The claim that Tiannan Academy of Drama existed across two dimensions was not entirely accurate.
Strictly speaking, Ghost-Free Academy and Haunted Academy were both parts of it. Only when the two were combined did they form a whole, the complete Tiannan.
Their relationship was like that between a person and their shadow.
Ghost-Free Academy was Tiannan Academy in its normal state. It existed in the Real World of Shanming City and was a renowned university in the Hujiang region.
Haunted Academy was a deformed product born of some mutation. Located on the reverse side of the Real World, it was an academy that did not exist, hiding countless ghosts.
Looking through the academy's history, its first Head Dean could be traced back twenty-nine years. That dean was named Baili Su.
The current Head Dean was named Han Hongcai, though he had never shown himself to this day.
And based on the above, whether it was Baili Su or Han Hongcai, they were merely Head Deans of Ghost-Free Academy.
For them, the identity of Head Dean was valid only in the Real World. It could even be said that they did not truly hold the office of Head Dean.
The true dean would preside over both Ghost-Free Academy and Haunted Academy, governing the true, complete Tiannan Academy of Drama.
And that dean had one and only one authority: to do as they pleased.
In other words, whoever could become the dean of the complete academy was the true master of this university.
That person was now Ji Li.
But he was not the only Head Dean to have sat in that position since Tiannan was founded. Above him, there was another.
That one was the source of the mutation that had split this university into "yin" and "yang" halves—the Root Ghost.