Zhi Lin moved extremely quickly. In no more than a moment, the office door was pushed open again.
With one hand, he carried the battered, bruised, and listless Ma Hongjun back as if he were a chick, then casually tossed him onto the floor.
"Your Eminence, His Highness the Crown Prince, Ma Hongjun has been brought here."
Zhi Lin reported respectfully, then stepped aside, his eyes fixed on his nose and his nose fixed on his heart, as though he had merely fetched some insignificant item.
When Ma Hongjun hit the floor, it tugged at injuries all over his body, making him grimace in pain.
He had originally thought that Education Committee member Zhi Lin had summoned him because Headmaster Flender had secured some sort of turning point and wanted to ask about what had happened yesterday. He had still harbored a sliver of hope.
But when he lifted his eyelids and saw the nightmare-like young man staring coldly at him, while Zhi Lin addressed him as "Your Eminence," the fat all over his body shuddered violently. Boundless terror instantly drowned that pitiful shred of hope, and the wounds on his face seemed to start throbbing fiercely again.
Jiang Zhen did not even spare Ma Hongjun a second glance. His gaze was like two icy chains, firmly locking onto the trembling Flender, and his emotionless voice sounded like a final judgment.
"Flender, choose."
Would he sacrifice Ma Hongjun in exchange for everyone else's chance at survival, or...
"Your Eminence... I... I..."
Flender's lips trembled, his face pale as paper. A rattling sound came from his throat, yet he could not even utter a complete sentence.
On one side was a student he regarded as his own son; on the other was cruel reality. The choice was far too brutal for