When she went out to face the challenge that afternoon...
Xie Litang looked with a bit of regret at the damaged black skin-tight suit.
“It’s really comfortable to wear.”
“I’ll go buy a better one later.”
Xie Litang swore she didn’t just like wearing it—even though that kind of outfit accentuated her figure, it was mainly easy to move in and particularly suited for jungle combat.
Xie Litang changed into ordinary clothes, though she still tied her hair into a high ponytail, which was much better than long hair draped over her shoulders that could blow into her face with every gust of wind.
By the small river, near the streetlamp.
A group of people from Jianghai High School had already been waiting for a long time.
The moment Xie Litang appeared, she drew everyone’s gaze, and once people looked at her, it was hard to turn away.
The livestream chat also began flooding the screen with comments.
【Wait, is she really Xie Litang?】
【It’s only been a little over a week, right? Her change is huge.】
【Didn’t she use to have those toxic-girl wavy curls? Now that she switched to a high ponytail, she actually looks pretty cute and refreshing.】
【Is this really the same person?】
【To be honest, super pretty.】
Washing off the heavy makeup and tying up a high ponytail...
Her overall vibe in particular was impossible to fake.
In a way they couldn’t quite fathom, Xie Litang was living as the exact kind of girl they liked.
Inside a classroom at Jianghai High School.
Clatter~
Li Ruoxi knocked over the milk tea on her desk.
“That bitch! She’s totally faking it!”
“Flirting and leading people on is her specialty! Don’t let her fool you!”
“Have you all forgotten how she used Xue Qingyue’s photos for online dating to scam people out of money and feelings?”
“Contact the livestream moderators and our friends in the Student Council immediately! Suppress this unhealthy trend for me!”
The direction of the chat comments began to shift again.
Only this time, not many people bought into it.
Hearing the same thing over and over got tiring.
Even hot search topics for big celebrities didn’t last this long; are you really going to keep bringing up that same old thing every single day?
The tone of the comments flipped instantly.
【Look, can’t someone actually change for the better?】
【That’s right. I couldn’t tell before, but now I feel like Xie Litang isn’t any worse than Xue Qingyue, is she?】
【To be honest, aside from going against our school and calling us trash, she doesn’t seem that detestable anymore.】
【But wasn’t it us who slandered her first? Don’t reverse cause and effect.】
【Mommy, I wanna drink snow pear soup (Xie Litang).】
【To the guy above, go take some anti-diarrhea medication instead.】
People’s worldviews tend to follow handsome views to some degree.
Yet the stream chat wasn’t wrong about one thing: in a sense, Xie Litang truly had turned over a new leaf.
On the familiar street.
Su Yang was also somewhat stunned by Xie Litang’s transformation. Dazed for a moment, he hurriedly pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose to conceal his loss of composure, saying, “I thought you wouldn’t dare to come.”
Xie Litang rolled her eyes and said, “Cut the crap. Where are the ants?”
Su Yang choked on his words for a second. “We’re challenging you, and all you care about are ants?”
“What else?”
“Are we really worse than an ant nest? That’s way too insulting.”
“You actually are. Students from Jianghai High School are a dime a dozen to me, but I genuinely can’t find a single ant nest.”
“Fine, stop, stop, stop... The wager this time is four hundred yuan. The person we dispatched today is an officer from the school’s Martial Arts Club, nicknamed Little Blade King, Xu Youshan.”
Before Su Yang’s words even landed...
Xie Litang was already beckoning to Xu Youshan with a hooked finger, making a provocative gesture.
Xu Youshan’s face darkened instantly, and with a furious roar, he drew his blade and slashed forward, shouting, “Blade King Triple Slash...!”
Jianghai High School’s research on Xie Litang had never stopped.
Their latest conclusion was that they had to catch her off guard and strike when she was unprepared; the Blade King Triple Slash was built around blitz attacks.
Xu Youshan had already trained it to the Minor Accomplishment stage, delivering three slashes per second and even creating afterimages.
Cheers immediately sounded from all around.
【Great swings, Senior Xu! It’s completely airtight!】
【Three slashes a second, Student Xu! Slash Xie Litang’s trash soul into pieces in three hits!】
【Go Brother Xu! Show her who the real trash is!】
【Vindicate Jianghai High School...!】
In reality...
Xie Litang just felt like scratching her head right now.
She admitted Xu Youshan’s Triple Slash swung very quickly, but it seemed to rely primarily on a defensive stance.
Xie Litang didn’t move at all, asking curiously, “I admit three slashes a second is pretty fast, but aren’t you tired?”
Cold sweat broke out on Xu Youshan’s forehead, but he feigned composure and shouted, “Cut the crap! If you’ve got the guts, come over here!”
Xu Youshan stood rooted in place, swinging his Triple Slash so tightly that not even air could pass through. Only an idiot would walk up to that.
Soon, Xu Youshan was dripping with sweat. Realizing he couldn’t stall any longer, he gritted his teeth and lunged toward Xie Litang. However, the moment he moved, his blade momentum fell into chaos.
The corner of Xie Litang’s mouth twitched slightly into a smirk. “So that’s how it is. It’s not that you didn’t want to attack, but once you leave your spot while swinging, you can’t deliver those three blade afterimages anymore.”
With his flaw exposed, Xu Youshan’s mind threw itself into disarray.
By simply listening to the sound of the blade and the wind’s momentum, Xie Litang could easily dodge every single one of his swings.
She drew her sword, thought for a moment, and put it back. This wasn’t a wooden sword; a single stab could genuinely kill someone.
“Fist it is then...”
【Clang.】
Vitality +12.
Amidst the overlapping blade shadows, Xie Litang landed a punch directly onto Xu Youshan’s back.
“Ah...”
Xu Youshan was hit as if struck by a massive impact; it felt as though something exploded inside his body, and he immediately let out a blood-curdling scream before collapsing to the ground, heavily injured.
Xie Litang squatted beside him, speaking with an expression of utter dullness, “What kind of trash Triple Slash is this? Weak as hell.”
Pfft~
Xu Youshan spat out a mouthful of old blood. She was way too infuriating!
By the small riverbank...
The crowd watching the fight went instantly silent, so quiet a pin drop could be heard.
Wait, it ended just like that?
Xie Litang stood up, took the four hundred yuan wager directly, turned around to leave, and waved her hand behind her back, saying, “I have to travel out of town again for a while during this period. Don’t miss me too much, little trashes of Jianghai High School.”
Buzz~
An instant uproar erupted behind her.
Aggrieved, powerless, furious... yet Jianghai High School had lost four battles out of four. That was an indisputable fact.
Besides, if Xie Litang was trash, then what were the Jianghai High School students she defeated?
Just this point alone put the leadership of Jianghai High School over a slow fire.
Inside the principal’s office.
Bang!
“Have the Student Council shut down the livestream immediately! Control public opinion, and notify all students that discussing this matter in private is strictly forbidden—anyone caught will receive a disciplinary warning!”
Principal Xue Haipeng was now riding a tiger with no way to dismount.
Suppressing public opinion within the school only addressed the symptoms, not the root cause.
Because as long as Xie Litang remained and continued to crush Jianghai High School students in battle, they would remain trashes for a day—no, trashes for a lifetime.
The school was even divided into two factions. The nearby teaching director said, “Principal, some teachers currently believe that we should just recruit Xie Litang back. What do you think?”
Xue Haipeng glared at him and said, “Are you saying my original disciplinary decision was wrong?”
Wiping cold sweat from his forehead, the teaching director said, “That’s not what I meant, but the matter has to be resolved eventually, right?”
Xue Haipeng pondered for a moment, his finger lightly tapping on the desktop. “It’s not impossible for her to return, but her attitude in admitting her mistake must be sincere. Got it?”
The teaching director replied, “Make her admit her mistake?”
Xue Haipeng leaned back into his armchair and sneered, “Making her admit her mistake is giving her an opportunity. If she still doesn’t know what’s good for her, then don’t blame us for being merciless.”
The teaching director: “...”
Well, even though...
This was the only way out of a dead end.
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