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I Like Your Pheromones 16: Sports Meet
The day before the games, Song Yi and Shen Chilie helped Duan move into his dormitory.
He had a lot of luggage, and his dormitory was on the sixth floor. If no one helped him carry all these things up, Duan Jiayan would have been very busy.
Only Song Yi lived in room 601. After Duan Jiayan moved in, it seemed to become their combined space. Shen Chilie asked with a smile, “are you two living together?”
Song Yi laughed: “Although Xiao-Duan is very good-looking, he doesn’t like Omegas.”
Duan Jiayan: “you can also apply for residence. I don’t mind if you disturb our two-person world.”
“Forget it, my little sister would probably be against it. That little brat gets really annoying when she throws a tantrum.” Shen Chilie said as he placed the suitcase he was carrying by the door: “I’m leaving your suitcase here.”
While talking, he wiggled his wrist and brooded to Duan Jiayan’s suitcase: “Do you have a shot put in there? Why is it so heavy?”
Duan Jiayan didn’t even bother turning to look: “Don’t ask. If you ask, it means you’re the weak one.”
Shen Chilie: “…”
Their dormitory had beds held up above their desks. Song Yi had already climbed up to help make the bed: “Shen Chilie, hand me the bed sheets on that chair.”
Shen Chilie scratched his eyebrow and felt like Duan Jiayan’s temperament of a Young Master was a bit too much: “You’re helping him make his bed?”
Song Yi: “He helped me take a picture of the class president, so as compensation, I’m helping him make his bed.”
Shen Chilie: “…”
Shen Chilie: “It’s already been a year. You’re still thinking of Lu Xingci? You should give up sooner than later. Recall how his female fans can form a line from First Middle all the way to Fu Middle next door. You are not ranked high enough.”
Song Yi: “I was just taking a look. This is called appreciating beauty. Plus, even if I’m not ranked high enough, someone else is.”
Shen Chilie: “What do you mean?”
Song Yi raised his chin and motioned to Duan Jiayan: “Well, he still has the class president’s mark.”
Shen Chilie was shocked: “…My son??? My son has been marked?!”
Duan Jiayan: “Correct it to ‘your father’.”
Shen Chilie: “Damn it! Does Lu Xingci want to die? Who can he not get? Does he have to find this kind of entertainment for himself? “
Song Yi: “…”
Duan Jiayan: “…”
Duan Jiayan resisted the impulse to beat him: “I have a stress disorder. Since he and I have high pheromone compatibility, this is treatment. And what about me? Can I still beat him to death?”
Shen Chilie hadn’t calmed down yet and could not help but speak the truth: “You have a face that looks like it doesn’t care about your family.”
Song Yi: “Hahahahaha!”
Duan Jiayan: “…”
Duan Jiayan couldn’t bear it this time and directly kicked his leg.
After a bit of chaos. Shen Chilie stopped joking. With a serious face, he asked: “but are you sure he doesn’t harbor any other intentions towards you?”
An Alpha can’t mark an Omega casually. If one is willing to mark a person out of love, one would never possess a bad feeling towards this person.
What’s more, Lu Xingci doesn’t look like the kind of person who would be kind enough to casually help mark his classmates with stress disorders.
If he helped Duan Jiayan, not out of sympathy, but more voluntarily…
Then there would be trouble.
Song Yi agreed: “I actually thought about it too. It doesn’t feel like something the class president would do. Take a look at how he rejects other people. How long has he been soft-hearted…?”
Shen Chilie was also rarely serious: “Really… Don’t mess with him. The gap between you and him is too large. Be careful that your bones aren’t gnawed clean.”
“You two think too much.” Duan Jiayan had no expression: “So what if you know about this mark? I got this by calling dad.”
Song Yi and Shen Chilie look at each other for a moment.
Then they started howling with laughter.
Before he slept that night, Duan Jiayan received a WeChat from Fu Yuan.
Fu Yuan asked if he was getting used to living in the dorm and told him that He Yunshen exited the hospital.
Duan Jiayan read to this line and thought that He Yunshen was actually pretty cute. He took a picture of his dorm room and sent it to Fu Yuan.
The next morning was the Sports Competition. Duan Jiayan was woken up by the school’s announcement.
As it was his first time living in a dorm, the bed was a lot smaller than his bed at home. Duan Jiayan was uncomfortable and could only fall asleep after midnight.
Director Jiang announced with full-on fervor: “Students, during this refreshingly breezy clear autumn-winter, let’s welcome ourselves to the 80th annual sports competition!”
Duan Jiayan woke up groggily: “Song Yi, did your alarm go off? Snooze it.”
Song Yi, who already climbed down from his bed: “Wake up. This is an announcement.”
Duan Jiayan: “You’re really narcissistic. Your alarm even uses your own voice.”
Song Yi could stand it and shouted loudly next to his ear: “Ancestor! Wake up! You can’t be late today!”
Duan Jiayan’s whole body shook and he suddenly recognized that this wasn’t the alarm. Director Jiang was still announcing in with a very expressive voice:
“The sports competition won’t trust shed tears, but you can use your own hard work to create miracles–“
Duan Jiayan woke up from his dream but there was still a sense of tiredness seen between his eyebrows and eyes. He rubbed his temples: “if he continues announcing, I’m going to shed tears here and now in my dorm room.”
Urged by Song Yi, Duan Jiayan inched slowly out of bed. They arrived a little late when the students on the playground were pretty much lined up. The organizers were giving speeches one by one.
The president, vice president, representatives of the referee group…
After waves of speeches, Duan Jiayan’s ears were almost cocooning themselves. He was just about to yawn when screams broke out around him!
It was the student’s turn to represent.
The student who stepped onto the stage had a handsome and brilliant appearance. He wore slim-fit black slacks matched with a white blouse which made him look all the more tall and sturdy.
The representative of class ten was Lu Xingci. Following the requirements, representatives all had to wear formal clothing. Wearing the contrasting black and white made him look neat, nimble, and pure.
Song Yi pulled on Duan Jiayan: “If I die here on the field today, it must be a death from Class President’s handsomeness!”
Duan Jiayan was so tired that there were a few tears squeezed out from his eyes: “No. If you die, it’s because you were annoyed to death.”
Song Yi: “…”
Lu Xingci received the microphone. Duan Jiayan saw the girl in class nine standing next to him with her mouth covered and her eyes wide open, pulling out her mobile phone and recording a video.
Lu Xingci’s voice came from the announcement: “Hello, students and teachers. During this refreshingly breezy clear autumn-winter, let’s welcome ourselves to the 80th annual sports competition! The sports competition won’t trust shed tears, but you can use your own hard work to make your opponents cry… “
When Duan Jiayan heard these words, he suddenly realized: “Did he copy Lao-Jiang’s speech this morning? That’s so vicious. “
Song Yi: “So handsomeeeeeeeeee!”
Duan Jiayan: “…”
“No matter what the result is, the two-day sports competition will be a wonderful memory of our school days. Let’s place friendship first and the competition second. I hope you will spare no effort in the upcoming competition and give it your best shot.”
Lu Xingci’s speech was brief. It was so fair-sounding.
However, the screams received in this speech lifted the field of First Middle. Duan Jiayan vaguely heard someone shout “I love you”.
It felt like it was a fucking concert.
After Lu Xingci stepped down, Song Yi looked at the big screen and said with great interest: “Obscenities come before the competition.”
Duan Jiayan made a sound of agreement and got a little excited.
This is a unique tradition of First Middle’s sports competition. It was originally intended to encourage students to praise each other. However, unknown when this started, some classes with strong resentment tend to trash talk other teams in their interviews. In the end, it evolved into a situation where some classes encouraged each other harmoniously and other classes ridiculed each other.
This kind of pre-competition conflict can arouse the enthusiasm of the classes. As long as nothing crosses the line, the teachers are happy to watch the excitement.
The speech style of the previous classes was pretty normal. They responded with their “most confident events”, “most promising athletes” …and other harmonious questions.
When it was the sports class’s turn, the style changed.
“Last basketball game, we lost to class ten. This time, we’ll let them know that it was only basketball that was a bit subpar.” The tanned boy continued with a face filled with confidence: “The first year of high school, our class won first place in the sports competition. This time, we will also firmly push class ten into second place.”
The camera lens turned…
and landed on Lu Xingci’s face.
This person who was just advocating for friendship first, competition second, showed a completely different expression in front of the camera lens.
After listening to the tanned student’s speech, Duan Jiayan distinctly saw that the corner of Lu Xingci’s mouth quirked upwards to reveal a not-so-small laugh.
Handsome and funny. How calm, super calm.
“It’s good to have confidence, but when that game of basketball happens, they will be the ones to be pushed down. If they can’t raise their heads, I hope they don’t cry on the court.” Lu Xingci paused, motioning for the camera to zoom in: “Duan Jiayan, don’t touch my desk. What do you want to say?”
The interviewer girl originally wanted to interview Duan Jiayan as well. After all, including him would make this segment more interesting. It was due to the imposing aura of the smartest student that the girl did not want to offend him. Now that she had a chance, she immediately turned the camera to face Duan Jiayan.
“What does Duan Jiayan’s classmate want to say?”
“Why are you being so sensitive? I only kicked you by accident…” Duan Jiayan whispered a few words… Seeing that camera and the girls were looking at him with such expectation-filled faces, he felt like if he didn’t say something, he would be losing reputation.
After thinking, Duan Jiayan said: “Our home-room teacher said that if we get first place, she’ll take us out for a meal.”
Duan Jiayan made eye contact with the camera, his face still had marks of sleepiness, and he spoke leisurely, with high intent of provoking: “Teacher Zhao, I want to eat Haidilao* .”
*T/N: A popular Hot Pot Restaurant.
The VCR paused on his face and soon after stopped completely.
Class ten burst into a field of wild laughter:
“I’m- hahahahahaha!”
“This Lu-ge and Duan Jiayan pair really makes up god-level taunts.”
“Teacher Zhao! I want to eat Haidilao too!”
Zhao Minjun, who was standing in front of class ten, heard them making such loud noises, immediately turned around to quiet them.
“Be quiet!” Zhao Minjun shouted, but he could not hold back and smiled at them: “If you guys get first place, I’ll take you guys to eat Haidilao tomorrow night.”
Standing next to him, the girl asked embarrassedly, “Teacher Zhao, the first place prize is only 3000 Yuan, if the whole class eats at Haidilao, will we spend more than 3000?”
“We can use the class budget as a subsidy.” The girl continued, “We still have a lot of budgets left.”
“No need to use that as a subsidy,” Zhao Minjun smiled: “Can the teacher not afford to pay this much?”
First Middle is a private high school, so although the teachers have a heavy workload, they also have a high salary.
This amount of money is really nothing to Zhao Minjun. The girl stuck her tongue out and whispered: “Teacher is so nice.”
After lining up on the sports field, the various events of the sports competition officially started.
The First Middle sports competition is based on a point system. According to the different events, the first, second, and third place winners will receive different points values. In the end, the class with the highest total score wins first place.
Duan Jiayan signed up for the high jump and relay race. The relay race is the final event of the sports competition, which means Duan Jiayan only needed to compete in the high jump today.
When he warmed up, Shen Chilie, who also signed up for the high jump, warmed up beside him. Shen Chilie saw him stretching and squinted his eyes: “Hey, don’t move. You have a strand of hair on your neck.”
Duan Jiayan stood still and let him fiddle around. She Chilie’s fingers on the back of his neck made him feel a bit itchy.
Not far away, Chen Yue stopped, and nudged Lu Xingci with his arm: “Isn’t that Duan Jiayan? He’s competing in the high jump, right?”
Lu Xingci looked over at where Chen Yue was motioning.
On the high jump field, there stood two tall boys. One of them was currently touching the neck of the other.
“The person next to him looks like Shen Chilie, the class grass* of Class four?” Chen Yue continued: “I didn’t think they were that close of friends.”
*T/N: Most handsome boy in the class.
Lu Xingci squinted and watched the two touch for what seemed like half a day.
Ignorant to what Shen Chilie just said, Duan Jiayan stretched out and slapped the forehead of the boy next to him. The tall Alpha wasn’t mad when he was hit by him, instead, he hooked his arm over his shoulder with a grin.
An arm around his shoulder…
made it look like they were really familiar with each other.
“Brother, why aren’t you guys walking?” Chen Yue, who saw that he was completely glued to the ground but did not know what he was thinking, reminded him: “The 800-meter run is starting to roll-call. You couldn’t have forgotten about your own events, right?”
“I didn’t forget.”
Lu Xingci casually retracted his gaze. He suddenly remembered that after so many days, the temporary mark he had left on Duan Jiayan has already faded.
If an Alpha touches the back of an Omega’s neck like this, it will leave a scent.
A scent of someone else.
His tongue pressed against his upper jaw, and he suddenly felt a bit thirsty.
His teeth also itched.