Editor: DarkSapphire, Sahloknir
There would be a sound of notification when a user joined the voice room.
But because the members were busy gaming, they muted the notification to stay focused. A few that had heard the simple tone assumed the newcomer was a guildmate that was late to the party, so they didn’t bother to switch windows to check. This was a private room after all.
Jiang Xiao wasn’t in the game so he had the setting on, but as an invited guest, he didn’t know who else was invited to the meeting, so he didn’t bother to check. That was the start of everyone’s tragedy.
Finally, it suddenly occurred to Blank that when he checked the voice chat earlier, everyone that should be here was here. Logically, there shouldn’t be any more newcomers. He glanced at the list of names and heard Jiang Xiao say, “Do not mention this in front of him.”
BB Love uttered, “The whole guild knows you have a sweetheart. When The Past learns you’re Jiang Xiao, it will come out eventually.”
Jiang Xiao replied, “I’ll find a way to make things right. I only need everyone to pretend to forget this. Don’t mention that person, my darling is very prideful. Need to be cautious of him becoming hostile.”
Ashen Inner Thoughts asked curiously, “Would he bring it up himself and then drink his own vinegar to clear his suspicion?”
Blank immediately interrupted, “Rubblish, how can Star God be that kind of person!”
He swallowed his saliva and hurried to send a private message to Jiang Xiao, informing him of a certain extremely important thing.
During that time, BB Love took the baton of the conversation. “I think it’s possible.”
Strongest O in Universe continued to go on a tangent, “I also think so too, with his masterful performance. I was sad for a long time when he quit.”
Ashen Inner Thoughts said with a smile, “If he’s jealous, he might act like his first self. I kind of want to see it.”
“No way, he doesn’t like acting,” said Jiang Xiao, looking at his wife’s name on the voice chat list. “He originally planned to join our guild. But because of the bet I made with A-Jie, he pretended to be a temporary couple with me. In order to not reveal his true self, he created a persona that was nothing like his real self.”
Blank quickly helped open an opportunity for the other. “Do you like the original one or the present one?”
Jiang Xiao said softly, “He has always been the same in front of me. What I like is him.”
After a pause, he added, “But my darling is too good. I would still like him even if he was a clinging type.”
The voice channel suddenly chorused out a long “Oh”, followed by some shouting of him not to abuse the dog even at night.
Yue Ran’s ears started to get a little hot. Rationally, he knew he should leave to avoid being found, but he couldn’t resist listening more. He quickly changed his ID into a string of symbols and planned to turn tail and run when the others questioned who he was.
Jiang Xiao and Blank watched this scene helplessly, guessing the little summoner’s intention and quickly notifying others.
Ashen Inner Thoughts included, “His military training is coming to an end correct? Call him out for a meal when he’s free.”
Jiang Xiao replied, “Sure, I’ll ask him.”
At this time, BB love, who received the private message, quickly followed, “You’re so lucky to date Star God.”
Strongest O in Universe was next. “I’m super envious. Star God is not only very powerful, but he is also an omega. Ah! My male god.”
Ashen Inner Thoughts said, “He is indeed awesome, worthy of his status as one of the TSSM gods.”
Blank concluded, “And very good looking as well. If he was single, he must have a large number of admirers.”
Yue Ran fiddled with his phone case, feeling embarrassed by all the praise.
Jiang Xiao thought about his little summoner’s character and estimated that the junior must have calmed down by now. In order to make the youth feel better, he also took off his virtual vest. “There’s another thing I haven’t told everyone.”
Everyone said in unison. “What?”
Jiang Xiao revealed, “My main account on the old server is Tempest.”
Everyone: “…”
The chat went silent for several seconds, and then everyone exclaimed simultaneously, “The fuck you said?!”
Jiang Xiao said indifferently, “That’s why Sunken Moon and the others were willing to help out during that incident.”
The crowd uttered “The fuck” again before reality finally sunk in.
“You’re actually Tempest!”
“Oh my god! So there is already a great god beside me!”
“I knew you were strong, but I never would have expected you to be Tempest!”
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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So that was the reason why you pulled me for ranked?
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“That’s right, what’s so special about Star Moon? Tempest Star obviously fits more!”
“Not only with skill, but also with appearance!”
Then there was another round of fancy boasting. Yue Ran heard enough as he quickly left the room and changed his name back.
Before he went offline, he thought of how much they praised him. So he went back to the voice chat and was about to say goodnight, only to hear Ashen Inner Thoughts gasped, “Yes! We managed to keep it together. That was too scary. How did he know the password?”
“Stupid. He used to be in our guild. Of course, he knows the password.”
“I feel like I heard the ping again. Did someone join? Who is it this time?”
Yue Ran answered, face void of emotion, “It’s me again.”
Everyone: “…”
Star God swung round and caught everyone off guard!
Yue Ran continued, “No, no, continue chatting. Don’t stop on my account.”
“…” Blank cried, “I swear what I said earlier was all true!”
Ashen Inner Thoughts blurted, “Every sentence was from the bottom of my heart!”
Strongest O in Universe lamented, “I’m really your fan! I was really sad when you left!”
Jiang Xiao said, “Go do whatever you need to do.”
Everyone didn’t need him to say it a second time as they all hurried out, leaving the little couple in the room.
Yue Ran stared at the other’s ID and asked, “What do you want to say?”
Jiang Xiao replied, “I used to call you Ran Ran in the dungeon, so we could never hide our relationship from the start.”
Yue Ran ignored the senior.
Jiang Xiao coaxed, “Why don’t we go to the internet cafe tomorrow and I’ll kneel down on the keyboard?”
Yue Ran declined, “I’m not going.”
Jiang Xiao said with a good temper, “Alright, I’ll listen to you. If you aren’t going, then I won’t go as well.”
Yue Ran humphed.
Jiang Xiao smiled, knowing the other man wasn’t actually that angry, asking, “Do you want to eat a meal with them?”
Yue Ran replied, “Ask me that later.”
Jiang Xiao answered with “Alright” and as he wanted to say go to bed early, he heard a WeChat notification. When he checked his phone and opened the message, he found it was from his father asking if he was asleep or not. He replied and soon received a phone call afterwards.
He said, “Darling, wait a moment. I need to take a call.”
Yue Ran made a sound of acknowledgement subconsciously. It took him two seconds to react to the nickname as he muttered about how shameless the other man was.
By that time, Jiang Xiao had already answered his father’s call.
Mr. Jiang was the type to get straight to the point with no fluff. “I asked for Dr. Li’s itinerary. He has been abroad recently and should return around November. He will stop by S City. You can take the high-speed rail to S City, it should take about half an hour. I’ll make an appointment for you.”
Jiang Xiao said, “Okay.”
Mr. Jiang asked after two seconds of silence, “If he really has no solution, do you really want to remove it?”
Jiang Xiao confirmed, “Yes.”
His father knew there was no way he could persuade his son. “When will you bring him home and introduce him to us?”
Jiang Xiao shared, “Goal is during the New Year.”
Mr. Father understood his son’s nature. As soon as he heard this, he knew if everything went smoothly without incident, they would definitely meet Yue Ran at New Year, so he ended their call.
When Jiang Xiao returned to the YY voice chat, he saw Yue Ran was still waiting for him earnestly. A smile appeared on his face as he informed the youth, “I’m back.”
Yue Ran said, “Welcome back, you better remember to tell them not to foolishly spread untrue stories.”
Jiang Xiao replied, “They know even if you don’t say it.”
He thought for a moment and decided to not mention Dr. Li for the time being.
Dr. Li was a famous authority in the field of pheromones.
Since he met Yue Ran during the summer vacation, he had a serious talk with his family. He wanted this doctor to check Yue Ran’s condition. However, he just managed to calm Yue Ran’s uneasy mood tonight, so it was not the right time to have this discussion. Dr. Li wouldn’t be back until November anyway. He had more time to find a more suitable opportunity to bring this up.
He looked at the other ID in the room and suddenly suggested, “Since the dorm building isn’t closed yet, let me find you.”
Yue Ran was puzzled. “Find me for what?”
Jiang Xiao lamented, “I miss you. I want to see you.”
Yue Ran thought of today’s kiss almost immediately. “…I’m sleeping now. Good night.”
Jiang Xiao chuckled. “Good night, darling.”
Yue Ran didn’t make a big fuss about being called darling this time. As soon as he left the voice room, he rolled on the bed twice and slept while hugging his quilt.
With military training ending, their university life became more relaxed than before.
Zhou Jieying came back on the last day. He carried a nothing-had-happened air. If anyone asked, he would interpret it as it might be from lack of rest, which led to the school doctor mistakenly thinking he was in his estrus period. Because when the university investigated his possession of medicine, it was in secret. His parents went to his dorm to get his remaining medicine, also under the disguise of getting things for him. Thus, keeping others in the dark.
Even after his explanation, he found that his classmates’ eyes were very strange. His attention immediately shifted to Yue Ran, to see that the other was completely ignoring him. So once they were on break, he looked for Yue Ran and whispered, “You must have misunderstood me that day. I really didn’t take medicine. I really wanted to ask him if he was bullying you and didn’t expect to make a fool of myself instead…I’m sorry. Please don’t be angry.”
Yue Ran was completely baffled. He felt that he had wronged Jiang Xiao by scolding the senior for being shameless when the real shameless person was standing right in front of him.
He said, “Jiang Xiao told me omegas taking medicine is a big deal. The university will announce its notice of warning. Do you want to wait until they make the announcement?”
Zhou Jieying’s expression immediately froze.
Yue Ran wanted to get rid of the other guy at one go, and said solemnly, “Even if it’s a coincidence, I don’t want to be friends with you anymore. Because my husband would be unhappy, and I listen to my husband.”
As soon as he said that, a familiar low chuckle sounded from behind him. “Very good, my dear.”
Originally, Jiang Xiao was waiting for him to eat. Seeing Zhou Jieying blocking the youth from a distance, he came over and received an unexpected reward.
Yue Ran: “…”
Shameless. Eavesdropping on others!
Without paying any regard to Zhou Jieying, he patted down his little summoner’s invisible ruffled feathers and pulled him into the canteen. “Call that name again.”
Yue Ran played ignorantly. “Call what?”
“Husband.”
“No.”
Jiang Xiao lowered his head close to the other’s ears and said in a very ambiguous and husky voice, “You’ll call me that again sooner or later.”
Yue Ran felt the tip of his ear getting warmer from the hot breath as he quickly shook and waved the other man’s face away from him.
Jiang Xiao stopped his teasing and dragged the youth to find a good place to sit, then went to buy their meals, while Yue Ran waited for the other like a good boy. Then, he heard a notification from his phone, lowered his head to check and found it was a WeChat message from Xiao Yu.
He and his two good friends were in the same university town. Now that the military training was over, he assumed the others were planning for a get together…Let’s see if he guessed correctly as he opened the message.
[Xiao Yu: Is your military training over? You need to be careful in the next few days. Chu Yuan, that jerk asked about you!]
Yue Ran was startled.
Chu Yuan was their high school bully and his number one mortal enemy. They fought often in school and if the bully was inquiring about him, could the jerk not have had enough and wanted to fight his way here? What kind of bullcrap was this!
[He asked: Why is he looking for me?]
[Xiao Yu: I don’t know. By the time I learned of this, he already received information on the university you are attending. He also finished his military training. You need to watch yourself in case he comes to find you!]
[Yue Ran: Let him come. I’m not afraid of him.]
[Xiao Yu: I’m afraid he might spread ugly information about you.]
Yue Ran blinked at the message before he understood what the other meant.
As an alpha, Chu Yuan would naturally know that there was something wrong with his pheromones.
His fingers stopped on his screen for a while. [He typed: It doesn’t matter. People are going to learn about it after the suppressant wears off. It’s just a matter of when.]
[After a pause, he added: Plus, my boyfriend doesn’t mind.]
[Xiao Yu: !!!]
[Xiao Yu: Ha? You have a boyfriend!]
Yue Ran replied with [Yes] and tried to use this word to express his calm and collected state so that Xiao Yu could know that he wasn’t showing off, not at all.
But Xiao Yu didn’t care about his state at all, as shown in the following message containing a string of questions: [When did you guys get together? What’s his major? Why haven’t I heard of him before? Do you have a photo? Show me!]
[Yue Ran: Yes, I have one.]
But only one.
It was taken yesterday morning when Jiang Xiao ate breakfast with him. He saw the other party standing in the sun in the lobby, so he couldn’t resist sneaking a picture. Which the senior didn’t know about.
He found the picture in his album and sent it.
[Xiao Yu: !!!]
[Xiao Yu: Is this really your boyfriend? So handsome!]
Yue Ran wanted to reply calmly with [It’s alright when you’re used to it], but after entering mid-sentence, he didn’t have the conscience to send it. He deleted what he typed and replaced it with [Indeed].
[Yue Ran: He is an alpha, my university’s school grass.]
[Xiao Yu: Then?]
[Yue Ran: He knows. We’ll find a way.]
[Xiao Yu: That’s great. Congratulations!]
[Yue Ran: Thank you.]
[Xiao Yu: Alright, I’m going to get lunch. Remember to watch yourself. If you can’t hide, just ask your cousin and your boyfriend for help. Don’t try to be brave, understand?]
[Yue Ran: Understand.]
When the two set up a meeting time, Jiang Xiao happened to come back with the food. Yue Ran put his phone aside and began to eat.
Later, there was an orientation party after the military training. After the party, there was a two-day rest before classes formally started. Yue Ran was finally able to sleep in. He crawled out of the bed at nine o’clock, ordered and ate something simple, logged onto the game and met with a private message from Blank.
[(Private) Blank: Sister-in-law, I’d like to ask for your opinion.]
[(Private) Dying Star: If I see you type these three words again, I’ll kill you without mercy.]
[(Private) Blank: (tears) Star God, we have a plan.]
[(Private) Dying Star: What?]
[(Private) Blank: A perfect plan involving your different persona!]
[(Private) Blank: After our discussion. We decided that if The Past brought this up in the future, we would say that you went back to the game after Jiang Xiao and your cousin’s persuasion on helping us root out the undercover traitors by putting yourself in danger. In the process, Jiang Xiao learned that you were his sweetheart who he had been waiting for, for three years. He worked tirelessly and finally got together with you. Isn’t this the perfect plan?]
Yue Ran: “…”
Translator has something to add:
Teo: It’s hard to know what feature YY has without getting the actual app (searching screenshot online has limit). So any feature mentioned in this chapter is based on what the author wrote.
Thanks for the chapter
The plan has it’s own plot💀💀💀
Thank u for the chapter!!
LOLOL yeah ikr
+1 fr LMAO
Who is Xiao Yu again?
One of Yue Ran’s childhood friend who is an omega at a different college, but the same college town.
Ah, I see, was he ever mentioned in the previous chapters? Or am I mixing up some characters with the same name ????
Yes, so far he only appeared twice (not really in person). Once at the beginning of the chapter (chapter 1 actually, they were messaging each other), and the second time before Yue Ran’s heat because he was on his way to meet up with his friends for a meal.
And also… OMG you replied to meeeeeee!!!!!
I read everyone’s comments but I always try to reply to readers’ questions 🙂 Thank you for reading!
Thanks for the chapter~
thanks for the chapter <3
Thanks for the chapter!!!
So…he didn’t seem to mention the bully… Thanks for the translation! 🤣❤️
This chapter was full of dog food. Now I’m stuffed. ☺️ But really Yue Ran already had enough trouble and now an idiot is going to drop by to cause even more trouble. He really gets no break. 😔 Love how he called JX husband. It shows how he truly is starting to accept him and is willing to find a way to be together with him.
Lies on top of lies? Sure sounds like it will go well
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
Thanks for the chapter! 😂
Thanks for the chapter ♥️♥️
Thanks for the chapter <3
Who’s this bully? I know a little fake b*tch perfect for him 🙂
This guild is all kind of amazing. Can’t wait for the bully’s comeuppance!
So RanRan IS bulied in highschool! I thought he just become a joke for Alphas there. But there us an Alpha actively smearing his reputation and I bet the one making that betting mean joke with the Beta before?? RanRan is too independent that I believed his words, but like Xiao Yu revealed here, that Chu Yuan IS his bully. [Heartache].
Oh I am also glad that they went with the treatment route instead of making the ML miraculously had the same flaw.
Indeed, that’s perfect!!