Back at the dormitory, everyone was still there. Gujiu was the first to pounce into Zhang Ye's arms, planting a loud kiss on his cheek.
When Zhang Ye had first returned to school, it had given him several kisses in a row.
“Gujiu~ Gujiu!”
Holding Gujiu, Zhang Ye had a doting look on his face. “Big brother likes Gujiu too!”
Watching this scene, Lina and Xi Ya showed a trace of envy in their eyes.
Meanwhile, Samanra noticed the brilliant ring on Leona's finger, and a flash of longing immediately crossed her eyes.
Nan turned his face away, looking a bit sullen. Clearly, he had also noticed the ring.
After chatting for a while longer, everyone departed one after another.
Before leaving, Leona urged Zhang Ye to make sure he came to class tomorrow.
There was no other reason than that without Zhang Ye, the theory classes could only be taught by Leona. And her theory classes... um, the students complained endlessly, clamoring for Zhang Ye to return and teach.
To reach such a state as a student, Zhang Ye was truly one of a kind.
Zhang Ye couldn't help but chuckle and agreed.
Only after everyone had left did Tei Tei crawl out of the backyard with her babies. Without asking for Zhang Ye's permission, she crawled straight into his arms, found a comfortable position to lie down, and then asked, pretending not to care.
“Where did you run off to?”
“Are you worried about me?” Zhang Ye asked with a grin.
“N-No way! This bug would never care about a bad guy like you!” Tei Tei said in dissatisfaction, burrowing even deeper into Zhang Ye's arms.
Just then, one of the babies climbed onto Zhang Ye's shoulder, squeaking.
After growing for these past few days, the baby had grown quite a bit, but it was still just as cute—at least in front of Zhang Ye.
The babies were already capable of simple communication.
Hearing what that baby said, the surrounding group of babies also began to chirp and chatter.
Tei Tei immediately panicked. “You guys! Don't talk nonsense!”
“I wasn't worried about him at all!”
“I wasn't!”
Zhang Ye burst out laughing upon hearing this.
The babies were all saying that during the days he was gone, Tei Tei was so worried that she spun in circles at the doorway every day and wouldn't even eat her favorite meat.
At this moment, although Tei Tei's body was black, Zhang Ye could clearly feel her blushing furiously.
She was simply too cute!
With a gentle gaze and a smile on his face, Zhang Ye softly stroked Tei Tei's head.
“I'm very happy.”
“Hmph... W-What does that have to do with me...” Tei Tei turned her face away as she spoke, but her antennae were twitching erratically.
Just then, Nan walked over, quietly looking at Zhang Ye.
Zhang Ye instantly understood his meaning and smiled. “Cultivation?”
Nan nodded silently, then walked toward Zhang Ye's room.
Although he could already cultivate on his own because Zhang Ye had opened up a new mana circulation method for him, he clearly preferred to dual cultivate with Zhang Ye.
Not only was the cultivation speed fast, but... it also felt amazing!
Checking on Bolabo and Labella in the contract space, the two guys were still in a deep sleep. Once they woke up, they should have made their breakthrough.
Returning to that familiar room, Nan was already washed up and waiting on the bed... cough, prepared to cultivate.
Sitting cross-legged opposite each other, Zhang Ye took Nan's hand.
Perhaps because it had been too long since they last dual cultivated, when Zhang Ye took his hand, his body trembled imperceptibly.
However, Zhang Ye didn't notice.
The two began to cultivate.
But this time, Nan did not close his eyes immediately.
Instead, after a moment of silence, he asked, “The Water Spirit's Tear, is it the Water Spirit's?”
Zhang Ye nodded. “Yeah.”
Nan: “Did you beat her to tears?”
Zhang Ye: “...”
Zhang Ye smiled helplessly. “What are you thinking? How could I possibly beat her?”
“She already had those.”
“Why would she give you something so precious?” Nan asked, puzzled.
Zhang Ye smiled. “It's precious to us, but to her, they are merely tears that evoke sad memories of the past.”
“Oh...” Nan nodded. After a moment of silence, he asked again, “Did you fight her?”
“No.” Zhang Ye shook his head. “We became friends.”
“The surprise for Leona was completed with her help the entire time.”
“How did you become friends with her?” Nan grew increasingly bewildered. “She wanted to kill us at first.”
Zhang Ye shook his head. “Wanting to kill us wasn't her own wish. If she could have helped it, she wouldn't have done that either.”
“As for how we became friends... perhaps it's fate.”
“Just like back then, you probably never thought you would become friends with me either.”
Nan fell silent. Finally, he nodded, closed his eyes, and began to focus on cultivating.
...
Early the next morning, everyone eagerly arrived at Dormitory 233. Sure enough, Zhang Ye had already prepared a sumptuous breakfast.
While eating breakfast, Lina kept looking at Zhang Ye. Finally, she couldn't help but transmit her voice: “Brother Ye.”
“Yeah?”
“Did you beat the Water Spirit to tears?” Lina asked, blinking her large eyes.
Zhang Ye: “...”
A strikingly familiar question.
Zhang Ye couldn't help but chuckle. “No, the Water Spirit's Tear was a gift from her. We're friends now.”
“I see!” Lina narrowed her eyes in a smile and didn't press further.
In her view, for someone like Zhang Ye, the Water Spirit would surely feel his goodness. Becoming friends with him didn't surprise her at all.
Afterward, everyone went to the classroom together.
The moment everyone saw Zhang Ye, their eyes lit up, and they swarmed over.
“Monitor, you're finally here!”
“Lord Monitor, you made us wait so long...”
Looking at the teary-eyed crowd and listening to their grievances, Zhang Ye couldn't help but burst out laughing.
It turned out that the theory classes Leona taught were too overbearing. Often, as the theory class went on, it would transform into a practical combat class.
After all, who could blame her for being a practical-combat type?
Thus, during the days Zhang Ye was absent, everyone was trained to within an inch of their lives by Leona.
Leona's training volume in practical combat classes was at least double that of other mentors. Although the improvement was remarkable, it was... too painful!
Getting injured was a regular occurrence.
Aside from Leona, another source of pain was that kid, Nan.
In Zhang Ye's absence, Nan, as the Vice Monitor, naturally took up the heavy responsibility of leading the class. For example... during sparring, he would lead by example, requiring everyone to fight him once.
With Zhang Ye gone, this kid fought exceptionally ruthlessly, as if carrying a wave of irritability and hostility. He showed absolutely no mercy. During one practical combat class, Leona requested that the students spar with Nan one by one. As a result, except for a few, the entire class was heavily injured that day.
The scene could only be described as too horrific to look at.
Now, the students of Rainbow Class One looked at Nan like sheep looking at a wolf, terrified that he would jump over at any moment and give them a slash.
So at this moment, the gentle Zhang Ye seemed to them like an angel... no, a savior!
Seeing how pitiful they were, Zhang Ye spared no effort to give them a vivid, engaging, and extremely interesting theory class. This made everyone feel comforted in their souls, their bodies and minds cleansed.
Consequently, Zhang Ye's status in the class rose once again.
Whenever they saw Zhang Ye, they would call him "Brother Ye" left and right, their mouths incredibly sweet.
Once the morning classes ended, everyone reluctantly headed back.
Meanwhile, Zhang Ye led his group toward the research institute.
Since everyone had mentioned wanting to take the exam to become magic researchers, Zhang Ye took them along. Besides, he hadn't visited the research institute in quite some time, so it was a good opportunity to see how Ke Ling and the others were doing.
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