Again?

The Second High School.

The school bell rang out lazily, and streams of high school students poured out of the school gates, chatting and laughing as they headed out.

"Sigh, so much homework again today, looks like it'll be past eleven before I'm done..."

"Tell me about it! That idiot teacher assigned twelve reading comprehension passages! Is he trying to kill us?"

"Huh? Isn't reading comprehension just a guess?"

"How do you guess?"

"Three long, one short, pick short. Three short, one long, pick long. Uneven, pick C. Ambiguous, pick D."

"...Wait a minute, let me write that down!"

"..."

Suddenly, a student turned his head and said to Li Yifei, who was trailing behind the group, "Li Yifei, why are you so slow? Hurry up!"

Li Yifei snapped back to attention. "Oh, coming, coming."

He quickened his pace to catch up with the group, still constantly looking around, somewhat absentmindedly.

"What's wrong? What are you looking for?" Wang Liang asked curiously.

Li Yifei hesitated for a moment, then sighed. "After that incident before, I've gotten a bit of a complex about going home after school... Even though there's no evening study hall now and it's still light out, I still feel... creeped out!"

Wang Liang rolled his eyes. "It was just running into a murderer, it's not that big of a deal, is it? Li Yifei, you look like a big guy, how can you be so timid?"

"That's not it... Sigh, it's no use explaining it to you." Li Yifei shook his head.

Then, as if remembering something, he suddenly stopped.

"What is it now?"

"I suddenly remembered I didn't bring my homework, it's still in my desk drawer." Li Yifei said with a headache.

"Honestly, your brain is already slow, and now it's even worse... Good thing the school hasn't closed yet, hurry back and get it. I'm leaving with them."

Wang Liang slung his bag over his shoulder, waved goodbye to Li Yifei, and turned to follow the others.

Li Yifei sighed where he stood and turned back towards the school.

By the time he reached the school gate again, twenty minutes had passed since school ended. Most of the students had already left, and the entire school was deserted.

"Good thing the gate isn't closed yet," Li Yifei muttered and quickly ran back into the school.

The campus in the twilight was quieter than usual, with less of a lively atmosphere.

Occasionally, students who were cleaning up would come out of their classrooms, glance at the time, and hurry towards the main gate, brushing past Li Yifei who was walking against the flow.

They were all eager to get home, eager to eat their hot dinners.

The further Li Yifei walked, the fewer people there were, and the deeper the twilight became.

The tall trees on either side of the road rustled in the wind. The fading sunlight, about to set behind the western mountains, filtered through the leaves, growing dimmer and dimmer...

Li Yifei hurried to the front of the second-year teaching building, took the stairs two at a time up to the fourth floor, and arrived at his classroom door.

In the empty corridor, besides the dim twilight, there was only Li Yifei.

By now, most of the students who were cleaning up had already left, and even the classroom doors were locked.

But this was no obstacle for Li Yifei. He skillfully opened the window, put down his backpack, and climbed in by bracing his hands on the windowsill.

"Homework, homework, homework... Found it!" Li Yifei rummaged through his desk for a moment, pulled out a notebook, and his eyes lit up.

He stuffed the notebook into his bag, walked to the window, and prepared to climb out the same way he came in.

Just then, two figures suddenly appeared at the end of the corridor.

Li Yifei caught sight of them with his peripheral vision, his body trembled, and he quickly crouched down, hiding behind the tiles under the window.

"What rotten luck, running into the Dean of Students?" Li Yifei cursed inwardly.

The two people walking from the end of the corridor were Liu Xiaoyan, the class's Chinese representative, and the Dean of Students for their second year.

Sneaking into the classroom through the window after school could easily lead to misunderstandings. If the Dean of Students found out, he'd have no way to explain himself and would be in serious trouble.

So, Li Yifei pressed himself tightly against the wall, planning to leave after they were gone.

The two of them chatted as they approached the classroom where Li Yifei was hiding. Gradually, Li Yifei could clearly hear their conversation.

"...So, you really need to focus on the Chinese class, pick out the student who writes the best essays to participate in this city competition."

"I know, Dean. Many students in our class write well, for example..."

As they walked, the Dean seemed to get tired and stopped, resting his hands on the corridor railing.

Liu Xiaoyan also stopped and continued talking beside the Dean of Students.

Their location was right at the door of the classroom where Li Yifei was hiding!

Li Yifei saw this scene reflected in the window, and helplessly rolled his eyes. He sat down on the spot, waiting for them to leave.

"Mmm, what you've said is good. Call them to my office tomorrow, and I'll have a chat with them," the Dean of Students said with a satisfied nod, turning to Liu Xiaoyan and preparing to leave.

"Dean!" Liu Xiaoyan suddenly called out, stopping him.

The Dean turned back, looking at her quizzically. "Do you need something else, student Liu Xiaoyan?"

In the fading light of dusk, a faint blush appeared on Liu Xiaoyan's face, and she became inexplicably flustered.

"Dean, actually, actually I... I've always wanted to tell you..."

Li Yifei, hiding nearby, widened his eyes, his eyeballs almost popping out, his gaze filled with shock!

Holy crap!

I just came back to grab my homework, what the hell am I seeing?!

Liu Xiaoyan is actually interested in the Dean?!

But, but the Dean is almost fifty! And he's balding!

Is her taste that extreme?

The Dean of Students standing in front of Liu Xiaoyan frowned tighter and tighter.

"Actually, I... I've always wanted to...

Want to...

Eat you!"

As she uttered the last three words, Liu Xiaoyan's mouth split open into a terrifying arc, as if it had been forcibly torn apart! Revealing rows of sharp teeth like barbs!

Her pupils had vanished, leaving only the whites of her eyes, looking incredibly eerie! And the dimples on her cheeks still glowed with a strange crimson hue in the dusk...

The Dean of Students' eyes widened, and he instinctively opened his mouth, wanting to scream!

The next moment, Liu Xiaoyan's entire head split open from her mouth! Dense rows of sharp teeth emitted a chilling cold light!

This mouth was too large, so large it could easily swallow a whole living person!

And so, this gaping maw swallowed the Dean of Students almost instantly, flesh and blood writhing and contorting within, sickeningly!

Witnessing the entire process, Li Yifei clamped his mouth shut tightly, staring fearfully at the window, his muscles trembling all over!

Liu Xiaoyan chewed for a long time, and then, that blood-soaked mouth opened again, Gack! She spat out a perfectly intact Dean of Students.

Aside from some sticky fluid on his clothes, not a single hair on him was out of place.

He lay there quietly on the ground, while Liu Xiaoyan's flesh-and-blood head gradually healed, returning to that of a normal high school girl within seconds.

She stared at the Dean of Students in front of her, unmoving.

A few seconds later, the Dean of Students on the ground suddenly opened his eyes and stood up from the ground in a bizarre posture.

He and Liu Xiaoyan met each other's gaze, And both smiled.

In an extremely synchronized and eerie manner, they walked and gradually disappeared at the end of the corridor.

Only after confirming that the two had truly left did Li Yifei release his mouth, slumping powerlessly to the ground, gasping for air.

In his heart, there were only two words:

"Again?!!!"