Exposure

With several days still remaining before classes officially began, Huo Yuhao did not yet know which class he had been assigned to, so he decided to visit the notice board and see whether the class placement announcements had been posted.

Huo Yuhao had no particular requirements for his class assignment. He only hoped he would not be placed in Zhou Yi's class like in the Original Work, though it would not matter much even if he was.

As for Zhou Yi, Huo Yuhao's assessment of her was that she had little ability, caused plenty of trouble, and had quite the temper. Simply put, she was unworthy of her position.

When teaching students, she only knew how to use oppressive, even coercive methods, dressing it up as being a strict and responsible teacher. But in his previous life, Huo Yuhao had never seen a responsible teacher who expelled every student with a problem.

Of course, if he ended up in Zhou Yi's class, Huo Yuhao had no intention of helping Shrek Academy take out the trash. On the contrary, he hoped Zhou Yi would stir up more trouble so that he could win people over and prepare to poach them.

Huo Yuhao had already planned to establish his own faction in the future, and its foundation could only be built by poaching people from Shrek Academy. If everyone at Shrek Academy was a good person, how would he poach anyone? Flies did not bite seamless eggs. Huo Yuhao only hoped Shrek Academy would produce more people like Zhou Yi and Xuan Zi, the Holy Spirit Cult's Great Elder.

When Huo Yuhao arrived at the notice board, he saw from afar that the place was packed with people. Yet among them, the youth with pinkish-blue hair was especially eye-catching.

Huo Yuhao squeezed through the crowd to Wang Dong's side and patted her shoulder.

"What do you want?" When Wang Dong saw that it was Huo Yuhao, she glared at him, then guiltily shifted her gaze elsewhere. Right now, she did not dare look at Huo Yuhao for even a moment, afraid of thinking about what had happened yesterday—and even more afraid that Huo Yuhao would remember how embarrassing she had looked.

She had originally planned last night to return to Shrek Academy and enroll again as a girl, but for some reason, after waking up, that thought had completely vanished.

"You're really attracting quite the swarm, huh? Look at all those girls sneaking glances at you." Huo Yuhao bumped Wang Dong with his shoulder, signaling for her to look around.

Wang Dong looked around and discovered that she was already surrounded by girls. They would occasionally steal glances at her, only to hurriedly avert their eyes whenever she looked their way.

Wang Dong curled her lips and said with all the coldness she could muster, "They're just a bunch of little girls who have never seen a handsome guy like me. If they look enough, they'll get used to it. Only someone as mentally unhealthy as you would think there was anything wrong with it."

"I'm mentally unhealthy? Wang Dong, have you forgotten that you have to listen to me now?" Huo Yuhao said, placing a hand on Wang Dong's shoulder.

Feeling his touch on her shoulder, Wang Dong resisted the urge to brush his hand away and stubbornly replied, "I do have to listen to you, but you can only control my body. You cannot control my soul or change my will. If I say you're mentally unhealthy, then you're mentally unhealthy! That's a fact."

As she said this, the embarrassment in Wang Dong's heart gradually faded. Thinking of how Huo Yuhao had not returned to the dorm last night, while she herself had tossed and turned all night because of what had happened during the day, she snorted resentfully. "What normal person stays out all night on their first day of enrollment? Who knows what you went off to do."

"Oh? Whose little housekeeper are you, sounding so resentful?" Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes.

"I'm not talking to you anymore!"

Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, Wang Dong's pretty face flushed red—whether from anger or embarrassment, who knew. She turned her head and squeezed forward on her own.

Huo Yuhao strolled leisurely down the path Wang Dong had opened up.

Though it did not really count as squeezing through. The moment Wang Dong moved forward, those girls automatically made way for her.

Looking at those eager girls, Huo Yuhao could not help sighing. If they knew Wang Dong was a girl just like them, some of them would probably cry. So blindly being a simp was not advisable—you did not even know whether they were male or female.

By the time the two of them reached the notice board, the class assignment notice had just been posted.

"New Student Class One Class Teacher: Zhou Yi."

"It really is Zhou Yi!"

Huo Yuhao looked over the class roster and found both himself and Wang Dong listed there. Xiao Xiao was there as well, and even the Nine King Kongs from the Original Work were among them. Huo Yuhao could not help marveling at the wonder of fate. The butterfly effect was not very effective in this fantasy world.

"Do you know Teacher Zhou Yi?" Wang Dong asked curiously.

"No, but I know a little about her."

"What kind of person is she?" Wang Dong was quite curious about what her future teacher would be like.

"She's not someone who's easy to get along with. We'd better be careful not to get expelled by her." After sighing, Huo Yuhao stopped and smiled at Wang Dong, whose interest had been piqued.

"Didn't you say you weren't talking to me anymore?"

"You!" Wang Dong was angered again. She turned and left at once. She was not someone without backbone—if she said she would not talk to him, then she would not talk to him.

This time, she really was not talking to him!

Huo Yuhao followed behind the fuming Wang Dong and muttered to himself loudly enough for her to hear, "Speaking of Zhou Yi, she completely deserves the nickname Extinction Master. What she loves most is expelling students. Defy her, expelled! Fail to finish running, expelled! Rank last in class, expelled! Of the students in the classes she teaches, even by the time they reach the fourth year, nine out of ten will have been expelled, leaving only one-tenth. Sigh, how can a teacher like that still remain at Shrek? Naturally, there's a reason for it."

Huo Yuhao watched Wang Dong ahead of him perk up her ears to eavesdrop. At that point, he stopped speaking and deliberately slowed his pace, not following after her.

As Wang Dong listened, she realized there was no longer any sound behind her. Looking back, she found that Huo Yuhao had fallen far behind.

After hesitating for a moment, she pretended to stop by the roadside to admire the scenery.

Only after Huo Yuhao passed her did she pretend she had finished appreciating the view and follow behind him.

Huo Yuhao secretly chuckled and resumed muttering to himself. This time, however, his voice was much softer, so quiet that one practically had to press close to him to hear clearly.

Seeing Huo Yuhao acting like this, Wang Dong could not help grinding her teeth. Yet she was too curious about Zhou Yi to resist, so she quietly moved closer behind Huo Yuhao.

"Now, Teacher Zhou Yi may love expelling students, but the classes she teaches share one trait: their statistics look good. Among the students she has taught who advanced, I've heard that not a single one has said anything bad about her—though I don't know whether that rumor is true. And among those students, one quarter can enter the Inner Court. Hearing that, do you think Zhou Yi is actually a pretty good teacher, just with a strange temper?"

Huo Yuhao suddenly turned around. Wang Dong failed to react in time and crashed directly into him. Their cheeks lightly brushed against each other.

Then Wang Dong began breathing softly and leaned against Huo Yuhao, her pretty face flushed crimson.

Huo Yuhao smacked his forehead. He had been so focused on teasing Wang Dong that he had actually forgotten about his own ability. Before anyone noticed them, Huo Yuhao used Simulation to turn both of them invisible in an instant.

With Wang Dong like this, Huo Yuhao did not dare take her back to the dorm. He had no confidence that his Simulation soul skill could conceal them from Mu En's senses. If that old man saw them, who knew how much of a pervert he would think Huo Yuhao was.

So he could only take Wang Dong to an inn outside the academy.

Huo Yuhao said to Wang Dong, "Don't resist. I'll carry you to the inn so you can change clothes."

Because their contact had been brief this time, Wang Dong had not fainted. On the contrary, her consciousness was still very clear.

Ahhhhhh—

Wang Dong could not stop herself from screaming inwardly. How could I be like this in public?!

I really had no face left to show anyone. I was exhausted. Let the world be destroyed.

Wang Dong buried her head deep in Huo Yuhao's chest, clinging to him and refusing to let go. Only like this could she hide her face. She had already embarrassed herself in front of this guy anyway; she could only hope no one else had seen what she looked like.

Overwhelmed with embarrassment, Wang Dong couldn't help but sob softly in Huo Yuhao's arms.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't cry! I already used a soul skill to make us both invisible. No one saw us." Huo Yuhao gently patted Wang Dong's back to comfort her.

Wang Dong raised her head and looked at Huo Yuhao through tear-blurred eyes. Her eyes brimmed with tears, and her soft voice seemed full of grievance. "Is that true?"

Huo Yuhao said nothing, merely looking at Wang Dong with a strange expression.

Girl, you gave yourself away. You just used a woman's voice!