Douluo: The System Insists I'm Xiao Yan
Chapter 9

Who Says a Love Brain Is Bad? This Love Brain Is Great

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After successfully obtaining his soul ring, Yu Tianjiao did not linger in the Sunset Forest. On his way out, he casually tested his new soul skill, punching a thousand-year-old magical beast into oblivion before heading straight for the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

The entire faculty and student body of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy showed great enthusiasm for the return of this former genius, who had once been the pride of the institution.

Yet, the person most welcoming of him was not his cousin Yu Tianheng, with whom he had grown up, but rather...

"Little Tianjiao!"

A woman with short, deep purple hair and striking green eyes, looking full of heroic spirit, flew over and threw her arms around Yu Tianjiao.

"Yan-za!"

Dugu Yan—if the plot had followed its normal course, this beautiful, venomous snake would have been Yu Tianheng's girlfriend.

But back when Yu Tianjiao and Yu Tianheng first entered the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Dugu Yan was in their same year. Seeing how small and handsome Yu Tianjiao was, she couldn't resist wanting to bully him a little.

The result, unsurprisingly, was that she was hung up and beaten by Yu Tianjiao as if she were a spinning top.

Other girls would have left in tears with red eyes after being beaten.

But Dugu Yan had been precocious since childhood and admired the strong. After being beaten, not only did she act as if nothing had happened, but she also started clinging to Yu Tianjiao.

Yu Tianjiao stayed at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy for four full years. From the moment he enrolled, he had been on a meteoric rise, breaking through to level 40 and becoming a Soul Ancestor. Coupled with his increasingly handsome features and a mature temperament far beyond his peers, he had completely captivated Dugu Yan, leaving no room in her eyes for anyone else.

Moreover, although this girl wasn't a peerless beauty, her Jade Phosphorous Serpent martial soul gave her a unique, alluring charm. Especially when she used Martial Soul Possession, she was practically a member of the Snake-People tribe from the Dou Qi Continent!

The key point was that her grandfather, Dugu Bo, had a villa in the Sunset Forest that contained not only the Yin Yang Dual Instrument Eye but also a pile of immortal herbs!

To be honest, Yu Tianjiao really craved those immortal herbs!

For that reason, he didn't mind selling his charms.

Anyway, Yu Tianjiao had already annulled his engagement; he was now refreshed and no longer bound by anything!

Thus, Yu Tianjiao took the initiative to wrap his arms around Dugu Yan's slender waist.

This gesture caused the eyes of Dugu Yan, who had waited for him for three full years and was now nearly twenty, to turn red.

Dugu Yan had originally intended to put on the air of a mature big sister to tease this little brother who brought her joy just by looking at him, but at this moment, she only wanted to quietly enjoy the warmth of being held.

One must know that whenever she had tried to get close to him in the past, Yu Tianjiao had always been neither rejecting nor accepting, maintaining an irresponsible attitude.

Now, this bad boy was actually responding to her!

Come to think of it, Yu Tianheng had told her in private two days ago that Yu Tianjiao's engagement had been annulled. Could it be that she finally had a chance?

Dugu Yan was wild with joy, and the look she gave Yu Tianjiao became incredibly tender and charming. If not for the crowd around them, she might have offered a sweet kiss right then and there.

"Hmph, you have no manners, you should call me Sister Yan!"

Although she grumbled, the way her eyes curved into crescents from happiness and the undisguised smile on her face betrayed her true feelings.

One can only say that this is how the Continent of Love-Brains is; every girl who looks good is a love-brain.

But if these love-brains were all going crazy over him alone, then not only would Yu Tianjiao not reject them, he would hope they increased their efforts.

And just as he was thinking this, another beautiful love-brain appeared.

"Tianjiao, welcome back."

Hearing this, Yu Tianjiao turned his head to look. A beautiful woman in a black dress, with a slender figure, a black veil over her face, clear blue eyes, and long blue hair, stood gracefully one meter away with her hands folded over her lower abdomen.

In those clear blue eyes, Yu Tianjiao could see distinct joy and a gaze as gentle as water.

Ye Lingling, also a classmate from his year.

Her martial soul was the single-lineage Nine Heart Begonia.

When Yu Tianjiao was at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, he had always taken good care of her.

It wasn't because of her beauty, but simply because of the Nine Heart Begonia's ability to heal anything.

This was the number one healing martial soul on the entire continent!

It was a pity that Ye Lingling had a slender, delicate build; just looking at her figure, one really couldn't tell she possessed the most powerful healing martial soul in the world.

"Lingling? You're here too!"

A gentle smile appeared on Yu Tianjiao's face.

Compared to Ning Rongrong, who had come to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to annul their engagement not long ago, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were truly wonderful to him.

Back when his soul power first began to decline, Ye Lingling would come to find him every single day, using her Nine Heart Begonia—which was said to heal all wounds—in an attempt to solve the mystery of his fading soul power.

To ensure the effect, she would even hold his hands while performing the treatment, often leaving only after she had exhausted her own soul power and was drenched in sweat.

Even though rumors spread that she had a special relationship with Yu Tianjiao because she always left his dormitory with unsteady steps, she still insisted on treating him every day, even neglecting her own cultivation because of it.

This treatment lasted for three full months, and only ended when Yu Tianjiao returned to his clan.

To be honest, looking back on those days now, Yu Tianjiao felt a bit like he was the young Xun'er and Ye Lingling was the young Xiao Yan.

In short, she was a good girl, not to be missed.

And then there was Dugu Yan; this girl was also quite good to him, acting like the black-hearted little cotton-padded jacket of her grandfather, Dugu Bo.

When she first learned of his declining soul power, she had actually prepared to take him to Dugu Bo's villa in the Sunset Forest to steal some immortal herbs for him to eat.

Yu Tianjiao knew he wasn't sick, it was just his damn system acting up, so he hadn't agreed.

Dugu Yan, however, merely assumed he was too proud to save face, so she went off to steal the immortal herbs herself.

As a result, she was caught red-handed by Dugu Bo.

Dugu Bo truly doted on his granddaughter; upon hearing about Yu Tianjiao's situation, although he was angry that his little "padded jacket" had a black heart, he still selected a few potentially useful medicinal herbs for her to deliver.

Yet, in the end, Yu Tianjiao did not accept them.

Given Dugu Yan's temperament, if he had accepted them, she certainly would have insisted he consume them right in front of her before she would let the matter rest, but if he had actually eaten them, it would have been a true waste.

Therefore, he continued to use the excuse of the "three-year term, the Dragon King returns."

Then, taking advantage of the fact that Dugu Yan could not defeat him at the time, he tied her up and returned directly to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Even so, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had constantly sought information about him through Yu Tianheng, who was still attending the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Now that they had met again, they remained as close to him as they had always been, as if he had never left at all.

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