"Miss, at a time like this, I hope your first reaction upon seeing me would be astonishment at my heavenly good looks."
"Rather than asking a childish question like how I climbed up here when this is the eighteenth floor."
Mo Lin sat in a chair in the room with his legs crossed, holding some miscellaneous book he had gotten from who knew where in one hand, while his other hand quite naturally picked up some fruit from the edge of the table and began eating.
His movements were utterly natural, as though this were his room.
His behavior left the initially aggressive Dugu Yan at a complete loss, even making her wonder whether she had entered the wrong room.
But she quickly came to her senses, simply because she spotted the luggage she had left on the bed.
No mistake. This was her room.
But how had this man gotten in?
"Brat, you must be tired of living. Do you think someone like you can just barge into my room?"
"I..."
Dugu Yan was furious, but just as she was about to attack Mo Lin, Ye Lingling stopped her.
"Yanyan, calm down. Don't act rashly."
Ye Lingling felt embarrassed. He was sitting right there as bold as brass, making it clear he had something to rely on.
"If you charge straight at him, what if you fall into his trap?"
Especially in this unfamiliar place, with only the two girls in the room, it was entirely possible that he had come specifically for them.
"I almost fell for your trick."
At Ye Lingling's reminder, she immediately came to her senses and stepped back several paces, keeping a safe distance from Mo Lin.
"Just you wait. I'll call some people over to deal with you."
Yu Tianheng and the others' rooms were not far away.
She only needed to step outside and shout, and they would come over immediately.
Then they could pin him to the floor and beat him within an inch of his life.
He certainly had some plump, well-fed guts to dare barge into her room.
But just as she was about to pull Ye Lingling outside to call for help, Mo Lin, who had still been sitting in the chair, suddenly appeared at the doorway and blocked them.
"Beautiful ladies, don't get worked up. I'm not a bad person."
"I only came here to look for my pet."
As he spoke, Mo Lin pointed at Xiao Hei in Ye Lingling's arms, making his meaning as clear as could be.
"You're this little one's owner?"
Ye Lingling looked at him doubtfully. After all, she really had picked up the little fellow in her arms.
And judging by the little fellow's glossy fur, he clearly wasn't some wild stray.
But she had only just picked him up. How had his owner already come straight to their door?
Suspicious. Extremely suspicious.
"Ahem, um, Xiao Hei, hurry up and come back."
Seeing that Ye Lingling seemed to have noticed something, Mo Lin hurriedly diverted her attention.
Good grief, how is this girl so quick on the uptake?
Mo Lin muttered inwardly. He had originally intended to use this method to create an opportunity to approach her himself.
But he seemed to have rushed things a little too much. She had nearly spotted the problem.
Upon hearing Mo Lin's call, Xiao Hei, who had been lying obediently in Ye Lingling's arms, sensibly jumped out and then onto Mo Lin's shoulder.
"He really is yours?!"
Dugu Yan had not believed him at first, but given the situation now, he really had not lied to her.
The question was, though, why had he needed to sneak into their room to ask for his lost pet back?
Wasn't that just bizarre?
"You have the little one back. Shouldn't you leave now?"
Ye Lingling's attitude was cold. Clearly, she did not want to get further entangled with him.
"Hey, hey, hey, wait a second, I..."
"If you keep pestering us, I won't be polite."
She had not even intended to pursue the matter of him trespassing in her room. If he insisted on pestering her, there was no need for her to remain polite.
She was merely soft-natured. That did not mean she was easy to bully.
Precisely because of this issue with her personality, Mo Lin had personally coached her back in Heaven Dou City.
Who would have thought that the first person she tried it on would be the very man who had taught her?
After all, with Dugu Yan around in Heaven Dou City, no one had dared treat her like this.
"All right, all right, I'll go. Don't be angry."
Good grief, his plan to get close to her had completely failed.
He intended to keep trying. In any case, she would be staying here for some time, so he could simply find another opportunity.
The next moment, his figure vanished on the spot.
Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling watched the entire thing, both deeply shocked.
"He disappeared? How did he do that?!"
It was neither teleportation nor an escape technique, but disappearance, as though he had never existed in the first place.
"Lingling, did we just run into a ghost?"
Despite Dugu Yan's usual carefree manner and fierce temper, she was not quite as fearless as she appeared.
She had one fatal weakness: she was extremely afraid of the dark and ghosts.
When it came to courage, she might not even have as much as Ye Lingling.
Looking at the spot where Mo Lin had just disappeared, Dugu Yan instinctively edged closer to Ye Lingling.
Both hands gripped her arm tightly, her gaze darting about as though searching for traces of him.
"Ouch... Yanyan, you're hurting me."
Feeling the pain in her arm, Ye Lingling complained.
"Ah, sorry. I didn't mean to."
Dugu Yan let go and hurriedly apologized to Ye Lingling.
Seeing how frightened she looked, Ye Lingling shook her head helplessly.
"I really don't know what to do with you."
The young lady Dugu Yan, who feared neither heaven nor earth at the academy, was actually afraid of ghosts. No one would believe it if word got out.
Still, that man really had been rather strange.
His ability to disappear so suddenly might have been the reason he could enter their room without a sound.
"Lingling, why don't we change rooms? I feel like there's something unclean here."
After that fright from Mo Lin, Dugu Yan had been left somewhat traumatized.
She made such a fuss about changing rooms that Ye Lingling could only agree.
In truth, as far as she was concerned, with an ability like his, changing rooms would be useless.
Fortunately, he had harbored no ill intent, or they might both have been bullied by him.
"The outside world really is dangerous. Brother Mo Lin didn't lie to me."
Ye Lingling was actually terribly flustered too. Only by tightly clutching the necklace Mo Lin had given her around her neck did she feel a little more at ease.
Meanwhile, Mo Lin (Evil Face), who had just disappeared, was receiving a cordial greeting from Mo Lin (Good Side).
"What the hell is wrong with you? I told you to protect her, not scare her! Look what you've done."
"How was I supposed to know I'd scare her? I didn't do it on purpose. Besides, isn't close protection still protection?"
Evil Face refused to accept this. They were clearly the same person, so why could Good Side kiss her, hug her, and lift her up, while he couldn't?
Hadn't he merely changed his face? Was his interesting soul not enough to attract her?
"Close protection, my ass! You're the most dangerous thing in this city. As long as you don't make a move, nothing can possibly happen to Lingling."
Did he really think the protection he had given her was just for show? Right now, even Tang Hao could not hurt her if he attacked.
But for all his calculations, he had never expected the problem to come from himself.
Had he not added a detection sensor to the necklace he had given Ye Lingling, he would not even have known what the other had done.
"I don't care. I haven't seen Lingling in ages. If nothing else works, let's switch. You go running around outside, and I'll stay in Heaven Dou City."
"Get lost!"
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