1 1. Another Morning Set to Fail

A group of students were sitting in their desks. They were wary of the teacher that was supposed to be in the room already, but the teacher wasn't. That made the students relax, because they didn't have to see the piercing glare the teacher was rumored to have.

As the teenagers expressed their concerns by gazing at each other, the teacher that was supposed to be teaching them had suddenly opened the door to the classroom. The students got quiet at the very piercing glare of the tall woman. The rumors were true! They had thought in horror. Her white blouse was covered by her black business jacket. Her black slacks and black heels made her more like of a businesswoman instead of a teacher. She was pale and her hair was black as night, but she was beautiful. Her black eyes bore holes into each student she had merely looked at.

The teacher's name was Ling Fei, the coldest woman ever known in the Bu Long district. "My first impression of you brats is that I hate you all, " her tone of voice told the students to NEVER challenge her.

The students flinched at what she had said, but she didn't care. She gazed at her roll call sheet and she started roll call. When she finally got to the last student in her class, Fei was very irked by the class. "Wang Ying Yue," Fei called out the last student on her list.

Said girl was sitting in the back, quiet as a mouse. "H-Here," she spoke up, noticing Fei's increasing irritation. Fei snapped her gaze to the shaking girl. Black eyes clashed with green eyes and Fei won the staring contest when Ying Yue gazed away quickly. Fei sighed her irritation away or at least, she tried to.

"Now, that is out of the way, let's go over the rules. Rule one: you will obey me at all times. Rule two: you will NEVER challenge me in any way. Rule three: You will get one chance to answer any questions. Rule four: you will NOT leave this classroom unless I tell you to. These are my rules. Understand?" Ling Fei asked the class.

The entire class nodded their heads. She was scary to them. So scary that the class decided to nickname her Scary Lady. Fei checked what she was going to do with the class today and she felt irked by the subject. Why reading of all things? Well, it could be worse. She thought. "Get out your reading textbooks and read section one of chapter one. I don't want to hear any talking. No questions until the discussion has started." Fei tells the class. Her cold gaze found Ying Yue's eyes again and Fei huffed. Ying Yue sighed in relief.

Good. She's not going to say anything. The girl had thought. She was glad that Ms. Ling wasn't going to say anything, because she didn't have her textbook. Well, she had her textbook, but it was currently being "borrowed" by another classmate.

Ying Yue gazed at said classmate in desperation. She needed to read as well. The classmate that has took her book had turned to her and smirked at her. She panicked mentally and Ms. Ling noticed, but she didn't care until Ying Yue started to get a little sad. She still didn't care, she just didn't want to see Ying Yue dirty up the desk on her first day. "What's the problem here?" Fei's voice sounded close to Ying Yue and when the girl looked up, she saw Fei Ling holding her book that she had snatched from the student that had stolen her book.

"My b-book," Ying Yue mumbled and Fei Ling dropped the book on her desk. Fei Ling gave a start at Ying Yue's grateful face. Why is she so happy? Fei thought. She glared at Ying Yue, but even then, her glare had softened. Fei Ling walked back to her desk, but she could feel the stares on her back.

"You brats are in high school, now. I would think that the bullying should been stopped in elementary school. Let that be a warning to you," Fei tells the group of students, who sensed the growing anger of their teacher. The girl who bullied Ying Yue gulped because she knew that Fei knew.

Ying Yue smiled. She knew that there was a hidden heart in Fei. It would just have to be found. She started to read the assignment that Ms. Ling had assigned to the class. After about thirty minutes have passed, her book was once stolen by the same classmate that had stolen it already. This time, Ying Yue didn't put up a fuss. "You're lucky that she's in here," the girl threatened Ying Yue. She nodded her head and the girl smirked at Ying Yue's fear of her.

The girl went back to her seat and she opened up the book. "Time's up!" Fei Ling's sharp voice rang out. The girl paled when she realized that Fei Ling was glaring at her. She gulped. "What was the name of the story, Zhang Cho?" She asked sharply. The bully couldn't even speak as Fei Ling's sharp gaze quickly snapped from her. "Zero points for you, Zhang," her cold and sharp voice went shivers of fear down the students' spine. Even Ying Yue thought that the woman was scary.

The discussion went on and on and Zhang Cho felt humiliated by Fei Ling. She started to despise Fei Ling. Fei Ling seemed to realized that Zhang Cho hates her and she smirked at her. Zhang felt disrespected. She then thought up of a way to get Fei Ling fired. As she thought up of a way to get Fei Ling fired, she didn't know that Fei Ling was calling her to answer a question. "Fei Ling, I will get you fired," she whispered.

"Are you ignoring me, Ms. Zhang?" Fei Ling asked Zhang Cho, who blushed in embarrassment for not hearing her teacher call on her to answer a question.

"Of course not, Ms. Ling!" She chirped out. Everyone else just shook their heads at Zhang Cho's actions towards Fei Ling. The school bell rung and everyone waited until Fei Ling dismissed them.

"Get out," Fei Ling's voice rang out and everyone had left the classroom. Everyone except Zhang Cho, that is.