"?!"
...Wang Dong'er?!
What was going on?!
Wasn't she supposed to be sharing a dorm room with Huo Yuhao?
When had she come here?
Why?!
Tang San? Mu En?... Or the butterfly effect?
Lu Ran's gaze suddenly turned grave, and his heart sank.
He realized how serious the situation was.
Had Tang San noticed him?
Or had following Tang Ya and Bei Bei made Huo Yuhao arrive early?
Or had he arrived late?
Had the God King of Destruction failed to restrain Tang San?
Countless possibilities flashed through his mind.
The corner of Lu Ran's eye twitched involuntarily, but he controlled his expression a moment later.
"New roommate?"
He put on a friendly air and spoke first.
Wang Dong looked Lu Ran up and down twice, and was just about satisfied with her new roommate.
"My name is Wang Dong."
"Although we're living together for now, you can't bring people back whenever you want, and you can't go around naked. Also, you can't... That's all."
After hearing Wang Dong's list of rules,
Lu Ran's eyelid twitched.
He'd almost forgotten her personality...
Whatever had happened to Wang Dong in the past, and whatever would happen to her in the future, right now she was still acting high and mighty.
And she dared to make rules for him?
"Are you even listening?"
Wang Dong furrowed her brow. The faint trace of goodwill she'd had toward Lu Ran vanished.
She hadn't expected him to be so rude.
He could at least say something in reply.
Lu Ran ignored Wang Dong
and went straight to lie down on his bed,
thinking about why he'd run into her.
"Hey!"
Wang Dong snapped,
"Are you listening to me?!"
How rude!
After collecting his Soul Master subsidy,
Huo Yuhao walked along the road,
his steps unusually light.
This was the first time in his life he'd collected Gold Soul Coins with his own hands.
A whole Gold Soul Coin!
He'd never even dared to imagine it before!
Thinking of Brother Sky Dream, Teacher Xiao Ya, and Senior Brother Bei Bei...
He felt that the future was bright.
One day, he would surely flatten the Duke's Mansion!
Following the directions he remembered,
he felt his way to the dormitory building,
then looked up at the six-story building.
An old man was sunning himself by the entrance.
"Hello, Grandpa. I'm a new student who enrolled today. Do you need to check my freshman badge?"
"Your freshman badge and key..."
Mu En reached out and looked at the key and freshman badge Huo Yuhao handed him.
"Room 112. First floor, tenth room on the left..."
That's close to Xiao Ran's room...
Huo Yuhao took the badge and key, then bowed politely to Mu En.
He entered the dormitory.
As he walked along the long hallway, Huo Yuhao followed the room numbers.
"101, 102, 10..."
He murmured to himself,
and just as he was about to reach Room 112...
"Ah!"
A figure suddenly flew out of Room 110,
whizzing right past Huo Yuhao!
He froze in fright,
his eyes wide.
One step...
Just one step...
If he'd taken one more step, he would have collided with the person flying out!
He could even feel the gust of wind as the figure shot past.
"Thud!"
The person slammed onto the solid floor with a dull thump.
"Holy crap?"
"Someone just flew out?"
"Look, look! They're fighting!"
The new students had just started school and were still buzzing with excitement. At the sound, they poked their heads out of their rooms like mushrooms sprouting from cracks in the earth after the rain.
"He really flew out!"
"He got angry and charged back into the room!"
Huo Yuhao hadn't gotten a good look at the person's face
before he got up and rushed back into the room.
Huo Yuhao seized the chance to dash past the door.
From the corner of his eye, he saw that the person had blue hair and seemed to have one yellow and one purple Soul Ring...
The Second Soul Ring was purple...
Then,
just as his back foot followed his front foot through the door, he felt another gust behind him
and heard:
"You dare...!"
The person flew out of the room again, this time farther than before, sliding more than a meter across the floor.
"Holy crap, his Second Soul Ring is a Thousand-Year Soul Ring!"
"Is he that terrifying?"
"Hey, look on the bright side. Maybe he became a Soul Elder before he was twelve."
"Wouldn't that be just as terrifying?!"
"..."
They rushed back in again.
Next, everyone saw a faint blue-and-pink glow suddenly shine around the entrance to Room 110. It was so beautiful, like a dream...
"Bang!"
The blue-and-pink-haired boy flew out of the door again,
landing on the floor
and sliding more than a meter, wiping the half-clean floor completely clean.
...But this time, he didn't get back up.
He lay on the floor, his big pink-blue eyes open,
staring at the ceiling,
seemingly questioning his existence.
Only then did Huo Yuhao realize how handsome he was—more handsome than Senior Brother Bei Bei,
even more handsome than any boy he'd ever seen.
Except for Lu Ran,
there probably wasn't anyone who could compare to him, right?
Huo Yuhao suddenly remembered that Lu Ran was also a new student. He wondered which room he would be in.
He looked up,
and saw that his room was right next to the blue-and-pink-haired boy's.
His short-haired roommate, who looked quite friendly, was peeking out too. They stared at each other in silence.
"...You're in this room?"
The roommate spoke first.
Huo Yuhao nodded obediently, unsure what to do with his hands.
The roommate pulled him into the room.
"My name is Lin Hu. I'm a nineteenth-level Agility Attack System Battle Spirit Master."
Lin Hu stuck his head back out and looked at Wang Dong, who was lying on the ground with her eyes open and not making a sound.
"Let's stay back, so we don't get caught in the crossfire."
When most people got like that, it meant they were about to completely lose it.
Huo Yuhao immediately felt fond of him.
It looked like his new roommate was a good person.
As the two spoke, Wang Dong slowly got to her feet.
Dust clung to her clean blue clothes, while the floor had been left a good deal cleaner.
"Whew... whew... whew..."
Her face was full of self-doubt.
Why?
Was my Thousand-Year Soul Ring fake?
Why?!
She replayed what had just happened in her mind.
Lu Ran hadn't even used a Soul Skill. He'd simply lifted his leg and kicked her out the door.
He hadn't used a Soul Skill?!
What kind of monster was he?!
How many Soul Rings did he have?!
Could he even be stronger than me?!
Inside the room, Lu Ran still stood there, calmly watching her. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't budge him in the slightest.
For some reason,
the image of Big Dad and Second Dad appeared in her mind, along with their kind smiles.
She suddenly missed Big Dad and Second Dad so much.
"..."
She hesitated,
then clenched her fist,
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