Lin Shiqi had a mischievous smile on her face, thinking it was easy to persuade Qin Yan. She began to introduce the situation here to Qin Yan, "The dormitory upstairs is for accommodation, and downstairs is the dining area. However, you have to cook your own meals. Can you cook?"

"I can manage a little." Qin Yan would often cook for his family to lighten their burden, so this wasn't a big challenge for him.

"Alright then, my body is still very cold, so I'll leave now." Lin Shiqi shivered and put the key on the table in the room. As she walked towards the door, she suddenly remembered something, stopped, turned to Qin Yan, and said, "You better behave here. If Sister Bing catches you doing anything bad, I won't be able to help you."

"I understand." Qin Yan agreed, but then felt something was off. "I'm just going to stay here, so how would that woman catch me doing anything?"

"Huh, didn't I tell you?" Lin Shiqi seemed to have just remembered something and said with a surprised expression, "Sister Bing lives next door to you, and I live next door to your neighbor. You need to be careful and not have any bad intentions, or you'll know the consequences!"

"That woman also lives here? So I could be turned into an ice cube at any moment?! Wait, don't leave yet!" Qin Yan had a foreboding feeling. He wanted to ask Lin Shiqi to help him find another place to stay, but by then, Lin Shiqi had quickly slipped out of the room and was nowhere to be seen.

"No choice, it looks like I have to be careful from now on and avoid that crazy woman." Qin Yan thought to himself. He walked around the room, familiarizing himself with the environment. If he was going to stay here in the future, he needed to inform his family. Luckily, there was a phone in the room, so Qin Yan picked it up and called his uncle's house.

The call was answered by Qin Yan's uncle, and Qin Yan told him that he would be staying in the school dormitory for a while and wouldn't be coming home for some time. Although his uncle was a bit worried, after Qin Yan's insistence, he didn't say much, just suggesting that Qin Yan could come back if he didn't like staying outside.

For the rest of the day, besides eating, Qin Yan spent most of his time in his new room. Although the room was empty, it had the basic necessities for daily living, and the bed was already made. After a day of settling in, Qin Yan was quite tired and went to bed early that night.

The next morning, Qin Yan got up early, prepared breakfast downstairs, and found that the ingredients here were abundant. Noodles, rice, lean meat, and vegetables were all available. Qin Yan cooked himself a steaming bowl of lean meat soup noodles. He remembered that Lin Shiqi also lived here and seemed to still be asleep, so he made a bowl for her as well. Initially, he thought about making one for Li Ruobing too, but decided against it. After all, Li Ruobing had a bias against him, and he didn't want to complicate things by being misunderstood as trying to please her.

"Up so early," Lin Shiqi soon came down from upstairs, still half asleep. She was wearing a pink long-sleeved pajama top, with her hair messy and scattered behind her, looking like she had just woken up.

"Good morning, are you feeling better now?"

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"I'm fine, a good night's sleep fixes everything," Lin Shiqi said, noticing a steaming bowl of untouched soup noodles on the table, her eyes lighting up.

"Is this bowl for me?"

"Yes, try it and see if it suits your taste. If you don't like it, I'll eat both bowls," Qin Yan had a good appetite since gaining his abilities. He could easily eat three bowls of noodles.

"You're quite considerate and thoughtful, are you trying to please me?" Lin Shiqi smiled and sat down next to Qin Yan.

"If you say so."

"Really? But I'm quite picky, you'll need to have some skills to please me," Lin Shiqi picked up a noodle with chopsticks and tasted it, "It's not bad, pretty decent."

Qin Yan nodded and quietly ate his own bowl of noodles.

"Oh, by the way, I heard about what happened yesterday," Lin Shiqi said as she ate, "You got into a fight with Liu Shi, right? I heard he got pretty badly injured, with a broken and dislocated right hand, and facial fractures. You seem to have a heavy hand."

"It's not my fault, I was provoked," Qin Yan muttered.

"I know, he brought it on himself. Sister Bing doesn't seem to want to punish you for it. But this Liu Shi has some influence here. I heard he has a group of thugs as his underlings outside. After what you did to him, I'm worried he might seek revenge on you."

"It's too late for that now. If he comes looking for me, I'll have to deal with him," since the moment he clashed with Liu Shi, Qin Yan had mentally prepared himself. He didn't like to pick fights, but he wouldn't back down if someone provoked him. He knew that if he didn't resist, others would take advantage of him, and he'd rather fight back than be exploited.

"No need for that, you don't have to confront him head-on," Lin Shiqi rested her chin on her hand, deep in thought. "Here's the plan, I'll take you out of the academy later, and we'll come back in the evening. If Liu Shi can't find you, he won't be able to seek revenge."

Qin Yan was pleased with the plan. He didn't want to feel like he was in prison, stuck in the deep mountains and forests all day. He quickly said, "Great, let's go now."

"You seem happy. Let's finish eating first," Lin Shiqi replied.

Although Lin Shiqi said they would leave after eating, she took some time to groom herself after breakfast. Finally, she left the dormitory building with Qin Yan and headed to the parking lot inside the campus.

"Wow, you can drive?" Qin Yan sat in the passenger seat of a red car, looking astonished at Lin Shiqi, who was sitting in the driver's seat, skillfully handling the steering wheel.

"What's so surprising about that? Learning magic abilities is much harder than driving." Lin Shiqi nonchalantly adjusted her hair. "Where do you want to go? I'll take you."

"To the school. I skipped classes all day yesterday, so it wouldn't be good to skip again today."

"Alright. Sister Bing has given you special permission to stay here now. This time, we won't use the back door. We'll leave through the main entrance," Lin Shiqi said as she drove the red car through the campus. Soon, they arrived at a guarded gate with a sign above that read "Far Mountains Institute of Biological Technology Research."

Perhaps informed in advance, the guard, after seeing Qin Yan, hesitated for a while but eventually opened the barrier to let them pass. About an hour later, they reached their destination.

"That's it. I'll come pick you up when school is over this afternoon. Remember, be careful with what you say outside. Otherwise, hmph..." Lin Shiqi's face carried a threatening smile as she stared at Qin Yan, but this kind of threat had no effect on Qin Yan.

Qin Yan got out of the car, looking at the familiar school gate, and thought back to the events of the past few days. It felt like he had been dreaming.

"Although these past few days have been exciting, there's something comforting about this familiar life," Qin Yan sighed. He entered the campus and soon, a familiar figure approached.

"Why are you so late? I've been waiting for you for a long time. Why didn't you come to school yesterday? I thought you might have been caught by those secret organizations and gotten into trouble," a bespectacled, mild-mannered male student said as he walked towards Qin Yan. This student was Wei Zheng, Qin Yan's friend at school.