Translator: ChuRen/ YuQiChen
‘I don’t like the pet shelter.’
Su Ling said seriously, “That’s not allowed either, pets are not allowed in school.”
“Guji…” The little silkworm baby weakly cried out, tears welling up in its eyes instantly.
Su Ling quickly changed his tune, “…If you really want to stay, it’s fine, but you have to hide well.”
Little Tuanzi happily blinked its small black round eyes.
Around them, there were simultaneous gasps of surprise.
Ai Xi watched the chaotic scene and shook her head, “What a mess.”
During dinner, Meng Xiaoman quietly drew a small barrier, enclosing everyone together, and then began distributing the love letters.
“Boss, twelve letters; Sheng Ze, twelve letters; Wu Pan, eight letters; Chang Wu and Chang Bai tied for first place, each with twenty-five letters,” Meng Xiaoman counted seriously.
Su Ling looked puzzled, “Do we have this many girls in our class?”
Meng Xiaoman shook the envelopes in her hand, “Not just our class, the two classes next door heard something and all came over to hand me things.”
“This is outrageous!” Shi Kongzang slammed the table.
“Exactly,” Wu Pan nodded in agreement, “At this age, instead of studying, they are thinking about such things?”
Shi Kongzang continued angrily, “This is outrageous! I didn’t even receive a single letter!”
Wu Pan: …
Su Ling sympathetically looked at his belly, “Maybe people don’t like the chubby ones.”
Shi Kongzang angrily pointed at the silkworm baby playing happily in the snack pile, “What about it? It’s much fatter than me, why is everyone still giving it gifts?”
“Guji?”
Tuanzi, inexplicably being pointed at, raised its head blankly, its mouth still filled with chocolate.
“Not just that, Tuanzi is now ranked No. 1, its popularity even surpassing Chang Wu and Chang Bai.” Meng Xiaoman added.
Shi Kongzang: “This is too much, bullying the ghosts!”
Sheng Ze propped up his chin with one hand, his gaze casually gliding over his bald head, and said lightly, “Perhaps they don’t like people that are balding.”
Shi Kongzang: ???
Damn it, I’m really not balding!
Regardless, the high attractiveness of the ghosts made them the center of attention on their first day at school.
Following the whispers behind their backs, in this school, apart from the students, there was a peculiar gaze that had also noticed them.
“Feel it?” Shi Kongzang calmly sipped on his wolfberry tea, seemingly oblivious to the malicious glances coming from a certain direction.
“Mm,” Meng Xiaoman lowered her eyes, concealing the coldness deep within her gaze.
“What’s going on this time?” Wu Pan furrowed his brow, hesitating slightly.
“Not sure, it’s strange. But the big boss isn’t worried, so we shouldn’t be either,” Shi Kongzang vaguely remarked.
The big boss here naturally referred to the Ghost King.
But Boss Su was still here, so they couldn’t say too much.
As for Su Ling himself…
He was currently busy studying his textbooks.
“Times are changing so fast. The art of calculation has become so widespread,” Su Ling sighed.
Sheng Ze lazily sat beside him, looking boneless. Upon hearing this, he glanced lightly, “Hmm.”
Su Ling, imitating him, propped up his head with his hand, smiling with his eyes, “Can’t you understand?”
Sheng Ze raised an eyebrow in surprise, “Why would you think that?”
Su Ling’s smile didn’t fade as he nudged the textbook towards him, “Really? Since we still haven’t gotten our student cards and can’t go to the library, why don’t you focus on your homework tonight?”
Sheng Ze disdainfully flicked the test paper in his hand and looked at the first question.
Ten minutes later…
Sheng Ze calmly closed the book, admitting, “I’m really not that good at the art of calculation.”
“Pfft—”
Shi Kongzang, caught off guard by the sudden burst of laughter, sprayed out the wolfberry tea he was drinking.
Sheng Ze glanced at him quietly.
Shi Kongzang immediately turned his head, pulling Wu Pan aside to discuss seriously, “Do you think it would be too conspicuous if all of us went to the library together?”
Under Sheng Ze’s deadly gaze, Wu Pan also nodded solemnly, “I agree, it’s better to go in groups.”
Meng Xiaoman forcefully joined the discussion, “To avoid drawing attention, we can team up with other classmates to go in together.”
“Guji Guji Guji!”
The spirits turned their heads abruptly to look at the suddenly revealed white Tuanzi.
Sheng Ze extended his index finger and flicked Tuanzi’s head, “Why are you so curious, huh?”
The silkworm baby fell back on the ground with a ‘plop’, swaying its head dizzily, stars in its eyes.
Under the gaze of the Ghost King, Meng Xiaoman unintentionally made a very constructive suggestion.
Thus, with Su Ling’s approval, he, Sheng Ze, and the silkworm baby formed a three-person team, while Chang Wu, Chang Bai, and Ai Xi formed the second three-person team. Meng Xiaoman, Shi Kongzang, and Wu Pan planned to invite another classmate to join them, forming a four-person sub-team for exploring the library.
Su Ling looked disdainfully at the rolling Tuanzi on the ground, puzzled, “Why can Tuanzi also count as a person?”
The staff members silently gave Sheng Ze a glance.
—The people they counted actually didn’t include the silkworm baby. It was someone else, the big boss…
Speaking of which, Boss Su made a profit!
The first sub-team—Sheng Ze, Su Ling, and Tuanzi’s peculiar combination—received their student cards the next evening and went to the library.
The library was very quiet.
Students filled the rows of seats, engrossed in their studies, the only sound in the vast space being the scribbling of pens.
Su Ling and Sheng Ze had Tuanzi conceal its form, then they proceeded calmly, walking through the bookshelves one by one.
As time passed, the number of students in the library gradually decreased, until only a few students remained seated in scattered positions.
Su Ling found a step to sit down on, watching the scene in the self-study room across from them from a distance, whispering, “They have never left their seats.”
Sheng Ze followed suit, sitting on the ground, quietly responding, “Hmm.”
Su Ling pondered, “Not drinking water, not going to the restroom, just as Ai Xi said, they seem to be lost in their books.”
Sheng Ze remained noncommittal, absentmindedly rubbing his chin with his finger.
“The question now is, what do they have in common?” Su Ling frowned, contemplating.
They stayed in the library until closing time.
The few students across from them, at the moment the closing bell rang, revealed a look of panic. Some of them quickly collected their things and hid directly behind the bookshelves—out of sight of the patrolling staff.
It seemed like they intended to spend the night in the library.
Those who moved slowly were caught in the act by the staff, forced to leave the self-study room. However, the students who were expelled cried and shouted in fear, uttering something out of fright.
The terror on their faces was genuine.
Sheng Ze and Su Ling frowned in unison.
Unable to bear it, Su Ling drew a barrier around them, allowing them to avoid the gaze of the staff.
The students noticed that the staff was turning a blind eye to them, looking surprised, then hurriedly ran back to the bookshelves and started earnestly reading a book.
“Let’s go.” Su Ling stood up, dusting off the dust on his backside.
The reason the two of them stayed so late was partly to keep an eye on things, but more so in the hope that the ghost would come find them.
But as it appeared now, this entity seemed to be selective with its targets. Although they felt eyes on them multiple times, the other party never made a move.
“He’s not particularly interested in us, especially now that I’ve revealed my hand. He probably won’t come out anymore,” Su Ling lamented.
“Okay,” Sheng Ze agreed, picking up the sleeping Tuanzi and following Su Ling out.
Tuanzi, half-asleep, opened its eyes and, seeing Sheng Ze’s familiar face, instinctively nuzzled against him before falling back asleep peacefully.
Despite Tuanzi’s weight, Sheng Ze’s steps seemed incredibly light as he carried it.
Su Ling glanced at Sheng Ze and chuckled, “The way you’re carrying it, you look like you’re holding a child.”
Sheng Ze raised an eyebrow, teasingly saying, “Did you give birth to it?”
Su Ling looked at the huge Tuanzi and shook his head wildly, “I definitely couldn’t give birth to something of this size.”
Sheng Ze chuckled along, “True.”
The dormitories of the transfer students were basically allocated in the same area. Meng Xiaoman and the others were not surprised to see the two return empty-handed.
Instead, they were more concerned about another matter.
“They’ve gone in, they’ve gone in, the boss and the Ghost King are going to share a room tonight!” Wu Pan whispered excitedly.
“Just finished solving a case, their stamina is really something,” Meng Xiaoman remarked.
“I wonder who’s going to be the dominant and who’s going to be the submissive one,” Shi Kongzang muttered.
“The boss doesn’t stand a chance as the dominant…” Meng Xiaoman gave a look of “What are you thinking?”
“But Tuanzi was also carried in… won’t this have a negative impact on its psychological development?” Chang Bai worriedly expressed.
Shi Kongzang fell into thought, “It should… be fine?”
As he finished speaking, the bundled-up silkworm baby was suddenly thrown out with a ‘whoosh’, landing accurately in Meng Xiaoman’s arms.
There was a note stuck to the silkworm baby, and as Meng Xiaoman lightly touched it, the lazy voice of the Ghost King rang out, “Still not sleeping?”
The gossiping spirits were suddenly startled, immediately assuming bird and animal-like postures.
Tuanzi, feeling like it was in a dream, suddenly felt its body lighten, and the person holding it changed.
However, Meng Xiaoman’s embrace was even softer than Sheng Ze’s. So, Tuanzi happily nuzzled against Meng Xiaoman’s chest, drooling again as it fell back into deep sleep.
Meng Xiaoman, who had inexplicably been taken advantage of: …
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