CHAPTER 583: CHAPTER 583: TEACHER MU’S PRAISE

Mu Jianling, as a teacher, put me on the spot, so I could neither boast nor show off.

Ji You was unhappy.

Ji You was very depressed.

Ji You became withdrawn.

...

Ji You, enveloped in a low-pressure atmosphere, suddenly noticed an even lower pressure from the person next door—

Liu Fufeng.

Liu Fufeng, shoulders hunched, uncontrollably tore back and forth at a piece of paper in his fair, slender hands...

"It’s already so tattered, why keep tearing it?" Ji You moved closer and asked, puzzled.

Fufeng mechanically kept tearing, his thoughts drifting far away, momentarily forgetting to hide the shredded pieces of paper.

Ji You reached out to grab—

Fufeng suddenly awoke, pressing his hands together hurriedly—

But—

It was too late!

Ji You had snatched several pieces!

Liu Fufeng’s complexion changed drastically in an instant.

Ji You: "???"

Seeing him like this, Ji You stuffed the snatched pieces back to him and said, "What’s the rush, am I that heartless? I won’t peek at your secrets without your permission."

Liu Fufeng was startled.

After Ji You finished speaking, she no longer paid attention to Liu Fufeng and instead gazed resentfully at Teacher Mu Jianling.

A flush of crimson tinged the handsome face of Liu Fufeng; he was genuinely stunned.

[Ji You could have peeked, but she didn’t.]

[She didn’t.]

[Beneath her shameless facade lies an upright soul.]

...

Liu Fufeng stuffed the shredded paper into a recycling bin.

Meanwhile.

Faced with over a thousand noisy students in the training room, Mu Jianling cleared his throat and said, "What’s all the racket? Quiet down, everyone."

In an instant, the training room became as quiet as a mouse.

Mu Jianling snorted coldly and scolded, "Do you think acting is trivial? A petty skill? In the face of absolute power, isn’t it utterly useless?"

The students kept quiet, not daring to make a sound.

Mu Jianling almost snorted through his nostrils, "But I think, at least 80% of you here not only lack real power but don’t even possess these worthless petty tricks! What do you have to be proud of?"

The students: "..."

The students’ necks shrank even tighter.

Mu Jianling said, "Petty tricks may not be noble, but they can still be useful in crucial moments. At least if you encounter someone dumber than you, you can get by with acting."

The students: "..."

Mu Jianling continued, "I’ve said it before, when you’re on the battlefield, you have only two goals: one is to kill the enemy, and the other is to survive! It doesn’t matter what methods you use to cling to life, kill more enemies, and walk out of the battlefield alive."

The students listened thoughtfully.

Mu Jianling suddenly asked, "Do you really think the Rag Queen’s combat methods are disgraceful?"

The students remained silent but shook their heads one after another.

Seeing the students shaking their heads, Mu Jianling felt unusually relieved in his heart; at least this batch of students wasn’t blockheads. Then, Mu Jianling said with a smile, "In battle, there’s no such thing as dignified or undignified; only effective and ineffective."

The students loudly responded, "Yes!"

Honestly speaking, although everyone criticized the Rag Queen as shameless, brazen, and a drama queen... yet—they could not help but be captivated by her combat methods and strength and felt great admiration!

Mu Jianling continued with a smile, "I watched the Rag Queen’s several matches; her tactics are flexible and her ideas quick-witted, definitely worth your learning. I hope you all take it seriously."

Upon hearing this, the students were all astounded, mainly surprised that Teacher Mu Jianling actually admired a student so much!

Remarkable!

Normally, even when dealing with geniuses like Chu Jiaojiao, Yue Qiguang, and Shen Changqing, Teacher Mu Jianling’s expressions and words seemed to visibly scream: [These idiots!]

Now—

A student from the East District, ’Rag Queen’, had been praised by Teacher Mu Jianling for so long.

Who is the Rag Queen?

A genius from the First Military Academy?

Or?

The students shook off these messy thoughts and raised their heads to loudly reply to Mu Jianling: "Yes! We will follow the teacher’s teachings!"

Isn’t it just practicing acting?

Learn!

"Cough..."

Ji You coughed quietly, raising her hand to cover her reddened ears.

Oh my~

Suddenly praised by Teacher Mu Jianling! This feeling~

Awesome!

At the same time feeling awesome, there was also a bit of shyness... If only she could loudly and proudly tell everyone that she was the Rag Queen, that would have been better.

Cough...

Ji You stopped thinking about it.

Because the next competition was coming up.

Next is the top three competition.

The rule for this round, as always, was a simple and brutal draw! Among the three people, one would get a bye!

The other two who drew the opponents would compete, and the loser would drop to third place.

The winner would compete against the person with the bye to determine the first place.

In any case, the rules of the online competition were just like this, pure and unpretentious.

But—

Although the rules were simple, the difficulty sharply increased.

To be honest, talking about pressure? Ji You felt tremendous pressure; she had competed several times with these two during the selection and had lost each time.

Not won once.

How to compete then?

Ji You pondered—

Then—

Just as they were about to start drawing, Mu Jianling said, "Quiet."

The training room quieted down, and so did the vast audience of the arena in that instant.

Ji You stood on stage, feeling her fingers trembling a bit—

Chu Jiaojiao and Little Shengsheng seemed unfazed on the surface.

They prepared to draw—

Suddenly—

Little Shengsheng said, "I don’t want to draw the bye."

Ji You: "..."

Chu Jiaojiao: "..."

Audience: "..."

"Is this kid’s brain broken?"—This thought popped up in everyone’s mind simultaneously.

In an instant, Ji You blinked and asked, "Then... how about you give up the draw, and Drunk Lying on the Beauty’s Knee, stone, and scissors decide who gets the bye?"

Ji You wasn’t too sure about her luck in drawing, but she was slightly more confident in rock-paper-scissors.

Before Little Shengsheng could respond, Chu Jiaojiao was already nodding vigorously: "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

System: [Changing the competition rules is prohibited, or disqualification will occur.]

Ji You: "..."

Ji You felt very regretful inside and when she looked up, she realized that Little Shengsheng across her looked quite regretful too...

For a moment, Ji You was truly speechless.

This silly kid, participating in the competition, doesn’t really care about winning or losing, but about the process and the growth gained from the competition!

Indeed—

A true master deserves to be a master; their thoughts are indeed different!

Respect!

System: [Please do not delay, make your choice quickly, 10, 9, 8, 7...]

Upon the system’s warning, all three stretched out their hands at once, Little Shengsheng being the slowest, Ji You was the first one to grab, and Chu Jiaojiao was just a little bit behind.

Then—

Ji You carefully opened the slip of paper and looked at it, then glanced at the other two.

From the audience’s perspective, the expressions of the three were all very calm.

Who?

Who got the bye?