**Chapter 364: Are You Pretending to Sleep?**

**Chapter 364: Are You Pretending to Sleep?**

In the blink of an eye, a new week began. Zhao Ling was thinking about Dugu Yan asking her to go to their dormitory along with Ye Lingling at night.

He was a little worried. Would it be impolite for him to go to their dormitory without Ye Lingling's consent?

Even though she had said five years ago that she would abide by her agreement with Dugu Yan and give him a chance to pursue her...

But it seems that no one said he was allowed to run to her dormitory and mess with all her best friends, right?

Just when Zhao Ling was worried, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, who were in class, started whispering to each other.

"Lingling, have you noticed any changes in me?"

Ye Lingling looked Dugu Yan up and down, then asked in a tentative tone, "Yanyan, did you eat garlic?"

"..." Dugu Yan rolled her eyes and replied unhappily, "Do I have bad breath today? And I ate garlic? I'm asking if you've noticed the change in my soul power."

"No..." Ye Lingling shook her head. Dugu Yan hadn't released her soul power yet, so how could she detect it?

"Hey, let me tell you, I'm now level 46. The day before yesterday, Brother Ling came to my house and gave me a pill. He said that the pill he gave us before was a weakened version. Now that he has refined the real Eight Immortals Pill, he gave me another one. He said he would come to our dormitory in the evening and give you one as well."

Dugu Yan then told Ye Lingling that Zhao Ling was going to their dormitory. At first, Ye Lingling just nodded.

After a moment, she stood up from her seat and shouted in surprise, "What? He's going to our dormitory tonight?"

The female teacher who was teaching the class, along with the students who were listening attentively, suddenly turned their eyes to Ye Lingling.

The feeling of being the center of attention made Ye Lingling suddenly realize that she was still in class.

The female teacher was also speechless and said to Ye Lingling, "Student Ye Lingling, please do not talk about things that are not related to the class during class time."

"Okay, okay..." Ye Lingling covered her face, hurriedly sat down, glared at Dugu Yan fiercely, and said in a low voice, "Yanyan, why didn't you tell me earlier that our dormitory is such a mess? If Brother Ling saw us, he would laugh at us for not being able to clean our dorm rooms."

"Didn't I just return to the academy today? I told you the news right after I came back. How can you blame me for not telling you earlier?"

Dugu Yan covered her mouth and giggled. She didn't expect Ye Lingling's reaction to be so strong. She looked like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"It's over, it's over. Let's go back at noon and clean up the dormitory. We must not let Brother Ling make a fool of us."

Ye Lingling frowned and spoke in an unquestionable tone, "Okay, let's clean up the room when we get back at noon... Well, actually, Lingling, I think it doesn't matter whether we clean up the room or not. The hygiene of our dormitory is quite good. The reason why it looks messy is mostly because our personal clothes are scattered around. For the boys, throwing away the private clothes of our two beauties isn't a mess for them, but it's not necessarily a reward..."

Dugu Yan covered her mouth and laughed heartlessly, which made Ye Lingling look at her as if she were a fool.

"Come on, your Brother Ling has so many beauties around him, and they're all top-notch beauties. How can we be the only beauties? If your Brother Ling weren't so philandering, we wouldn't even be able to fall in love with him."

The two of them kept whispering, which soon earned them a death stare from the female teacher.

The best friends hurriedly sat up straight, looking like good students who were listening attentively.

They didn't want to be called by the teacher's parents. Although Dugu Bo doted on his granddaughter, he was still very strict with her studies.

Ye Lingling, being the new owner of the Nine-Hearted Begonia martial spirit, which had awakened after the death of the previous generation's Nine-Hearted Begonia, had high expectations from her family.

If her parents knew she wasn't paying attention in class and was whispering with her best friend, they would definitely scold her.

After school at noon, the two best friends went to the cafeteria to eat something and then ran back to the dormitory.

The two of them cleaned the entire dormitory thoroughly and put away all personal belongings.

By the time classes started in the afternoon, they returned to the classroom exhausted and listened to the next two classes absent-mindedly.

Taking Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan's current soul power as an example, there was very little theoretical knowledge they could learn in the academy. Most of the time, the lessons dealt with practical problems.

Therefore, during theoretical classes, teachers generally paid less attention to them, as long as their voices didn't disturb others.

In the morning, the teacher had glared at them with a death stare, mostly because they spoke too loudly and disturbed others.

The best friends looked absent-minded, and the teacher simply pretended not to notice anything.

The next two sessions were practical training at the martial arts arena. Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, who were tired, asked for leave together and returned to the dormitory, where they put their beds together and went to sleep.

In the evening, when Zhao Ling came to the girls' dormitory, he saw the two girls sleeping on the big beds that were put together, which left him puzzled.

What's going on? Why did these two girls fall asleep so early? Did they wait for me in the dormitory all day? Are they so anxious?

So Zhao Ling went to Ye Lingling's side, stretched out his hand, and pinched her pretty face for a while. She murmured incoherently, "Yanyan, stop it, I'm so sleepy..."

Zhao Ling was speechless. He went to Dugu Yan's side and gently pinched her nose.

Dugu Yan dazedly tried to grab Zhao Ling's big hand, then seemed to realize something was wrong and suddenly opened her eyes.

Seeing Zhao Ling standing beside the bed, a smile appeared on her face. "Brother Ling... you're finally here?"

"You two haven't been waiting long, have you? Why are you sleeping so soundly? Don't you have to go to class?"

Zhao Ling raised his hand and pinched Dugu Yan's pretty face, then asked with a smile.

"No, it's just the last two classes, and we've asked for leave." Dugu Yan shrugged and replied nonchalantly.

"Is that so... then shall we start now?" Zhao Ling asked tentatively, but unexpectedly Dugu Yan said coquettishly, "Stupid, of course, we should start with Lingling. Yan'er won't run away. If you don't keep a good hold on Lingling, what if she changes her mind?"

Zhao Ling thought about it, and it seemed to be right, so he bent down and kissed Ye Lingling on her red lips.

But what no one expected was that the girl's face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Soon, her pretty face was as red as a ripe apple.

Her hands were most dishonestly wrapped around Zhao Ling's neck.

Zhao Ling and Dugu Yan suddenly realized... Lingling was just pretending to be asleep...

(End of this chapter)