Absolute Domination

The next day, Ji Chuxing went to class as usual.

But thanks to people deliberately spreading the story, news that she had been taken away the day before had spread throughout Nanzhong.

The rumors had even grown wildly exaggerated, with some claiming she had accidentally killed someone.

That put a very different complexion on the matter.

The other students in Class 16, who had no idea what had happened, were deeply worried when they saw the forum posts. Those who had gone to West China Hall with Lu Xing the day before had seen Ji Chuxing being taken away, but no one knew what had happened in the end.

But Ji Chuxing had appeared at school.

Seeing her now, they were rather surprised.

A crowd swarmed around her.

"God Ji, are you okay?"

"I knew those people were talking nonsense. How could God Ji have been taken away? The campus forum is full of crap!"

They had barely said that when someone suddenly cried, "Holy crap!"

"There's another viral post. Hey, this one isn't about God Ji."

Everyone holding a phone looked over at Zhou Sixue with complicated expressions.

A new post had appeared on the forum, once again marked with a bold, red [Viral].

But this time, the discussion wasn't about Ji Chuxing being taken away the day before. Zhou Sixue had become the subject.

Of course, the post about Ji Chuxing followed close behind. It had gone viral too, sitting right below it in second place.

Nanzhong hadn't been this lively in years.

The first anonymous exposé was titled: A murderer's daughter is at Nanzhong, spending every day among us!

Clicking on it revealed:

The original poster volunteered the information: That Zhou Sixue from Class 16-you probably don't know who she is. She's the one Ji Chuxing beat people up for yesterday. Turns out she's a murderer's daughter. Her dad ran over and killed Zheng Kuan, the father of that punk next door who's always picking fights. I was wondering why punks kept coming after us. Turns out a murderer's daughter has been right here among us!

Original poster: I strongly demand that she get out of Nanzhong. Nanzhong doesn't take in murderers' daughters!

The comments below piled up layer upon layer. One could imagine how ugly the language was.

The students in Class 16 had seen the post too, which was why they had all stopped and looked at Zhou Sixue, who sat in the corner.

Zhou Sixue was the best student in Class 16, but she usually kept such a low profile that she hardly drew any attention.

It was only yesterday, when she had rushed in from outside and stood in front of Ji Chuxing, that the soft-spoken girl had faced off against Brother Xing and made them remember her.

Zhou Sixue seemed to have anticipated something.

She raised her head from the test papers covering her desk, her face turning pale in an instant.

Then she hurriedly lowered her head again and began gathering the papers with panicked hands.

With a bang, the door was kicked open from outside.

Young Master Lu's hand was still wrapped in gauze. "What are you doing? That forum is a piece of trash. What are you looking at? What's there to look at?"

Everyone immediately put down their phones.

Lu Xing glanced at Zhou Sixue, whose head was buried in her pile of test papers, and grew even more irritated. "Just wait. Brother Xing will take your Sister Fei and smash up the whole forum management office. Let's see who dares post that kind of garbage after that!"

With that, he turned to leave.

Old Huang came in from outside. "Lu Xing! Say that again!"

Lu Xing stiffened his neck and was about to open his mouth, but one look at Old Huang's stern expression made him shut it immediately.

He was terrified that Old Huang would say the next second, "Keep running your mouth and copy out every classical Chinese text in your Chinese textbook ten times!"

That was exactly the sort of thing Old Huang would do.

If he didn't finish copying them, Old Huang would even call his brother to complain.

But Old Huang rarely looked this serious, so everyone fell silent.

They might be rebellious, but they actually showed Old Huang plenty of respect.

Old Huang swept a glance around the classroom. "Get ready for class. Zhou Sixue, Ji Chuxing, come out with me for a moment."

Ji Chuxing and Zhou Sixue went out, and the classroom erupted into noise again.

"What's going on? Why did a viral post suddenly appear out of nowhere?"

"What did Old Huang mean? Is the school really not going to do anything about this?"

More than ten minutes later, the English teacher, Hua Xinli, came in carrying her lesson plan. She dropped it on the lectern with a loud thud. "Quiet!"

But no one quieted down.

Hua Xinli, Class 16's English teacher, also taught English to the Set Sail Class.

The original teacher was on maternity leave, so Hua Xinli had come to substitute. But she had never thought much of this group of students. If it weren't for the substantial substitute teacher's pay, who would be willing to teach Class 16?

A bunch of good-for-nothings!

She didn't like Class 16, and naturally, Class 16 didn't like her either. Right now, they were all focused on Zhou Sixue and God Ji. Who was in the mood to pay Hua Xinli any mind?

"Quiet! Quiet!" Hua Xinli rapped on the lectern several times, but the classroom remained noisy, everyone talking among themselves. No one showed her any respect.

Hua Xinli slammed down her notes. "Do you have any respect for me at all? The students in your class caused such a huge stir today. One is a murderer's daughter, and one ended up at the police station. What about the rest of you? Do you all want to end up like Ji Chuxing and Zhou Sixue?"

Her face full of contempt, Hua Xinli stood on the platform and looked down at them all. "Trash is trash. There isn't a single decent person in your class. As I see it, you might as well withdraw from school yourselves and become scum sooner rather than later. Get locked up early, and someone will provide for you. There's no need to waste society's resources!"

Those words struck straight at their hearts.

As soon as Hua Xinli finished speaking, a thick dictionary came flying toward her.

It grazed the side of her face and struck the blackboard behind her with a dull thud.

Hua Xinli's heart pounded, and her cheek burned with pain, a red mark spreading across it. Shocked and furious, she looked at Lu Xing. "Lu Xing, are you trying to start a rebellion?"

One of Lu Xing's arms was in a sling, and his face was full of defiance. "Who gave you the right to spout crap in front of me? Who the hell are you? I gave you an inch, and now you're standing here shouting your head off?"

The students of Class 16 were indignant too, every one of them glaring at Hua Xinli with red-rimmed eyes.

She often said things like that when she came to class. At worst, they could teach her a lesson afterward. But she had gone too far this time. Who could stand it?

Hua Xinli sneered. "Lu Xing, is it? Fine. Don't you think you're capable? You dare treat me like this? Let's see what your class does about English. Starting now, I'm not teaching you anymore!"

Lu Xing clenched his fist. "You think you're the only one who knows English? Get lost. I've been sick of you for a long time!"

Hua Xinli covered her cheek. "I'd like to see what you plan to do without me. The citywide joint exam for seniors is coming up soon. With no one to review the material and explain the questions to you, just wait and cry!"

When Hua Xinli finished, the expressions of nearly half the class changed slightly.

They were in their final year of high school now, with only a semester and a half left before the college entrance exam. Though they hated Hua Xinli, they still depended on a teacher to explain the questions as they reviewed for the exam.

Some people here didn't study, but others wanted to.

But they couldn't swallow this insult either. She was trampling their dignity into the ground as she berated them!

Hua Xinli gathered her notes and was about to leave when she turned and saw the girl standing in the doorway.

The girl's face was expressionless, but her cool, clear eyes sent a flicker of indescribable panic through Hua Xinli.

Suddenly, the girl spoke, rattling off a long string of words.

Hua Xinli was dumbfounded.

Everyone in Class 16 was dumbfounded too.

Zhao Feifei, who was late and would leave early as usual, came in from outside, her face full of curiosity. "God Ji, what kind of bird language are you speaking?"

Hua Xinli, however, stared at Ji Chuxing in disbelief.

This was a former student of the Set Sail Class, a girl who had never passed an English exam and whom Hua Xinli had called a good-for-nothing in front of the entire class.

Back then, she had kept her head down, not daring to look at her at all.

Now she actually dared to challenge her?

She couldn't understand it, though not entirely; there were a few words she did understand.

But how was that possible?

Seeing that she wasn't speaking, Ji Chuxing asked, "You don't understand? Then shall I switch to another language?"

Then she rattled off another string of words.

Hua Xinli was completely dumbfounded. She hadn't understood a single word.

Ji Chuxing tilted her head and glanced at her, a hint of disdain in her eyes. "Still don't understand?"

The girl's gaze didn't seem particularly mocking, but the feeling it gave Hua Xinli made her uncomfortable all over.

Then she rattled off another string of words, different from the ones before.

Seeing that Hua Xinli had no reaction at all, Ji Chuxing did it another five or six times in succession.

Hua Xinli gradually came to her senses and said irritably, "Showing off with all this nonsense? What, do you think you're a master of foreign languages?"

Zhao Feifei hadn't understood anything else, but she had understood the last one. "Wait, isn't that Arabic? You can't understand it?"

Hua Xinli choked.

"What do you know about Arabic?" Hua Xinli protested.

Zhao Feifei gave her an odd look, then said excitedly, "God Ji, I didn't expect you to speak Arabic so well."

She had understood it only because her grandmother spoke it. She hadn't expected God Ji's pronunciation to be even better than her grandmother's.

Class 16 erupted with a roar.

So God Ji had just used at least seven or eight languages to speak to Hua Xinli, and Hua Xinli hadn't understood a single sentence.

And with skills like that, she still thought Class 16 couldn't do without her?

Someone called out, "Sister Fei, what did God Ji say?"

Zhao Feifei waved a hand and glanced at Hua Xinli with gleeful schadenfreude. "Oh, nothing much. Just... 'With trash skills like yours, you dare make a scene here? Who gave you that confidence? Huh? That's all you've got? I'm pretty curious myself. You can't even understand me calling you useless trash, yet you dare teach at Nanzhong. If I were you, I'd probably dive headfirst into the South City River.'"

Hua Xinli froze in disbelief, then anger blazed in her chest.

A roar went up as all of Class 16 grew excited.

"An absolute crushing with real skill, and that's all you've got?"

"Huh? That's it? You can't even compare to God Ji's little finger."

Hua Xinli's face burned. Ji Chuxing glanced at the person still standing on the platform and curled her lip. "You can't even understand modern English? Who's the trash now?"

The offhand remark made Hua Xinli's mind feel as though it had exploded. She bellowed, "What you said wasn't English at all!"

Ji Chuxing spread her hands. "Oh, I was speaking English from northern Scotland."

Just as Chinese had dialects, English had them too, with differences in pronunciation between regions. In older times, its pronunciation had also differed from that of the modern English system made up of 26 letters. Scottish English originated from the northern branch of Middle English dialects and differed somewhat from the official language in common use.

That was why Hua Xinli had understood two words and nothing else.

Crushed so thoroughly that she couldn't utter a word in rebuttal, Hua Xinli left in a fury and in disarray.

"You... just you wait!"

The classroom erupted again.

"God Ji!"

"God Ji is so awesome!"

Ji Chuxing took a deep breath. "Noisy."

Having just come from the noisy principal's office, all she really wanted was some peace and quiet so she could enjoy her little milk tablets.

Then everyone fell silent.