More than ten minutes later.
Yan Shaozhe arranged for two Inner Court disciples to escort Huo Yuhao back from Sea God Island.
At that moment, only the two of them remained in the mist-shrouded room.
Yan Shaozhe turned around and refocused his attention on Ma Xiaotao.
"Xiaotao."
"Ah?"
Ma Xiaotao was still reliving that absurd scene from earlier. Startled like a bird at the twang of a bowstring, she instantly straightened her back.
Seeing how guilty she looked, Yan Shaozhe found it somewhat amusing, and his tone softened. "What do you think about that junior?"
What the hell is this old man talking about?
Ma Xiaotao's face instantly flushed crimson.
In truth, she knew perfectly well what Yan Shaozhe was asking.
Shrek's upper ranks would never overlook the emergence of an Extreme Ice Martial Soul.
As long as Huo Yuhao could suppress her Evil Fire, her godfather would absolutely have the nerve to arrange a Marriage Agreement for them tomorrow if he could, thereby completely eliminating the hidden danger within her Martial Soul.
"I... I don't think that would be appropriate."
With a red face and wildly darting eyes, Ma Xiaotao stammered, "This matter... still needs a more thorough investigation. Yes, it must be investigated."
The other party was practically eight years younger than her, just a little brat.
No matter how desperate she was, she couldn't bring herself to lay a hand on him.
Yan Shaozhe nodded seriously.
His deep gaze turned toward the night outside the window.
The girl was right.
A Twin Martial Souls genius with Extreme Ice had suddenly appeared in the Outer Court. What if he had been sent by a hostile force?
His origins and background had to be thoroughly investigated.
They needed to dig into every last detail.
Late at night.
Freshman Dormitory, Room 108.
Huo Yuhao dragged his heavy steps as he slowly pushed open the door.
But the moment he entered, he froze.
The lights were off.
Yet by the moonlight outside the window, he could clearly see that Wang Dong had not gone to sleep at all.
Not only was she awake, she had not even changed into pajamas. She simply sat by the bed with her arms crossed over her chest, waiting in silence with a dark expression.
She looked exactly like a wife waiting for her husband who had come home late at night.
Huo Yuhao felt his scalp prickle beneath her stare. He yawned and asked, "It's so late. Why aren't you asleep yet?"
As he spoke, he walked toward his own bed without a care.
After everything that had happened by Sea God Lake, he had deduced the underlying logic and gathered information on Martial Soul mutations.
Then, to top it off, that crazy woman had pinned him down in the bathroom and messed with him for ages.
After such extreme mental exhaustion, he was truly so tired that he did not even want to move a finger.
Thud.
Huo Yuhao fell straight onto the bed.
"Get up!"
Wang Dong abruptly stood and crossed the room to Huo Yuhao in just a few strides.
She carefully examined him from above.
Suddenly.
Her gaze froze.
In the faint light, she clearly saw the obvious bite marks on Huo Yuhao's split lips, as well as the string of glaring red marks on his neck.
That crazy woman had actually done something like this.
She was practically an animal.
An indescribable, inexplicable fury rushed straight to Wang Dong's head.
Wang Dong clenched her teeth tightly. Her eyes turned bright red from anger and some strange, indescribable emotion.
"Don't you have anything to explain?"
Wang Dong's voice trembled.
Huo Yuhao turned his head and glanced at Wang Dong.
How baffling.
He found her reaction rather strange.
It was not as if he had gone out to find a mistress and gotten caught. What was there to explain? That crazy woman had gone insane and recognized no one; he was a victim too, all right?
Besides, his eyelids were fighting furiously, and he did not want to say even one extra word.
Huo Yuhao simply turned over, presenting his back to Wang Dong as he closed his eyes.
Wang Dong stared blankly at the scene.
An indescribable sense of grievance surged through her heart, and tears nearly welled up in her eyes.
This bastard.
He had been kissed and touched by another woman, yet he came back without a single explanation. He did not even want to look at her again.
Why?
She pushed Huo Yuhao's shoulder, her voice carrying an almost imperceptible sob.
"Yuhao, say something."
"Huff..."
The only answer she received was a long, even snore.
At that instant.
Wang Dong broke down.
She stood beside the bed, her entire face filled with disbelief at life itself.
He was asleep?
Just like that?
She had been furious enough to die, agonizing over this all night, while this pig simply fell asleep the moment his head hit the pillow?
The next morning.
On the way to the teaching building.
Walking beside Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao could clearly feel that today's atmosphere was somewhat strange.
This girl seemed to be in a bad mood.
Compared to her usual chirpy self, she barely spoke today. She would not even look at him, and her whole body radiated an aura of cold violence.
But Huo Yuhao did not care much.
Girls always had days when they were irritable. It was best to leave her alone.
Very soon.
Zhou Yi's first class ended.
Huo Yuhao packed up his things and was about to leave the classroom to return to the dormitory and meditate when Zhou Yi suddenly called out to him from the podium.
A few minutes later, in the office.
Huo Yuhao walked back toward the dormitory expressionlessly.
In his arms, he held an enormous roll of kraft paper over a meter long.
It was an investigation form.
The survey options on it were all sorts of bizarre things, printed in tiny text. At a glance, there were easily hundreds of entries.
It could truly be called exhaustive.
Starting from his name, hometown, and age, it went all the way to what his ancestors of eighteen generations had done for a living. There were even absurd questions like whether he had ever had toenail fungus.
He recalled Zhou Yi's fierce expression in the office just moments ago.
She had even specifically instructed him to fill out every single item carefully. Not one word could be omitted.
Huo Yuhao sighed.
What was this supposed to be now?
In truth, Yan Shaozhe had no idea.
The so-called top-secret investigation order from the upper ranks had been passed down from the Inner Court to the Outer Court, transferred from the Outer Court Academic Affairs Office to the grade director, and finally assigned to homeroom teacher Zhou Yi.
Outsourced, outsourced, and outsourced again.
As it passed through layer after layer, in order to emphasize the supposed "strict investigation," it ultimately became a bizarre ultimate questionnaire over a meter long.
And in the end, Huo Yuhao himself had to fill it out.
"Which damned idiot came up with this brain-dead thing?!"
Huo Yuhao roared in the dormitory, but he could only spread the meter-long sheet across the table.
He obediently picked up his pen and began filling it out.
Naturally, he made up most of the contents. After all, no one could possibly go to the Star Luo Empire to investigate his family tree.
Just as he racked his brains trying to deal with the survey form,
A crisp knock suddenly sounded outside the dormitory door.
Tap, tap, tap.
Wang Dong had just finished bathing and wore only an oversized white T-shirt.
That was dangerous attire in a boys' dormitory.
But when facing a straight man like Huo Yuhao, she had already become too lazy to keep up appearances.
"Who is it?"
Wang Dong replied casually as she walked over and pulled open the door.
The next second.
The two people on either side of the door froze at the same time.
Xiao Xiao stood outside, her large eyes widened into perfect circles.
She stared blankly at Wang Dong, who was dressed so scantily, with her two fair, slender legs fully exposed to the air.
An indescribable shock filled her mind.
Had the dormitory life of these two men...
Already developed to this extent?
The air fell silent for several seconds.
Xiao Xiao quickly came back to her senses. She tried hard not to look at Wang Dong's dangerously alluring outfit, her little face flushed bright red as she took a deep breath and said,
"Um... I'm here to see Huo Yuhao."
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