Chapter 18: I Won’t Change It! You Dare Try Changing Yours?
“What’s up, Old Qian? Did you run into a student who filled it out randomly?” The Homeroom Teacher Old Zhao, sitting at the adjacent desk, stood up with a smile and leaned over to take a look. “What outrageous situation is this? You’re reacting so strongly?”
Old Zhao guessed correctly. Every year, they always encountered one or two students who filled it out randomly, requiring patient persuasion.
After all, if students’ further education didn’t go smoothly, the teachers would be in trouble too.
Old Qian smiled awkwardly and didn’t explain in detail to Old Zhao.
Just then, Class Monitor Huang Min from the next class came over. Old Qian was also their substitute teacher, so he directly called Huang Min to run an errand for him.
“Go to our class and call Ge Bai over for me.”
Huang Min was also a good girl. Seeing Old Qian suppressing his anger, she was startled.
She nodded hurriedly in agreement and turned to walk quickly outside.
Old Qian calmed down a bit and picked up Ge Bai’s intention booklet to examine it closely again.
When he saw the Pet Beast section seriously written with the four words Weeping Ancient Willow, his eyelids were twitching.
When Huang Min arrived at Ge Bai’s class, it was during the big break.
She stood at the doorway and glanced inside, seeing Ge Bai sitting at her seat, so she walked straight over to Ge Bai’s side.
“Ge Bai, your homeroom teacher wants you to come over now.”
As she spoke, she added with a worried expression, “He looks pretty angry.”
Ge Bai didn’t care. She had known this would happen. She patted Huang Min’s shoulder, signaling her not to worry.
“Okay, I’ll go right now.”
Huang Min looked at Ge Bai dubiously and watched as she walked briskly toward the teacher’s office.
“Teacher Qian, you wanted to see me.”
Old Qian was sipping his tea steadily. Seeing Ge Bai standing properly at the office doorway and knocking, he looked up and glared fiercely at her.
He picked up her intention booklet and walked outside, knowing he had to give the girl some face.
He called Ge Bai to the adjacent teacher preparation seminar room and pulled out a chair to sit down.
Ge Bai stood obediently not far away, smiling sweetly, looking very well-behaved.
Seeing her like this, Old Qian became even more furious and slammed her intention booklet onto the table.
“Aren’t you just fooling around?”
Ge Bai pretended to be clueless as she looked at Old Qian. Over the years, she had mastered how to act like a good student or good child.
“Teacher Qian, I’m not fooling around. I did think about it seriously and want to register for university special recruitment.”
“I saw that our school doesn’t have training for special recruitment in the previous two years, so I was just about to ask you for leave. After the final exam, I’ll go back to prepare for the special recruitment exam.”
Old Qian looked at Ge Bai’s serious expression and suddenly felt a splitting headache. He rubbed his brow, trying to keep his tone peaceful.
“Ge Bai, don’t be willful. University special recruitment isn’t as simple as you think.”
“Although your spiritual consciousness development level reaches 10%, qualifying you to register.”
“But you know most people are just there to make up the numbers. Each school only gives full scholarships to the top 3. With your situation, if you don’t make the top 3, isn’t it just a waste of effort?”
“Besides, university special recruitment is real arena battles! Every year, the participants are all Beast Tamers. I’m not looking down on Spirit Planters, Teacher, but you contracted a Weeping Ancient Willow. Tell me, how are you going to win?”
Old Qian became more agitated as he spoke.
“I don’t know about other schools, but Jiang Yan from the next class—his spiritual consciousness development level isn’t as good as yours, but it should be up to standard for special recruitment. But he contracted a Porcupine Beast.”
“How do you think Weeping Ancient Willow can beat Porcupine Beast? By swinging willow branches a couple times to make Porcupine Beast feel ashamed and withdraw voluntarily?”
Old Qian advised her earnestly.
Because the Interstellar Alliance education system had requirements for all junior high schools to ensure all graduates were allocated to suitable domains.
If Ge Bai failed the special recruitment exam, or even stepping back, if she made the top 10 and got a university special recruitment spot.
But as long as Ge Bai didn’t ultimately pay fees and enroll, it would still count as dropping out of junior high, which would seriously affect their junior high’s enrollment rate for this batch of graduates. The Interstellar Alliance education system would transfer Ge Bai back to their school for re-education allocation.
Most importantly, this would count as a serious teaching accident. If even one occurred, Old Qian’s bonus for the year would be gone.
Ge Bai roughly understood the situation, so seeing Old Qian like this, she let his words go in one ear and out the other.
“Teacher Qian, just let me go see the world, okay?”
Ge Bai’s response was utterly insincere, sounding almost like a joke.
Otherwise, what else could she do? Call out Big Willow to perform a couple Wind Blades for the teacher?
After seeing Wind Blades, Old Qian would feel assured letting her participate in special recruitment? Hilarious.
Seeing Ge Bai like this, Old Qian became even more furious.
He suddenly slapped the table.
“Fooling around! Don’t you know this is the peak hiring season for all industries?”
“If you miss this period, what good positions or future prospects can you get?”
Hearing this, Ge Bai knew Old Qian meant for her to attend night school and join the work-study program.
She couldn’t help but sneer inwardly. Probably in Old Qian’s eyes, that was all she was suited for.
Thinking this, she looked up and stared straight at Old Qian.
“Teacher Qian, then tell me, without missing this period, what good positions or future prospects are there?”
Ge Bai said this very calmly, but it was extremely piercing.
It left Old Qian stunned.
Once he recovered, Old Qian became even angrier.
“Child, don’t aim too high. Life is long; it’s not decided at fifteen or sixteen years old.”
“The founder of Brei Industries was in the work-study program back then and succeeded in starting a business at 27.”
Old Qian spouted this worthless chicken soup effortlessly.
But Ge Bai really didn’t want to listen anymore and directly interrupted Old Qian.
“Teacher Qian.”
Old Qian was startled by Ge Bai suddenly speaking.
“How do you know my Spirit Plant can’t beat other Spirit Beasts?”
“How can you be sure I can’t grab one of the 3 full scholarship spots?”
Ge Bai was showing her temperament now, her tone not very good.
Seeing Ge Bai like this, Old Qian grew irritated too. She was determined to drag down his graduates’ enrollment rate.
He waved his hand. “Enough, don’t say more. I don’t approve of this intention form. Go to my office later and get a blank one to rewrite.”
Old Qian thought for a moment and emphasized, “Write it according to the actual situation!”
Hah, Ge Bai stood still, her gaze turning slightly cold.
“This is the only version. I’m not changing it.”
“My intention is to participate in university special recruitment.”
Old Qian was so angry he was about to slap the table again.
Ge Bai said calmly.
“If the school doesn’t uniformly register me for special recruitment, I’ll apply to register independently as a social candidate.”
“At the same time, I’ll file a real-name complaint with the Interstellar Alliance education system, reporting how our school arbitrarily alters and modifies graduates’ study intentions.”
Old Qian was so angry his lips trembled because Ge Bai had indeed grasped the rules.
The Interstellar Alliance, to prevent schools from forcibly modifying students’ further education intentions to guarantee 100% enrollment rates, had opened various appeal and remedy channels.
And what Ge Bai mentioned were the simplest and most effective two.
“Your guardianship is with Blue Star Welfare Institute, right? I’ll call them.”
Old Qian was already angry enough to call her guardian.
Hearing this, Ge Bai laughed unceremoniously. Teacher Xiaolu would definitely side with her.
She said directly, “Teacher Qian, university special recruitment registration starts tomorrow and ends in a week.”
“If other people from our school successfully register for special recruitment, or near the registration deadline, if I still can’t check my admission ticket number, then I’ll register myself and file a complaint.”
With that, Ge Bai didn’t even glance at Old Qian’s face, which had turned purplish with anger, and pretended to bow.
She even switched back to a good girl’s tone, politely saying.
“Teacher Qian, carry on. I’ll head back to class.”
With that, Ge Bai got up and left.
Hmm, she’d mentioned it several times. Tomorrow, she was ready to beat up Jiang Yan.
