Editor: DarkSapphire, Sahloknir
The day the first-year students started classes, the campus was bustling with activities.
T University was a century old school. Although it had undergone renovation and expansion, its previous buildings and main roads remained.
The main road was near the south gate, between the teaching facilities and living quarters. There were lofty Chinese parasol trees on each side of the road. It would take two people to wrap around each tree’s trunk, and the tree’s branches cluttered with leaves could create shade that almost covered the entire road. Which was why this was the most popular place to welcome newcomers and a hotspot for club recruiting.
Yue Ran and others went out of the south gate to eat, and naturally, it was the road they took when they returned.
There were portable shade roofs from several departments within the university on both sides as far as the eye could see. There were a variety of signboards on display, which unquestionably made the street bustle with noise and excitement.
This was obviously a very busy time, but because of how eye-catching Jiang Xiao was, people still took time out of their busy activities to glance at him and the people with him.
Yue Ran maintained his expression as he walked forward against the surrounding eyes.
He noticed Jiang Xiao seemed like that senior who everyone looked up to. As they chatted about miscellaneous things, he finally set his heart on asking the itchy question, “Senior, you seem to be very popular?”
Jiang Xiao said, “Call me ‘ge’.”
Yue Ran beared with it and changed his calling, “Ge.”
Jiang Xiao caressed his head in satisfaction and uttered “En” in response.
Yue Ran waited for a long time for an answer that wasn’t coming. He gritted his teeth to repeat the question.
Jiang Xiao looked at him. “What do you think?”
Yue Ran studied this handsome face and gave a positive answer without a second thought. “I think so.”
There was particularly nothing to be said against it.
Alphas were known to be powerful and extremely outstanding, possessing excellent leadership and judgement. They were destined to be sought after with their inherent advantages.
Not only omegas, but also quite a few betas would also orient toward alphas, especially a handsome looking one, because it usually meant the alpha’s genes were above average—like Jiang Xiao for example.
Seeing that Jiang Xiao didn’t refute, he pretended to be asking another causal question, “Why aren’t you in a relationship, with so many people chasing you?”
Inside, he clenched his fists and raised it up in the air: Perfect!
Bring up this topic, and slowly move it to himself, then clarify that he wasn’t considering dating an alpha currently. This should be very fitting.
Jiang Xiao calmly countered the question with his own, “Who said I’m not in a relationship?”
Being caught completely off guard, Yue Ran showed a blank expression for a moment. “…Huh?”
Jiang Xiao’s fingers trembled as he resisted the impulse to pull the other man into his arms and fondle without restraint. He revealed, “I just started.”
Yue Ran’s heartbeat was going at full speed ahead. All of these roundabout words were for nothing? Was he just being self-sentimental?
He tried to remain calm and asked, “Really? Just recently?”
Jiang Xiao answered, “Still chasing.”
Yue Ran: “…”
Fuck, do I look stupid to you?
Are you treating ‘in a relationship’ and ‘still pursuing’ as the same concept? All of this fucking back and forth talking. In the end, it was still back to having an intention towards me!
Jiang Xiao watched the youth take a deep breath. He really couldn’t resist smiling.
This little summoner was a sight to behold. The more and longer he looked, the deeper he fell. Even if the other person’s pheromone repelled alphas. It was a miracle that no one had pursued the little spitfire before.
Yue Ran really didn’t know what was in the senior’s head. He reorganized his state, as he mentally crawled back up for another battle, and continued to follow this topic, “You have someone you’re secretly in love with?”
Jiang Xiao gazed into his eyes and said frankly, “Yes, an omega, a very beautiful one as well. Good character. I wished I could see him every day.”
People with indifferent natures narrated their own thoughts so frankly, making the impact more intense than normal.
Yue Ran’s heart immediately went thump-bump, thump-bump.
It wasn’t like he had never been confessed to before.
His first confession was from a beta, in which he felt no emotion other than the initial shock. After the confession, the beta no longer sought him out. It wasn’t until later that he heard the beta lost a bet with an alpha. He was played.
Now he thought about it, strictly speaking, this was his first time to have an admirer.
He would inevitably be nervous, but no matter how nervous he was, he didn’t forget his mission and shared, “Oh? I also have a person I like, and I also want to see him every day.”
With a slightly raised eyebrow, Jiang Xiao looked at him silently.
Yue Ran suppressed the feeling of guilt spreading in his chest and continued with a serious face, “A beta. Since you know that I don’t like alphas, I don’t plan on finding love with an alpha.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Yue Ran replied, “I’m going out eating with my guildmates.”
Jiang Xiao asked, “You guys have a place in mind?”
Yue Ran said, “Yes, our guild leader got a recommendation from a senior he knew of.”
Jiang Xiao stopped asking questions. Once they were in the dormitory’s lobby. “Off you go. If you’re tired, go take a nap. I’m always free if you need me.”
Afterwards, he gave Yue Ran an affectionate head pat, turned and walked away.
This unchanged attitude. It was obvious his senior didn’t take their conversation to heart.
Yue Ran stared at the other’s back quietly for two seconds before going upstairs fuming.
Jiang Xiao walked out a few steps and looked back. He happened to see the angry little figure’s back and smiled silently.
Of course, he knew what Yue Ran meant.
From the moment he had Qin Xiujie pull Anonymous Guardian into the guild, he revealed his intention towards Yue Ran, who would unquestionably suspect him. But he couldn’t confess. Because the moment he confessed, there were only two results, if using life or death as an example, the result would most likely be death.
So he kept a proper distance, that was if he didn’t poke a hole through the paper screen between them. Only this way would Yue Ran pay more attention towards him, and would gradually grow into something even more than caring.
Yue Ran was completely unaware of a certain someone’s dangerous intention.
The first thing he wanted to do was to scold his cousin, so he rushed upstairs in steps of three to two, closed his dorm’s room and made a phone call at the balcony to question his cousin on the disappearing act.
Qin Xiujie was acting very innocent. “Something came up. What’s wrong? Did Jiang Xiao also have something come up and didn’t walk you back? Are you lost?”
Yue Ran replied, “I didn’t get lost. I’m back in my dorm.”
Qin Xiujie chirped, “That’s good. Be good and go take a nap.”
“Don’t you change the subject to me.” Yue Ran grumbled. “In short, you’re not allowed to leave me behind, least of all, leaving me alone with him!”
Qin Xiujie was flabbergasted. “Why?”
Yue Ran was expressionless on the outside while thinking: Don’t you freaking know yourself! Stop playing dumb!
“There’s no why. Just remember this, or I’ll tell my father you were being mean to me!”
Before the other could reply, he hung up with a hard tap on his phone and went back inside.
Each dorm room was designed to fit four students with an independent bathroom and air conditioning. The living conditions were fairly comfortable. All four members had moved in; currently, one of them was not in the room. The other two were chatting but stopped when Yue Ran came back in from the balcony. Both looked at him.
Yue Ran took the initiative to greet them before taking his nap.
The two roommates continued to stare at him.
Out of them couldn’t hold back on gossiping, “The two alphas that were with you just earlier are from our university?”
Not expecting this question, Yue Ran was stunned for a moment while muttering a “Yes”, before clarifying, “One is my older cousin, and the one is his friend. They are both in their third year.”
More of a reason for the roommate to gossip. “Not your boyfriend?”
Yue Ran immediately denied, “No.”
The roommate asked, “Do they have a partner?”
Yue Ran answered honestly, “No, but I heard a lot of people are chasing him.”
The roommate had a smug expression and said to the other roommate, “See, I was right. Someone like them is bound to be sought after by a group of admirers. Do you dare to place a bet on them having a seat in the top ten most handsome guys in our university?”
The roommate being addressed was shyer. He smiled and shook his head to show he didn’t dare to bet.
Yue Ran finally realized the ‘they’ that his roommate was talking about.
Picturing his cousin’s face, he felt that no matter how good-looking Qin Xiujie was, the nasty character overshadowed it. He made a disdainful face right away and went to flop down on his bed. He noticed that his roommates thoughtfully reduced their volume and soon fell asleep.
The nap lasted until evening.
He glanced at the time, opened the WeChat group created by his guild, and saw that the guild leader, The Past, had just sent his location. He got up and cleaned himself up, before leaving his dormitory and arriving at the restaurant on time at 6:30 pm.
Because it was still early into the school year, they as first-years, were not familiar with the surrounding areas, so in order not to create more chaos, they decided to eat on campus.
The fourth floor of the third canteen was an independent restaurant with a good reputation. The guild leader reserved a private room ahead.
When Yue Ran arrived, more than half of the people were sitting and chatting. When they saw him enter, they all looked over with one asking, “Guild?”
Yue Ran nodded.
The Past, their guild leader, was a quite handsome alpha. He was the first to stand up and saluted with a smile. “I’m The Past.”
Yue Ran introduced himself, “Dying Star.”
The Past was surprised instantly.
The other members were as well as they quickly invited him to come in.
“The Great Dying Star is actually an omega!”
“I always thought he was an alpha!”
“Yes, me too!”
Black lines appeared on Yue Ran’s face as he rebuked, “I couldn’t be an omega?”
The crowd chorused, “No, that’s not it. It’s just a little unexpected.”
Several people were laughing and also introduced themselves.
Yue Ran surveyed each of them one by one. Doughnut, who he was more close with, was an omega girl. Both Vegetable Flowers and Wandering Ghost were beta males. There was a third year, probably the senior the guild leader mentioned.
His deduction was correct.
When everyone arrived, the senior bid them farewell and left. This was when The Past brought up important news, as he introduced the senior that just left, “He is also a player and has his own guild. Doughnut and I have run instance dungeons with him before and both of us agree he is a decent guy. He said since his guild members were all from the same university, he suggested we should merge. Since both of us are from the same background, it will make scheduling things convenient.”
Everyone was shocked. “Merge?”
The Past confirmed, “Yes. He’s the guild leader. He was here today to meet everyone. If no one has any objections, then it will be a done deal. But if anyone disagrees with this, then I’ll stop the merge tonight.”
Vegetable Flowers asked, “Who will be the leader after the merge?”
The Past answer proudly, “He said since we have a great god in our guild, he asked me to be the leader. But I felt it was too much, so I suggested a rotation between me and him each week. Of course, the premise is the merge.”
Everyone looked at each other, none with objection.
Although they have forty-six players in the guild, over ten were inactive accounts, ones that stopped after a few days of playing. There were about thirty some active members.
With the game being so popular, it was bound to attract many freshmen.
But the more knowledgeable players were either playing the new server as an alt account or left to join another guild. They don’t put small guilds like the Cabbage Alliance in their eyes. Because of this, the guild members ran out of things to do cooperatively daily, and they haven’t even completed a single twenty or twenty-five member instance dungeon. Now with this merge, they could finally run what they couldn’t before, and there would be more life in the future for the guild.
Yue Ran naturally had no reason to be against this.
If that was the guild leader just now, it meant it wasn’t Jiang Xiao’s guild. He had nothing to object to.
However, he felt relieved too early.
After dinner, the group went their separate ways and online once they were home, waiting for the merge. Soon, they saw a system prompt, congratulating them on their merge with White Koi guild. Now their new name was ‘Koi Alliance’.
Followed by an explosion in the guild chat.
[(Guild) Blank: Hello fellow juniors!]
[(Guild) Strongest O in Universe: Hello fellow juniors!]
[(Guild) BB Love: Hello fellow juniors!]
[(Guild) Hit Me and Ur Bald: Hello fellow juniors!]
……
Yue Ran: “…”
He stared widely at these familiar IDs and hurriedly checked the guild list to see who was the leader. When did Ashen Inner Thoughts become guild leader?
He had to know, as he messaged The Past.
[(Private) Dying Star: Has…Ashen Inner Thoughts have always been White Koi’s guild leader?]
[(Private) The Past: No, after the senior created this guild, several guild officers take turns as the guild leader. The other two officers didn’t want leadership recently, so Ashen Inner Thoughts took on the task.]
[(Private) Dying Star: I see.]
What a load of bullcrap! This must have been made up recently, and it had Jiang Xiao’s writing all over it!
Yue Ran glared at a certain swordsman’s ID and had a new understanding of Jiang Xiao’s character.
The guild chat continued to stay lively.
After each guild member greeted each other, the topic shifted to him.
[(Guild) Blank: So nice, now our guild also has a great god.]
[(Guild) Strongest O in Universe: Hello Great Dying Star~]
[(Guild) Attired Guqin: Hello, Great Dying Star~ Love you~]
Hello your younger sister! Snap went Yue Ran’s string of logic as he clicked open his cousin’s private chat.
[(Private) Dying Star: Why didn’t you tell me!]
[(Private) Attired Guqin: I just learned this tonight myself as well!]
[(Private) Dying Star: Bah!]
[(Private) Attired Guqin: I’m telling the truth (sad).]
Yue Ran exited out of the chat window to ignore his cousin.
On the other hand, Ashen Inner Thoughts was complaining powerlessly in the voice chat, “I thought you just wanted me to be a temporary leader just to meet the other leader. How did I become the new leader?”
Jiang Xiao said, “I didn’t care about managing the guild in the first place. You are the leader.”
Ashen Inner Thoughts rebuked, “Give me a reason.”
Jiang Xiao answered, “You’ll learn later.”
Then, he looked at a certain player’s ID on the guild list, moved his mouse to click on it.
[(Private) Formless Slash: Military training starts tomorrow, you should go to bed early.]
[(Private) Formless Slash: The university provides mineral water. Remember to bring a container.]
Inside Yue Ran’s head: How can you actually speak to me this calmly!
Don’t you feel you have anything to explain?
Yue Ran’s eyes got wider. After fuming in anger for a long time, he replied with a [Oh] and went offline immediately.
Shameless!
Shameless!
Shameless!
He closed his laptop and lay down angrily.
When a new day started, it was the first year’s military training.
The next morning, Yue Ran went downstairs to assemble. After listening to the chief military instructor’s instructions, he jogged two laps around the sports field and followed his roommate for breakfast. After the break, they assembled again. Remembering a certain someone’s advice, he obediently brought along a water bottle.
The instructor in charge of them was an alpha. Although he carried a stern expression, he was still very forgiving to this team of omegas.
He took them to the field. When he spotted Yue Ran helping his classmates with their bottles, he went over and told him to gather people to get the water. He had an impression on Yue Ran with the youth’s good physical strength from the performance this morning.
Yue Ran uttered an “Oh” and examined the delicate students in his team. He turned to the water distribution centre under a canopy in the distance and walked over.
The university used big plastic barrels to distribute water that could be used to refill bottles.
At that moment, there was a queue of mostly alphas. When they saw Yue Ran walking over alone, they stared blankly at him, signing the form to collect water and couldn’t resist offering to help. “Just yourself? Why don’t I help you?”
As soon as one suggested, another alpha also chimed in, “Let me help you with that!”
“That’s right, you don’t need to carry it yourself.”
“Where are your classmates? Why are they letting you carry it alone?”
Yue Ran watched them with a wooden expression, feeling a little complicated.
In the past, alphas basically ignored him in school, so to him, they were unreliable. Now, after having his pheromone temporarily muted by the suppressant, there was nothing to repel the alphas to help him.
Seeing these alphas were fighting to lean a hand, he muttered a “No need”, then calmly picked up a big plastic barrel, carried it on his shoulder, turned and left.
The crowd of alphas: “…”
No, wait, what was up with this omega!
Yue Ran didn’t glance at the petrified people behind him, walked through most of the field in public view and back to his team.
When the instructor was drilling for more training, he suddenly saw something uniformly distracting them. He turned his head towards that something and saw a certain someone coming over with the barrel of water.
Once Yue Ran was within earshot, he looked up at the instructor to ask, “Where do you want me to put this?”
Instructor: “…”
Oh, this omega is super manly!
Our ranran is a A-killer, don’t underestimate him !
Lol
Really hope he doesn’t end up JX.
Oh he will definitely end up with JX. That’s inevitable. But JX needs to be knocked around and down before YR accepts him.
Aye
U mean killing JX or with JX 😂
Sorry, I wrote that on my phone last night. Didn’t mean to reply to your comment. 😅
He just blew all those little alpha minds! Lmao! Thanks for the chapter 🤣❤️
This is so funny! Thanks for the chapter!
Alphas: this Omega looks fragile. Let’s help him.
Ran ran: picks up a barral of water.
Instructor: A manly Omega.
Ran Ran: face covered in black lines
Hell yeah! Ran Ran is a strong man! 💪💪
Jiang Xiao is so sneaky that I’m beginning to go weary of him. Yu Ran doesn’t need these sorts of games being played around him.
Either he’ll be KO’ed by You Ran(he’s planning to reject Jiang Xiao once the other admit him courting) or bidding time to build up affection…I think that’s a wise move from Jiang Xiao or he’ll be dump before scoring.
YR loves the game. He purposefully joined another guild to distance himself from JX. So then JX absorbs that new guild into his own by saying the guild is so wonderful, blah blah. When really it is to CLOSE the distance that YR put between them. He’s not listening to YR at all, thinking that he knows better just bc he likes him. That’s what is sitting badly with me.
YR clearly seems uncomfortable with JX pursuing him. He tried to make up a fake bf, too.
I feel offended because I had a crush and my crush knows it too because I told his friends and his friends told him. Like what Yue Ran said (he’s inlove with a beta) my crush has a crush with another girl (my classmate). I sometimes merge the chessclub (where he is) and my I.C.T. subject as I keep going into their room and my classmates follows until the teachers just merge it. I also keeps acting bubbly trying to get his attention and just kind of wishing that he’ll like me too and he was cool with it. (We ended up friends.)
What I’m trying to say is that, Yue Ran is a man. A cool dude who’s game name is Dying Star that just curses anyone he doesn’t want to bother with. If he’s uncomfortable, he’ll just ignore Jiang Xiao or be cool with it instead of being embarassed and thinking that Jiang Xiao is shameless. It’s still up to Yue Ran if he’ll fall.
I bet if Jiang Xiao’s the uke, everyone will be okay with it saying: He’s so cute just trying to chase his hubby. Hubby look at this silly cute omega.
Jiang Xiao isn’t playing, he’s seriously just trying his hardest and if Yue Ran still didn’t fall for him, I’m sure he’ll just look after Yue Ran from a far and be happy as long as this manly omega is happy.
No offense but that was immature and inconsiderate of you and doesn’t somehow prove that people should be ok with the way JX is acting
Drif, see my replies on your other comment. I can’t reply to you here.
cry about it
no, i’m kidding. half-kidding. i’m with you on disapproving of jx’s moves but if jx didn’t use this strategy to pursue yr, we wont have this story lmfao. anyway, a tsundere like mc who won’t grow up and drop the tsun act needs someone persistent and patient like jx so we have to accept that jx will keep acting this way
Hahahahah ran ran is super strong 😅…
Thanks for the chapter ♥️♥️
🤣 Yes, show those minions what an omega can do. Do not mess with our RanRan. Lol and that Fox Jiang Xiao. 🤭 He sure knows how to mess with his sweetheart. 😅
Spitfire indeed lol.
Love love for stronk omega
Thanks for the chapter!!!!
Thanks for the chapter! That will teach some about stereotypes, lol.
For those that says Jiang Xiao’s playing, he’s not. It’s still up to Yue Ran if he will fall in love or not. Yue Ran didn’t enter a new guild because of Jiang Xiao, he enters because he doesn’t want his old account with Vault of Heaven name (his black history) to be known. That’s why he entered a new one so no one would recognise his play style as Vault of Heaven. If Yue Ran was really uncomfortable then he would choose to ignore Jiang Xiao instead of being embarassed and calling him shameless for three times. I bet it Jiang Xiao’s the uke, everyone will be like okay with it. 😒
*if Jiang Xiao’s the uke.
Nice straw man lol
“If he was really uncomfortable he would act unaffected instead of expressing displeasure” listen to yourself
Have Jiang Xiao kabedon our MC like other ML? No. Have he ate his tofu? No. He’s already considerate and even holding our dear MC like a fragile treasure. I think you just don’t get the ML.
Sorry but I agree with nuthingunicorn if the ml character was the shu people would feel like it was cute. Heck I would and I still find the current set up cute! After all with our mc he would let ml have it if he really was bothered. Plus ml if fighting for a chance at his love and is trying his best. If he didn’t do the things he has done then mc really wouldn’t give him a chance. Also can I point out mc isn’t fooled? (Not to mention repeated mention of mc being a tsundere)
Thank you for the update ❤💕
🤣 MC be the manliest person on the sports field. All the alpha gonna feel self concious.
Thanks for the update! ^^
Thx for the chapter!
I bet the instructor thought an alpha would help him carry it.
Our ranran is super badass 😂😍
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
RanRan is super amazing!💪
Lol i love this omega
Thanks for translation
i love strong omegas 😍
I mean.. isn’t he a man?
Kkkkkk super manly ômega!
Ah yes! Go Yue ran !!≧◡≦
Lmao🤣
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