"Draw the grass and startle the snake? I don't just want to draw the grass and startle the snake. I even want to scare all the snakes away."
On the seventh floor of the Platinum Tower, in the principal's office, Cha Huan casually replied to Le Yu and Yan Yi's questioning while brewing tea, "Unfortunately, that brat Xie Chenyuan arrived too quickly. I'd only visited three families before I had to stop. Sigh."
Le Yu and Yan Yi felt their scalps go numb. In just one afternoon, Cha Huan had single-handedly slaughtered three powerful figures in Yanjing and even drawn the attention of Yan Command Director Xie Chenyuan.
Though they had done their best to overestimate Cha Huan, they still hadn't expected this—they had underestimated him. After all, when Cha Huan went berserk in Yanjing, neither Qin Leyin nor Yan Yi had even been born. Once Cha Huan settled down in the Imperial Academy, everyone gradually forgot his demon-king nature. They had thought swindling money to build toilets was his limit, never expecting that his limit was far lower than imagined.
Noticing Le Yu and Yan Yi's expressions, Cha Huan smiled, took a sip of tea, and said, "What else could I do? Did you think I should obediently sit still and wait for the enemy to attack?"
Yan Yi tried to remain calm. "But Principal, by doing this, aren't you showing that you already know the other side's plan?"
"Isn't that even better?" Cha Huan said leisurely. "Once they realize their plan won't work, they'll naturally stop. I'm not some bloodthirsty maniac. If this can stop an assassination, why wouldn't I do it?"
I'm not some bloodthirsty maniac... Principal, your clothes still smell of blood!
Yan Yi shook her head. "But what if they don't back down? What if