Chapter 10

"You bitch, you'll pay for what you did today!"

The boy on the ground was consumed by rage, his eyes burning red as he glared at Chi Xia on the podium, gritting his teeth.

Chi Xia gave him a condescending look, "Is that so? I'll wait."

Several boys got up and helped the boy on the ground back to his seat. They also glared at Chi Xia with hostility, and one of them even teased, "Teacher with braids, you've caused trouble. Do you know who his father is?"

The boy who had been kicked to the ground was about to make a call to call for backup when Chi Xia smiled contemptuously, "That's all you've got when it comes to relying on your fathers. I hope that in another twenty or thirty years, you'll still have fathers to rely on, and when something happens, you'll still call your parents and have a bunch of old geezers clean up your messes."

Young people are most easily provoked. The boy angrily shook off the bracelet, gave up on calling for backup, and hated the new homeroom teacher who had just arrived. Yet, he stubbornly gritted his teeth and remained silent.

Chi Xia scanned the classroom and, seeing that no one wanted to cause trouble, tapped the talent percentage written on the blackboard and drew two arrows. "The new policy has just been introduced. The talent percentage will be split into two parts. The first part is that the talent value remains unchanged, and the second part is the comprehensive assessment. To put it bluntly, the talent has been replaced by half."

Immediately, a student asked, "Teacher, what is a comprehensive assessment?"

Chi Xia: "Next, I will visit each of your homes and create a file for each of you. The file will include three parts: your practical skills; your intelligence level; and your talent threshold assessment."

"Teacher, what's this talent threshold assessment? None of us have awakened any talents, so where does the threshold come from?"

Chi Xia: "Simply put, it's about using my understanding of you to write an estimated talent profile for you."

"Predicting talent? Hahaha, that's hilarious! You can't just make something up out of thin air, teacher. Don't you think that's ridiculous?"

"Although I understand that this is splitting the weight of talent to increase our ways of getting a good overall score, teacher, you said that of those three components, apart from intelligence, the other two are very subjective. Are you sure this is good news for us?"

The students laughed and discussed, and another student immediately chimed in, "Given the teacher-student relationship at our Magic Fishing Academy, are you sure there won't be any negative scores if the teachers give subjective evaluations?"

"Hahaha!"

Chi Xia: "If we follow your logic, intelligence level can also be very subjective. For example, Li Yao has an intelligence of 150, but I don't think she demonstrates that intelligence in her practical skills. On the contrary, she's clumsy. I'd give her 50, so her score in this area can only be the average."

Li Yao: "..."

"So, what's the point of the teacher talking about this comprehensive assessment? Do you think we care about your opinions?"

Chi Xia stepped down from the podium, knowing that these teenagers were just being stubborn. "If you don't care about talent at all, then why give up on yourselves?"

Everyone: “…”

Chi Xia: "The youngest person I've ever seen to awaken their talent was six years old."

Actually, it was last night, and at first, only she and Xin Ran could see the boy.

"Teacher, think before you brag. The age for talent to awaken is between 13 and 23. Did you dream about a six-year-old child awakening their talent?"

"The awakening of talent requires many conditions: stable physical fitness, relatively mature intelligence, and a limit. Which of these is present at the age of six?"

Although Li Yao didn't harbor much hostility towards Chi Xia, she felt that saying a six-year-old child had awakened a talent was too irresponsible. She stood up and said, "Teacher, the awakening of talent requires certain guidance. Just like if someone wants to become a painter, they must first pick up a paintbrush and paint. Does a six-year-old child even have a concept of talent?"

Seeing that they all thought she was joking, Chi Xia smiled and said, "Your doubts are valid, but what I see is the truth. The issue now is that I want to tell you a conclusion I've reached: there may be exceptions to the awakening of talent."

The moment those words were uttered, the classroom erupted in chaos.

These children come from extraordinary families, all of them wealthy and noble. They all know that talent is a good thing, and once they awaken their talent, they transcend the realm of ordinary people and become members of the next social circle.

They had the resources and means to try and awaken their talents, but even with their own and their families' best efforts, they were unable to do so.

Their privileged family background made them unable to accept their fate, but their inability to awaken their talents despite making full use of their family background left them extremely frustrated and self-destructive.

Chi Xia's words now undoubtedly mean that you've taken the wrong path and are focusing your efforts in the wrong direction.

What makes her, a new and unknown homeroom teacher, so special?

"Teacher, do you know what you're saying?"

“If I say something, I’m handing over my head. If I find out you’re lying, then, teacher, I won’t hesitate to pull the strings again and make you disappear from the New Territories!”

"bite--"

Chi Xia looked at the boy whose ears were already red with excitement, "You can give it a try. Also, what I said will be proven true during the home visits. The home visits start tomorrow night. If you're curious, you can organize a list of home visits and give it to me. I'll go through them. get out of class dismissed."

Before Chi Xia even stepped outside, the students were already excitedly discussing the ranking problem. Successfully scheduling home visits was her top priority for the day, and with that goal achieved, Chi Xia smiled.

Xin Ran was waiting in the corridor.

Chi Xia looked him over. Apart from his full acting gear, he didn't seem to have any new injuries today. She placed the textbook in his arms and pushed him towards the special passage. "Didn't get any more injuries today?"

“I told them that if they couldn’t blow people and the door away together, they shouldn’t embarrass themselves. I guess the new research hasn’t been successfully tested yet.”

"Congratulations."

Xin Ran laughed, "I told them that someone awakened their talent at the age of six. Seeing those idiots' twisted and twisted jealous faces made me feel really good. I got my revenge in two months."

Chi Xia smiled faintly, "They believe you?"

As the elevator doors closed, Xin Ran said, "I'm stating the facts. Who cares if they believe me or not? I'll take what I can get away with. It's their own fault for being so inhuman."

After today's classes ended, Xin Ran was pushed to the underground parking garage by Cheng Yang, who also carried him into the special patient car that the school had provided for him.

Xin Ran fastened her seatbelt herself. "Thank you. I'll treat everyone to dinner when I'm better."

Cheng Yang laughed, "Just treat the hospital to a meal. I see you're already a regular guest at the hospital."

"Xia's car hasn't come down yet?" Anna peeked out of the car and saw that Xia was not at the elevator entrance.

Lin Keli skillfully reversed the car and drove it out of the parking space. "When the director comes tomorrow, I'll go and urge her to hurry up."

Aside from the students and their academic rankings, everything else at Magic Fishing Academy is great. It's a top-notch educational institution in terms of benefits, such as providing teachers with cars, reimbursing various expenses, and offering various subsidies.

The key is that the relationships between colleagues are very harmonious. The main conflict is between teachers and students. The teachers are all in the same boat, so they naturally cherish each other.

Anna: "Get well soon, Xiao Xin. I'm still waiting for you to pretend to be my boyfriend and help me fend off unwanted suitors."

Xin Ran: "No problem, a thousand can stop ten thousand."

Lin Keli: "Drive slowly, Teacher Xin. Remember to send a message to let us know you're safe when you get back to the ward. You need to go to work and stay in the hospital, so don't worry your attending physician."

Xin Ran: "Okay."

Cheng Yang sighed softly, "Ever since Xiao Xin came, I, the office heartthrob, have been ignored, neglected, and forgotten by everyone. How tragic."

Anna drove off, rolling down the window and yelling, "Cheng Yang, have you no shame? What does being the school's heartthrob have to do with you? Whether Xiao Xin comes or not, you still won't be the one, okay?"

Lin Keli: "That's right. Before Teacher Xin came, it was me, this heroine, who was working hard to uphold this title, okay?"

"Hahaha."

Everyone chatted and laughed as they drove away.

Xin Ran drove to the two streets behind the back gate of the college and waited for Chi Xia under the shade of the trees. He watched Chi Xia stride towards him from afar, her walking posture was inexplicably strange.

What's strange about it?

Xin Ran looked at Chi Xia's overall look and fell into deep thought.