After class, Mu Jin called Su Wen, Xie Huanyue, and Wang Dong to the office.
The others chattered excitedly about the assessment.
Newly enrolled boys and girls—especially the top talents on the entire continent—naturally take great interest in competitions with rankings. Their topic had already begun drifting toward Su Wen.
He'd fought only on the first day of school, and since then existed only in legend.
"Xiao Wen, something came up recently. The Academy hopes Xie Huanyue can swap dorms with Wang Dong. I wonder if you…"
Throughout, Mu Jin kept her gaze on Su Wen. She understood his identity too well; for this kind of baffling dorm swap, if he refused, no one would dare force it…
As for Xie Huanyue, he was entirely ignored—face full of grievance but not daring to grumble in front of a teacher.
Su Wen's pupils shrank sharply.
He quickly smoothed over the reaction and took a deep breath: "Okay, Teacher, I have no objection."
…
Leaving the office—
Xie Huanyue started bawling, snot and tears together: "Boss, you can't abandon me, boohoo~"
Wang Dong'er occasionally glanced up at Su Wen's profile with curiosity, but kept silent.
Su Wen, expressionless on the surface, had stormy waves roiling in his heart.
What the hell?!!
The dog leash is coming for me?
He knew Wang Dong's identity all too well—essentially the early-stage tether Tang God-King threw down to reel in Yuhao. That martial soul fusion ultimate technique was likely the result of divine intervention. Being noticed by Tang God-King this early is definitely not a good thing…
Fortunately, with Destruction around, he wouldn't act with complete impunity.
In the original, it was mostly through the Clear Sky Sect that they influenced continental affairs; rarely did his true divine sense descend. That shows the current God Realm is not solely under his say.
As long as they don't tear things completely and force him to personally take the field—
They can develop safely…
"You're being moved to Wang Dong's original dorm?" Su Wen suddenly stopped and tilted his head toward the chattering Xie Huanyue.
"Yeah!" The latter wore a miserable face.
"With a kid named Huo Yuhao. Wang Dong, what do you think of him? Easy to get along with?"
"Uh… so-so. Very weak, poor talent, but pretty tenacious. That's it." Wang Dong was baffled by Xie Huanyue's instant-familiar attitude—he'd been sobbing a moment ago, now a face-turn?
She shrugged.
"Wang Dong, was this your family's idea?" Su Wen looked over again.
"I… I'm sorry…"
Wang Dong bit her lip lightly, face dim.
Her First and Second Dad were a bit too overbearing this time. Having her cross-dress into the boys' dorm was one thing, but arbitrarily changing dorms too? Although she felt indifferent to that Huo Yuhao—besides going to and from school at opposite times, there was no attachment—this disregard for her feelings still made Wang Dong very uncomfortable…
"It's fine."
Su Wen smiled gently.
"I'm not blaming you. There are many things neither you nor I can choose right now… Um, let's reintroduce ourselves. Su Wen, New Class Two." He hesitated, not daring to say too much, and offered a warm smile with an outstretched hand.
Toward Wang Dong, whether to avoid arousing Tang God-King's suspicion or out of pity for her, he wouldn't hold resentment.
After all, as a tool person from start to finish, with her soul torn and memories incomplete early on, then becoming a vessel later—love and friendship all inherited by another self—she's a pitiful one. At most, he could feel sympathy.
"Huh?"
Wang Dong'er looked up, her light-blue pupils blinking. She instinctively reached out. Their hands clasped.
This guy didn't seem as hard to get along with as imagined?
"Th-thank you…"
She suddenly stammered, cheeks faintly pink, eyes drifting aside.
"…"
Dorm 108.
Yuhao watched Wang Dong tidying the bed in silence, feeling a stifling ache, as if the most important thing in his life had been taken away, yet he could only stand by and watch, powerless.
He held it in until Wang Dong left.
He slapped his own cheek and thought, "It's just a roommate—so what? Huo Yuhao, you came to Shrek to become stronger, then avenge your mother!"
With that, when the dorm quieted—
He sat down to cultivate again.
In another dorm—
"Wang Dong?"
"You're… Ning Tian?"
The two stared wide-eyed at each other, dumbfounded.
Ning Tian clenched her fists. She had never felt this much hostility toward anyone. Ma Xiaotao was Su Wen's childhood friend—that she could accept. But Wang Dong—why her!
The Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul had to belong to a girl—she knew that because her father told her before he left.
A girl, openly entering the boys' dorm!
And cutting ahead of her?
Trying to sneak a bite, or a night raid?
Shaking with anger!
Had she known the Clear Sky Sect's princess had that privilege, this Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect princess would've cross-dressed too and shared a dorm with Su Wen. She simply hadn't expected someone to be so shameless!
"Uh…" Wang Dong hunched her neck. She was very confident in her disguise, but she caught a glimpse of gnashed-teeth fury in the golden eyes of this Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect young mistress.
"Hmph!"
…
Night fell.
The dorm filled up again. Regardless of gender, everyone had to head back as darkness fell. Ning Tian stuck to Su Wen a while longer, then planted a pink hickey on his cheek. With a sharp, warning glance at Wang Dong, she reluctantly left.
After Ning Tian gone—
Only two remained in the dorm.
Wang Dong felt awkward, her whole body ill at ease.
Facing Huo Yuhao, she could assertively lay out conditions. But facing Su Wen… the scene of him punching through a wall and hoisting Xie Huanyue up for a beating was still vivid. Though he seemed mild-tempered now, if he really started a fight, even ten of her wouldn't be enough.
"Have you ever held hands with Huo Yuhao?"
Lights out.
Lying in their respective beds—
Su Wen suddenly spoke.
"Huh???" Wang Dong's eyes widened.
"I don't like boys! Why would I hold hands?"
Su Wen felt enlightened.
He remembered that in the original, the two stumbled into discovering their martial soul fusion. Now, three months after school started, still no progress…
Damn—creepy if you think about it.
Wait!
A thought flashed for Su Wen.
He looked at the lump across from him, Wang Dong wrapped tight in her blanket. "Want to try martial soul fusion?"
"What's your martial soul? Mine are Light Goddess Butterfly and Clear Sky Hammer. How could there be such a coincidence? Across the entire continent, the chance for martial soul fusion is less than one in a million!"
Wang Dong pouted. She really didn't feel like getting up.
She had to get up early to face that old witch Zhou Yi tomorrow…
Wait, I transferred classes?!!
So Su Wen watched in surprise as the excited girl sprang up… "Come on, let's try!"
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