I'm in a real religion, why are all the people who confess to me girls?

Then the second-year students can simply sit back and reap the benefits. Even if Jiang Yan quells the internal strife quickly, it will make the remaining first-year students panic and lose their will to participate in this special exam. Once the morale of the first-year students is low, Tianyin only needs to find an opportunity to duel with Jiang Yan and defeat him head-on. After that, things will be much simpler. The second-year students only need to launch a full-scale attack to easily take down the first-year students.

However, a small problem arose during the execution of the plan. Before Tianyin could even make a move, a misunderstanding triggered a chain reaction that led to the other classes being defeated by the second graders in a single battle. Only a few class leaders escaped to the stronghold of Class A in the first grade.

It seems like we've taken a big step closer to launching Tianyin's plan, but in reality, it's the opposite. A class leader without the support of classmates can hardly cause any trouble at the base of Class A in the first year. In fact, Yan alone could easily handle them. Such infighting is not very meaningful to the second year. On the contrary, once the divisive scheme is exposed, it will rouse the already wavering first-year students and put them in a war of attrition against the second year.

So, Tianyin initially hoped to minimize the elimination of first-year students outside of Class A in order to lay a good foundation for future plans to sow discord. However, the second-year students' counterattack was too fierce, which made the other three first-year classes practically defunct, thus reducing the possibility of implementing the plan.

Therefore, Tianyin did not have any expectations for the plan at the beginning. After all, what could the remaining class leaders do under Jiang Yan's nose?

Until yesterday, Tianze came to see her, believing that it was time to put the plan into action. Tianyin was curious about Tianze's judgment, so she asked Tianze to tell her about the current situation of the first grade.

Upon asking, Amane learned that although the remaining classes were practically defunct, Yagami and the others were quite strong. Apart from Masahiko, Class A of the first year didn't have many decent experts. As a result, during Masahiko's recovery period, Yagami and Tsubaki Sakurako were responsible for the daily affairs of Class A of the first year. However, Masahiko was very dissatisfied with this approach, believing that the leaders of the other classes were meddling too much. As a result, a small-scale argument broke out among them.

The core of the argument was that Yagami and his friends were trying to take over the reins by issuing various orders to the students in their class on their own turf.

Meanwhile, Yagami and the others felt that Miyako was being unreasonable and were still resentful about the fact that Miyako led them to attack the second-year students, resulting in the complete annihilation of their classes while the first-year students were unscathed. They believed that Miyako was using others to do his dirty work. Therefore, Yagami brought up the old issue of the relationship between Miyako and Amane, arguing that if Miyako really wanted the first-year students to win, he should have avoided suspicion and let Amane cooperate with them to manage the remaining first-year students, trying to stall for time and wear down the second-year students until the very last moment.

Masahiko was naturally furious at Yagami's unfounded accusations and had a big argument with him. The two parted on bad terms. It was clear that conflicts had begun to erupt within the first year, especially since Tsubaki Sakura had made substantial contact with Amasawa in private. The purpose of the contact was not only to get Amasawa Ichika to support them in this special exam, but also to hope that Amasawa Ichika would stand up and compete with Miyako Masahiko for the position of class leader.

Tsubaki Sakurako explained to Amaze that both Class B and Class C of the first year supported Amaze Ichika, who had no connection with the second year, to serve as the class leader of Class A of the first year. Only in this way would Amaze not harm the interests of Class A of the first year like Masahiko.

When Tianze heard Chunyingzi's words, he almost burst out laughing. Fortunately, Tianze was also the kind of person who was extremely good at controlling his facial expressions, so Chunyingzi didn't notice anything unusual.

Amaze seemed quite interested in Tsubaki Sakura's suggestion. Seeing that Amaze Ichika hadn't completely sided with Miyako Masahiko, Tsubaki Sakura felt relieved and confessed her true purpose for coming to see her: to directly sideline Miyako Masahiko in this special exam. With the support of her classmates, Amaze could bypass Miyako Masahiko and take control of Class 1-A. Perhaps to reassure Amaze, Tsubaki Sakura even provided the names of two Class 1-A students who couldn't accept Miyako Masahiko's leadership.

To Amaze's slight surprise, the two were none other than Ishigami and Takahashi, who had been beaten and forced to flee by Amane not long ago. Although they had successfully escaped punishment from Masahiko by bringing Hayasaka back, they were still bound to be scolded, especially since their performance was so bad that it was unbearable to watch, and they had also made Masahiko lose face in front of Yagami and the others. As a result, Masahiko severely reprimanded the two of them, which made Ishigami and Takahashi completely unable to tolerate Masahiko's tyrannical rule, but they did not dare to challenge Masahiko directly.

So, in private, the two of them came up with the terrible idea of ​​interfering with the influence of other classes. Although Tianze thought they weren't very bright and completely underestimated Jiang Yan's terrifying power, Tianyin did need a few helpers to perfectly execute her plan.

Tenze quickly came up with a plan. To show her sincerity, she took out the letter that Tenon had given her and showed it to Tsubaki Sakura, pretending that Tenon had asked her to secretly pass it on to Masahiko. Tenze hoped that Tsubaki Sakura could persuade Takahashi and Ishigami to cooperate with Yagami and the others to rush into Masahiko's tent after she handed the letter to him and accuse Masahiko and Tenon of making a pact to betray the first-year students. Then, she would force Miyako Masahiko to give up his role as the leader of Class 1-A.

If Miyako Masahiko gives up even once, she is confident that she can take over Class 1-A smoothly. Even after the special exams are over, it will be difficult for Miyako Masahiko to take back control of Class 1-A from her. In order to bring Tsubaki Sakurako and the others in, Amasawa even offered a check, promising that she could persuade Nanase to stand on their side.

Tianze didn't explain the specific process to Tianyin, but in the end, Tianze successfully persuaded Chunyingzi. Chunyingzi and Yagami both disliked Miyako Masahiko's management style, but due to Miyako Masahiko's strength, Yagami wanted to change the class leader of Class 1-A by avoiding direct confrontation with Miyako Masahiko as much as possible. This meant that he had to have a reasonable excuse to make Miyako Masahiko submit, and Tianze prepared this reason for him.

What could be more shameless than colluding with other grades to betray the interests of one's own grade?

Upon hearing the information brought back by Tsubaki Sakurako, Yagami immediately agreed, and a good show slowly unfolded before everyone's eyes.

Pretending to be nonchalant, Tianze handed the letter to Jiangyan. In order to prevent others from seeing the letter that his sister had specially given him, Jiangyan naturally chose to read it alone.

After wandering around outside for a while, Amaze made a gesture to Yagami and the others, and Yagami immediately led Hayasaka, Utsunomiya, Tsubaki Sakurako, Takahashi, and Ishigami into Masahiko's tent.

Originally, there was still room for things to be resolved at this point. Yagami and the others only wanted to find a 'justifiable' reason to make Jiang Yan give up his position as the class leader of Class A in the first year. They did not really want to eliminate Jiang Yan. However, when everyone saw the letter with smear marks, they all became unsettled.

They didn't expect that Jiang Yan and Tian Yin really planned to join forces to wipe out all these "troublemakers" in one fell swoop. As a result, things gradually got out of control. Jiang Yan was not Tian Yin after all. Tian Yin rarely reasoned with others because she knew very well that only by showing her fists first would others reason with her. And those who had been punched didn't need to be reasoned with; they would think that everything she said was right.

Jiang Yan only learned the domineering demeanor of Tian Yin from her, but he didn't understand the true core of Tian Yin's almost one-man rule in the second year. As a result, although Jiang Yan was called a tyrant, he himself had not yet successfully assumed the identity of a tyrant.

When questioned by Yagami and others, Miyako's first reaction was to try to explain himself. However, Yagami and others had come to force him to resign, so they naturally wouldn't listen to Miyako's explanations. Helpless, Miyako could only prove himself in the most foolish way, which was to take the initiative to attack the second-year students to prove his 'innocence'.

This led to the scene where Yan was beaten to the doorstep of the second-year students' stronghold.

"Sister Tianyin, there are some things I need to discuss with you."

Miyako Masahiko approached Amane without warning and spoke to her in a gentle tone.

Tianyin sighed inwardly. This time, she had tricked him. However, since they had agreed to go all out, strategy was naturally part of strength. So, if anyone was to blame, it was Jiang Yan who was too careless. Even someone like Long Yuan knew that violence alone would not work. When a class leader only thinks about how to use violence to silence dissenting voices, it is destined that he will hear voices of resistance sooner or later.

Moreover, it wasn't just the members of Class A in the first year who rebelled against him this time; Jiang Yan was so slow to react at times that even Tian Yin found it unbelievable and speechless.

For example, this time, it seems that as long as Amane confronts him and explains things clearly, all the conflicts between the first-year students will be eliminated. But in reality, Yagami and the others are just making up an excuse. Even if Yagami doesn't acknowledge their sibling relationship, Yagami can find some other reason.

Therefore, in Tianyin's view, the simplest way to solve this problem is to directly eliminate the person who raised the problem.

Once you beat Yagami into submission, Tenon won't believe he'll keep spouting this nonsense all day long. It's just that Yan Mingming is clearly strong but likes to reason with others, and in the end, once he's outmaneuvered, he'll be completely put in a passive position.

"Oh? Jiang Yan, what do you want to confront me about?"

Tianyin's natural tone immediately relaxed Jiang Yan's tense heart.

What he fears most now is that Tianyin doesn't want to or can't talk to him about the letter. If that happens, he will never be able to clear his name of responsibility.

"Sister Yin, do you still remember the letter you asked Yixia to bring back to me yesterday?"

"What's wrong with the letter? Does that mean you, Jiang Yan, are agreeing to join forces with me to eliminate them?"

Amane excitedly rolled up her sleeves, her gaze fixed on Yagami, whose face had turned incredibly ugly.

From the very beginning, Yagami felt that something was off about the letter. Although he hoped it would provide him with a suitable excuse, he didn't want Miyako Masahiko to actually team up with Amane. If the two of them joined forces...

Not to mention that this special exam is over, his school life is almost over as well. With Tianyin's help, it's hard to say how secure Jiang Yan's position as class leader will be.

Then what are they fighting over?

Jiang Yan, one of the parties involved, was at a loss when he heard that Tianyin had so easily revealed the contents of the letter. Such secret things are usually said in private, right? How could Tianyin say it in front of so many people? He couldn't just stay silent.

“Sister Tianyin! I shouldn’t be thinking about such things. In fact, I have never had the idea of ​​cooperating with you, Sister Tianyin. I will never betray everyone in the first year.”

Miyako Masahiko's words were righteous and awe-inspiring, and for a moment many of his classmates behind him began to applaud wildly, some even whistling slightly mockingly at Amane.

"You're not here to cooperate? Then why are you here to confront me?"

Tianyin tilted her head, feigning confusion, seemingly puzzled by Jiang Yan's behavior. However, what Tianyin didn't know was that Jiang Yan, standing opposite her, was no longer concerned with any question of confrontation. He just wanted to capture Tianyin's adorable tilted-head expression and use it as his phone wallpaper...

"Cough cough."

Tianze's soft cough startled Jiang Yan, who quickly shook his head to clear his mind of those jumbled thoughts. His confrontation wasn't over yet!

"Speaking of which, Tianyin, did you accidentally send me the manuscript? The letter you gave me was covered in scribbles."

After Yan asked the question, he felt relieved. Tianyin must have been too careless to send over that draft letter that was easy to misunderstand as a formal letter.

But Tianyin's next answer made Jiang Yan's heart sink to the bottom.

"Traces of smearing? What traces of smearing? I don't know anything about it?"

Chapter 219: Taking Advantage of an Opportunity

Tianyin's answer left Jiang Yan somewhat dumbfounded.

Before opening the letter, Jiang Yan had specifically checked it and found no signs of it being opened. Even the handwriting was Tian Yin's unique style, something Jiang Yan could never mistake. Yet, Tian Yin flatly denied any signs of scribbling on the letter.

Trusting Tianyin and seeing her confused expression, Jiang Yan suddenly began to feel a little insecure.

'Was it really me who scribbled on the letter?...'

However, Jiang Yan quickly realized that although Tian Yin's expression was confused, there was no flaw in her gaze.

But Tianyin's seemingly deliberate attempt to create an opening—the corners of her mouth that she couldn't suppress, as if she were waiting to see Jiang Yan make a fool of himself—made Jiang Yan realize what was happening.

The letter contained a scheme and a test from his sister, Miyako Amane. Upon understanding this, the relaxed expression on Masahiko's face was immediately replaced by seriousness. From the moment Masahiko left that boring white room, he couldn't wait to see Amane and then show her his strength to fulfill the promise he made when they parted years ago.

'I will grow strong enough to protect Amane-nee and Arisu-nee one day.'

Tianyin smiled and gave him an answer.

"Then I'll wait for you up ahead."

In order to see Tianyin again, he, who did not have Tianyin's monstrous physical talent, endured more pain and hellish torment than Tianyin. Finally, he walked out of that room with unparalleled strength, and now he can finally fulfill his promise.

But after Gao Yu met Tian Yin, Jiang Yan discovered that reality was not quite what he had imagined. The power that Jiang Yan had painstakingly honed in the white room seemed so ordinary to Tian Yin that she even refused his protection. At first, Jiang Yan thought that he had not shown Tian Yin his full strength, which made her feel that he was not strong enough to protect her.

So Jiang Yan began to seek every opportunity to truly demonstrate his power to Tian Yin. Until this special exam, Jiang Yan knew that his chance to show his strength had finally arrived.

On the first day, he was defeated by a man named Koenji Rokusuke with overwhelming power, and he lost the match in front of Amane. This made Masahiko feel ashamed and unwilling. If it were a fight, Masahiko did not think that Koenji could win with such overwhelming power as in that match. However, he was not a sore loser. Faced with defeat, he chose to admit Koenji's strength.

But having acknowledged Koenji's strength, what right did he have to protect Amane? In order to leave himself one last chance and to prove his own strength, Masahiko challenged Amane. Amane accepted Masahiko's challenge for the first time, which made Masahiko ecstatic. He believed that as long as he won a real contest of strength with Amane, he could prove that he was stronger than Amane and that he had the strength to protect Amane.

However, Jiang Yan soon realized that he was too happy. Although Tian Yin accepted Jiang Yan's challenge, she never fought him directly. Instead, she used all sorts of strange methods to make him feel defeated without actually fighting him.

This felt like Jiang Yan had punched a cotton ball; the helplessness of not being able to exert his full strength made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

But today, Tianyin actually used some kind of scheme against him. Although it seemed to be just a contest of strategy, for Jiang Yan, this was a signal and a test that Tianyin was finally willing to face him head-on. Only if he passed this test would he be qualified to have a face-to-face contest with Tianyin.

Jiang Yan's fighting spirit is constantly rising. In order to fight Tianyin, Jiang Yan must show his full strength here.

So, from what angle should we start to solve this problem?

Jiang Yan's first challenge is to figure out what purpose Tian Yin is trying to achieve by scribbling on the letters.

If it's just to frame him, what effect will it have?

Could it be to escalate the conflict between him and Yagami and the others? Don't be ridiculous. Although the two sides are using the challenge against Amane to prove themselves because of their conflict, Yagami isn't stupid. How could he not see the traces in the letter? Besides, Amane has made it so obvious that she wants to frame him. No one else would let Amane succeed.

It's rare for Sister Tianyin to miscalculate like this... Should we...?

Just as Jiang Yan was pondering whether to seize the opportunity presented by Tianyin's 'miscalculation' to do something, he was completely unaware that several people behind him were already exchanging knowing glances and hints.

Tianyin deliberately revealed that she was the one who plotted to frame Jiang Yan, and gave them a 'righteous' excuse. Colluding with students from other grades to harm the interests of one's own grade, regardless of the type of special exam, is a taboo subject. Even if there are still people in Class A who support Jiang Yan, they wouldn't dare to speak up for him in the face of such evidence. In other words…

If they really want to bring down Masahiko in this special exam and prevent him from controlling Class A in the future, now is the best time.

Tianyin took in the secretive expressions of the students from the several classes who had never experienced such a large-scale special exam.

These people are just like they were during the special exam on the deserted island in their second year. All the backstabbing, infighting, and internal factional struggles are exactly the same as back then. The only difference is that the current first-year students are united because of the irresistible external pressure from Miyako Amane, which forces them to unite in order to fight against Amane.

But what if... the external pressure disappeared?

Tenon subtly hinted to Yagami and the others that she wanted to frame Masahiko; now it remains to be seen whether Yagami and his companions are truly prepared.

"Miyako Masahiko! I knew you were a treacherous liar! You said you wouldn't collude with Miyako Amane, but what about now? They've openly said they want to join forces with you. If I remember correctly, at the base just now you kept saying that Miyako Amane mistakenly sent you the draft, right? But Miyako Amane said that nothing like that happened. So why did you smear the letter to try and cover it up? Wasn't it because you were afraid we'd see the contents and wouldn't be able to destroy the letter, so you deliberately smeared it to try and fool us?"

Yagami Takuya was the first to jump out, pointing at Masahiko and loudly scolding him.

He wasn't stupid; he had already seen that Miyako Masahiko was innocent, but so what? His current goal was to get Ayanokouji to drop out of school, but Miyako Masahiko was putting too much pressure on the first-year students, especially by using various methods to suppress the first-year Class B, who were catching up very closely. Unfortunately, he was no match for Miyako Masahiko.

If Miyako Masahiko were to continue leading Class A, he would be so busy maintaining Class B's status that he wouldn't have time to deal with Ayanokoji dropping out of school.

Imagine the possibility that, with Gao Yu's strongest combat force behind him and himself being the strongest first-year student, it would be virtually impossible for anyone else to remove Jiang Yan from his position before he even graduated from Tianyin.

unless……

Miyako Tenon was willing to cooperate with them.

"Yagami, are you crazy? Can't you see that this is such an obvious scheme?"

Jiang Yan didn't bother to say anything more to Yagami. In his eyes, someone who couldn't even see through such a simple scheme as Tianyin's was not worthy of participating in this game.

But reality is not as simple as Jiang Yan thought.

"Hmph, a scheme? All I see is the two of you colluding together, don't you?"

Utsunomiya mocked Masahiko in a sarcastic tone. He had just received a hint from Tsubaki Sakurako. As the most resilient person among them, he had to find a way to provoke Masahiko. As long as Masahiko made the first move against him, Utsunomiya could confirm that Masahiko was going to join forces with Amane to wipe out all the students who were not in Class A.

"court death!"

Feeling challenged by Utsunomiya, Masahiko punched him, knocking him to the ground.

Something is wrong!

When Yan hit Utsunomiya in the face with his fist, who was not resisting, he immediately realized that something was wrong. But by then, he could not stop himself and could only watch helplessly as Utsunomiya was knocked to the ground by his punch.

The moment Utsunomiya fell to the ground, all the key personnel sprang into action, their movements so fluid and coordinated as if rehearsed that even Yagami was stunned.

"Lu? Are you alright? Miyako-kun! Even if you want to betray the interests of the first-year students, there's nothing we can do to stop you, but why are you beating up our own people? You're already the leader of Class A, a big shot standing above all the first-year classes, why are you still bullying us? We're also students of Gaoyu, not slaves of your Miyako family!"

Tsubaki Sakura hugged Utsunomiya's body and roared at Masahiko with all her might.

Jiang Yan's expression showed immense struggle, and after some mental preparation, he finally chose to lower his head.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you..."

"Miyako-kun, aren't you going a bit too far? If you bully people from other grades, you'll make a lot of enemies for us. We all have friends in other classes. If you do this... it will put us in a very difficult position."

Tenze interrupted Miyako Masahiko's apology, realizing that Masahiko was already thinking of settling things peacefully, and quickly added fuel to the fire.

"The 'we' you're referring to..."

Jiang Yan truly experienced the horror of conspiracy this time.

"Miyako-kun, I think your behavior is too brutal."

“That’s right. We are all human beings just like you. You shouldn’t treat us like livestock and slaves, ordering us around and criticizing us.”

As soon as Takahashi and Ishigami stepped forward, a large number of people stood behind them. Seeing that the situation was not right, Amamiya quickly led five or six people loyal to Masahiko to Masahiko's side to confront Amasawa and the others.

At this point, the drawbacks of Yan's class management began to show. He usually only used his fists to shut up disobedient people, suppressing all dissenting voices with absolute violence.

Tianze is responsible for appeasing those who failed in their resistance, mediating class conflicts, and handling inter-class affairs. In short, one plays the good cop and the other the bad cop. As a character symbolizing severity and inviolability, Miyako Masahiko naturally attracts everyone's hatred while establishing his authority. Normally, it's fine if Masahiko and Tianze have the same goal, but once a situation of taking sides arises, Masahiko will immediately fall into a disadvantageous position.

"What are you trying to do? Can't you see that this is Tianyin's scheme to sow discord among us?"

Jiang Yan still believed that these people had fallen for Tianyin's scheme, so even though he looked down on these 'idiots,' he had to explain. If he were to start another internal conflict in front of Tianyin, he would probably be laughed to death by her.

"Amane-nee? Even now, you still address me so intimately. It's really hard for us to believe your actions. Although I'm sorry, I hope that Miyako Masahiko can withdraw from this special exam to prove that you are Miyako Masahiko from Class 1A, not Class 2A."

"Tianze Yixia! What nonsense are you spouting? Do you really think you can win this special exam without me?"