For a moment, the powder-blue head seemed to hesitate before cautiously poking inside.
His luxurious white outfit was a little dirty, and his delicate little face was somewhat swollen, as if someone had beaten him up.
Lan Xuanyu blinked twice. Who was this...? Powder-blue hair and eyes were pretty rare... His face looked a little familiar, especially his eyes...
When Wang Dong saw Lan Xuanyu, she instinctively spoke up. "...You're in this dorm too, right? Well, there are a few rules you need to remember. First..."
Hearing this boy start laying down rules the moment he arrived, Lan Xuanyu instinctively furrowed his brows, displeased.
No one had ever dared climb onto his head and lay down rules for him! Hadn't his family taught him how to get along with people?
After saying "First," the boy saw Lan Xuanyu's expression grow even darker and seemed to realize what she was doing. She closed her mouth.
Wang Dong inwardly groaned. Had she just offended another roommate?
Remembering the dorm supervisor's final warning, Wang Dong gritted her teeth and swallowed her rules.
If all else failed, she could use a few tricks later to drive this roommate out. She had her reasons, all right? Though she couldn't understand why Big Uncle and Second Uncle insisted on making her disguise herself as a boy...
Wang Dong hurriedly changed her tune. "...I was assigned to this dorm too. Sorry to bother you so late. My name is Wang Dong, and I'm a student in Freshman Class One."
Lan Xuanyu glanced at her coolly. "My name is Lan Xuanyu. I'm in Freshman Class One too."
He suddenly missed Liu Feng and Qian Lei a little. Now those two were real brothers...
Wait!
Lan Xuanyu suddenly seemed to think of something and stared straight at Wang Dong. "What did you say your name was?!"
Wang Dong jumped. "My name is Wang Dong."
Wang Dong... Wang Dong... Why did that name sound so familiar?
Lan Xuanyu racked his brains, searching through the historical records about Huo Yuhao. He seemed to remember that name being mentioned.
Powder blue... powder blue... Wasn't his aunt Tang Wutong's hair powder blue?
That was it!
Lan Xuanyu remembered!
He knew more about the history of his father, Tang Wulin, and his grandfather, Tang San. He really didn't remember the details of Huo Yuhao's history that well. He couldn't even recall all the members of the Shrek Seven Devils of Huo Yuhao's generation.
But there was one person he remembered fairly clearly.
That was his aunt, Huo Yuhao's partner, one of the second-generation Shrek Seven Devils: Tang Wutong.
Every member of the Tang Family was a powerhouse. Six of them had even become God Kings. Aside from his grandfather and himself, the two Supreme God Kings, even his younger sister Dai Ying and younger brother Huo Zhanji later became powerful First-Level Gods.
But there was one exception among them all: his aunt, Tang Wutong.
A Second-Level God was like a chicken among a flock of cranes in the Tang Family—without a doubt, the weakest of them all.
That was exactly why Lan Xuanyu remembered her so clearly. The Tang Sect's history books said that Tang San's daughter Tang Wutong had gone by the assumed name "Wang Dong" when she came to Douluo Continent. She met and fell in love with Huo Yuhao, and their love became a legendary tale.
Emotion God King Huo Yuhao had even created the Haodong Three Ultimates for her—a set of techniques that gave people goosebumps just hearing about them... So Lan Xuanyu had some recollection of the name "Wang Dong."
Even relatives looked down on one another to some extent. For instance, he looked down on his weak and useless uncle by marriage, and privately mocked his aunt for being only a Second-Level God.
But now, in this unfamiliar era, he had unexpectedly run into a relative—a blood relative, no less. Excitement still outweighed everything else in his heart.
Meeting his aunt meant he might get to meet his grandfather Tang San through her. And if he met him, he might be able to get his hands on the Golden Dragon King Bloodline! That would make the road ahead a little easier.
After chatting for a while, Lan Xuanyu and Wang Dong actually got along quite well.
Early morning, Shrek Academy, Sea God Island.
Zhang Lexuan, wearing a moon-white nightgown, struggled out of bed and patted her cheeks.
She picked up the mirror from her bedside and looked at her own exquisite yet haggard face. She felt dazed.
Was this bloodshot-eyed, sallow, exhausted person really her?
She hadn't been able to sleep lately... Whenever she closed her eyes at night, she thought of the inner-court classmates who had shielded her, one after another.
For the past two years, she hadn't even dared to release her Martial Soul. Whenever she did, she saw that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring—the one stained red with her companions' blood...
More than once, she had wanted to go to Star Dou Great Forest and fight those Soul Beasts to the death, but Mu En always found out and stopped her.
She wanted justice for the classmates who had died and had demanded time and again that Sea God Pavilion punish Xuan Zi severely for dereliction of duty. But in the end, nothing came of it...
It was obvious why. How could the Sea God Pavilion's higher-ups punish the next Sea God Pavilion Master over a few students who were already dead?
Of course, the conscientious Elder Xuan Zi felt guilty too. He drank himself into a stupor every day to show his remorse, getting drunk out of his mind all the time.
Even Dean Yan Shaozhe couldn't stand it. He had privately approached Zhang Lexuan and hoped she would forgive Elder Xuan Zi... perhaps even kneel and beg him to return.
Zhang Lexuan naturally refused outright. In the end, Mu En offered a compromise: she could teach in the outer court for a while before deciding whether to return to the inner court.
Zhang Lexuan knew very well that Mu En was giving her a way out. Since she couldn't forgive Xuan Zi, it was better for them to avoid each other for now.
Struggling to her feet, Zhang Lexuan went to the vanity and, for the first time in a long while, put on makeup.
Today was her first day as a teacher. She couldn't afford to look too shabby!
Huo Yuhao got up early, planning to fill his stomach at the cafeteria first.
To his dismay, Shrek's cafeteria didn't even have a single stool, as if letting students rest for a moment would kill them...
There was nothing he could do. He spent nearly a hundred Gold Soul Coins on a meal eaten standing up. It was expensive, but worth every coin.
These top-tier dishes, specially prepared by Shrek, were mostly made from high-level Soul Beast meat and other ingredients. They were not only highly beneficial to a Soul Master's body but also helped with cultivation.
By the time Huo Yuhao arrived at Freshman Class 10 alone, it was almost time for class, and most of the seats were already taken.
The moment Huo Yuhao walked into the classroom, he drew everyone's attention. The room, which had been somewhat noisy, fell into an eerie silence.
The girls' gazes were mostly gentle and admiring, while the boys looked mostly hostile and wary.
See? Enemies often came from within...
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