"You're awake."
Ninth lay motionless on the ground, her breathing still steady, as if she were still asleep.
Seeing that she showed no reaction, Chen Yu lost patience and pointed at Ninth on the ground. "Teacher Bai, do it."
"Sure."
With a raise of her hand, the Gu Mother in the air transformed into a Poisonlight Centipede and crawled up the white-haired woman's thigh.
Its sharp claws began climbing up along her leg, while green poisonous light seeped into her body, making the white-haired woman tremble from the unbearable itch.
After holding out for only 3.4 seconds, the white-haired woman scrambled up in terror and shouted, "I'm awake, I'm awake! Please spare me!"
"If you'd done that earlier, you wouldn't have had to suffer."
Chen Yu walked over, crouched in front of the white-haired woman, and asked, "What should I call you?"
"Get that centipede away from me first! I'm terrified of bugs!"
At Bai Buyu's glance, the centipede slowly crawled off the white-haired woman and slipped beneath Bai Buyu's lab coat.
"Alright, the bug's gone. What should I call you?"
The white-haired woman still wanted to display Azure Lotus High School's unyielding pride, but when she saw Chen Yu about to summon the bug again, she shuddered and bit her lip before saying humiliatingly, "Ninth."
"What kind of name is that?"
"It's an Azure Lotus High School tradition. When you enroll, you abandon your old name and address each other by your class ranking."
"Wouldn't whoever ranked 250th get screwed over?"
"No. Only the top ten have names. First is called First. I'm ranked ninth, so I'm Ninth."
"What about those outside the top ten?"
"Trash, idiot, hey you, whatever. Any of those work."
"I really don't want to talk to you ranking-caste worshippers."
"What's wrong with rankings? Everything