With the publicity from the first two stand‑in jobs, Lin Zichen’s stand‑in business was booming.

In the period that followed.

He basically received more than ten stand‑in commissions every day.

For the first few days, he still needed to lay hands on people.

After that, the bullies would take one look at him coming as a stand‑in and drop to their knees on the spot in fright one after another.

They hurried to apologize to the client and say they had been in the wrong before.

They promised Lin Zichen that they would never dare again.

In this way, he kept at it for nearly half a month.

Lin Zichen became a big name.

Many people said he was the light of justice on campus, vigorously rectifying the school’s bad trends and restoring the harmony the school ought to have.

A small number of people smeared him and said he was just a businessman who was in it for credits and did not deserve an evaluation like the light of justice.

Whether the evaluations were good or bad.

Lin Zichen did not care in the least.

He only cared about the credits he earned.

That afternoon, Li Chuxin came over to freeload lunch.

After she finished, she tallied business information in the living room and reported the numbers to Lin Zichen.

In the past half month.

Lin Zichen had taken a total of two hundred and thirty‑three stand‑in commissions.

Among the bullies in these commissions, the strongest were Ordinary Tier Seven, the weakest were Ordinary Third Tier and on average they were Ordinary Fourth Tier.

Overall, their strength was not high.

In addition, there was one point worth noting, a large portion of these bullies all had a common trait.

They all had a backer serving in the Student Union.

“It is exactly this kind of middling strength that loves to lean on a bit of backing to bully people everywhere, showing off the phrase bullying the weak and fearing the strong to the hilt, it makes me sick.”

After the report, Li Chuxin could not help cursing.

Lin Zichen listened and only smiled without speaking.

Bullying the weak and fearing the strong was one of the essences of living things.

There was nothing more normal.

“Zichen, I have been threatened by quite a few Student Union people lately, some even at Ordinary Tier Nine, saying if I keep doing the stand‑in business I should watch myself when I go out.”

Li Chuxin said with unease on her face.

Then she went on, “Under your rectification lately, there is almost no bullying visible at school now. Since the commissions are not many, why do we not quit while we are ahead and stop the stand‑in business. So we do not end up offending the Student Union to death.”

Li Chuxin had been scared by the threats and did not want to keep doing the stand‑in business.

Though it earned a lot of credits, she was afraid she would earn the credits only to lose her life and not get to spend them.

It was better to stop in time.

Lin Zichen said indifferently, “Do not put too much pressure on yourself, those Student Union people are only trying to scare you with words. If they really dared make a move, they would have done it long ago and would not have said so much.”

Lin Zichen continued, “But if you are worried, then do not do it, there is no need to keep yourself in fear every day over this and affect your life.”

Hearing that, Li Chuxin fell into a tangle.

Was she going to continue or not?

After tangling for about a few minutes.

She made up her mind and looked up at Lin Zichen and said, “Forget it, let us keep at it, it was not easy to get the business going, I do not want to give it up so easily, that would be too much of a waste.”

* * *

Very soon, it was two in the afternoon.

Lin Zichen headed out for the research institute.

Shen Qinghan and Li Chuxin were on the way to class at the Evolution Academy teaching building.

The Gifted Class, that is, Evolution Class One.

As soon as she entered the classroom, Shen Qinghan saw a pig’s head in a flowing white robe with a long sword on his back and hair fluttering behind him.

She looked twice and found the pig’s head was Luo Yongjian.

She could not help asking with curiosity, “Ajian, why is your face bruised and swollen.” (TL: Ajian like others is a shortened nickname when it is not obvious who it is referring to I change it to their full name.)

Luo Yongjian, “I fell while walking.”

Ma Xiwei at the next desk did not give him any face and exposed him on the spot, “This fool tried to copy your fiancé and go do stand‑ins and got beaten up by the Student Union.”

‘So pathetic.’

Shen Qinghan wanted to laugh but did not dare, for fear of stabbing Luo Yongjian’s pitiful self‑esteem.

Was stand‑in work something anyone could do.

Without strength you could not do it.

‘Only my Xiao Chen had the strength to do it.’

Seeing that she had exposed him, Luo Yongjian stopped pretending and started cursing outright, “Dammit, that damned Student Union, they beat me but not Lin Zichen. They only bully the weak and fear the strong, what are they even. When I grow up later, none of them will get away, I will settle every score in the fall. Hiss, that hurts.”

He had gotten too worked up and pulled the cut at the corner of his mouth, the pain almost brought him to tears.

Ma Xiwei was vicious‑tongued and stabbed at his heart, “You talk like you are the only one who can grow up, if you can grow stronger then the Student Union people can also grow stronger, most importantly your talent is not much better than theirs, you probably will not settle any scores even in a lifetime, give it up.”

“You…”

Luo Yongjian wanted to refute her but found he could not.

Because Ma Xiwei was right.

His talent was not much stronger than other geniuses, even if he grew up in the future his strength would probably be just so, he would not be able to settle scores with the Student Union.

Then how could he settle scores with the Student Union.

He could not just swallow the loss.

Luo Yongjian fell into thought.

After a few seconds, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said to Ma Xiwei, “That is easy, I cannot take revenge on the Student Union, but Lin Zichen can, I will just hire Lin Zichen as my stand‑in and have him beat the Student Union.”

“You are going to hire Lin Zichen.”

Ma Xiwei laughed too and looked at Luo Yongjian like a fool, “If Lin Zichen does not switch to the Gene Fusion path in time, he will not even be able to protect himself later and will be settled with by the Student Union and you still want to hire him, that is hilarious.”

Hearing that, Shen Qinghan was unhappy inside.

She really wanted to tell Ma Xiwei that Lin Zichen could blast the Student Union right now and did not need to walk the Gene Fusion path at all.

Sadly she could not say it and could only bottle it up in her heart.

She hoped Xiao Chen could evolve into an Advanced Creature as a pure‑blood human soon and amaze everyone.