The Head of the Family, Gu Beng Beng

Gu Mian had also taken votes from ballot box 1166's ballot box, but he hadn't "wiped everyone out."

The people who could advance had earned their votes through sheer effort. Gu Mian had only taken some of them, so those who could advance still did, just with lower rankings.

This was also the main reason Teacher Slaughter's first-place ranking hadn't been affected.

Soon, Gu Mian brought Mr. Green to the open-air restaurant on the deck.

A long table stood in the middle of the deck, long enough for fifty people to sit along both sides and eat.

The Upper Class had even thoughtfully stuck each person's number on the chairs beside the table. They'd planned out the contestants' seating arrangements.

Gu Mian's seat was especially prominent. It was at the end of the table, facing the short side, like the head of the family's seat in a TV drama.

To his left and right sat 1166 and 1095. Gu Mian knew the seats had been arranged according to the audience popularity leaderboard.

1166 and 1095 ranked second and third on the popularity leaderboard, respectively.

Everyone else was seated in order according to their ranking. Gu Mian saw that 1117, Mr. Green's number, was more than halfway down the table from him.

A few people had already taken their seats at the long table, as if they'd been waiting there for some time.

Everyone clearly knew Gu Mian. When they saw him approach, they all stood up and nodded in greeting, as if Gu Mian were a teacher arriving to teach a class and they were students waiting to learn.

Mr. Green looked as though he'd seen a ghost. Some of these people had chased him and Gu Mian that morning, their eyes bloodshot, but in just half a day they'd