I Don't Want to Sit Next to a Lunatic

Though Wang Dong'er felt a little helpless as she watched Ao Yao head toward Class Nine, she could only turn around and walk into Class One.

As soon as she entered, Wang Dong'er spotted Huo Yuhao's face, which brought her nothing but bad luck. But his was the only seat in the classroom with an empty spot beside it.

Wang Dong'er stood where she was and didn't choose to sit there.

She'd rather die than sit next to Huo Yuhao!

Just then, an old woman walked in from outside. Her eyes fell at once on Wang Dong'er, who was standing in the middle of the classroom without sitting down. Her wrinkled face took on a stern expression. "Why haven't you found a seat? Do you expect me to ask you to sit down?"

So this was the crazy old woman Ao Yao had mentioned?

Wang Dong'er took a deep breath and met Zhou Yi's cool gaze with unwavering resolve. "I won't sit next to him. Unless I can switch seats with someone else, I absolutely refuse!"

"Oh?"

Most teachers would have found such a response troublesome, but Zhou Yi looked intrigued. "So, you two have had a falling-out?"

Zhou had always liked students who were a little rebellious. Otherwise, she would never have championed the idiotic idea that students who didn't dare cause trouble were useless. Wang Dong'er's words had clearly struck a chord with her.

Huo Yuhao clenched his fists, his face turning slightly pale. He had no idea why Wang Dong'er would say that.

"We haven't had a falling-out. I simply don't want to sit next to a lunatic. Last night, I saw this guy pull out a dagger and try to kill a stranger he'd only just met. I don't want him suddenly slashing me with that dagger in the middle of class."

Thinking quickly, Wang Dong'er used what had happened the day before—Huo Yuhao getting beaten badly by Dai Huabin—as an excuse.

Huo Yuhao shot to his feet, looking indignant. "That guy was my enemy, so that's why I—"

At that, Zhou Yi's expression turned a little disappointed.

She'd thought the two students had fought and fallen out. So it had only been a misunderstanding.

"So it was a misunderstanding. If that's the case, you can sit down now, can't you?"

"No. I still refuse."

Without even looking at Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er continued, "If he was your enemy, then you should have been even more careful. You had no strength, yet you exposed yourself to him. That was foolish. I don't want to sit next to someone foolish."

"You!"

Huo Yuhao gritted his teeth and glared at Wang Dong'er with furious eyes.

He admitted he'd acted impulsively the day before. But they'd only met once—was there any need for her to insult him so viciously?

A trace of impatience crossed Zhou Yi's face. Wang Dong'er still refused to sit next to Huo Yuhao, seriously disrupting the pace of her lesson.

With no other choice, Zhou Yi picked someone at random to sit beside Huo Yuhao and gave Wang Dong'er the seat.

As for why she didn't threaten to expel Wang Dong'er...

Zhou Yi had actually considered it. But she realized that expelling a student this way might interfere with her teaching later, so she forced herself to hold back.

"You there. Yes, you."

Zhou Yi pointed at Huo Yuhao, who hadn't yet had a chance to sit down, and asked calmly, "Did you get into a fight with someone?"

Huo Yuhao's heart tightened. But Wang Dong'er had already exposed everything, so all he could do was nod honestly.

Zhou Yi didn't say anything. She simply looked at Huo Yuhao's still-bruised eye.

She liked that her students got into fights and dared to cause trouble.

But she really didn't like it when they lost!

"Anyone else get into a fight in the past few days? No? Fine, then everyone except him will run a hundred laps around the track! Right now!"

Ao Yao, relieved that he hadn't ended up in Freshman Class One, sat in the classroom of Freshman Class Nine. He glanced at Ning Tian, who was sitting beside him, unsure what to say.

As for the diary, he hadn't added anything to it for now. He genuinely had no idea what to write.

Whenever he remembered that Ning Tian could see what he'd written in his diary, Ao Yao felt as if ants were crawling all over him.

"Ao Yao."

The sudden call pulled Ao Yao out of his daze. He looked up and met Ning Tian's eyes, which seemed to hold flecks of starlight, and her exquisite face, flawless even up close.

Ao Yao's breath caught.

Although Ning Tian was just a minor character in the original story, and had also undergone that bizarre gender change, Ao Yao had to admit she was stunning.

Then again, it made sense.

After all, Ning Tian was the young mistress of the prestigious Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. She'd been pampered since childhood, and both her parents were handsome and beautiful. It would have been stranger if she'd turned out ugly.

"After class, would you come explore with Xiao Feng and me? It got too late yesterday, and there were lots of places we didn't get to see, like the Beast Fighting Area. What do you think?"

Explore the Beast Fighting Area?

After a brief two-and-a-half-second hesitation, Ao Yao nodded and agreed, while quietly turning the matter over in his mind.

The situation between Ning Tian and me was probably this: she knew I had a diary, and I knew she knew I had a diary, but she didn't know I knew that she knew I had a diary.

So the best thing to do now was...

Pretend I didn't know she knew I had a diary.

That had to be right.

As for the diary... I still had to keep writing it. The rewards were too tempting. I couldn't just give them up because I was embarrassed, could I?

Ao Yao knew perfectly well what mattered more.

[Speaking of the Beast Fighting Area, we have to mention Huo Yuhao's outrageous stunt. Other people went there to hone their combat skills, but this guy picked the most ordinary Hundred-Year Soul Beast. Then he used his second Soul Skill, Simulation, to create two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings—and even added the aura of his Second Martial Soul, the thirty-nine-thousand-year Ferocious Beast, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.

That was pretty clever, but also hard to defend... He scared the Beast Fighting Area's Soul Beasts half to death, forcing the area to close for a while. What a waste of public resources!

Just imagine things from the perspective of Gong Changlong, the elder in charge of the Beast Fighting Area. His whole world must have come crashing down. The old man had worked so hard to raise those Soul Beasts, hoping Shrek's students could train by fighting them. Then along came a Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster who scared every last one of them into wetting themselves.

If Huo Yuhao hadn't awakened his Second Martial Soul and gained the Ultimate Ice attribute, Gong Changlong would've slapped him to death.]