Douluo Continent: The Ruler of Time, Reigning Supreme

Chapter 174 Ma Xiaotao Comes Knocking

'So embarrassing...so embarrassing...'

Yin Chen could feel the veins on his forehead throbbing.

He took a deep breath and said in a completely emotionless voice:

"Let go."

"I won't let go, boss. If you don't save me, I won't let go. I'll just stay on your leg."

Zhou Sichen then acted shamelessly, hugging him even tighter.

Yin Chen closed his eyes, feeling a headache coming on.

He opened his eyes again, his tone filled with helplessness:

"...Tell me, how much do you want to borrow?"

Upon hearing these words, Zhou Sichen's wailing abruptly ceased.

He looked up, his face instantly shifting from sorrow to joy, and he chuckled foolishly.

The speed at which he changed his expression was truly exceptional.

He carefully leaned close to Yin Chen's ear and whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear:

"Boss... could you... lend me 10,000 gold soul coins first?"

'Ten thousand...'

Yin Chen's eye twitched again.

He knew that Zhou Sichen's odds for betting on Huo Yuhao to win were 1 to 10.

Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao each bet 1,000, so he needs to pay out a full 20,000 gold soul coins.

'This guy...'

Yin Chen glanced at Zhou Sichen's fawning smile and thought to himself.

"It seems they've borrowed from everyone they could, even squeezing their childhood friend Cao Jinxuan dry, and still ended up short by 10,000 before coming to me."

"Take it."

Yin Chen was too lazy to waste words with him. He took out a golden soul card from his storage soul tool and tossed it to him in a bad mood.

"Let's make it clear first, nine out of thirteen out of ten, even brothers should keep clear accounts."

"Hehe, thank you, boss. You're like my second parents."

Zhou Sichen accepted the Soul Card as if it were a treasure. He not only felt no aversion to the notion of "nine out and thirteen back," which was almost like usury, but also found it to be perfectly reasonable.

Just kidding, that's ten thousand gold soul coins.

Very few students in the entire freshman class, no, in the entire School of Foreign Languages, could produce so much cash without batting an eye.

Dai Huabin might be able to lend him money, but he wasn't familiar with Dai Huabin, and given Dai Huabin's arrogant nature, there was no way he would lend him money.

As for asking your family?

If he dared to tell his family that he had lost a lot of money gambling at the academy and was now drowning in debt, his father would chase him all the way from Shrek City back to Heaven Dou City, and he would be lucky to escape with a good spanking.

Therefore, this money from Yin Chen was a life-saving sum for him. He would accept it even if it meant going out nine times and returning thirteen times, or going out eight times and returning fifteen times.

"Don't worry, boss. I'll pay you back as soon as my family sends me my living expenses next quarter."

Zhou Sichen patted his chest and assured him, then nimbly climbed off Yin Chen's lap, afraid that he would change his mind.

Just then, a fiery red figure appeared without warning at the classroom door of Class 1, Freshman Class 1.

She was a tall, beautiful young woman with a fiery and passionate aura.

She was wearing a red school uniform exclusive to inner court students. The tight-fitting style perfectly outlined her extremely hot figure. Her long, equally fiery red hair was casually draped behind her, making her look like a walking flame.

Her arrival instantly seemed to raise the temperature in the classroom.

Everyone's attention was drawn to her.

"Yes... she's a senior from the inner academy."

"So...so beautiful."

"I know her. She is Senior Ma Xiaotao, one of the two active volcanoes in the inner courtyard. Her martial soul is the Evil Fire Phoenix."

A murmur of barely suppressed gasps and whispers filled the classroom. For these outer court freshmen, inner court disciples were legendary figures.

Ma Xiaotao, on the other hand, is a legendary figure.

However, the face of this legendary figure was filled with undisguised anxiety and anticipation.

Her gaze, like a pair of radars, quickly scanned the classroom before precisely locking onto the silver-haired, heterochromatic-eyed boy by the window.

Found it, Silver Dust.

Ma Xiaotao was overjoyed and could no longer contain herself.

She strode forward, her long legs clicking crisply in her high-heeled boots, and walked straight toward Yin Chen.

Yin Chen also noticed her.

He watched as Ma Xiaotao, exuding a powerful aura and radiating an astonishing heat, walked straight toward him, and he understood.

'Ma Xiaotao? It seems she knows about my second martial soul.'

Although he and Ma Xiaotao had done tasks together before, their relationship wasn't close enough for her to come to him in the classroom.

He couldn't think of any other reason besides extreme ice.

Just as Yin Chen was making his own guesses, Ma Xiaotao had already walked up to him.

Then, to Yin Chen's bewildered gaze and under the stunned stares of the entire class, Ma Xiaotao stretched out her fair and jade-like right hand and grabbed Yin Chen's wrist.

".!"

A wave of warmth, accompanied by a soft and delicate touch, emanated from my wrist.

"I need to talk to you. Come with me."

Ma Xiaotao's tone was assertive, which was very much in line with her personality.

She didn't give Yin Chen a chance to react at all, grabbed his hand, and turned to walk out of the classroom.

Yin Chen was forcibly pulled up from his seat and dragged out.

This scene plunged the entire classroom into a deathly silence.

Everyone was stunned.

What did they see?
Their gentle and polite class monitor was actually... forcibly dragged away by a stunningly beautiful senior from the inner academy?!

Time seems to be frozen at this moment.

All the dozens of students in the class, including Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan, maintained the same posture and the same expression—mouths agape, eyes wide open, faces blank and incredulous.

Until Ma Xiaotao's fiery red figure and Yin Chen's back completely disappeared at the classroom door.

"boom--!"

The deathly silence was instantly ignited.

The classroom erupted into chaos, as if a depth charge had been dropped on it.

"I...I didn't see wrong, did I? What...just happened?"

"That senior...she...she held the class monitor's hand?!"

"It's not just holding hands, it's practically kidnapping a man!"

"What is their relationship? Could it be... could it be that the class monitor and that senior from the inner academy..."

Various speculations and gossip sprang up like mushrooms after rain.

Everyone was so excited that their faces turned red, as if they had discovered some earth-shattering secret.

Ye Guyi also recovered from her shock. Of course, she knew Ma Xiaotao; she had been present during the last mission.

She turned her head in confusion, looked at Gu Yuena behind her, and couldn't help but ask:

"Gu Yue, isn't that Senior Sister Xiao Tao? What does she want with Yin Chen? She looks so anxious."

Gu Yuena's gaze remained fixed on the empty classroom doorway.

Her beautiful purple eyes narrowed slightly, and a hint of coldness, which she herself did not notice, flashed deep within them.

(End of this chapter)