Being My Roommate Is Your Good Fortune

Being my roommate is your good fortune.

The next day, Shrek Academy.

Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu arrived bright and early to catch the final day of freshman registration before the start of the term. The teacher in charge of the last batch of admissions was so sleepy he could barely keep his eyes open. Seeing the boy and girl before him, who seemed to have visited not long ago, he couldn't even be bothered to greet them and waved his hand to shoo Huo Yuhao away.

Huo Yuhao reached into his chest pocket, pulled out the black-skinned, gold-stamped envelope, and placed it right in front of the groggy teacher.

Nothing more to it; he just wanted to help the fellow wake up. He was a nice guy like that.

The teacher rubbed his eyes in disbelief, opened the envelope with surprise, and examined it carefully. Only then did he slowly place the envelope into his desk drawer. When he looked up at Huo Yuhao again, the look in his eyes had changed.

He muttered under his breath, "Has the sun risen from the west? Not only did those people send their young sect master this year, but they also brought out a special admission quota they've never used before... In the past, we couldn't even get their disciples to come down the mountain if we begged. What's gotten into them?"

"Pardon me, what did you just say? I didn't hear you clearly, sorry." Huo Yuhao's polite inquiry interrupted the man's wandering thoughts.

"I said, you can go to the freshman registration office now to collect your school uniform." The teacher hurriedly raised his voice, but the impatience in his tone had vanished completely.

"The teacher over there will arrange your accommodation and other daily matters. Little girl behind him, show me your recommendation letter as well."

Chi Qiu handed over her recommendation letter. The teacher glanced at it; fortunately, there were no more jaw-dropping words. It was just an ordinary recommendation letter, signed by the lord of an obscure small city in the Heaven Dou Empire.

However, he thought to himself, what does it mean that the Clear Sky Sect would do this? Even with their ten-thousand-year heritage, don't they still have to come to Shrek Academy to pay homage?

Thinking this way, he felt much better.

"Alright, both of you go inside to collect your clothes and maps."

Huo Yuhao nodded and walked through the academy gates with Chi Qiu. As soon as they entered, they saw a crowd of students gathered in front of a notice board, seemingly discussing a certain announcement.

"No way, that old witch?"

"Are you kidding me? Third-year students reported her, and she's coming to lead the first-years? Is this reporting her or rewarding her? Aren't first-years easier to expel at will!"

"Help, I don't want to die in her physical education class..."

"And she has the nerve to say she couldn't be rated as a senior teacher... If she didn't have some backing, could she still be a teacher?"

Chi Qiu frowned. "What are they talking about?"

"Sounds like a teacher." Huo Yuhao quietly activated Spiritual Detection Sharing and scanned the most prominent notice on the board. "Named Zhou Yi... because she was reported by students, she was demoted to teach the first years. Looking at the school brochure we just got, that's our grade."

He paused for a moment and added, "Oh, right, do you know the concept of a teacher?"

"Of course," Chi Qiu said. "We have teachers in our culture too; Di Tian is my teacher."

Huo Yuhao immediately raised his index finger to his lips to signal her not to speak recklessly. "Shh—don't let anyone know you know him!"

Even if he hadn't received much formal education, he had heard the name of the leader of the Ten Great Beast Kings. In the human world, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't just say whatever you want. Having survived the Duke's Mansion through humiliation for all these years, he had always been cautious with his words.

Claiming to know Di Tian might be dismissed as a tall tale in other schools, but at Shrek, you might actually run into someone with ulterior motives who would quietly investigate your family history for three generations.

The Lucky Beast was new to the human world, and her understanding of humans was still mostly a blank slate.

"I hope we don't get assigned to this teacher's class," Huo Yuhao sighed in a low voice.

Of course, he wasn't afraid of being assigned to anyone's class. No matter what teacher he encountered, he would strive to do his best; he just didn't want to be expelled.

After all, if he were expelled, he wouldn't be able to fulfill his VIP grilled fish promise, which meant he would owe Wang Dong a favor. He didn't want to owe that favor.

After Huo Yuhao told Chi Qiu how to use the map and the access card, the two parted ways briefly to head to their respective dormitories. This was the first time they had been separated since Huo Yuhao left the Star Dou Great Forest.

Suddenly going from two people to one, Huo Yuhao felt a bit uneasy. He looked at his access card; he had been assigned to Room 108.

He walked to his dorm door with a nervous heart, hesitated for a long time, and finally knocked on the door.

"Enter."

Wait, this familiar voice?

Huo Yuhao pulled the door open, and sure enough, the guy sitting on the bed looking bored while reading a book had a head of powder-blue hair.

What a coincidence.

Seeing that the person arriving was Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong was also stunned. "Yo, Brother Huo."

At this moment, Huo Yuhao's brain was running at high speed, almost as if it had a dramatic background soundtrack.

He already knew Wang Dong was a girl! What to do from now on? Put a partition between them? Hang a curtain? In any case, they should just stay out of each other's business.

Before he could speak, Wang Dong hesitated and spoke first:

"Since it's such a coincidence that we're in the same dorm, I have some personal habits you need to hear. First..."

Although she was still setting rules, Wang Dong was much more restrained than in the other timeline. After all, she had already clashed with Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu, and having experienced his Spiritual Detection Sharing, she knew it was impossible to take advantage of Brother Huo.

If Brother Huo were an unreasonable person, she would have to find a way to change dorms.

However, based on yesterday's interaction, it should be fine, right...?

Sure enough, Huo Yuhao had no objections to her requests and instead nodded to show he understood perfectly. Then, Huo Yuhao spoke up:

"I actually have some personal habits you need to know about as well."

"Go ahead," Wang Dong said, waving her hand with feigned generosity.

"I'm actually very concerned about personal privacy. Can we install a curtain between our beds?"

"What?"

Wang Dong was startled; she hadn't even pushed her demands to that extent yet.

"Oh, it's just that I have a terrible sleeping posture, and I don't want others to see it." Huo Yuhao squeezed out an embarrassed smile.

This was a reason Huo Yuhao had made up on the spot. While Wang Dong was speaking just a moment ago, his mind was entirely occupied with how to politely and decorously propose installing a curtain without making Wang Dong feel like his secrets had been exposed.

For a moment, being young and unskilled at lying, he felt as if his Sea of Consciousness was about to burn up. In the end, it was the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm who fed him this excuse.

Although it wasn't exactly brilliant, as long as the other party believed it, that was all that mattered!

Wang Dong didn't react for a moment. But soon, a wave of joy surged within her. This was perfect! She hadn't expected Huo Yuhao to proactively suggest such a thing.

"Sure, listening to one suggestion from you won't hurt. Let's install it then."

Since Huo Yuhao had provided such a convenient way out, it would make no sense for her, Wang Dong, not to take it.

Wang Dong, oh Wang Dong, you're lucky to have me as a roommate, he thought. If it had been any other boys' dormitory, there would definitely have been some conflict.

After all, if it had been a stranger for a roommate, Wang Dong would have inevitably had to establish dominance to make the other person listen to her. If she had run into a prickly character who particularly disliked being talked down to, like Huo Yuhao, they would certainly have ended up fighting.

Fortunately, this matter was resolved smoothly.

Huo Yuhao placed his meager luggage on the hard wooden bed. Wang Dong watched him take his things out one by one, and by the end, she still hadn't seen him pull out a mattress.

"Wait, didn't you buy a mattress and a quilt?" Wang Dong felt her eyelid twitch. "You can buy them at the school logistics department; they don't cost much."

"I saw the price list at the cafeteria before I came to the dormitory," Huo Yuhao said earnestly. "I plan to save the money for food."

"Even so, you're too..."

Shrek Academy naturally didn't have anything like financial aid for poor students. Their logic was simple: if you already have a recommendation letter from a city lord, do you still need help from the academy?

Huo Yuhao interrupted her: "It's fine. Alright, I'm going out for a while. I haven't seen Chi Qiu for a bit, so I need to go see how she's adjusting."

Wang Dong let out a teasing "Oh," then waved her hand as if shooing him away, urging Huo Yuhao to leave quickly: "Got it, go on, go on, go find your Miss Qiu. I find you troublesome enough as it is."

Huo Yuhao didn't say much more; he smiled at Wang Dong and headed straight downstairs. The attribute guidance seemed to have brought him a mysterious connection with Chi Qiu, and he felt she was currently at the plaza downstairs.

Sure enough, the intuition was correct. When Huo Yuhao walked to the plaza, Chi Qiu was staring blankly at the statues of Shrek's Seven Devils.

"Chi Qiu?" he called out.

"I knew you were behind me," Chi Qiu said.

"Oh." Huo Yuhao walked to her side. "Do you like these statues? It looks like these are the predecessors who became gods ten thousand years ago."

"I don't like them."

Huo Yuhao turned his head to look at her. He could hear that the tone Chi Qiu used to say this was exceptionally cold.

"Why?" he asked. "Sorry, I thought these divine predecessors were revered by everyone..."

"Soul beasts do not revere gods." Chi Qiu also turned to look at Huo Yuhao, and the latter could actually see a fire-like rage in her golden-red eyes.

A moment later, Chi Qiu seemed to feel that her tone had been too harsh and had frightened Huo Yuhao, so she withdrew that anger and said only coldly:

"Why would a race hated by the gods revere them?"

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