Lan Yu sighed.
Momo, you're on your own.
One was a female tiger, the other a human woman. They were both female, so surely they'd have plenty to talk about.
Mrow~
Momo let out a whimper.
Master, are you really abandoning me?
Wuwuwu~
As Lan Yu wheeled his suitcases to the apartment door, he heard Ai Tutu's bossy voice:
"You can just leave the stuff in the living room."
Lan Yu pushed open the door and glanced into the living room. Besides Ai Tutu, there were two other boys.
Sure enough, they were Han Luo and Jia Wenqing, those two Black Vatican lackeys.
"Hey, buddy, did you get the wrong place?" The bespectacled, scholarly-looking man glared at Lan Yu as he strode in as if nobody else existed. His voice grew colder.
"Who the hell are you? Showing off your lapdog act in front of me?" Lan Yu shot a sidelong glance at the bespectacled scholar, Han Luo.
A... a lapdog?!!
"Damn you!" Han Luo had never suffered such humiliation. The magical aura around him erupted without restraint.
Jia Wenqing, standing beside Han Luo, looked like a refined gentleman, but he wasn't acting refined now. His clothes fluttered as a scorching aura of flames surged around him.
An Intermediate Mage of the Fire Element!
"Oh? You've got the nerve to bare your teeth at me?" Lan Yu chuckled.
Suddenly, an invisible mental pulse swept out from behind Lan Yu, hurtling straight toward Jia Wenqing and Han Luo.
In that instant, the magical auras surging around them abruptly vanished.
It was as if they'd been hit by Arthur's first skill and silenced.
Seizing his chance, Lan Yu set down his suitcases, rushed forward, and swung left and right, giving each of them a slap.
Smack—
Smack—
The slaps rang out. Jia Wenqing and Han Luo hit the floor face-first, their cheeks swelling and reddening at a visible speed.
Ai Tutu's eyes widened. At some point, the bag of chips in her hand had fallen to the floor.
"Little Scumbags, what's your strength? You think you can strut around in front of me?" Lan Yu crouched down and smacked the side of each man's face that he'd just slapped, his tone full of scorn.
"What are you doing?"
Just then, Mu Nujiao's voice came from the second floor.
Mu Nujiao first glanced at Ding Yumian standing by the door, then swept her gaze over the three people with Lan Yu, and finally fixed her eyes on Ai Tutu.
She didn't need to guess. This had to be Ai Tutu's doing.
"Lan Yu, just let them go. They didn't know you lived here."
Under Mu Nujiao's warning look, Ai Tutu knew she was about to get a scolding, so she spoke up and asked Lan Yu to let them go.
The two men on the floor froze.
What?
He lived here?
A legendary shared apartment?
Mu Nujiao and Ai Tutu were sharing a place with a man. Was the rent really that expensive?
No way. Would they care about such a small sum?
The expressions on the uninjured halves of their faces instantly grew vivid.
"Are you going to leave on your own, or do I have to show you out?" Lan Yu finally stood up and dusted off his hands.
Jia Wenqing and Han Luo twitched at the corners of their mouths. Even though their faces hurt, they didn't care.
In the end, they left in a sorry state. As they walked out, Ding Yumian caught the trace of malice in their eyes as they looked at Lan Yu.
"Ai Tutu!!" Only after the two men had left did Mu Nujiao turn to glare at Ai Tutu.
"Sister Mu, I'm sorry." Ai Tutu picked up the bag of chips from the floor and looked completely innocent.
"Ai Tutu, since we're sharing a place, I need to lay down three rules first," Lan Yu said.
Good heavens, now I'm the one laying down the rules.
"What are you talking about?" Ai Tutu was dumbfounded.
Wasn't this backward? In romance dramas, wasn't it always the heroine who laid down the rules for the guy she was sharing a place with? How had things been turned around here?
"I think it's necessary too." As Ai Tutu's best friend, how could Mu Nujiao not know what a little troublemaker she was?
"First, if you bring a strange man home to spend the night, you need everyone else's permission."
"Pah! You're the one who brings strange men home to spend the night!" Ai Tutu retorted angrily.
"Second, under no circumstances are you allowed in my room. Sister Yu Mian is the exception," Lan Yu continued.
After all, his cooldown period was over. He could use the winter break to give himself a good scalding at the Ice and Fire Mandarin Duck Pot.
At the entryway, Ding Yumian was changing her shoes. At his words, a faint smile bloomed on her usually placid face.
"That's what I was going to say too. Hmph!" Ai Tutu said, looking fierce.
"Third, I know you two are as beautiful as immortals. From what I remember, you were already drowning in admirers back in high school. From now on, you can use handsome, dashing me as a shield, but it'll cost you. Fifty thousand each time. I'll let the first one slide as free advertising."
At Lan Yu's words, Ai Tutu was already baring her claws. "Why don't you just rob people?! And what's this about you being handsome and dashing?!"
"Tutu!!" Mu Nujiao came downstairs and reached out to pull Ai Tutu back.
"Sister Mu, he's the one being unreasonable!"
"That's all for now. I'll add more if I think of anything," Lan Yu said. "Oh, right, let me introduce someone. This is Ding Yumian, a senior from the Fire Institute on Main Campus. She's planning to share the place with us too."
Mu Nujiao looked toward Ding Yumian and gave a slight nod in greeting. Ding Yumian did the same, and the two had now greeted each other.
"Lan Yu, keep an eye on those two. They're both powerful scions of prestigious families. Be careful they don't make things difficult for you," Mu Nujiao said. She knew Han Luo and Jia Wenqing were narrow-minded.
Some of those arrogant scions of prestigious families were just like that. They couldn't take the slightest insult.
"It doesn't matter." Lan Yu wasn't concerned.
They were already dead men walking in their graves. Why bother caring and make himself miserable?
Besides, slapping people really did feel great.
"Lan Yu~ can't you make it cheaper? I really don't have much allowance."
Ai Tutu turned on the charm, hoping that their three years as classmates would soften Lan Yu up.
"Miss Ai, trust my expertise. Handling people like that is a piece of cake." Lan Yu patted his biceps. "Besides, fifty thousand is really cheap. I'm giving you that price for the sake of our three years as classmates. I'd charge at least a hundred thousand otherwise."
He was only nominally affiliated with the Parthenon Hunter Station now. If the Light Element weren't so poor at killing in the early stages, he'd already be a high-level hunter.
"Alright, enough talk. I need to hurry and get my room in order."
Lan Yu carried his two suitcases upstairs, with Ding Yumian following behind him, looking as if she couldn't hear or see a thing around her.
Once they were in the room, Ding Yumian sat elegantly on the edge of the bed, still holding Momo in her arms. "Did you notice the look in those two men's eyes when they left?"
"Sister Yu Mian, do you think I'm afraid?"
Ding Yumian shook her head. "That's not what I mean. Even two fists can't beat four hands. You still need to be careful at school."
"I understand."
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