It turns out I'm a second-generation demon.

Li Xianyu was woken up by phone calls from his homeroom teacher and the academic affairs office. People in education are known for their perseverance; after making dozens of calls, he finally gave up. His homeroom teacher sent a short message, essentially saying that Li Xianyu's parents had been informed, but since they were abroad, they couldn't intervene and hoped Li Xianyu could come to the school. The school took the matter very seriously, and if Li Xianyu showed remorse, the school would consider reducing the punishment.

Li Xianyu, munching on a jianbing (Chinese crepe), finished reading the text message. His great-grandmother leaned closer, her soft body against his, and asked, "Does this mean you have to go back to school and get a beating?"

She smelled of soap and shampoo, and of course, there was also the smell of scallions. Her great-grandmother loved to eat jianbing guozi (Chinese crepes) with scallions.

"If it's just a beating, that's easy to handle. Grandma, when you were in school, there wasn't such a thing as expulsion, was there?"

"No, great-grandmother, I attended the family school." Great-grandmother's cheeks puffed out, and she mumbled, "I studied until I was ten years old, then my elders wouldn't let me go to school anymore."

"You sound disappointed?"

"Yeah, my elders really valued me. They held me up until I was ten before giving up on me. Otherwise, I would have stopped going to school at eight. Studying is so painful."

What is my dad's educational background?

"I finished high school."

"My dad didn't get into university?"

"Studying too much will hinder his cultivation. I won't let him go to university after he finishes high school."

"Grandma, if only you had raised me from a young age. We would have been a legendary couple, famous throughout the land. Why would we need to study?"

In the midst of the argument, the phone rang again.

Caller ID: Dad.

"What are you up to, you brat? Haven't you been beaten up in too many years? Are you itching for a beating? I shouldn't have let you live alone in the first place. Now you've become like a wild dog, completely out of control. You wait, I'll come back and beat you to death. Anyway, you're not my biological son."

As soon as the call connected, I heard my adoptive father's loud, angry roar.

It's only natural for a father to scold his son. Li Xianyu silently endured it.

"You wait, I'll find a secluded place to yell at you again," came the father's voice from the other end. "Wife, don't try to stop me, I'm going to yell at him to death."

A moment later, his adoptive father's voice came, his tone relaxed: "You're something else, kid. You went to the women's restroom with your girlfriend. Your mindset really does determine your path. You know how to have fun better than your old man did when he was young."

"Mom's not here?" Li Xianyu asked irritably.

"She's furious with you, so of course I can only play along and yell at her. She's still too young. The dorm bathroom is always busy; you're practically asking for trouble. The teacher called me; your mom wants you to come back to China tonight, but I think this is completely unnecessary. Figure it out yourself. Going abroad is expensive, and holidays are even more precious. Giving up a vacation for a little rascal like you is too much of a waste. Here we have sunshine, beaches, waves, and cacti—it's great!"

Where did you go on vacation? Was it your grandmother's Penghu Bay?

I'm definitely not their biological child.

But this suited Li Xianyu perfectly. He said, "Dad, don't worry, I'll handle it myself."

"Well, that's for the best." The adoptive father said, "Oh, by the way, be prepared for your allowance to be cut; your mother is really angry this time. Anyway, I won't secretly give you money for hotel rooms anymore."

"No need, no need," Li Xianyu said sadly. "I'll hang up now if there's nothing else."

After finishing the phone call and quickly eating his jianbing (Chinese crepe), Li Xianyu opened his chat app, which was already flooded with messages.

Yang Guangtai: "Holy crap, we agreed to be single together. While I was achieving my dreams in bed, you were making a baby with a female classmate in the bathroom?"

Get lost. I've already said that single dogs and single nobles are different.

Huang Yicong: "Have you come to school yet? Why aren't you here? You know you're going to be expelled. The whole school is talking about you."

Are you going to whip my corpse if I come here? I, Li Xianyu, am at least a decent person.

Zhao Yi: "Looking up, you really know how to play. I wouldn't even dare to go this far with my girlfriend."

In addition, there were a whole bunch of gossip messages from friends she wasn't close to, which Li Xianyu was too lazy to read, let alone reply to. She cleared the message list.

His heroic act in the women's restroom last night has gone viral on social media.

The most popular forum is still the campus forum; his post was featured and pinned today:

#Breaking News! Finance major caught red-handed with his girlfriend in the women's dormitory public restroom; hundreds gathered to watch#

The document included more than a dozen photos of Li Xianyu, with his head covered by a short-sleeved shirt, breaking through the girls' dormitory, as well as a video.

Of course, there are also close-up photos of him looking utterly hopeless.

There are pictures and truth.

The post received an astonishing two thousand replies.

"If I remember correctly, someone died in that toilet the night before last."

"I'm impressed, that's really something, so exciting!"

"The University of Finance and Economics has produced outstanding individuals in every year, and all of them are in the Department of Finance."

"How did he get into the girls' dormitory? It's terrifying! What if he attacks us? I'm going to call the police."

"The school won't let us call the police; they want to suppress it."

"I know Li Xianyu, but I didn't expect him to be this kind of person."

"You have no idea, Li Xianyu is a really sleazy and dissolute guy. He brags about how he frequents brothels every day. He's a complete scumbag."

"That's right. He also said that all the girls in our school are brainless, so it's a waste not to sleep with them."

"Pah, scumbag."

"Am I the only one who thinks the female lead is super pretty?"

Li Xianyu silently put down his phone, feeling utterly desolate. Ten years of hard study went unnoticed, but now he had become famous overnight. What was he to do? The whole school knew about his glorious deeds.

Moreover, the extremely malicious and baseless slander in the comments is clearly the work of some envious and jealous boys spreading rumors.

"I'm dropping out of school, I'm not going to study anymore." He gritted his teeth and dialed the Thunder King's number: "Your Majesty, you have to take responsibility for me, the company has to take responsibility for me, sob sob..."

Li Xianyu sent the forum post to Thunder King's phone. After a moment of silence, Thunder King said, "This matter was caused by the mission. The company will take care of the aftermath. It's alright, just go to school as usual."

"Have you overlooked something very important?" Li Xianyu said seriously.

"What is it?" Thunder King asked in return.

"My reputation! My reputation!" Li Xianyu said. "Don't I have any pride?"

The Thunder King suddenly realized, "I've been seeing your memes in the group chat every day, and I've completely overlooked the fact that you're actually quite famous."

Li Xianyu: "..."

Thunder King: "But there's nothing we can do about it, after all, it's about freedom of speech. Let's just consider it a small sacrifice for our work."

Li Xianyu: "Then I'd better drop out of school."

Thunder King: "How about this? You don't have to go to school for now, and you don't even have to go in the future. We'll take care of your graduation certificate."

Li Xianyu: "It would be great if we could also get compensation for emotional distress."

Thunder King: "I'm busy, hanging up."