That day.
Gao Fei's total college entrance examination score spread across fifteen high schools in the city within half a day.
As soon as the news broke, it immediately shocked all the graduating students.
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Before the results were out, there were countless posts online about Gao Fei being ranked last.
Half of the students from the fifteen high schools in Fengyun City had seen the online exposé.
Upon learning that the protagonist who appeared in the news interview and spoke astonishingly was the last-ranked slacker from City No. 1 Middle School, it immediately drew sarcastic remarks from students online.
Now, the college entrance examination results have been released.
It completely silenced all the students who had mocked Gao Fei.
No one expected that the slacker who was ridiculed by everyone half a month ago would score 747.
With a score of 747, he was only three points away from a perfect score.
Across the entire Longguo, very few people could achieve such a score in the college entrance examination.
This time, it not only shut up those who mocked him but also completely stunned everyone.
At noon.
The Provincial Education Department of Yun Province first issued a congratulatory message to the high-scoring students.
Then, the Education Department released a long article about the top scorer in liberal arts for the province.
The title read: "Top Liberal Arts Scholar, A Dragon in Shallow Waters, Silent Until It Roars, A Single Roar Shakes the Heavens - Gao Fei."
The entire article was nearly eight hundred characters long.
It began with Gao Fei's total score of 747, including text and screenshots of his scores in each subject.
The latter part narrated his experiences throughout his three years of high school.
The accompanying text and images were his test papers and report cards from all major and minor exams one month before the college entrance examination.
Ten minutes after the article was published.
The official Weibo accounts of People's Daily, the Communist Youth League, and the education bureaus of various cities in Yun Province all liked and reposted the article.
With the major official accounts involved, it stirred up a storm online.
Within half an hour, Gao Fei once again became a trending topic online, directly reaching the top spot.
However, the toxicity of the online world was much heavier than that of the real world.
Even though Gao Fei's college entrance examination scores and his controlled scores from the month before the exam were revealed, he could not escape the onslaught of trolls and internet bots.
"A slacker for three years, suddenly becomes the top liberal arts scholar in the province, is this a joke? Too funny."
"I strongly suspect Gao Fei's scores are fake. What top liberal arts scholar? Nonsense!"
"Demand that the Ministry of Education strictly investigate the college entrance examination scores of Yun Province. They must be falsifying results, Gao Fei cannot be the top liberal arts scholar!"
Various malicious posts appeared below the trending topics.
Initially, the online crowd celebrating Gao Fei becoming the top liberal arts scholar.
But the malicious guidance from the negative posts immediately caused the fickle online crowd to become suspicious, and the negative posts subsequently dominated the trending topics.
Among these posts, the online influencers who originally exposed Gao Fei as a person involved in criminal activities also showed malicious guidance.
Posts of support called for the highest authorities to thoroughly investigate the college entrance examination scores of Yun Province.
As the calls grew louder, the highest education department of Longguo directly intervened.
First, it reposted the article about the top liberal arts scholar of Yun Province, and then issued a statement.
"The college entrance examination scores of all provinces are fair and just, with no falsification. Gao Fei is not only the top liberal arts scholar of Yun Province but also the top liberal arts scholar of Longguo!
If anyone continues to maliciously fabricate false news and distort facts, the highest department will pursue legal responsibility against them."
The statement from the highest department completely silenced the mouths of online trolls and internet bots.
Now, Gao Fei's college entrance examination scores and his status as the top liberal arts scholar were thoroughly confirmed.
This left the keyboard warriors of these online trolls with nowhere to vent their anger, as who would dare to claim the scores were fake after the highest department had issued a statement?
However, soon, an online influencer named 'World Peace' posted on his social media account.
"The top liberal arts scholar of Yun Province, the top liberal arts scholar of Longguo, Gao Fei, who has become a double top scholar, still cannot wash away his identity as a person involved in criminal activities!"
As soon as the post was published, it immediately gave the online trolls a place to vent their frustrations.
Gao Fei's identity as a ringleader was once again unearthed, and he was denounced for being morally corrupt to become a top scholar.
Instantly, this matter became the second hottest topic, just below that of the top college entrance examination scholar.
But before ten minutes passed, the online influencer's post was censored, and the trolls' various denunciations were deleted.
This trending topic was also quickly removed from major websites.
Seeing that their posts were deleted and the topic was blocked, the influencers and trolls immediately moved to the topic of the top college entrance examination scholar to continue their attacks.
However, within two minutes of each post being published, all of them were censored and blocked.
Some people had already noticed the subtlety of the situation, but some were still continuing their nonsensical rants.
"This deliberate silencing, is the website trying to suppress the incident of Gao Fei being a ringleader and whitewash his identity?"
"The censorship and blocking are disgusting operations. If the officials don't give an explanation, it means they are deliberately concealing Gao Fei's true identity!"
As various posts came out, there were many bandwagon followers.
Originally, the topic of the top college entrance examination scholar was filled with congratulatory posts, a scene of harmony.
Now, the topic was chaotic, filled with the toxicity of the trolls.
In Dong Province, Shenzhen City, in a rented room.
A胖子 with a greasy face, eating bread, was refreshing his account.
He had just written a post about Gao Fei being a person involved in criminal activities, but no matter how he tried to publish it, the website rejected it.
Finally, he was directly banned by the website.
"Damn it, this is a disguised whitewashing of Gao Fei!"
The胖子 cursed angrily and then logged into another account of an influencer named 'World Peace'.
As soon as he logged in, the post he had published half an hour ago, as well as the posts that originally exposed Gao Fei as a bad student and a person involved in criminal activities, were all deleted by the website.
Seeing this, the胖子 was instantly stunned, but a surge of anger welled up within him.
He entered his fan group and sent a message.
"Everyone, the officials are deliberately whitewashing Gao Fei's identity. Now, let's shift our battlefield to the topic of the top college entrance examination scholar and question why the officials are blocking our posts!"
Upon receiving the message, the 500-person group immediately replied with "Received."
For a time, the area below the top college entrance examination scholar topic was filled with posts questioning the officials.
But within five minutes, these posts were deleted again, and some aggressive accounts were even directly banned.
The胖子, sitting in front of the computer, saw that the officials had intervened again and edited various guiding posts to incite arguments.
After three minutes, the post was written.
Just as the胖子 was about to publish the post, a trending news item suddenly appeared.
"Thanks to student Gao Fei for cooperating with the police to solve a criminal case. After research by the Municipal Police Department, it has been decided to award student Gao Fei the title of 'Three Good Citizen'."
The news was released by the Fengyun City General Police Department.
It also described how Gao Fei, unafraid of the threats from those involved in criminal activities, resisted the thugs to the end.
Furthermore, the news was accompanied by a video, and this video was the one that had exposed Gao Fei's street fight online.
The people in the video, such as Hao Ge from the mahjong hall, were all identified as members of a criminal gang that had been operating in the night market.
Finally, there were scenes of the night market bosses coming forward to clarify Gao Fei's innocence.
They stated that he was not a person involved in criminal activities but a good youth who dared to fight against such individuals.
At this moment, the public finally realized that the video exposure back then was merely maliciously fabricated facts by someone to wrongly label Gao Fei.
Now, with the Municipal Police Department having come forward to clarify, and with the support of the night market bosses, Gao Fei, who had been wrongly accused of being involved in criminal activities, was finally cleared of his grievances.
He was not only the top liberal arts scholar but also a good youth who helped the police solve a case.
In the eyes of the public, Gao Fei was capable both academically and physically, a top presence among graduates.
As for the online trolls and internet bots.
With the official clarification, they had no place to exert their courage for a while, and could only watch helplessly as Gao Fei was completely cleared.
The胖子 in the rented room seemed like an extremely nihilistic individual.
After watching the news, he sat in front of the computer and cursed loudly, his view of Gao Fei unchanged.
Suddenly, the胖子's eyes lit up, and he quickly edited another post.
A moment later.
A title appeared: "Because of the Top College Entrance Examination Scholar, His Identity as a Delinquent Youth Was Completely Washed Away, How Tragic!"
A short post accompanied by a video of Gao Fei being called 'Fei Ge' on the basketball court.
The post was published and immediately gathered the trolls who had nowhere to vent their anger.
The trolls and internet bots concentrated their firepower and once again pushed Gao Fei's identity as a delinquent youth to the trending topic.