When Li Mei first graduated from teacher’s college, she had genuinely wanted to be a good teacher.

However, after working with great enthusiasm for a while, she encountered the first parent to give her a gift.

It was a box of imported fruit, a kind rarely seen in stores. Li Mei had never even tried it before, and her first instinct was to refuse.

But the parent insisted it was just a small snack and wouldn’t be any trouble for the teacher. All they asked was that she keep an extra eye on their child.

’Treating students well is a teacher’s duty, and it’s just a bit of food. It should be fine, right?’

And so, Li Mei accepted her first gift.

After accepting food, she began accepting other items. Eventually, she was taking cash directly from parents and no longer saw anything wrong with it.

Her audacity and greed had both grown.

Later, it escalated to the point where she would deliberately make things difficult for any student who didn’t give her "benefits," even going so far as to give opportunities meant for high-achieving students to others.

The reason Li Mei had planned to pin that whole incident on Qin Jiao was simply because Qin Jiao’s family was poor and had never offered her any "benefits."

The same went for the competition. She hadn’t wanted to let Qin Jiao participate at all, but Qin Jiao scored so high in the preliminary round that she had no way to stop her from attending the finals in the provincial capital.

But Li Mei was still resentful. After that incident, she planned to kick Qin Jiao while she was down and deny her any further opportunities.

Now, however, she had no time to worry about any of that.

The investigation team had found a great many things in her home, every item perfectly matching the list in the accusation letter.

Li Mei’s vision went black, and she fainted.

Right before she passed out, she couldn’t understand it. ’How did they know about everything she had received over so many years, and in such clear detail?’

Meanwhile, Qin Jiao was in a bright classroom during a self-study period. She turned to look at her own youthful reflection in the windowpane.

She knew about Li Mei’s deeds from a visit to the school in her previous life. By that time, Li Mei had been about to retire, laden with numerous honors and awards, and had even been named an "Outstanding Teacher."

Even though she had done so many terrible things and ruined more students than just Qin Jiao, she had still retired covered in glory.

She had even moved abroad to be with her child.

A person like that didn’t deserve to be a teacher. So, when Qin Jiao was reborn, she resolved not only to change her own fate but also to purge this parasite from the teaching profession.

And that was the reason for the accusation letter.

Li Mei never again appeared in the classroom of Class 10. The vice principal, Sun Guotao, who taught history, temporarily took over her duties. Principal Sun was an older man who had just been hired back from retirement. He was fond of wearing thick glasses and telling history stories to the students with great animation.

In her past life, Qin Jiao had never taken one of Sun Guotao’s classes, as she had been expelled right after returning from that competition.

This time, listening to the old gentleman recount historical events like a professional storyteller, she found it surprisingly interesting.

When the bell rang to signal the end of class, Mr. Sun seemed reluctant to stop. The class monitor, however, walked up to him and asked in a low voice, "Mr. Sun, since it’s a new semester, should we reassign the seats?"

The class monitor was actually one of Li Mei’s relatives and knew a little about what had happened to her. But despite his young age, he was quite calculating and intended to make a good impression on Sun Guotao.

Arranging the seating chart had been one of the ways Li Mei collected benefits from parents. On the surface, she claimed to base it on academic performance, but she would seat students from wealthy but low-performing families next to the top students.

She called it "mutual help and support."

As for students like Qin Jiao—who performed well academically but were "disobedient," and whose parents didn’t "get it"—they were all tossed to the back of the room.