512 Chapter 512: Blackmail

"I'm Xu Wu Cheng."

Yeah, yeah…oh, I actually knew that name. No wonder the guy looked so familiar. He was the handsome red-haired transfer student who so many girls fell in love with. Didn't he just transfer into Saint Teresa Academy right before the summer vacation? Yeah, that was him. Anyway, what was this? An unnaturally contrived manner to introduce yourself so that readers could be reminded of who you were after not showing up for so many chapters?

Nah, you were just a side character, mate. You will probably never show up again in this story after this arc. I didn't care how handsome you were, you were just a pebble on the side of the road and a stepping stone for me to beat up just so I could punch your handsome face into the real ugly mug you had lining up your interior…

…Xu Wu Cheng continued his cheesy as fuck shoujo-esque lines, shutting me up as I dissolved into sheer despair at being forced to listen to the corny dialogue.

"I've admired Class Vice-President Ji Yan for a long time…"

A long time, my foot! You just transferred into the school two weeks ago, not counting the summer vacation! Unless you were stalking her throughout the three months of summer vacation, there was no way you would have known her long enough to admire her! Who the hell were you kidding, you stupid, lying womanizer!?

Ji Yan didn't buy any of his lies and sweet whispers, either…that girl was smarter than I gave her credit for. Ignoring his cheesy and dumb attempts at seduction, she responded coldly.

"The teacher will be here soon. Are you going to tell her?"

Aw…no giving your homeroom teacher a name? At least I knew mine was Teacher Einsberg. Well, the author of Vampire Sphere knew that the teacher was a mere side character whose identity and characterization didn't matter in the grand scheme of things and so didn't bother to give her a name and personality. By the way, I found out later that the teacher was called Teacher Ai in this world (not in the original Vampire Sphere where she remained nameless forever), but that was neither relevant nor important now.

By the way, I intended to tell Teacher Ai about this whole thing, even if Xu Wu Cheng didn't. So that was a moot question. Too bad Ji Yan didn't know that.

Xu Wu Cheng smirked.

"I couldn't possibly do that to you. How can I let your image, which you've been building up for so long, get broken so easily?"

Xu Wu Cheng continued to unsuccessfully flirt with Ji Yan, physically coaxing her to sit in his lap as he snuggled against her in the teacher's chair…

…wait, what?

WHEN THE FUCK DID HE DO THAT?!

I didn't see Ji Yan standing up so that Xu Wu Cheng could sit on the chair she was seated on, only to have him pull her down onto his lap. And given her character and the current situation, why the hell would she go along with the flow and do that?! No, no, this was just a ridiculous shoujo manhua contrived situation to force a female heroine to end up being intimate with a hot guy, never mind the hot guy was in the midst of blackmailing her at the moment…

"I couldn't possibly let the whole school know that Class Vice-president cannot stand her twin sister who is always above her, so she decided to resort to despicable tricks to make her fall…"

"Are you threatening me?"

Ji Yan was straight to the point, as always. But it was the wrong move.

"Take it easy, don't move."

Xu Wu Cheng fished out his smartphone from his pocket and held Ji Yan's hand firmly, locking her in place. He then snapped a picture of Ji Yan's hand that was holding a pen while she was in the midst of trying to change Zhao Yan's answer.

"You!"

Xu Wu Cheng was suddenly out of the seat before I realized it, with Ji Yan no longer on his lap and seated comfortably on the teacher's chair. As I said, WHEN THE FUCK DID HE…never mind. I decided to ignore the absurdity of the whole situation and focus on the current flow of events at hand. That was, Xu Wu Cheng dangling his phone from his hand as he danced away.

"I've got the evidence."

Cocky bastard, eh? All you did was snap a picture of Ji Yan's HAND. It wasn't as if you took a picture of her face or anything. There was no evidence that the hand belonged to Ji Yan. Even if you broadcasted that photograph of her hand to the whole school, that hand could belong to anybody! How were people supposed to identify the owner of the hand? You think a school was going to go through all that trouble to compare all of the girls' hands to ensure that they match the one in the photograph or something? What use was that photograph as evidence if you didn't actually have the face of the person that hand belonged to? But let's forego logic so that you could blackmail the secondary (or tertiary) heroine into some kiny S\u0026M play, eh?

"If you want to retrieve the evidence from me, then come to Room 5 after school tomorrow and wait for me there." Xu Wu Cheng raised his smartphone as he smiled insidiously. "If you don't come, the consequences will be dire indeed."

No thanks to you, I might add.

"Oh? Xu Wu Cheng is here too?"

At that precise moment, Teacher Ai chose to return. She must have finished professing her love (ai) for her lover, so she came back to the staff room to resume the duties that she so flippantly shirked from. Xu Wu Cheng turned around and plastered the most insincere smile he could muster onto his handsome features.

"Yes, I saw that Class Vice-president Ji Yan was very busy, so I thought I would offer my help."

Help? You mean blackmail, you bastard! Not only that, how did he know Ji Yan was going to pull this stunt? I hardly believed that it was a coincidence that he would happen to waltz into the staff room when Ji Yan was changing Zhao Yan's answers. He had no reason to come to the staff room, so what was he doing here in the first place?

Ji Yan clenched her fist tightly, but remained silent, knowing that she couldn't defy the scheming scoundrel. I didn't feel sorry for her, though. She brought this upon herself. Nobody asked her to change her sister's answer.

The teacher, however, was thoroughly convinced by Xu Wu Cheng's display of "kindness."

"Good! You can also help us arrange the test papers!"

Fuck. Just my luck. I was hoping that the two of them would leave so that I could finally get out of the cubicle and report what I had witnessed to Teacher Ai. At this rate, I had to continue hiding under the cubicle and wait for the two of them to leave. My legs were getting cramped, but fortunately I wasn't attracting any weird looks from the teachers. As luck would have it, there were no teachers in the vicinity, or they would have witnessed the whole terrible exchange between Ji Yan and Xu Wu Cheng.

It took ten minutes for the three of them to be done, and I could finally emerge from concealment, relieved and my muscles aching. Note to readers, do not crouch under your desk or cubicle. It was not an ideal hiding place.

"Um, Teacher…" I caught sight of her name, which was on a tag on her cubicle. She was named Ai Qing. "Teacher Ai. I have something to report."

"Hmm? What is it?"

I showed her the recording in my glasses, and she looked a bit stunned. She frantically flipped to Zhao Yan's papers and checked. Sure enough, Ji Yan had altered her answer with a pen that used a different ink tone. Teacher Ai scowled.

"That Ji Yan…I can't believe she did this. I'll have to scold her tomorrow." she then turned back to me. "Thanks for telling me about this."

"I only did what was expected," I replied honestly.

"Could you also do me another favor? Teacher Ai asked as she changed Zhao Yan's answer back to normal with a magic spell. Wow, that was convenient. With a wave of her hand, she removed Ji Yan's alterations and got rid of the differently toned ink.

I nodded. ��What is it, Teacher Ai?"

"Don't spread this to other people. Please don't tell everyone. I want to talk to Ji Yan privately and while I intend to punish her, I don't want to do it in front of everyone and embarrass her publicly. At least not in front of Zhao Yan. Is that all right?"

"I understand." I wasn't the type of person to gossip about other people, anyway, so I agreed easily enough. Of course, that didn't stop me from snitching on Ji Yan. What? She deserved it. What did you want me to do, keep her secret for her and blackmail her like Xu Wu Cheng? Fuck that nonsense, I wasn't an abusive Shoujo manhua male lead who forced the heroines into a toxic relationship.

"Thank you very much."

I shook my head. There was nothing to thank me over. Even though Ji Yan didn't deserve to have her dignity preserved, that was not my call to make. I was not a teacher of this academy, and I had no right to dish out punishments and judge other students.

Even so…

"Wouldn't she get expelled if this gets out?" I asked. Teacher Ai frowned.

"That's exactly why I don't want this to be made public. I will deal with this quietly. I think expelling Ji Yan over this is excessive."

Honestly, I thought Ji Yan deserved to be expelled. That would save me a lot of trouble in the coming days, but as they say, hindsight was 20/20. More to the point, I didn't have the authority to decide whether a fellow schoolmate should be expelled or not.

So I nodded and saluted.

"Yes, ma'am."

Teacher Ai watched me, bemused, and then waved for me to go. I obeyed and left the staff room. There was something about this whole thing that continued to unsettle me for some reason, but I couldn't put my finger on it. I didn't care about Ji Yan, but I had a premonition that it would impact not just her but everyone in the school.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the sense of foreboding I had was related closely to Xu Wu Cheng. That man was dangerous, though how dangerous I had no idea just yet. What I did know for sure was that he needed watching.

"I'll have to keep an eye on that fella," I muttered to myself determinedly as I pushed my glasses up my nose.

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