Given his reflexes, Wang Chenning should have been able to dodge Yang Xiaofu’s sneak attack.
However, he held back, having just touched a place he shouldn’t have.
On top of that, he never expected Yang Xiaofu to pull such a move, so he couldn’t react in time.
After her sneak attack landed, Yang Xiaofu excitedly applied some pressure.
But Wang Chenning reacted in a flash, flipping her onto the sofa.
"That’ll teach you to squirm! That’ll teach you!" He angrily flipped Yang Xiaofu over, raised his palm, and spanked her several times. "Aren’t you afraid something serious could happen?"
"What’s the worst that could happen?" Yang Xiaofu giggled. "I don’t believe you’d dare make a move on your own sister-in-law!"
Seeing Yang Xiaofu’s brazen defiance, Wang Chenning grew even more irritated and spitefully retaliated a few times.
He pinched her until she shrieked and curled into a ball, then he grabbed his clothes and ran.
A few minutes later, he received a series of texts from Yang Xiaofu.
"Brother-in-law, you’re so mean~ You weren’t gentle at all. You hurt me!"
"By the way, did I hurt you?"
"Brother-in-law, I know you must be amazing. I could tell today!"
Wang Chenning ignored her and deleted the messages.
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The next day, Wang Chenning officially began teaching.
The new semester had already been underway for half a month, but due to the recent emergency and his treatment of Yang Liansheng, Wang Chenning’s first day of teaching had been delayed by a few days.
The first few classes had been taught by a teacher in his fifties with the surname Li.
At nine in the morning, Wang Chenning walked into the classroom for the second-year Traditional Chinese Medicine students.
The classroom was in an uproar, with about forty or so students gathered in several noisy groups, chatting excitedly.
The moment Wang Chenning walked in, the noise stopped abruptly.
"Wow, what a handsome student!" a girl with glasses exclaimed, staring at Wang Chenning with an infatuated look. "I think I’m in love!"
"Damn, who is this guy? So handsome!" a male student grumbled resentfully. "With a pretty boy like this around, how are we supposed to compete?"
"Hey handsome, who are you?"
Amid everyone’s surprise, Wang Chenning walked to the lectern and introduced himself. "Hello everyone, my name is Wang Chenning, and I’m your new teacher. From now on, I’ll be in charge of your *Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis* class."
As he spoke, Wang Chenning picked up a piece of chalk and wrote his name, "Wang Chenning," on the blackboard in strong, forceful strokes.
The students immediately erupted.
Wang Chenning, who looked to be about the same age as them, was actually their teacher?
And so handsome, too...
"You’re so young, how can you be our teacher?" A tall boy with a face full of acne stood up from the back, a mocking look on his face. "Buddy, are you trying to mess with us? Get lost and don’t waste our time."
"Yeah! We’re all elite students here. You look like you just graduated from college, and you dare to teach us?" Another tall student sitting with him said arrogantly. "Are you trying to lead good students astray? Get the hell out!"
Before coming to class, Lu Yuanshan had warned Wang Chenning that this class was difficult to manage and had a few troublemakers who frequently caused problems.
They had even beaten up a male teacher and sexually harassed a female teacher before.
These troublemakers came from well-off backgrounds—sons of the rich or of powerful officials—so whenever they caused trouble, it would eventually be swept under the rug.
Wang Chenning wasn’t surprised to encounter this on his very first day.
But he wasn’t worried at all; in fact, he planned to take this opportunity to teach these students a lesson.
"Don’t you guys watch TV?" Wang Chenning stepped down from the platform and walked toward the two tall students. "A few days ago, the central news station’s evening report did a special on me."
"I remember now!" a female student exclaimed, standing up excitedly. "A while ago, the First Affiliated Hospital took in a lot of patients with difficult cases. When everyone was at their wits’ end, a tall, handsome young man helped solve the problem. That was you! I remember saying back then how good-looking that doctor was, and how amazing his medical skills were for someone so young. I admired him so much."
"For real?" several other girls immediately gasped. "When was this news report? I’ll look it up later!"
"I remember it too. That really did happen."
Several male students also confirmed it.
"So he really is our teacher!"
"Don’t listen to this crap!" the tall, acne-faced student, Zheng Huanian, shouted. "The school is just trying to fool us by sending such a young teacher. Everyone, let’s go to the dean’s office and report this! We need to demand a replacement! They’re treating us like idiots!"
The other tall student, Li Chunbo, once again threatened Wang Chenning, telling him to get lost, or things would get ugly.
"It’s class time!" Wang Chenning reached out and clapped a hand on Zheng Huanian’s shoulder. "All of you, sit down!"
Zheng Huanian felt an immense force on his shoulder and involuntarily flopped back into his seat.
Wang Chenning did the same to the other tall student, Li Chunbo, bringing his hand down heavily on his shoulder.
With a yelp of surprise, Li Chunbo slammed back into his seat.
"Let me remind all of you," Wang Chenning said with a smile, taking two steps back. "During my class, you must pay attention, or I will punish you. You also don’t need to doubt my medical skills. We won’t be using the textbook for this class. Instead, I’ll give all of you a physical diagnosis. If you’re ill or feeling unwell, I’ll point it out immediately after my diagnosis and provide you with a solution. I’m going to show you what real Traditional Chinese Medicine is!"
The students below erupted, everyone talking at once.
Wang Chenning ignored the students’ reactions and extended his hand to a female student beside him. "Miss, give me your hand. I’ll give you a diagnosis."
The girl, a little flustered and excited, gave her hand to Wang Chenning, who had the kind of innocent face that reminded you of a first love.
"You have dizziness and tinnitus, soreness in your lower back and legs, heat in the palms of your hands and soles of your feet, restless sleep, and lower abdominal pain that eases with warmth. This should be a deficiency of qi and blood caused by cold in the lower jiao." Wang Chenning took her pen and quickly wrote out a prescription. "Take this. You’ll see results within a week."
When the girl heard this, she cried out in excitement.
She had all the symptoms Wang Chenning had described. Lately, her complexion had been poor, and she’d even broken out in pimples.
She never thought the new teacher would not only see it all but also write her a prescription.
Results in a week! The female student happily took the prescription and thanked Wang Chenning profusely.
"Teacher Wang, your handwriting is beautiful! It truly reflects you as a person," she said, her face filled with adoration.
Wang Chenning smiled at the infatuated girl and walked over to another boy with acne. He deftly snatched the pen from the boy’s hand and casually wrote a prescription. "Take this. If you still have acne in a month, you can take a knife and carve pimples all over my face."
The short, acne-faced boy was stunned for a moment, then immediately snatched the prescription, clutching it as if he’d just found a priceless treasure.
Zheng Huanian, who had just been forced back into his seat, stood up with a defiant look. "Then give me a diagnosis, too!"
Li Chunbo, beside him, also stood up. "If your diagnosis is wrong, you can get the hell out of here immediately!"
Not only had Wang Chenning forced them back into their seats, but he had then turned his back on them, completely dismissing them. They were furious.
’How dare he humiliate me in public! I’ll make sure he loses face!’
As they spoke, the two of them clenched their fists and thrust them forcefully toward Wang Chenning.
Both had the same idea: when Wang Chenning went to take their pulse for a diagnosis, they would humiliate him, maybe even knock him down...