Chapter 18: Constantly Adding Fuel to the Fire

You gaze upon the bounty notice issued by the Guangyun Commerce Association. From the equipment level displayed, you can already guess who posted the bounty.

The highest level of equipment that the instrument rented by your mentor can produce is level 15.

Therefore, this is undoubtedly the work of the Teaching Director.

Remember this person—the Teaching Director of the Warrior Program at Yun City Second University!

When you rise in the future, if you don’t wipe out their entire family, you’re not Lin Xia!

Of course, you immediately struck back.

You contacted the Baixiaosheng organization in Yun City to expose how the Teaching Director of the Warrior Academy at Yun City Second University had illegally seized the equipment-making instrument belonging to Mentor Wang Guang.

Mentor Wang Guang has been a towering benefactor to you; without his nurturing, you wouldn’t be as strong as you are now.

But you come from a humble background, your strength was weak, and facing the Teaching Director’s cunning and forceful expropriation, you dared not resist at all.

You could only submit to the Director’s oppressive authority, silently weeping every day as you watched him seize your mentor’s benefits.

At the same time, you detailed how you pretended to be an ostrich at school and endured your classmates’ insults.

Truth be told, you were afraid of being sabotaged by the Teaching Director when you went out for practical training, which is why you repeatedly took sick leave.

Yun City Second University, with its hundred-year history, has never lacked students with poor physical or mental health.

As long as these students provide proof, the school leadership generally shows understanding.

But no matter how many medical or psychological certificates you presented, the school leadership stubbornly smeared your file and marked you with a serious demerit.

What could you do?

As a poor student, facing such a corrupt and evil school system, you were truly desperate!

Once this information broke out, it immediately caused an uproar at Yun City Second University.

After all, the incident of you being given a serious demerit for refusing to go out for training had already stirred up a huge fuss.

Most importantly, your shameless exploitation of your bad reputation to make money earned people’s contempt, but also a grudging respect for your audacity.

And now, behind this matter, there was such a tangled web?

Even though the Teaching Director clarified the matter immediately, a lie with a kernel of truth is doomed from the moment it spreads.

First, it is well known that some leaders in the Warrior Academy were indeed targeting Lin Xia, giving you a serious demerit for refusing training.

Second, the Teaching Director has indeed been using the equipment-making instrument under Wang Guang’s name recently.

Finally, and most importantly, Lin Xia was expelled despite excelling in all courses.

The vast majority of people’s first reaction is to judge the process by the result.

In this matter, Lin Xia, as Wang Guang’s sole disciple, faced obstacles at every turn and suffered greatly.

Meanwhile, the Teaching Director, as a leader inherently superior, reaped great benefits. His income surged during the time he controlled the equipment-making instrument.

Justice lies in the hearts of the people.

Even though the school quickly imposed a ban, in a world where resources decide everything, who entering Yun City Second University doesn’t have some backing?

The school can control forums, confession walls, and other on-campus communication channels—can they really control students’ personal behavior by force?

Another point is that the Teaching Director of the Warrior Academy also has rivals within Yun City Second University.

You handed a knife to the rivals; how could they not seize this opportunity?

In short, in a stable organization like a school, once you dare to start a fight, high-level allies will automatically join in.

Under the manipulation of interested parties, various abuses by the Teaching Director—usurping the mentor’s rights, pressuring the mentor’s only disciple, even putting out high-priced bounties—all surfaced.

After parents of Yun City Second University students learned of this, they began to doubt the place where their children were being educated.

Considering next year’s enrollment, the school urgently established an investigation team to probe into the matters involving you and the Teaching Director.

At the same time, Yun City Second University remotely directed major media outlets to make statements and set the narrative in advance.

Even if these things were true and done by the Teaching Director, they were his personal acts and had nothing to do with Yun City Second University.

Under such circumstances, the Teaching Director contacted you, asking why you had to escalate the matter like this?

Even if he couldn’t withstand the school’s pressure and save your enrollment, you shouldn’t retaliate against him like this!

There was no oppression or bullying between you two; his use of the equipment-making instrument was due to a friendly agreement between both parties.

He hoped you would step forward to clarify the situation and stop everyone from continuing to misunderstand.

You noticed that his opening words were your name, and his very formal tone in questioning made it clear—even without thinking—that he had people around him.

The investigation team sent by the school was right beside the Teaching Director.

So, you decided to pour fuel on the fire.

You took some chili and rubbed it on your face, then began to plead tearfully, begging the Teaching Director to withdraw the bounty posted on the Guangyun Commerce Association.

If it weren’t for being pushed to the brink by this Teaching Director, you would never have exposed the truth then.

On one hand, you were just a poor student who barely got into Yun City Second University with friends’ help and teammates’ efforts, and you really didn’t want to oppose the school’s top brass!

On the other hand, your performance at school was so shameful that if not forced, how could you willingly rub salt into your own wounds?

Your mentor is dead!

The mentor’s inheritance is already in your hands!

You have achieved all your goals.

As the mentor’s sole disciple, you even subleased the equipment-making instrument to him for twenty million.

What more could he want?

Why can’t he spare your life?

Must he utterly destroy you?

The Teaching Director, realizing what was going on, became furious.

“You’re slandering me!”

“Nonsense!”

“We clearly had an agreement at the time. Why are you suddenly reneging now?”

You ignored him and only added fuel to the fire.

His rage to this extent proved there were definitely people around him.

Trying to lure you into saying something that favors him—did he think all those spy novels and TV dramas you read before time travel were for nothing?

Under your relentless mudslinging, his call was abruptly cut off.

The next day, the Yun City Second University investigation team issued a statement: the Teaching Director was stripped of his position, all assets within the university were confiscated, and he was immediately expelled with severe punishment!