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Chu Yuan felt as if he was hearing things.
Yue Ran was not someone who could get close to people in a short time. It was impossible for him to get a boyfriend so soon after university had started. Could the other man have learned of his feelings and purposefully found someone to play pretend?
He asked in a tense voice, “Yo-your boyfriend?”
Yue Ran said, “Yes.”
Jiang Xiao nodded to his love rival. “My name is Jiang Xiao.”
Chu Yuan’s expression darkened slightly as he reluctantly responded.
Jiang Xiao didn’t mind the other alpha’s attitude at all. He asked calmly while he walked closer, “Ran Ran wants to eat grilled fish. If you don’t mind, let’s eat that?”
Chu Yuan was very unhappy with how the senior addressed Yue Ran. He endured the impulse to pick a fight and agreed, “Okay.”
The three went to the independent restaurant on the canteen’s fourth floor, sat on the booth by the window, placed their orders and began to chat.
Chu Yuan naturally wanted to ask them how they met. He learned that they had met over the summer vacation, making his earlier assumption wrong and that they were really in a relationship.
He stared at Jiang Xiao’s handsome face as his own expression turned slightly more unsightly.
Jiang Xiao pretended not to see the change as he wholeheartedly treated the other as a guest, while grabbing food for his darling in passing. When Yue Ran placed his chopsticks down, Jiang Xiao asked, “Darling, I want to get a slushie on the second floor. Since you’re done, go and buy one for me?”
The gears in Yue Ran’s head moved as he glanced at the Jiang Xiao.
He knew that Jiang Xiao wanted to help him get rid of the brute, but with Chu Yuan’s bad temper what would happen if they started fighting from a disagreement?
Jiang Xiao gently rubbed his head and said, “Just go.”
Yue Ran surveyed the number of people on this floor, he found there was a lot of support available. Checking at the table to double confirm that there was no sharp utensils as potential murder weapons before leaving.
As soon as he left, the atmosphere that was not so harmonious immediately became stiffer. Chu Yuan coldly glanced at Jiang Xiao. Before he could open his mouth, he felt an extremely domineering aura expanding. His scalp numbed and he immediately went into an alert state.
This aura was powerful and filled with menace, it was an alpha’s inherent intimidation.
In his entire career as a high school bully and trouble seeker, he had always been the one intimidating others. This was the first time someone around his age treated him this way.
There was no doubt that this alpha’s pheromones were stronger than his, which meant the same could be said about his genes.
If the other party decided to, he could even claim an area as his personal territory, which was terrifying.
He tried his best to resist his instinctive response of lowering his presence and aura, clenched his teeth and released his own pheromones.
Thanks to the two fighting for domination, the surrounding area quickly became an unoccupied zone. Few that couldn’t bear the tension hurried and escaped, while some gossip lovers secretly hid in the distance to take photos and prepare to share them with other melon eating forum users.
In such a short effort, one of the parties who was a school bully had already burst into a cold sweat.
Not admitting defeat, he maintained his expression, picked up his drink to take a slip and pretended to have experience through thick and thin, asking, “What the fuck are you doing?”
Jiang Xiao answered, “Just talking with you.”
Chu Yuan scolded the other man a hundred and eighty times inside. With his slightly wet hair from the sweat, he commented indifferently, “Oh? Is this the way you talk about things?”
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Jiang Xiao said, “I heard you used to be a school bully. You should prefer this style of talking more. Me, as the host, should act according to what’s best for the guest.”
Jte Tejc: “…”
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Jiang Xiao answered coldly, “I know about his pheromones. I discussed this problem with him and his father. This is our issue that we will solve ourselves. So there’s nothing for you to be concerned about.”
Chu Yuan’s expression changed slightly and he couldn’t maintain his calmness anymore.
This guy even contacted Yue Ran’s father. Now he knew how serious this alpha was.
“Now that I think about it, I should be thanking you,” Jiang Xiao even mentioned with a kinder tone, as if the aggressive pheromones around him were not his. But what he said was anything but kind, “If you hadn’t blocked his secret admirers for three years, he would have been someone else’s, and I would never have had a chance.”
Chu Yuan: “…”
This statement was so cruel that he got up and almost threw a punch.
It wasn’t like he didn’t want to fight, the intimidating aura became more intense. He couldn’t resist the instinct to take a small step back.
In this standstill, his moment of incandescent rage had passed, but he couldn’t face the person in front of him.
Jiang Xiao seemed to not see the immediate danger before him as he continued calmly, “It’s not easy for Ran Ran to have a heart to heart talk with others, but he knows the ones that are good to him. I can tolerate a person spending time with him when they are nice to him. But I can’t tolerate people he dislikes who always annoy him. You should be well aware of why he dislikes you.”
Chu Yuan was stiff and still.
Jiang Xiao ended, “Now that you’re full, I won’t be seeing you off.”
Chu Yuan turned away with a cold face.
Because if he was to stay any longer, he was going to commit murder.
He rushed down the stairs in one breath, walked out for more than ten steps with his blank brain. Only then did he feel the stuffy pain in his chest.
It wasn’t like he didn’t want to be nice to Yue Ran.
In those three years, he was young and frivolous. He didn’t know why he liked the other man, it was just that he wanted to get close to Yue Ran whenever they met, but he couldn’t find an excuse in the heat of the moment, so he turned to causing small troubles. Later, when he started college, when he could no longer see the man who he stood in sharp opposition to. He finally got panicky, but it was too late.
He strode forward and felt that the whole world lost its colour. Then, he didn’t come back to his senses until he heard a cry of surprise. He realised he had accidentally crashed into someone, that someone happened to be an omega.
Even when his rage was at its peak, he never laid a single finger on an omega, so he forced himself to stop and ask, “Are you all right?”
Instead of answering, Zhou Jieying looked at him and asked, “Are you all right?”
Chu Yuan was startled. Unbeknownst to him, he’d started shedding tears. He said unyieldingly, “It’s nothing, just dust.”
Zhou Jieying: “…”
What caused you to cry must be a level ten sandstorm then.
But that wasn’t the important thing.
The important thing was that this was the person he saw on the forum post. This was indeed Yue Ran’s ‘former boyfriend’. He noticed the man walking in a daze and he deliberately crossed the other’s path. Luckily, the other party stopped to check on him.
He ignored the alpha’s red eyes and hesitantly wondered, “Are you…Yue Ran’s classmate?”
At first Chu Yuan wanted to leave, but he stopped when he heard this. “You know me?”
Zhou Jieying nodded. “When you and Yue Ran were strolling around the campus a few days ago.”
Chu Yuan said “Oh” expressionlessly.
At that time, his heart was still filled with hope and tension. He was ready to reconcile with Yue Ran before pursuing the other. The result proved that it was a delusional dream.
Zhou Jieying said tentatively, “I’ve something to ask you. Do you know why Yue Ran cares so much about pheromones?”
Chu Yuan studied him warily, “Why?”
As soon as the school bully’s momentum was on display, Zhou Jieying could feel the prickling feeling under the other’s gaze.
He hid his palpitations by sighing, saying in distress, “I’m his friend. He should be happy with our school grass, but he’s unhappy every time he hears about pheromones. When I asked him, he always brushed it off. I’m really worried about him, so I can only ask you.”
The university finally released their announcement today.
Fortunately, his parents used their connections to form a relationship with the vice principal these days, and also the school took good care of omegas. So the public announcement didn’t include a name. It only stated that some freshmen took medicine without a doctor’s consent, were given a notice of warning, and it would go on the student’s record if it happened again.
His life was always smooth sailing. This was the first time he was put in such a difficult position. Therefore, he was miserable and unhappy when he came out of the office. This anger was hard to swallow. Then, he saw Yue Ran’s classmate and remembered the pheromones.
Chu Yuan was sad to hear this, but if Yue Ran didn’t want to share it, then he also wouldn’t reveal it. “I don’t know.”
Zhou Jieying pondered over it. “I keep feeling this is always on his mind. How about this, I’ll add you on WeChat. If I find any clues in the future, I’ll come to you to see if you can think of anything, otherwise, it might lead to health problems.”
Chu Yuan agreed without hesitation.
First was because he was afraid that it would really lead to health issues if Yue Ran kept it inside for too long. Second, if that certain alpha couldn’t stand Yue Ran’s pheromones in the future, he could seize the chance to comfort the distressed Yue Ran.
Once Zhou Jieying successfully added the school bully on WeChat, he gave a small smile and bid farewell. Under that smile, he was planning on ways to slowly trick the other man into revealing the truth.
This was when Yue Ran returned to the booth on the fourth floor with the slushie.
The residual pheromones still lingered around their seats, indicating the calm after the storm. He glanced left and right, asking, “Where did he go?”
Jiang Xiao said, “Gone.”
Yue Ran praised this man’s super high efficiency and said curiously, “What did you two talk about?”
Jiang Xiao tugged him beside to sit down, scooping out a spoonful of slushie to feed the youth while replying calmly, “Just facts. How you don’t want to see him, which is why he just left.”
I doubt the talk went that easy. Yue Ran muttered that inside while swallowing the cold delight in his mouth. “Did you ask him what he wanted from me?”
Jiang Xiao answered with some rubbish he made up and delivered in a serious manner, “Maybe to borrow money.”
Yue Ran: “…”
Bah! Only a fool would believe you!
Jiang Xiao held back his smile as he quickly pulled the man into his arms.
Yue Ran’s curiosity only lasted for a while. Soon, his attention was occupied by the game update, so he went to the internet cafe with Jiang Xiao.
Once the client installed on the internet cafe’s computers had been updated, they logged in to the game and went straight to Hero’s Sky City.
After more than half a day of fierce fighting, the arena had already been buzzing with activity. The game specially created a chat for the event arena, a hot ground for most players currently, it made keeping up with the messages very difficult.
Yue Ran glanced at it and a small system notification popped up on his screen.
—[Player ‘Tempest—Tempestuous Sun, Star and Moon’ has sent you a party request.]
—[Accept. Decline.]
Tempestuous Sun, Star and Moon!
Yue Ran immediately clicked ‘Agree’, created a custom room with his partner, and soon was face to face with Jiang Xiao’s main account.
Rumour was that this account had three rare weapons, especially game breaking. As soon as he stopped controlling his character, he couldn’t hold back his curiosity as he leaned closer to his senior. “Let me see your swords.”
Jiang Xiao leaned back on the sofa, spread out his legs, lifted the youth in front of him and watched from behind.
There were special effects when using the swordsman’s rare weapon. These three swords each had their own advantages and were beautifully designed. The colour scheme was very pleasing to Yue Ran’s eyes.
He played around with each weapon three times before he had enough. As soon as he wanted to get up, he was pulled back into the embrace again. Feeling the warm breath tickling his ears, his heart trembled slightly as he said, “Let’s start ranked.”
Jiang Xiao gently pecked the tip of an ear and kissed downward until he reached the lips. Then once he had his fill, he released the youth.
Yue Ran was acutely aware of his body’s reaction as he ran back to his seat in a panic, trying to calm his raging heart down. He scolded the other’s shamefulness, but didn’t dare to look at his own body, instead, focused all his attention on his computer screen. And happened to see the flashing horn message.
[(Sky City) (Horn) Movie Extra: So excited, Moon God and Fish God are matched against each other!]
Yue Ran was startled.
Seven Fish Seconds was the second and fourth runner up in the competition. He was a great god in the Flourishing Blossom’s Wild Fantasy server, or FBWF as players would call it. Said to be a very mysterious player. He rarely livestreamed and played the unpredictable warlock, the sub class of mage, which was said to be the father of the combat warlock.
Now the combat warlock encountered the combat healer.
Yue Ran and Jiang Xiao naturally didn’t want to miss the opportunity to watch them fight, but the other players’ speed was too fast. The room was filled up in a matter of seconds. Yue Ran wasn’t friends with Sunken Moon’s main account so he wasn’t able to enter. Jiang Xiao’s main account already had max friendship status with Sunken Moon, so he could enter the spectator room without Sunken Moon’s invitation.
With no alternative, Yue Ran slowly closed the distance between them. When he saw the other extending his arms, he hurriedly said, “I can watch it from here.”
Jiang Xiao replied, “I’ll hold you.”
Yue Ran declined, “No.”
Jiang Xiao smiled and threatened, “Then I won’t let you watch.”
Yue Ran immediately glared at him, whose eyes were filled with amusement. His heart trembled again as he maintained his straight face and negotiated, “You have to behave your hands.”
Jiang Xiao accepted the term, “Okay.”
With that, Yue Ran reluctantly sat in the other arms, smelling the familiar scent and unintentionally leaned into the hug.
Seeing this, Jiang Xiao chuckled lowly, “You like me holding you?”
“No way,” Yue Ran immediately denied. He insisted, “If it wasn’t for the PK, I wouldn’t…”
Speaking halfway, a horn message interrupted his sentence.
[(Sky City) (Horn) Moon God Fan Club Support: Don’t worry if you didn’t grab a spot. Sunken Moon is livestreaming. Everyone can view it from there~]
Yue Ran: “…”
Jiang Xiao: “…”
Thanks for the chapter
Thanks for the chapter!!!
What a timing🤣🤣🤣
hahahahah Last sentence was really something.
Good ending.
Aiyoo.. these two are so lovey dovey ah
Thanks for the chapter!
Hahaha! No cover…. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
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ML sure is a rough who can’t keep his hands to himself in the presence of his sweetheart. 😆😍
Thanks for the update ~♡
awww dog food everywhere, I’m not jealous lol
Thanks for the chapter!
Ahhhhh this is a really good read..
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Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
Lol way to go to ruin the romantic mood. Live streaming!!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Kkkkkkk mood killer!!
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