A Thorough Investigation

A dozen or so 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."

"Huh?"

Ma Xiaotao was still reliving that absurd scene. Like a startled bird, 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 kind of nonsense was this old man talking about?

Ma Xiaotao's face immediately flushed bright red.

In truth, she knew perfectly well what Yan Shaozhe was asking.

The upper ranks of Shrek would never overlook the emergence of an ultimate ice martial soul.

As long as Huo Yuhao could suppress her evil fire, then if possible, her godfather would absolutely shamelessly arrange their engagement tomorrow, using it to completely eliminate the hidden danger in 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 to be investigated carefully. Yes, it must be investigated."

He was a little brat nearly eight years younger than her.

No matter how desperate she was, she could not bring herself to make a move on him.

Yan Shaozhe nodded solemnly.

His profound gaze settled on the night beyond the window.

The girl was right.

A genius with twin martial souls, one of them ultimate ice, had suddenly appeared in the outer court. What if he had been sent by an enemy force?

His background absolutely had to be thoroughly investigated.

They needed to dig all the way to the bottom.

Late at night.

New student dormitory, Room 108.

Dragging his heavy steps, Huo Yuhao slowly pushed open the door.

But the instant 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 still awake, she had not even changed into pajamas. She simply sat by the bed with her arms crossed over her chest, her face dark as she waited in silence.

She looked exactly like a wife waiting up for her husband who had come home late in the middle of the night.

Huo Yuhao felt his scalp prickle under her stare. He yawned and asked, "It's so late. Why aren't you asleep yet?"

As he spoke, he headed toward his own bed without a care.

After everything that had happened by Sea God Lake, he had analyzed the underlying logic and gathered information on martial soul mutations.

Then that crazy woman had pinned him down in the bathroom and messed with him for ages.

After such extreme mental exertion, he was truly so exhausted that he did not even want to move a finger.

Thud.

Huo Yuhao flopped straight onto the bed.

"Get up!"

Wang Dong abruptly stood and crossed to Huo Yuhao in just a few strides.

She looked him over carefully from above.

Then—

Her gaze froze.

In the dim light, she clearly saw the conspicuous bite mark where Huo Yuhao's lips had been broken, 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, nameless fury shot straight to Wang Dong's head.

She clenched her teeth tightly. The corners of her eyes turned intensely red from anger and some inexplicable 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 rather strange.

It was not like he had gone out to find a mistress and been caught in the act. What was there to explain? That crazy woman lost all sense of restraint whenever she went mad. He was a victim too, okay?

Besides, his eyelids were fighting desperately now, and he did not want to say another word.

Huo Yuhao simply turned over, faced away from Wang Dong, and closed his eyes.

Wang Dong stared blankly at the scene.

An indescribable sense of grievance surged through her heart, and the tears in her eyes nearly began to spill.

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 one more time.

Why?

She pushed Huo Yuhao's shoulder, her voice carrying a faint, barely detectable sob.

"Yuhao, say something."

"Snore..."

The only answer she received was a long, even stream of snores.

At that instant.

Wang Dong cracked.

She stood beside the bed, her entire face filled with existential doubt.

He was asleep?

Just like that?

She had been furious and agonizing over it all night, and this pig had simply fallen asleep the moment his head hit the pillow?

The next morning.

On the road to the teaching building.

Walking beside Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao could clearly sense that today's atmosphere was a little strange.

The girl seemed to be in a bad mood.

Compared to her usual chirpy self, she was not only unusually quiet today, but she would not even look at him. Her entire body radiated an aura of cold violence.

But Huo Yuhao did not pay it much mind.

Girls always had a few days when they were irritable. The best thing was simply to leave her alone.

Soon.

Zhou Yi's first class ended.

Huo Yuhao packed 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 with a blank expression.

In his arms, he carried an enormous roll of kraft paper over a meter long.

It was an investigation form.

The questions on it were wildly varied, printed in tiny characters. At a glance, there seemed to be hundreds of items.

It covered absolutely everything.

It began with his name, hometown, and age, then went all the way to what his ancestors from eighteen generations ago had done for a living. There were even absurd questions like whether he had ever suffered from athlete's foot.

He recalled Zhou Yi's face, full of Sha Qi, in the office just now.

She had specifically told him to fill out every item carefully and seriously, without leaving out even a single word.

Huo Yuhao sighed.

What kind of farce was this now?

What Yan Shaozhe did not know was that his so-called top-secret investigation order had been passed from the inner court to the outer court, then from the outer court academic affairs office to the grade director, and finally assigned to homeroom teacher Zhou Yi.

Outsourced, then outsourced again, then outsourced some more.

After being passed down through layer after layer, in order to show how "strict" the investigation was, it had ultimately turned into a bizarre, meter-long questionnaire.

And in the end, Huo Yuhao himself still had to fill it out.

"Which damned idiot came up with this brain-dead garbage?!"

Huo Yuhao roared in the dormitory, but he could only spread the meter-long sheet across the table.

Then he obediently picked up a pen and began filling it in.

Of course, he made up most of the answers. It was not as though they could go to the Star Luo Empire to investigate his family genealogy.

Just as he wracked his brains to deal with the form,

A crisp knocking sound suddenly came from outside the dormitory door.

Tap tap tap.

Wang Dong had just finished bathing and wore nothing but an oversized white T-shirt.

That was a dangerous outfit in a boys' dormitory.

But when faced with a straight man like Huo Yuhao, she was now too lazy to keep pretending.

"Who is it?"

Wang Dong answered casually and walked over to pull 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 big eyes widened into perfect circles.

She stared blankly at Wang Dong, who was dressed so scantily, her two fair, long legs completely exposed to the air.

An indescribable shock filled her mind.

These two men's dormitory life...

Had already progressed this far?

The air fell silent for several seconds.

Xiao Xiao quickly came back to her senses. She tried her best not to look at Wang Dong's dangerously alluring outfit, her little face flushed red as she took a deep breath and said,

"Um... I came to see Huo Yuhao."