"Brother Xiao," Lu Sen's eyes were slightly red. He hadn't expected Ye Xiao to actually treat them as brothers. This was something he had never imagined, and so he was very moved, so moved that he felt a sourness in his nose and even had the urge to cry.

Of course, even if he were to cry, those would be tears of excitement.

Ye Xiao stepped forward, patted Lu Sen on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "From now on, the security of Minghai Academy will rely on you defending it with your blood. I think my judgment won't be wrong."

Lu Sen immediately looked at Ye Xiao with a stern face and said, "Brother Xiao, you will definitely not be wrong. Whoever wants to endanger the safety of Ye Xiao and the others will have to roll over our bodies first."

Ye Xiao didn't say anything more, just smiled, then looked at Guan Xiaonan and said, "What are you standing around for? The exam time is almost halfway through, you're not thinking of waiting until everything is over before taking the test, are you?"

Only then did Guan Xiaonan remember this matter and nodded immediately, then both Ye Xiao and Guan Xiaonan entered the school. A few steps after Ye Xiao entered the school, he suddenly stopped, turned around, and looked at Zhou Hao, saying, "Make a batch of special student and teacher IDs. Anyone who enters the school with an ID is allowed, no ID, no entry, no exception—I mean no one."

After Ye Xiao finished speaking, he walked with Guan Xiaonan into the campus.

Zhou Hao took Ye Xiao's instructions to heart, word for word. Apparently, the incident with Li Dachong had really cast a shadow in Ye Xiao's heart; he did not want such a thing to happen again.

Watching Ye Xiao leave, the two security guards immediately said to Zhou Hao and Lu Sen, "Captain, team leader, is that Brother Xiao? Wasn't it said that Brother Xiao is very powerful? How come..."

Hearing these words from the two security guards, Zhou Hao's expression suddenly became serious and he sternly said, "Don't doubt Brother Xiao's abilities. I can only tell you, if all seventy-two members of Blood Blade were as strong as me, Brother Xiao could still easily crush you."

What??

After Zhou Hao said this, the two members were startled because they hadn't imagined that the seemingly frail Ye Xiao could possess such great power. How strong Zhou Hao was, no Blood Blade member was unaware. How long had Heavenly Gate been established? To be able to develop to such an extent, there was certainly an advantage in terms of firearms, but Zhou Hao could be said to have contributed the most, frequently dispatching enemy commanders with ease, ignoring their attacks. Zhou Hao was now a myth of Heavenly Gate, and as captain of Blood Blade, he was also the myth of Blood Blade.

However, Zhou Hao now said that even seventy-two of him couldn't beat Ye Xiao, and Ye Xiao could easily crush seventy-two people as strong as him. From this, it could be seen that Ye Xiao's strength was truly just the tip of the iceberg.

At this time, Ye Xiao and Guan Xiaonan, who had entered the campus, did not walk forward quickly.

"Ye Xiao, I'm really becoming more and more curious about you. I always feel like you're a big secret," Guan Xiaonan said, looking at Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao immediately chuckled and said to Guan Xiaonan, "You'd better curb your curiosity. You know, when a woman becomes curious about a man, it actually means she's starting to fall in love with him. Think carefully about whether you might fall in love with me."

"Fall in love with you?" Guan Xiaonan, upon hearing Ye Xiao's words, immediately looked at Ye Xiao with disdain and said, "Dream on. Humph, I would never fall in love with a shameless rogue like you in my life. Hmph, I'm leaving. It's disgusting to even spend one more second with you."

Guan Xiaonan immediately headed to her classroom after speaking.

Ye Xiao stood there, stunned for a moment, but after Guan Xiaonan had walked several steps away, she suddenly stole a glance back at Ye Xiao. Discovering that Ye Xiao was watching her, she quickly ran off.

Guan Xiaonan's heart thumped wildly—this was already the third time. The first was when she had her first encounter with Ye Xiao at the pavilion, where Guan Xiaonan fought with Ye Xiao and ended up losing to him. The second was at her home, where Ye Xiao pulled her onto him, resulting in her lying on top of Ye Xiao in a very close contact. And now, this was the third time; her heart was racing uncontrollably, like a deer panicking.

Guan Xiaonan herself couldn't understand why this was happening. Recalling what Ye Xiao had just said, she immediately shook her head vigorously because she simply couldn't believe that she could fall in love with this scoundrel.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. It's just because I lost a bet that I have to walk with him from time to time. Actually, I really detest him," Guan Xiaonan told herself as she walked.

But the more she said this, the more Guan Xiaonan felt something was wrong. Thinking about what she had just said, even though she knew it was just her stubbornness speaking, Guan Xiaonan still felt it wasn't right. But if it was wrong, she still forcefully told herself that Ye Xiao was a big bad egg, conflicted, so very conflicted.

Now Guan Xiaonan was truly caught in a very conflicting state.

As for Ye Xiao, he wasn't angry at all about what Guan Xiaonan had said. Instead, he was all smiles because he already knew Guan Xiaonan's thoughts. Although Ye Xiao had always been confident, finding this confirmation of his hopes from Guan Xiaonan made him even happier.

Walking in the campus, Ye Xiao saw many guards around, just like those who had been standing at the front gate. They were clearly members of Blood Blade, and of course, officially they were also from Tianxing Security Company. Because Ye Xiao was strolling leisurely in the school without any hurry, and there was nobody in the schoolyard at the time, Ye Xiao alone became particularly conspicuous, which quickly drew the attention of his own people.

Questioned once.

Questioned twice.

Interrogated three times.

When Ye Xiao had reached the teaching building's ground floor, he was surprisingly subjected to a whopping four interrogations. Ye Xiao suddenly realized that this school had ceased to be a school, it was clearly a closely guarded cage.

And the irony was that this cage was painstakingly built by none other than Ye Xiao himself.

A safe cage.

Ye Xiao burst into laughter, realizing that safety, rather than so-called freedom, was of the utmost importance. After all, there were people inside the school who were very significant to Ye Xiao.

Nearly fifty minutes of the exam had already passed.

But one desk in the classroom remained empty.

Ling Shuya glanced occasionally at that desk, clearly, although she believed Ye Xiao couldn't win, if Ye Xiao were to miss an exam, resulting in her victory, Ling Shuya would still feel extremely vexed.

However, as time meticulously ticked by, the desk remained unoccupied; it had been nearly an hour.

Ling Shuya was puzzled as to where Ye Xiao could be, and if it were not for the fear of being misunderstood as cheating, she would undoubtedly have called Ye Xiao by now.

"Ah." Ling Shuya suddenly became annoyed with herself. Why was she so concerned about whether Ye Xiao would show up for the exam or not? If Ye Xiao didn't come, wouldn't that be perfect? In that case, she would have surely won the challenge.

But as Ling Shuya came to this realization, she suddenly felt quite unhappy.

She wasn't the only one feeling this way; Zhou Yuyan and Lan Lan also occasionally looked toward Ye Xiao's desk, and these three would exchange glances, silently conveying that none of them knew where the hell Ye Xiao had gone off to.

However, just at that moment, a figure suddenly appeared at the classroom door.

"Teacher, I'm late," a loud voice projected from the door, filling the entire classroom.

Instantly, all the students including the two proctors who were marking the papers were taken aback, then turned to look at the student who had arrived nearly an hour tardy.

As the proctors were not from the student's own class, they did not recognize Ye Xiao. One of the proctors, around fifty years old and seated at the podium, immediately turned to Ye Xiao and asked, "What class are you from?"

"Class One," Ye Xiao replied. "I'm supposed to be in this classroom, my desk is the empty one there."

"Oh?" The proctor didn't dare to be careless; Principal Yao Zhengming had given a strict order to absolutely forbid cheating by impersonation.

"You say you're a student from Class One, and that makes it true? I need your homeroom teacher to come over," the proctor said deliberately.

Upon hearing the discussion of the exam, Ling Shuya stood up before Ye Xiao could speak, looked towards the proctor and said, "Teacher, he's indeed a student from our class. The exam is almost half over, if he's not permitted to take it now, it might compromise how well he does."

Although Ling Shuya said this, Ye Xiao didn't seem to care at all, smiling at the proctor he said, "It's okay, I can wait. Even though I'm late, I'm still confident I can do well; after all, a good student is still a good student."

Ye Xiao's thick-skinned confidence left the proctor at a loss; clearly, at this moment, he didn't have a good impression of Ye Xiao and didn't believe Ye Xiao to be a good student in any way.

The other students, hearing Ye Xiao's proclamation, began to laugh. One could be self-assured, but Ye Xiao's display was possibly verging on extreme arrogance.

It was at this point that the other proctor said, "Let him take the exam for now, we can just ask Elder Su to come by and check later."

The first proctor heard this, nodded, and looking at the student he deemed extremely arrogant said with a sarcastic smile, "Good student, the exam has been going on for nearly an hour now; I hope you can achieve the results you desire."

The proctor's sarcasm was clear to almost everyone, but Ye Xiao merely chuckled, accepting the challenge with, "Teacher, you really have an eye for talent. I definitely will do well on this test."

Shameless.

That was the word that crossed the proctor's mind at that moment.

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