“Ding Tong, what did you fill in for your aspirations?” a teenage girl asked as she held onto another girl.

“Although I want to continue studying, I really don’t want to touch algebraic geometry anymore… I’m going to work in the Ministry of Works,” Ding Tong replied.

“That’s a shame!” The other girl felt that it was a pity.

Ding Tong asked, “Shi Yu, do you want to continue studying? I really envy you since you are smarter than I am! Yagui thinks quite highly of you as well!”

“Yagui thinks highly of everyone.” Shi Yu spoke about her feelings. “You’ll be a Rank 8 official once you join the Ministry of Works, which is actually pretty good. However, there will be fewer opportunities for you to learn, especially since we are the first batch of students and will be given important positions to undertake!”

“I know… but I really don’t want to touch those graphs and formulas anymore… My chest hurts whenever I see them!” Ding Tong looked helpless. She had worked hard over the past few years, but her results were merely mediocre.

Although she only needed to take a test to promote and nobody would be eliminated, she didn’t want to torture herself anymore…

“Forget it. It’s already pretty good. It wasn’t that easy to join the Ministry of Works in the past. Starting as a Rank 8 official is already good enough for me. Besides, I can also continue to learn after I start working there.” She was happy with her decision.

In fact, for the children of the commoners, being able to take such a path was already beyond their expectations.

After filling in their aspirations, some of the students would enter various ministries as junior officials to gain experience, while the rest would continue to learn more advanced knowledge.

This had caused quite a sensation among the commoners. Although there had been rumors for a while, they were still rumors after all. When the news finally broke to them, it caused quite an uproar.

The students didn’t need to be talented in martial arts and could become officials simply after spending a few years in school. This was like a blessing from heaven.

Although these students were vexed and confused, others were envious of them.

Ren Baqian reckoned that after this batch of students had graduated, there would be a large number of commoners who would want to send their children to school and there would be many more freshmen in the next enrollment. It seemed like the academy needed to expand to accommodate the influx.

Only 37 out of 49 aspirations had been submitted at the moment. Most of them were submitted by the children of the officials. Almost all of them had chosen to further their studies.

Even if they didn’t want to study anymore, their families wouldn’t allow it!

For example, Du Laoliu wanted to home and hug his wife, but ended up getting badly battered by his father and almost got his leg broken.

Those nuclear warheads made all the aboriginal officials understand one thing, which was that science was power!

Although they didn’t know what science was, they knew what power was!

An explosion was power!

If these officials’ children, who weren’t talented in martial arts, gave up this path, wouldn’t they become the same as a commoner?

As for the children of the commoners, half of them decided to continue studying, while the other half would be reporting to the Ministry of Works.

In fact, the Ministry of Revenue was eyeing this group of students as well. The other departments also had manpower needs, but because of the small number of graduates, Ren Baqian still designated all of them to the Ministry of Works.

After all, the Ministry of Works was the most understaffed.

This matter had nothing to do with Tong Zhenye inviting him to the brothel for three days in a row!

A few days later, the results finally came out. Eight people went to the Ministry of Works and 41 students remained to continue their studies.

Ren Baqian was quite satisfied with this outcome.

He had spent the most effort on this group of students and didn’t want to see them become ordinary officials at the Ministry of Works, even though their prospects seemed good at this moment.

However, as more and more students graduated in the future, they would eventually blend in and become one with the commoners.

If the students were to give up studying after joining the Ministry of Works, Rank 6 would probably be their limit.

Time flew and two weeks had passed. It was time for those students to leave the school.

The night before, Ren Baqian specially held a bonfire party at the school for their farewell.

He gave a speech before the party, which was the so-called graduation ceremony.

He got emotional as he looked at the people below. Over the past few years, he had seen these kids grow from 16 or 17 years old into their twenties.

He watched these people from when they did addition and subtraction with their fingers to memorizing multiplication tables to their high school graduation ceremony tonight.

Over the last three and a half years, they had undergone huge changes.

“I’ll only leave you with one sentence, and I won’t say more. Whether your choice is to further your studies in the academy or join the Ministry of Works, do some reading during your free time and never stop learning! If I see you b*stards at school again… I won’t open fire!” Ren Baqian stood before them and smiled.

Many people below started laughing as well, and the eyes of a few girls started to water. After all, they had all been classmates for three and a half years. Although they would still be in Lan City after graduation, they would be living completely different lives.

“Now, Her Majesty will say a few words!”

Everyone subsequently gasped in surprise.

It was only now that they realized that the empress had actually come.

Dressed in red, she slowly walked out of the office and onto the stage with a faint smile. It was indeed the empress.

“Greetings, Your Majesty!”

“Greetings, Your Majesty!”

Everyone greeted her.

“Spare the formalities today. I have come today just to see you. Your principal has said everything that needs to be said. You are the first batch of students in Dayao, and I’ll watch to see what you can achieve!”

“Thank you, Your Majesty!” Everyone cheered.

There was no telling how honored they felt to be noticed by the empress.

All of them were so excited that they felt like jumping up.

“Alright, next up is the highlight of the day!” Ren Baqian laughed upon seeing the empress disappear in a flash after her speech.

Behind him was a white screen that everybody had seen before. The robots usually projected content on such screens during lectures.

However, the content that they were about to see was slightly different than usual.

As Ren Baqian operated the electronic device, the screen lit up. All of a sudden, an extremely cheerful and trolling background music started playing along with a video of Shi Gan riding a motorcycle and smashing into a wall while looking shocked.

It was accompanied by the “Spinach March.”[1.”Spinach March”: a French dance music]

After that, there was a clip of Tong Lan kicking Du Laoliu.

He flew up and landed. Then, she kicked him up again and he landed again…

Everyone burst out laughing.

Shi Yu put her hands on her waist, acted like a Great Xia woman, and walked with her hips swaying before falling flat on her face after taking three steps…

“Hahahaha!” Many students laughed. As she was usually very quiet, they didn’t expect her to do such a thing!

Shi Yu’s face was flushed, and she covered her mouth in surprise.

Xu Peng and Xiong Ping fought. Xu Peng stepped on Xiong Ping’s body to show off his strength, but didn’t expect Xiong Ping to pull his shorts down.

Fortunately, he was wearing underwear underneath… It was rare for aboriginal males to wear underwear… This was because… he couldn’t hold his bladder…

His underwear did him a great favor this time.

Ren Baqian kindly helped Xu Peng blur out his lower body with a mosaic, and everyone watched as he stomped in fury.

“I was wearing another layer underneath… I was wearing another layer underneath…!” he shouted from the crowd, but everyone still burst out laughing.

Tong Lan kicked Shi Gan in the butt and disappeared in a flash. She didn’t pay attention to where she was going and bumped her head into a thick tree trunk… She ended up in tears…

Tong Lan’s face turned red. When did this Yagui film this?

Shi Gan, Shi Yu, Xu Peng, Du Laoliu, Tong Lan, Ding Tong, Tu Musheng, Ping Li, and Huang Daxian…

With the accompaniment of the “Spinach March,” a video clip of each student flashed on the screen at least twice with some being teased a dozen times. The parts where Du Laoliu was kicked, Tong Lan bumped into the tree, Shi Gan crashed into the wall, and Xu Peng’s lower body was covered in mosaic appeared again and again. This video was composed of the embarrassing moments of all the students.

Seeing their past moments reappear, everyone felt so embarrassed! However, it made some of them feel better when they saw that the others didn’t run away in shame. Nonetheless, the people who appeared the most on-screen still felt sad and angry and wanted to rush forward and bash Yagui up.

It was too shameful!

This clip was made by Ren Baqian himself, and he had prepared it over the last few days even though he was busy with other matters.

Although these students were stupid, they were his favorite and most attentive bunch.

If this video was released after these people became successful and famous in the future, then there would be nothing they could do to clear their names.

Ren Baqian had it all planned. By the time Dayao had the internet and trolling websites, he would upload this embarrassing clip.

Did they think that they would only be embarrassed this once? They would be embarrassed for life! How could he not share such good stuff?

With cheerful music, many students started laughing, barbecuing, dancing, drinking, fighting…

Until late into the night, soft sobs could be heard in the school…

These youngsters were finally going to experience their first parting in life!