Wang Dong and Tang Wutong were different. At least as far as Xue Chen was concerned, he liked Wang Dong far more than that stitched-together monstrosity, Tang Wutong.
Mm, it would be even better if she didn't have such a strong spoiled-young-miss temper!
With that thought, Xue Chen finally picked up his Shrek Academy uniform and prepared to put it on.
This wasn't ten thousand years ago, when Flender was still the dean. Shrek Academy cared about its reputation now. Its uniforms weren't that shit-green color, nor were they covered in all those ridiculous advertisements.
Just as Xue Chen was critically appraising the Shrek Academy uniform, a golden light suddenly flared at the window.
Immediately afterward, the black face of a hammer, as large as his face, grew rapidly in his vision at a speed he couldn't possibly react to.
"Holy shit, you're serious?"
Caught off guard, Xue Chen could only conjure a wall of ice in front of himself for protection.
Bang!
With a dull thud, the ice wall before Xue Chen shattered under the tremendous force.
Shrek Academy's dorm rooms were only a dozen or so square meters. In such cramped quarters, Xue Chen had nowhere to dodge.
Just as the Clear Sky Hammer in her hand was about to touch Xue Chen, Wang Dong suddenly withdrew it, but her head still slammed squarely into his stomach.
"Ow!"
Even with the Clear Sky Hammer withdrawn, the impact of the Light Goddess Butterfly, bolstered by the hammer's momentum, was not to be underestimated.
The blow knocked Xue Chen clean off balance, his feet leaving the ground in an instant.
Bang!
Another dull thud rang out.
The two flew straight out of the dorm room, their hurtling bodies smashing right through the corridor's long-neglected railing.
Bang!
The third thud was noticeably louder than the first two as they landed on the ground below.
Despite the thick lawn cushioning his fall, Xue Chen was still left seeing stars.
Who was he?
Where was he?
What had he just been doing?
Those three questions swirled through Xue Chen's mind before finally becoming one.
Was this one-third of a God King's daughter out of her mind?
She had actually brought out both her Martial Souls just to beat him up!
Instinctively reaching to rub his stomach, which had nearly had the wind knocked out of it, Xue Chen felt warmth beneath his hand.
"What are you doing? How dare you touch my face!"
Straddling Xue Chen, Wang Dong noticed the hand moving all over her face and snapped out of her daze, furiously preparing to punch him.
"Are you fucking crazy?"
Xue Chen also came to his senses at once. He rolled over, pinning Wang Dong beneath him, and seized the fists she swung at him with both hands.
"Bastard, how dare you pin me down!"
Pinned to the ground by Xue Chen, Wang Dong struggled desperately, but she couldn't break free of his grip.
What a joke. Although he was one-third of a God King's daughter, Xue Chen was, after all, a natural-born spirit with a seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
"You fucking knocked me down from the third floor and even made me cushion your landing!"
Xue Chen's blood surged as well.
"If I don't restrain you, who knows what you'll do next, you shrew!"
Ever since Xue Chen had been born, everyone he had encountered had been a gentle, lovely older sister.
Even the Ice Empress had a knife-sharp tongue but a tofu-soft heart!
When had he ever encountered someone like Wang Dong, who started swinging at the slightest disagreement?
At the word "shrew," Wang Dong's mouth twitched violently. Then she slammed her head toward Xue Chen's.
Bang!
"Ow!"
That was already the fourth dull thud in this short span of time. How could Xue Chen have imagined Wang Dong would actually attack him with a headbutt?
A large lump swelled on Xue Chen's forehead at a speed visible to the naked eye. The intense pain nearly made him release the hands restraining Wang Dong.
After two deep breaths, Xue Chen finally suppressed the searing pain in his forehead and glared at Wang Dong through gritted teeth.
"You shrew, what are you doing!"
Wang Dong wasn't faring well either. A headbutt was an attack that hurt both attacker and target. His forehead was red and swollen just like Xue Chen's, and even his eyes had reddened, his voice taking on a hint of tears.
"Y-you're the shrew!"
Leaving aside her sealed memories of the Divine Realm, Wang Dong had, at the very least, been showered with every affection in the Clear Sky Sect.
When had she ever suffered such mistreatment?
"You..."
Looking at Wang Dong, who was on the verge of tears, Xue Chen suddenly found himself speechless.
Because of the conditioning from his previous life on Blue Star, he instinctively felt a little flustered.
"It's good for young people to be lively!"
Just as the nearly crying Wang Dong left Xue Chen at a loss, an aged but familiar voice came to his rescue.
"But the academy has rules, too. You can't do anything that offends public decency in full view of everyone."
Both turned toward the voice and saw an old man lying cheerfully in a reclining chair, looking as though he was enjoying a good show.
The old man was none other than Mu En, whom Xue Chen had met at the Sea God Pavilion not long ago.
Seeing them look his way, Mu En smiled and pointed at them, then at the dormitory entrance and the dormitory building overhead.
It had to be said that their current position really did look rather bad.
Xue Chen was bare-chested, while the equally good-looking Wang Dong, a man dressed as a woman, was pinned to the ground beneath him with both hands restrained.
Their scuffle had caused quite a commotion. A large crowd had already gathered at the dormitory entrance, while even more spectators upstairs leaned over the railings to enjoy the show.
Sharp-eyed Xue Chen even spotted the strange gleam and excitement in quite a few female students' eyes that he had only seen in fujoshi in his previous life. Some were even stamping their feet on the spot!
"If you want to fight, the academy can provide a venue."
"But making such a fuss beneath the dormitory building really is... tsk, tsk!"
Mu En shook his head, his face full of teasing amusement.
Oh no!
Seeing Mu En's expression, somewhere between a smile and not, Xue Chen immediately released Wang Dong's hands and hurriedly tried to climb off her.
As everyone knew, the more anxious humans became, the more likely they were to make mistakes.
Xue Chen wanted to get up immediately, but Wang Dong, who had been pinned beneath him for so long, wanted to get up too!
In their haste, the two scrambled to rise, and their knees collided.
Xue Chen stumbled as he was getting up and fell face-first toward the ground again, while Wang Dong, her hands braced against the ground, failed to stand as well.
"Ah!"
Amid the stifled shrieks of the female students watching nearby, their faces collided.
And it wasn't just their faces. Their lips pressed together too.
Time seemed to freeze at that moment.
Xue Chen could no longer hear the sounds around him. Beyond the softness against his lips, all he could see were Wang Dong's widening eyes and increasingly red face!
"I say, this is the new students' dormitory building, not your private room."
Mu En was startled too, but a doting grin soon spread across his face.
Patting the wheelchair beneath him, Mu En spoke, his voice ringing in their ears.
"What you're doing is against academy rules, you know!"