When Qin Siyang and Hu Chan returned to Southern Glory, Chu Baxing and the others were already waiting for them.
Besides Chu Baxing, the top students from the other years who were heading to Zone 5, along with several professors leading the group, were all quietly waiting for Qin Siyang to return.
When Qin Siyang and Hu Chan arrived, everyone's eyes turned toward them.
Qin Siyang greeted the group. "You're all here so early? Didn't we say we were leaving tomorrow?"
Li Tianming said, "The schedule changed. Principal Zhao decided we'd leave today. We've been looking all over for you two."
Chu Baxing grumbled, "Qin Siyang, what took you so long? Were you off getting mixed up in some nonsense again?"
Before Qin Siyang could answer, Hu Chan took offense. "Chu Baxing, President Qin never wastes his time on nonsense!"
"I was just joking."
"You have fewer points than President Qin. Remember your place."
Chu Baxing frowned. "Hu San'er, have you had too much kibble today and got nothing better to do? I can't say one word about Qin Siyang without you defending him?"
"President Qin doesn't need you telling him how to do things."
Chu Baxing curled his lip and looked at Qin Siyang. "You two went out together, and he came back a completely different person. You didn't mind-control him, did you?"
Qin Siyang smiled. "I'm not Guo Jiuxiao. I couldn't do something that underhanded."
Chu Baxing didn't think Qin Siyang was that sort of person either, which made him all the more puzzled about why Hu Chan had started sucking up to him again.
Logically, now that Hu Chan had embarked on the path of the believer, he should have had more confidence when dealing with Qin Siyang.
Yet from the look of things, he was even