His tone softened a little, and said, "I can completely understand your feelings, but cheating is a very serious matter, our school has a good reputation for more than 200 years, no matter under any circumstances, we will never tolerate such behavior on campus!" ”

After a pause, she continued: "I know that you are usually of good character, but that doesn't prove that you didn't break the school rules this time, the note was found in your pencil case, how do you explain this?" ”

The wrinkles on Dr. Johnson's face seemed to have deepened all at once, and he was heartbroken by the fact that such a problem had occurred in the course he taught.

Mia wiped away her tears, trying to calm her mind, and reason returned to her mind, like a cool spring cooling her burning skull. I told me how I was tricked out of the classroom before the exam.

Dr. Johnson shook his head again and again, saying, "It's hard to see any logical connection between these two things. ”

Mia lowered her head and thought about it, then raised her head again, her eyes lit up, and her voice became much clearer: "In this way, you can judge this test paper of mine, if it is much higher than my usual score, then I am suspected of lying, if it is even, what is the point of me cheating?" Mia looked at Dr. Johnson with pleading eyes.

Dr. Johnson nodded, and spent about ten minutes judging the test paper that Mia had just done, and the score was 85 points, which was obviously in the normal range compared to Mia's daily score range of 78-88 points, and it was not ridiculously high.

Dr. Johnson pinched the corner of his forehead with his fingers, which he thought was quite intriguing, and perhaps there might have been some kind of misunderstanding.

However, with Bai Xinrui's real-name report and the small note in Mia's pencil bag, this is basically a real hammer, and it is rash to deny her cheating based on a single score, and Dr. Johnson fell into deep thought.

There was silence in the office, Mia's black eyeliner and smoky makeup had long since faded, and her small face was pale and there was no blood on her lips.

Without the help of heavy makeup, the inferiority and arrogance that she had worked so hard to create on weekdays no longer existed, and like the girl next door, she kept picking at the metal buttons on her leather jacket with her nails, waiting for Dr. Johnson to give a fair account of the matter.

The doctor sighed and said, "It is true that there is no big problem with the score of your test paper, but someone has come forward and said that he has seen you cheating, and this score alone is not enough to deny this accusation." You'll face at least a zero score for the semester's final grade, and you'll ......"

Mia gritted her teeth and said, "Dr. Johnson, I vouch for my personality, reputation, and life, I really didn't cheat. You did find small notes in my pencil case, however, I didn't put them in, and I don't know when or how they got into my pencil case......"

Her eyes were red and swollen, she swallowed and spat, and continued, "...... If I am hastily judged to be cheating just because of these little notes, I am not convinced! Take a step back and say that even if I found the notes in my pencil case, there was no evidence that I had seen them during the exam. ”

Looking at the test paper on Dr. Johnson's large desk, which was placed alone on the right, Mia felt ridiculous that she had been designed by someone else so easily.

She looked up at Dr. Johnson's flat plaid shirt and said, word for word, "Stella had a holiday with me, I'm sure they're framing me!" ”

Dr. Johnson also felt that something was wrong, staring intently at every change in Mia's expression, thinking about what she said, how could a cheating person be so determined to argue for himself? However, everything must be based on evidence, not just feelings, and his voice returned to its old old calmness: "You speculate that someone has framed you, and I can't verify this for a while, I will discuss it with Mr. Thomas......"

Mia looked at Dr. Johnson with pleading eyes and interrupted him, "If you are gullible about them, it would be unfair to me to give me a zero on this final exam. Can you ask me to do another paper of similar difficulty, and I will do it right in front of you, using the grade of this paper as my final grade? ”

Perhaps it was Mia's persistence and sincerity that impressed Dr. Johnson, who nodded and said, "Okay, for the sake of fairness, I'm going to get a set of exam papers from the end of last semester's first semester." ”

Mia wiped the tear-stained face twice with the back of her hand, regrouped her spirits, and spent another two hours finishing a set of test papers seriously, Dr. Johnson sat behind the work, watched Mia answer the questions, and patiently helped her evaluate the score, this time it was actually two points higher than the one that was exposed as "cheating".

The final grade is not a zero score, Mia also breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the clock on the wall, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon, and couldn't help but feel guilty: "It's so bad that you didn't hint at eating at noon." ”

Dr. Johnson handed down a few small white pills with coffee, and his face, which had been blue a moment ago, softened.

Mia rearranged her thoughts and took the opportunity to defend herself again and clarified: "Dr. Johnson, think about it, even if I get a perfect score this time, it won't have much impact on this semester's GPA, if I really care about GPA extremely, I can get a higher GPA by improving my usual performance in this class, and there is no need to cheat at the end of the semester for the sake of such a few points of improvement, this is illogical." ”

One sentence reminded Dr. Johnson that although the final grade is heavily weighted in the GPA, there will be no decisive change to the GPA for an entire semester, because daily assignments, quizzes, class discussions, and essays are all involved in the calculation of the GPA. As Mia said, even if her final grade is a perfect grade, it may be the second decimal place for her GPA.

Dr. Johnson nodded, and said, "This matter is beyond my reach, but when I consult with Mr. Thomas, I will explain to him your usual results and performance, and try to minimize the damage caused by this matter." ”

Mia could hear the helplessness in Dr. Johnson's tone, and silently lowered her head.

Dr. Johnson also admonished Mia: "If a small paper roll appears in your pencil case, you will be responsible, just like being sentenced to jail if a drug dealer puts drugs in your luggage at the airport, and if you are found out, it is a reason." Today's event, the school will give you at least one notice. I would like to give you a good piece of advice: take good care of your things in the future. ”

When I walked out of the Science Building, it was already afternoon, and Mia was physically and mentally exhausted.

When she dragged her heavy legs towards the direction of the restaurant, she found that many classmates were pointing at her, and many classmates, who had obviously walked past her, deliberately turned their heads to look at her, as if they were looking at some rare animal.

She heard someone whisper, "Yes, that's her." ”

"Oh my God, that's too bold."

"I'm afraid she's going to be out of luck this time."

……

Mia didn't have the strength to care about these voices at all, and in one morning, she did two sets of final exam papers, and experienced the anger of being framed, the hoarse noise, the sad and aggrieved crying and racking of her brains...... Now, she already felt her body hollowed out, and it was imperative that she fill her stomach, otherwise, she might faint at any moment.

As soon as he walked to the lake, Andrew came out of nowhere, he grabbed Mia and asked in a low voice, "Mia, why have you been interrogated for so long?" Heard you got caught on the final exam in astronomy class? I know there's no way you're cheating! Will it be ......"

"How do you know?" Actually, what she wants to ask is, how do you know so much? It seems that good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles!

Seeing Andrew's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Mia shook his head weakly and said, "Of course I won't cheat, I was wronged, and I have clarified to Dr. Johnson......"

As soon as she returned to the dormitory, Wen Jin gently pushed open her door, and then, mysteriously, asked in a low voice, "Mia, what's going on?" ”

Mia had no choice but to tell Wen Jin in detail how Bai Xinrui framed her, how she proved her innocence to Dr. Johnson, and is still waiting for the school's final decision, but she deliberately omitted the reason for this incident - she was caught by Stella for having an affair with Kevin.

As soon as Wen Jin heard that Bai Xinrui had framed her good friend, she immediately became angry, and she didn't ask the reason, thinking about how to help Mia.

She cupped her cheeks, looked up at the ceiling and thought for a while, and asked, "Mia, you tell the truth, do those little strips really have nothing to do with you?" ”

"Of course, when did I lie? We're good friends, don't you believe me? Mia looked at Wen Jin's hand, and another layer of tears appeared in her eyes.

"Don't be sad, you can't solve the problem in a hurry," Wen Jin took Mia's hand and said, "I have two good ways to prove your innocence......

"What is it? Tell me quickly. Mia's eyes lit up with excitement.

"First of all, you can ask our school's computer engineer to check your computer to see if you have saved the content text that matches those small slips of paper, even if the content is deleted, the engineer can easily recover the data. In this way, you can determine whether you have made an electronic file that matches the content of the strip. ”

Mia slapped her thigh and said, "Yes, Tina, why didn't I think of that!" ”

Wen Jin continued: "Second, each of our computers must be networked with the school printer to achieve printing, you can check the records of each dormitory building, teaching building, including the library, from the printer computer record, recently, especially a day or two before the exam, who has a computer and printer networked similar things. ”