Smack! Smack! Smack!
With several crisp cracks, the ruler landed mercilessly on her pert backside.
Leng Yulai's body trembled, looking as though she could barely endure the pain. Chen Ming stopped while he was ahead; after all, it was not quite right to keep hitting a girl like this.
But this girl had actually tried to make a move on her teacher. She deserved it! Then he sat down in a chair and patted the seat beside him, signaling for her to sit.
"I'm your teacher. Don't let there be a next time, understand?"
She immediately stood up, covering her butt as if savoring the sensation while also feeling humiliated, but she still sat down.
What followed was a normal tutoring session. Chen Ming needed to help correct her love-struck mindset.
"If there's anything you don't understand in the future, you can come ask me. Of course, you have to come when I'm around. Understand?"
After the lesson, Chen Ming escorted her home. Before leaving, he told her to come ask him anytime if there was anything she did not understand. Leng Yulai nodded obediently.
"Alright, Teacher."
After seeing her home, Chen Ming returned to the Sect Master Hall, where Di Qiu'er was staring at the test papers in her hands with an utterly terrifyingly dark expression.
What the hell... what kind of absurd answers were these? Had she really been this stupid before? Fortunately, Wang Qiu'er had at least attended class before, so she had managed to pass.
The two hajimis, on the other hand, were truly suffering. They were currently copying out the sect's prohibitions and rules.
The sect's rules stated that no one was allowed to become love-struck, that one's career came first, and that betraying the sect for an outsider would result in the execution of