"I'm screwing you, if you have something to say, just say it!" Ye Xiaohou was practically losing it; this guy was torturing him too much! He glared at him with utter disdain.

Xu Ming chuckled, leaning close to Ye Xiaohou's ear and whispering, "Heh heh, let me tell you, my boss is the first person in the history of No. 1 High who managed to throw himself onto the campus beauty without a second thought."

"Holy crap—!" Ye Xiaohou’s first reaction was to roar, followed immediately by the question, "Are you serious?"

"Damn it, would I lie about something like that? What kind of person do you think I, Xu Ming, am? And my boss caught Li Qian that..." Xu Ming whispered intimately into Ye Xiaohou's ear with utter contempt.

Meanwhile, Yang Yi and Lin Fatty stood to the side, looking completely bewildered, not knowing what the two were discussing, watching them with blank confusion.

But what happened next truly depressed them. Ye Xiaohou's gaze became extremely ambiguous, his thin body seemed to tremble slightly, as if intensely excited, yet also oddly restrained. Suddenly, Ye Xiaohou lunged forward and grabbed Yang Yi’s hand.

Seeing this, Yang Yi felt a surge of internal panic, cold sweat beading on his forehead. He thought to himself, Damn, I didn't see this coming, is this guy actually gay? Despite the thought, he quickly pulled his hand away and said, sounding extremely unnatural, "What are you doing? Damn it, Xu Ming, what did you tell him? Why is he acting like this?"

"I didn't tell him anything!" Xu Ming declared, raising both hands in a display of feigned ignorance.

Yang Yi looked at him and felt like beating the living daylights out of him.

After Yang Yi wrenched his hand free, Ye Xiaohou took a deep breath, as if composing his surging emotions. He then turned to Yang Yi, almost dramatically, and declared, "Boss, you are my boss now too! Damn, I admire you so much! My reverence for you flows like the mighty Yangtze River, never-ending..."

"Crap, here we go again? And with new vocabulary?" Yang Yi muttered under his breath, though his expression was far from pleasant. He realized this guy wasn't just a lowlife; Yang Yi could pretty much guess what Xu Ming had told him, and a bitter smile played on his lips. "Why do you want to acknowledge me as your boss?"

"For no other reason than that you managed to capture that soft dumpling, Li Qian—oh wait, hehe, is my boss really that perverted? My boss is clearly wise, magnificent, and utterly dashing..." Ye Xiaohou rapidly corrected himself mid-sentence after noticing Yang Yi’s slightly displeased face, spewing forth a torrent of praise.

"It's over, it's all over, my life is ruined! These two are barely human, damn it!" Yang Yi grumbled internally. His eyes suddenly flickered as he seemed to recall something. He glanced at the sputtering sycophant before him and said, "Alright, alright!"

"Haha, Boss, you agree to let me be your subordinate now?" Ye Xiaohou ceased his verbal onslaught, beaming happily.

"Yes, I suppose so. But from now on, you both listen to me. It’s about time, we need to get to class. Let’s go!" Yang Yi didn't state anything definitively, just cast them a helpless look before exiting the dorm room.

"Yay!" Ye Xiaohou yelled out like an absolute clown.

But at that moment, Xu Ming tossed him a line that felt like half a bombshell: "Ye Monkey, I'm telling you, there’s a queue to join. Even though the Boss accepted you, you’re ranked fourth. I’m third. From now on, you call me Third Brother, heh heh!"

"What the hell, why? I’m older than you!" Upon hearing he had to call the guy he’d nicknamed 'Little Sweetie' since childhood 'Third Brother,' Ye Xiaohou protested immediately without thinking.

"Hehe, no reason. If you don't want to call me that, then don't ever tell anyone outside that you’re our brother, right, Second Brother?" Xu Ming said, turning his smile toward the stunned Lin Fatty standing aside.

Lin Fatty was truly sweating over these two. He remembered how shameless he and Yi Ge used to be back in the day, but discovering people even more shameless existed made him shake his head with a wry smile. Still, to secure his position as Second Brother for the future, he appropriately chimed in: "That’s right, Fourth. From now on, the Boss is Yi Ge, I am Number Two, Xu Ming is Number Three, and you are Number Four."

"Oh... I guess that's the only way," Ye Xiaohou responded sullenly. Though slightly reluctant, the thought of being able to call a man who single-handedly captured Li Qian—that soft package—his sworn brother made him look forward to the future life he could fantasize about.

Time truly moved faster than ordinary. In the blink of an eye, it was nearly afternoon.

Yang Yi’s return to his classroom after lunch that day was incredibly awkward. In his class, both male and female students stared at him intently throughout the entire afternoon session. These kids clearly had no regard for the teacher, but then again, Yang Yi couldn't complain. After all, the students enrolled at No. 1 High were either minor gangsters, children of high-ranking officials, or spoiled rich kids—they all had significant backing.

However, upon noticing that Li Qian hadn't returned to class, a strange sense of disappointment surfaced in Yang Yi’s heart. He wondered if it was because he had cornered her again today, causing her to skip class. After all, girls were sensitive; something so humiliating might have driven her away... Thinking this over, Yang Yi suddenly resolved that he must find Li Qian after school to offer a sincere apology.

He was a man, after all, and he was at fault. If it weren't for that cursed photo album, none of this would have happened. And now, without even seeing the photo album, he had acquired two shameless followers, which suddenly made him feel quite depressed.

"Ding—ding!" The dismissal bell rang, and the students poured out as if released from a hive.

Just then, a teacher walked in from outside and called out, "Who are Yang Yi and Lin Fatty?"

"I am!"

"I am!"

Both Yang Yi and Lin Fatty answered simultaneously.

Hearing the voices, the teacher walked inside and approached Yang Yi and Lin Fatty, saying, "Your dorm has been arranged. It's in 303. Oh, right, Xu Ming, that’s your dorm too. You take them there in a bit. I have other things to attend to, so I’m leaving them in your care."

"Yes, Teacher!" Xu Ming’s response was immediate, filled with excited smiles upon hearing that Yang Yi and Lin Fatty would be sharing a room with him.

"Damn—looks like I need to turn them into cultured ruffians. If I hang around them too long, I’ll become completely shameless, and that’ll be the end of me," Yang Yi muttered under his breath, frowning.

"Haha, Boss, we’re in the same dorm! Haha, this is fantastic, absolutely wonderful!" Xu Ming guffawed mischievously.

Yang Yi shook his head speechlessly, wearing an expression of deep frustration. Lin Fatty, however, smiled faintly at Yang Yi, his thoughts unreadable—the guy was still smiling.

[Due to computer issues today, the update is a bit late. Here it is now. Brothers, keep pushing hard, rise up, heh heh! There will be another update around midnight! Look forward to it...]