Holy Orchid Institute – Class 2A
Ruò bù: "Yo Aiden, did you hear? We've got a new teacher."
Aiden: "Nope. Why? Is it a woman? Is she hot?"
Jìn fēng: "Psst! Stop talking like that—if she hears you, or worse, if our teacher hears you, we're all dead."
Ruò bù: "Relax. I'm not stupid. But hey, she's from the Sacred Family. Just getting a glimpse of her is a blessing."
Aiden: "Wait, what?! She's from the Sacred Family? I thought she's just a random noble.
Then she must be… arrogant as hell, right?"
Ruò bù: "No idea. Honestly, I don't care. I just wanna look at her huge coconuts and soft gyatt."
Aiden & Jìn fēng (in sync): "Pervert."
Ruò bù: "Come on surely I'm not the only one hehe."
Teacher: "HEY! You three at the back! I've been teaching for a few minutes and all I hear is you three gossiping. Get up—to the back wall, now!"
Aiden and Jìn fēng glared at Ruò bù like he just killed their dog.
Aiden: (mutters) "This is so your fault…"
Jìn fēng: (grumbling) "Nevermind it's not like it would be the last time"
Jìn fēng: (glances at Ruò bù) "What was her name again?"
Aiden looks at Jìn fēng right in the eyes with a disgusted look, like he witnessed the fall of his brother to the rainbow.
Ruò bù: "I heard it was Shên Xiù and the aunt of that sacred family noble in Class 1A."
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Class had just ended, and the hallway was already alive with noise. Students poured out of the rooms like floodwater, eager to get away from another boring lecture.
Aiden walked casually with his usual crew — lRuò bù and Jìn fēng, two guys who somehow managed to end up with me as it turns out we are in the top 3—at the bottom.
As they made their way down the corridor, the usual background noise of the school shifted. The whispers got louder, juicier.
"Hey, did you hear about the new teacher?"
"Yeah, apparently she got into a huge argument with a student named Nie Li."
"Nie Li? Who is that? He must have a low cultivation for us to not know who he is."
At that moment, the two idiots froze mid-step, like they heard something unbelievable.
"Someone had a fight with the new/hot teacher?!" Ruò bù gasped, eyes lighting up like they just found a delicious prey.
"No way. I need to know everything," Ruò bù said, already halfway turned around.
Jìn fēng follows behind like a bug.
And before Aiden could say a word, they both took off — like idiots chasing the scent of drama. Arms flailing, voices echoing down the hallway, shouting something about "getting the full story."
"Creatures of pure stupidity," Aiden muttered to himself, not even surprised anymore.
He didn't care about some loud argument or whatever nonsense those two were going to dig up. That stuff didn't matter.
What mattered was power.
Aiden pulled out a small list from his pocket and glanced at it — materials, herbs, scrolls, and maybe some low-grade soul crystals. He was going to the market. Again.
It'd be, what, his hundredth time trying to push through to the next level?
Didn't matter.
One day, he'd break through. Even if it killed him.
So while the rest of the class chased gossip and rumors, Aiden walked away from the noise and went off to the market.
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