Seeing that their elder remained silent for a long time, while the females were so excited they were almost shaking the cave to its core, the dragon-orc assistant stepped forward and reminded them, "Elder, why aren't you calling for anyone? Shouldn't you provide a list of the females?"

As he spoke, he took a piece of bark from his pocket and handed it over.

Qinglu was also helpless when Yu Wanwan bowed her head. He had no choice but to take the bark and casually call out a female name.

The female whose name was called almost jumped up. She excitedly ran up to him, first giving Qinglu a shy look, and then picked up the talc and began to write.

"Teacher, do you think my writing is good?"

Qinglu glanced up and said without any mercy, "Nine out of ten characters are wrong. You can go now. Practice more in the future."

The female opened her mouth, but before she could say anything, Qinglu called out the next person's name: "Yanlan".

Hearing that she had been called, Yanlan was overjoyed. She quickly went up and chased away the female who refused to leave.

The female was unwilling, but Yanlan held a high position among the females, so she dared not offend her and could only walk away dejectedly.

Normally, the writing class should have been the one that ended the fastest, but today Qinglu was acting strangely, staying for quite a while. He even kept calling the females up to see how they wrote.

When her name was called, Yu Wanwan was stunned for a moment. When she looked up and realized that everyone was looking at her, she realized what was happening and slowly walked up.

Although her writing was decent, Qinglu seemed to be a very strict teacher.

With intense gazes fixed on her from behind, Yu Wanwan felt a little nervous.

When she gets nervous, her hands tend to shake, and the originally neat handwriting instantly becomes erratic due to the shaking.

However, there was no blackboard eraser or anything like that here, so Yu Wanwan had to put down her pen and said apologetically, "Teacher, I'm done writing."

Qinglu nodded.

Seeing that he didn't seem to have any opinion, Yu Wanwan nodded to him and was about to leave when she was stopped again: "Wait."

"ah?"

Qinglu pointed to the character she had just written with trembling hands: "You wrote this character wrong."

Yu Wanwan: "I know."

That stroke was practically flying out of the sky; anyone with eyes could tell it was a mistake.

Qinglu walked over and stuffed the talc into Yu Wanwan's hand: "Come here, I'll teach you."

Yu Wanwan was pulled back to the mountain wall by him, and Qinglu grabbed her hand and led her to start writing.

The moment her hand was grasped, she was half-encircled, and Yu Wanwan's mind went completely blank.

She felt an intense heat behind her, and the hand covered by Qinglu felt as if it were being enveloped in hot water.

Qinglu took a quiet breath and smelled the faint fragrance on Yu Wanwan's body.

It smelled a bit like fruit, and a bit like flowers; it was a scent he had never smelled before, and overall it was very pleasant.

"Look here, it should be written like this."

Qinglu guided Yu Wanwan's hand and they quickly rewrote the misspelled character.

Yu Wanwan felt a little uncomfortable. After finishing writing, she quickly stepped back and said, "I understand, thank you, Elder. I will practice more in the future."

Qinglu felt a dryness in his throat for some reason, and it took him a long time to utter a single word: "Okay."

After sitting back down, Yu Wanwan could clearly feel that the females around her were looking at her with ill intent.

Yanlan's face was the worst and darkest.

Come to think of it, everyone went up to write, but no one received any guidance except for Yu Wanwan, who was singled out to practice once.

Females are bound to be jealous.

However, Yu Wanwan had no choice. Whether or not to teach was the teacher's business, and how well she learned was her own business. These people already disliked her, and no matter whether she did well or badly today, they still wouldn't like her.

Yu Wanwan didn't have the habit of pandering to others, and she didn't care about their attitudes, just kept her head down and did her own thing.

After class, everyone walked out one after another, with Yu Wanwan lagging behind. One female after another walked past her.

On her way down the mountain, Yu Wanwan took a detour and instead of heading back to her dormitory, she went to the mountain she had visited several times before.

The scenery on this mountain is still beautiful, and this time, I didn't find any strange fruits along the way.

Yu Wanwan breathed a sigh of relief.

It's good that there's nothing there; nothing means there's no trap.

She chose a spot to sit down, looked at the distant mountains and forests, then took out some fruit from her bag and started eating it with a crunching sound.

It's so comfortable here, the scenery is great, and there aren't any of those annoying people around. I wish Bai Jing and the others were here too.

Thinking of Bai Jing and the others, Yu Wanwan couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat.

But she didn't want to cry anymore. She raised her head, trying to force back the tears, but a single drop of water rolled down her cheek.

This time, it wasn't her crying, it was raining.

Large raindrops pelted down, the rain was heavy and dense, and in an instant, Yu Wanwan was soaked to the bone.

Unfortunately, the place she was in was at the foot of a nearly vertical mountain wall, without even the slightest indentation, leaving her nowhere to hide.

"We're doomed." Yu Wanwan hurriedly gathered up the fruit, covered her head with her hand, and started to run down the mountain.

Before she could run two steps, a figure suddenly appeared in front of her. Before she could stop, Yu Wanwan bumped into it with a thud, making her see stars.

Qinglu quickly caught Yu Wanwan, who was falling backward, and pulled her inside. At the same time, the leaves above her head drooped down, instantly blocking out the pattering raindrops.

"Wanwan, are you alright?"

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