For some reason, ever since Ye Ziyun had joined the junior martial arts class, she had felt that someone was watching her from behind.
Today, the feeling was especially strong. She felt as if she were standing naked in front of whoever it was, with no privacy at all.
Hearing a strange laugh from the back of the classroom, Ye Ziyun turned around.
The moment she saw Nie Li, her instincts told her that this yellow-haired pervert had been leering at her the whole time.
She had always thought it was that creep Xian Wu. She hadn't expected to have gotten the wrong idea about him.
Still, Xian Wu wasn't a good person either.
Ye Ziyun bit her lip. This yellow-haired guy had to be a playboy like Shen Fei, the sort who liked to toy with women.
How dare he stare at her so brazenly? If he dared lay a hand on her, she'd make him pay!
At that thought, Ye Ziyun furrowed her delicate brows and turned around, no longer giving that pervert a chance to admire her from the front.
The junior martial arts class was just too bizarre. It had somehow brought together both the Pants-Stripping Fiend and a peeping pervert. She had no idea how Ning'er had managed to survive in such a harsh environment.
Compared to those two, the newcomer Shen Yue seemed fairly normal.
Ye Ziyun's favorability toward Shen Yue +1.
At the lectern, Shen Xiu changed back into human form, ready to settle the score with Nie Li.
With that frightening, pointed face gone, the wilted Xian Wu felt like he had a chance again.
Shen Xiu crossed her arms and glanced sidelong at Nie Li. "For the next two years, all of you will be my students... Among the thirty-eight of you, some come from commoner families, while others come from noble families..."
Shen Xiu droned on with a string of pompous remarks.
She praised the nobility and looked down on commoners, badly bruising the commoner students' pride. Some of them even began to lose interest in studying.
"Bochi!"
Xian Wu cursed under his breath. He really wanted to pin that snobbish Shen Xiu to the ground and teach her a good lesson.
Which noble family hadn't started out as commoners? Do kings and nobles have some special birthright?
If he weren't wary of the Sacred Family behind her, Xian Wu would have given Shen Xiu a thorough "lesson."
Just as Xian Wu was mentally cursing every woman in Shen Xiu's family, Nie Li suddenly raised his hand and stood up.
"Teacher Shen Xiu, I have a question!"
Shen Xiu had been trying to put Nie Li in his place with her earlier remarks. She hadn't expected him to walk straight into the line of fire.
Perfect!
"What question do you have?" Shen Xiu asked with a cold snort.
Nie Li's response left Shen Xiu speechless. The whole class stared in surprise at the boy who had just made a name for himself.
Some of the information Nie Li let slip without meaning to only strengthened Xian Wu's suspicion that a max-level expert had possessed him.
How could he pass up a chance to latch onto such a powerful backer?
"Teacher, I have a question too!" Xian Wu raised his hand.
As the saying went, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. By standing up to Shen Xiu, he could earn Nie Li's favor.
Nie Li's rebuttal had driven Shen Xiu into a frenzy.
What she hadn't expected was for someone else to speak out against her. Were the students in the junior martial arts class trying to rebel?
"And what question do you have?" Shen Xiu asked through gritted teeth. "You're all ganging up on me now?"
Xian Wu thought for a moment. "Let's set aside whether we're the last surviving humans. I want to ask: aside from power and wealth, what's the difference between nobles and commoners?"
"We all have two shoulders holding up one head, two eyes, and one mouth. None of us is missing anything the others have. We all need to eat and drink, and we all need to take a piss and a shit. Do nobles not eat or shit?"
"Nobles aren't that much better than commoners. Without commoners to grow food, what would nobles eat? Without commoners to process and make things, what would nobles wear or use?"
"In the end, nobles are just commoners with special access to power and wealth. Why should we commoner students have to grovel to the nobles? At Sacred Orchid Academy, what matters is ability, not family background."
"If this were somewhere else, I'd have nothing to say. But Sacred Orchid Academy is a place where everyone is equal. You can't look down on us commoner students here!"
"We haven't even started cultivating yet. The future is full of possibilities, and I won't let you snuff them out."
After he finished, Xian Wu glanced at Nie Li.
Nie Li smiled and gave Xian Wu a thumbs-up, approving of what he'd said.
Xian Wu was thrilled. He had decided to cling to the max-level expert's coattails. Not even Jesus could stop him.
The other commoner students in the class were encouraged by Xian Wu's words, and their fighting spirit reignited.
"You... You, you, get out!" Shen Xiu was so furious that her willow-shaped eyebrows shot up.
"Fine, I'll go!" Xian Wu shouted back defiantly. Under the gaze of the entire class, he strode out of the classroom with a swagger.
Seeing Shen Xiu of the Sacred Family lose her temper after Xian Wu stood up to her, Xiao Ning'er silently gave him a thumbs-up. She disliked people from the Sacred Family more than anything.
Ye Ziyun kept a calm expression as she furrowed her brows and thought it over. She felt that Xian Wu's words made some sense, but not entirely. She couldn't quite put her finger on why.
How could Ye Ziyun have known that Xian Wu's speech had combined dialectical materialism with Marxism, the great ideas of Marx? There was no way a feudal native like her could understand it.
Shen Yue had been angered by Xian Wu's words just like his aunt Shen Xiu. He silently vowed to teach that loudmouth a lesson after class.
How dare he openly defy someone from the Sacred Family? He must have a death wish.
Zhu Jun Xiang and the others knew that Xian Wu was the kind of person who spoke his mind, but he had actually dared to offend someone from the Sacred Family in front of everyone. What was he thinking?
Even if he had been standing up for commoners.
Lu Piao thought it was unwise, but at the same time, he admired the courage of his two friends.
If it were him, he'd only dare talk behind their backs. He'd never have the guts to openly fall out with them.
Although Shen Xiu had driven Xian Wu out, Nie Li had no intention of letting her off the hook.
In his past life, the Sacred Family had abandoned the city, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of City of Brilliance's residents. His parents and relatives had also been slaughtered by the claws and fangs of demon beasts.
How could such a deep hatred simply be let go?
In this life, he would uproot the Sacred Family!
Outside the classroom, Xian Wu stood in punishment and planned out his future.
Nie Li was no longer the naive fake protagonist he used to be. After being possessed by a soul from the future, he had evolved into the real protagonist.
Before transmigrating, Xian Wu had read plenty of online novels and was fairly familiar with the regression genre.
At the start of a regression story, the protagonist was still weak and needed help most. This was the perfect moment to join his inner circle.
Once the protagonist grew powerful, he'd have no shortage of followers. By then, even if Xian Wu cleaned up after him, the protagonist might not take him in.
Besides, protagonists in regression stories usually wanted to make up for their past regrets and were good people. At least, that was true of the novels Xian Wu had read.
Take a gamble, and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle.
If he didn't seize this chance to turn his life around, relying on his own strength to escape his fate in the future would be harder than reaching the heavens.
Xian Wu still couldn't decide whether he should reveal the abilities of his Demon Left Hand to Nie Li.
He could only take things one step at a time.
The bell rang.
Xian Wu returned to the classroom.
Shen Yue slapped the desk and stood up, his expression hostile...
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