"Three months ago, did you see a female student go berserk by Sea God Lake, and do something to her?"
Yan Shaozhe asked sternly.
At the question, Huo Yuhao's blank eyes seemed to flicker with a change.
Yan Shaozhe's eyes widened at the sight, and he almost leaped to his feet.
But to his disappointment, Huo Yuhao's expression returned to its former blankness. "I-I don't know."
Don't know? Yan Shaozhe leaned heavily back against his chair, disappointed.
After a moment's thought, he seemed to want to ask something else, but after wrestling with it for a while, he gave up.
Yan Shaozhe sat up straight, putting on an expression as if nothing had happened.
The next moment, he gave a slight wave of his hand, and Huo Yuyao slowly came out of his daze.
Once he had come around, Huo Yuhao seemed a little puzzled. He shook his head, blinked, and even scratched the back of his head.
"That's strange. Why did I just zone out?" Huo Yuhao murmured, confused.
"Yuhao, if there's nothing else, you can head back. Don't you have another Freshman Assessment this afternoon?"
"Don't forget, you have to take first place in the Freshman Assessment to join the Inner Court."
Yan Shaozhe's tone turned gentle again.
Huo Yuhao showed no sign of anything amiss. He simply nodded, saluted Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun, who stood beside him, then turned and left the office.
After Huo Yuhao had gone, inside the dean's office—
"What do you think?" Yan Shaozhe asked Du Weilun after a long silence.
Du Weilun had watched the whole thing, and had seen every move Huo Yuhao made.
"Boss, could that kid have been pretending just now? Maybe he wasn't under your control?" Du Weilun said after a moment's hesitation.
Yan Shaozhe furrowed his