When system cheat becomes rampant!

If he could help Principal Li Nanxing gain more prestige, Xiang Beifei would be happy to do so.

The teachers of Xiang Beifei\'s other subjects are also acceptable; they don\'t intentionally trouble the students or belittle and mock them.

However, in any profession, there will always be some rotten apples like Yang Hua.

But this doesn\'t matter, for the kind are always treated with kindness, and the deceivers are always abandoned.

Xiang Beifei understands this principle.

Kong Xiuwen on the side felt indignant for Xiang Beifei, saying irritably, "Those two guys, even my dad can\'t hoodwink people better than them."

"What did your dad hoodwink you with?"

"Before the last Awakening Ceremony, my dad gave me two pills and said that eating one would give me a fifty percent chance of awakening an SR system, and two would guarantee it. I actually believed him! Only today, during his conversation with Grandpa Xiang, did I realize he was joking with me, just to keep my mind clear during the Awakening Ceremony."

At the time, Kong Xiuwen had even thought about giving one of the pills to Xiang Beifei.

"You\'re just realizing this now?"

Xiang Beifei laughed. He remembered this incident clearly.

After all, Kong Daming was an S-rank pioneer and certainly knew better what the Awakening System was all about—pills were useless.

"Speaking of my grandfather,"

Xiang Beifei glanced at the report and fell into thought.

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Yang Hua was about to go insane!

He had painstakingly saved up 150,000 teachers\' prestige value and exchanged it for a Qi and Blood Pill, only to have it vanish into thin air!

Just like the last Soul Condensing Pill!

"How could this happen?"

Yang Hua thought about it for two days and still could not figure it out!

He kept asking the system if there was a glitch, but the system\'s response was consistent from start to end—"System reward issued."

Through his students\' college entrance examination scores, he had finally saved up enough teacher prestige value, only for such bizarre incidents to happen twice in a row!

"No, it can\'t be a problem with my system. It\'s very likely that someone has tampered with it behind my back!"

After calming down, Yang Hua began to recall the entire incident.

He wasn\'t like Zhuo Jing, someone who had just awakened their system and wasn\'t familiar with it, someone who wouldn\'t think too much if something went missing. He had been an awakened system user for over a decade!

There were common elements—or rather, common people—involved in both cases where the system rewards disappeared without a trace.

He played with his phone in frustration, and at that moment, an article on the phone caught his attention—

"732-point Candidate from the Slums Forsakes Elite University, The Heartbreaking Truth Behind It"

He casually clicked on the article and read about Xiang Beifei.

A flash of insight crossed his mind!

"So it was you!"

Yang Hua suddenly understood who was most likely taking his rewards!

"Yu Lei!"

Yang Hua said through gritted teeth.

He clearly remembered that it was the day the senior students were preparing for the Awakening Ceremony when he exchanged for the Soul Condensing Pill!

That morning, he had been interviewed by Yu Lei, who was there to report on the news!

Afterwards, the Soul Condensing Pills disappeared.

Then, when the college entrance examination results were announced, he was ready to exchange for a Qi and Blood Pill, but that guy Yu Lei appeared again!

He interviewed him once more!

After the interview, he went to exchange for the Qi and Blood Pill, and it disappeared again!

"You bastard! So the interviews were just a ruse to mess with me and steal my system rewards using some trick?"

Anger flashed in Yang Hua\'s eyes!

The more he thought about it, the more he believed he was correct.

Apart from Yu Lei, nobody else had the capability!

Because none of the other students in the class, whom he often scolded, had ever encountered such incidents before.

What\'s more, when the Soul Condensing Pills went missing, none of the students had awakened their systems, so it couldn\'t have been one of his own students.

But it just so happened that Yu Lei was the one who interviewed him both times!

Could there be something fishy about that interview microphone?

Damn it!

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In the elegant coffee shop, soft lighting bathed Yu Lei in a peaceful glow.

Yu Lei was leisurely sitting back, sipping coffee and reading an article on his computer.

The interview article had firmly hit the hot search lists of three platforms, reaching the tenth position in popularity.

Just reaching the top twenty in hot searches on one platform was enough to complete a system task and add 1000 points to his system value.

The hyped article hitting the hot search listing on three platforms was equivalent to completing three system tasks. Since the tasks were cumulative, it meant an addition of 3000 points to his system value.

"At this rate, reaching the number one spot on the hot search list is completely attainable!"

Yu Lei put down his coffee cup, increasingly excited.

His system was named "I Want to Make Headlines," and if he could get to the top of the hot search list and become the leading story, it would be more than just completing a task—it would add at least ten thousand system points!

"I knew it, many people love this type of news!"

Yu Lei typed away proudly, then turned to look out the window.

Across from the coffee shop was a restaurant named "Kong\'s Mansion Banquet," where an elderly man could be seen bustling about, attending to customers.

That was Xiang Qingde, the bedridden old man from his article.

Yu Lei knew exactly what he had to do next.

Now that the article was out, many people were aware of the story of the Xiang grandfather and grandson. Quite a few sympathized with them, leaving messages saying they wanted to visit. If those busybodies were to come, it would mean that the content of his article would be exposed.

Yu Lei couldn\'t let those people discover the truth. Having fabricated the news, he naturally had to make it seem even more plausible!

So, the next step was naturally to take action against Xiang Qingde and Xiang Beifei!

He looked at his system interface; hitting the hot search list on three platforms was equivalent to completing three system tasks. Each completion granted him a choice of two system rewards.

Stealth Talisman, Truth-Telling Talisman, Control Talisman, Memory Talisman—choose any two.

"You grandfather and grandson had better cooperate obediently with my performance."

Yu Lei chuckled to himself.

He had already planned it out: first, use the Control Talisman to make Xiang Qingde and Xiang Beifei obey his every command.

Then he\'d use the Memory Talisman to alter their memories, making them believe they were the two individuals from his article, living off picking through trash, with a chaotic home life, and having them refuse interviews from other media. Finally, he would arrange for Xiang Beifei to enroll in a vocational college that he had already contacted!