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When Wenren Sheng was relaxing at home, Teacher Qin also received the terrible news.

"You... you wretch!"

Shen Hua clutched her flushed face, huddled on the bedroom floor, staring at the ground without saying a word.

Standing before her was Teacher Qin, his huge palm raised.

Although Wenren Sheng had not told him, Teacher Qin had still received a notice from above.

His illegitimate daughter, Shen Hua, had been lured in by the Heaven's Mandate Society and had just taken part in an operation targeting a key Otherworldly User.

Although the Patrol Division was putting out fires everywhere and could barely look after itself, Eastwater was a core city and a regional hub, so it still had sufficient protection in place.

Zhao Han was no longer the rookie she had once been. She was now an Otherworldly User under key protection.

The moment she was captured, the local Patrol Division's system reacted.

Later, Wenren Sheng and the others intervened in time, so they did not take action and merely continued observing.

"I went through so much trouble begging my master to give you more time to study, so you could have a few extra months to prepare for the National College Entrance Examination! Look at you! What have you done?"

"You deserve to go hungry!"

"You had such a bright future ahead of you, but you insisted on taking those crooked dead-end paths!"

"You wretch!"

He berated her fiercely, no longer possessing his former muddle-through mentality.

Since Shen Hua was still underage and no serious consequences had yet occurred, Teacher Qin was allowed to bail her out, but she would certainly still be held accountable.

A life that had once been bright and smooth now had one foot in darkness.

After a while, Shen Hua said blankly, "What am I