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

"Suspended from teaching for a week?!"

Outside the door to the Academic Affairs Office.

Tang Chuan froze when he heard Du Weilun announce the final decision.

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

That was it?!

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

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

Suspended from teaching?

That was a damn vacation!

Tang Chuan's mind was a mess.

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

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

Then the academy's leaders would hear about it and rush over. Instead of punishing him, they would shower him with praise!

They were supposed to hail him as "a teacher who appeared once in ten thousand years" and appoint him Acting Head Teacher on the spot, putting the entire class under his charge!

Then he would 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, that was thinking too small!

He should be Hokage!

Hokage of the entire Douluo Continent!

By then, whether it was Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, or that bastard Xiao Yan, they would all be his disciples!

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

Now that was the story Tang Chuan had in mind!

But reality had other ideas!

Du Weilun had merely listened to Tang Chuan's impassioned speech with a lukewarm expression, then said one thing.

"I understand."

Then he had gone to report to Dean Yan Shaozhe.

When he returned, Du Weilun had casually announced the decision.

Zhou Yi was suspended from teaching for a week and sent home to reflect on her actions.

Other teachers would temporarily take over Freshman Class One's lessons.

As for Tang Chuan, who had led the uproar?

Du Weilun didn't even look at him again!

Being ignored so completely felt worse to Tang Chuan than being expelled from Shrek Academy outright!

Tang Chuan's eyes were bloodshot, and he was breathing hard enough to pass out from anger.

Zhou Yi, meanwhile, looked thoroughly pleased with herself.

Seeing Tang Chuan's expression, as though he'd swallowed a fly, and Zhou Yi's smug face,

Huo Yuhao almost burst out laughing.

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

But when it came to their intelligence as transmigrators, the two were about the same.

Both had read too much fan fiction and decided they were the protagonists chosen by fate.

They were idiots who thought they should radiate kingly charisma the moment they appeared and have everyone bow before them!

Trying to use the Hokage-style art of talking people into submission on the Douluo Continent?

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

In Douluo fan fiction, Zhou Yi had practically become the classic villain every transmigrator had to trample.

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

That was why the Tang Sect's little princess, split three ways, only had to flirt with him a little to have him completely hooked.

In the end, he had fallen headfirst into the pit Tang God-King had dug for him.

But bringing Zhou Yi down was not something a few clever words could accomplish!

Who were Yan Shaozhe and the other leaders of Shrek Academy?

They had spent who knew how many years navigating the soul master world. What kind of people and schemes hadn't they seen?

How could veterans like them fall for Zhou Yi's little tricks?

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

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!

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

Fan Yu!

As long as Fan Yu remained in his position, Zhou Yi's position was secure!

Even if Yan Shaozhe and the other martial soul division leaders looked down on Soul Tools to their very bones, dismissing them as gimmicks,

They would never give up Shrek Academy's overwhelming advantage in Soul Tools over the three original Douluo kingdoms!

What did the expulsion of a few freshmen matter compared to that?

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

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

There were even said to be secrets concerning He Caitou's 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 intriguing!

Soul Tools were one thing, but a systematic approach to Forging absolutely should not exist in this era!

There was no doubt that this He Caitou, so different from his original-story counterpart, was a transmigrator too!

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

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

What a mess!

After learning all this, Huo Yuhao had devised a plan to have someone else do his dirty work.

His original plan was to use his conflict 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.

Tang Chuan, arrogant as he was, would naturally step forward to lead the charge.

Even Huo Yuhao hadn't expected Tang Chuan to cooperate so readily.

Tang Chuan had inserted himself into the incident with Dai Huabin and walked even deeper into Huo Yuhao's trap.

From there, everything had fallen into place.

Zhou Yi was petty and vindictive, no different from those Demon Bo Gang princesses in Huo Yuhao's previous life.

Tang Chuan had humiliated her so thoroughly in public. How could she possibly let it go?

And once He Caitou, another transmigrator, heard Tang Chuan's grand speech today, he was bound to take notice of him.

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

With so many forces in play, Tang Chuan was as good as dead this time!

All Huo Yuhao had to do was stay hidden and wait to loot what was left!

The messier things got, the easier it would be to profit while everyone else fought!

The door to the Academic Affairs Office closed.

Zhou Yi shot Tang Chuan two vicious looks, her eyes full of venom and murderous intent.

Then she flicked her sleeves and left without looking back.

The freshmen of Class One, meanwhile, erupted in cheers.

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

Only Tang Chuan remained gloomy. He returned to his original seat in the classroom without a word.

A little while later, the teacher assigned to replace Zhou Yi entered the classroom.

Huo Yuhao was familiar with him.

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

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

He sat in the back row, looking every bit the obedient student paying close attention.

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

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