Teaching Zhou Yi a Lesson

Zhou Yi was at a bit of a loss.

She had never expected that merely expelling one student would unite all the other students against her.

Although she liked expelling students to establish her authority and force them to work hard, she was not stupid. She could not possibly expel every student, could she?

The Academy would tear her apart!

But if she yielded to the students so easily, she would not be fit to be a teacher anymore. Not only would she lose the prestige she had built among students over so many years, she would also be branded as someone without professional ethics.

Thus, Zhou Yi turned her gaze toward Huo Yuhao.

In her eyes, Huo Yuhao was the true culprit behind all this. As long as she dealt with him and expelled him, the students would once again be intimidated by her.

Sensing the cold sharpness in Zhou Yi's eyes, Huo Yuhao showed no trace of panic. He was the first to break the standoff. "Before I enrolled, when I spent time with Teacher Zhi Wei, I thought all the teachers at Shrek Academy were humble, courteous, and highly learned people like him. I never expected that impression to be shattered by you on the very first day of school."

The moment Huo Yuhao mentioned Zhi Wei, Zhou Yi's expression shifted. Huo Yuhao smiled faintly.

This was his first step: making his backing clear so that Zhou Yi would not dare act rashly and crush him through brute force.

Huo Yuhao continued, "As a student, I find it difficult to approve of your ethics or your professionalism as a teacher. But there is one thing you said that was right: in this world, strength ultimately speaks for itself. As a Six Ring Soul Emperor, you naturally believe that students like us should respect you. That is not wrong. In this world, the weak truly ought to show the strong a measure of respect!"

This was the second step: putting Zhou Yi on a pedestal.

"However, this world is not as simple as it appears. Sometimes, those people see as weak may not truly be weak, and those people see as strong may not truly be strong. Teacher, you must dislike disobedient students like me, don't you? How about this? If you can hold my hand for thirty seconds without falling, I will take that student's place and be expelled. But if you lose, then you cannot expel a single student from this class today. What do you say? Surely a Six Ring Soul Emperor would not be afraid?"

The final step: Succubus Physique, attack!

Zhou Yi stared deeply at Huo Yuhao. She could no longer see through this young man's intentions.

"Fine!" Zhou Yi still agreed. If she feared a challenge to last thirty seconds against a One-Ring Soul Master, then she could forget about having any authority at all. Moreover, Zhi Wei's name made it impossible for her to expel Huo Yuhao casually. So, she could only agree.

As for whether Huo Yuhao's condition of lasting thirty seconds without falling concealed some scheme? What a joke. She was a Soul Emperor. Even if there was a scheme, she did not believe a One-Ring Soul Master could possibly ambush her! Had Huo Yuhao gotten it backward?

All the students standing there were stunned as well, their puzzled gazes converging on Huo Yuhao. They were beginning to wonder whether they had heard wrong. If Zhou Yi, a Soul Emperor, could last thirty seconds while holding his hand, she would win? Was this student certain he did not simply want to leave Shrek Academy and use this chance to get himself expelled?

The student who had just been about to be expelled was overwhelmed with gratitude toward Huo Yuhao. In a burst of emotion, he shouted, "Benefactor, even if you lose, there's no need to expel you! Just expel me, Su Hang! If you leave Shrek Academy, then whichever academy you go to, I, Su Hang, will follow you there. I don't need to stay at Shrek anyway!"

"Don't worry. I won't lose. None of us will be expelled." Huo Yuhao smiled and soothed everyone's emotions. His calm words seemed to possess the power to settle people's hearts, making even the students who doubted him unable to help believing that he could win.

Only Wang Dong saw through everything, because she was very familiar with Huo Yuhao's talk about lasting thirty seconds!

She had been tricked by Huo Yuhao in exactly this way when she had been an inexperienced calf unafraid of tigers. Even now, she would still recall that soul-piercing—humiliation. The memory remained fresh in her mind.

But having suffered through it herself, she had no intention of warning this old hag of a teacher. All she wanted now was to watch the show—watching someone else suffer what she had suffered and fall into the same trap she had fallen into was its own kind of fun, wasn't it? She could not be the only one making a fool of herself.

Huo Yuhao walked onto the podium and held out his hand. "Teacher, let's begin."

Zhou Yi's gaze sharpened. After hesitating for a moment, she reached out and clasped Huo Yuhao's hand.

Huo Yuhao quietly watched Zhou Yi, observing her reaction. If her reaction was slight, he would not use Simulation to conceal it for her. If it was too great, then to keep Zhou Yi from lashing out in desperation, he would have to use Simulation to cover for her.

Unlike her face, Zhou Yi's hand was not concealed beneath a disguise. When Zhou Yi's slender fair hand clasped his, Huo Yuhao could not help rubbing the back of her hand with his thumb.

The touch was smooth, soft, and supple, like fine jade—completely different from the delicate softness of young girls like Wang Dong and Tang Ya. As expected of a mature woman: one word—soft.

Before Huo Yuhao could savor the feeling any further, Zhou Yi had already dropped to her knees behind the podium and used the last of her strength to wrench herself free from Huo Yuhao's hand.

Huo Yuhao looked down at Zhou Yi, who was sprawled on the floor. But her disguise was truly too ugly, leaving him with no interest in admiring her.

Huo Yuhao said evenly, "Teacher, you lost."

The students below immediately erupted into cheers. They had won!

The podium blocked their view, so they could not see Zhou Yi's current state. But there was no question that Zhou Yi had already fallen to the floor—and it had not even taken three seconds!

How had this student done it? That was a Soul Emperor! He was incredible!

Huo Yuhao smiled and asked, "Teacher, aren't you going to get up and announce that I won?"

Zhou Yi raised her head silently. Her eyes shimmered with moisture and were filled with pleading as she shook her head in refusal. She did not want more students to see her in her current state.

Huo Yuhao paused, drew a deep breath, and felt as though he had suffered a tremendous mental blow.

Why was an old crone of a hundred putting on the airs of a young maiden!

Zhou Yi's current appearance was truly hard on the eyes. Could one imagine an old woman in her sixties or seventies, her face full of wrinkles, looking at you with moist and seductive eyes, lifting her head with a face flushed like springtime, pleading mournfully?

Huo Yuhao was seeing exactly that.

Coming back to himself, Huo Yuhao bent down and gently brushed the fair, dewy skin near Zhou Yi's collarbone. Finding the edge of the human-skin mask, he gave it a light pull and revealed a smooth, charmingly beautiful face beneath it. This was Zhou Yi's true appearance. She was quite pretty—a genuine beauty.

After taking a brief look at the beauty kneeling on the ground before him to cleanse his eyes, Huo Yuhao said to Zhou Yi, "Being a teacher does not require you to rely on seniority. So, Teacher, you look better with your original face."

With that, Huo Yuhao stood and announced, "Teacher Zhou is feeling a little unwell. Everyone, study on your own for a while."

Zhou Yi watched Huo Yuhao walk down from the podium with mixed emotions, wanting to let out a small sigh of relief. But when her red lips parted, a soft, enticing moan slipped from her tongue. Zhou Yi hurriedly covered her mouth, held her breath, and did not dare move again.

Zhou Yi's thoughts were in disarray.

The moment she touched Huo Yuhao's skin, she had felt pleasure ten or even a hundred times stronger than anything before. When Huo Yuhao's thumb stroked the back of her hand, she truly could not endure it. With the last of her reason, she had dropped behind the podium to block the other students' view and pulled free from the student's grasp.

Although that student would see her at her most vulnerable, she could no longer care about that much.

Only now did she regain a little of her senses. Recalling what had just happened, she felt an intense wave of shame and lingering fear.

She had been in the classroom, on the podium, before a hundred students.

If—if the entire class had seen her like that, she could not imagine what sort of rumors would spread through the Academy.

Rumors about seducing students, playing with little toys during class, and the like would definitely spread.

At the thought of that, Zhou Yi's breathing grew ragged for a moment. It took her a long while to completely suppress the chaotic, amorous thoughts in her heart.

As Wang Dong watched Huo Yuhao return from the podium, she shot him a fierce glare before grabbing him and whispering into his ear, "You could even lay your hands on an old hag like that? You really are a shameless bastard who'll take anything!"

Without the slightest hint of guilt, Huo Yuhao replied irritably, "What are you thinking? I just wanted to teach her a lesson so she'd stop causing us trouble."

Wang Dong immediately felt a little embarrassed. "Then I misunderstood."

When Zhou Yi finally stood up from behind the podium, what entered Wang Dong's sight was no longer that wrinkled old face from before, but a charming, alluring beauty. Traces of lingering springtime still remained on the beautiful teacher's face. Seeing this, Wang Dong felt that she might have been deceived.

Wang Dong:???

Wang Dong raked Huo Yuhao with a resentful gaze, then parted her lips and silently mouthed to him, "Just wait. I'll tell Nan Nan-jie and Xiao Ya-jie every single detail of what happened today."