"Cough, cough..." Chen Jie coughed and said, "Everyone, please stop for a moment."
The group of students halted, some of the female students looking at Chen Jie with surprise. They had previously learned from Li Ziling that Chen Jie was harassing her and had assumed Chen Jie was some lecherous old man. To their surprise, he was a handsome young man.
The spacious classroom was furnished with sofas for students to rest when tired. At the front was a desk and a podium. Chen Jie walked to the podium and, instead of sitting down immediately, leaned on the desk and said, "Hello everyone, starting today, I am your dance teacher, Chen Jie."
"Sit down quickly! Sit down!" Wei Xiang looked at Chen Jie expectantly. Chen Jie's chair had over ten needles hidden beneath the sponge, all concealed. The moment Chen Jie sat down, he was sure to be pricked all over his posterior.
"Hello, Teacher!" the crowd said.
Wei Xiang added, "Teacher, you've just joined our class, please sit down and rest for a bit!"
As Chen Jie was about to sit, he noticed the students' gazes were filled with a faint hint of hatred. Chen Jie's gaze sharpened as he looked towards Li Ziling in the corner.
"What's your name?" Chen Jie asked Wei Xiang.
"Teacher, my name is Wei Xiang!"
"Mm, Teacher is actually just covering for someone for a month, so please practice according to your original curriculum. A professional teacher will be here to teach you dance soon."
When Chen Jie undertook missions, he had to disguise himself in various identities. He knew some basic dance moves, and with his agility, high-difficulty maneuvers were a piece of cake for him. However, he had no intention of actually teaching these students dance. He sat down directly on the chair, preparing to rest. His only objective was to ensure Li Ziling's safety.
Huh?
The moment Chen Jie sat down, he felt something was amiss. His posterior felt a stinging sensation. He touched it with his hand, and his expression darkened. These students dared to prank him. If he were an ordinary person, his posterior would likely have been pricked like a hedgehog by now. However, with Chen Jie's abilities, ordinary needles couldn't pierce his skin unless he consciously lowered its resilience. He sat motionlessly, pretending nothing had happened, while secretly observing the students.
As Chen Jie sat down, Li Ziling opened her mouth, wanting to warn him, but ultimately did not. The others held their breath, their expressions awkward as they looked at Chen Jie. Especially after Chen Jie had fully settled into the chair, Ah Zhu and the others gasped. But in the next moment, they found that Chen Jie seemed completely unfazed. Everyone present was stunned.
Wei Xiang looked incredulous. "What's going on? It had no effect at all?"
A few of them exchanged glances, all looking bewildered.
"What's going on? Why are you all looking at me?" Chen Jie asked them. At the same time, he casually crossed his legs, right leg over left.
"This..." Wei Xiang was dumbfounded.
"Ah, Teacher, we'll start now." The twenty-odd students quickly averted their gazes and busied themselves.
Ah Zhu walked over to Wei Xiang, frowning. "What's going on? Wei Xiang, didn't you put the needles on the chair? Why is he completely fine?"
"I don't know! I swear, I put the needles there just now! Could it be that you guys secretly took the needles away?" Wei Xiang was bewildered. The others all shook their heads.
"Damn it! The moment I saw him come in, I noticed he was peeping at Li Ziling. He must be leering at her in his mind! So disgusting!" Ah Zhu, as if recalling some unspeakable scene, stamped her foot in agitation. Li Ziling's face flushed.
"My plan didn't work. We have to humiliate him and drive him away!" Wei Xiang said indignantly. Li Ziling was his secret crush; how could he let some lecherous man harass her?
"I have an idea, watch me!" Ah Zhu's eyes lit up. She suddenly ran to Chen Jie and said loudly, "Teacher Chen, since you're our teacher, your dance skills must be excellent, right?"
"What do you want?" Chen Jie asked.
Ah Zhu smiled and bent down, making an inviting gesture to Chen Jie. "I've just developed a few special poses, so I'd like to invite Teacher Chen to be my dance partner and help me verify them."
Chen Jie looked down and saw that as Ah Zhu bent over, her collar also dipped, revealing some scenery to Chen Jie. This made Chen Jie glance a few more times.
Ah Zhu let out a cold laugh. She felt Chen Jie's gaze. This was a pose she had deliberately adopted. She wanted to lure Chen Jie into her trap, and then find an opportunity to have others believe Chen Jie molested a student on his first day as a teacher!
"I'm sorry, I don't know how to dance," Chen Jie said faintly, having caught the disdain in her eyes.
Ah Zhu's face stiffened. Disbelief flickered in her eyes. She was the most elegant woman present, besides Li Ziling. To be rejected when inviting a man to dance with her? She could hardly believe her ears.
"As our teacher, you don't even know how to dance? That's not appropriate!" Ah Zhu glared at him.
"Exactly, Teacher Chen, you say you don't know anything, so what are you still doing here? Why don't you just resign!" Wei Xiang said. The others also expressed their dissatisfaction. "Even a substitute teacher shouldn't know nothing, right? What's the difference between that and being useless?" "We pay tuition to study, and we're assigned a teacher who's a good-for-nothing? I don't agree!"
This situation made Chen Jie frown slightly.
"Teacher Chen, you see, if you don't know anything, we won't be satisfied!" Ah Zhu said triumphantly to Chen Jie.
"Haven't others taught you to respect your teachers?" Chen Jie frowned.
"Hmph, respect our teachers? We respect teachers who can teach us real skills, not some useless person hired randomly by the school!" "Teacher Chen, do you think we're in a public school, studying academics? We're here to learn dance, we paid money to learn professional skills! You're not like a high school teacher who is highly respected! If we're not satisfied, we can request to replace you at any time!" Wei Xiang said.
With a swish, Chen Jie stood up abruptly. Several female students near Chen Jie were startled and took a step back. They were either recent graduates or part-time university students, and they naturally held a sense of reverence for teachers.
"What are you afraid of! We are the most outstanding dance class in the entire school. Who does he think he is!" Wei Xiang said dismissively.
Chen Jie walked up to Ah Zhu. Ah Zhu nervously asked, "You, what do you want to do?" She thought Chen Jie was enraged and about to resort to violence.
Chen Jie smiled and said, "You're right. As a teacher, knowing nothing is indeed unacceptable. How about this, since it's my first day, I'll dance a ballroom dance with everyone to build some camaraderie."
The moment he said this, everyone was stunned.