The sweet peach scent teased at his nerves bit by bit. Luo Zhiyu was pretty damn annoying, but his pheromones were sweet. There wasn’t much of his pheromone scent clinging to the uniform, but it was impossible to ignore. It was like a light scratch across Xiao Yan’s heart—there, then gone, teasingly close, yet unwilling to give him any more.
Xiao Yan felt that he probably needed to watch the recording of Teacher Xu’s biology lesson.
“What are you standing there staring at?” Fan Yue walked past the sports field carrying a cardboard box and patted his roommate on the shoulder. “What are you looking at?”
“Nothing.” Luo Zhiyu had already walked far away, so Xiao Yan withdrew his gaze and shook his head with a straight face. For some reason, he suddenly felt that he looked rather like a “hypocrite pretending to be respectable.”
Xiao Yan: “……”
“I just went to pick up a package. You guys worked hard on the blackboard poster, so I’ll help you carry it.” Fan Yue took the initiative to shoulder the ladder. “Brother Yan, why are you wearing a school uniform over your head?”
Xiao Yan freed one hand and took off the uniform Luo Zhiyu had tossed at him earlier. He balled it up and walked back with Fan Yue. The two of them carried the ladder one in front of the other, with Fan Yue’s cardboard box sitting on top of it.
At the entrance to the alpha dormitory area, they ran into Teacher Xu, who had come to deal with some student affairs. Teacher Xu recognized the two student council members and greeted them first.
“Your little refrigerator has been put with the dorm supervisor. You’ll get it back when you graduate.”
“Okay.” Fan Yue and Xiao Yan were extremely well-behaved and cooperative.
“And another thing.” Teacher Xu reminded them helplessly, “The dorm supervisor said you guys should stop buying little refrigerators. She already has three over there and there’s no room left. I’ve supervised students for so many years, and your dorm is the only one that’s so obsessed with little refrigerators. If I catch you doing it again, I’m deducting all your points for outstanding-student evaluations. Understood?”
The two people who had just bought their fourth little refrigerator, and were currently carrying that fourth little refrigerator, guiltily looked up at the sky and hummed innocently.
Fortunately, Teacher Xu didn’t notice the box they were carrying. She nodded and was about to leave.
Fan Yue and Xiao Yan exchanged a glance, then stepped into the dormitory area, preparing to hurry out of Teacher Xu’s line of sight.
“Wait.” Teacher Xu stopped. “You two…”
A bead of sweat rolled down Fan Yue’s temple with a soft plop. He panicked on the spot.
“I-I-I, we…”
“What are you panicking about?” Xiao Yan kicked his roommate. “Stay calm and deal with it.”
“Why do the two of you, both alphas, smell like an omega’s pheromones?”
Teacher Xu, whose nose was exceptionally sharp, stared at them as she asked.
Xiao Yan: “……”
City First High School Campus Forum—
[Wow! I think I just heard something incredible.]
1L: RT, I just came back from buying mochi and ran into Teacher Xu, the school hunk, and his roommate at the entrance to the A dorm area. Guess what I heard?!
2L: Not guessing. Spit it out. Clickbait titles will get you beaten up.
3L: Teacher Xu asked why the two of them smelled like omega pheromones HAHAHAHAHA.
4L: Oh, there’s definitely something going on here.
5L (Tangyuan): ? Maybe things aren’t as complicated as you guys think. [Black-face smiling.jpg]
6L: Tangyuan upstairs? I saw you running around the school like crazy today. [Black-face smiling.jpg]
“Thanks to Brother Yan’s pheromones, our fourth little refrigerator escaped disaster.” Fan Yue cracked open a can of soda to celebrate with everyone. “Thanks to Brother Yan for making such a contribution to our dorm.”
Tang Yuan shakily accepted a can of soda, with a large orange cat perched on his shoulder, bobbing its head around.
“Stay calm, Brother Yan.” Fan Yue raised his can.
“Your new school uniform arrived. I put it on your desk.” Jing Ximing was lying sprawled over a pile of exam papers playing Animal Forest. When he heard Luo Zhiyu open the door, he didn’t even look up. “Wash it before you wear it. The weather’s been pretty good lately, so it should dry by tomorrow.”
“Perfect timing. I just returned the uniform.” Luo Zhiyu stopped in front of the mirror and only then realized that he had chalk dust all over his face and hair. He had just spent the entire journey messing around with Xiao Yan while looking like this.
“You returned it?” Jing Ximing slowly chewed over the implications of those words and detected something unusual. “Luo Zhiyu, you didn’t wash it?”
“…I didn’t have time.”
“Does Xiao Yan know you sexually harassed him?” Jing Ximing reluctantly put down his game and wrote a name on the practice worksheet. “Thank goodness your compatibility is zero. It’s fine with him, but you absolutely cannot do this to anyone else.”
“Huh?” So this counted as that? Then he’d literally thrown the clothes straight into the guy’s face.
[Not Zhizhi]: Ding ding ding.
[Outstanding Second-Year Student Representative]: [Fairy Frowning.jpg]
[Not Zhizhi]: What?
[Outstanding Second-Year Student Representative]: What?
[Not Zhizhi]: The uniform. I’ll give it back after I wash it.
[Outstanding Second-Year Student Representative]: It’s soaking in water. It was covered in chalk dust. [Photo]
To prevent the colors from running, Xiao Yan found two basins and soaked the clothes separately. He was much more experienced at this than Luo Zhiyu.
[Not Zhizhi]: Do you think I’m kind of a pervert?
[Outstanding Second-Year Student Representative]: Do you think I’m kind of a pervert?
[Not Zhizhi]: Fine, let’s drop it. Pretend I never said anything.
Luo Zhiyu was still curious. After dinner, he finished a physics practice paper and then searched an encyclopedia.
[Does an omega giving an alpha clothes they’ve worn have any special meaning?]
Most-liked answer: Unwashed? Means they want to get fucked.
Other answer 1: Flirting with him.
Other answer 2: “Give it to me. Shove it in my face. Come on.” [Perverted Face.jpg]
Other answer 3: Whatever it means, they definitely have ulterior motives.
Other answer 4: +V for exclusive beautiful pictures and all kinds of short videos *￥#￥#
Other answer 5: Why are you even asking? If you’re an alpha, just go for it.
Luo Zhiyu: “……”
[Not Zhizhi]: I didn’t mean it like that.
[Outstanding Second-Year Student Representative]: Neither did I. [Horrified.jpg]
[Not Zhizhi]: Did we mean the same thing?
[Outstanding Second-Year Student Representative]: ? I said I’m not a pervert. What did you mean?
[Not Zhizhi]: Fine, let’s drop it. Pretend I never said anything.
[Outstanding Second-Year Student Representative]: ……
The new week arrived, bringing First High’s Earthquake and Disaster Prevention Safety Awareness Week. Early Monday morning, an expert group from another school came to visit. The moment they entered, they saw First High’s traditional giant blackboard poster.
“After all these years, First High still keeps this here.” One of the visiting teachers had once graduated from First High and had a deep impression of its blackboard posters.
“It was completed together by two outstanding students from Grade 10 and Grade 11.” Director Wu proudly tapped the two names in the bottom-right corner of the blackboard. “Xiao Yan and Luo Zhiyu. Although their pheromone compatibility is practically zero, they are united and friendly, making them role models for our students. Both of them are members of the student council, so you’ll be able to see them during the drill later.”
First High held an earthquake and disaster-prevention drill every year, and this year was no exception. Under the teachers’ organization, the drill began as usual. When the alarm sounded, the students orderly evacuated through the emergency exits to the open sports field.
The earthquake evacuation portion ended there. Next came the disaster-response exercise organized by the student council.
As the universally recognized poster boy of the alpha students, Xiao Yan served as the host of the exercise. Standing on the podium, he explained the procedures while Luo Zhiyu sat right beside him, holding a cup of freshly brewed hot tea and helping advance the PowerPoint slides for projection.
Xiao Yan: “Next is the rescue of the injured. As you can see…”
Tang Yuan, playing the injured person, was wrapped in bandages and lying comfortably on a stretcher with his eyes closed, taking a little nap. The students responsible for carrying the stretcher entered the field with Tang Yuan while rousing music played.
“Those are the two students I told you about. Their relationship is pretty good now.” Director Wu introduced the results of his moral-education work. “They’ve also worked together more frequently. Basically, they manage to complete every assignment smoothly.”
The autumn wind wasn’t cool enough. Luo Zhiyu held his paper cup and tried to blow on the tea inside to cool it down.
A large orange cat suddenly charged into the drill area.
The “injured person” lying on the stretcher let out a howl, sprang upright, and bolted away at top speed.
Before Xiao Yan could mute his microphone, Luo Zhiyu burst into completely merciless laughter.
Xiao Yan could take it no longer and covered his mouth, accidentally knocking over the paper cup on the table in the process.
The scalding tea instantly jolted both of them awake.
“Ow, that hurts! You have no conscience!” Luo Zhiyu’s indignant voice echoed across the entire school.