As the bell rang, HuMing quietly set down his pen.


    He stared at his exam paper in silence, unsure how to feel.


    If he didn’t already know Ye QiuXue''s personality, HuMing might have suspected she had somehow sneaked out with an entire question bank.


    No wonder her grades are so good—Coupled with her solid foundation, her ability to predict test questions with such uracy was downright terrifying.


    He let out a small sigh and leaned backzily in his chair.


    Han ShuYi nced at HuMing. Just by looking at his rxed posture, Han ShuYi was pretty sure HuMing had given up.


    After all, a person’s personality might change suddenly, but their grades wouldn’t.


    Learning requires consistent effort over time. If HuMing''s grades were to improve suddenly, it would be hard not to suspect that he had cheated.


    Han ShuYi''s lips curled into a faint smile as he stood up and walked out of the ssroom.


    During the lunch break, knowing that she still hadn’t fully recovered, HuMing rejected Ye QiuXue’s tutoring.


    HuMing headed straight to the security office, where he found the security guard sitting in front of aputer, sipping goji berry tea, looking quite health-conscious.


    When the guard noticed HuMing, he seemed a bit surprised.


    He certainly remembered HuMing—after all, the incident at the school gate had caused quite a stir, and this student was at the very center of it.


    Moreover, the guard was grateful to HuMing. If HuMing had been injured back then, he would have been in serious trouble!


    “Is there something you need, Student Han? If you want to leave campus, I''m afraid that''s not allowed.”


    “Oh, no, no, that’s not it. I just wanted to ask if anything happened at the gatest night?”


    “Why do you ask?” The guard looked puzzled.


    Why would HuMing ask such a question?


    “I heard something had happened herest night, so I came to check.”


    “No, no, where did you hear such a rumor? I was here all night, and nothing happened.”


    The guard waved his hand dismissively, genuinely seeming unaware of any incident.


    Seeing this, HuMing nodded and didn’t say much more.


    However, the guard suddenly added a couple of remarks.


    “But around seven o''clockst night, I had a stomachache and had to go to the restroom. A few students helped me watch the gate while I was gone. Those kids were pretty sharp, though. They mentioned they had some deliveries to pick up and wanted me to be lenient. They even gave me a takeaway meal as a bribe.”


    The guard was jolly with HuMing, so he spoke frankly.


    Upon hearing this, HuMing narrowed his eyes, a sense of direction forming in his mind.


    ''As expected, what happenedst night wasn’t an ident.''


    ...


    Ye QiuXue headed toward the surveince room.


    That guy, HuMing, found an excuse to skip his tutoring session. While she was a bit helpless about it, there was nothing Ye QiuXue could say.


    After all, HuMing had a quiz today; letting him take a break was understandable.


    Ye QiuXue should have been resting at this hour, but the events of the previous night kept gnawing at her mind.


    She was determined to find out who had dared to target her!


    Ye QiuXue took out the key to the surveince room and unlocked the door. However, to her surprise, the door wasn’t locked at all!


    Her brows furrowed tightly as she pushed the door open, only to find the roompletely empty.


    Ye QiuXue scanned the room, and after confirming that no one else was present, she stepped inside and shut the door behind her.


    Her goal was clear, find out who left through that gatest night, and she could identify who was behind the incident.


    Of course, she couldn’t rule out the possibility that someone might have scaled the walls instead.


    Ye QiuXue focused intently on reviewing the footage from the previous night, unaware that someone had just climbed down from the school building through a window.


    Meanwhile, in a restroom on a certain floor of the second-year building, a group of boys had just finished ying basketball and were washing their hands.


    One of them pulled out a pack of cigarettes and began smoking, filling the air with clouds of smoke.


    “Damn it,st night''s n got messed up. some idiot let Ye QiuXue out. If I don’t lock that b*tch up for a night, I won’t be satisfied!”


    “Brother Ye, do you think Ye QiuXue might figure out it was us? That woman isn’t someone to mess with, you know.”


    “Rx, when your brother handles something, it’s foolproof. Even if she knows, she has no evidence.”


    “But Brother Ye, about that SuLiu girl keeping you on the hook. What''s your n?”


    “No worries, I can get her to meet me this afternoon. Then, whatever I want to do, it''s up to me, right?”


    The othersughed at his words.


    Some spat into the urinals, while others continued chatting about how Ye QiuXue had been a thorn in their side.


    It was clear from their conversation that they harbored a lot of resentment toward Ye QiuXue.


    "Whoosh."


    A sudden flush echoed from thest stall in the restroom.


    All the boys in the restroom froze.


    They hadn’t noticed anyone in thest stall when they came in.


    This meant that person had heard everything they’d said!


    One of them, cigarette dangling from his mouth and a broken mop handle in hand, walked straight toward thest stall.


    They all shared amon understanding: the person inside had to keep quiet. If this got out, they were finished.


    “Hey,e out!”


    The boy with the cigarette kicked the bathroom door viciously, his tone menacing.


    What they didn’t seem to realize was that if the person inside was afraid of them, why would they have flushed the toilet deliberately to draw their attention?


    The person inside opened the door with a creak, and the cigarette-smoking boy immediately swung his mop handle at him.


    The others crossed their arms and watched coldly, but what happened next left them stunned.


    Just as the handle was brought down, the person inside kicked him hard, sending him flying into the urinal!


    The urinal happened to be at the moment when it was about to flush, and the waste inside poured all over the boy who was in it.


    Everyone stared in stunned silence at the scene. From the restroom, HuMing slowly walked out.


    He picked up the fallen mop handle from the floor and casually rested it on his shoulder.


    He waved his hand to disperse the lingering smoke and then approached the group of boys standing at the door.


    “Since you’ve already said so much, I might as well skip asking for details. It’s just a childish prank anyway.”


    “You are Han HuMing?”


    The boy, referred to as Brother Ye, frowned, his gaze uneasy. After all, he had witnessed HuMing break someone’s arm at the school gate.


    Now HuMing had just kicked one of his underlings into a urinal. It was hard to imagine what he might do next!


    “Congrattions, you got it right. So, I’m going to reward you.”


    Immediately as the words left his mouth, HuMing swung the mop handle fiercely at Brother Ye''s leg.


    A scream of agony erupted from the restroom.


    Brother Ye clutched his leg, his eyes squeezing shut from the pain.


    Yet, the relentless screams of his underlings continued to echo around him, turning the ce into a veritable hell on earth.