Someone's Actually Protecting Her?

Her cheap brother wanted her to drop out, and now this blockhead teacher wanted her to drop out too?

Was the original owner really that easy to bully?

Qin Xin interrupted Gou Dachun, speaking indifferently: "BMP, Bone Morphogenetic Protein, extracted from sea urchins."

Holy crap, the ugly freak actually answered.

The entire class froze.

It took them a moment to realize something wasn't quite right.

Sea urchins belong to the phylum Echinodermata, not Chordata; according to what the teacher just taught, you couldn't extract BMP from them, right?

Sure enough, Gou Dachun roared: "Sea urchins? Why don't you say you extracted it from a plant? It's ridiculous! I've said it eight hundred times, BMP must be extracted from vertebrates!!!"

Qin Xin pondered for a moment: "Plants, of course, are possible. However, the one extracted is BMP-16."

Gou Dachun was so angry his fingers trembled: "Possible my foot! You're failing the final anatomy exam!"

While the rest of the crowd gloated, they couldn't help but shiver.

The medical school's exams were strict; failing really meant dropping out.

Lan Qingxin's grades were abysmal, and now that she was already predicted to fail anatomy, the others were even more...

Just as the atmosphere grew increasingly tense.

Suddenly!

A sharp, feminine shout burst through the classroom door: "You surnamed Gou, if you dare give my student a failing grade, I'll give everyone in Class 1 a zero in biochemistry!"

The powerful, resonant words landed before the door even opened.

A young woman with a high ponytail, dressed in a sharp black professional suit and wearing 10cm heels, stood aggressively on the podium, locking eyes with Gou Dachun.

The students held their breath.

"Holy crap, why is the Little Dragon Maiden here!"

"What Little Dragon Maiden? Our mentor is clearly the Dragon Mother; tsk tsk, look at that aura!"

"What I don't get is why the Little Dragon Maiden is protecting the ugly freak..."

"What's there to get? The Little Dragon Maiden said it herself, we're all her cubs. You know she's always been protective of her cubs!"

Caught red-handed by Class 2's mentor, Ao Meng, while cursing and threatening a student from her class, Gou Dachun's lips twitched. After a long moment, he muttered: "What's there to be proud of? You're just guiding a trash class; do you think you're so great?"

Ao Meng raised an eyebrow: "Who are you calling trash? Are you trash? I am great, unlike you, who is so small and petty."

Gou Dachun's face flushed red: "..."

There was no reasoning with this woman!

He angrily slammed his lesson plan shut and hurried away.

Ao Meng let out a scoff.

A round of synchronized applause rang out behind her.

Ao Meng turned back, her face stern: "Get back to reviewing! The final exam is coming up. If I catch any of you cubs skipping class or not studying, I'll beat you so hard your own mothers won't recognize you!"

The crowd: "..."

No doubt about it, she was still the same fierce and terrifying Dragon Mother.

However.

The next second.

Ao Meng strolled to the back row of the classroom and stopped in front of Lan Qingxin.

Her expression softened, even showing a hint of tenderness: "Little Qingxin is back? Not bad, not bad. Attending class on time is a good start. Don't listen to that dog-surnamed guy's yapping. You just focus on your review; he wouldn't dare fail you."

The crowd: "..."

Dragon Mother, what kind of god-tier face-changing technique is this?

After Ao Meng left, Ao Xinghao, who had left the classroom at some point, returned to his seat.

He sat backward, hugging the back of his chair to face Qin Xin, his expression lazy yet filled with a deep smile: "Hey, Little Qingxin, let me formally introduce myself. I'm Ao Xinghao—the 'Xinghao' of the vast, starry river."

Qin Xin replied coldly and indifferently with a "Mm."

Ao Xinghao: "The Little Dragon Maiden is my aunt, don't be afraid of her. And that Yao Dazhuang, he's just a fox borrowing a tiger's might; he's no good, don't pay him any mind. I heard you cracked his head open? Well done! I've wanted to do that for a long time, but my aunt doesn't let me cause trouble on her turf..."

The genius youth Ao Xinghao, who was seen by everyone as cold and aloof and never bothered with female students, was currently acting like a chatterbox, filling Qin Xin in on the class gossip.

The female students in the class were all left dumbfounded.