The new teacher in a professional skirt was sprinting down the street with a slice of bread clenched between her teeth. The only difference between her and a high school girl was the JK uniform.
No tripping on flat ground, no bread falling to the ground, no fateful encounter with her destined man. The miserable wage slave made it to work at the last possible moment, rushed through the school gates, and then seemed to knock someone flying onto the ground.
She hadn't tripped on flat ground, but the slice of bread had fallen and landed squarely on the face of the person she'd knocked over.
"Are you my fateful man, you TM?"
"You... You're from yesterday?"
His name was Teacher Xiao Hu... Apparently, it was a nickname. His real name was Li Jianren, and he had graduated from Huoyun High more than a decade ago. Because of the difficulty of finding a job and his personal abilities, he had ultimately been forced to stay at Huoyun High as a teacher. He was currently a sparring teacher for practical classes.
That was right. He was the one Nan Xiaonan had encountered yesterday—the one who had been bullied by students, hung from the school gate, and eventually blown up alongside Nan Xiaonan.
"...So Wang Baiwan spent a fortune to bring you back to life?"
Nan Xiaonan sized up Teacher Xiao Hu and thought that Wang Baiwan had probably been willing to spend so much money to save him because his granddaughter, Badan, had been the one who planted the Fire Crystal Bomb.
"I'm sorry for getting you blown up on your first day." Teacher Xiao Hu sighed while slowly cleaning the strawberry jam from his face. "Principal Wang was the one who brought you back to life too, right?"
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