Chapter 221: Overnight in the Boudoir

"Yes, yes, yes, you aren't lacking people chasing after you, but there's also no one you've taken a liking to!"

Huo Tianhua spread his hands.

"Qin Jian, since you and Huo Wu are already like this, why not just stay at our Blazing Academy?"

Huo Tianhua began to wink and nudge, trying to hook Qin Jian into joining the academy again.

"Teacher, can't you see we've been beaten until our faces are swollen and bruised?"

Huo Wushuang put his hands on his hips in frustration: "If you let him in again, our team will be at each other's throats..."

"Hmm... I'd be willing to trade the six of you for him."

Huo Tianhua pondered for a moment, then stated his position clearly.

Huo Wushuang and the others were so angry they almost unleashed their martial souls on the spot.

"Teacher Huo is just joking with you all..."

Qin Jian had wanted to dampen their killing intent, but seeing that they still looked like they wanted to fight him to the death, he couldn't help but change his tone: "Actually, he feels that rather than wasting time on you lot, it would be better to just replace the whole team."

"Qin Jian, I am at odds with you!" Huo Wushuang roared.

Qin Jian crossed his arms: "Boring, I won't lower myself to the level of a sister-complex."

Huo Lie: "Just you wait, one day I will defeat you."

Qin Jian looked up at the sky: "In your next life."

Huo Yun and Huo Yu: "You will pay the price."

"That's not something you two support types could manage." Qin Jian didn't even look at them.

Huo Jun and Huo Chui: "We'll see you at the tournament!"

"Oh my, you scared me; I thought you were going to ask me to meet you behind the school after class..."

Qin Jian waved his hand with a smile, wrapped his arm around Huo Wu's waist, and walked away leisurely: "Goodbye, everyone."

Huo Tianhua, Huo Wushuang, and the others just watched as Qin Jian took Huo Wu out of Blazing Academy, and Huo Wu didn't have a single objection.

"Truly met his match..." Huo Tianhua sighed.

"Hmph!"

Huo Wushuang turned and left: "I'm going to train."

"Us too!"

The six of them ignored Huo Tianhua and left on their own.

Huo Tianhua: "..."

"That's fine too; using this incident to suppress their previous bad habit of being arrogant is good, they should be able to settle down now."

He watched their retreating figures and slowly revealed a fox-like smile...

Outside Blazing Academy, Huo Wu leaned against Qin Jian and said crossly: "I gave you face earlier and didn't say anything, but they are my teammates after all. Why are you so arrogant? Especially my brother, how is he supposed to manage after being looked down upon by you like that?"

Qin Jian laughed: "Your team leader is deliberately tempering them, you silly girl."

He couldn't help but reach out and flick her forehead.

"Ah?"

Huo Wu was indeed a bit stunned as she covered her head: "The teacher was doing it on purpose?"

"Of course, I was just playing along with the performance." Qin Jian leaned in and kissed her beautiful cheek.

Huo Wu pretended to be annoyed and pushed his face away: "Why are you so clingy now?"

"A girl who says one thing but means another," Qin Jian said speechlessly.

"By the way, where are you taking me?" Huo Wu suddenly asked.

"You're only just now thinking to ask that question?"

Qin Jian said lazily: "It's been half a year, I should be heading back, so I planned to take you with me."

Huo Wu was full of question marks: "Take me where? I have to make final preparations for the tournament now, how can I leave the academy?"

Qin Jian touched his nose: "That's why I only planned to take you for one night... you wouldn't even be willing to spend your last night with me, would you?"

"Where are you taking me?" Huo Wu asked guardedly.

Qin Jian raised the corner of his mouth: "I don't have a place to stay at your academy, so of course we're going to a hotel."

"You don't, but I do..." Huo Wu said without thinking.

"Uh..."

A blush spread across her cheeks.

Because this sentence was no different from inviting Qin Jian to sleep in her boudoir.

Qin Jian naturally climbed up the pole: "Then we'll stay at your place, it even saves on the room fee, which is so expensive."

According to Huo Wu's personality, it would have been impossible for her to agree, but now she couldn't easily say the words of refusal.

Once you have someone you like, you start worrying about gains and losses.

"Then... let's go back..."

Huo Wu lowered her head, pulled Qin Jian back, and then, under countless ambiguous gazes, brought him into the unified living quarters of the Blazing Fire Team.

Just like Tianshui Academy, the team had special treatment, and an entire building belonged to them.

It was easy to imagine the black-faced, wanting-to-curse expressions on Huo Wushuang and the others when they saw Qin Jian again.

"Qin Jian! Let's have a one-on-one right now!"

The sister-complex Huo Wushuang was the first to jump out.

Qin Jian glanced at him casually: "Oh, you want a one-on-one with me?"

Seeing his seemingly eager-to-move demeanor, Huo Wushuang instantly recalled the scene where the six of them were beaten to the ground, and immediately changed his words: "Of course, you one-on-one against the six of us!"

Not to mention the awkward expressions of the other five, even Huo Wu covered her forehead, feeling ashamed for her brother.

"Ahem, I wanted to ask, what are you doing coming to our dormitory building?" Huo Wushuang's face was a little red.

Qin Jian looked around at the fiery red decorations as if nothing were the matter, and said casually, "To spend the night, of course."

"Spend the night?!"

The six of them exclaimed in unison, then cast looks of disbelief at Huo Wu, who was standing beside Qin Jian; their gazes were as if they were looking at a celestial being.

"Huo Wu, as your brother, I absolutely will not allow you to bring a man back to your room to spend the night!" Huo Wushuang said righteously.

"You want to control me?"

Huo Wu's eyes were somewhat dangerous.

Huo Wushuang: "..."

"Click."

Watching as Huo Wu actually dragged Qin Jian into her room and locked the door, the few of them looked at each other in dismay.

"Wushuang, are you really not going to do something about Huo Wu?" Huo Yun said, speechless.

Huo Wushuang clenched his fists, veins popping out on his forehead: "Do you think I can control her?!"

Huo Yun: "..."

"It's a good thing our room's soundproofing is pretty good," Huo Yu suddenly said.

The others were stunned for a moment, then all revealed strange expressions that said, 'I know, you know, we all know.'

Only Huo Wushuang's face grew even darker...

Huo Wu's room did not have many superfluous decorations, nor did it have the countless clothes and cosmetics common to girls; she did not have those things.

A few sets of spare clothes, a few pairs of shoes, and a few sets of backup toiletries were basically all the items in her room.

"Why haven't you bought yourself more clothes? Isn't it the more the merrier for you girls when it comes to clothes?" Qin Jian asked.

Huo Wu sat on her soft bed, her expression slightly unnatural.

"Because I think those things are useless; I'd rather seize the time to cultivate than spend it on that," she said.

"Why work so hard? Life shouldn't be entirely occupied by cultivation; how boring that would be," Qin Jian said, sitting over.

Huo Wu raised her head and said earnestly, "I said it back when I first met you: Blazing Academy is the place that raised me, and winning glory for it is the thing I most want to do right now."

"And after that?"

Qin Jian suddenly said, "You will eventually graduate from Blazing Academy."

Huo Wu stood up and slowly paced to the window, taking in the academy adorned with fiery red maple trees outside.

"Perhaps... I will stay at Blazing to be a teacher..."

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