Editor: Sahloknir
The matter wasn’t very technical, it was very easy to check into the bottom of things.
The university announced the decided sanction, and the two people involved were punished.
One of them was Fruity who had attempted to besmirch Yue Ran’s reputation in the game. The private message was created by her—Yue Ran learned this from Jiang Xiao afterward.
The other vanished roleplayer was Zhou Jieying. He had just been given a warning, but to turn around and pull this trick? His next warning was much more severe.
Unlike last time, his name was publicised to the entire college.
Zhou Jieying’s popularity in his class suddenly dropped below freezing, even his roommates were unwilling to pay attention to him.
Contrary to Yue Ran, who was getting his entire class’s attention.
Having a mother who was a designer, as long as they could get on the train, it was the fastest way to enter the fashion industry. If their work was lucky enough to be fancied, they could go straight to having their work on the show. This was a great temptation. Even if they didn’t like Yue Ran, they shouldn’t be on his bad side at least. Therefore, Yue Ran had gained a small amount of popularity for the first time.
He himself didn’t care about this because there was a more important thing waiting for him.
After breakfast, Jiang Xiao found his conscience and confessed his conversation with Yue Ran’s father in the game, which meant his father actually knew he was with Jiang Xiao long ago.
Recalling the mess last night, he ignored his senior after he finished eating.
[Jiang Xiao had to admit his mistake on WeChat: Darling, please don’t be angry with me. What I did was wrong.]
Yue Ran continued to ignore.
[Jiang Xiao: Don’t you want to know what your father said to me?]
I actually do…
Yue Ran struggled for a few seconds. [Before he finally replied: What did he say?]
[Jiang Xiao: Please forgive me first.]
[Yue Ran: (Humph)]
[Jiang Xiao: (Love you)]
[Yue Ran: Tell me.]
[Jiang Xiao: Forgive me?]
[Yue Ran: Yes.]
[Jiang Xiao: He asked me to cherish you. I told him I will and please rest assured.]
Yue Ran’s ears turned red. He noticed the teacher entering the classroom so he put away his phone and focused on the lecture.
Zhou Jieying sat in the middle of the classroom, looking at the empty seats to his left and right, and at the people around Yue Ran. His gaze was ice-cold.
He had never suffered such a loss, and he had never hated a person this deeply.
This wasn’t about Jiang Xiao anymore. Now he just wanted to turn the tables back in a single breath.
Yue Ran remembered Jiang Xiao’s advice and continued to stay away from Zhou Jieying. He finished his classes like a well-behaved student and returned to his dorm afterward.
He had elective courses that evening, so by the time he was back in his dorm, it was almost ten o’clock. Today being Friday there wasn’t a lights-out, he could play games for a while. He turned on his laptop and as soon as he loaded into the game, he ran to meet Jiang Xiao. He saw they were hunting mutated monsters.
Having all the players in a single arena was too savage for the casual players. The casual ones in the guild said they won’t participate, instead, they decided to walk the route of ‘killing mutated monsters, earn points, and exchange for rewards’. Jiang Xiao just finished a round of monsters with him as the shot caller. Once he saw Yue Ran was online, he left the party to spend quality time with his wife.
He asked, “Ranked?”
Yue Ran wondered, “You don’t need to carry them anymore?”
Jiang Xiao said, “They will be fine. They learned the basics.”
He then started a trade with Yue Ran and put something in the trade window.
Yue Ran looked at the item. It was an anniversary accessory.
It was a pendant with the game logo printed on it, meant to be hung on the waist. It didn’t provide any additional stats or bonus effects. It was purely a cosmetic item. Therefore, it was exquisitely designed. It could be exchanged for points from Sky City arena or Mutated Monster Hunting.
He saw other players wearing it and wanted to exchange it over the weekend, but Jiang Xiao was quicker. His senior used his leisure time with the guild members fighting senseless monsters, and was able to earn enough points.
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When he saw that Jiang Xiao also had one hung on his waist, he opened his inventory and equipped the accessory. A light fuzzy feeling filled his heart because this was their first matching item as a couple, although…minus the fact that everyone and their mothers had it as well.
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He and Jiang Xiao were now around the middle rank. The chance of meeting elite players increased. Each battle was super thrilling. He believed there would only be more fun waiting for him in the higher ranks.
Yue Ran spent time fighting several mutated monsters with The Past and others while waiting for Jiang Xiao to switch accounts. They then entered Sky City to face masterful players from different servers.
After they fought until midnight, they successfully rose to sixth rank. They planned to get off after one more round, only to see their opponents’ information loaded on their screen. Two familiar IDs appeared—Sunken Moon, Seven Fish Seconds.
Those two men ranked together?
No wait, that wasn’t the main point.
[(All) Dying Star: Why are you still in middle rank?]
All Sunken Moon and Inked Sun played was solo arena.
The maps in solo fights were usually smaller, making the battle end quicker. With their strength, they should have climbed to a higher rank by now. Moreover, if he remembered correctly, Sunken Moon was already in the middle rank at the start of his match against Seven Fish Seconds yesterday. Now they were matched against one another, indicating that his points had not moved much.
[(All) Sunken Moon: I was unlucky and met with a stumbling block.]
[(All) Seven Fish Seconds: Me (smile).]
Yue Ran was quiet for a moment. He wasn’t sure what the deal was with them, so he didn’t reply.
Sunken Moon didn’t ask them why they were still in middle rank, because he knew they had classes. He glanced at a certain wicked partner and sent a message.
[(All) Sunken Moon: I don’t want to fight anymore after a long night. Since I finally matched with a friend, I would rather chat than fight.]
[(All) Seven Fish Seconds: All right, you guys talk, Dying Star, shall we fight in the middle?]
[(All) Dying Star: Sure.]
Jiang Xiao knew Yue Ran was itching to fight the warlock since yesterday, so he followed them while clicking on the flashing notification on his friend list.
[(All) Sunken Moon: I managed to persuade A-Bai on my side. Did you get a chance to speak with Dying Star?]
[(All) Tempest: No.]
[(All) Sunken Moon: ?]
[(All) Tempest: I don’t want to exhaust him.]
[(All) Sunken Moon: Just ask first. What if he wants to do it?]
[(All) Tempest: Fine.]
As they walked and chatted, they soon met in the centre along with their own respective partners, who already started their battle.
They were almost equal in skill, but Seven Fish Seconds had more rare weapons at his disposal. In the end, Yue Ran lost the fight, but he had a blast playing. As agreed, the duo resigned from the match, exited the client and went offline to sleep.
The next day he woke up naturally. After eating, Jiang Xiao pulled him to the milk tea shop. And the topic of their conversation was of course the game and the doubles battle was brought up.
The two of them were for sure going to form a team with each other. Pure White Sun was very likely going to form a team with Qin Xiujie. After all, the monk was a sad excuse of a leader, while although Qin Xiujie’s skill was average, he happened to have numerous tricks up his sleeve. The two could complement each other as a team.
Sunken Moon and Inked Sun’s partnership hadn’t been set in stone yet. Although Seven Fish Seconds jumped out of nowhere, they were still bound by the platform’s contract and couldn’t form a team with each other. They could only find another unbound player.
Jiang Xiao suddenly asked, “Do you know why the game company is conducting a doubles battle competition?”
Yue Ran guessed, “To allow other support type players to participate in the event?”
Jiang Xiao shook his head. “This is inside information. The game will be officially entering their competition as an esport. This is a warm-up for next year.”
Yue Ran was stunned. “It’s official?”
Jiang Xiao nodded, “The application had been approved. My source informed me there will be two new job classes added at the end of the year, so there will be more fun to look forward to in the contest.”
Yue Ran didn’t really understand.
From a common sense perspective, the company should have started the competition during peak time, so that there were more people participating and spectating. But it took them six years before they decided to enter into esports. What were those decision makers thinking?
He had to ask this question that had been bugging him.
“Maybe they didn’t expect for the game to stay popular for so long. Now the game has a large quantity of players, it is still not too late to start,” Jiang Xiao answered the question. He paused and asked, “Are you interested in playing professionally?”
Yue Ran blinked. “Are you?”
“Yes,” Jiang Xiao said. “Maybe for a season or two. I’m going to form a team. Sunken Moon and the others have already decided to take part, but we haven’t decided on a location yet. When we do, I will be slowly recruiting more talents into the team.”
Yue Ran slowly digested the large amount of information. “So you want me to compete professionally with you?”
Jiang Xiao said frankly, “No, I don’t want to.”
Being a professional esport player was too tiring. When gaming became a profession, it would greatly reduce the value of ‘fun’ in gaming.
So privately, he still thought that it was better for his little summoner to attend class, occasionally design new creations, and play a game or two during his spare time.
While for him, he would be forming a team, which was in fact, his hobby. His main focus was on the esport potential as he planned to start his own business. After all, all their conditions were too unique.
Because those well-known teams created by the game company must be from different branches. Except for a few that brought in their own fans, most of them were new faces. They were different. He and Sunken Moon have a huge fan group. Together, they could definitely bring the most internet traffic for the Hero’s Bound esport team. There was no need for them to find sponsors. Because those sponsors would take the initiative to find them.
Yue Ran pondered for a few seconds.
He would only be a sophomore next year. If he wanted to go professional, he would certainly be dropping out to achieve that. Compared with gaming, he still prefered designing, which he had been influenced by since childhood.
He said, “Let me try this year’s doubles battle first.”
If he really did love the esport atmosphere, he might partake.
Jiang Xiao heard the underlying meaning and patted his head without objection.
The two strolled outside until noon and went back after lunch. Yue Ran took a nap, woke up and continued to do ranked. They successfully ground to the higher rank the same night.
After they reached the higher rank, they met experts from other servers. Outside of gaming, they attended classes or acted all lovey-dovey. In a blink of an eye, a month had passed.
After the one month period, the bustling Sky City’s gate was closed before the reluctant players. After Yue Ran exchanged points for a set of equipment, he spent the rest on materials.
In this single month, Zhou Jieying acted extremely low-key, like he had finally learned what pain was. He didn’t act devilishly and didn’t do any underhand schemes. He smiled at everyone, like a pitiful little white flower. The people in the class had no deep hatred towards him, so when he took the initiative to talk, they would at least respond to him more or less.
But Lin Qian didn’t think so.
Because there was always that one person in the world. Where there was obviously no animosity between them, yet they couldn’t stand the sight of the other living better, couldn’t stand the sight of the other’s better looking boyfriend. They would always be happy only after showering in the other’s misery.
Yue Ran gazed at him and said, “You seem to be an expert on this?”
Lin Qian said, “I met one in high school, and that was how I lost my former boyfriend.”
Yue Ran uttered, “…You have my deepest sympathy.”
Lin Qian was calm. “It’s fine. All things are in the past. I’ve long been over it. The scam man can run away with that little white flower, it means he would run away to a different little white flower the next day. Running away now is better than running away after getting married.”
This was a very logical view. Yue Ran was left speechless. Seeing that he had some time between classes, he got up leisurely and went to refill his water bottle. While refilling, he unlocked his phone and continued reading Dr. Li’s information.
Now that they were in November, Dr. Li would return to the country soon.
Jiang Xiao took the time to inform him about it. Although he wasn’t very hopeful, he couldn’t resist checking the Doctor out.
Zhou Jieying happened to see the information on the screen when he passed by, and his heart jumped.
During this time, no matter the method he used to knock on Chu Yuan’s door, the alpha wouldn’t tell him the truth. But with how cautious the other was being, it made him believe even more that Yue Ran was distressed about his own pheromones. Now, with the additional information he saw Yue Ran was searching on his phone…When he returned to his seat, he also searched for information on the doctor and found Dr. Li was an expert in the field of pheromones, and there was a link about the upcoming exchange conference in S City.
With Yue Ran’s family background, there was no doubt he was able to contact Dr. Li.
If Yue Ran wanted to untie the knot that weighed heavily on his mind, then what was he playing at?
Zhou Jieying impatiently clicked open his conversation with Chu Yuan on WeChat again. After thinking this was pointless, he closed the app, and searched two keywords: [S City, pheromones]. There was a new post on the front page. It happened in this year’s summer. It was said that an adult omega suddenly went into their estrus period, which alphas all subconsciously avoided.
Looking at the back of the victim who rushed into the office building, he felt the person looked like Yue Ran and his heart rate increased.
If…if he said that these alphas were avoiding not because they wanted to, but they had to, it meant there was a problem with Yue Ran’s pheromones. But as an omega, was there such a thing as pheromones that not only did not attract alphas, but also repelled them?
Whether it was possible or not, he would need to try to find out.
But he couldn’t do this himself. After all, he had a lengthy criminal record. Fortunately, he was a local, which meant it would be quite easy to find some friends.
Yue Ran knew nothing of this, as he lived his little life like any other day.
It was the class president’s birthday five days later, and he invited everyone for a meal and karaoke. Yue Ran went with other classmates.
Zhou Jieying was worried that something big would happen. So he went to Chu Yuan for confirmation that day.
He searched the news out and sent it to Chu Yuan. When Chu Yuan saw it, he called the other person directly. Zhou Jieying sharply picked up that there was something wrong with the alpha’s tone. He was completely relieved and hung up while maintaining his worried tone.
Chu Yuan was nervous instead.
He had a wild intuition. He kept feeling like something was going to happen. He struggled for a moment before running to find his roommate.
This roommate was his emotional consultant. This was also the same person who gave him a wake up call when he was at his lowest point.
He quickly explained the matter in detail and asked, “I keep thinking there’s something wrong with him. Do you think I’m just thinking too much?”
The roommate asked, “Does he have a grudge against the person you love?”
Chu Yuan recalled, “He said he is Yue Ran’s friend.”
The roommate huffed, “Friends don’t just inquire about matters thoroughly. Have you asked Yue Ran?”
Oh, that’s right.
Chu Yuan immediately ignored being offensive and called Yue Ran. But he was startled when no one answered.
His heart rate increased. He called Yue Ran two more times and got the same result. Then, he called Xiao Yu, gave the other a short version, and asked if he could have Jiang Xiao’s number.
Xiao Yu added Jiang Xiao’s WeChat in their last get together. He said he would contact Jiang Xiao himself immediately after hearing his former classmate’s concern.
Jiang Xiao was in class at that moment, but he didn’t mute his phone.
Half a minute before, he’d received a message from a bodyguard service company that his father hired per his request. In the message, it stated that they recently spotted Zhou Jieying hanging out with a thug. He frowned slightly and asked the other party to check the thug’s background. As soon as he sent that message, he saw an in-coming call from Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu asked, “Where is Ran Ran?”
Jiang Xiao could tell right away something was wrong from the other’s tone. He got up and walked out the classroom, replying, “He is at his class president’s birthday party, at the karaoke.”
Xiao Yu was relieved. “Oh that scared me to death. No wonder he didn’t answer his phone.”
Jiang Xiao asked, “What’s wrong?”
Xiau Yu shared, “Chu Yuan said that there’s a person called Zhou Jieying who keeps contacting him, claiming to be Yue Ran’s classmate. Today, he sent him the news about omega experiencing his estrus period in public and asked if the omega was Ran Ran. Chu Yuan couldn’t let the worry go and called Ran Ran, but no one answered.”
Jiang Xiao’s expression changed slightly. “I’ll go find him.”
He ended the call and tried to make two phone calls to Yue Ran. When no one picked up, he rushed out and contacted Lin Qian.
Yue Ran, who everyone was concerned about, was in a booked room.
When he came back from the restroom, his mouth was suddenly covered by a stranger as soon as he turned a corner and was dragged into the private room. Then they searched and took away his phone, followed by being force fed water.
He coughed a few times. Standing before him were three people with silk stockings over their heads. He was so frightened that he cowered into the corner and said vigilantly, “Who are you? What did you make me drink?”
“The good stuff,” This was said by what seemed to be the leader of the three, who was laughing maliciously. “It’s guaranteed to take your breath away.”
Yue Ran’s face turned pale. “Aphrodisiac?”
The man’s laugh turned even more evil. “I guess it really is an aphrodisiac for you, omega.”
Yue Ran blinked as the words sunk in.
The three men saw the other’s expressionless face and approached with a smile.
“We’ve booked this room for six hours. We have plenty of time to play with you.”
“We even took the time to block the surveillance. No one will find that we kidnapped you. So there’s no need for you to worry.”
“Hey…Don’t hide back there. If you hide now, you will still have to beg us to relieve you in a moment.”
“Holy shit, he is even more beautiful from up close…”
Yue Ran suddenly came to his senses. He moved away his hands that covered his face, looked at the two marble tea tables in front of the sofa and uttered, “I don’t think this is a good idea. Although the door appears solid, once my pheromones are released outside, it will be bound to attract people.”
He pointed to the tea table. “Before the drug takes effect, you guys should move these two tea tables and pile them up against the door, so that people outside can’t enter.” People inside can’t escape as well!
The three thought he would cry and beg for mercy, but they were shocked by the super cooperative omega.
The next moment, the leader patted his thigh, and agreed to the logic. “Come, let’s move the tables!”
The translator has something to add:
Teo: So the first tournament is not official. Think of it being hosted by Twitch instead of by Riot, creator of the League of Legend.
Hi.
Just read the chapter, and….Fuck those perverts!
I hope you choke on your own spit when you smell pheromones.
Is this where JX finds out what Ran Rans pheromones smell like?!?!?!?!
I have a huge theory:
So we all know that JX doesn’t react to normal Omega Pheromones, but what if his receiver is defect and he can properly receive RanRans Pheromones?
I think that’s what were all thinking of 😏
…and I think I’m speaking for most of us that that is the main theory we’ve been going with from the start 😏
I’m gonna cry should it not be like this and JX pushes YR away Q_Q
Zhou jieying is too much.. his jealousy is nauseating.
Oh my god🤣🤣
Thanks for the chapter ♥️♥️
Thanks for the chapter ^^
I can’t wait for next week, Zhou Jieying is in for a big face slapping
^^
Thanks for the chapter!!
Thanks for the chapter
Thanks for the chapter!
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
They are in for a nasty surprise. 😈
Thanks for the update!😊
Time to torture ~
kahahahaha
Thanks for the chapter ❤️
Haha. ☺🙃
ZJ is so brainless, he knew that there’s something wrong with Yue Ran’s pheromones but still hired Alphas instead of Betas. Lololololol.
Thank you for the chapter!
Thugs trapping themselves in. I hope the pheromones make them foam at the mouth. Zjy needs to go to jail for this.. not just expulsion from school but jail
thanks for the chapter!
“Inside information”? Don’t tell me the company that Jiang Xiao’s family ownis the game itself.
They should charge ZJY. That fool clearly hasn’t learned his lesson yet, since he’s still out to harm YR.
😢 Why can people be so evil!!!! At least they are in for a big surprise.
Why these wenches keep destroying themselves to no return such stupid people. He just admitted that he was really inferior
This btch can’t get enough being just an annoying wench and straight up wanted to be a criminal… Scheming around like a bug is still passable but to reach this point? Btch need to have a class in jail now…
Kinda proud how this school bully Chu Yuan is a very rational person now and not stupid enough to not notice that there’s something wrong
+1
Kinda liked him as well
Fvcking btch. Rpe is fvcking too much. I just wish that he’ll get what he deserves.
It is exhausting having to meet rotten soul like Zhou Jieying. You are just living your normal daily life, yet a stranger is so keen on scheming against you. Bruh, get a life of your own!
Dumb pricks
Ah! Despicable!!
<3