Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 476: Chapter 472: Provoking Hatred

Ma Liwen didn’t make a sound, but the look in his eyes was plainly one of disbelief.

Although he had suffered twice at Huo Sining’s hands, Ma Liwen felt those were just flukes and didn’t prove Huo Sining truly had substantial knowledge and skills.

Huo Sining was simply too young. How could a girl who had just entered university, no matter how capable, have accumulated enough knowledge and experience to surpass postgraduate and doctoral students meticulously cultivated by professors? That was just too exaggerated.

All the professors didn’t believe it, and the students suppressed their rage, staring intently at Huo Sining.

Huo Sining glanced at Ji Kun with a sidelong look that clearly conveyed a message.

Are you deliberately trying to make me a target of hatred?

Ji Kun’s face bore a fox-like sly smile, thinking to himself that he did it on purpose, so what if he had? Lately, this young girl had monopolized the Master’s affection, so much so that he felt thrown to the back of the Master’s mind. Now that the Master finally thought of him, it was just to have him babysit his little disciple!

Even though he was already in his forties, he still had a temper, didn’t he? With a new disciple, the Master had forgotten about his older one; it was too depressing.

Ji Kun would never admit that he was jealous, jealous of his Master’s favoritism towards Huo Sining.

In his heart, he kept telling himself that what he was doing was for the purpose of training his little sister’s appraisal skills. By drawing the hatred towards her, he would ignite everyone’s fury, making many view her as a rival. She would then feel the sense of crisis and could unleash her greatest potential—he was doing this for her own good!

”Being valued by Master Zhou proves that this girl must have some extraordinary qualities. However, Xiao Ji, since you say so, I’m quite curious. Today just happens to be an opportunity, and later on, Ji Kun, you must not show favoritism toward your little sister!”

The professor who had helped Ma Liwen out of his predicament said with a smile in his eyes, but the underlying meaning of his words was quite pointed.

Ji Kun understood the professor’s intention immediately. His smile was open, and it even carried an implicit confidence and certainty: ”Don’t worry about that, my little sister doesn’t need anyone’s help.”

Under Gu Xu’s lead, the professors were invited into a conference room for a secret meeting, while the students stayed in the lounge waiting.

Li Xuanbing managed to sit next to Ding Liang quite smoothly. Seeing Huo Sining meditating with her eyes closed not far away, she couldn’t help but snort and whispered to Ding Liang:

”Senior Brother Ding, that Huo Sining is too arrogant. We must teach her a good lesson later! Just because she has been taken as the Closed-door Disciple by Zhou Shitao, does she really think she is something special? Aren’t all of us students who were carefully selected by the professors after layers of tests in the capital and became their close following disciples? Saying she is better than any of us is just laughable!”

Li Xuanbing thought that Ding Liang would agree with her, but to her surprise, he looked up at Huo Sining, turned to her, and asked:

”I remember last year we students organized a collective test, the one with twenty items and ten authentic ones. What was your score then?”

Li Xuanbing didn’t understand why Ding Liang would suddenly ask such a question and after a pause answered, ”Out of the ten authentic items, I identified seven correctly. The remaining three were misjudged.”

”Hmm, an accuracy rate of seventy percent,” Ding Liang nodded, ”Your score should be considered excellent then.”

Li Xuanbing thought Ding Liang was complimenting her and her face showed considerable pride, ”Of course, my performance is top-notch among all the trainees, no one else’s results can compare to mine—except for Senior Brother Ding!”

Ding Liang glanced at Li Xuanbing indifferently, ”My accuracy rate is nine correct to one wrong; if there were a hundred items, and only ten of them were genuine, how many do you think you could pick out from that box?”

Li Xuanbing hesitated before answering, ”It should be... two to three items shouldn’t be a problem, right?”

The hint of ridicule in Ding Liang’s eyes grew stronger, ”But someone, without knowing that there were ten genuine items in there, without any hints, picked out all the genuine items from the Baiyang Box.”

Li Xuanbing was immediately stunned, ”Who?”

Ding Liang casually pointed in the direction of Huo Sining, and Li Xuanbing’s face changed at once, ”Senior Brother Ding, are you joking? How is that possible?”

”Why would it be impossible? Professor Ji said so himself. He mentioned that he and Mr. Zhou personally tested her, and nobody informed her about the contents of the box beforehand, which means she had no idea that there were ten genuine items in that box.”

”Our test duration was two hours, but Huo Sining only took twenty minutes. In just twenty minutes, she selected all ten genuine items from the Baiyang Box, without the use of any tools, using just her hands and eyes.”

Li Xuanbing felt a profound shock, but her mouth still refused to concede, ”It’s possible that Mr. Zhou intentionally lowered the difficulty to let her pass the test, picking obvious genuine items.”

”I initially thought so too, but Professor Ji said that the items in the Baiyang Box were ones that Mr. Zhou had identified over the past decades. When Professor Ji graduated, Mr. Zhou used the same items from that box to test him, and at that time, Professor Ji managed to identify only seven genuine items.”

At this point, Ding Liang paused, then turned his head to look fixedly at Li Xuanbing, ”With someone like that, are you sure you can discipline her? Just by yourself?”

The difficulty of the Baiyang Box was something Li Xuanbing had experienced firsthand, and she knew it all too well. It had taken her nearly two hours to complete the test, and she had only scored seventy points.

Her results had earned the praise of many professors at the time, which is why Li Xuanbing had always been smug about it.

Yet now, Ding Liang’s words were a huge blow to her inflated confidence.

The difficulty of the ten-item Baiyang Box was already significant. To pick out the genuine items from the hundred-item Baiyang Box in just twenty minutes, with a one hundred percent success rate—it was monstrous. Could such results really be achieved by just a beginner student?

Li Xuanbing was reluctant to believe it, but she also knew that Ding Liang had no reason to lie to her.

Such a significant psychological gap was difficult for Li Xuanbing to accept, and for a moment, she didn’t know what to say.

Seeing Li Xuanbing’s pale face, Ding Liang snorted softly, ”Don’t you always like to say ’there’s always someone better out there’? Exactly, she is the mountain that I want to conquer. You want to trample her under your feet? First, see if you have the ability before you say that!”

Huo Sining had no idea of the internal conflict raging in Li Xuanbing’s heart, nor did she know that after their conversation, Ding Liang had also firmed up a belief in his heart, considering Huo Sining as the rival he wanted to surpass.