Waste is just the threshold to my meeting.

Chapter 84 I Will Always Stand By Your Side

the next day.

The suffering of Class 5 in the first year of high school came at a terrible price.

Because of yesterday's miscalculation, three students from their class made it into the top ten.

Among them, Quan Jiafei even won the bronze medal, placing third.

Only the top three finishers receive medals, and even bronze medals are more valuable than those so-called "fake" silver and gold medals, in some respects...

This time, it seems that only one person, Quan Jiafei, is the victor.

With the recent rise in precious metal prices, copper prices have also increased significantly, so his copper medal should be worth about ten yuan, enough for several meals of instant noodles.

He wore his honor around his neck.

However, last night everyone stayed up with the enthusiastic Li Rong until his mother's three o'clock in the morning.

This morning, everyone was mostly listless.

It's not because these students have never tried sleeping at this time before.

They usually play games in their dorm room, like the card game "Three Kingdoms Kill" or chat secretly...

Some even stay up all night to attend class.

But even in that situation, they were nowhere near as exhausted as they are now.

Of course.

Can playing be the same as doing tasks and studying?

I've never been more tired from playing games all night than from studying all night!

It is precisely this state and situation.

Everyone was listless all morning.

"Wake up!"

Xiongda, the Potions teacher, is back, roaring in class.

Everyone, all the students who were dozing off below the podium, were immediately awakened by this outburst of anger.

Who would have thought that Xiong Da, who seemed gentle and refined with an aloof demeanor, would unleash such a terrifying roar?

What anger, resentment, ferocity, and despair this is!

Yes, it's these students who are really outrageous, putting their teacher in such a difficult position. It's absolutely terrible...

So they suddenly shook their heads, trying to clear their groggy minds.

I need to regain my most lucid state of mind.

Five seconds later, the students in the class, who had been drowsy, suddenly became refreshed, which was extremely rare.

Those who were dozing off earlier now show no signs of fatigue whatsoever.

They all stared intently at Teacher Xiongda, waiting for him to begin his lesson.

In that case, we won't disappoint Teacher Xiongda, right?

That's what everyone was thinking.

Even the most useless and incompetent teachers would feel embarrassed to be so angry at a teacher who is usually gentle and kind in his dealings with others.

The classroom atmosphere instantly changed, becoming unprecedentedly quiet and harmonious!

"Wake up!!"

Boom!

He flew into a rage again.

An explosive sound, like the sound of a throat being squeezed and the vocal cords being compressed, once again burst forth from Xiong Da's mouth.

Ok?

Isn't this considered being on your toes?

An Jing, the discipline committee member, scratched her head and looked at all the students in the class with some confusion.

Everyone was sitting upright, obediently and attentively opening their eyes and staring intently at Xiong Da and the refining stone plate in front of him.

Isn't this enough to wake you up?

Yao Zhi'ai was also completely baffled.

After all, because the gentle Xiongda was acting out of character in class, everyone had also adopted the same, unusually quiet and attentive teaching atmosphere.

Why can't I still meet his standards?

Then she immediately gestured.

Over the past few days.

As the class monitor of Class 5, Grade 11, Yao Zhi'ai was very popular among her classmates. They had no complaints about her; on the contrary…

Yao Zhi'ai's makeup and appearance as the leader gave them a lot of confidence. Coupled with her strong control over the class's voice, everyone looked up to her.

After she gave a brief indication, everyone more or less re-examined their own behavior.

Is your back not straight enough?

Are your eyes not open wide enough?

Is it because the spiritual energy in your body is not active enough?

Is your focus not yet at its peak?

Everything is closely related to oneself.

Upon closer examination, problems were indeed found everywhere, and they were quite significant.

And so, change occurred once again.

The students, who had just barely managed to open their eyes, with eyelids as heavy as mountains, now, under Yao Zhiai's instructions and reminders, experienced another intense expansion of their eyelids.

Widening their eyelids and pupils became one of the signature behaviors and actions they considered to be when they were paying attention in class.

Therefore, almost everyone's eyes are opened as wide as they can.

They practically wanted to stick their eyes out so that the usually gentle and refined Xiong Da could see how serious they were.

Some people even pretended to be excited and kept nodding, as if they agreed with the knowledge points in Xiong Da's class, but Xiong Da was not lecturing at all at that time.

To demonstrate that he was genuinely paying attention in class, Zhang Jiahao was constantly pretending to be attentive, taking notes and nodding exaggeratedly at times.

Pretend to have that "sudden realization" expression.

His expression made you want to punch him.

Even though they had all done a good job of making it look like a model, that unsettling voice still appeared.

Snapped!

A heavy slap suddenly rang out.

Immediately following was a hoarse, furious roar:

"Cheer up, you bastard!"

At this point, the groggy and tired feeling in everyone's mind has basically completely disappeared.

Because they saw with their own eyes that Xiong Da slapped them hard across the cheek without any hesitation.

After the harsh applause, a grotesque handprint appeared on his cheek.

"Holy crap, we let the teacher down! The teacher actually hit herself like that!"

Many people began to feel afraid and worried.

The female students who had previously received special treatment from Xiong Da felt especially sorry for him.

On Xiong Dajun's handsome face, the slightly deep handprint was so striking.

She is indeed a competent teacher.

The female students felt this certainty and acceptance once again, countless times in their hearts.

but…

Fu Chen, sitting in the audience, touched his forehead.

Is it possible that Xiong Da wasn't referring to his group of silly classmates all along?

Was that a sentence you kept saying to yourself?

Looking at Xiong Da's slightly tired and anxious expression, Fu Chen was once again convinced of his opinion.

It seems that Xiong Da hasn't completely recovered from what happened before...

It would be a miracle if they could even get out of there, right?

Imagine if you worked yourself to the bone to raise a son, only to find out he wasn't your biological child.

You're probably many times more fucking devastated than this blond-haired bear!

Although Xiongda often reads NTR doujinshi and watches adult films, there was a moment when this kind of thing happened to him personally.

He then realized that the pain was absolutely unimaginable; he could cheat on others like that, but others couldn't cheat on him like that.

During the time he was absent from teaching Class 5 of Grade 1, he was searching for an answer: whose bastard was the one he had painstakingly raised?

But things didn't go as planned...

The reality was that even his wife didn't know exactly who it was, because there were just too many people around at that time.

Even she couldn't possibly list all the people involved at the time, let alone find out the bloodline of their child.

Ultimately, Xiong Da's efforts came to nothing, and he returned empty-handed...

He was angrily divorced by his beautiful wife!

They acquired half of his property!

Although the house he bought with the money he borrowed for the down payment, and for which the loan is still outstanding, has seen its value drop from over 160 million to around 85 within two years…

But even a wrecked ship has three nails; a mosquito's blood is still blood.

Xiong Da now doesn't understand what exactly is causing him heartache.

Is it that his wife cheated on him, and he's been raising her child for years for nothing, or is it that she divorced him and took all his assets...?

Perhaps only through experiencing such suffering can one's mind undergo an astonishing growth.

At this moment, Fu Chen had some reflections.

If he could use his gold-grade soul-swapping potion without limit, he would be more than willing to swap souls with Xiong Da right now.

He also wanted to experience firsthand what kind of feelings and despair Xiong Da had after being betrayed by his closest person.

Throughout the entire potions class in the morning, Xiong Da was absent-minded. He kept telling himself to be fully focused and teach his students well.

But he really couldn't do it.

So he could only keep slapping himself, leaving one hideous and deep handprint after another on his cheek.

The students, however, had a different perspective.

Those students, whose minds were more or less plagued by unsolvable problems, simply believed that Xiong Da was using self-punishment to motivate them to study hard.

This really got the students fired up, mainly because it stirred up their sense of shame.

In contrast to this sense of shame…

The situation where their parents used to resort to physical violence and threats of knives to prevent them from studying properly was reversed by Xiong Da, who had only taught them for less than two weeks.

Since they all started studying seriously, the sun was rising in the west.

As the psychological counselor, Fu Chen felt it was very necessary and was quite certain that Xiong Da, who had experienced such a major change, desperately needed psychological comfort, listening, and help.

"That's a good thing!"

When get out of class ended, as Xiong Da stared blankly at the scenery outside the balcony, looking as if he was about to jump off at any moment, Fu Chen appeared beside him.

"What did you say?"

Xiong Da suppressed his anger. If it were anyone else, upon hearing these words, he would have immediately gone berserk and challenged the other party to a duel to see who was the best.

But the person speaking was Fu Chen, who had previously guided him and helped him come to his senses from his wife's deception, so his tone became very gentle.

"Teacher, we need to consider the issues we are looking at from multiple perspectives."

Look at you, after going through so much, you're only 18 years old. Hasn't this experience greatly benefited your life?

"Think about it, how many damn people, when they're in their thirties or forties, only to find out that the child they've raised for most of their lives actually belongs to someone else? By then, they've already lived more than half their lives..."

Looking back now, teacher, you are only 18 years old and have already experienced so much betrayal and change. Don't these changes make your experience more complete and make you more mature?

You're only losing a small amount of money now. But what you gain is far more than what you lose!

Xiong Da remained silent, though he didn't actually want to; he was simply calculating how old he was this year.

He's always been bad at math and counting, and he often mixes up the quantities of ingredients needed to make potions, not to mention his current age.

He did the math for a while before realizing he was only 18 years old…

At just 18 years old, he experienced a series of changes that others might take twenty or thirty years to go through.

Just as Fu Chen said to him, could this be a purely bad thing?

This is not a bad thing at all, on the contrary, it is a good thing!

After receiving such powerful comfort and insightful advice from Fu Chen, they were deeply moved.

The shadows in Xiong Da's heart are gradually being lifted.

Yes, he's only 18 years old. There's no obstacle he can't overcome.

His age is so wonderful, and his life is so fulfilling. He still has a job, and so many young and beautiful students in his class waiting for him to "carefully nurture" them!

How could he give up on himself?

A relieved smile appeared on his face.

But why did Fu Chen suddenly reach out his hand to him?

"What are you doing?"

Fu Chen spread his hands towards Xiong Da: "Teacher Xiong, could you please settle my psychological counseling fee? Thank you."

"Aren't you the class's psychology representative? You need to charge money for this?"

"Things with clearly marked prices are the cheapest, don't you know that, teacher?"

Only those things that appear to be free are the most expensive.

You've been through so much, you should understand by now. Besides, I'll always be there for you whenever you need me.

Even if the whole world betrays you, I will never betray you!

Xiong Da was so moved that he shed tears.

Yes, even if the whole world betrays him, his student will always stand by him. Isn't that something to celebrate?

What does that mere psychological counseling fee amount to?

At a rate of 1000 yuan per hour, Xiong Da directly paid Fu Chen 1000 yuan for the consultation.

That afternoon, Fu Chen, who claimed to have always stood by Xiong Da, accused Xiong Da's wife of cheating on him and that their son was not his biological child.

It became a topic of casual conversation during breaks and spread throughout the entire class.