Tang Chuan: That's Not How the Story Was Supposed to Go. Wasn't I Meant to Become Hokage?

"Suspended for a week?!"

Outside the doors of the Academic Affairs Office.

Tang Chuan froze when he heard Du Weilun's final decision.

He stared at Du Weilun in disbelief, thinking he must have misheard.

That was it?!

He had led a hundred freshmen into the Academic Affairs Office and even accused Zhou Yi of "training Evil Soul Masters"!

After making such a huge scene, all he got was this slap on the wrist?

Suspended?

That was a damn vacation!

Tang Chuan's mind was a muddle.

That wasn't how the fanfiction he'd read had gone!

Wasn't he, as the protagonist, supposed to denounce Zhou Yi's tyranny with a brilliant speech in front of everyone?

Then the academy's higher-ups would hear about it and come rushing over. Far from punishing him, they would shower him with praise!

They should have hailed him as "a teacher who appears once in ten thousand years" and appointed him Acting Head Teacher on the spot, putting the whole class under his charge!

Then he could use his authority to recruit every talented student in the class into the Tang Sect!

He would kick Tang God-King aside and become the Tang Sect's founder and sect master himself!

No, he was thinking too small!

He should become Hokage!

Hokage of the entire Douluo Continent!

By then, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, even that bastard Xiao Yan—they would all be his disciples!

They would have to obey his every word and follow his lead!

Wasn't that how the story was supposed to go?

But reality was a far cry from his grand vision!

Du Weilun had listened to Tang Chuan's impassioned speech without much reaction, then said just one thing.

"I understand."

Then he went to report to Dean Yan Shaozhe.

When he came back, Du Weilun casually announced the decision.

Zhou Yi would be suspended from teaching for a week and sent home to reflect.

Other teachers would temporarily take over Freshman Class One.

And Tang Chuan, who had led the disturbance?

Du Weilun didn't even give him another glance!

Being ignored so completely hurt Tang Chuan more than getting expelled from Shrek Academy would have!

Tang Chuan's eyes were bloodshot, and he was breathing like a bull, so furious he looked ready to keel over.

Zhou Yi, meanwhile, looked thoroughly pleased with herself.

At the sight of Tang Chuan's sour expression and Zhou Yi's smug face,

Huo Yuhao nearly laughed out loud.

To be fair, Tang Chuan might have been far stronger than Ye Beixuan.

But when it came to brains, the two Transmigrators were about the same.

Both had read too much fanfiction and decided they were destined protagonists.

They were the kind of idiots who thought they could appear, radiate kingly authority, and have everyone bow at their feet!

Trying to use Hokage-style talk-no-jutsu on the Douluo Continent?

People on the Douluo Continent didn't have Hokage's lofty moral standards!

In Douluo fanfiction, Zhou Yi had practically become the classic villain every Transmigrator had to take down.

And in the original story, Huo Yuhao had been shaped by Zhou Yi's high-pressure, humiliating teaching into someone so sensitive and insecure that the slightest slight could shatter him.

That was why the Tang Sect's little princess, split into three, could string him along with the slightest flirtation.

In the end, he fell straight into the trap Tang God-King had dug for him.

But bringing down Zhou Yi was never going to be as simple as talking circles around her!

What kind of people were Yan Shaozhe and the other Shrek Academy higher-ups?

They had spent countless years fighting their way through the Soul Master World. What hadn't they seen?

How could hardened veterans like them be fooled by Zhou Yi's little tricks?

Expel ninety percent of the students, keep only the very best, and then boast a twenty-five-percent admission rate to the Inner Academy!

Even a child could do that math!

So why had no one touched Zhou Yi?

Because Zhou Yi's real purpose had never been to teach or nurture students!

Her real purpose was to use her looks and her body to keep hold of the one person on the Douluo Continent who might advance to become a Level 9 Soul Engineer.

Fan Yu!

As long as Fan Yu kept his position, Zhou Yi's was untouchable!

Yan Shaozhe and the other Martial Soul faction leaders might look down on Soul Tools to their core, dismissing them as clever gimmicks.

But they would never give up Shrek Academy's crushing advantage in Soul Tools over the original three kingdoms of Douluo!

What did a few expelled freshmen matter next to that?

Over the past few days, Huo Yuhao had gathered some other information as well.

Fan Yu's disciple, He Caitou, was skilled in both Soul Tools and Forging!

There were even rumors that He Caitou had secrets concerning his Martial Soul.

Yan Shaozhe had tried several times to investigate, only for Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo to protect He Caitou at all costs.

That was telling!

Soul Tools were one thing, but a systematic Forging technique had no business existing in this era!

Without a doubt, this He Caitou, so different from the one in the original story, had to be a Transmigrator too!

Huo Yuhao had also heard gossip about He Caitou and his master's wife, Zhou Yi.

Almost everyone at Shrek Academy knew—except Fan Yu himself!

What a tangled mess!

After learning all this, Huo Yuhao had devised a plan to make his enemies do the dirty work for him.

His original script had been to use his clash with Dai Huabin to bring up the subject of "fighting."

Zhou Yi would then force the whole class to run laps, provoking everyone's anger.

Someone as arrogant as Tang Chuan would naturally step forward to lead the charge.

As it turned out, even Huo Yuhao hadn't expected Tang Chuan to play along so readily.

Tang Chuan had involved himself in the incident with Dai Huabin of his own accord, sinking deeper into Huo Yuhao's trap.

From there, everything had fallen into place.

Zhou Yi was petty and vindictive, no different from those "little fairy" Demon Bo Gangs from Huo Yuhao's previous life.

Tang Chuan had humiliated her in public. How could she possibly let that go?

And after hearing Tang Chuan's grand speech today, He Caitou, a fellow Transmigrator, would surely take notice of him too.

Add Xiao Yan, who had always harbored nothing but ill will toward Tang Chuan...

With things this chaotic, Tang Chuan was as good as dead this time!

All Huo Yuhao had to do was stay hidden and wait to collect the spoils!

The messier things got, the easier it would be to profit from the sidelines!

The doors of the Academic Affairs Office closed.

Zhou Yi shot Tang Chuan two fierce glares, her eyes full of malice and murderous intent.

Then she swept her sleeves aside and left without looking back.

The freshmen of Freshman Class One burst into cheers.

To them, escaping a hundred laps and driving off that monstrous old hag was a great victory!

Only Tang Chuan looked grim. Without a word, he returned to his original seat in the classroom.

After a while, the teacher assigned to replace Zhou Yi in Freshman Class One entered the room.

Huo Yuhao knew this teacher well enough.

Wang Yan was one of the few teachers at Shrek Academy who focused on theory.

But Huo Yuhao had no interest in listening to Wang Yan's lesson just then.

He sat in the back row, looking for all the world like a well-behaved student paying close attention.

In fact, beneath his desk, he had quietly opened the Complete Guide to Potions.

"Now to see whether this thing works..."