The Vicious Scholarship Student at the Elite Academy Got What He Deserved - Chapter 4

When I returned to the dorm, my roommate was still out.

I locked the door, slid to the floor, and hugged my knees, letting my thoughts run loose in the dark.

I came from a mountain village.

My father, Tao Shan, was a beta. He drank, beat people, and never did an honest day’s work.

My mother was a beta too. Tao Shan had tricked her into coming home with him. By the time she understood, it was too late. There was no signal in the village, and nowhere to run.

After my grandparents died, Tao Shan lost his source of income and vented his fury on my mother every day.

For as long as I could remember, every dish I ate had tasted salty, because every one of them held my mother’s tears.

When I was eight, I helped her escape.

The entire village chased us. I put my mother on a bus, then turned around and went back into the mountains.

If she was going to begin a new life, she had to leave everything from the old one behind.

Including me, the fruit of her suffering.

When I returned, a raging Tao Shan beat me half to death. Everyone called me an ungrateful little beast.

With blood filling my throat, I felt only satisfaction.

My mother would never be beaten again.

When I was twelve, Tao Shan fell into a ditch while drunk and drowned. Around the same time, I received an acceptance letter from a middle school in the county seat.

Government aid put me through junior high.

While visiting the capital for a competition, I saw my mother again. She had built a new life and had another child.

I wiped away my tears and turned around.

I won a prize at the competition. After learning about my circumstances, an admissions teacher recommended Nanhua Elite Academy. The school waived every fee and offered me a hundred-thousand-yuan stipend.

So I went.

I was a barnyard chicken that had wandered into a flock of phoenixes. To make my feathers shine, I studied day and night.

Yet I could not even break into the top hundred in my year.

I hid in corners and swallowed my resentment and jealousy with my tears. Then, by chance, I overheard people talking about me.

They mocked all my hard work without restraint.

Even the gracious, polished student council president belittled my efforts.

He said, “He sacrifices the important for the trivial. Greedy and never satisfied.”

Greedy…

Yes, I was greedy.

Yan Mingqing was a top-tier alpha and the only son of the powerful Yan family. He had never suffered a day in his life. What did he understand?

Nothing!

Resentment and jealousy took root in my bones.

No one was perfect. I became desperate to uncover the side of Yan Mingqing that no one knew.

I wanted to drag him down and press him into the mud until he was filthy like me.

Everyone said a top-tier alpha’s rut was terrifying. So I spent a month’s food money buying a hidden camera and a rut inducer online.

I had planned to record Yan Mingqing looking as wretched as a dog.

Instead, I had put myself in the trap too.

Being controlled and taken by an alpha had been terrifying. He ruled all five of my senses.

When I woke, I thought only of running. I forgot to take pictures, but at least the hidden camera remained.

Yan Mingqing had lost his mind during those days. He could not possibly have recognized me.

I had been smugly preparing to retrieve the footage, already imagining his humiliation, when that damned pervert appeared and ruined everything.

What was I supposed to do?

I had to remove the camera. Then the pervert would have no physical evidence.

The thought eased my anxiety a little.

I pulled out one of my cheap, self-printed practice tests and buried my head in it. Only after finishing did I check my phone and discover another message from the pervert.

【Baby, I’m sorry I left you there alone. Are you okay? ^^】

Was he taunting me?

Bastard!

I glared at the screen.

Once I took down the camera, he was dead.

【Baby, I heard Yan Mingqing was the one who rescued you. Is that true?】

【Did baby tell him anything?】

I swiped the messages away and pretended not to see them.

I needed a plan to sneak into Yan Mingqing’s apartment again and remove that useless camera—the source of every one of my problems.

After studying Yan Mingqing’s schedule, I settled on the morning after next. The student council had a meeting, and I could disguise myself as a cleaner.

It was a perfect plan.