Chapter 1 - Flag Raising Ceremony (2/2)
“What are you laughing for?” Chen Yue said incredulously. “It’s really poisoned?”
“No poison,” Lu XingCi said, bringing out the physics questions he missed from the lesson before, prepared to have a look at it when he has nothing else better to do. “I just felt like his look just now was pretty amusing.”
Honestly speaking, Duan Jiayan’s pose just now, instead of sending a cup of milk tea, was more like he was picking a fight.
Seeing him return, Song Yi could not hold his question in any longer, “Where did you get the milk tea from?”
Duan JiaYan answered acerbically, “Jiang QiNian gave it to him.”
“……” Song Yi did not know what to say in reply.
Song Yi and Duan JiaYan have known each other for quite a few years. Duan JiaYan is a Beta, from a good family. His family is not very strict with him in terms of discipline and though his grades are not worth looking at, but luckily he was born with a good looking face, which made life smooth sailing for him.
But, after attending high school, as if falling under a curse, every girl that Duan JiaYan has feelings for ended up liking Lu XingCi instead. After a number of incidents, Duan JiaYan ended up treating Lu XingCi as his life’s enemy, a threat he can’t remove.
Song Yi always felt that, if Lu XingCi was not the one Duan JiaYan was facing, according to Duan JiaYan’s character, he would have probably long tried to solve this problem with violence.
Duan JiaYan’s mobile phone started vibrating. It was Jiang QiNian asking him on WeChat is Lu XingCi has accepted her milk tea or not.
Duan JiaYan grinded his teeth and replied with a “Yes, he accepted it.” He glanced at Song Yi, “Let me ask you, Lu XingCi and me…eh?”
Unlike Duan JiaYan, Song Yi is an Omega, and is much clearer than Duan JiaYan on Lu XingCi’s attractiveness as an Alpha. Even though Duan JiaYan was good looking in his own right, he still could not be compared to Lu XingCi.
Of course, he could not say this. If he did, he will definitely be pummeled by Duan JiaYan who lack the concept of ABO gender differences in his brain. Fortunately, Song Yi has a hundred ways to coax the Beta, “Hee hee, of course you are better. You’re much more approachable, unlike the Monitor was who is definitely an Alpha I will never be able to get close to. Us sisters will be happy just looking.”
Duan JiaYan, “……”
Caught off guard by the term ‘sisters’, Duan JiaYan asked, “When did you male Omegas start calling each other sisters?”
After seeing that this ancestor’s attention was diverted, Song Yi struck while the iron was still hot, “We have many popular terms among us male Omegas, do you know what’s called–”
Duan JiaYan suddenly narrowed his eyes, “I’m approachable?”
Song Yi, “……”
Duan JiaYan has already vented his anger, he lazily poked the cup of milk tea Jiang QuNian sent, and mumbled to himself, “I’m already so approachable, will it kill to like me back a little?”
For a split second, Song Yi heart clenched at how cute he looked.
Just for a split second.
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It was Monday’s flag-raising ceremony and the whole school was gathered in the field.
Duan JiaYan came late and slowly made his way to the Sophomore level’s Class Ten. On his way there, girls kept trying to sneak a peak of him.
“Look at that, Class Ten really does have handsome looking dudes.”
“But Duan JiaYan has always looked this handsome ah.”
“He’s still a little punk though, plus his grades are so bad…”
The boy was tall and fair-skinned, but his eyes were rimmed with red and his hair was messy. One look and you can tell he just woke up.
“The students who have yet to fall in line hurry up!” The school’s director said atop the flag-raising podium. “Don’t take your own sweet time, make haste, quickly find your own class.”
Duan JiaYan turned a deaf ear to the nagging as he slowly made it to the end of Class Ten. In front of him was Song Yi, who was no better than him, arriving only two to three minutes ahead of him.
“Good morning Xiao Duan,” Song Yi turned back while sucking on a packet of yoghurt, his speech a little slurred, “Why aren’t you in uniform?”
Duan JiaYan gave a short “Ah–” before adding, “I forgot.”
Right after Song Yi asked his question, two female students from the Discipline committee made their way to his class.Song Yi thought that Duan JiaYan was about to have his name recorded, they don’t really care about getting in trouble anyway. Who would have thought that Duan JiaYan would give a short laugh to the female students before adding, “Fellow students, can you not record my name this time around?”
The female student was originally about to put a cross at the back of his name. After hearing his question, she paused.
The other female student softly murmured under her breath. The first Discipline committee member turned to look at her partner, then back at Duan JiaYan, not sure what to do for a moment there.
When Lu XingCi turned his head around, this was the scene that greeted him.
He did not know what Duan JiaYan said but it made the female Discipline committee member’s ear turn red. Duan JiaYan has a good face, with a pair of youthful, bright-looking eyes, high nose bridge, and pale lips, whenever he smiled it always carried a lazy air to it, looking both amorous and affectionate.
Chen Yue reminded him earlier that the discipline committee was stopping by their class for too long, and might attract the attention of the director. With their teacher not here, it was his responsibility as class monitor to try and find a way to chase the discipline committee members away.
Chen Yue just mentioned it as a joke, knowing how Lu XingCi usually will not butt into other people’s matter, but who knew that this time, he actually started making his way over to the end of the line.
His arrival broke the students out of their stalemate, “Is it okay if he goes to the classroom now to get a school uniform to wear?”
The two girls looked up at him, then looked at each other, both their gazes looking a little shy.
One of the two female students quietly answered, “The flag-raising ceremony hasn’t started yet so y-yes he can…”
Lu XingCi turned to look at Duan JiaYan, “Head on to the classroom, Chen Yue hung his uniform on his chair, you can wear it first.”
Duan JiaYan met his gaze for a moment. Inexplicably, the last string in the back of Duan JiaYan’s mind, under the ease of how Lu XingCi handled the situation, snapped.
An air of mischief rose from his body, Duan JiaYan lifted his eyes, stifling a smile.
“I twisted my ankle, so it’s not convenient for me to get the uniform. Going to the classroom and back just to get the uniform might make it worse,” he said as he looked Lu XingCi in the eyes. “Class monitor, why not you go get it for me? Won’t you help a classmate in need?”
Everyone in the class knew that the pair rarely saw eye to eye, yet it was not often that Duan JiaYan was this nice to Lu XingCi.
The pair’s conversation ended up attracting the attention of not only their class, but the attention of the classes around them.
Lu XingCi met Duan JiaYan’s gaze, not breaking his line of sight.
Even though he was still developing, the pressure eminating from the body of the Alpha was more than enough to make one break out in cold sweat. Though Duan JiaYan seemed like he was not affected in the lease, Song Yi was more than ready to start kneeling for him already.
Xiao Duan really was all brawns and no brains3.
He had always thought that Duan JiaYan would only antagonise Lu XingCi behind his back, while acting like a normal human face to face. Who knew that he will actually do this now?
The both of them always had some friction between them, but it was usually Duan JiaYan looking for trouble on his own, Lu XingCi usually doesn’t bother.
Song Yi always felt that, in the great Class Monitor’s eyes, Duan JiaYan was but a small child, no matter how bratty, it wasn’t worth his attention. But this time was different, the bear child is finally acting wildly in front of the parent.
Even with just Lu XingCi standing there, the alarm is Song Yi’s heart is already sounding thousands of times for Duan JiaYan.
Under everyone’s eyes, Lu XingCi smirked a little, his gaze playful.
“How convenient. I’m having a bad cold. Taking off my clothes could make it worse.”
It was raining just a while ago, so the field was indeed pretty cold.
Song Yi was feeling a sense of deja vu when he saw Lu XingCi give Duan JiaYan, who was wearing a sweater, a once over, “Tell you what, why don’t you take your sweater off, I’ll go take the school uniform and exchange it with you for the sweater.”
宁城 – City of Ning?
路狗 – Literally Lu Dog but it’s more a nickname.
莽夫 – I’m not too sure on this. Chinese site says this is used to describe someone that has a well developed body but isn’t all that bright?