Bad Girl Tang Shan, Socially Anxious Girl Ye Lingling Appears!

Time flowed by like running water, rushing past in a hurry.

Ever since he could no longer leave the academy, Lan Yu's life had become unbearably dull. Every day followed the same fixed routine: cultivation, meals... and sleeping beside a beautiful girl.

Fortunately, in just two months, he raised his Soul Power to rank forty.

Another day came, early morning.

Inside the room, Lan Yu crawled out of bed utterly exhausted.

He rubbed the spot between his brows, casually moved away a fair, slender leg draped over him, then turned and sat on the edge of the bed, lazily yawning.

Ignoring the snow-white skin the girl beside him had exposed because of her sleeping posture, Lan Yu walked barefoot to the balcony.

Outside the balcony, the horizon was faintly bright.

He sat cross-legged, and wisps of purple energy flowed from the distant morning glow into his eyes.

"The enhancement Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew gives to spiritual power really is extraordinary!"

After a long while, Lan Yu slowly opened his eyes. A flash of purple light vanished from his pupils, and the corners of his mouth lifted as he murmured.

"The Mustard Seed Realm... I finally broke through!"

Lan Yu could not help grumbling inwardly.

Back when he had taken the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum last time, he discovered that the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew Tang San had taken in the original work was nowhere to be found. Because of that, Lan Yu had been depressed for quite a while.

He had merely mentioned it casually to Tang Shan, but that girl had actually kept it firmly in mind. She turned around and went to find Dugu Yan, asking her to have Dugu Bo help search for it in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

As luck would have it, Dugu Bo searched every nook and cranny of the Love-Hate Yin-Yang Well, and in the end, he really did find a stalk of Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew beside the Resentment Burning Heart Profound.

Because of that, Tang Shan and Lan Yu had both been quite surprised.

"She's still sleeping?!"

After Lan Yu returned to the room, he looked at Tang Shan lying on her side on the bed, hugging the quilt and sleeping sweetly. He could not help sighing helplessly.

Ever since returning to the academy, Tang Shan had found all kinds of excuses to slip into his room and refuse to leave.

She even gave it the lofty name: sleeping while hugging a beautiful girl helped with Soul Power cultivation.

After changing his clothes, Lan Yu walked to the bedside. Seeing that she had taken up more than half the bed, and that even his pillow had been squeezed onto the floor, he could bear it no longer. He reached out and smacked the girl's perky bottom.

With a soft slap, the sound was especially clear in the quiet room.

"Mmm~"

Tang Shan's delicate body trembled, and she let out a soft, tender moan. Her beautiful eyes flew wide open, and she suddenly sat up.

After seeing clearly that the person before her was Lan Yu, her originally taut body instantly relaxed into laziness.

"Brother, what are you doing~"

The girl rubbed her hazy sleepy eyes. Her pajamas hung loose and messy on her body, and with every movement, glimpses of snow-white skin occasionally flashed past.

"You still have the nerve to ask?"

Lan Yu put on a stern face and pointed at the pillow on the floor. "If you can't behave when you sleep, go back to your own room."

Tang Shan followed his finger and looked at the floor. Her little face flushed red with a whoosh.

She quickly shifted her own pillow, bent down to pick up Lan Yu's pillow, patted off the dust, and obediently placed it beside her own pillow. Only then did she mutter softly, "At a glance, it's obvious Brother deliberately put it on the floor to drive me away~"

"You!"

Hearing this, Lan Yu's brow twitched sharply.

Seeing Lan Yu's stern face, Tang Shan instantly pouted. She held two small pink fists beside her eyes, striking a pitiful, about-to-cry pose.

"Wuwuwu... Brother is being mean to me... turning ruthless after getting what he wanted!"

"Sigh~"

Lan Yu was so angry he laughed. He sighed and said helplessly to Tang Shan.

"I'm going to eat. I'll bring some back for you."

After saying that, he turned and left the room, no longer paying attention to the girl's act.

The instant the door closed, Tang Shan immediately lowered her hands and curled her lip.

She stretched out her fair, slender legs and forcefully clamped the quilt between them, as if treating it like Lan Yu, tearing at it.

"Stinky Brother, all you know is how to scold me!"

After messing around for a while, she stepped barefoot onto the cool floor and was just about to sneak back to her own room to change when the corner of her eye suddenly caught sight of the laundry basket under the table.

Brother's changed clothes seemed to be inside.

Curiosity surged up with a whoosh.

Tang Shan paused, squatted down, craned her head to look under the table, and after hesitating for a few seconds, ultimately pulled the laundry basket out.

The girl gently took out a plain-colored top.

It was the one Brother had just changed out of~

Her heartbeat inexplicably quickened.

Tang Shan gently spread out the top. Her throat bobbed, and like a thief, she furtively glanced around. Then she smacked her forehead, suddenly remembering that Lan Yu had just gone out.

After an internal struggle, desire ultimately defeated reason. She closed her eyes and slowly pressed her face to it, inhaling in bliss.

It was big brother's scent~

Who knew how long passed. Tang Shan remained immersed in it, completely unaware of the footsteps outside the door.

Just then, with a bang, the door was shoved open.

Tang Shan jolted all over in fright. In a frantic scramble, she stuffed the clothes into her arms and whipped her head around, only to meet Lan Yu standing in the doorway with breakfast in hand, brows slightly furrowed as he looked in confusion at her crouching on the floor.

"Xiao Shan... what are you doing?"

"I... I..."

Tang Shan's face was so red it looked like it might drip blood. Her heart pounded wildly, and she could barely get her words out.

"I saw... saw big brother's dirty clothes, and wanted... wanted to wash them for you..."

Lan Yu raised an eyebrow, but didn't think too much of it.

He carried the breakfast over to the table and set it down.

When Tang Shan saw Lan Yu walk over beside her, her heart beat even faster. She wanted to stand up, only to find her legs had gone weak, so she could only bury her head even lower.

Seeing this when he turned back, Lan Yu's tone softened. "Big brother's tone was a bit harsh just now. I didn't really mean to scold you."

With that, he lifted a hand and rubbed the girl's head. "Remember to eat."

His fingers accidentally brushed the girl's cheek, and Tang Shan trembled involuntarily.

Feeling the warmth from Lan Yu's palm, Tang Shan kept her head lowered, her whole body tingling, her calves shaking, yet she forced herself not to make a single sound.

Only after the door was pulled shut again and Lan Yu's footsteps gradually faded did she collapse onto the floor as if all her strength had left her, gasping for breath, looking utterly hopeless.

Big brother, am I a bad girl?

Most of Heaven Dou Team's classes were practical combat training. The rest were theory lessons on things like identifying soul beasts and the attribute counters between martial souls.

"Lan Yu~"

In class, a teacher was explaining knowledge on identifying soul beasts. Lan Yu, this country bumpkin, was listening very seriously when a hand came to rest on his shoulder from behind.

"What?"

Lan Yu turned his head and looked at Dugu Yan.

He was nothing like these noble children. Notting Academy was only a tiny junior Soul Master Academy, and the soul beast knowledge it taught could only cover most hundred-year soul beasts at best.

Although Ah Yin was a Title Douluo, at her core she was just a naive sweetheart. When she encountered soul beasts, she simply used Soul Power to probe them. She couldn't teach Lan Yu anything about identifying a soul beast's age at all.

"Lan Yu, why are you always provoking girls!" Dugu Yan rolled her eyes and said in irritation.

"..."

Lan Yu froze for a moment, then frowned, sizing Dugu Yan up and down with a strange look.

"Are you still half-asleep?"

He was certain that in these two months, the only women he had come into contact with were three people—Tang Shan, Qin Yue, and this purple-haired one in front of him.

"And you still say you haven't!"

Dugu Yan let out a delicate huff and shot a look toward the rear side.

Lan Yu looked over helplessly, and saw a long-haired woman with a cold, aloof bearing, dressed in black, her entire face hidden beneath a layer of black gauze.

At this moment, she seemed to be listening seriously, yet her gaze kept secretly flicking over in their direction.

Perhaps Lan Yu's gaze was too direct, because the black-veiled girl lowered her head slightly toward the desk.

"Enough, stop looking. Lingling has serious social anxiety!"