244: Chapter 244 The old headmaster was slightly embarrassed.

"What was that noise?"

The two Law Enforcement Officers were like startled birds, abruptly drawing their batons and staring fixedly at the space under the bed, from which a teenager with chuunibyou tendencies had just crawled out.

"Is this place seriously a production line for spawning people under the bed? Who else is there! Get out!!!"

Deep under the bed.

Principal Pang Ban could truly no longer hold back.

When he heard these two Law Enforcement Officers were going to report this evening's "Pervert Party Full Record" to the "Magic City Martial Arts University Administration," the old man's soul almost flew out of his body on the spot.

Report to the school administration?

Once it went through official channels, wouldn't that be equivalent to reporting it directly to the entire Great Xia educational circle?

With the Hundred Schools Competition approaching, if this matter were exposed now, where would he, as the Principal of Magic City Martial Arts University, put his face?

Lose face only in front of two Law Enforcement Officers, or lose face in front of the entire educational circle?

Faced with these two cups of poisoned wine, Principal Pang Ban chose the former without hesitation!

He was still capable of distinguishing priorities!

"Ahem... Officers, please don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive..."

Under the horrified gazes of the two Law Enforcement Officers.

Under the watchful eyes of Qin Zhuo, Xie Fuyao, Senior Ji Youyou, and everyone else, whose worldviews were shattered and whose eyeballs were falling all over the floor.

A withered, old hand trembled as it reached out from under the bed.

Immediately following that.

The person whom the two Law Enforcement Officers had described as "a figure to be looked up to," "a paragon of virtue and art," and "a pillar of integrity throughout his life"—the old Principal of Magic City Martial Arts University, Principal Pang Ban.

Wearing a dust-covered vintage changshan, with a few spiderwebs on his head, he was crawling out from under the bed, bit by bit, in an extremely wretched and undignified posture.

Principal Pang Ban's old face turned from red to purple, and from purple to black.

He struggled to stand up while holding his aching lower back, patted the dust off his changshan, and forced a smile that was kind and amiable, yet ten thousand times uglier than crying.

He waved his hand extremely stiffly at the two Law Enforcement Officers, who had completely petrified as if they had seen an alien:

"Um... to tell you the truth."

"I am... the very same... virtuous and respected old principal you were just talking about."

"I never expected that the outside world would hold me in such high regard, hahahahaha..."

The sound of Principal Pang Ban's forced, trembling laughter echoed through the luxurious suite, which was already packed with people, creating a suffocating embarrassment.

Time seemed to have been slowed down at this moment.

There were no gasps of surprise as imagined, nor were there any anticipated questions.

The entire room was strangely quiet.

This was a form of ultimate silence that had transcended shock and entered the realm of the abstract.

At the bathroom door.

Qin Zhuo's beautiful face, which had previously held a hint of shame and anger at being "caught in the act," was now left with only horror.

She exchanged a glance with Spade 10 beside her, and both of them suddenly felt a chill run down their backs, breaking out in a cold sweat!

"No wonder..."

"No wonder not a single person at this Magic City Martial Arts University is normal!"

"So it turns out the whole thing is rotten to the core! The principal leading the way to crawl under a male student's bed in the middle of the night to eavesdrop? What kind of godforsaken school is this?!"

Qin Zhuo now just wanted to run away quickly; staying in this place for even one more second would result in catching a mental illness.

As for Senior Ji Youyou and Qiu Yunan, they were completely dumbfounded.

They had originally been congratulating themselves on "passing the buck" seamlessly, but as it turned out...

The principal had been hiding under the bed eavesdropping the whole time?

Then all those tearful "scumbag accusations" they had just made, all those Qiong Yao drama lines they had spouted for self-preservation...

"It's over..." Senior Ji Youyou's vision went dark.

Qiu Yunan pushed up her reflective glasses, feeling that her reputation for a lifetime had been completely buried tonight.

Inside the wardrobe.

Gou Fugui and Xiang Batian had witnessed Principal Pang Ban sneaking in and crawling under the bed.

Seeing the old principal in a state ten thousand times more socially dead than them, their feelings were extremely complicated.

"Fugui... I suddenly feel that us hiding in the wardrobe isn't that embarrassing after all."

"Yeah... at least we weren't praised as 'a paragon of virtue and art' to our faces."

Behind the curtains.

Xie Fuyao's melancholic eyes were fixed on Principal Pang Ban, who was struggling to squeeze out from under the bed.

It should be noted that when Xie Fuyao snuck into the room, the old man had already been playing dead deep under the bed.

Therefore, Xie Fuyao had absolutely no idea that this room, which was already severely overloaded, was hiding Principal Pang Ban!

The moment he saw Principal Pang Ban's old face, Xie Fuyao's first reaction was as if he had been struck by lightning, his blood rushing to his head with a "boom."

"It's over!!!"

Xie Fuyao gripped the curtains tightly, so ashamed he wished he could bite his tongue and die on the spot.

"I, the dignified senior year top student, a role model for the whole school, am hiding behind a male junior's curtain in the middle of the night to peep... This perverted behavior was actually caught red-handed by the principal!"

"My martial arts career is ruined! I'm going to submit my withdrawal application tomorrow!"

However.

The very next second, just as Xie Fuyao was filled with shame and ready to pass a death sentence on himself in a dignified manner.

His gaze slowly shifted downward.

He looked at Principal Pang Ban's dust-covered vintage changshan, looked at his old, cold-stiffened legs from lying prone for so long, and looked at the spiderwebs hanging on top of his head...

Xie Fuyao's Brain buzzed, and he suddenly realized something.

"Wait..."

Xie Fuyao's pupils gradually dilated, and the logical chain in his mind instantly reorganized:

"I was just standing and hiding behind the curtains... but what about him?"

"He is the dignified Principal of Magic City Martial Arts University! A pillar of the Great Xia educational circle! A Tier 5 Grandmaster!"

"He actually spent the middle of the night lying under a freshman male student's bed like a groundhog?"

"The most critical point is, when those four top-tier beauties in the bathroom were fighting over Jiang You just now, this old pervert... was actually lying under the bed eavesdropping the whole time?"

The shame in Xie Fuyao's heart vanished in an instant!

Replacing it was a sense of extreme absurdity and relief after his worldview had been completely shattered.

"What the hell am I ashamed of!!!"

Xie Fuyao silently raged in his heart behind the curtains:

"This old man is the one who is truly failing to set a good example for the younger generation, with a moral bottom line that is unfathomably deep!"

"If the top beam is crooked, the bottom ones will be askew! With a principal who leads by example by crawling under beds, me, a student, hiding behind a curtain occasionally seems somewhat elegant and refined!"

The most shocked person was the absolute protagonist of this "blind box game," Jiang You.

He looked at the old man in front of him, covered in spiderwebs with potato chip crumbs hanging from his beard, his dead-fish eyes widening even larger than a cow's.

"Principal?"

Jiang You subconsciously took two steps back, a hint of suspicion and confusion on his face.

"No..."

Jiang You looked at Principal Pang Ban and, in an extremely sincere, even slightly resentful tone, uttered words that almost caused everyone present to pass away on the spot:

"Principal, you should have said so earlier!"

"If you had said earlier that our school budget was insufficient and you couldn't afford a standard room, forcing you to squeeze into a room with me!"

Jiang You pointed at the half-eaten roasted chicken on the table, heartbroken:

"If you had told me earlier that you were hiding under the bed, when I ordered the roasted chicken before going to bed, I definitely would have brought a serving of chicken rack for you!"

"Besides, even if there weren't enough rooms, there was no need for you to sleep under the bed! Doesn't that just make me look like I don't respect the elderly?"

"..."

The muscles on Principal Pang Ban's old face twitched frantically; he now just wanted to slap Jiang You into the wall so hard he couldn't be pried out.

Do I care about your chicken rack?

I came here to catch an assassin!

Can you shut up, you little brat!

However, even more broken than Principal Pang Ban were the two Law Enforcement Officers standing at the door.