Chapter 58: Sleeping Together? Sharing a Room?

"She is Qiu Ruoshui."

Yan Zhining saw Qin Jian's gaze and casually introduced her.

Then she looked up and said, "Bing'er, from now on Qin Jian will officially join our academy. He is also the Captain of the Tianshui Team. You will live with him."

The amount of information in that one sentence was so great that it left both Shui Bing'er and Qiu Ruoshui with dazed, circular eyes.

"Instructor Zhineng, a male student has actually joined our Tianshui Academy? And he even became our Tianshui Team Captain? And he has to share a room with Bing'er?"

Qiu Ruoshui repeated it in a daze.

Yan Zhining nodded and said, "Xue Wu, go pack your things. Bing'er, you help Qin Jian handle the admission procedures, and then you can show him around the academy. I have to go to a high-level meeting."

Ignoring Xue Wu's sour expression, she walked off on her own.

The few of them looked at each other.

"Xue Wu, does this mean you can't live with Bing'er anymore?"

Qiu Ruoshui walked down the stairs: "Wow, our future captain is actually a man. I really didn't expect that..."

"There's a lot more you haven't expected yet..."

Xue Wu said gloomily: "Instructor Zhineng actually let a man live with Bing'er. I really don't know what she's thinking. What if he has some bad intentions..."

"Hey, hey, Xue Wu, right? I'm standing right next to you. Is it really okay to say that directly?" Qin Jian said, speechless.

"Hmph!"

Xue Wu gave him a fierce huff, then tossed her head, walked up the stairs, stepped into the room Shui Bing'er had just come out of, and then the sounds of clattering and banging came from inside.

"Such a temper. Isn't it just that I took the place where she lived..." Qin Jian shook his head.

"More than that..."

Qiu Ruoshui said with a grin: "You're going to be sleeping with Bing'er, whom our Xue Wu likes the most. How could she be happy?"

"Ruoshui, don't talk nonsense!"

Shui Bing'er's face burned slightly: "I'm just sharing a room with him, not sleeping together."

"It's no different..."

Qiu Ruoshui waved her hand and walked back to her own room with a grin: "You two go ahead and get to know each other, I won't disturb you."

Only Qin Jian and Shui Bing'er were left in the hall, and for a moment, it was a bit awkward.

"La... last time at the Soul Hunting Ground, you helped me, and I haven't thanked you yet," Shui Bing'er said with her head lowered.

Qin Jian smiled and said, "That can be considered fate. Who knew we would end up being roommates."

"Roommates..."

Shui Bing'er felt the heat on her face, which hadn't yet cooled, starting to burn up all over again.

She did not refuse Instructor Yan Zhining's arrangement, nor was she unhappy that Qin Jian had parachuted in to take the position of captain that originally belonged to her; not only because she wasn't used to refusing, but also because she had a very good impression of Qin Jian herself.

The rescue in the Soul Hunting Ground, and his devotion to Ning Rongrong, were things Shui Bing'er had kept in her heart.

"Did you join the academy alone? Ning Rongrong didn't come with you?" she asked curiously.

After all, back at the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, everyone could see how good the relationship between Qin Jian and Ning Rongrong was.

And now that Qin Jian had come to Tianshui Academy all by himself, it was a bit strange...

It couldn't really be that he came for the sake of beautiful girls like them, right? Shui Bing'er didn't believe Qin Jian was that kind of person.

"Rongrong, she..."

Qin Jian's heart gave a slight tug, but there was no sign of anything amiss on his face: "She stayed at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to cultivate; that place is more suitable for her."

"Oh..."

Shui Bing'er intuitively felt that the matter wasn't as simple as Qin Jian said, but she felt embarrassed to keep asking.

So she went upstairs to check the room, and seeing that Xue Wu was still fiercely packing her things, she walked back down and said: "Xue Wu probably won't be finished packing for a while. Let me take you around the academy first."

Qin Jian nodded and followed by Shui Bing'er's side, and they walked out together...

"Bing'er, that girl, she looks quite happy..."

Xue Wu's figure suddenly appeared at the doorway, muttering unhappily: "Is it really that happy to be separated from me and live with a man?"

"Of course it's happy, hee hee..."

Qiu Ruoshui's figure appeared at the doorway, not knowing when she had arrived: "Didn't you notice that since she came back from the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, at least half of her sentences mention this Qin Jian? I think she's fallen for him!"

Xue Wu's expression became even more depressed: "Hmph, men are all big pig trotters!"

"What big pig trotters?"

At this moment, another girl in a short ice-blue skirt walked in from the entrance.

Xue Wu's eyes lit up: "Yue'er, you're back? Did you finish your class today?"

"No, I still have one class that I take with my sister. Where is my sister?" Shui Yue'er asked.

"Your sister..."

Xue Wu rolled her eyes and suddenly said: "Ran off with a man."

"What?"

Shui Yue'er looked blank: "Where would there be a man in our academy?"

"It's that Qin Jian, the one your sister has been mentioning these past few days..."

Xue Wu stepped forward and hooked her arm around Shui Yue'er's neck, saying: "Not only did he come to our academy, he even replaced your sister's position. More importantly, he was assigned by Instructor Zhineng to live with your sister!"

"What!"

Shui Yue'er grabbed Xue Wu's arm tightly: "Xue Wu, you're joking, right? How could Instructor Zhineng make such an arrangement?"

Xue Wu shook her head and said: "Unfortunately, it's all true. Right now, Instructor Zhineng has gone to a high-level meeting, preparing to get Qin Jian's enrollment approved by all the higher-ups."

"Then that's fine. Instructor Zhineng's proposal definitely won't be passed, especially with Instructor Xiao Jing there."

Shui Yue'er said easily: "Maybe he won't even be able to stay today and will be kicked out very soon."

Xue Wu said: "What you say makes a lot of sense, but just in case, shouldn't we do something? Otherwise, can you really just watch your sister sleep with a man?"

"No way! Absolutely not!"

Shui Yue'er shook her head like a rattle-drum: "I, her younger sister, haven't even slept with her yet, how could a man get there first?!"

"Hey, hey! You two watch your wording, it's not sleeping together, it's just sharing a room..." Qiu Ruoshui said happily.

"Shut up!"

Xue Wu said crossly: "You're the only one who looks so happy, you woman with no principles."

Shui Yue'er blinked her eyes: "Sharing a room... that seems even more wrong than sleeping together..."

Qiu Ruoshui: "..."

Xue Wu waved her hand: "Forget about that, Yue'er, aren't you going to class? Your sister will definitely go too, and Qin Jian isn't familiar with the academy, so maybe they'll go together. How about you give him a hard time then?"

"Give him a hard time?"

Shui Yue'er touched her delicate chin and said: "That's simple. Our class is on the understanding and application of the Water-type Martial Soul. He definitely won't know anything. When the time comes, I'll stir up trouble by calling on the new student, who also happens to be a male student, to answer questions, hehehe..."

(End of chapter)