Senior Bully Wang Ba gripped his spiked iron club so hard his knuckles turned white.
As the undefeated captain of the Sophomore Enforcement Squad and Professor Ao Man’s favorite street enforcer, Wang Ba had extorted more than three hundred freshman dormitories over the past five years. Never once had a new transfer family dared to remodel a cursed shack into a five-story hot-spring resort without paying him a single spirit stone.
Worse still, he had personally staked five million high-grade spirit stones in Fatty Liu’s betting pool on the guarantee that the Gu family would run screaming into the night.
Beside Wang Ba stood Deputy Instructor Gou—a sharp-chinned disciplinary official whose bronze badge hummed with corrupt administrative authority. Behind them, fifty burly sophomore lackeys beat their spiked iron clubs against their palms in a menacing rhythm.
“Gu Changsheng!” Deputy Instructor Gou barked, waving an unsealed parchment scroll toward the warm white sun-jade walls of the newly built villa. “As Deputy Inspector of Student Housing, I charge you with illegal architectural modification, unauthorized employment of sewer wraiths, and failure to pay the mandatory Sophomore Protection Tax! Open this front gate and step outside to kowtow within three breaths, or we will invoke Campus Penal Code Twelve and smash your villa to rubble!”
