Chapter 10 The Fairy in the Painting Answers Questions
Immersed in ecstasy, Shaoran met the Master's stern gaze, which held a hint of disappointment. He couldn't help but shrink back, guiltily averting his eyes and avoiding eye contact.
"Speak!" The teacher, who was usually gentle in the eyes of his students, rebuked them sternly for the first time.
Shao Ran dared not look at the teacher. His gaze wandered to other directions, and he saw the unfamiliar eyes of his former classmates looking at him. They made him feel so uncomfortable.
At that moment, he felt like he had become an utterly wicked person.
Clearly, he just wanted to live.
Why are they looking at him like that?
Could it be because of Shao Yanzhe?
right!
It's all Shao Yanzhe's fault!
If he had taken the bookmark back then, no one would have noticed anything amiss. When he was left in the illusion in the future, his classmates and teachers would only think that he had performed poorly and would not suspect him at all!
Seeing Shao Ran bow her head and remain silent for a long time, the Master said with disappointment in his eyes, "Shao Ran, you should leave."
This time, his voice was very calm.
But it was this calm that made Shao Ran's heart skip a beat, and a bad premonition suddenly arose.
He looked up abruptly, staring at the teacher in disbelief: "Teacher! You actually want to send me away!"
The Master's eyes lost all emotion, leaving only calm: "Yes, I am of limited knowledge and learning, and I fear I may mislead your students. You should choose another good teacher!"
Shao Ran's face turned pale instantly: "Master!"
He opened his mouth to try and salvage the situation, but admitting his mistake was more embarrassing than being driven away by the teacher.
"As expected, the teacher favors Shao Yanzhe! I'll leave then!"
He said that, then turned and left.
He did nothing wrong!
He just wanted to survive!
As the teacher watched Shao Ran turn and leave, the words he had just spoken struck a chord deep within him, causing him to sway. He looked utterly defeated. He had always treated all his students equally and had never shown any favoritism, yet he was now being spoken of so carelessly.
It's his incompetence that produced such a heartless student.
He looked up and felt a pang of regret. He had let Shao Yanzhe down!
Shao Yanzhe, who was thought to be dead in the illusion, was still alive and kicking. He never expected that the woman in red would secretly manipulate his grades to make him the last one!
But he dared not speak out against his anger and could only sulk in silence.
At this moment, the woman in red suddenly appeared, and Shao Yanzhe trembled, almost screaming and running away with his head in his hands.
He instantly chanted "prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony..." in his mind, trying to bolster his courage.
"I'm giving you ten hours to finish these exam papers. If you don't, I'll kill you!"
The woman in red left behind three baskets of exam papers and disappeared.
Shao Yanzhe: ...
Since transmigrating to this world, it seems he's either answering questions or on his way to answering questions; he's practically obsessed with answering questions.
He made a few sarcastic remarks to himself amidst his misery, before his gaze finally swept past the three baskets of exam papers on the ground and landed on the position of the invigilator at the very front of the examination hall.
On the desk of the proctor's seat lay a stack of exam papers, which were the exam papers of the students from Wenyuan Academy.
Shao Yanzhe's heart stirred slightly. He glanced around and tentatively took a step toward the desk.
After realizing that the woman in red had not appeared, he continued walking towards his target.
He sat down in the chair behind the desk, looked down at the exam papers, and was stunned.
The top exam paper was filled with red annotations in the same official script, but those annotations looked even more pleasing to the eye.
The comments in red ink were sharp and incisive, conveying a sense of disappointment and frustration, and offering guidance to the test-taker on how to better write the essay.
Shao Yanzhe's eyes lit up instantly. He didn't care about the three baskets of test papers anymore and focused all his attention on the stack of test papers in front of him.
He carefully read the contents, studied the essence of the examinee's essay, and refined his writing by combining it with the annotations in red ink.
He would look at one paper and then move on to the next, leaving his own eleven exam papers until the very end.
His exam papers were also covered with annotations in red ink, from the eight-legged essay to policy essays, every article was corrected in red ink.
"I didn't know you could do this here!"
"I've learned something!"
"Truly exquisite!"
The more Shao Yanzhe looked at the test papers, the more itchy he became, wishing he could immediately work through a set of test papers to relieve his inner turmoil.
But he forced himself to endure it, read through all the test papers, then put the test papers on the desk, walked back to the three baskets of test questions, picked up a test paper at random, and began to answer the questions.
Just as Shao Yanzhe was diligently writing his essay and answering the questions, a woman in red was quietly watching him from a slightly above and below, watching him write an essay on the exam paper that was even more fluent and literary than before.
A rare look of appreciation flashed in her dark red eyes; if she were still alive, she would definitely want to take him as her disciple.
What a pity.
Immediately, black resentment surged from her body, pulling at her soul and causing her a splitting headache. The few feelings of appreciation she had were instantly shattered by indignation and hatred.
Her dark red eyes were unusually sinister. She stared at Shao Yanzhe, a cruel smile curling at the corner of her mouth.
What a pity?
This man probably doesn't feel any regret. After learning that a woman had the audacity to want to take him as her disciple, he would surely be secretly glad that she was dead, and would verbally find all sorts of moral and ethical excuses to refuse her idea of taking him as a disciple.
Men are all ungrateful scum!
The woman in red's eyes grew increasingly menacing as she reached out towards Shao Yanzhe.
The literary energy that was originally attached to Shao Yanzhe's article instantly gathered in her hand, and then she absorbed it all, making her aura even stronger.
After absorbing the literary energy from Shao Yanzhe's article, the woman in red turned and left.
Shao Yanzhe paused while writing, then quietly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead before continuing to write the article he had conceived.
At the same time, he began to think about how he could get the woman in red to remove the Soul-Severing Curse from him.
As for finding a way to get rid of the woman in red, he abandoned that idea the moment he saw her.
We can't beat them, we really can't beat them.
He was a frail scholar, only protected by the nation's fortune, but he couldn't even protect himself when facing Yun Weiyue, let alone that woman in red.
He could clearly sense that the woman in red was much stronger than Yun Weiyue.
Shao Yanzhe's writing suddenly stopped. He felt something brush against his trouser leg. He subconsciously looked down and met Xuan Yao's round eyes, one gold and one black, and was immediately delighted.
He refocused his gaze on the table and asked in a low voice, "How did you get in?"
Then, lines of small characters began to appear on the scroll in front of him, clearly the work of Yun Weiyue.
[Some cracks appeared in this ghost realm just now, and Xuan Yao took the opportunity to sneak in. We checked the situation in the ghost realm earlier and found that, in addition to you, there are several other humans trapped in other locations.]
Also, unless something goes wrong in the Ghost Realm, it will be difficult to get you out. Just stay put for now.
Shao Yanzhe nodded slightly in response, put the now blank straw roll aside, and continued writing down a question.
"Do you think she would consider sparing my life if I helped her get rid of her enemy?"
This is the only thing he can do.
You can give it a try.
"good."
We're leaving now. Please be careful. If you encounter any danger, you can try to control your inner energy to protect yourself.
By the way, time flows differently in the Ghost Realm and the outside world; two days inside equals one day outside.
Shao Yanzhe stared blankly at the slowly disappearing words. Could he control the writing energy?
He was about to ask how to control it when he looked down and found that Xuan Yao was already gone.
He felt helpless, wondering why he hadn't been told something so important earlier so that he could have prepared in advance.
As for the flow of time, he no longer cares about that.
Shao Yanzhe stared blankly at the article in front of him, then suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. He knew that the woman in red had returned, so he put aside the complicated thoughts in his mind and focused on writing the exam paper in front of him.
Whether it was his imagination or not, the longer he stayed in this ghostly realm, the more he could vaguely discern the location of the woman in red, and whether she was beside him or not.
He didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing for him.
The three baskets of test papers were finished in exactly ten hours. Just as Shao Yanzhe put down his brush, the woman in red appeared in front of him.
She took away the three baskets of test papers that Shao Yanzhe had finished, and then with a wave of her hand, the three empty baskets were filled with test papers again.
"continue!"
After she finished speaking, she took the exam paper and sat down in the invigilator's seat, looking down at the exam paper.
Shao Yanzhe turned to look at the woman in red, swallowed nervously, and then whispered, "Sir, could you tell me how much longer I need to stay here?"
The woman in red, who was looking at the exam paper, was stunned for a moment, then looked at him with her cold eyes, making it impossible to discern what she was thinking.
"Shut up and answer the question."
"Yes!" Shao Yanzhe immediately shrank his neck, chose to follow his heart, shut his mouth and picked up his pen to write the test paper.
It wasn't that he was a coward, but rather that anyone facing a creature beyond the realm of science would probably not have fared any better than him.
He was just trying to save his own life!
In the following period, Shao Yanzhe immersed himself in a sea of practice questions.
After the woman in red graded all the exam papers he had done, he would carefully review them to improve his writing, and his writing would begin to resemble the style of Yun Weiyue and the woman in red.
During this process, the relationship between Shao Yanzhe and the woman in red eased, and they were able to exchange a few words each time they handed in their exam papers.
Shao Yanzhe sat down and looked up slightly at the woman in red who appeared in front of him: "Sir, how much time has passed outside? Is it still safe for me to go out?"
The woman in red glanced at him, but this time she didn't leave immediately. She answered his previous question: "Three days."
Seeing that she was about to leave again, Shao Yanzhe did not hesitate or beat around the bush, but asked directly, "What do I need to do for you to remove the Soul-Severing Curse from my body?"
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