The information continues to appear on the big screen.
[Based on the results from each community, calculating audience scores:]
[Community 2: 110 points]
[Community 5: 105 points]
[Community 10: 80 points]
[Community 11: 105 points]
[Community 12: 90 points]
[Community 17: 110 points]
[Community 2, Community 10, Community 17 successfully guessed the truth and will receive an extra ’+50%’ bonus to their total scores.]
[Total scores and rankings for each community are as follows:]
[1st place: Community 2, total score 400.5]
[2nd place: Community 17, total score 384]
[3rd place: Community 10, total score 352.5]
[4th place: Community 11, total score 253]
[5th place: Community 12, total score 244]
[6th place: Community 5, total score 243]
[In this game, no community or actor was penalized for being ’identified as a liar’.]
[The following are all the script details for this game.]
[Gong Ping and Gong Zheng are brothers, one year apart. Due to overpopulation and inability to raise them, Gong Zheng was sent to live with his uncle, therefore transferring to the local county school and re-registering his household but the family’s original registration was not canceled.]
[Both brothers participated in the Gaokao, and the elder brother Gong Ping failed to achieve the undergraduate line, while the younger brother Gong Zheng successfully got into a prestigious university. The mother negotiated and persuaded Gong Zheng to retake the exam, and let Gong Ping change his name to Gong Zheng to assume his brother’s identity and attend university.]
[Later, the younger brother also changed his name and successfully re-enrolled in another prestigious university for the same major.]
[During their university and postgraduate studies, under the mother’s request, the younger brother wrote papers and research topics on behalf of the elder brother several times.]
[After obtaining a PhD, both brothers developed in a super first-tier city; the younger brother gained the city’s residence registration and house purchasing qualification a year earlier but could not afford the down payment. The mother wanted to support the elder brother in purchasing a house, but at that time the elder brother had not yet gained the purchasing qualification.]
[The mother negotiated, the elder brother borrowed the younger brother’s purchasing qualification, the mother paid the down payment, and the elder brother was responsible for the monthly mortgage payments, with the house temporarily registered under the younger brother’s name.]
[The following year, the elder brother obtained the purchasing qualification, and with the mother’s support for the down payment, he bought another property in his own name.]
[Five years later, house prices tripled, and the younger brother could no longer afford a house, claiming the first house should belong to him and demanding that the elder brother vacate the house. The mother and relevant personnel testified in court about an oral agreement, asking the younger brother to formally transfer the first house to the elder brother.]
[The court ultimately ruled against the younger brother, requiring him to cooperate in transferring the property to the elder brother. The younger brother decided to report the elder brother for identity theft.]
[The elder brother’s bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees were successively revoked, and his household registration was canceled.]
[Everything accumulated by the brother who stole Gong Zheng’s identity over 25 years was instantly reduced to zero. He publicly declared on online platforms that he was suffering unjustly and decided to commit suicide.]
...
Huang Shengjie had an expression of incredulity and amusement: "This brother is truly a pure beast!
"At first, when I heard he decided to commit suicide, I thought he had really suffered some injustice, or was under too much pressure from family or society.
"Now it seems he brought it all upon himself, didn’t he?
"He even simply declared he was going to commit suicide. How could such an extremely selfish person possibly commit suicide?
"Everything the brother has, from education and work to household registration and property, was stolen from the younger brother. He stole these for 25 years and truly thought they were his."
Zhou Wanlin was also doubtful: "Are there really people like this in the world?
"The brother and mother, clearly blood relatives with the younger brother, yet their behavior was always to suck blood from the younger brother and leave him dry.
"The brother showed no gratitude at all, considering everything as a matter of course.
"And the mother was even more biased beyond reason, clearly both are her biological children, yet the younger brother is more outstanding, but she tried every way to drain the younger brother and support the brother.
"But to say one thing... there’s always been something I couldn’t understand, how did the brother who couldn’t even pass the undergraduate entrance exam manage to smoothly study up to a PhD in a prestigious university?
"Although according to the final disclosed truth, the younger brother and the brother studied the same major and helped the brother write a few papers, but could that alone suffice?
"Did the professors never discover any problems throughout? Is this reasonable?"
Qin Cheng’s expression was somewhat complex: "That’s another issue.
"I think it’s possible, this relates to our country’s education system. Post-Gaokao education, including bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral studies, follows the policy of wide entry with strict exit.
"The difficulty of graduating from a prestigious university or securing postgraduate recommendation is much lower than external perceptions.
"There was similar news before: a certain student entered a top university through a loophole during enrollment. Afterwards, the university wanted to revoke his admission, claiming he was too weak to graduate.
"But after disputes, this student still enrolled smoothly. Not only did he graduate, he even secured postgraduate recommendation and continued his studies.
"Moreover, the educational level varies across different regions and score lines vary, the real level of students at enrollment is quite varied, those from low score provinces are substantially less competent than students from major Gaokao provinces.
"But this doesn’t hinder their graduation or postgraduate recommendation at all.
"Furthermore, many students from Gaokao factories start to relax and their grades plummet once they enter university, this phenomenon is very common.
"Therefore, it’s entirely possible for the brother, who couldn’t even pass the undergraduate exam, to rewrite his life by entering a prestigious university and securing postgraduate recommendation.
"This is not the main plot in the story, but it’s the point of greatest dark humor."
Everyone looked at the final scores.
Zhou Wanlin looked at Huang Shengjie and Qin Cheng: "Our community’s audience score is 110 points, the full score is 120 points, which means we got 2 questions wrong.
"It should be the initial question from Community 5, right?
"I chose ’No’ for that question, chose wrong.
"What about you two?"
Qin Cheng nodded: "Yeah, I also chose ’No’. Didn’t expect to stumble on this initial question."
Huang Shengjie said: "I chose ’Yes’, but I was guessing."
Qin Cheng was indifferent: "It’s okay, I said from the beginning, this question had a 50% chance in a two-choice when information was insufficient, getting it right mostly depended on luck.
"It seems now that Community 5 choosing to question early was actually a good strategy, if they had waited until Act 2 or Act 3, perhaps me and Shengjie might have answered correctly."
Zhou Wanlin sighed: "But this also means that Lawyer Lin in the VIP section there, without hearing any community communication or consulting anyone, got all the questions correct just by watching the show?
"That’s truly reliable.
"Similarly exaggerated is Community 17... they also scored 110, meaning only 2 people each got one question wrong.
"Originally thought Hu Yingxu was their community’s core, but Hu Yingxu was an actor this time and couldn’t help with answering questions later.
"They were also short one VIP audience, yet the remaining players still achieved this... the community’s talent pool is impressive."