2024-09-27 22:40:23Director James Thorpe felt his heart racing furiously as he stared down at the content on his phone screen. He kept reading it over and over again, ignoring the surrounding noises. “Could it really be him?” He felt stupid for even asking this question, as Benjamin's name was evident on the generated receipt. None of this made any sense to him. This same young man had been called out for being extremely poor yesterday, so why does he suddenly have a black card under his name?
Director Thorpe turned to find Benjamin staring at him with a victorious but annoying smirk, and he felt his blood boil. “Here! Give me that card. I want to see something.” Benjamin realised what must have happened, so he gladly gave the director his black card. Once Andrew, Alexa, Max, and Mrs. Knox saw this, they felt something had changed. It was even more obvious in the director's body language that something had happened. Director Thorpe compared the card details with the ones on the receipt. “They match.” He whispered these words with shock, struggling to believe this. “Director, what exactly is going on?” Andrew asked while holding a handkerchief over his bloody nose. Director Thorpe nervously glanced around before speaking. “The payment was approved. The university has just received a donation of $10 million.” There was a brief moment of silence before the crowd erupted with shock. “Wait, did I hear right? That guy really donated $10 million?” “Damn! He really proved himself! I would have never expected things to turn out this way.” Andrew did not like what they were hearing at all. As for Alexa, she was too busy staring at Benjamin in a daze, while wondering if she was in some sort of nightmare. “I don't believe this!” Andrew raised his hand while limping a couple of steps forward. “How can that lowlife scum suddenly have a black card?!” Director Thorpe wasn't looking too confident, as he avoided Andrew's gaze. “I don't know, Mr. Tyrone, but his name was on the receipt.” “What?!” Alexa couldn't help it. “That is impossible! I dat….” She quickly halted her words as she realised she was about to reveal that she had actually dated Benjamin in the past, which would have been a contrast to what she publicly said yesterday. “I know this guy! There's no way he's rich! His grandmother standing right there has always been a cleaner! So how did he suddenly have $100 million?!” At this moment, Andrew's eyes widened as a realisation crossed his mind. “It must be a fake alert!” He glared condescendingly at Benjamin. “You actually had the audacity to send a fake alert to the director?! I knew you'd eventually reveal yourself to the world as the fraudster you truly are.” Benjamin sneered with a raised eyebrow. “Perhaps if you'd stop tapping so much, and use your brain a bit more, you'd realise that it's better to confirm if that alert is fake or not before opening that garbage hole you have for a mouth.” He then pointed at him again while glaring at the director. “Now, it's time to keep your end of the bargain. Director Thorpe, Andrew has to be expelled today.” Andrew rushed over to the director while shaking his head furiously. “Sir, you…you can't expel me. Please! You know my family very well! You can't just expel me!” Benjamin sneered. He knew that Andrew would go back on his word， but he wouldn’t mind playing the game with him. That would be much more interesting. “You don’t want to be expelled? Well,I have an alternative punishment for you, Andrew. Serve the exact punishment you wanted me to serve. Strip completely naked and run around the whole school, allowing anyone to record the whole thing. They're also allowed to post those videos wherever they want.” The crowd gasped and some even began snickering as they tried to hold in their laughter. Andrew was a Tyrone after all, so none of them were daring enough to openly laugh at him. Andrew's eyes widened in horror but his heart raced with fury. He hated Benjamin so much right now. He had never been so humiliated in his life. At the time Director Thorpe had received the payment notification, someone else had been alerted as well. In a grand office, someone was seated at the large desk with the label ‘Principal’ on it. This is, of course, the principal of the university. “What is this?” The principal retrieved his phone at the notification buzz to find that someone had donated $10 million to the school. This wasn't what shocked him the most though. “Huh? This account details, why do the last few digits look familiar?” He then turned his attention to his laptop. He quickly found what he was looking for, which left him stunned. “My goodness! This is one of the Whiteridge family's exclusive bank cards!” The principal was left in awe. “As far as I've known, this family likes to keep a low profile. Both the initial funding and the donations they've made are always with great discretion. So why are they donating in such a public manner?” He shook his head. “It couldn't have been Mr. Hunter himself. So who made this donation?” At this moment, he heard some commotion passing by his door. Curious, he got up and slightly opened the door to find it was some gossiping students. “I heard the fight at the school gate has gotten even worse. The director had to be called in to interfere!” “Yeah, though I wish we could be there, but we'll be having class pretty soon. If we leave now, we won't make it back in time.” “What about the live stream? Someone is live streaming the entire incident right now. Let's watch.” Taking advantage of this, the principal walked out of his office. “And may I know what live stream this is?” The students gossiping were scared to be caught by the principal, of all people, but the older man promised to let them off with a warning if they give him access to the light be stream. Soon, the principal was back alone in his office, watching the live stream. Watching the interactions and listening to the conversations, he quickly grasped the situation unfolding. He suddenly stood up with a brooding expression. “That fool!” He immediately left the office with agile steps despite his age. He was on his way to the school gate. Back at the school gate, “Director, I don't care what anyone says. There's no way Benjamin has that much amount.” Andrew angrily turned a pointed finger at Benjamin. “You! You're already a lot of terrible things, don't be a sore loser as well! You better strip completely naked right now and serve the punishment!” Alexa nodded her head. “There's no one who can convince us that you truly made that payment.” She gave Benjamin a severely dirty look. “Just gently serve your punishment already.” The crowd were back to murmuring and laughing at Benjamin, believing that he must have scammed the director into believing that he truly made the donation. Suddenly, the excitement in the crowd died down. “Holy shit! The principal is coming.” Everyone heard this and they all turned their attention to find the older man in a fitting suit walking forward with his shoulder squared. The director quickly showed respect to his superior. “Principal, you're here. You didn't have to….” The principal didn't waste time at all as he got close to the director. He slapped James Thorpe hard across the face, sending the crowd into a shocked silence.
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The crowd was silent for a moment as they kept their shocked gaze on the scene. Some of them couldn't believe they had actually seen this with their own two eyes, while some were even starting to doubt if they were in a dream or not. The wave of internal reaction this one exchange between the director and the principal had caused in everyone was contrary to the dead silence on the outside.“Holy shit, what did I just witness happen. Could this be real?”“Bro, I'm thinking the same thing. The principal really slapped the director right I'm the face. Lord! I really hope someone captured it, or else, I'll be really forced to believe it was all in my head.”“Look around you then.”The students in the crowd having this whispered exchange glanced around to find that there were quite a few other students who still had their cameras out, recording everything. Meanwhile, Benjamin was also surprised at the slap he had witnessed the principal give the director. Why did this much older man sud
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For a second, Andrew had actually forgotten the deal he had publicly made with Benjamin. If Benjamin failed to make the $10 million transaction successful, he would have to strip completely naked and run around the entire campus while giving consent to any student recording him on their devices and even uploading it on any and all social media platforms. If the opposite happened though, and Benjamin's transaction was successful, then it would be Andrew Tyrone who would have to strip naked while running around campus.The crowd became really excited at the turn of the event.“Damn! I totally forgot the punishment part ever since the principal showed up.”“Me too! Oh my goodness, are we really about to watch the great son of the Tyrone family strip naked in front of us?!”“Dude, not even a poor and unpopular guy would dare feel good about such a thing. I can only imagine how humiliated Andrew feels right now.”“Hey, guys! Look! The number of live viewers is suddenly surging!”“Fuck! M
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“Hey, Ben, come see this!” Max rushed closer to his best friend. He had pulled out his phone and had begun watching the Livestream. “Look at this!” He then showed Benjamin the social media trend. “The hashtag ‘naked student-run’ is already trending on all platforms. The shares and overall widespread attention are insane!”Seeing this, Benjamin finally felt a sense of satisfaction. He was glad to see Andrew receiving a punishment that matched his misbehaviors.“Benjy.” Hearing his grandmother's voice, Benjamin rushed over to her and hugged her. “Are you okay, Grandma?”Theresa Knox smiled weakly at her grandson before nodding her head. “Don't worry about me, my dear. I'm fine.”It was then that Benjamin recalled the main reason his grandmother had come to the university. “Sir.” He turned to face the principal. “I was suspended unjustly by Director Thorpe earlier. I would really like for you to revoke my suspension. If you need to look into the matter first, then I can wait.” Theresa
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“Yo, Brody, I must be losing my hearing.” One of the men spoke to the man in the center, calling out his name. “If not, did I just hear this loser's friend offering to pay on his behalf?” Brody stared at Benjamin for a while before letting out a snicker. “This one? You must be joking. Can't you see how he's dressed? Look at the horrible quality. He's even far worse than the loser we came here for.” He nudged his chin in Max’s direction, referring to him as the loser.“You know, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover,” Benjamin smirked confidently. “Now, just tell me how much my friend owes you.”“Hey!” Brody suddenly pointed at Benjamin with a cold gaze. “Shut the fuck up! Did you think we're here to play some fucking games?! Now, keep your mouth shut because I'm not here for you, or else, I'll gladly shut it up for you.”It was clear that Brody and his group members had concluded that there was no way Benjamin could be serious about paying them on behalf of Max. From their experien
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Benjamin sneered. “ What?You don't like it? I'm just doing you a favor, helping out a hungry stray dog. That's what you said to me just now, isn't it?" Brody could tell that Benjamin was giving him a taste of his own medicine. This elicited intense fury within his heart, but he knew there was nothing he could do against Benjamin right now, not when he had these scary-looking military people around.Benjamin saw that despite the evident fear, Brody was still unwilling to comply. “I can see that you need a bit of motivation to obey my command.” He shifted his gaze to the leader of the men. “Teach them what happens when they disobey.”“Understood, Sir.” The leader then instructed his men. “Deal with all three!”Fear gripped the two henchmen and they tried to run away, but they were easily caught by the strong and agile men in uniform.The leader's face was cold as he gave an order. “Break three of their right fingers!”In the next few seconds, there were sounds of sickening cracks, foll
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