Chapter 97: Chapter 97: You Can Even Answer Questions Beyond the Syllabus, Do You Know Mr. Gu?

You didn’t need a brain to figure it out.

The only reason the ghoul homeroom teacher had done a complete one-eighty was because Yun Zhenyue and Loo Huan had just done something in his office.

Otherwise, why would he be so nice to the students?

He was practically licking their boots!

He was granting every single one of their outrageous requests!

It had reached the point where if a student said they couldn’t eat, the ghoul homeroom teacher would probably chew their food for them and feed it to them!

If they said they were broke, the teacher would probably stuff a couple hundred bucks in their pocket!

He looked like he was on something.

The Dragon Country viewers watching this scene all had strange looks on their faces.

[I’ve seen some weird stuff in my life, but a teacher playing matchmaker for his students? That’s a new one.]

[This ghoul teacher’s bootlicking is so blatant. He might as well have "Suck-up" tattooed on his forehead.]

[LMAO, I’m getting major deja vu. Bro, did you also inherit a billion that you have to spend in a month?]

[I’m fucking losing my mind. Is this teacher wearing a mask? Or did they replace him? Is this really the same terrifying ghoul teacher from before?]

[All you guys talking have it easy. I’m a teacher too, and if a member of the board of directors was observing my class, my knees would be jelly too!]

[Dude, to suck up so shamelessly... respect for that thick skin alone. The balls on this guy!]

...

At that moment, the knitting ghoul girl gathered her things and walked over to Yun Zhenyue’s desk.

"Thank you so much," she said gratefully, placing her treasures on the desk. "These are for you."

Some small snacks, a pair of earrings, and a brand-new scarf.

And her chubby little hamster.

The little hamster’s cheeks were so round and puffy it was almost a perfect sphere—clearly, it was a well-cared-for pet.

"Oh, this... no, no, you don’t have to. You’re being too kind."

Yun Zhenyue quickly waved her hands, trying to refuse. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

But before she could finish...

...the other students started bringing their own thank-you gifts over.

"Boss, please carry me! This is my prized fountain pen. It’s yours!"

"Yun, you’re amazing! You completely transformed our homeroom teacher. You have to take this bottle of Coke."

"My dream of years can finally come true! SOB... thank you so, so much..."

In no time at all,

Yun Zhenyue’s desk was piled high with sincere gifts from her classmates.

One by one, they brought over their most treasured possessions.

Food, drinks, trinkets—a chaotic jumble of everything imaginable.

Yun Zhenyue’s desk was nearly buried under a small mountain of items.

The eyeball-plucking ghoul also hesitated for a moment before popping out its right eye, placing it carefully on Yun Zhenyue’s desk, and looking at her with an expectant gaze.

Seeing this, Yun Zhenyue felt her eye twitch.

"Wait, this hamster will eat anything!"

"The eyeball! It’s got your eyeball in its mouth!"

Yun Zhenyue’s head was starting to throb. Seeing the chubby hamster stuffing random things from the desk into its mouth, she quickly squeezed the eyeball out and then stared at the overflowing desk in dismay.

Chaos!

Absolute chaos!

"Loo Huan, can you talk to them? I really don’t need any of this."

She noticed Loo Huan clutching her stomach, laughing uncontrollably.

Yun Zhenyue couldn’t take it anymore and grabbed her arm.

"Hey, Miss Yun, they’re gifts from your classmates. Just accept them," Loo Huan said, thoroughly enjoying the show.

"Then why don’t you take some?" Yun Zhenyue asked, exasperated. "I have no use for any of this. I have a cat at home. Am I supposed to bring this hamster home as a snack for it?"

"PFFT!"

Loo Huan burst out laughing at her words.

It was the first time she had ever seen Yun Zhenyue look so flustered.

Just a moment ago, when she was called into the office, Yun Zhenyue hadn’t even batted an eye. She was completely fearless!

And now, she was getting stressed out over thank-you gifts from her classmates.

’It’s too cute!’

With this thought, Loo Huan chuckled and explained, "It’s mainly because everyone is in shock. You have no idea what an old bastard he used to be."

"How so?" Yun Zhenyue asked, confused. "He falsely accused me of cheating without any reason. Wasn’t that bad enough?"

"That was nothing..."

Loo Huan filled Yun Zhenyue in on what the ghoul homeroom teacher was like before.

Not only was he extremely biased...

...he focused all his attention on Class 1 and absolutely despised the students in Class 2.

It wasn’t that there weren’t ghouls in Class 2 who wanted to study hard.

But every time they showed the slightest bit of improvement, the ghoul homeroom teacher would punish them!

Hearing this, Yun Zhenyue was stunned.

"Getting punished for improving your grades? That can’t be right."

"Of course it’s not. But what can you do? He’s the homeroom teacher," Loo Huan said with a sigh.

"He looks down on every student in Class 2. In his heart, he’s already decided we’re all just a bunch of failures. Sigh... what can we say? We don’t have good family backgrounds."

"He’s convinced we’re all scum from the gutter, so if we try to study hard, we must be faking it!"

"If we get good test scores, it must be because we cheated!"

"So, our only choice was to play along with his negative impression of us as much as possible, without actually breaking any school rules."

It all clicked for Yun Zhenyue.

’So that’s it. The ghoul teacher was prejudiced against them. He’d punish them for trying to study hard. It probably has something to do with the dean assigning all the students who didn’t grease his palms to Class 2.’

’This Chilling Middle School is really corrupt to the core.’

’No wonder Loo Huan told me not to score too high on the test!’

’So that’s what was going on!’

The original ghoul homeroom teacher was absolutely despicable!

Calling him a monster in human clothing would be an understatement!

And now he had transformed into this model of a caring and supportive teacher.

That’s why the students of Class 2 were so shocked and were now thanking her from the bottom of their hearts.

"You’re now the most precious treasure of Class 2!"

"Don’t you worry. As long as you’re at this school, the students of Class 2 won’t let anyone push you around!"

When Yun Zhenyue heard Loo Huan’s chest-thumping promise...

...all the other students in Class 2 chimed in with their agreement.

"Damn right! Yun is our great savior!"

"Hmph! I’d like to see anyone try and mess with her!"

"Whoever bullies Yun, I’ll pluck their eyes out!"

"..."

Hearing their words, Yun Zhenyue felt a mix of complicated emotions.

She hadn’t expected to be surrounded by such kindness from the students of Class 2, especially when she felt she hadn’t done much at all.

In the end, Yun Zhenyue gave more than half of the things on her desk to Loo Huan.

The hamster, the earrings—she gave them all to her.

She only kept the school supplies, like the fountain pen, for herself.

A short while later, while it was still the break between classes, the class representative walked over, holding a stack of test papers.

"Yun, I didn’t realize your score was so good..."

Hearing the ghoul class representative’s admiring words,

"Is that so?"

Yun Zhenyue took the paper, puzzled.

When she saw the score on her test, she was instantly dumbfounded.

The bright red number written on it seemed to glow.

97!

Her score was a 97?

Out of a possible 120 points!

She had only been unable to answer a few questions about Mr. Luo!

If you ignored those, it was practically a perfect score!

’That can’t be right.’

’I just wrote down whatever!’

’Especially for the questions about that Mr. Gu—she had basically just based her answers on Gu Yuan!’

"Whoa, holy shit, boss! I kneel before you!"

Loo Huan glanced over, her eyes widening in shock when she saw Yun Zhenyue’s score.

She looked down again.

At her own score, which was just barely over 60.

A wave of shame washed over her!

"No way, are you using cheat codes?"

"Not only do you have an insane background, but you get amazing grades too?"

"Do you actually know that Mr. Gu? You even got the bonus questions right!!"

she wailed.