Over the next two days, Chen Muye practiced his martial arts and reviewed his studies just as usual. He had assumed the whole matter was simply behind him—until the third morning.
It was Monday. Seniors at the school were not required to attend the daily morning calisthenics, but the flag-raising ceremony every Monday was mandatory. Any important schoolwide announcements were also made immediately after the ceremony concluded.
Once the flag-raising ceremony wrapped up, the dean of students announced several routine matters, followed by the teacher on duty reviewing the previous week's hygiene and disciplinary records. Normally, that would have been the end of it. But just as the duty teacher finished speaking, the assistant principal, Song Kaiping, took over the microphone.
Chapter 30