You're my wife, don't doubt it!

Shen Jie pouted and said, "I introduced him to someone, but I don't know how their relationship is going. But if Daiyu had the abilities of Earl Dunding, would he need you to introduce women to him?"

“That’s the Earl of Nottingham…”

"I can't remember, is there any story behind this name?" Shen Jie asked.

Yu Luying replied, "The Earl of Nottingham is a legendary medieval English outlaw, better known as Robin Hood. The Earl of Nottingham is his—well, a nickname."

Shen Jie shook her head: "Tch, I thought he was at least a nobleman, but it turns out he's just a wandering swordsman. Looks like it's not him after all."

Father Yu asked, "Who?"

“Zhang Zhengkai, he’s familiar with us. He’s just a kid with a head full of chivalry. He doesn’t get along with you, but it’s not convenient for him to break ties. He’s the only man I can think of. But if he were to choose a name, it would have to be something like the Duke of Buckingham, not some kind of江湖 (jianghu) nickname.”

"What if his mental fortress is Robin Hood? That's quite possible." Xiao Yao felt that Shen Jie's reasoning was not rigorous.

Shen Jie retorted, "Is your mental fortress forcing you to call yourself Don Quixote? Just by looking at your appearance, you're a knight in armor. Even if you called yourself Lancelot, the Knight of the Round Table, no one could expose you."

"Yeah, why didn't I call myself Lancelot? It would have been so much cooler." Xiao Yao said with some regret.

"Because you're naive and honest." Yu Luying smiled.

"Wait a minute! Are you all out of your minds!" Xiao Yao suddenly realized, pulling out his own "coin": "This coin is marked Don Quixote, okay? Shen Jie's coin is marked Mary Tudor—"

“Alright,” Father Yu said, “If we don’t have any leads on the man, does anyone have any clues about the woman on the motorcycle?”

Yu Luying frowned again: "Was it a woman? I'm not quite sure."

Xiao Yao was somewhat surprised: "Right, that figure isn't female? Although it's a bit—"

Shen Jie scolded, "All you do is stare at body shapes, huh?"

Xiao Yao quickly defended himself: "The voice is also female."

Shen Jie stopped arguing with Xiao Yao: "I can't tell from her figure and voice that she's a woman. The problem is that her demeanor and temperament always remind me of the liquid metal man in Terminator. Whether she becomes a man or a woman, she always has that cold and hard feeling."

Yu Luying concluded, "Wearing a helmet and being completely black, it's not surprising that it's a disguise."

"Isn't she blue?"

"Moreover, it's clear that she's different from Robin Hood. She doesn't want to get entangled with us at all and is determined to leave. She's dissatisfied with Robin Hood's exaggerated performance, so it's difficult to determine her master-servant relationship with Robin Hood."

Father Yu said, "Forget it, let's assume she's a woman for now. Could this woman on the motorcycle be the same person as the guide nun we met when we entered?"

"How is that possible?" Shen Jie was now surprised: "Just because they were all dressed in black, and you couldn't see their faces, and they were all women... uh, that does seem a bit possible?"

Yu Luying said, "If we assume they are not the same person, then the people who broke into the convent last night, besides the four of us, were at least three others: the Guide Sister, the Motorbike Girl, and Robin Hood. The latter two are partners, and their goal, as it stands, is to eliminate Teacher Song's shadow, with the reason or excuse being the so-called 'acting on behalf of Heaven.'"

Xiao Yao glanced at Shen Jie, but her eyes darted away.

"So in this hypothetical scenario, who exactly is the Guide Sister, and what is she trying to achieve?"

Yu Luying continued, "According to Teacher Song, he knew about the intrusion of the Guide Sister and that we would come. He even successfully got the Guide Sister, who was the intruder, to actually act as his Guide Sister, leading us intruders around in a big circle."

Xiao Yao continued, "Then the guide nun ran away and disappeared. We had a head-on confrontation with Song Haijian, while the Robin Hood duo successfully launched a sneak attack."

Shen Jie feigned sudden realization: "So this nun just came here to make a cameo? That doesn't make sense, does it?"

Father Yu continued, "It is indeed very strange. Moreover, I don't know if you noticed, but when I accused Song Haijian of setting up the stake, he didn't respond directly, but instead veered off to that so-called 'graduation ceremony,' which is actually the steel furnace."

Shen Jie said, "He's in the wrong, so he's just using a fallacy of equivocation. That old man is a master at that."

Yu Luying shook her head and said, "No, although Teacher Song is very good at changing the subject, he has always been very proud of his own institution. There is no reason for him to beat around the bush on the matter of the stake."

Father Yu seconded, "Yes, I also tend to think that Song Haijian was unaware of the stake, so when fire was mentioned, he naturally thought of a steel furnace."

Xiao Yao asked, puzzled, "Then what exactly is this stake for execution?"

Yu Luying analyzed, "This fake nun led the way as an observer the whole time, except for the stake, where she directly became the executioner. Moreover, before my uncle exposed that she was not Song Haijian's henchman, none of us noticed the stake. And when we went down, the stake disappeared, and the venue changed directly to the auditorium."

Father Yu continued, "If the stake had nothing to do with Song Haijian, but was actually the guide nun's own 'personal agenda,' wouldn't many questions be explained? She obediently led the way, showing us Song Haijian's violence against the boys, and then added this scene here, just to make us believe that Song Haijian wouldn't let the girls off either..."

"So, why is the person being tortured looking like Zhao Xiaomei? And then Zhao Xiaomei told me she knew nothing about it?" Xiao Yao asked. "Oh right, I suddenly remembered, Chen Lu has a motorcycle."

"Is it a motorcycle?" Shen Jie asked.

"No, it's a small light motorcycle."

Shen Jie scoffed, and Xiao Yao quickly explained, "The 'palace' amplified the imagery she was familiar with and exaggerated her motorcycle, which is reasonable, isn't it?"

"So Robin Hood is Brother Long?" Yu Luying touched her chin: "Their personalities... are completely different."

"Alright, stop rambling. What do you think of my reasoning?" Father Yu said.

"It's very interesting, but it's all hypotheses, without any evidence," Xiao Yao commented.

Father Yu sighed: "There's no way to prove it now that the dead are dead. But there's one thing we should know: it's easy to be exposed if you tell all lies. The key to fooling people is to tell nine truths and one lie."

“This nun is definitely not just here to make up the numbers. She hopes that we will clash with Song Haijian, preferably to the death.”

"So even if the fake nun wasn't part of the other two groups, she still shared the same goal."

Father Yu tapped the table gently: "Looking at it this way, the possibility that the nun and the motorcycle woman are the same person is even higher."

Yu Luying thought of something else: "But if that's the case, why didn't she just take action when she first met Song Haijian? She's very capable, and Song Haijian's fighting strength is all in his tanks."

"..."

"..."

For a while, no one could come up with anything. Finally, Xiao Yao shrugged and said, "I can't think of any reasonable explanation. It can't be that she can only hit us and not Song Haijian, can it?"

Yu Luying was still pondering: "It's still the same question—if the stake was set up by a fake nun, then why is Zhao Xiaomei on it? And why does Zhao Xiaomei look like she's bravely going to her death? Anyone who doesn't know better would think she's Joan of Arc."

Shen Jie scoffed, "She did it to seduce Xiao Yao. She knew he was protective of her, and since you and I were both up there, she could only use Zhao Xiaomei to deceive him."

Then she turned to Xiao Yao and said, "Moreover, Zhao Xiaomei tricked you into this whole thing. Let me tell you, you should stop flirting with her in the future."

"Uh... okay, okay..."

"Are Xiao Yao and Zhao Xiaomei on good terms?"

"No, no, we're just good friends."

"If I remember correctly, Silly Girl is also your good friend, right?"

"Hey, don't drag me into this, okay?"

……

"Alright, alright, stop making a scene." Father Yu stood up, stopping the commotion. "Based on the information we have now, it's difficult to find the truth, but I hope everyone will pay attention to the people around them and be careful with their words."

Shen Jie asked, "Father, why are you so concerned about those two people?"

Father Yu shook his head and said, "I don't care about them; I'm worried they might harm innocent people."

"I understand," Xiao Yao nodded.

Shen Jie glanced at Xiao Yao, then at Father Yu.

Father Yu continued his analysis: "Let me ask you, do you think it would have been difficult for the Robin Hood duo to take down Song Haijian without the help of us?"

"I don't think it's a big deal," Xiao Yao assessed.

Yu Luying said, "If you ask me, it shouldn't be easy. Even Robin Hood said it was his first victory."

Yu Bo nodded and said, "That's right. They treat this behavior as 'acting on behalf of heaven,' but their abilities are limited, so they borrowed our help this time. And next time, when they want to play the superhero game again, if they are unable to break through the halls of truly evil villains, they will naturally change their targets to ordinary people who are not so evil and are easier to get their hands on—I'm worried that innocent people will soon be attacked by them."

"It's become a palace, how could it be an ordinary person?" Shen Jie asked, puzzled.

"And the only ones who can stop them are us?" Xiao Yao said uncertainly.

"With great power comes great responsibility, sir," Yu Bo joked.

Yu Luying added, "Moreover, we cannot completely rule out the possibility that the guide sister is someone else, after all, there is the precedent of Zhou Qi."

“Yes,” Father Yu slapped his forehead, “I wonder how Zhou Qi is doing. We need to arrange a time to talk to her. Why don’t you two stay for lunch and have lunch here? Try my cooking.”

"No, Xiao Yao and I have some things to do later, and we have children at home," Shen Jie politely declined Father Yu's invitation.

“Sister, I want to talk to you alone for a few minutes,” Yu Luying said.

Shen Jie glanced at Yu Bo and Xiao Yao, then walked out the door hand in hand with Yu Luying.

--split line--

When Xiao Yao and Shen Jie returned home, they received a call from Director Lin.

"Hello, Xiao Yao, this is Teacher Lin." Teacher Lin's voice sounded tired, as if she hadn't slept all night.

Shen Jie didn't want to stay in this room from 04 any longer, so she bowed to Xiao Yao and opened the wardrobe door.

"Hello, Teacher Lin." Xiao Yao swallowed hard.

"I'm calling to inform you," Director Lin said, without mentioning Song Haijian's matter at all: "the special make-up exam originally scheduled for tomorrow has been canceled."

Xiao Yao wanted to ask "why", but then thought better of it and decided it was better not to bring up something that was already on his mind: "Okay."

Director Lin cleared his throat and continued, "There will be a placement test at the beginning of the second year of high school. You will take it. If you fail more than three subjects, you can move up to the next grade. Otherwise, you should focus on strengthening your foundation in the first year of high school, okay?"

"Okay." Xiao Yao didn't know what else to say.

There was silence on the other end of the phone, to the point that Xiao Yao suspected the other party had already hung up.

"Hello? Teacher Lin?" Xiao Yao said.

“You’d better behave yourself from now on,” Director Lin said. “Be careful what you say and do, and don’t always cause trouble, or you’ll eventually fall down. You can’t go far by relying on luck.”

Xiao Yao felt a lump in his throat, deeply moved: "Teacher Lin..."