Hearing Lu Chi's voice, the homeroom teacher, Gao Qiliang, frowned.
"Lu Chi, instead of paying attention in class, what are you trying to report?"
Lu Chi was just about to speak.
The group who had been mocking him started whispering again.
"Hahaha! This dumbass already made a spectacle of himself the moment he arrived, and now he wants to report someone? Who's he reporting? This is killing me!"
"Hehehe, Young Master Lu was right. Someone like him, straight out of the slums, wants attention and thinks he's special. Of course he has to blaze a different trail."
"Exactly! People like him are so damn annoying. Let's mess with him after class!"
"Make his life hell. We have to get him kicked out of Class 2!"
Gao Qiliang heard the voices mocking Lu Chi and slammed his hand down on the eraser on the lectern.
Smack!
"Quiet! You're classmates. You should get along!"
"If any of you dare say another word, you can stand outside and face the wall to reflect on your behavior!"
"Did you hear me? Quiet down!"
"Qiu Yugang, if you keep chirping away, I'll call your parents in after class!"
Once Gao Qiliang unleashed his thunderous fury, the classroom fell so silent that not even a crow or sparrow could be heard.
The few idiots who had kept mocking Lu Chi obediently shut their mouths, too.
But that silence lasted less than half a second before thunderous laughter erupted in the classroom.
Lu Chi had yet to say what he was reporting. He looked up and immediately started laughing along.
A second later, he felt it wasn't right to join in and hurriedly shut his mouth, leaving only his shoulders shaking nonstop.
It turned out that Gao Qiliang had struck the eraser as though slamming a magistrate's gavel, using so much force that the chalk dust on it had splashed onto his face, covering it in dust.
He looked ridiculous.
"Quiet! What are you laughing at?"
"Keep laughing and you'll all stand through the lesson!"
Gao Qiliang turned his gaze to Lu Chi and said, "What did you say you wanted to report?"
Lu Chi looked up at the three boys sitting in the back row of another section of the classroom: Qiu Yugang, He Xing, and Zhang Da.
They were all lackeys of the fake young master, Lu Jiyang.
"Teacher, I want to report that Qiu Yugang has cigarettes in his schoolbag, He Xing brought a smartphone, and inside Zhang Da's desk... there are condoms!"
Boom!
The moment Lu Chi spoke, the class, which had quieted down under Old Gao's control, erupted like water splashing into a pan of hot oil.
"What? Qiu Yugang actually dared to bring cigarettes?"
"He Xing brought a smartphone?"
"Zhang Da has rubbers in his desk?"
Good heavens!
What kind of gossip bomb of the year was this?
The offenses those three had committed were all grounds for disciplinary action!
This was explosive!
There was only half a year left before the college entrance exam. If they received disciplinary action now, it would go into their records. What a terrible bargain!
Wait, Lu Chi had only just arrived. How could he know their secrets?
The students all found it unbelievable and rather unlikely.
Even the three boys being reported had gleaming heads, their eyes wide and their mouths slightly open.
Though each had a guilty conscience, they thought Lu Chi knew nothing about the actual situation and was just bluffing.
They hurriedly waved their hands, explaining in a panic:
"Old Gao, don't listen to his nonsense!"
"We're good students who obey the rules and the law!"
"This Lu whatever-Chi just entered our class and he's already making false accusations. Someone who undermines unity among classmates like this should be kicked out!"
Gao Qiliang also thought it unlikely.
He tried to reason with Lu Chi. "Lu Chi, I know they said some unkind things to you when you'd only just joined the class. Don't worry, Old Gao will set them straight... but you can't make false accusations against your classmates either."
Lu Chi shook his head. "Teacher, every word I said is true. If you don't believe me, you can search their schoolbags and desks right now."
Gao Qiliang didn't believe him. "Lu Chi, you've only just joined our class. How would you know they've hidden anything? You mustn't make false accusations against your classmates."
Lu Chi's tone was firm. "Teacher, they didn't just hide those things now. I ran into them outside school today, and I saw them hide them!"
Lu Chi was clearly lying. He hadn't seen them at all today.
But if he didn't say that, he could hardly say the system had told him.
He hadn't wanted to make enemies of them in the first place, but who told them to start targeting him the moment he entered the classroom?
He had lived a spineless life in his previous lifetime, yet he had still ended up transmigrating into a book.
Since he had transmigrated as a young master, he would bring that young-master bearing into full play.
You want to make my life miserable? Then I'll destroy you lot!
A gentleman did not leave a grudge unavenged.
This young master has transmigrated here. I might not be able to beat the fake young master, but am I really going to let you three little punks bully me?
Qiu Yugang and the other two: "..." Hide your fucking mother!
We have to move the stuff somewhere else, fast!
Qiu Yugang reached into his schoolbag and tossed the cigarettes under the desk, landing them at the feet of Wang Chenggui in the row ahead.
He Xing silently tucked the smartphone he had been reading a novel on into his crotch.
Zhang Da reacted half a beat too slowly and was just about to take the condoms out of his desk and find somewhere to hide them.
Then Gao Qiliang roared, "You three, stand up! Let me see whether you've hidden anything. Lu Chi has only just joined our class. I believe he wouldn't falsely accuse you."
The three reluctantly rose from their seats.
Gao Qiliang walked over to them.
"Qiu Yugang, empty everything out of your bag."
Qiu Yugang said defiantly, "Old Gao, if there aren't any cigarettes in my bag, shouldn't Lu Chi apologize to me?"
Lu Chi sneered and said, "Teacher, his cigarettes aren't in his bag anymore. He just threw them under the desk."
Gao Qiliang bent down and, sure enough, saw a pack of cigarettes under the desk beside Wang Chenggui's feet.
Gao Qiliang instantly went deathly pale with anger and picked up the pack of cigarettes.
"Qiu Yugang, instead of thinking about how to improve your studies lately, you've been thinking about smoking? Tell me! Where did you get these cigarettes?"
Qiu Yugang panicked for a moment, then immediately denied it. "Teacher, those cigarettes aren't mine."
Gao Qiliang said angrily, "If these cigarettes aren't yours, are you saying they belong to Wang Chenggui?"
Qiu Yugang nodded.
Wang Chenggui was always being bullied by the three of them anyway. So what if they falsely accused him of bringing cigarettes now?
Wang Chenggui shook his head, his eyes brimming with tears. "Teacher, those cigarettes aren't mine! I just felt something land beside my feet, but I don't know whose it is."
He turned to glance at Qiu Yugang, who sat behind him, and Qiu Yugang glared at him.
Wang Chenggui was too frightened to speak.
Gao Qiliang picked up on what was going on from their expressions and said to the two, "Both of you, come to my office later."
Then he said to He Xing, on Qiu Yugang's left, "Move over here a little. Let me see whether there's a smartphone in your schoolbag."
He Xing reluctantly shuffled two steps.
Before Gao Qiliang could even inspect his schoolbag, the smartphone fell out of He Xing's crotch with a clatter.