History Repeats Itself

"Hello, I heard your academy is recruiting new students, and we are here to register." Xia Linyuan said to the youth in yellow sportswear at the head of the line, neither servile nor overbearing.

"Junior, I think you should go find your sister first." The youth pointed behind him with a wry smile.

Xia Linyuan turned his head to look, only to find that Gu Yuena was nowhere to be seen: "..."

However, Xia Linyuan always kept his word; since he said he wouldn't go looking for her, he wouldn't, so he simply waited by the side of the East City Gate.

Seeing that Xia Linyuan really wasn't coming to find her, Gu Yuena, who was in the crowd, stomped her feet in anger, but she had no choice but to walk up obediently.

After exchanging a greeting with the youth from earlier, Xia Linyuan and Gu Yuena walked into the city.

No sooner had Xia Linyuan left than someone else arrived before the youth, "Hello, we are here to register for the Shrek Academy entrance exam."

The newcomers were two youths of the same age. They had delicate features, fair skin, and a pair of large, striking eyes that were a faint powder-blue, with neat short hair of the same color.

Looking at the two identical faces before him, the youth's mouth hung open in disbelief.

These two were actually twins!

However, of this pair of twins, the one on the left had a somewhat arrogant expression, while the one on the right wore a polite smile, giving off a very approachable feeling.

Even though they were twin brothers, their personalities were polar opposites.

"Y-you two, go ahead and register." The youth said blankly.

"Thank you, Senior." The more approachable of the twin youths smiled slightly at the youth, then pulled his arrogant twin brother into the city.

After walking about a few dozen meters, the approachable youth's friendly smile suddenly collapsed, and he complained bitterly: "Sister! What are you doing? You had a sudden whim to dress as a man to register, but couldn't you have left me out of it?"

The youth looked at his own attire and groaned repeatedly, "Sister, if Big Daddy and Second Daddy find out we cross-dressed to register for Shrek Academy, we definitely won't hear the end of it."

Through the youth's dialogue, it was clear that these handsome twins were actually twin sisters!

Hearing her younger sister's complaints, the arrogant older sister instantly broke character. She stuck out her tongue playfully and said: "Wulin, don't you think this is fun?"

"Fun my foot!" Wulin rolled her eyes and said: "Sister, I've already asked around. The dorms at Shrek Academy are all doubles. It would be fine if we were assigned to the same room, but if we aren't and end up living with strange boys, don't you think that would be awkward?"

"Uh..." Hearing her sister say this, the older sister was stunned, and she said with some embarrassment: "How could that happen! We will definitely be assigned to the same room! Don't you worry, Wulin."

By the end of the sentence, the older sister herself was feeling guilty.

"Sister! I need to find a place to change my clothes; I don't want to suffer because of you!"

"Wulin, don't be like that. Many people outside just saw you dressed as a boy too. If you change back into women's clothing, people will definitely start suspecting me too."

After walking about two hundred meters into Shrek Academy, Xia Linyuan and Gu Yuena saw ten statues carved from granite.

Who else could these statues be but the Shrek Seven Devils of the first generation and the Golden Iron Triangle?

Passing by the statues of Tang San and Xiao Wu, Gu Yuena asked Xia Linyuan: "Is that the statue of that sinister and unprincipled successor of the Asura God?"

"Mm." Xia Linyuan responded indifferently.

"It really is a twist of fate. Such a hypocrite with no moral integrity has been worshipped as a god by mortals for ten thousand years. If they knew that the Sea God Tang San they believe in was such a sinister hypocrite, I wonder what they would think." Gu Yuena sighed.

"If they cannot see the facts with their own eyes, do you think they would one-sidedly believe our side of the story? History is written by the victors, and in the history written by the victors, do you think he would leave behind his own dark history? How many people can be like the Empress, leaving only a wordless stele before her grave after death, leaving her merits and faults to be judged by future generations?"

Gu Yuena blinked her beautiful, purple-glazed eyes, "Who is the Empress?"

"The first and only female emperor of a certain civilization in a certain world. To a certain extent, she played a guiding role in the peak period of that era."

Hearing this, Gu Yuena's eyes lit up, "Such a woman, she truly possesses the spirit of a heroine who does not yield to men!"

"Alright, enough nonsense."

Gu Yuena: "..." I really want to smash this person with a hammer! How can there be such an infuriating person in this world!

After showing their city lord's recommendation letter at the freshman registration office and completing the registration, someone led them to the Beast Fighting Zone.

To recruit new students, Shrek Academy required not only a city lord's recommendation letter but also an entrance examination.

The content of the entrance exam was to battle a ten-year soul beast, and three teachers would evaluate the candidate's performance to determine if they passed.

The Beast Fighting Zone was divided into a captive area for soul beasts and a beast fighting arena specifically for students to take their exams.

When Xia Linyuan and Gu Yuena arrived at the beast fighting arena, there weren't many students taking the exam.

After all, in this era where the Spirit Hall no longer provided free soul awakening for commoners, and one had to either spend money or become a lackey for the nobles to awaken their Martial Soul, the students who could obtain a city-level recommendation letter and afford to casually pull out ten gold soul coins for tuition were all from wealthy or noble families.

In the original work, strictly speaking, the only commoner in the entire Shrek Academy was Jiang Nannan.

The male lead, Huo Yuhao, was poor, but don't forget, by blood relation, he was the son of the Duke of White Tiger, Dai Hao, and could not be considered a true commoner at all.

Even more ridiculous was that every student at Shrek Academy received a monthly subsidy of one gold soul coin issued by the three great empires.

However, in the entire Shrek Academy, apart from Jiang Nannan and Huo Yuhao who needed this one gold soul coin, who exactly was this coin meant to insult?

With just this one gold soul coin, it would take ten months of not eating or drinking to pay for one year's tuition, or just enough for one venue fee at the soul fighting arena. Some students spent more than one gold soul coin on a single meal.

Moreover, the money came from the three great empires, but the reputation was earned by Shrek Academy. In this regard, Shrek Academy was becoming more and more like the Spirit Hall.

Hmm... let him think. He remembered seeing a very pertinent evaluation of Shrek Academy before he fell into the Abyss. How did it go again?