Chi Shuyan’s face changed slightly when she heard that Director Huang wanted to remove Counselor Zhang from his position. She spoke up first and said, “Director Huang, I was the one who asked Counselor Zhang for a leave of absence, and I was the one who forced him to approve it. This has nothing to do with Counselor Zhang. Besides, I did take leave because I had an urgent matter to attend to. Also, just because I took a few days off, you want to remove Counselor Zhang from his position as a counselor? Isn’t that going overboard?”
“Shuyan!” Counselor Zhang’s face changed. He looked at Director Huang, whose face was getting uglier, and immediately motioned for her to keep quiet. There was no good outcome for a student like her to offend a school leader.
Speaking of which, he could still accept withdrawing as counselor, but he was afraid that Director Huang would look for trouble and give Shuyan a black mark on her record, or make her drop out of school. That would really be a big deal!
He would rather be removed from his position as counselor. He had also thought it through. His wife was pregnant, so if he was really removed, he could take good care of his family.
Director Huang usually didn’t have a good personality. Apart from hating students who took time off every other day to fish in troubled waters, the last thing he would allow was a student to challenge his authority. So, as soon as Chi Shuyan finished speaking, Director Huang’s face turned red and ugly with anger. He slammed the table angrily and said, “I’m talking to your counselor. Who are you to interrupt?”
Chi Shuyan didn’t take Director Huang’s threat seriously, and her tolerance of this Director Huang, who was using his position to get personal revenge, grew even less. She was about to speak, when Counselor Zhang hurriedly apologized to Director Huang on her behalf and said, “I do feel that I’m not a good counselor, and should withdraw. But Director Huang, this child is usually straightforward and doesn’t have any ill intentions. She didn’t mean to contradict you. If I hadn’t allowed her to take leave, she wouldn’t have done so. The responsibility lies with me!”
“Counselor Zhang!” Chi Shuyan’s face changed.
Director Huang was quite satisfied with Counselor Zhang’s words. This Zhang guy was sensible. As for this female student in front of him, the more Director Huang looked at her, the more he disliked her. It was fine if she applied for leave once or twice, but when he flipped through her request applications, he found that Chi Shuyan had applied for leave many times since she started at the university. In one case, it was for an especially long period of time. According to the university’s rules, he could directly expel her.
However, the dean would still have to be involved in the matter of expulsion. Director Huang didn’t plan to cause such a huge commotion, but it was still necessary to put a black mark on her record. No matter what, he had to teach this Chi girl a harsh lesson for daring to contradict him just now, so he told her about the penalty. When Counselor Zhang heard this, his face changed.
Chi Shuyan didn’t have much of an expression on her face. She didn’t care if the other party penalized her or not. Chi Shuyan said, “Director Huang, that’s fine. But since I’ve been penalized, there’s no need for Counselor Zhang to withdraw from his position, right? I’ll take responsibility for my own errors. Of course, if you don’t agree, I would like to ask the dean of our university if it really is so easy to remove a teacher from their position for approving leave several times.”
Director Huang’s face not only flushed red with anger at these threatening and striking words, he shook all over. He had been a director for so many years, but no one had ever dared to use such a tone to speak to him, or even dared to threaten him! How dare she? How dare she?
Director Huang was so angry that his hand trembled as he pointed at Chi Shuyan and almost couldn’t speak. In the end, he only said to Counselor Zhang, “Look at the student you’re teaching. A student dares to talk back to a teacher like this? You rebel! Who are you to dare threaten me?”
Chi Shuyan was indifferent to Director Huang’s anger. “I know what I am, but you’re nothing!”
As soon as she said that, Director Huang’s face turned green with anger at the insult. The veins on his forehead bulged one by one. He pointed at Chi Shuyan and trembled. His face and neck were red with anger. She could still see the veins bulging on the other party’s neck.
Counselor Zhang was really worried about Shuyan at that moment, and hurriedly advised her not to say anything else!
Chi Shuyan took in the trembling Director Huang and was secretly pleased. She wanted to speak, but seeing Counselor Zhang’s worried face, she could only keep quiet.
Director Huang, on the other hand, was so angry at Chi Shuyan’s repeated provocations that he couldn’t breathe. He couldn’t calm down for a long time, nor could he say a word. After a long while, he spat out angrily, “Fine, fine, I’ll remember this. If you take leave again next time, you can drop out of school yourself!”
As soon as Director Huang said that, Counselor Zhang’s face changed. There were minor and major penalties. Not only did Director Huang want to hit Shuyan with a major penalty now, he also wanted her to withdraw from school if she took another leave of absence after this. This matter was too serious.
Before Counselor Zhang could speak, Chi Shuyan said, “I have something urgent to attend to tomorrow and need to take a day or two off. I hope Director Huang will approve it! I won’t take leave again after that!”
Director Huang had never seen such an undisciplined female student. She actually dared to apply for leave with him?
Director Huang’s face turned green and his chest tightened. He simply wanted to vomit three liters of blood.
Even Counselor Zhang didn’t expect Shuyan to dare apply for leave with Director Huang. Thinking of what Shuyan said, however, the matter was indeed very serious. Counselor Zhang hurriedly helped her. “Director Huang, this child really has something to attend to!”
Seeing how angry Director Huang was, it was obviously impossible for him to agree to approve the leave. Counselor Zhang thought of what Shuyan had said before and also wanted to help her. He said honestly, “Director Huang, Shuyan is a Celestial Master. A few young men recently provoked something they shouldn’t have. It’s that kind of evil spirit. They went to Shuyan for help. This is a matter of life and death. We can’t disagree!”
At that moment, Counselor Zhang was so anxious that he completely forgot that this Director Huang in front of him didn’t believe in ghosts and gods at all. He was also very repulsed by superstitions and ghosts and whatnot, and could even be said to hate them.
Director Huang’s eyes spat fire as he glared at Counselor Zhang and raged, “You’re a university teacher, yet you actually believe in such absurd and unbelievable superstitions? If it’s a ghost, why don’t you turn into a ghost for me to see? What right do you have to be a university teacher? Don’t mess around and screw up the futures of my students!”
