When the words “podium” were mentioned, Li Xinyi’s face turned pale, as if it were something terrifying. Eventually, she still moved her feet and stepped onto the stage, one step at a time.
“Now, here, give everyone a sincere apology,” Yu Xingjian said kindly.
Li Xinyi looked at her classmates below, bent over, and made a ninety-degree bow, deeply burying her head.
No one spoke in the classroom for a long time, and Li Xinyi also remained bowed for a long time. Lin Huai watched their every move coldly, pointed at his watch, and said to Yu Xingjian, “Teacher Yu, there’s still half an hour left for morning reading. Are you planning to have her stand there the whole time?”
“Oh, oh, Teacher Lin, that’s not the right thing to say,” Yu Xingjian said. “The class isn’t just the teacher’s class, and Li Xinyi’s actions didn’t just harm one person’s interests. Everyone has to pay the price for their actions. If she seeks forgiveness, everyone in the class needs to express their forgiveness to her.”
As he spoke, he smiled: “We educators should be people-oriented, not authoritarian, right? This is why Class C can maintain its excellence.”
Lin Huai’s face darkened, almost dripping with gloom. Seeing this, Yu Xingjian seemed to cheer up. He then asked, “Xie Chen, have you forgiven Li Xinyi?”
“Ye Mingyu, have you forgiven Li Xinyi?”
“Zhang Xueying, have you forgiven Li Xinyi?”
After asking a few students, Yu Xingjian said to Li Xinyi, “See, everyone has forgiven you. Go back to your seat. Remember—thank everyone.”
“Th-thank you all for forgiving me!”
Li Xinyi said loudly, her eyes red, and walked back to her seat.
After she sat down, the people originally sitting next to her moved their chairs away as if avoiding a virus.
After doing all this, Yu Xingjian said to Lin Huai, “It’s almost time for the first class. Teacher Lin, isn’t it really okay not to go back and manage Class F? Huh? Why do you look so pale?”
He showed a concerned expression: “Are you feeling unwell? If you are, you can go to the school hospital…”
The young man being sarcastically cared for suddenly raised his head. He looked at the other person for a long time, until the other person felt a bit creeped out.
Finally, he raised one corner of his mouth.
“I originally wanted to beat you up, but then I thought it wouldn’t be good to do such a thing in front of the flowers of our nation. After all, the flowers of our nation need sunshine and rain, not blood.”
“What are you babbling about?”
Yu Xingjian found himself increasingly unable to understand this person’s words and actions. Then, he heard the person say, “I have a friend. Although he’s always been crazy, he swore that he would never harm children unless absolutely necessary.”
“Are you talking about that friend…”
“That friend is definitely not a good person, but even he has almost never done anything to harm children, whether now or in the future. Teacher Yu, do you think you’re a good person?”
“I…”
“You’re disgusting,” Lin Huai said coldly. “I feel ashamed for you.”
“I won’t eat you because the taste of your soul is too disgusting. I won’t kill you because even your blood isn’t worthy of staining my hands. I thought about it and came up with only one good solution, which is…”
“To defeat you in the place you’re most proud of. Only then can I completely shatter your self-esteem.” Lin Huai’s dark eyes stared at him. “I want you to lose everything. I want you—to die.”
The last two words fell heavily, and at the same time, Yu Xingjian, due to extreme cold, slumped to the ground.
Lin Huai left quietly. When he closed the door of Class C, he still couldn’t control the extremely angry expression on his face.
The power of ghosts fluctuates with emotions. In extreme excitement, extreme pain, extreme anger, or resentment, the power of ghosts will be greatly enhanced. When emotions reach their peak, ghosts can even break through and become stronger due to extreme emotions or pain.
Lin Huai had experienced stronger emotions than this, so he didn’t accidentally crush the doorknob. He turned around and keenly met the blood-red figure on the stairs with his eyes.
The blood-red figure of Yan Xi.
He was completely different from the weak and kind white figure of yesterday, with anger and resentment between his brows. He stared at Lin Huai, the corners of his pale lips twitching constantly.
The two fierce ghosts exchanged glances across the long corridor.
One cold.
One resentful.
The bell for the end of the first class rang, and Lin Huai walked out of the classroom.
He returned to his office, stared at the ceiling fan, and fell into confusion.
“Teacher Lin,” Fang Cheng came to his office with a stack of exercise books, startled by his thoughtful expression. “What are you doing?”
“I’m thinking,” Lin Huai said.
He casually tossed a coin into the air and caught it with one hand. Fang Cheng watched him toss the coin repeatedly, feeling that he was very relaxed, so his own courage grew a bit: “What are you thinking about, teacher?”
“I’m thinking,” Lin Huai said.
Fang Cheng pricked up his ears.
“I’m thinking about how to open the Mangekyou Sharingan,” Lin Huai stared at the coin and replied seriously.
Fang Cheng: …
His legs went weak, feeling like he had just heard a bad joke. The person telling the joke tossed the coin and said, “Ah, so far, I feel that my copying ability isn’t enough. If only I could have a stronger Sharingan…”
“Teacher, I think you’ve given yourself a strange setting,” Fang Cheng said, amused and exasperated.
Lin Huai: “Oh, really?”
He lazily pressed the coin, then rubbed his head and started to go crazy.
Fang Cheng listened to his nonsense, most of which were things like “Why did I pretend to be a substitute teacher in the first place? I should have pretended to be a school security guard or disguised myself as a student in Class F,” which he couldn’t understand. Fang Cheng looked at him like he was looking at a crazy cat.
His heart softened a little because of this, then he watched as Lin Huai lay down on the table: “I don’t care, I must kill that hypocrite.”
After saying that, Lin Huai energetically got up from the table: “Tomorrow morning, I’m going to hold a class meeting!”
…
“Regarding this issue, I really haven’t thought about it,” Lin Huai rubbed his forehead with his fingers. “Language proficiency is like little bread. Just as people can’t remember how many pieces of bread they’ve eaten, it’s also hard to measure their language proficiency. But… tsk, never mind. However, whether it’s studying or games, there are referenceable, patterned things.”
“In any case, I will do my best to help you,” Lin Huai continued. “Although studying is a troublesome thing, compared to studying, there are people I hate more, like…”
“That hypocrite from Class Three.”
“Actually, I really want to smash this school. Every corner of this school is disgusting, filthy, and terrible. Anyone with a bit of conscience wouldn’t like this place. Do you hate this place? I also hate it. But smashing this school won’t solve the fundamental problem. If you really want to leave here, become strong. Pass the college entrance exam, go to higher and farther places, and then one day in the future, come back, return here, and change everything. As for me, I will do my best to help you change yourselves,” Lin Huai said. “You will know…”
“No one can trap your lives, no matter in what name,” he said. “So study hard, I will use every method to make you score first, surpassing that annoying Class Three. Hmm… even if it’s through assassination, stealing test papers, or arson. Speaking of which, if there were only one class in this school, our class would always be first… Maybe I should just do that, kill the other students first, and then…”
“Teacher,” Chen Haoyu reminded, sweating, “You’ve given yourself strange lines again.”
During lunch break, Chen and Fang, bored, ran to the office and witnessed Lin Huai rehearsing his class meeting speech.
“Tsk…”
Lin Huai said, throwing his phone on the table: “It’s too hard, too hard, too hard…”
“It’s too hard for me,” he looked at the sky and let out a bit of his soul. “I really want to study…”
Chen and Fang: …
“In any case, you are now in my hands, so you are my people,” Lin Huai continued his script. “Whether you agree with my words or not, things are already like this. So…”
“So have a little more expectation for your future,” he suddenly smiled. “After all, you are all living people, and the lives of living people are quite a proud and extravagant capital.”
Chen Haoyu was slightly moved: “Is this also part of the script?”
Lin Huai: “No, this is improvisation.”
Chen Haoyu: …
He was about to speak when there was a knock on the door.
“Teacher Lin,” the school security guards were very polite. “The principal—wants to see you.”
Lin Huai, who was rehearsing his script, didn’t turn his head: “Not going, can’t you see I’m rehearsing?”
School security guards: …
“The principal wants to discuss with you about the damage to the punishment room today,” half an hour later, the principal’s assistant came to Lin Huai’s door. “Especially…”
Lin Huai: “Oh, I smashed it, what about it?”
“You…”
“Go ahead and call the police,” Lin Huai pulled his eyelids. “Nyah.”
As you can imagine, in an infinite flow world, there is no normally functioning police station. Lin Huai calmly drove away the two students, and half an hour later, he had the honor of welcoming the principal.
The principal, wearing a wig, stormed into the office. Lin Huai glanced at him, raised his finger, and created a gust of wind.
The principal, whose wig was blown off: …
He ordered someone to pick up the wig and tried to enter again. Lin Huai raised his finger again.
The principal, whose wig was blown off again: …
If I keep writing this, it would seem like I’m padding the word count. Anyway, after having his wig blown off five times, the principal finally decided to be honest with Lin Huai. He walked into the office with his shiny bald head.
“I’m here to inform you of something,” the principal said angrily. “You’re fired!”
He said it with a resounding tone. Lin Huai just lazily raised his eyelids.
He smiled as if he had heard something funny: “Oh?”
“I said, you’re fired!” the principal was furious. “Pack your things and get out!”
The more furious he became, the happier Lin Huai was. At this point, he didn’t want to defend himself, just spread his hands and said: “How about we make a deal?”
“What?”
“A deal, a life for a position,” he said.
“Are you trying to threaten me with suicide?” the principal keenly dug out the implication in his words and sneered. “Who do you think you are…”
“No.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a gentle breeze landed beside him.
“The life I’m talking about…” the handsome, pale young man pressed a blade against the principal’s neck. “Is your life.”
The school security guards were in an uproar.
“What are you doing!”
“You…”
“Shh, don’t argue with me,” Lin Huai said. “I hate verbal sparring the most. How about this, Mr. Principal—”
He dragged out the word “Mr.”
“I can kill you anywhere, don’t worry, whether you’re in the principal’s office, in your private car, or in that villa you bought for five million. Whether you’re taking a bath, eating, or having sex with someone in bed,” Lin Huai’s dark eyes stared at his face, his words speeding up like a Gatling gun that could fire 400 bullets a minute. “Want to try?”
“Call the police!” the principal shouted. “Call the police to arrest him!”
One of the school security guards quickly dialed the phone, but the instigator didn’t try to stop them at all.
“Principal! The call won’t go through!” the school security guard shouted.
“I did it,” Lin Huai slowed down his words, whispering intimately and elegantly into the principal’s ear.
All the evil in his soul was exposed without restraint here, or rather, madness became his nature at this moment, or perhaps, the pursuit of fear and madness is the nature of every high-level ghost.
He shamelessly shifted the blame for “not being able to contact the police” from the game to himself and enjoyed the pleasure of being feared by others. Continuous shattering sounds came from his ears. The office shook violently, but apart from him, all the NPCs seemed unaware.
‘Hang in there,’ he said with his mouth. ‘I still have a lot of good shows for you.’
The shaking ground returned to calm. Then, he heard the school security guards’ terrified voices: “What kind of monster are you?”
“Me, a monster? What about you? Aren’t you monsters too?” Lin Huai sneered. “Aren’t we all monsters? It’s just that I’m an overt monster, and you’re covert monsters.”
Then, he whispered into the principal’s ear: “See, is this deal worth it?”
“Mad…” the principal’s eyes turned blood-red with fear. “You madman…”
“Madmen have a lot of time, madmen have a lot of opportunities, madmen never give up, never stop,” Lin Huai said quickly. “You can choose to refuse me, or you can choose to feign compliance and try to kill me in private. But you see…”
“The madman now has given you two choices,” he said intimately. “Either die, or obey me… hear me?”
“I…”
“What are you waiting for?” he blew a breath. “Is the death threat not enough? Or perhaps…”
“Do you want some sexual bribery?”
As he said this, he smiled brightly. The principal turned his head and saw his eyes, deep as a cold pool, and his cheeks, slightly flushed with extreme excitement.
His eyes were also glowing, his breathing trembling, his long and thick eyelashes also trembling. Those eyes were a terrifying deep sea, and the flush on his cheeks was by no means a charming peach blossom, but…
The blade thus cut the principal’s skin, he didn’t feel pain, but only wanted to submit.
Whether submitting to the fear of madness, or submitting to the intoxicating and thorny rose or poppy born in this madness…
A feast for the senses.
Author’s note:
The second character with a positive description in this story is about to make an appearance amidst much anticipation.
Since “no one remembers the second person to climb Mount Everest,” and because it’s VIP, in the spirit of cherishing readers, I didn’t give him a two-chapter dignified death package.
*Explanation of the crossed-out references: (Sorry, they’ve all disappeared)
The King’s Avatar: …Probably a novel that doesn’t need introduction, the first chapter is “The Banished Expert.”
The Legend of the Legendary Heroes: A series with a tongue-twisting name (please, readers who haven’t taken the college entrance exam yet, note the pronunciation) but quite good. The male lead and second male lead were a couple in their past lives, and they reversed the author’s CP.
Naruto: …Probably an anime that doesn’t need introduction, still active in many forums today due to its CP pairings and other factors. The first ten chapters’ “My foolish younger brother” also comes from this anime.
*Explanation of the references used:
But, I refuse!: A famous line from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. It’s easy to explain this sentence, but, I refuse!
.avi: A video file format, often active on boys’ dormitory screens after midnight during the heyday of various torrents.
