed.

Ever since he returned from The Ninth Institute, he wouldn’t ask such a foolish question again.

Nathalie replied in a measured tone, "Waiting for the results."

...

Her "waiting for the results" turned out to be two hours.

The high school exam results were basically out, No. 1 Middle School had done exceptionally well this year, mainly Nancy Sullivan’s top class, which had raised its average score by 80 points from before the exam, with the bulk of the class passing the college entry cut-off.

Freddy Cagwin’s results also inevitably placed him within the top ten of the province.

The school should have been preparing for a fireworks celebration that evening, but without Nathalie’s results, nobody was in the mood.

At half-past two in the afternoon, Nathalie’s zero marks in all subjects were still prominently featured on the hot search.

Amadeus Yancey had found the person behind the sale of the Water Army but hadn’t withdrawn the hot search, deliberately letting it hang there.

Audrick had been refreshing Nathalie’s results, logging into the background every five minutes to check with her examination admission ticket.

He had entered it about 20 times, and every time the results showed zeros across all subjects.

Finally, on the 21st login with Nathalie’s examination admission ticket number to check her grades, the all-zero marks changed.

At the top of the list was Nathalie Quinlan’s name.

Nathalie Quinlan, Chinese 150, Mathematics 150, English 150, Science Comprehensive 300, Total 750.

Audrick couldn’t believe the results that appeared on his phone, his jaw nearly dropped, he rubbed his eyes again and again, hardly daring to make a sound, he re-entered the admission ticket number and checked once more.

The refreshed page popped up with the same results, the total score written clearly—750 points.

Perfect score!

This time, Audrick managed to catch his dropped jaw, his throat felt tight, and honestly muttered, "Damn."