Chapter 2746: Transmigrated to the Aristocratic Academy as a Special Recruit 31

Lin Baiyu stood at the entrance, wearing a long dark gray overcoat over his uniform.

His face showed little expression, his icy gaze sweeping over the room's chaos before landing on Director Mai Ji, to whom he gave a slight nod, "Director Mai Ji."

Director Mai Ji watched Lin Baiyu suddenly appear, then unconsciously glanced at the calm Jin Chen beside him, his meaning clear:

"Nice kid! You got help fast enough! Efficiency is high enough!"

Jin Chen returned the gaze expressionlessly:.

None.

He wanted to call his wife over.

Director Mai Ji tried to explain, "Classmate Lin, the situation is like this……"

"I already have a rough understanding of the situation." Lin Baiyu's icy gaze swept over the miserable Eric, that look making Eric feel as if he'd fallen into an ice cellar.

"Leave this person for you to handle slowly." He said to Director Mai Ji, "We still have business with Jin Chen, after all, he's still a member of the Knight Squad, and some duties need to be fulfilled."

Eric shot up, voice urgent: "I'm also a Knight Squad member! I want to find Young Master Xi Si……"

"You aren't anymore." Lin Baiyu's voice flat, "As long as one member vetoes, the qualification is revoked immediately; I'll explain the situation to Xi Si."

Eric's face instantly turned deathly pale.

Jin Chen walked out of the interrogation room.

A breeze blew down the corridor, fluttering the shirt's hem to outline the waist, the edges rippling into arcs.

Having just dealt with the potential trouble, Jin Chen was in a pretty good mood.

Lin Baiyu followed half a step behind him, his gaze falling on Jin Chen's wind‑lifted shirt back, his eyes even somewhat… ardent.

He quickly lowered his eyelids, concealing the emotion beneath.

"What about Ling Yao?" Jin Chen asked.

"He was summoned back to the family by Uncle Ling this morning for urgent matters."

Lin Baiyu replied, slowing his steps to keep a subtle side‑by‑side distance with Jin Chen, "I need to head to the Military Department later; want to come along?"

Jin Chen didn't even think, shaking his head decisively.

He just didn't want to look for extra work, planning to nap in the ill‑tempered young master's room.

"Not going."

Lin Baiyu's fingertips inside his sleeve slightly curled.

He fell silent for a few seconds, then spoke again, "Jin Chen, if you… intend to stay long‑term with A Yao, you at least need a military rank or a position of real power to rely on."

"The Ling family's threshold is high; without the proper status, you'll struggle to move forward."

Jin Chen, hearing that, actually tilted his head to think for a moment.

"Any civil‑service posts?" he asked.

Lin Baiyu barely exhaled, the corner of his cold, hard mouth curving into an invisible arc, "Yes, your psychic strength far exceeds the norm; many civil‑service posts with special psychic requirements suit you."

"Today you can come with me to check out the environment."

Jin Chen lifted his eyelashes, his lazy gaze landing on Lin Baiyu's face, lingering two seconds as if inspecting.

Then he shifted his gaze away as if nothing, hands slipped into his pockets, and continued forward, "Let's go."

【Zero Egg, locate Ling Yao's address.】

【Sure thing~】

——

Xi Si sat cross‑legged on the carpet, several sheets of scribbled‑note sheet music spread before him, light‑sensitive pens scattered nearby.

He held a strawberry‑flavored nutrition bar in his mouth, brows slightly furrowed.

On the light screen, Lin Baiyu sent a message.

Cold‑cold Xiao Bai: Eric teamed up with the new doctor, attacked Jin Chen off‑campus, already handled, expelled him from the Knight Squad, pay no further heed.

Xi Si raised an eyebrow, flicked his fingertip across the light screen to dismiss it, and replied to Lin Baiyu with a nodding OK expression.

Eric's expulsion is just that; anyway, he'd long lost interest in that person.

Xi Si continued burying himself in the music world, occasionally picking up a pen to swiftly add a few strokes to the score.

After pondering a few minutes, a melody flashed into his mind; Xi Si's eyes lit up, he jumped up and shouted to Shi Heng, who sat quietly reading on the single sofa nearby:

"Heng, I'm going up to jot down a score!"

Having said that, he didn't wait for Shi Heng's reply, pattering up the stairs in his slippers, his half‑long golden hair swaying behind him.

Shi Heng lifted his eyes from the page, watching Xi Si disappear around the stairwell corner, smiled helplessly, about to close his book and follow, when the smart butler happened to emit a prompt tone.

"Visitor Eric requests entry, status shows…… abnormal."

Eric, stripped of his Knight Squad status, naturally could no longer come and go freely from the villa.

Shi Heng's motion paused, his long fingers lightly stroking the page, then he opened the visual interface of the access‑control system.

On the light screen, Eric stood outside the villa's main gate, hair disheveled, uniform stained with unknown grime, cheeks still slightly red and swollen, his eyes full of resentment and unwillingness, plus the desperation of having nowhere to go—far from his usual aloof ambition.

Shi Heng gave the butler the order, "Let him in, have him wait in the living room, no need to notify Xi Si."

"Order executed."

Eric stepped into the living room with unsteady feet, surprised to find only Shi Heng there, froze a moment, forcibly suppressing the distortion on his face, squeezing out a semblance of calm.

Shi Heng set down his book, lifted the coffee from the side table, took a light sip, looked at Eric gently, "You hurt?"

Eric opened his mouth, wanting to explain.

But Shi Heng gave him no chance, continuing in that gentle tone, "I heard you clashed with Jin Chen; from now on, better not come here, lest you make A Yao and Baiyu unhappy."

Eric "……"

Shi Heng's ever‑calm, as‑if‑in‑control demeanor pricked like a needle into his now sensitive, fragile nerves.

He clenched his back teeth, "I must see Xi Si—he likes me, he won't just agree to Lin Baiyu kicking me out like this! I'll ask him myself!"

Shi Heng's hand, holding the coffee cup, paused.

He slightly narrowed his smiling eyes, his tone gently rising, "Huh?"

Just a simple syllable, yet the air in the living room seemed to grow a few degrees colder.

Eric inexplicably felt a chill rise; in an instant, he felt that the always gentle and accommodating Shi Heng before him was even oppressive.

Eric steeled himself, intensified his tone, and repeated, "I said, I want to see Sis!"

"He's not available." Shi Heng set down his coffee cup.

He lifted his eyes, put on a flawless smile, looked at Eric, and said word by word, "Among Sis's many brief flings and ornaments, you are... the most unimpressive one."

"You—!"

Eric clenched his fists so tight his nails dug into his palms.

Shame and fury scorched his reason; in a flash, a thought crossed his mind like grasping at the last straw, and he let out a malicious hiss of resigned desperation.

"You're playing me! Shi Heng! Don't think I don't know! You basically harbor that sordid thought about Sis, don't you!"

"You say, if Sis found out that his good buddy actually harbored this kind of thought about him, what would he think? Ha! He'd surely think you're hypocritical and disgusting..."

Eric's words were cut off abruptly.

Shi Heng suddenly reached out and flicked the valuable vase on the side table onto the floor.

The vase rolled, shards flying everywhere, emitting a piercing sound.

Shi Heng leisurely picked up the towel on the table and wiped his hands.

Eric didn't understand what Shi Heng meant by that.

At that moment, footsteps came from the stairs, accompanied by Sis's slightly disgruntled shouting.

"What's the commotion? Heng, what are you doing..."

Sis stood on the middle of the stairs, his gaze landing on Shi Heng before turning to Eric, "Why are you here, looking like such a mess?"

He took a few steps down the stairs, walked up to Shi Heng, and glanced at the vase and water on the floor, "What happened? Who broke the vase?"

Eric's heart leapt to his throat, thinking Shi Heng would surely blame him for it.

But Shi Heng lifted his eyes, gave Sis a good-natured smile, and said, "I did."