Reversing Falsehood and Preserving Truth: All Gods and Gods Are in My Hands

The air in the classroom seemed frozen, and even the cicadas chirping outside the window seemed to have stopped abruptly.

"Lu Yu!"

Ma Hongmei suddenly raised her voice, her tone shrill and piercing. The dark lines on her cheeks were distorted by extreme obsession. Pointing at Lu Yu's nose, she demanded, "You were only ranked 12th in your class last monthly exam, but this time you've jumped straight to first place in the grade, even surpassing Li Haoran from the honors class! Tell me, did you suddenly gain supernatural powers, or are you secretly hanging out with Su Wan and Zhao Lei, doing nothing but crooked tricks?"

Lu Yu was about to speak, wanting to produce his annotated review materials to prove himself, when Ma Hongmei interrupted him sharply, her voice suddenly rising eight octaves: "Don't tell me you stayed up all night doing practice problems! I see you either daydreaming in class or flirting with Su Wan, and after class you're always whispering with Zhao Lei. I've never seen you go to the office to ask a single question after class. How come you became the top liberal arts student in the exam?"

The phrase "exchanging glances" stung like needles, causing Su Wan's face to flush instantly and her eyes to redden. Her psychic powers allowed her to clearly perceive the extreme aversion to interactions with the opposite sex surging within Ma Hongmei's heart—a kind of traumatic obsession.

Ma Hongmei didn't give her a chance to explain, suddenly turning to her with a tone of utter contempt: "And you, Su Wan! You missed so many classes because of the art exam, and when you came back to class, you were either doodling in your notebooks or secretly looking at Lu Yu. How did you get third place? Let me tell you, I've seen plenty of male and female students getting too close, and not one of them can concentrate on their studies. In the end, they all ruin their futures!"

These words struck Su Wan like a hammer blow. Her lips trembled, and she wanted to say something but was silenced by the other person's imposing manner. Tears welled up in her eyes.

"The most outrageous one is you, Zhao Lei!"

Ma Hongmei's voice suddenly rose, filled with hysterical anger, as she stared intently at Zhao Lei, whose face was flushed red. "You got 32 points on your last math test, less than the probability of guessing correctly on a multiple-choice question. How come you got 86 points this time? You're a sports student, all you do is run and jump. Don't you know whether your brain is full of muscles or mush? I can't think of any other possibility besides cheating and copying answers!"

"I didn't cheat!" Zhao Lei trembled with rage, his fists clenched so tightly they cracked, veins bulging on his forehead, and his chest heaving violently. "I practiced problems every day, asking Lu Yu and Chen Mo questions I didn't understand. I filled two notebooks with notes. What makes you say that about me?"

"On what grounds?"

Ma Hongmei scoffed, strode over to Zhao Lei's desk, and stared down at him with a look of stereotypical disgust for "poor students." "With a brain like yours, no matter how hard you try, you could never improve this fast! The three of you are always glued together, exchanging glances in class and hanging out after class. You're not studying, you're conspiring! You're forming a clique!"

She suddenly turned around, her gaze sweeping over the entire class, her voice trembling with emotion triggered by past events: "I'm telling you, my son failed his college entrance exam and ruined his entire future because he had a relationship in his senior year of high school, spending all his time with his female classmate! I will never allow you to repeat his mistakes!"

These words struck like a thunderbolt, finally exposing the root of her oversensitivity and causing her hidden emotions to erupt completely.

Her voice trembled with tears, yet it only amplified her obstinacy: "Do you think I don't know? Boys and girls getting too close means either they're dating or they're covering for each other! You're not studying, you're shamelessly wasting your time! You're ruining the entire class's academic atmosphere!"

The whispers in the classroom instantly grew louder, and some people curiously sized up the three of them.

This invisible pressure surged towards Lu Yu and the other two like a tidal wave. Su Wan's shoulders trembled violently, and tears finally streamed down her face. Zhao Lei's chest heaved more and more violently, and he gritted his teeth to keep from rushing forward. Even the usually composed Lu Yu felt a strong sense of unease—this was not a reasonable questioning, but an act of displaced anger and slander stemming from personal trauma.

"Teacher Ma,"

Lu Yu took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the frustration in his heart. "Achievements are the result of accumulated efforts over time. Our notes and error notebooks can prove our hard work. We can't deny everything based on subjective assumptions, and we certainly can't take out our anger on us because of your experience."

"snort?"

Ma Hongmei sneered, snatched the notebook from Lu Yu's desk, glanced at it briefly without even looking at the dense annotations inside, and then threw it back down hard. The notebook slammed onto the table. "Who knows if you added these notes afterward? Don't think you can hide those little thoughts between men and women from me!"

Her gaze swept across the entire class, her tone suddenly turning heavy, carrying a deliberate, inciteful undertone: "Do you know how terrible the influence is on students like you who flirt with the opposite sex all day and form cliques, getting high scores through unfair means? What will those students who work tirelessly from dawn till dusk think when they see you effortlessly ranking at the top? They'll think hard work is useless, and they might as well learn your tricks! This is ruining the other students' mentality, it's trampling on genuine effort!"

These words struck everyone like a hammer blow. Many students who were engrossed in their studies subconsciously looked up and their gazes toward Lu Yu and the other two were more complicated, filled with doubt, wavering, and even a hint of dissatisfaction stirred up by the incitement.

She walked to the front of the class. "I don't care what tricks you've played, I'm going to the academic affairs office to apply for a retake! Not only to expose your lies, but also to give the other students justice!"

Her gaze swept over the three of them again, her voice full of threat: "I'll personally proctor the exam and separate the three of you. I want to see if you can still get such 'good grades' without anyone to copy from and without any way to cheat!"

"If your scores plummet in the retake, I'll report it to the school and give you a major demerit, which will be recorded in your college entrance exam files! If that affects your college admissions, don't blame me!" She paused, deliberately emphasizing her words, "And let the other students see clearly that shortcuts won't get you far; only hard work and dedication will work! I want to see if you dare to pull any tricks under my nose again, if you dare to treat your future like a joke, and if you dare to treat the class's academic atmosphere like a joke!"

After he finished speaking, the classroom fell into a deathly silence.

Ma Hongmei's words were like a heavy hammer wielded with personal resentment. They not only questioned their grades and denied all their efforts, but also falsely accused them of "early romance." Furthermore, she transformed her personal trauma into an attack on "corrupting the school atmosphere," pushing the three of them to the opposite side of the entire class.

Lu Yu felt a surge of intense resentment towards this homeroom teacher once again.

He could calmly devise a plan when dealing with vicious and evil spirits, but he felt suffocated when faced with such trauma-distorted obsession and filth.