The other students exchanged knowing glances, their faces etched with scorn.
They clearly didn't believe Gu Lin's explanation and weren't about to let it go. They pressed him again, "Then how did the rumor about your father bribing the chief examiner start spreading? And since your second uncle met with the chief examiner, how can we be sure he only exchanged a few words with the official and didn't do anything illegal?"
'Are you guys from the government office?'
'Interrogating me like I'm a criminal?'
He wanted to roar back, to tell these sons of bitches to get lost.
But he couldn't!
If he didn't clear this up now, the matter would fester and grow. With them stirring up trouble, there was no telling how twisted the story would become.
Some gossip could be left to spread, but not this.
If people got the preconceived notion that his family had broken the law and became afraid to do business with them, wouldn't his family be ruined sooner or later?
