CH 3

Lin Xinghe thought the magic broom wasn't very practical. The broom was so hard that her inner thighs hurt. She was also wearing a skirt. Even though she was wearing leggings, her heart always felt a little uneasy.

But it's really fast.

She admired the school's scenery again in the sky. Seeing it on the ground is completely different from seeing it in the air. This school is really big. Beyond the buildings is a boundless sea. The entire campus sits like an island in the middle of the ocean.

"You..."

Lu Qin saw the intact Lin Xinghe and couldn't help asking, "You didn't go back to the dormitory last night?"

Lin Xinghe said, "I went back."

Lu Qin said without hesitating, "There's only one path back to the dormitory. Li..." She corrected herself and said, "Where did you take a rest? I was worried that you couldn't find your way yesterday and turned back to find you, but I didn't see you."

"Oh... So it's like this," Lin Xinghe tilted her head and said, "You could say I was unlucky. While walking I tripped and fell over the fence. It took me a while to climb back up and when I did, I was in front of the dormitory."

She spoke seriously and without missing a beat as if it were true.

Lu Qin laughed hysterically when she heard this.

Why did the school set up fences on either side of the road? It's because of the dangers that lie behind the fence. Once nighttime hits, the green plants behind the fence become full of aggression. Last time, two students from the Xianxia Department had a fight in the middle of the night. One of them fell and completely vanished without a trace. Lin Xinghe, this person, didn't even blink while telling a lie. Is she a three-year-old kid?

Lin Xinghe asked, "Class President, you can't distinguish between 'N' and 'L' sounds. Are you a Southerner (1)?"

Lu Qin didn't think that Lin Xinghe would mock her Mandarin after acting like a three-year-old kid. After looking at her innocent expression, she suddenly felt too careless. Those who can enter this school are all fighters among villains. Female villains of the Modern Era Department are masters of tea ceremony and flower arrangement. This person looks like a white lotus (2). Last night she may have been pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger (3).

Lu Qin was so angry that she didn't want to act anymore and said with a cold expression, "Get out of the way."

Lin Xinghe still wanted to say something, but Lu Qin already crossed the distance of three steps in the span of two steps. She didn't take it to heart. Carrying her magic broom, she followed the signs and found her way to Class 1 of the Modern Era Department.

There are thirty people in each class.

The classroom is no different from the university classroom she's experienced. Everything belongs to a modern environment.

Lu Qin was sitting in the first row. Her expression immediately changed when she saw her.

The seating arrangement was in the freshman handbook.

Lin Xinghe quickly found her seat. She sat in the second-to-last row, next to the window. Her deskmate was a girl with a high ponytail. She couldn't clearly see her appearance because she was hunched over her desk, sleeping.

Lin Xinghe also observed the classmates around her.

Most people seemed to be very tired. They were either like her deskmate, laying down on the table to sleep, or they were yawning continuously. Only a few classmates looked radiant, like the female classmate sitting in the last row by the back door. She was holding a small mirror and touching up her makeup. The elongated eyeliner outlined a pair of beautiful eyes that sparkled with brilliance.

The homeroom teacher was a tall, young man with a rather indifferent appearance. He held a tablet in his hand. The moment he entered the classroom, he yawned lazily before asking, "Where were we yesterday?" Without waiting for an answer, he yawned again and said, "Oh, I remember. Today, it should be the 'Maha Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra' (4). You people should listen more to the Buddhist scriptures and cleanse your souls. Don't think about harming others all day..."

He seemed to think of something and then said: "Oh right, today we have a new classmate called..."

The homeroom teacher flipped through the roster, yawned again, and said, "Lin Xinghe."

The homeroom teacher looked at Lin Xinghe. His indifferent expression seemed to carry a few traces of sorrow and he said, "Cherish your days in school. The classmate who used to sit in your spot died within three months of coming here. No matter what kind of evil thoughts you may have had in the past, or the kinds of evil things you may have done, now that you have come to our school, you have to work on your character, harbour kind intentions, study hard, and take exams seriously to understand the true meaning of life..."

"Yesterday, we talked about 'Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, nor sensations, nor perception, nor formations, nor consciousness; No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; No forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touchables or objects of Dharma; No sight-organ element, and so forth, until we come to no mind-consciousness element; There is no ignorance, no extinction of ignorance, and so forth; Until we come to where there is no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death (5).' The meaning of this paragraph is..."

The homeroom teacher lectured in a very perfunctory manner, reading the script word-by-word, and making the already drowsy environment become even drowsier.

Lin Xinghe listened very carefully on her first day of class.

"You don't need to listen so seriously. You don't even need to listen at all. The midterms and final exams are mostly rote memorization. You can score points as long as you memorize everything. New student, right? My name is Gu Taoyao."

The voice of Lin Xinghe's deskmate was surprisingly nice. It resembled the tinkling of spring water.

When she turned her head, she saw Gu Taoyao looking at her. She said: "Every new villain that comes here thinks that they're fucking amazing. At best, Modern villains like us know how to earn money through murder and cause trouble for the male and female leads."

"Whatever you do, don't provoke the Western Fantasy Department. Before coming here to reform, those big brothers would wipe out half the world with a snap of their fingers."

"Also, don't hang out with students from the Ancient Era Department. Those villains are always conspiring to overthrow the throne and become principal."

"Oh right, the Xianxia Department's grass, Xie Wuan, is a super big pervert. You absolutely cannot have any romantic fantasies about him."

As Gu Taoyao said this, she wiped away the traces of sleepiness from the corners of her eyes. She continued: "These are all lessons learned through blood, sweat, and tears. I only told you this because fate brought us together by putting us at the same table."

Lin Xinghe asked, "Are there only written exams? I bought a tube of potion at the magic potion stall today. He said I could use his stamina potion in the exams."

Gu Taoyao said, "Of course not. The rote memorization exams I mentioned aren't important. Even though you can earn points from them, the number of points is too few to survive. You're a freshman. You haven't taken the official exam yet, but it's coming up. I remember taking the freshman exam on my fifth day in the school."