"Kowtow and admit your mistake right now, then take your little friends and go complete the withdrawal paperwork!"
Those words struck Dai Huabin's heart like a heavy hammer, instantly draining the color from his cold, hard face.
No matter how loudly he cried out in his heart that it was impossible, the truth lay right before him!
A perfect score in the Upgrade Assessment was a result he could never surpass, and one without precedent in all of Shrek Academy.
Moreover, he had sealed his oath with Huo Yuhao by clapping hands at Shrek Academy's gates. With Du Weilun, their witness, standing right here, there was no room for him to deny it, nor could he afford to.
"Huo Yuhao, don't go too far!" Zhu Lu said angrily.
"Oh? I'm going too far?" Huo Yuhao said, feigning surprise.
"But weren't you the one who suggested that the loser had to kneel? I was going to suggest betting Gold Soul Coins. Who knew you wanted to raise the stakes so high? And now that you've lost, you want to welsh on the bet? Is this how everyone at the White Tiger Duke's Mansion conducts themselves?"
"I..." Huo Yuhao's retort left Zhu Lu speechless.
Indeed, Zhu Lu herself had proposed that whoever lost would have to kneel.
Although Huo Yuhao had later added withdrawal from the academy as a condition, he had only built on what she had said. In the end, she had brought this calamity upon herself.
"Student Huo Yuhao, in my opinion, you should show mercy where you can. You are fellow students, after all. Why must you press Student Dai Huabin so hard? If word of this gets out, people may think you lack the magnanimity to tolerate others. Can't you just forgive him?"
At that moment, a