While the female teacher was floating on air from Jiang Liyue’s flattery, she finally picked up the white candle from the desk and left the classroom.
The female teacher caught sight of Jiang Liyue casually pocketing the candle and paused for a moment before snapping her head around a full one hundred and eighty degrees.
Didn’t see it, she didn’t see anything!
After all, this adorable student had complimented her on being pretty!
In a great mood, the female teacher cupped her face and withdrew her gaze, her eyes turning terrifying again as she looked at the others in the classroom.
Someone saw that Jiang Liyue had managed to leave the classroom so smoothly and immediately tried to follow her example: “Teacher, I want to submit my paper early too.”
But the female teacher only walked over to him with a gloomy expression: “You want to submit early too?”
The man was so frightened he shuddered, thinking to himself, that wasn’t how you treated her just now! Was it because he hadn’t complimented her?
The man thought for a moment, then looked at the female teacher’s face—one that was hard to look at directly—and said seriously, “Teacher, you’re really beautiful.”
Unexpectedly, the female teacher’s face turned even darker: “Are you harassing the teacher, classmate?”
The man was utterly devastated: N-No, that’s not it either! That’s not how it worked just now!
The female teacher’s stance was: could a cute little girl’s compliment possibly be the same as some random guy opening his mouth to flatter her?
After leaving the classroom, Jiang Liyue casually stuffed the white candle into her coat pocket.
The first man who had been devoured had his candle go out—perhaps the candle was some kind of protective item.
What Jiang Liyue didn’t know was that after she left the classroom, someone had tried to imitate her by submitting early and had been eaten instead.
She hadn’t blindly decided to submit her paper early. In fact, the female teacher had never said that early submission wasn’t allowed.
And when she first entered the Fuben, she had been reminded that she was just a student and only needed to follow what a student should do.
She had finished her exam paper, hadn’t disrupted the exam, and submitting early was something a student was allowed to do—so of course it wasn’t a violation.
Since staying in the exam room would only become more dangerous, Jiang Liyue naturally chose to submit early and leave the dangerous place.
Coming out of the classroom, the outside was pitch black as well. Dim corridor lights lined the hallway, and she could see mottled red marks on the walls.
Squinting, she could vaguely make out words like 【Death】【Help】【Run】.
There was a faint smell of stale dust in the air, as if no one had been here for a very long time.
The entire campus was silent except for the sound of wind—even the chewing noises from the exam room had disappeared.
It seemed that when the female teacher said to go to the Jiaowuchu at twelve o’clock, she meant midnight.
Well, that made sense—since it was a Guiyi school, having class in the middle of the night was perfectly reasonable.
The exam room was at the very end of the floor with no stairs nearby. Jiang Liyue guessed the stairs were at the other end of the corridor.
She had no watch and no idea what time it was. She only knew the female teacher had said the Jiaowuchu was on the first floor, and she needed to get there now.
Suddenly, a low male voice came from behind her: “Classmate, it’s exam time right now. Why are you here?”
Jiang Liyue turned her head and discovered it was a young man in a school uniform.
Her first reaction upon meeting his face was: what a handsome ghost!
Even in the entertainment industry, she had never encountered a handsome man of this caliber.
The young man was very tall, with that lean, youthful build. The simple school uniform fit him exceptionally well. His features were sharply defined, his skin pale, but his lips were a vivid red.
Whether it was because of the overhead lighting or not, Jiang Liyue noticed his eyes were pitch black and unusually deep, and at this moment they were fixed on her without blinking.
Meanwhile, the livestream that had been focused on the bloody scene inside the classroom suddenly shifted its view to outside the classroom.
【What’s going on? Why did the scene suddenly change? I was just in the middle of eating!】
【It’s HIM! He’s appearing early!】
【It’s actually HIM—oh no, it’s over, the little human is really done for this time】
【Wasn’t this guy always the last to appear? Why is he here right at the beginning this time?】
【Is it because wifey submitted early and ran into him?】
【Wait, can someone give a hint? Who exactly is this guy? Isn’t he just a slightly handsome pretty boy?】
【For the viewers watching Xingfu Zhongxue for the first time, let me introduce him—this is Pei Ji, the student council president of Xingfu Zhongxue, the final boss of this Fuben, a terrifying existence who single-handedly dragged this Fuben’s clear rate down to 5%】
【Adding on—this guy once killed ten players in the last five minutes of a Fuben. The clear rate is 5% because he happened to be asleep that day】
【My heart is dead. My fresh, beautiful new wife—is she really going to be gone just like that?】
Jiang Liyue didn’t know who the young man was, nor did she know where he had come from since there was no path behind her.
Regardless, at this time and in this place, he definitely wasn’t human.
And with looks like that, based on Jiang Liyue’s experience from starring in so many TV dramas, there was no way he was some nameless NPC in the Fuben.
She lifted her small face, and when she spoke, her voice was sweet: “Classmate, I submitted my paper early.”
“So that’s how it is.” The boy stepped forward, standing with his back to the light, so only his silhouette was visible. His shadow seemed to envelop Jiang Liyue entirely.
Jiang Liyue could feel his intense, burning gaze fixed on her.
She smiled again, a hint of pride in her voice. “The questions weren’t that hard, actually. I finished them in no time.”
After all, they were all multiple-choice questions, and she was best at those.
“Mm.” The boy slowly lowered his head to glance at her, then brushed past her as he walked by.
He had only taken two steps when Jiang Liyue suddenly called out, “Hey, classmate, could you take me to the Jiaowuchu?”
The already dim lights in the hallway flickered due to unstable voltage, causing Jiang Liyue to miss the flash of crimson that passed through his eyes.
“Sure.” His voice remained the same.
Jiang Liyue, however, was delighted.
She knew that, except for the last day of a Fuben, Guiyi in the early stages of a Fuben had to follow certain rules when killing.
As long as you didn’t violate the taboos, you wouldn’t lose your life so easily. The Guiyi in front of her clearly had no intention of eating her, so of course she would take advantage of that.
No matter what she was thinking inside, Jiang Liyue maintained her enthusiastic, innocent good-student facade on the surface. “Then thank you so much, classmate.”
She leaned in closer to express her gratitude and noticed that his originally pale face had actually gained a faint blush, though his tone remained serious and proper. “You’re welcome.”
A bit cute, Jiang Liyue blinked.
Not sure yet, she’d keep observing.
The two walked side by side down the dim hallway. Jiang Liyue ignored the messy blood-red graffiti on the walls and took the initiative to speak. “Classmate, I’m Jiang Liyue. What’s your name?”
“Pei Ji,” the boy said in a low voice.
“Pei Ji?” Jiang Liyue nodded. “Got it, Classmate Pei.”
She didn’t notice that when she spoke his name, the boy’s body trembled with barely concealed excitement.
Nor did she know that after they left and walked down the hallway, a man and a woman appeared outside the examination room again.
The man watched as Pei Ji took the initiative to speak to Jiang Liyue, even leading her further and further away, and was busy stuffing his frightened-out eyeballs back into his sockets.
He chattered on and on: “Wait, why did the boss just walk out like that? Is he planning to eat that human? That human does smell delicious, I really like her…”
The woman’s hair dragged all the way to the ground, covering her entire face.
She lifted her hair aside, revealing a pale face. The flesh on her face looked as if it had been torn off piece by piece and sewn back together, with maggots squirming beneath the skin.
She rolled her eyes. “Idiot.”
If the boss really wanted to eat someone, would he go through all this trouble?
He didn’t need to follow any rules—who had ever seen him waste a single word on a human before?
Clearly, the boss had taken a liking to that human. And this fool actually dared to compete with the boss for her.
Still, she secretly sniffed the air, savoring the scent, and wept internally.
Wuwuwu, such a fragrant human. The boss eats well. When would she ever get to be the boss?