Unfortunately, in the more than ten minutes after receiving Ning Tian's message, Huo Yuhao didn't hear any more useful information.
About five minutes before class started, two people very familiar to Huo Yuhao walked into the classroom.
It was precisely Dai Huabin and his fiancée, Zhu Lu.
After seeing Huo Yuhao, Dai Huabin glared at him fiercely, then found a seat relatively far from Huo Yuhao and sat down.
Wang Dong just happened to see this scene, and he quietly asked Huo Yuhao:
"Yuhao, the person who just came in glared at you. Do you know each other?"
"He's my brother."
"Oh, your brother... Wait, your brother?!"
Wang Dong immediately couldn't help but exclaim, causing the entire class to look at him.
His small face flushed, and he awkwardly coughed twice. Only after his classmates looked away did he continue to quietly ask Huo Yuhao:
"His gaze towards you was fierce. Is your relationship as brothers not very good?"
"Yes, among the younger generation of our Duke Household, becoming the White Tiger Duke requires intense competition, and it's not uncommon for life-and-death struggles to occur. Both he and I have the potential to become the White Tiger Duke, so we are considered rivals."
Huo Yuhao didn't reveal his own situation but just briefly explained the circumstances of the Duke Household to Wang Dong.
In fact, the level of competition within the Duke Household has eased considerably over the years. If you go back ten thousand years when the White Tiger lineage was still the royal family of the Star Luo Empire, after a new emperor was chosen, the other heirs were almost certainly doomed to die.
"Is that so?"
Wang Dong felt like Huo Yuhao hadn't told him everything. He wanted to continue asking questions, but Zhu Yun interrupted him:
"Wang Dong, the one who came in with Dai Huabin is my older sister, and also that guy's fiancée."
"Wh— Cough, cough, cough!"
Wang Dong almost unconsciously exclaimed again, quickly covering it up with coughs.
His cheek twitched incessantly as he asked in a low, disbelieving voice:
"Do all the young masters of your White Tiger Duke Household have a fiancée each?!"
"Of course not."
Huo Yuhao said helplessly:
"Didn't I tell you? We only get engaged to individuals with whom we have a Soul Fusion compatibility. In reality, even with the Zhu family, it's not that easy for us to find partners who can perform Soul Fusion. Among the four brothers of my generation, only he and I have fiancées from the Zhu family."
"Alright."
Wang Dong reluctantly accepted.
He looked at Huo Yuhao and Zhu Yun, then at Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, and remarked with emotion:
"But speaking of which, you really don't look much like siblings."
If Huo Yuhao and Zhu Yun hadn't told him themselves, he wouldn't have been able to tell their relationship at all.
"...Did your gaze just sweep over a very subtle area?"
A rare hint of killing intent emanated from Zhu Yun's face.
Wang Dong guiltily averted his gaze.
"Ha, haha, no, how could that be?"
If Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin didn't resemble each other anywhere, then the main difference between Zhu Yun and Zhu Lu was in a certain area.
As for which area, considering Zhu Yun's dignity and his own life safety, Wang Dong didn't dare to say.
"Hmph..."
Zhu Yun snorted and said unhappily:
"They're just a bunch of big-chested, brainless people. Wang Dong, remember this, the charm of a girl, especially a fiancée, isn't in those two pieces of excess flesh, but in..."
"Uh..."
Seeing Zhu Yun start talking non-stop, Wang Dong quickly cast a pleading look at Huo Yuhao.
However, Huo Yuhao just smiled kindly at him, gave him a 'good luck' look, and then looked away.
Heartless and disloyal fellow!
Wang Dong was filled with grief and indignation.
After that, he listened to Zhu Yun's nagging for a full five minutes, and only when the class bell rang did Zhu Yun stop her rambling.
It was clear that Zhu Yun was very bothered by her figure.
And a few seconds after the class bell rang, someone walked into the classroom.
It was an old woman, with wrinkled skin and white hair, her grizzled hair coiled on top of her head. She wore a white robe. What was particularly striking was that she had a pair of extremely bright eyes, with sharp light radiating from her black pupils.
She was clearly Zhou Yi, the homeroom teacher of Class 1 for new students. As soon as she walked into the classroom, it immediately fell silent.
All the students looked up at this teacher, their gazes filled with both curiosity and scrutiny. Everyone wanted to see what a teacher from Shrek Academy was like.
Unexpectedly, the first words the teacher spoke changed everyone's expressions.
"My name is Zhou Yi, and I am your homeroom teacher. I'm not sure how many of you will be able to stay with me for the next year, but I want to tell you this: in my class, no trash will pass the assessment. I want to cultivate monsters, not fools."
Instantly, almost all the students in the classroom showed expressions of indignation.
Everyone here is a young genius, why are they being spoken of like this?
Huo Yuhao, however, didn't show much change in expression. He had long anticipated Zhou Yi's personality. Rather, if you only look at this first step, Zhou Yi's teaching method wasn't problematic.
Most students who can come to Shrek Academy are geniuses among geniuses. They all have a sense of arrogance in their hearts, and for a teacher, this excessive arrogance is not a good thing; it is harmful rather than beneficial to class management.
Just like officers in the army often give new recruits a 'show of force', this kind of behavior is to facilitate future management.
As for her actual teaching level, that will depend on her future actions.
Zhou Yi continued as if she hadn't noticed the change in the students' expressions:
"During the registration period, those who have fought, stand up."
As soon as she said this, the students' expressions began to change from indignation to astonishment.
If she asks that, only a fool would stand up, right?
"..."
Huo Yuhao subtly glanced at Wang Dong beside him, their eyes meeting.
Seeing Wang Dong cast a pleading look, Huo Yuhao sighed helplessly in his heart and nodded slightly at him.
If he had fought with someone else, he might have stood up at this moment.
Anyway, with his connection to Fan Yu, he didn't have to worry about receiving much punishment, and it would also be a good opportunity to observe Zhou Yi's way of handling things.
But now his relationship with Wang Dong was 'friends', and the two had tacitly agreed not to mention the previous incident again. Standing up at this moment, ignoring Wang Dong's opinion, would be truly excessive.
Seeing that no one stood up for a long time, Zhou Yi's expression immediately darkened.
"You really are a bunch of useless trash. Don't you know that not daring to cause trouble makes you mediocre? All of you, get out! Run a hundred laps around Shrek Plaza within one hour. Anyone who doesn't finish will be expelled immediately!"
"..."
Listening to the uproar in the classroom, Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes.
It seems this teacher isn't very good at managing students.