The Teacher and the Student (7)

The next day, classes started in earnest.

Yin Mei was wearing a pair of glasses, of course, the ones that connected to the internet and displayed their screens on the lens, along with a futuristic like body suit with heeled boots and a short cropped blazer jacket.

She felt she looked pretty badass, to be honest.

Although some of the futuristic clothes were quite out there in her opinion, there were also some, like these, that she really liked. They were tight fitting and made out of some sort of mysterious flexible metal-like material, the dark black color glistening like it was wet. Thin lines ran through it, lit up with a green-blue light. Seeing how it was slightly similar in style to Hai Lan's suit, Yin Mei could tell this was a popular fashion style in this era.

Yin Mei started off the first class of the year with the Great Evolutionary War, of course. This was considered the most important part of history, and was always covered first, in depth and as thoroughly as possible.

Yin Mei was half waiting for Qin Shuang to interrupt her and tell her that she had gotten something wrong, but perhaps in order to not draw attention to himself, he never said anything, only obediently listening with an expression of partial curiosity. It seemed that he was interested in the way history had portrayed himself and the others that he had known.

When Yin Mei reached the part about herself, she felt extraordinarily awkward. Talking about herself in a history class, wasn't this a little...

"What does everyone think of the so called Zombie Queen?" She asked, throwing responsibility toward her students to talk about her instead of herself.

Her gaze wandered at the students who had raised their hands, and noticed that Song Hua was one of them. She was curious. What did her man (though he didn't have any memories) think of the past her?

She called on Song Hua, who stood up, his back ramrod straight and his expression cold as he spoke. "Lu Mei's position in history is often widely debated on, as though she had done many things considered evil, and even ruthless, in the end, many of her actions resulted in benefiting humanity as a whole."

Yin Mei couldn't help but feel slightly smug inside, thinking that this really was her man! She would've been devastated if he said something to denounce the past her.

But, her face soon turned for the worst as Song Hua continued. "Even so, at the end of her life she killed off the entire elite forces of B City. I believe that even if she contributed toward the creation of the cure, the fact that she was a mass murder can't be forgiven."

Yin Mei could see that at this point, Qin Shuang's expression had also grown dark. Yin Mei wanted to yell at him - aren't you a villain? What do you care about mass murder! I was avenging your death, okay!?

Although she said avenging his death, in actuality, she had very little memories of that time, only remembering that she had been so angry that she had blacked out. The next she knew was that everyone had died. This was totally not her fault okay.

"How can you say that? All she did was to sacrifice the lives of the few for the sake of the many! Even if nowadays such a thing is looked down upon, back then, they had no other choice." Qin Shuang couldn't stand hearing his caretaker and life savior badmouthed like this so stood up to argue against this pretentious kid.

Yin Mei pursed her lips, looking at them with a complex expression. Cough, cough, she couldn't help but recall and image from the past, when Qin Shuang would always go up against the zombie emperor with an angry face.

"No other choice? She murdered the entirety of B City's army. There was definitely a choice there." Song Hua said.

"They were the ones who attacked first. Unless you're saying that you should show mercy to your enemies? If she let them go, then wouldn't they just keep on coming back?" Qin Shuang replied.

It almost seemed like sparks were flying as the two glared at each other.

The students all looked at the teacher for help to dispel this dark tension, but Yin Mei only appeared amused, not seeming to have any intentions in stopping them.

Alice now stood up, a cautious expression on her face. "Although I don't think that murdering them all was right, the times back then were different from the present. Many humans then would commit terrible crimes without batting an eye, and as such, we should think of what she did in the context of what the world was like then."

Qin Shuang gave Alice a once over, a look of appreciation flitting across his face for a moment. Yin Mei took this all in, wondering if this would be the beginning of their epic love story-! She laughed inwardly a little.

Now that Alice had joined in, the other students all began throwing out arguments one after another, taking sides. It seemed that the overwhelming majority were on Qin Shuang's side - after all, major contributions to the cure of the virus weren't something that could be overlooked so easily. In addition, the ones who had been the first to attack were those of B City, so it could only be said that they had deserved what they had got, bringing karma onto themselves.

Even so, there were others that still couldn't stomach the fact that Yin Mei had killed pretty much everyone. This was mass murder, and any other person would be convicted with an immediate death sentence.

Yin Mei took a look at the time, realizing that class was almost over. She clapped her hands, the crisp sound echoing through the room and immediately the students fell silent. Look at how obedient these cute chicks were! On the other hand, this Song Hua... really, he was too cruel. Yin Mei's heart hurt at this attack that her man sent over here as he condemned her actions of that time.

She would definitely make sure he understood the consequences of doing so later! Other people were still okay, but how could her own family's man dare to badmouth her in front of others?

Look, even the little brat she abandoned was still defending her, and then look at you!

Yin Mei smiled. "Since every one seems so passionate, then we'll have this as an essay topic. Everyone will write a 10,000 word essay on the topic before turning it in to me for a major grade next month."

The students immediately looked like they regret their actions, but still quickly wrote down notes and due dates on their tablets. Such good students, Yin Mei really admired them.

She wondered just what they would write in order to get a whole ten thousand words on the topic.

She was kind of looking forward to it.

"Next class will be in the training hall. Don't dally or Teacher Xiong will most certainly punish you," Yin Mei said as she placed her tablet in her bag and the students all stood up, grabbing their things to proceed out the doorway.

Yin Mei still had to teach other classes, so although she actually really wanted to go with them to observe, in the end, she went on to go about the rest of the day.

During lunch, she and her other teachers went to the cafeteria, grabbing their food before proceeding to the faculty only dining area, which was upstairs overlooking the student's dining area.

"How was everyone's first class?" Hai Lan asked as she stabbed a piece of alien meat (it was, actually, alien meat - meat from another planet), sawing at it with a knife before plopping it into her mouth.

Yin Mei sighed. "I'm very disappointed. One of my favorites doesn't like Lu Mei." She bemoaned, scooping some of her curry and rice up - one of her favorite dishes.

"Which one?" Alexei asked, playing lazily with the salad in front of him. From what he recalled, Mei Wen was a Lu Mei supporter - in other words, she believed that Lu Mei's achievements in life cancelled out her crimes of mass murder.

"Song Hua." Yin Mei answered and Alexei nodded as if it was expected.

It was. After all, among the major families, very rarely did any of them say anything bad about Lu Mei, at least, not publicly. That was because of the major families, many were descended from the children that Yin Mei had personally picked up and taught.

She was the life savior of their ancestor, by badmouthing her, weren't they basically like a dog biting the hand that fed them? Others could badmouth Lu Mei, but the major families couldn't.

Even so, it was clear that perhaps some of them held resentment toward her, else with their power, they could have easily silenced the opinions of others and only allow praises to be sung of her. But they didn't. This was in part because in the past the others had believed that the masses should think what they will and it wouldn't have mattered, and in second it was because there were no descendant's of Lu Mei around to guard her image.

A good example of this would be the Qin family. Although Qin Shuang had been fairly ruthless and cold blooded during his time as leader of the Black Cross Brigade, he had a pristine image in the hearts of the people. This is because his descendants had worked hard to keep his image this way.

"Seeing as he's a commoner, it's not uncommon." Alexei said heartlessly, spearing his fork through a cherry tomato.

Yin Mei frowned, clearly still displeased. Alexei noticed this and quickly added on, "But I'm sure he'll change his mind once he's attended more of your classes."

Even so, Yin Mei didn't look convinced.

"The kids had their abilities graded today, didn't they?" Alexei said in order to distract Yin Mei, and she nodded, flipping her wrist over to bring up the grades of her students abilities.

When kids were young in this world, their abilities would be tested for and graded at the age of 10. That being said, it was different from the extremely thorough ability test performed by the school. The school loved to do ability tests, and would constantly have students try and test the limits of their ability.

As expected, Qin Shuang was rated with an S grade ability, and SS control.

As for Song Hua, Yin Mei could see that his ability was electricity - Yin Mei almost coughed up blood. What was this irony? It was completely done in bad taste! For Song Hua to have the same ability as the person who killed him in the previous world, Yin Mei could only be speechless.

It was also an S grade ability, but only with S control compared to Qin Shuang's SS control.

Alice was graded with an A grade ability and control, while Ri Yang had an A grade ability and S grade control, and Jade with an S grade ability and S control.

Yin Mei tapped her perfectly painted fingernail on the white cafeteria table, seeming in thought. "Qin Lan's control rivals the teachers," she said, not that she had expected any less from him.

"Really?" Alexei felt he was continuously being surprised by this supposedly sickly youngest son of the Qin family.

On the other hand, Song Hua was second best in comparison to Qin Shuang. The two of them would constantly trade places, but Song Hua would end up losing to Qin Shuang more often than not. This would become the source of his inner demon, resulting in Song Hua turning to the dark side.

How adorable!

Yin Mei felt that Song Hua was definitely a sweet child with a delicate heart that couldn't stand losing. Somehow she felt this was slightly off, but looking at his beautiful face, Yin Mei decided that her thoughts were correct after all.

After all, her man was the most beautiful, awesome, amazing, cutest, best, cool, and totally unparalleled person in the world.