Chapter 1112: Bad Kid

After an unknown amount of time, he reached out and gently rubbed his temples.

"What a strange dream..."

Chen Ling believed he wouldn't dream of the Calamity of Thought for no reason, let alone go to Storm Island. But even in the dream, the Calamity of Thought didn't seem to show hostility, but rather tried to convey something to him... Was it communicating with the Calamity of Mockery in his body?

Chen Ling didn't know. He planned to ask Teacher Ye when he had time today.

Chen Ling slowly stood up from his seat and scanned the messy desk in front of him, as well as the piles of complex notes... His expression was a bit strange.

Since graduating from university... oh no, since graduating from high school, he hadn't studied properly. After so many years, his immunity to textbooks had truly improved quite a bit. He had intended to stay up late last night to catch up on progress, but ended up falling asleep while reading.

"Self-study is still a bit difficult..." Chen Ling sighed.

After hesitating for a moment, he organized all the notes and textbooks on the desk and pushed the door open to leave.

Chen Ling had to master the knowledge of the Integration School. Since he was too slow at learning by himself, the best way was naturally to find someone to give him private lessons... But Teacher Ye was teaching classes all day long, and it would be a bit too much to ask him to tutor him on these most basic contents.

In this way, the most suitable candidate was only one person...

"Hello, how do I get to Xiao Tao's dormitory?"

Chen Ling stopped a classmate who was preparing to go to the cafeteria.

"Xiao Tao? Go down one floor, then follow the path on the left to the end. The dormitory at the very end is hers."

"Okay, thank you."

Chen Ling followed the classmate's directions and walked downstairs. There were about a hundred people in the Integration School. Because the space inside the Mother Tree was limited, most students had to share a room. Only a very small number of people like Zhao Yi and Chen Ling had individual rooms, not to mention Chen Ling's 270-degree luxury balcony suite.

It was early morning, and many students had already gotten up to wash, some going downstairs to eat, some going to the gym to exercise, and some sitting under the canopy of the Mother Tree reading... After thinking for a moment, Chen Ling specifically walked around this floor first.

In Chen Ling's impression, Xiao Tao should be the type of girl who was a top student, with a lively personality but extremely hardworking. The probability of her getting up early to study was very high, but he walked around the entire floor and didn't find her, so he finally walked toward her dormitory.

Chen Ling stood at the door of Xiao Tao's dormitory and heard faint noisy sounds coming from inside, so he knocked on the door in confusion.

*Knock, knock, knock—*

The noise didn't diminish, but soon, a girl opened the dormitory door.

Chen Ling had seen this girl; she seemed to be called Miaomiao, a little older than Xiao Tao. She was wearing a nightgown and standing at the door. Seeing the figure outside, she froze in place.

"You... you you you... how did you..." Miaomiao stammered, unable to speak.

"I'm looking for Xiao Tao. Is she in?"

"She... she... uh..."

Miaomiao glanced back guiltily.

At the same time, Xiao Tao's uninhibited voice rang out from the room with great penetration.

"...So I'm saying! I'm f***ing done, which b***h author came up with this s***ty plot?! The second male lead chased her for so long, why was she blind enough to insist on being with that idiot first male lead?!! Even after the first male lead cheated so many times, she was still like possessed!! What's wrong with looking at our second male lead more?!!"

"It pisses me off!! It really pisses me off!! This is simply f***ing b***s***!! I stayed up all night after seeing the finale last night, I was so angry I couldn't sleep!!"

"(Sound of fierce cigarette puffing)"

"(Top-tier lung hit)"

"Do you understand how I feel? I stayed up so many nights to read this, and in the end, I was fed a mouthful of s***. I'm really f***ing p***ed off. If I ever read anything written by this b***h author again, I'll jump off from here!!"

Chen Ling looked up blankly. On the balcony of the dormitory, a girl wrapped in cute brown bear pajamas had one leg on a stool, and in front of her was a burning brazier. Vaguely, he could see a book with an exaggerated cover slowly curling and carbonizing in the flames...

The girl patted her thigh with one hand and held a burning thin cigarette in the other. As if still not satisfied, she took another fierce puff, and the clouds of smoke she exhaled mixed with the burning smoke, drifting into the air.

"X... Xiao Tao..." Miaomiao called her with a stiff expression.

Seeming to hear the door opening, the girl's animal ears twitched slightly. She turned her head to look outside.

The moment her eyes met Chen Ling's subtle gaze, the girl shuddered, and she froze in place as if she had seen a ghost.

The air fell into dead silence.

Chen Ling realized that perhaps his timing was inappropriate and was about to say something, when a sharp explosion almost pierced his eardrums.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!!" Xiao Tao screamed and rushed into the bathroom next to her, locked the door with a *bang*, and then he heard a sound of frantic stomping, as if she were stomping out a dropped cigarette butt.

And then, the bathroom fell into dead silence again.

Chen Ling: ...

"Maybe I should come back later." Chen Ling said tentatively, turning to leave.

Just then, a slight sound of the doorknob turning rang out. As the bathroom door slowly opened, a pair of animal ears silently poked out...

"Chen... Brother Chen Ling... is there something you need from me?" Xiao Tao's voice was trembling.

"I read the notes last night, and there were a few things I didn't understand, so I wanted to come and ask you for advice."

Chen Ling didn't put on airs because the other person was younger than him, but humbly asked for advice. After all, although Xiao Tao wasn't old, she had been in the Integration School for a long time and had learned far more than he had.

"Then... then wait for me for a moment..."

The dormitory door closed gently.

Chen Ling stood outside the door and waited for about two minutes before the dormitory door finally opened.

Xiao Tao had already changed into that clean hemp-yellow jacket, holding books and a pencil case in her arms, lowering her head and not daring to look at Chen Ling. Only the animal hair clip on her ears reflected the sunlight as it swayed.

"Let's go... let's go to the library." Xiao Tao said in a low voice.

"Okay."

Chen Ling nodded and followed Xiao Tao toward the library. The bright red opera robe was still a bit eye-catching in the Integration School, and many people cast glances their way along the way. Compared to this, the petite girl walking silently in front seemed to be ignored by the world.

Finally, Xiao Tao couldn't help it anymore. She held her books and pencil case tightly in her arms, lowered her head, and asked in a low voice:

"Brother Chen Ling... did you see everything?"

"..." Chen Ling could only nod truthfully. "I saw a little bit..."

Xiao Tao suddenly stopped. She stood in front of the huge window of the Mother Tree, and the sunlight shining through the natural tree hole reflected on her, making the girl's eye sockets turn red.

She turned her head, looked at Chen Ling with moist eyes, and said softly:

"Do you think... if Brother Renjie saw me become such a bad kid... would he be sad?"