Chapter 343 Not That Simple
Yunice couldn’t care less about him.
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Owen had planned to chase after her, but when his eyes swept over the book on the table, curiosity got the better of him–he wanted to see what Yunice had written.
So he walked over and reached out to grab it-
But Elsie was faster. She snatched up the open book before he could touch it.
She had never even looked at this book. It was a used workbook she’d bought online, one that someone else had already filled
out.
On one of the problems already completed by someone else, Yunice had circled a few things.
Elsie might be a grad student now, but her heart had never really been in her studies. She couldn’t figure out what the parts Yunice had highlighted were supposed to mean.
Did that mean the question was wrong and Yunice had caught it?
Impossible. This was a graduate–level problem.
Owen reached for the book, but Elsie didn’t want him to see it–she was afraid he’d notice something and ask her about it, and she wouldn’t have an answer.
But if she yanked it back, that would seem way too suspicious.
She could only look at Owen with a guilty expression on her face.
Owen took the book from Elsie and studied the problem, his brows furrowed deeply.
The longer he said nothing, the more Elsie felt like she couldn’t breathe.
She’d bought that workbook randomly. Who knew what kind of student had done the problems? If it turned out to be total garbage and Owen figured it out, the whole good–student image she’d worked so hard to build would collapse.
Owen stayed silent for a full minute. Just as Elsie was panicking, he rolled the workbook up and said, “I’m taking this home to look at.”
Elsie was speechless.
Lily had been sitting silently to the side the whole time, twisting two fingers together like something was weighing on her mind.
Owen noticed and was just about to ask about the SAT situation when Lily suddenly jerked her head toward the door like a spooked animal.
Yunice hadn’t closed the door when she left.
Owen followed Lily’s line of sight–and just in time, caught a flash of light.
It was a fill light used with professional cameras!
Someone was secretly taking pictures outside!
“Stop right there!” Owen charged after them!
A man dressed like a paparazzo, wearing a baseball cap and completely bundled up, took off running the second he was spotted.
The guy was clearly a pro. He slipped away easily in just a few seconds.
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Chapter 343 Not That Simple
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In an empty hallway of the hospital, Yunice stood ghost–like in the shadows, watching the paparazzo walk away with a camera full of content.
They throw mud at me–once it dries, I’ll smash them with it.
Lily wanted to use public opinion to bring Yunice down. But what she didn’t know was that public opinion had also brought Yunice traffic.
The buzz around the cheating scandal had quieted down somewhat, but that didn’t mean no one was going to revive it. If they could use Yunice to flip the narrative and push the story further, that would count toward their click metrics.
Yunice had known for a while that she was being followed by paparazzi. That’s why she’d come to the hospital and said all that.
Lily wanted to drag her through the mud while the rest of them came out clean?
Keep dreaming.
At the security office, Owen found out that the paparazzo had followed Yunice the entire time and had been lurking outside the hospital room taking pictures.
Yunice probably didn’t even know she’d been tailed.
Owen thought hard, trying to recall whether he’d said anything he shouldn’t have during their conversation carlier. The more he thought about it, the more nervous he got.
But there was no way to find the guy now, or to know exactly what he’d captured on camera–worrying wouldn’t change anything.
All he could do was place the blame back on Yunice. Blame her for having a bad reputation. Blame her for coming here and saying things that could so easily be misunderstood.
Back in the hospital room, Owen told Elsie and Lily about the paparazzo who’d been filming them.
Both of their faces flickered with panic.
Elsie was worried that the part about Owen offering to get her a job had been caught on camera.
Lily was afraid that her report about Yunice cheating would be exposed.
All Owen could do now was wait and see how things played out–and get Elsie discharged from the hospital as quickly as possible.
No matter what happened next, they would hide in the Saunders family estate and refuse to respond to anything.
After returning to the Saunders home, Owen locked himself in his study and pulled out Elsie’s workbook.
He stared at the circles Yunice had drawn and still couldn’t figure it out.
What exactly had Yunice meant by those marks?
After everything that had happened, he couldn’t shake the feeling that Yunice had gotten smarter. That made him believe there had to be some hidden meaning behind those circles.
In the end, he snapped a photo of the problem and made a post online asking for help solving it.
Two hours later, the post hadn’t gained much attention, but he did get one reply.
“Posting a wrong answer like this online? Seriously, get a life.”
Owen replied to the account. “What wrong answer?”
