Suotuo Great Soul Arena, VIP Rest Area, VIP Room Three.
Inside the luxurious room, an enormous genuine leather sofa over fifteen meters long stretched across the space.
Seven young people around twenty years old, each with distinctive traits, sat on the sofa in various postures.
These seven were the seven main members of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team.
Sitting in the middle of the sofa were Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
Dugu Yan's posture did not look particularly proper. Rather than leaning against the back of the leather sofa, she was half-reclining in Ye Lingling's arms beside her, idly playing with the fingernails she had deliberately dyed emerald green.
She wore a lazy expression. Her short dark-purple hair made her look valiant, while her clear, bright emerald eyes gave her an eerie air.
Though her appearance could not be called breathtakingly beautiful, it was certainly not bad. In particular, the utterly bewitching charm revealed in her features made her seem more beautiful the longer one looked at her.
Ye Lingling's face remained covered by a layer of black gauze, concealing her exquisite beauty from everyone's eyes.
Yet the quiet, serene aura around her, coupled with her lovely figure, revealed an extraordinary temperament that made it difficult not to draw attention. Although she deliberately maintained a cold, unapproachable demeanor, she could not completely keep others' gazes away.
Ye Lingling sat quietly on the sofa, allowing Dugu Yan to lean against her.
In a sense, the two should have been rivals. Logically, they should not have appeared so intimate.
Yet these two close friends had not fallen out. Instead, because of a certain person, they had become even closer, even faintly showing signs of forming a united front.
Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were not the only ones sitting on the