In the end, Lin Mo failed to get an answer out of him, because Zhou Yi suddenly barged in, leaving the three of them staring at one another.
Then they earned themselves a warning about dating too young.
Lin Mo nearly lost control of his expression. Him and Huo Yuhao, dating?
First of all, he wasn't gay.
Second, romance was something best left untouched.
In his previous life, a romance-brained coworker had mocked him for being gay because he had never dated; when he got annoyed and pulled a long face, he was rewarded with, "Whoever doesn't smile is gay."
Lin Mo only wanted to be a nice piece of chocolate.
Sweet, diligent, and hardworking.
After shooting Huo Yuhao a fierce glare, Lin Mo walked out without looking back, while Huo Yuhao, knowing he was in the wrong, obediently followed behind. They had barely made it downstairs when they ran into two familiar figures.
They were none other than Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao.
Lin Mo was just about to take a detour, but those two seemed to have eyes in the backs of their heads and immediately came over.
"Lin Mo!" ×2
Great. Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao in front, Huo Yuhao behind.
He was surrounded yet again.
Lin Mo was seriously on the verge of losing it. He really wanted to give each of the three a slap. Did they have to keep cornering an honest fellow like him?
Wang Dong'er darted to his side in a single stride.
"Lin Mo, from now on, you're with me. This young lady will have your back!"
"No need." Lin Mo said expressionlessly, "Just treat me as an ordinary friend and an equal. Thanks."
With that, he strode away.
Wang Dong'er genuinely froze for a moment. She couldn't even be bothered to pay attention to the male students in class. This time, she had already lowered herself to approach him, and he had actually rejected her?
"Hey! This young lady offering you protection means I think highly of you! Why are you so unreasonable?"
Wang Dong'er immediately chased after him in displeasure. Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao exchanged a glance and tactfully followed behind the two.
All the way from the freshman dormitory to the square, Wang Dong'er's little mouth never stopped moving, though everything she said boiled down to, "Being chosen by this young lady is a blessing you spent eight lifetimes earning."
At first, Lin Mo let it all blow past his ears, not bothering to answer a single word.
But with Wang Dong'er's noisy little mouth chattering endlessly beside his ear, he finally couldn't take it anymore and abruptly stopped and turned.
How could Wang Dong'er have expected him to turn around suddenly? Unable to stop in time, she crashed straight into him.
By the time she came to her senses, clutching her forehead, Lin Mo was standing right in front of her.
At such close quarters, Wang Dong'er's little face instantly flushed red, and she began to stammer. "Y-you, what are you doing? I-mmph!"
Before she could finish, a cream bun was firmly stuffed into her mouth.
The rest of her words were blocked right off.
Lin Mo rubbed his temples and let out a long breath.
The world was finally quiet.
At first, Wang Dong'er was unwilling, glaring at him with puffed cheeks, but after taking a bite, her eyes slowly widened.
Actually, it was pretty good.
"All my life (chew, chew, chew), nobody my age has ever made me (chew, chew, chew) treat them as an equal."
She mumbled indistinctly as she chewed, "But for this bun's sake, this young lady will reluctantly agree. Anyway, where did you buy this? It's pretty good."
"It's left over from lunch."
Wang Dong'er's swallowing abruptly stopped.
Behind them, Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao couldn't hold back their snorts of laughter either.
"Don't laugh!" Humiliated and furious, Wang Dong'er pointed at Lin Mo's nose. "Lin Mo! You actually fed this young lady your leftovers!"
"Then spit it out," Lin Mo said flatly.
Wang Dong'er really did make as if to spit it out.
"Academy square. Two hundred for spitting on the ground," Lin Mo added quietly.
Wang Dong'er choked.
She forcibly swallowed the mouthful of bread that had already reached her lips.
"Just kidding~ You actually believed me?"
Wang Dong'er: "...Lin! Mo!!"
Seeing that this young lady was genuinely about to explode, Lin Mo activated his Martial Soul without any windup and fled. A mere little girl-did she really think he couldn't handle her?
Freshman Class One's classroom.
"Everyone, stand up and assemble in the square." Zhou Yi said only this after entering the classroom, then turned and left.
Nobody dared dawdle. The students swiftly left the classroom, following Zhou Yi all the way to Shrek Square.
At some point, a pile of iron chains had been placed in the square.
At Zhou Yi's command, everyone lined up neatly.
"Wang Dong'er, Lin Mo," Zhou Yi called.
"Here."
Wang Dong and Lin Mo stepped forward.
Seeing Lin Mo beside her, Wang Dong'er gave a cold snort and turned her head away.
Zhou Yi addressed all the students. "From my observations, Wang Dong and Lin Mo currently have the highest cultivation among all of you. Therefore, from now on, they will be Freshman Class One's class monitor and deputy class monitor."
"If you don't believe it, you can challenge them yourselves. A certain amount of fighting will help improve your practical combat skills."
"As long as you beat them, you'll be the new class monitor and deputy class monitor."
The students immediately answered, "Understood!"
Great. The hostility in the male students' eyes grew even stronger.
Naturally, nobody had any objections to Wang Dong'er becoming class monitor. With her looks, not only did the male students like her, but the female students did too. She appealed to both sexes.
Of course, Lin Mo wasn't bad-looking either.
His short, ink-black hair was neatly cut, with blue-green highlights at the tips. A few stray locks brushed his brow, his eyes held a casual laziness, and his uniform tie hung loosely around his neck.
The main issue was that Lin Mo usually wore a cold expression, and he exuded a faint sense of deadness and corporate-slave weariness.
At first glance, outsiders felt that he was difficult to get along with.
You wanted to ask why he didn't smile?
Never mind the lunatics and hopeless romance-brains on the Douluo Continent. Just take Blue Star-
Did you have any savings?
Did you have a partner?
Had you bought a home?
Had you bought a car?
You had nothing, yet still had to work eight to eight every day, endure the harshest scoldings, and do the most exhausting work, only for your meager take-home pay to barely cover adding a sausage to your daily instant noodles.
So corporate slaves couldn't smile.
Anyone who could still hug their phone and drool while grinning stupidly every day under those circumstances...
Could be diagnosed as a modern-day university student.
"This afternoon's lesson will still be physical training." Zhou Yi pointed to the mountain of iron garments piled beside them. "See those? Put one on each and run laps until class ends."
Zhou Yi said coldly, "Everyone will be ranked by the number of laps they run. Last place gets double the extra training."
"I'll supervise you personally."
"Don't worry. I have plenty of time to spend on you."
The male students grumbled and cursed, while the female students' pretty faces paled. Lin Mo, however, had already briskly pulled on an iron garment and started running.
A mere fifteen kilograms really wasn't much.
Back in his previous life, when Xu Yuwan was still crown prince, assassination attempts had been so frequent they had practically become everyday fare.
Whenever that happened, Xue Chen handled the assassins, while Chen Xuan led men to seal off the Eastern Palace; as for him, he was responsible for carrying Xu Yuwan with his left arm and grabbing the wheelchair with his right as he fled.
Seriously, that alloy wheelchair alone weighed more than fifteen kilograms.