"You're so handsome, Lu Cheng!"
Inside a cafe.
Tang Ya pinched Lu Cheng's face with her slender fingers, grinning as she leaned in close to him, showing absolutely no sense of personal boundaries. Jiang Nannan, sitting on Lu Cheng's other side, gently refilled the coffee and glared at Tang Ya with her pink eyes.
"Stop harassing my younger brother!"
"Oh my, why are you acting like you're guarding your food?" Tang Ya made a face.
"You!" Jiang Nannan's pretty face flushed red. She bit her lip lightly and rolled her eyes, looking quite charming.
"Behave yourself! Lu Cheng just finished his match; he must be tired. Let him have some peace and quiet." Even as she said this, Jiang Nannan felt a bit awkward.
"Tsk—" Tang Ya snorted softly and reined in her actions a bit. However, in the shadows where Jiang Nannan couldn't see, her hand remained quite bold, gently kneading Lu Cheng's leg.
Lu Cheng's expression remained unchanged, though he felt a bit bitter inside.
It was simple: ever since they had crossed the line last time, Sister Xiao Ya had become increasingly unbridled with him, just like now.
A soft sensation came from his thigh. Lowering his gaze, he saw a beautiful, fleshy, long, and straight leg resting on his own. It was within reach, glowing white and extremely aesthetically pleasing. As it rested on his thigh, the soft flesh on the underside of Tang Ya's leg sank in slightly, with the surrounding flesh bulging out. As the beauty swayed slightly, it was as if it stirred up a faint ripple.
"Hehe—" Tang Ya's demonic laughter rang in his ear.
Lu Cheng was full of helplessness.
Turning his head, he saw Tang Ya's exquisite and lovely face filled with innocence and confusion, though in the depths of her beautiful eyes, a hint of playfulness and excitement was mixed in.
Tang Ya's upper body showed no signs of anything unusual, as if the two were just at the distance of ordinary friends.
Beside him, Jiang Nannan parted her red lips, blowing on the steaming hot coffee before holding it to Lu Cheng's lips. Seemingly unaware of anything unusual, she looked at Lu Cheng tenderly.
"Ah—"
"Sister Nannan, I'm not a three-year-old child." Lu Cheng's mouth twitched.
Feeling the softness on his thigh at the same time, for some reason, a trace of guilt arose in his heart.
"Sister Xiao Ya, when are you going home to visit your family?" Lu Cheng took a deep breath and looked at Tang Ya beside him.
The latter's expression suddenly stiffened.
But sensing something, she gradually became somewhat excited.
"Probably this winter break, I suppose."
"Good, I'll go with you." Lu Cheng let out a sigh of relief as the warm sensation on his thigh finally vanished.
But the next instant, his expression changed. He yanked his pants tight and looked at Tang Ya beside him in some horror.
The latter pressed her body against him, staring at him with her watery eyes. Her slender hand was secretly pulling down on Lu Cheng's pants, her pretty face full of joy and excitement. Her other hand gathered her long hair, which had been draped over her shoulders, and tied it up with a hair tie, while she took the opportunity to lick her soft red lips.
Three months passed in a flash.
Lu Cheng silently cultivated his Golden Core technique, successfully making a breakthrough to the level 54 Soul King realm. With the support of the Tianmeng-brand power bank, his mental force could also expand from its original detection diameter of two thousand meters to about two thousand two hundred meters.
Huo Yuhao, with the financial backing of the wealthy Ning Cong, also began studying in the Soul Tool Department. However, he also encountered Dai Huabin. Seeing an enemy made their eyes turn red with hatred, and they agreed to settle the score during the New Student Assessment.
—Wang Dong'er, under Lu Cheng's guidance, gradually steadied her mindset and began to cultivate vigorously. In the original story, she was far too lax in her cultivation; despite having the ultimate martial soul fusion skill, she still lagged behind Dai Huabin and Ning Tian. However, in this lifetime, having sensed the overwhelming spider web coming towards her in advance, she was forced to work hard.
However, her attitude towards Lu Cheng was also somewhat ambiguous. She would help bring him breakfast, and at night, she was no longer as reserved as before, often liking to crowd onto Lu Cheng's bed to play around.
Ning Tian and Wu Feng had also looked for Lu Cheng a few times, but they were very restrained in their feelings, far gentler than that female hooligan, Tang Ya.
Xu Sanshi was taken back by the Xuanming Sect. The latter did not ask Shrek Academy for any explanation, as if everything was calm. But only Lu Cheng knew that this was the prelude to a storm; they were preparing a big move.
And according to Shrek's usual behavior, they must have long guessed that the Xuanming Sect would retaliate against them, but they were also waiting—
That's right, what Shrek Academy likes most is to use leverage to manipulate situations. They won't personally cause trouble, but they love to "provide help in times of need" when others are causing trouble. They will never act until the very last moment when their own lives are at stake.
The previous New Student Assessment was like this, and this matter is the same.
However, Lu Cheng didn't really care. For him, he had never counted on Shrek Academy.
This coy and corrupt massive force had long since grown into a twisted ancient tree full of tumors.
Inside the dormitory.
Wang Dong'er burst in in a rush, her pretty face full of anger.
"I'm so pissed off! That old hag Zhou Yi!"
"She actually—actually dared to instigate Xiao Xiao to obtain her second soul ring! She has twin spirits, and her second martial soul is the Nine Phoenix Dancing Flute, such a top-tier support system martial soul. If she attaches a soul ring to her second martial soul while still a spirit grandmaster, wouldn't she only be able to choose a hundred-year one?"
"Just to win the match for the team, for her own pathetic performance record, she dares to ruin someone with twin spirits?"
"That beast!"
Wang Dong'er's little face was full of indignation.
Although she and Xiao Xiao were not in the same class, they had a good relationship and often chatted. Recently, seeing Xiao Xiao feeling down, she went to console her and only then learned of Zhou Yi's insane actions.
Lu Cheng shook his head.
Zhou Yi would stop at nothing for her performance record; he wasn't the only one who knew this.
By leveraging the influence of her husband, Fan Yu, and because Du Weilun was a good friend of Fan Yu, she acted like a fox assuming the tiger's might, behaving arrogantly and domineeringly in the Outer Academy's Martial Soul Department, with few daring to provoke her.
In the simulator, he had seen this person, but back then she had smiled sycophantically, and given his status and position, he hadn't bothered to pay her any mind.
But now Shrek was truly rotten to the core.
From the inside out, from top to bottom.
If not for the invisible hand of Tang San, it would have long since been wiped clean by a level 9 spirit tool.
Returning to the dormitory, Wang Dong'er had also restored her long hair and original appearance. Her pretty face was full of gloom. Seeing Lu Cheng lying on the bed, she smiled sycophantically and crowded over.
"You want me to help her?" Lu Cheng said indifferently.
This was Shrek Academy's own mess, and he genuinely didn't want to get involved. After all, he only felt some pity for Xiao Xiao, but that was it.
But—
"I'll step on your back!" Wang Dong'er bit her red lip, a flash of shyness crossing her pretty face.
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