Chapter 60 The Most Awesome Draft Pick Player Suspected of Resume Fraud? Zhou Yi Turns Out Not to Be a Student!

The reporters who swarmed to Qingyang City First High School to inquire about Zhou Yi received an answer from the school that was both surprising and not unexpected.

When the reporters asked if First High School had a student named Zhou Yi, the school's response was "We don't know, we're not clear," and they refused all requests from the media for interviews.

What did this answer and attitude mean?

It meant that Zhou Yi was not a student at First High School!

If he were, could they say "We don't know, we're not clear"?

Obviously not.

In that case, Zhou Yi was indeed not a student player, and everything was just a gimmick carefully arranged by the production team, including the post to clear Zhou Yi's name.

Now the truth was out!

Soon, the media reported the news.

It immediately attracted everyone's attention.

There were many discussions about this matter online.

"...I knew it, how could such a talented person be someone who has been studying in school all the time, and has never received professional training?"

"Alas, I used to like him quite a bit, thinking that he was a student like me, and if he could succeed, maybe I could too? Now it seems... is there anything in China that isn't fake?"

"Fabrication! This is the 'fine tradition' of the Celestial Dynasty!"

"Although I don't dislike Zhou Yi, and Zhou Yi's strength is real, I'm still disgusted by the production team's approach of saying that a quasi-professional player who is obviously not a student is a student player... Is being a student player such a big deal?"

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Okay, one original problem was solved, and a new problem emerged—if Zhou Yi was not a student, then which club's youth team was he from?

This puzzled the sports journalists. Logically speaking, a player like Zhou Yi, with his talent and ability, shouldn't be unknown in Chinese football... Of course, there are always exceptions. Look at Sun Pan, the goalkeeper who stole the show in the match against Chelsea's youth team, but before that, no one had ever heard of him.

Among this group of young players, in fact, except for He Ying, most of the others were unheard of.

But regardless of whether they had heard of them or not, a search at their respective clubs would turn up the person.

What about Zhou Yi?

The production team said he was a student player, and now it has been proven that he is not. So which club is he from?

They didn't know, the production team didn't say, and the reporters didn't know either.

Then they would just have to call each club and ask.

They actually found five people named Zhou Yi, but they were all currently training and playing in their respective club's youth teams, and had not participated in the recording of any "Green Field Inheritors" reality show.

They had asked the Chinese Super League and China League One clubs, and there were none.

Could it be in China League Two?

The reporters continued their quest to find out where Zhou Yi was, rushing past Qingyang City First High School as if it were water, without looking back.

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Zhou Jianliang went to work at his unit, and had just sat down at his desk when his colleague came up to him and said, "Lao Zhou, Lao Zhou, your son really went to participate in that reality show, didn't he?"

"What are you talking about? Didn't you all see the media reports?" Zhou Jianliang was surprised that his colleague would suddenly ask this.

"Then your son is really studying at First High School, right?"

"Hey, Lao Li, what's wrong with you today? Don't you know whether my son is studying at First High School or not?"

"Hey, no... of course I know, that's why I find it strange... look at this." As he spoke, the colleague handed Zhou Jianliang a newspaper.

Zhou Jianliang took it and saw that it was the *Sports Weekly*, a professional sports publication with a national circulation, which had once achieved the highest single-issue sales in the country, and was a very famous newspaper.

The colleague handed him not the entire newspaper, but one of its sections.

There was a very eye-catching headline on it, which he saw at a glance.

"The Most Awesome Draft Pick Player Suspected of Resume Fraud? Zhou Yi Turns Out Not to Be a Student!"

"What the hell?" Zhou Jianliang frowned and blurted out.

"Keep reading, read the text," the colleague pointed at the newspaper.

"Ah, I'll borrow this..." Zhou Jianliang raised the newspaper.

"It's okay, take it!" The colleague waved his hand and returned to his seat.

Zhou Jianliang didn't even turn on his computer, and began to read the newspaper seriously.

The main text first described the current popularity of the "Green Field Inheritors" reality show in China, and how many people were paying attention to it. Then it described the performances of the young players in the reality show, focusing on Zhou Yi's performance. This part praised Zhou Yi's superb football skills, saying that Zhou Yi was the most important contributor to the team's ability to defeat Chelsea's youth team.

If he only read this part, Zhou Jianliang would have felt comfortable in his heart.

But then the report changed its tone. After saying that Zhou Yi's performance was outstanding, it began to question Zhou Yi's identity.

"...The production team claims that Zhou Yi is a student player who is currently in school and has never received professional training. This has always been the focus of promoting Zhou Yi. It seems they want to use this to highlight Zhou Yi's talent. But unfortunately, according to a large number of field visits and investigations by our reporters, we found that the production team's claims are not true. Zhou Yi is actually not a student player. We contacted Qingyang City First High School, the school he claims to attend, but the school said that they had never heard of this person, 'We don't know, we're not clear.'

"It seems that Chinese football has invented a new trick of modifying resumes after modifying ages in youth football. What are the benefits of doing this? Naturally, it makes this player seem extraordinarily talented, and invisibly increases his fame. The general public naturally prefers a character who is closer to their identity. In reality shows, such a character setting does attract the attention of many viewers. This can be seen from Zhou Yi's recent rise in popularity.

"It has to be said that this is a good plan made by the program. But it has hurt the feelings of many fans, and given them another reason to criticize Chinese football..."

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Li Cuiyun saw that her husband's face looked very bad when he came back today. He didn't say a word, and his face was so gloomy that it could be wrung out.

This made her strange. Ever since her son had performed well in the reality show, her husband had been smiling wherever he went, and his steps were lighter and more energetic than before. It was like he had rejuvenated.

If it weren't because she knew it was because of their son, she would have really suspected that her husband had gone out to find a mistress...

Just the day before yesterday, he had bought a bottle of Moutai back.

But how could he suddenly be like this today, only two days later?

"What's wrong?" she asked.

Zhou Jianliang took a newspaper out of his bag and handed it to his wife.

He still didn't say anything.

Li Cuiyun strangely took the newspaper, and the headline alone made her exclaim: "What the hell is this newspaper!"

"Read the text, read the text..." Zhou Jianliang had to signal her not to rush to shout.

Li Cuiyun patiently read on. Neither of them spoke, but the sound of breathing in the room became louder and louder.

"Nonsense!" After a long while, Li Cuiyun finally opened her mouth and cursed. "What kind of third-rate tabloid is the *Sports Weekly*?"

"It's the sports newspaper with the largest circulation in the country..."

"Is it the largest circulation of dog shit in the country!" Li Cuiyun's fiery temper rose, and she blurted out a swear word. "I really didn't expect that in the twenty-first century, there are still so many people in China who like to eat dog shit! A national newspaper, can it just talk nonsense irresponsibly? When did my son fabricate his resume! My son is not a student, are they students! They don't even deserve to be students! Do they know their responsibilities! They can just say a word and bring so much trouble to our son? Can my son just be slandered by them like this? How will he face people in the future?"

"No way!"

As she spoke, Li Cuiyun suddenly threw off her apron and rushed towards the door.

Zhou Jianliang quickly grabbed her: "What are you doing!"

"I'm going to get justice from them!"

"Where are you going to get justice?"

"To the dog-shit newspaper's office!"

"Do you know where they are?"

Li Cuiyun was stunned and realized.

"They're not even in our province, they're far away, it would take a day by train." Zhou Jianliang pulled his angry wife back to the dining table, then pulled out a chair for her and let her sit down.

"Aren't you worried?" Li Cuiyun saw her husband's slow appearance and became angry, both angry and anxious. She roared at her husband.

"What's the use of being anxious here? Calm down, calm down. Actually, I think the key is the school. Didn't the reporter say that he contacted the school, and the school denied that our son was studying there?" Zhou Jianliang pointed to the newspaper and said.

When he said this, Li Cuiyun remembered that the report did mention such a thing. Or rather, the reason why the entire report was established was because the reporter vowed that he knew the truth through interviewing the school—the school denied that Zhou Yi was their student!

"That's right, how can the school be so irresponsible? Whether our son is a student at their school, wouldn't they know if they asked? How can they tell the reporter that they don't know? Is First High School just messing around now that it's famous!" His wife Li Cuiyun immediately turned her anger to the school.

"Don't rush to say that, maybe there's some misunderstanding here? Or maybe this reporter didn't interview the school at all?" Zhou Jianliang was still relatively calm.

"Can't be? Such blatant lies?" Li Cuiyun was still a little skeptical.

"How is it impossible?" Zhou Jianliang smiled, but it was a disdainful smile. "The incident some time ago, such a big incident, it was of national concern. Didn't a TV reporter dare not go to the scene, and hide in a hotel in the back and dare to do a live connection with the TV station based on fabrication?"

Li Cuiyun remembered that there was indeed such an incident, because their whole family was watching TV at the time. When the female reporter connected with the TV station, she spoke hesitantly, contradicted herself, and was illogical. She thought that the reporter had been working all night and hadn't slept well.

Later, it was revealed that she had never been to the scene at all, and was hiding in a hotel, based on hearsay rumors and inside information, plus her own imagination, and fabricated a special report that directly hit the front line...

So, never underestimate the bottom line of reporters, they don't have it.

"So, let's go to the school tomorrow to ask about the situation."

"Okay!"

Li Cuiyun reluctantly agreed. She still had to wait one night. Just thinking about how those people who saw this report tonight would discuss her son, she was extremely anxious.

This meal was even more eaten through gritted teeth, with no taste at all.

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Similarly, after eating dinner, Li Cuiyun and Zhou Jianliang's dinner was tasteless, their minds were all on the meal. And the dinner at the home of Lin Xianrong, the principal of Qingyang City First High School, was much more lively.

The whole family, four generations under one roof, plus Lin Xianrong's nephew's family, a large round table was full of people, and Lin's nanny was busy up and down, preparing a table of delicious dishes.

During the meal, the young people talked about current social and online hot topics. Lin Xianrong sat at the table, listening quietly, occasionally teasing his two-month-old great-grandson, happily.

The topic of conversation suddenly turned to current TV variety shows.

Someone mentioned a relatively popular TV reality show called "Green Field Inheritors".

At this time, Lin Xianrong's granddaughter remembered and suddenly said to Lin Xianrong: "Grandpa, Grandpa, someone is swindling and cheating in your school's name!"

"Oh? Who is so bold?" Lin Xianrong said with a smile, his tone half-joking. In front of the children, he was like a kind old man, not at all like a big figure in Qingyang's education circle.

"Really! It's said in today's newspaper, the *Sports Weekly*, a very famous newspaper, saying that there is a draft pick player named Zhou Yi, claiming to be a student of our Qingyang First High School, but the reporter went to the school to ask, and there is no such person at all! Isn't it hateful!"

"Wow, there are such shameless people?"

"Qingyang First High School is a national key school, everyone wants to take advantage of it... this is disgusting!"

"That person seems to be from Qingyang, which is a shame for Qingyang!"

"And this show is recorded abroad, if foreigners know about it, wouldn't we be ashamed abroad?"

"Alas... China likes to engage in these fraudulent things! Look at foreign countries, how much attention they pay to integrity..."

A heated discussion suddenly broke out at the dinner table.

But Lin Xianrong did not participate in it. Listening to his family members at the dinner table criticizing Zhou Yi, he fell silent.

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