"Old man, don't say that. What's past is past. We have to live in the present."
Chen Ge coughed dryly. He truly hadn't expected to run into the Old Principal at the Spirit Channeling School.
It had been an accident that he'd entered the Ghost School this time. Fortunately, he'd kept up his good habit of bringing all his staff wherever he went. There was strength in numbers, and he never knew when he might need one of his employees' special abilities. Even if they had no useful abilities, having them around could still bolster his courage.
Through a series of coincidences, things had ended up like this. It seemed accidental, yet somehow inevitable, and the thought made his scalp prickle.
"When you get old, you start thinking about the past. Seeing you reminds me of your parents. They really did a lot for me." The Old Principal looked remorseful. "Actually, I noticed you the first time you came to Muyang Middle School. That was when I first thought of rescuing Xue Ying from the Ghost School."
"You don't need to worry about that." Worried that Ying Hong might hurt the Old Principal, Chen Ge walked a few steps forward.
"Let me speak. Some things have been bottled up inside me, and I have to get them off my chest." The Old Principal shook his head gently. "The Spirit Channeling School is extremely dangerous. I knew there was little chance I'd be able to rescue Xue Ying. If I couldn't return, the other children in my class would have no one to look after them, and something was bound to happen to them. I couldn't bear to leave them to that, so I asked you to take care of them."
The Old Man paused. "Your parents helped me, yet I