Teng Chaoguo knew very well that no matter how wild or ruthless one acted within Fengming First High School, there were certain absolute forbidden zones that could never be touched. For example, the cherished child of some Provincial Governor's family. Or some king among the third-years. Or, more than anything, beating up a teacher.
Dare lay a hand on a teacher? Did you really think the school's iron-fisted authority was just talk?
Yet Shi Tiexin had actually beaten a teacher, and Teng Chaoguo's heart gave a jolt.
Rumor had it that the teacher Shi Tiexin beat was the Mathematics teacher Jia Guangsu. Who was Jia Guangsu? An elite Mathematics teacher at First High who taught Elite Class 3 as well as Key Class 7, who had produced many graduates admitted to top-tier institutions like Jinghua University, and had even coached a North Su Province college entrance examination champion. He was a treasure-level teacher at Fengming First High School.
Shi Tiexin even dared to hit someone like that?
According to the rumors, Shi Tiexin had roared in class. Could it be that he had erupted after long silence, turning from this day forward from righteousness to evil, becoming demonized and darkened?
Teng Chaoguo immediately changed his original plan. Instead of confronting him head-on at once, he decided to find a way to beat the mountain and frighten the tiger, to test the waters. Perfect timing—Zhou Nan had lost five packs of cigarettes for him. Those five packs could not be lost for nothing. If he did not get back five whole cartons, then his name, Teng Chaoguo, would be written backward!
But who should he demand the cigarettes from?
Shi Tiexin was a poor loser. Even the money to top up his meal card depended on scholarships, so he definitely could not afford five cartons of cigarettes. But there was another good target in Class 28—the class monitor, Zhao Qingmiao. Zhao Qingmiao was weak and useless by nature, but his family circumstances had to be better than Shi Tiexin's, that fatherless, motherless bastard.
Perfect. He could beat the mountain and frighten the tiger while extorting money at the same time. What a flawless job!
"Kid, you have one day to bring out the five cartons of cigarettes you blacked from me. Got it?"
Zhao Qingmiao was already trembling like he had the shakes. Five cartons of cigarettes—this was several hundred, nearly a thousand yuan. His living expenses for an entire semester might be gone. "I, I..."
"Got it?!"
Smack!
"Got it?!"
Smack!
"Fucking say something! Do you get it or not?!"
Smack!
Slaps came one after another. Zhao Qingmiao's face was already swollen high, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. Zhao Qingmiao had fallen into despair. His eyes, seeing golden stars from the blows, swept across the class as he looked pleadingly toward the boys he usually got along with reasonably well. But at this moment, his gaze passed over one lowered head after another, one pair of averted eyes after another.
Who would...
Was there anyone...
Someone, save me!
The students of Class 28 watched Zhao Qingmiao get beaten and humiliated, and the feeling in their hearts was truly unbearable. No matter what, Zhao Qingmiao was still their class monitor. Each slap landing on Zhao Qingmiao's face felt like it was landing on the face of all Class 28.
The boys clenched their fists one by one, their breathing quickening. But who dared step forward to help at a time like this? The gunshot struck the bird that poked its head out. Whoever stood up now would face Black Hand Hungry Tiger's most savage retaliation.
Zhao Qingmiao, sorry. We're sorry.
Accept your fate. No one... no one would stand up.
Creak, scrape. In the dead silence, the sound of a desk and chair shifting suddenly rang out.
Huh?!
Was someone really stepping forward?!
Everyone instantly turned their heads. Even Teng Chaoguo stopped the hand that had been slapping. Everyone looked toward where the sound had come from, and Zhao Qingmiao turned his head as well. Then, beneath his astonished gaze, a tall figure slowly rose from the window seat in the third row from the back.
It was the newcomer!
The guy who had only arrived here today!
This guy, who had seemed so terrifying, hateful, and frightening before, now appeared as though enveloped in light. Like a towering pillar holding up the heavens, he somehow made people feel incomparably secure.
Look!
That burly body was filled with loyalty.
That solemn expression was filled with justice.
Those calm eyes were filled with courage.
He—the new student whose name they did not even know—was really going to stand up for Zhao Qingmiao, for Class 28's class monitor, for all of Class 28?
He moved...
He moved!
He stepped out from his seat and walked straight toward Teng Chaoguo—he really stepped up!
Propping up a great mansion as it teetered on the brink of collapse, turning back the raging tide just as it was about to crash down—at this moment, the guy exuded an enormous, overwhelmingly manly aura from head to toe. Step by step, neither hurried nor slow, every step seeming to shake heaven and earth, like a roaring tidal wave that could not be stopped.
Zhao Qingmiao's eyes suddenly blurred, tears welling within them. The tears obscured his vision, and all he could feel was that Shi Tiexin now stood as tall as a giant. And with every step closer, he seemed even larger in Zhao Qingmiao's sight. In just two or three steps, he had become so immense that he blotted out the sky and covered the earth.
With a thud, Shi Tiexin stopped. He halted just thirty centimeters from Teng Chaoguo. Looking down from above, his face stern, he stared directly down at Teng Chaoguo.
Every student in the class held their breath. The boys clenched their fists tight, while the girls could not help covering their mouths.
Th-this... was he really going to stand up for Zhao Qingmiao, whom he had only just met?!
Teng Chaoguo had been standing casually just moments before, but when Shi Tiexin stopped directly in front of him, he involuntarily turned to face him head-on. Looking at that gaze bearing down from above, Teng Chaoguo inexplicably felt suppressed.
This Shi Tiexin... really was different!
But when had Teng Chaoguo ever been afraid to face down a challenge?
Glancing at his four lackeys around him, Teng Chaoguo's courage swelled. He snorted coldly. "Yo, isn't this Scholar Stone? What's this? Standing up at a time like this—what do you want? You planning to pay five cartons of cigarettes for this trash—"
Shi Tiexin did not wait for Teng Chaoguo to finish. He opened his mouth, his voice domineering, and stated his purpose with concise clarity.
Just two words.
"Black Toilet."
The Black Toilet?
All the students thought they had misheard, but soon everyone realized they had not. Everything that had just happened was real.
This newcomer wanted to go to the Black Toilet with Teng Chaoguo!
"The Black Toilet?" Teng Chaoguo's expression instantly turned ferocious and twisted. "Fine, fine. Scholar Stone's guts have really grown. You dare ask me to the Black Toilet? Good. Very good. Then let's go. To the Black Toilet!"
Shi Tiexin maintained his domineering manner. Again, only two words.
"Lead the way."
"Hahaha, very good, very good!" Teng Chaoguo burst into wild laughter, then waved a hand. His four lackeys led the way, and together with Shi Tiexin, they walked out of Class 28, First Year, vanishing from the students' sight.
With a thump, Zhao Qingmiao collapsed back onto his stool, completely limp.
The voices of Class 28 erupted with a roar, clamor boiling over.
"Hard. Really hard. This new big bro is hard as nails!"
"Who hasn't heard of the Trash Class Black Toilet? This big bro did not waste a single word—he came right up with 'Black Toilet,' then followed it with 'Lead the way.' His domineering aura just exploded!"
"Even Black Hand Hungry Tiger got crushed in terms of presence. Zhou Nan, the so-called top dog of Class 28, is not even worthy to carry his shoes. This new guy is the real man among men, the hardest core among hard cores!"
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