Troubles

In the office, Xu Qing carefully filled out the form.

Qin Lin sat on the sofa beside him, drinking black tea and glancing over at Xu Qing from time to time. His face really was quite cute. If it belonged to a girl, she'd definitely be popular with boys.

In fact, the wealthy girls in their class had all hinted at their interest in him after learning he came from the Xu Family.

Xu Qing simply hadn't responded to any of them, and Xu Xin had also issued a subtle warning.

"He really is quite cute," Qin Lin murmured, taking a sip of tea as a flutter stirred in her heart.

A little over twenty minutes later, Xu Qing finished filling out the form. "Teacher Qin, I'm done."

"Mm. You can go back to class," Qin Lin said readily.

Xu Qing was surprised to hear that. She was just letting him go back like that without even criticizing him.

"Oh, okay. Goodbye, Teacher Qin." Xu Qing froze for several seconds before getting up to leave. As he walked out of the office, he seemed a little distracted.

Seeing his slightly foolish expression, Qin Lin smiled. He really had been surprised she hadn't said anything.

When Xu Qing returned to class, Xu Xin asked where he'd been, and he told her what had just happened.

"Haha, at least Teacher Qin only had you do some work and didn't say anything," Xu Xin said with a laugh.

Xu Qing scratched his head, a little embarrassed.

In the days that followed, Qin Lin kept catching Xu Qing fishing in class and calling him to the office to help her with things.

Xu Qing was puzzled. Had Qin Lin singled him out? Why did she keep catching him fishing?

And every time she called him to the office, she didn't scold him or tell him to stop fishing next time. She just assigned him something to do.

One day it was filling out a form, the next moving something, and the day after that sweeping the floor...

In short, Xu Qing always had something to do for her. He went to the office every day, and quite a few teachers had started to notice him.

"Xiao Qing, you got called over again today," Xu Xin teased him over lunch.

Xu Qing looked crestfallen. "Yeah."

"Xiao Qing, if you'd just stop fishing in class, Teacher Qin wouldn't have a reason to call you to the office," Xu Xin said with a smile.

"No way. Fishing's my hobby. I can't give it up," Xu Qing insisted stubbornly.

Xu Xin and the other girls laughed at him. "Well, then there's nothing you can do. Teacher Qin's got you right where she wants you."

"Humph. I'm not scared of her. She asked me to have lunch with her today, and of course I turned her down," Xu Qing said, pursing his lips.

"Turning down Teacher Qin? Careful, or she might make things difficult for you. I heard she's a high-tier Warrior."

"Let her make things difficult for me. If I back down, then I'm no Xu Qing."

That weekend, Xu Qing didn't go with Xu Xin to the Alliance Mall. He wanted to sleep in.

Besides, Xu Xin only went there on weekends to meet Luo Feng. Xu Qing couldn't be bothered to tag along and third-wheel.

On Sunday, Chen Dabao and Zhao Quan went out and spent the whole day having fun. They didn't get back to the dorm until nine that night, and it looked like they'd been drinking.

A little after midnight, not long after Xu Qing had gone to bed, he was jolted awake by a noise.

He looked across the room and saw his two roommates huddled beneath the covers. Light seeped out from under the blanket, along with some indescribable sounds.

Xu Qing was dumbfounded. Were they... watching an adult movie?

But why did the voices sound like them?

Could it be...? Xu Qing thought, breaking out in goose bumps.

Good heavens, what kind of roommates were these? They really didn't care that he was there. It wasn't as if they were alone in the room. What were they doing?

That night, Xu Qing suffered severe mental pollution.

And from that night on, his two roommates grew more and more brazen. Every evening, they went out drinking and carousing, then came back reeking of alcohol and would sometimes huddle beneath the covers, making indescribable noises.

Xu Qing was so furious he wanted to beat them to death, one punch each, and send them flying.

But he couldn't very well say anything to them, so he had to cover his ears just to sleep.

Worse still, one time Zhao Quan fell asleep and dropped his phone on the floor. When Xu Qing picked it up for him, the screen was unlocked, and Xu Qing caught a glimpse of his photo album.

It was full of photos of men and women. There were even pictures of Xu Qing himself, wearing pajamas after a shower. He had no idea when they'd been taken.

The moment he saw them, Xu Qing was completely stunned. Zhao Quan was into both men and women.

Without a second thought, Xu Qing secretly dealt with Zhao Quan's phone. He physically annihilated it.

"What kind of roommates do I have? They're out carousing at such a young age, and one of them has some kind of perverted fetish. They're unbelievable." Xu Qing sighed in class, too distracted to fish.

Ever since discovering Zhao Quan's secret, he'd felt unsafe in the dorm.

Chen Dabao wasn't any better. He went out to sleep around every day, and the two of them always went together.

They weren't much older than Xu Qing, maybe a year or two at most. How had they turned out like this?

"How did they even get into Jiangnan University?" Xu Qing wondered.

Xu Xin had also noticed that something was off with Xu Qing lately. He'd stopped fishing, which was highly unusual.

"Xiao Qing, is something bothering you?" Xu Xin asked him over lunch.

Xu Qing couldn't possibly tell her about all that. "No. I just can't seem to catch any fish lately. It's frustrating."

"Uh..." Xu Xin's mouth twitched. So other people were bothered because they didn't want to fish, while he was bothered because he couldn't catch any fish.

What an extravagant problem to have.

After thinking it over, Xu Qing decided he still wanted to move out. He didn't want to keep living with roommates like that. Who knew? One day, he might kill them by reflex.

It probably wouldn't be a crime for a Warrior to kill an ordinary person, but he still didn't want that to happen.

"Forget it. I'll go talk to Teacher Qin. She's the homeroom teacher, and she's an adult. She should be able to help me sort things out," Xu Qing decided, setting off to ask Qin Lin for help.

He made his way to Qin Lin's private office, where he'd become a familiar visitor, and knocked.

With a beep, the door opened. Xu Qing went inside. "Teacher Qin."

Hearing the familiar voice, Qin Lin looked up, surprised. Why had he come here of his own accord? "Xu Qing, did you need something?"

"Mm. Teacher Qin, there's something I'd like your help with." Xu Qing fidgeted with his fingers, embarrassed to bring it up.

Qin Lin could tell he was uncomfortable. She told him to sit down, then made a pot of black tea and poured him a cup.

"Thanks, Teacher Qin. Well, I was hoping to move out of the dorm," Xu Qing said, holding the cup in both hands.

"Oh? Why? Did something happen?" Qin Lin's expression grew slightly serious. Had Chen Dabao and Zhao Quan been bullying him?

"Um... well... they..." Xu Qing struggled to say it. He was a guy too, and even talking about it embarrassed him.

"Don't rush. Take your time," Qin Lin said gently.

After wrestling with himself for a while, Xu Qing finally blushed and told her what Chen Dabao and Zhao Quan had been doing.

After hearing him out, Qin Lin furrowed her pretty brows.

She'd known Chen Dabao and Zhao Quan were the spoiled rich-kid type, but she hadn't realized they were this wild. Zhao Quan especially didn't seem like the sort of person to have that kind of unusual fetish.