“Did you understand everything I said? In a moment, you’re not allowed to follow right behind me—walk into the classroom with me, but keep a little distance, one in front and one behind.”
Su Xiaoli hurriedly lifted her head, glancing at the enormous black-and-white clock on campus to check the time, then strode toward the classroom door that the System had indicated.
As she walked, she didn’t forget to look back and speak to Meng Huange, who was following behind her.
“Huh? Why is that?”
Meng Huange tilted her head slightly, smiling at Su Wanli as she asked.
“Miss Su, is it because you don’t want the classmates to misunderstand our relationship?”
“Hmph? What relationship? What kind of relationship could there possibly be between you and me? Don’t talk nonsense. Be careful, or I’ll kick you out of Baiying Academy right now.”
Su Wanli frowned, suppressing the faint anxiety in her heart, and kept striding forward.
…Heh, you can still smile slyly and ask me why now, but just wait—once my Mission comes out, you’ll know exactly why.
It was already 7:59, and Su Wanli and Meng Wange were getting closer and closer to the classroom door.
Along the corridor, all sorts of exquisite statues and famous calligraphy were displayed in glass cases, but Su Wanli had no mood to admire them at all.
She quietly shot a sidelong glance at Meng Huange’s smiling face, feeling a complicated mix of emotions inside.
Your second Mission today is: when Meng Wange is elegantly introducing herself on the podium, you must speak up and expose Meng Huange’s true identity.
She’s not some rich heiress. Her family doesn’t have much money. Meng Wange is just an orphan boarding at Sujia, and only as Su Wanli’s maid does she have the right to stand in this noble school.
…Sigh, isn’t the Mission the System gave me this time a bit too nasty?
If I were Meng Huange, standing on the podium of a new school for the first time, ready to show off my talents, and then, halfway through my self-introduction, I was suddenly mocked and humiliated by everyone under Su Wanli’s lead, left standing there all alone…
Sigh, although this Mission is basically the same as the previous ones from the System, at least those were inside Sujia, and the only ones involved in the bullying were me, Meng Wange, and maybe Zhang Ma as a bystander.
But now, I have to humiliate and bully her in front of so many people…
Even though I know Meng Huange is the strong female lead of the new era, she definitely won’t be affected by my ridicule—in fact, she might even fight back—but still…
Just imagining the look Meng Wange will give me at that moment already makes Su Wanli feel uneasy.
So that’s how it is. So, in Miss Su’s heart, this is how she sees me.
Since I’m just a maid, then from now on, I suppose you won’t need me to do anything else for you, right?
Su, Wan, Li, Miss…
Even though this is how it’s supposed to be, even though this is the relationship that should exist between me and Meng Huange!!
But…
Recalling last night, when Meng Huange stood in front of the Ferris Wheel, smiling and reaching her hand out to me, or the time we looked out at Nan Lake together inside the Ferris Wheel’s compartment… For some reason, Su Wanli’s mood turned anxious and gloomy.
“Miss Su, you…”
Looking at the somewhat downcast Su Wanli, Meng Wange hesitated for a moment and was about to speak when another woman’s voice suddenly came from ahead.
“Ah, student up front, may I ask are you Meng Wange?”
A female teacher, looking about twenty-five or six, wearing round glasses and squinting slightly, pushed up her lenses and squinted as she looked at Meng Wange’s face, then hurriedly walked over.
“Yes, that’s me. Hello, teacher, I’m Meng Wange, the transfer student today. Please take care of me.”
Meng Wange thought for a moment, then stepped in front of Su Xiaoli, giving the teacher a slight bow and showing the proper posture of a model student.
“Whew, that’s a relief. I thought the student introduced by that shareholder would be…”
The bespectacled female teacher gently patted her chest and murmured in a low voice.
“Ah, sorry, Meng Wange, I’m the homeroom teacher of Class Three, Year Two. You can call me Liu…”
She was about to reach out and shake hands with Meng Huange, but her gaze dropped and she caught sight of the black-haired girl behind Meng Huange, who looked perfectly harmless.
Teacher Liu almost lost her composure, nearly bowing to both Meng Wange and Su Xiaoli, but luckily, she managed to grab the corridor handrail in time.
“…Ah, Su, Miss Su, I mean, Su Wanli, good, good morning!”
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Su Xiaoli silently frowned.
She’s the homeroom teacher of a noble academy, so why is she acting like this around me? Sure, I’m the only daughter of South City’s top family, but does she really need to be so deferential?
The System once again played the role of a loyal narrator—
[Host, the woman in front of you is Liu Xiaohua, the homeroom teacher of Class Three, Year Two at Baiying Academy in South City. This is also the first class she’s led since graduating from a prestigious school.]
[However, her very first class happened to have Su Wanli, the ultimate troublemaker. Since the start of school, Su Wanli has hardly ever attended a full class, often slinging her bag over her shoulder and heading up to the Roof or the Playground to daydream. She’s even snuck into the Observation Room several times just to enjoy the air-conditioning, and has upturned the Cafeteria windows she didn’t like so many times that the overall quality of the Cafeteria has gone up a notch.]
…Wait, I actually ended up doing something good by accident?
[In short, Liu Xiaohua has been reprimanded by the director many times because of Su Wanli’s antics. But since Su Wanli is the daughter of a Shareholder, there’s nothing she can really do to punish her. So Liu Xiaohua has had to approach Su Wanli for heart-to-heart talks several times.]
[“Heh, Xiaohua Teacher, you know this multifunctional blackboard in the classroom is worth over ten thousand yuan? That’s about half your monthly salary.”]
[Su Wanli said that while hurling a Dictionary at the screen on the blackboard, leaving a deep crack on it.]
[“But even if I break every blackboard in the school, you still can’t expel me~ Because my family donated this whole building, and I can pay for all this stuff myself.”]
[Ever since then, Liu Xiaohua never tried to talk to Su Wanli again.]
No wonder the homeroom teacher acts like this whenever she sees me.
If every conversation costs a blackboard’s worth of money, even I’d start feeling the pain.
[So, after that talk, all the students in Class Three, Year Two who were good at studying and could transfer to other classes did so, while the troublemakers who just wanted to coast through school were all moved in. Since then, Liu Xiaohua has been called “Xiaohua Teacher” by all the students, or, with a pun, “Joke Teacher.”]
It’s kind of tragic, I’m already starting to feel sorry for her…
[Anyway, Xiaohua Teacher’s greatest wish now is to survive for two more years—just to outlast Su Wanli.]
The familiar class bell was already ringing in her ears. Xiaohua Teacher looked at Su Wanli standing still, and forced a gentle smile—
“Um, Su Wanli, class has started now, okay? If you’re tired of standing, why don’t you go sit at your desk and rest your feet?”
No wonder the System said I could have maximum freedom here—this is way too much freedom!