Chapter: 1081

"What’s the rush? We have lots of time," Dustin answered casually.

"No matter how much time you have, it won’t change anything. Trash will always be trash. It doesn’t matter how hard you struggle. You’re never going to succeed." Preston taunted.

"I say, stop struggling and just be Preston’s dog. At least he might give you a bone when he feels like it," Miranda said with a smirk.

"Are you sure that you’re going to be the winner?" Dustin asked suddenly.

"Why not? We’ve both scored full marks, and you have not even written a word. Isn’t it obvious who the winner will be?" Preston’s lips curled into a mean smile.

"Well, seeing how confident you are, I’ll teach you a lesson today." Without another word, Dustin quickly wrote a long list of ingredients on the paper.

He wrote with great ease, without any hesitation. The crowd was stunned and amazed, wondering if he was secretly an expert.

Even Preston and Miranda were flustered. He wrote so fast and with complete certainty. They began to doubt if they had chosen the wrong person to bully.

"Done." While everyone was still shocked by Dustin’s fast writing, he had already submitted his answer to the invigilator.

The invigilator frowned when he saw Dustin’s answer. Then, in a frosty voice, he said, "Wrong answer. You get zero marks!"

"Zero?"

Everyone was shocked before they burst out in laughter. They looked at Dustin like he was a fool.

"Hahaha… How hilarious! The audacity he has to act so arrogantly when he got zero marks!"

"He looked so certain of himself that I had begun to think he was all that. In the end, he was just pretending!"

"Even I could at least get a few points if I simply wrote some herbs. How did you manage to get zero points? What a joke!"

Everyone started to ridicule him.

They initially thought Dustin was an expert when he wrote confidently and quickly. But in the end, the zero he received said a lot about him and exposed him as a fool.

"Rascal, I must say, you sure are shameless. How can you behave so arrogantly when you’re getting zero? I am amazed." Preston sarcastically gave him a thumbs-up.

"If you don’t have the ability, then admit that you don’t. You are humiliating yourself if you insist on being arrogant!" Miranda looked at him like he was an idiot.

"Zero?" Dustin ignored the insults thrown at him and looked straight at the invigilator.

"Are you sure you didn’t make the wrong judgment?" Dustin asked.

"What? Are you questioning me?" The invigilator raised a brow.

"I don’t think I’ve made any mistakes with listing the herbs, so I’m just curious why you gave me zero points." Dustin countered.

"You’ve indeed got most of the herbs right, but you added aconite to the list," the invigilator said icily.

"Alright, let’s put aside whether I got that wrong. Even if aconite were a wrong answer, I’d only get ten points deducted. Why did I end up with zero?" Dustin pressed.