Chapter 59: "The Sinful Teacher"
Following Dragon and Phoenix Entwined and Dragon and Phoenix in Harmony, the mysterious author known as Qing Ye released yet another work.
The prequel to Dragon and Phoenix in Harmony—The Sinful Teacher.
The Ten Thousand Demon King moved swiftly. His ability to manifest countless incarnations was unmatched for this task, scattering across the Douluo Continent like blossoms.
Shrek's reaction was quick, but utterly useless. With only fifty or sixty students in the inner court, and one-fifth kept back to guard the campus, the remaining forty or so were far too few to cover such a vast continent.
Moreover, the Ten Thousand Demon King was cunning. He scattered seeds along the main roads outside each city, perfectly predicting Shrek's every move.
Under such circumstances, it was impossible for them to find him.
Even though Shrek immediately dispatched inner court students for a full-scale search, they always arrived too late—wherever they reached, the mysterious bookseller had already vanished, only to reappear elsewhere as soon as they departed.
It was nothing less than a game of hide-and-seek.
In just three days, Shrek's inspection teams were completely defeated. The Sinful Teacher spread like wildfire across the continent.
Shrek found itself powerless to suppress it.
Even the Four Great Empires lacked the authority to search a soul master's private soul tools outside of emergencies. If Shrek truly tried such a thing, would it not be exactly as the Ten Thousand Demon King claimed—proof of dictatorship?
Targeting ordinary people was no use either. Books could be copied in endless numbers with ease.
Thus began the chaos brought on by The Sinful Teacher.
Synopsis of The Sinful Teacher:
At Shrek Academy, there was once a girl. Beautiful and lively, charming and radiant. But beneath her sweet and obedient facade, she hid a dark, twisted hunger for control and an uncontrollable desire to torment.
She concealed this nature well. None ever saw through her. With her beauty and flawless performance, she managed to secure one man by her side, defeating all rivals.
Her name was Zhou Yi.
But her talent was poor. After graduating from the outer court, she could not enter the inner court. Instead, she stayed as a teaching assistant and eventually became an outer court instructor.
Once she truly became a homeroom teacher of a new class, the darkness she had buried for years finally surfaced.
Jealous of students more gifted than herself, Zhou Yi's envy drove her to extremes.
She began tormenting them mercilessly—physically and mentally—oppressing them in every way possible. By force of strength, by threats of expulsion, she forced young students to yield under her tyranny.
Those who resisted were expelled outright. Complaints were meaningless.
After all, she had a powerful backer: her husband Fan Yu, a level eight soul engineer of high rank in Shrek's Soul Tool Department. And since the outer court had been established only as a compromise, the inner court students were considered the true disciples of Shrek.
Outer court students? They could be toyed with at will.
With Fan Yu as her support, and without targeting those of deep background or exceptional talent, Zhou Yi was free to indulge her twisted desires, hiding it from Fan Yu while reveling in the thrill of tormenting others.
In Zhou Yi's class, not a single student dared resist her. She was like a queen, beating and scolding at will, freely controlling her students.
All the while, Fan Yu remained completely in the dark. Those forced into submission never dared speak a word, fearing that if exposed, their reputations would be utterly ruined. It became an unspoken shadow in their hearts.
Thus the story ended.
Compared to the previous two books, The Sinful Teacher had far fewer words. Instead, most of its content was presented through sequential illustrations.
There were scenes of Zhou Yi in seductive leather attire, clad in black silk stockings and heels, whip in hand, stepping on male students beneath her.
There were also depictions of Zhou Yi surrounded by female students made to serve as maids, while she laughed wildly like an empress.
The scale of these portrayals was so extreme that even the natives of Douluo felt their faces flush red at a glance, and if they looked again, they felt as though they would explode.
The acts and poses shown made these people, who had lived their lives in repression, feel their entire first half of life had been wasted. It became a sensation among countless enthusiasts of S&M.
What was most interesting was that Lin Yun used many familiar faces from Shrek within The Sinful Teacher. Among them were Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Beibei, and Xu Sanshi.
After its release, the city most shaken was none other than Shrek City, along with Shrek Academy itself.
Those who had read it could no longer look at their classmates the same way, especially Huo Yuhao and the others, as well as students from Class One who later requested transfers to other classes.
Every day they endured strange gazes in class, their hearts filled with exasperation.
But that was not the end.
When news spread that Zhou Yi was one of the current freshman class advisers, parents of the new students flooded into Shrek City. They completely surrounded the academy, leaving not a crack of space.
There was no other choice. After sending their children to register, parents had to leave immediately, with no knowledge of which class their child had been assigned to, nor who their teacher would be.
But as the saying goes, what if?
What if their child's teacher turned out to be this vile Zhou Yi from The Sinful Teacher? Children are the very hearts of their parents. How could they bear to leave them in such a dangerous place to study?
Even parents of expelled students joined the crowd. Some sought justice for their children, while others came with hidden motives to stir up trouble.
They fanned the flames, adding fuel to the fire.
There was no shortage of clever minds. Many sensed that after this chaos, Shrek would no longer shelter this teacher named Zhou Yi. They could finally avenge the unfairness their children had suffered in the academy.
The crowd was riled, voices united.
Staring at the cover of the book before him, heavy with lewd imagery and splashed with the bold words The Sinful Teacher, Yan Shaozhe's expression was as dark as the bottom of a pot.
He had long suspected these books were not written merely to tarnish Shrek's reputation. The earlier effects had not yet been quelled, and now further trouble was arriving in waves.
"Zhou Yi…" Yan Shaozhe muttered under his breath. Hidden beneath his loose hair, his eyes glimmered with a chilling light.
(End of this chapter)
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