"Write another five hundred runes before tomorrow's class." Ji Yuan commanded with merciless indifference.
"Shit..." Bai Xifeng muttered under her breath, her shoulders instantly sagging under the weight of sheer despair.
"What was that?" Ji Yuan glanced at her with a calm, piercing gaze, one eyebrow slightly raised in a silent, chilling warning.
"Nothing! I said I will finish writing every single one of them tonight, without fail!" Bai Xifeng replied immediately.
She began nodding her head with a display of frantic obedience and a layer of very thin, forced enthusiasm.
"Teacher Ji, may I have your permission to come here again in the future?" Xie Lanying suddenly interjected, her voice brimming with a mixture of hope and quiet anticipation.
"Hmm... You may come around this hour. Her primary classes should already be finished by then." Ji Yuan replied.
