Chapter 5

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Chapter Five

Class was almost over when Wang Zhe finished running, but he still rushed over happily and was in time to catch Jiang ShaoYan’s last shot.

“Good! Xuezhang’s shooting is so accurate!” He applauded from the sidelines, being quite supportive.

Jiang ShaoYan replied, “……shut up.”

Come on, someone drag this guy away, eh?

The class bell rang a moment later and a few more people in the next class entered the sports field. The already busy field became noisy again. Jiang ShaoYang thought it all looked very troublesome. In actuality, he didn’t like settings with a lot of chatting people, so he was ready to leave.

What was even more annoying was that there was another guy talking in his ear.

Wang Zhe said, “Xuezhang, Xuezhang, you play basketball so well, can you teach me?”

If Jiang ShaoYan had the patience to teach people, he wouldn’t be known as the daunting “Yan Ge” of T University these days.

He endured it, but in the end, he couldn’t restrain himself, “Do you never stop?”

 

Before Wang Zhe could respond, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of a ball heading towards him, straight towards his face. He quickly raised his hand, protecting his face, but his forearm immediately turned red from the impact.

“Sorry, my hand slipped.”

Zou Rui, who had just entered the sports field, walked over slowly, with a deliberate smirk at the corner of his mouth, “ShaoYan is so good-looking that my gaze accidentally wandered away.” As he spoke, his arm slung naturally over Jiang ShaoYan’s shoulders.

Jiang ShaoYan glanced sideways at the hand on his shoulder and then at the corner of Zou Rui’s slightly raised lips, frowning.

In all the time they had known each other, this seemed to be Zou Rui’s most daring move, almost as if he were proclaiming sovereignty. He should have felt happy over it, but he didn’t.

Zou Rui deliberately released some pheromone.

The hot summer air mixed with a little bit of strong alpha scent. As Zou Rui’s body temperature seeped into his skin, his body began to feel a slight unconscious agitation and a faint blush appeared on his face.

But inside he felt very cold.

Even if Zou Rui did it deliberately out of jealousy, Jiang ShaoYan didn’t like this method of using pheromones to subdue other alphas, the same method used to make omegas surrender.

So arrogant and stupid.

Zou Rui looked at the unfamiliar alpha in front of him for a moment and then asked, “ShaoYan, who is this?”

Jiang ShaoYan looked at Wang Zhe, who wore a stunned expression, and said, “My new roommate.”

Wang Zhe was actually a centimeter or two taller than Zou Rui but was completely suppressed by his imposing manner, not to mention that he had no pheromone scent at all.

Zou Rui also noticed that while the alpha in front of him looked tall and strong, he really wasn’t a threat, so he smiled, “So it’s like that. I thought it was another alpha bothering ShaoYan. Don’t bully ShaoYan in the dorm, okay?”

“Who can bully me?” Jiang ShaoYan said in disdain.

Zou Rui pinched his face almost indulgently, “Yes, you are so ferocious.”

Until Zou Rui left and they also left the sports field, Wang Zhe was still a struck-dumb person who was stunned into speechlessness.

Jiang ShaoYan said, “Hey, come back to the dorm with me.”

 

Wang Zhe said nothing, following behind him without a word. He waited until they were in the dorm and then suddenly asked, “Xuezhang, did that person really do that on purpose?”

Jiang ShaoYan said casually, “Probably.”

Wang Zhe stopped talking.

Entering the dorm room, Jiang ShaoYan opened his cabinet, took out the common medicine box, dug out an ointment, and walked in front of Wang Zhe, who was sitting on his chair with his head down. “Extend your hand.”

Wang Zhe obediently reached out his hand, “Thanks, Xuezhang.”

Jiang ShaoYan pulled Wang Zhe’s arm and saw that the red spot had by now turned blue. Zou Rui was very strong, that impact could be assumed to have been brutal. But, after all, Wang Zhe had been injured because of him, so he could only return the favor like this.

“I apologize for him. He is……an impulsive person.”

Wang Zhe smiled, “It’s okay, my skin is thick and Xuezhang himself is personally helping me apply medicine. I’m too happy to focus on the past.”

Jiang ShaoYan paused his actions.

This alpha was really too optimistic.

“Aren’t you angry? He deliberately hit you,” he asked.

Wang Zhe smiled, but it wasn’t very sincere, “It’s normal for him to hit me…… I didn’t know that you had a boyfriend, Xuezhang, and I confessed to you and hung around you, causing trouble for you both, I’m sorry…… ”

The more he spoke, the softer his words fell and the further down his head went.

Jiang ShaoYan rubbed his messy hair, “Nothing to be sorry for, I’m not going out with him yet.”

Wang Zhe raised his head when he heard those words, his eyes glittering like dark emeralds, exuding a faint light.

“But it’s better for you to give up on me. As I said, we’re not compatible,” Jiang ShaoYan added this last sentence, not wanting him to expect too much.

Wang Zhe looked at him for a moment, then said, “I can’t do that. Xuezhang has no partner and I’ve been pursuing you all along. If Xuezhang had a partner, I would wish you well silently in my heart. This is what I thought to myself before I came to university and that hasn’t changed.”

Jiang ShaoYan realized that though Wang Zhe was very mild-tempered most of the time, he was particularly stubborn when they got on this certain topic.

“Fine, you can love however you want, but don’t blame me for not telling you in advance: no matter how proactive you are, I probably won’t respond to you. Don’t come to me acting all wronged later, I won’t put up with it.”

He had to make this statement clear. It was cruel to be cruel, but making the other recognize reality sooner would save trouble in the future.

However, Wang Zhe was very calm, as if he had expected it to be like this, “Okay, I actually didn’t really have much hope. Xuezhang is so powerful, I really don’t deserve you……but I still want to fight.”

He scratched his scalp, appearing as if he were embarrassed.

Jiang ShaoYan felt annoyed. He didn’t know if it was annoyance that he was so unconfident as an alpha or annoyance because he knew there was no hope and still refused to give up.

He was too lazy to argue. He smeared the ointment on Wang Zhe’s body and pointed to his hand, “Remember to rub in the medicine.” Then he went into the bathroom and took a shower.

 

Zou Rui sent a message at about 10 o’clock in the evening, asking Jiang ShaoYan whether he wanted to go out to drink. Jiang ShaoYan had gone with him once before. All it was was a bunch of disorder as people gathered together to fight over alcohol. Such a noisy headache. He immediately replied: [In bed, next time.]

Zou Rui: [No way, really? So early? What kind of college student goes to sleep so early. ]

Jiang ShaoYan was actually just lying on the bed. He didn’t plan to go to sleep immediately, but to keep Zou Rui from forcing him to go out, he replied: [Feeling a bit tired today.]

Zou Rui didn’t reply for a while. Jiang ShaoYan thought that he had given up, but after a while, the other party made a voice call.

He answered in a bad mood, “Hey.”

“I say, ShaoYan, that alpha in your dorm, does he like you?”

Zou Rui asked this question so coldly that the words in Jiang ShaoYan’s mouth froze and he glanced at Wang Zhe’s bed.

Wang Zhe noticed his keen gaze, putting down the book in his hand and smiling at him. He softened his voice, afraid of interrupting the call, and said, “Xuezhang, what’s wrong?”

Jiang ShaoYan mouthed back “nothing”, then turned to Zou Rui on the phone, “Yes.”

The background on Zou Rui’s end was very noisy. There seems to be a group of people trying to egg someone on. Zou Rui laughed, “And what’s your opinion of him?”

Jiang ShaoYan replied, “No opinion, I’m not interested.”

Zou Rui said, “Haha, I knew it. He’s too weak. You like strength, right?”

Jiang ShaoYan was a bit disgusted with Zou Rui’s smug tone. He really wasn’t interested in Wang Zhe, but he didn’t look down on him because of his weak pheromones. Zou Rui regarded pheromone as the only indication of strength in an alpha, full of superiority for himself.

He was about to argue back when Zou Rui suddenly said, “What about me, what do you think of me?”

Jiang ShaoYan: “……”

Zou Rui was quite self-confident, “You like me, right? Why not go out with me?”

When Jiang ShaoYan heard this sentence, his first reaction was not happiness.

He and Zou Rui had been in an ambiguous relationship for nearly a year and he had finally received an invitation from his favorite alpha near his heat period, so he should’ve felt relieved, but what he thought of instead was the scene from when Wang Zhe confessed to him that one day.

At that time, those brown-green eyes had been full of earnestness and anticipation and his voice had been cautious and extremely firm.

I like you.

You like me.

The only difference was the person speaking, how could it sound so completely different?

Jiang ShaoYan couldn’t see the look on Zou Rui’s face at this moment, so he didn’t know what expression he had as he spoke those words. He couldn’t help but fall into his imagination, remaining silent for a while.

Zou Rui got anxious after not receiving a reply. He had just let it slip out loud that Jiang ShaoYan liked him and the crowd of friends around him were waiting for the results to prove it. He couldn’t lose face like this¹, so he asked again, “ShaoYan, speak up, do you like me?”

 

Without knowing why, Jiang ShaoYan looked over at Wang Zhe — Wang Zhe was still watching him, as if his eyes hadn’t left him since he answered the phone. The two gazes collided and Wang Zhe scratched his nose a bit shyly. The he looked back, his eyes landing softly on him, the smile at the corner of his mouth warm.

“Maybe I like you a bit.”

Jiang ShaoYan was looking at Wang Zhe as he spoke to Zou Rui on the phone.

The smile on Wang Zhe’s face froze suddenly as he apparently realized who Jiang ShaoYan was on the phone with and what they were talking about.

Zou Rui seemed very happy and laughed a few times, “That’s good, then let me hear you call me Rui Ge?”

Jiang ShaoYan gave in to his request, “Rui Ge.”

Zou Rui laughed again even more happily and said a few more sweet words. Finally, he couldn’t hold back the drunks and hung up the phone first.

Jiang ShaoYan only then realized that Zou Rui hadn’t said he liked him back yet.

Wang Zhe, who was opposite to him, had lain down who knows when, with his back turned to him. He could only see a large bulge under the quilt, body practically invisible, and he was unusually silent.

Jiang ShaoYan turned off the overhead lights and fell asleep early for once.

He was not so kind as to comfort the other boy. He’d long since made things clear with his words, so if he felt sad or lost, it was all what the other had asked for.

If it was said that there were always a few scums in your life to help you grow, then he didn’t mind being that scum.

 

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Author’s words:\n

Xiao Wang: Wronged, wants to cry.

 

 

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Footnotes:\n

1. Lose face: take a hit to your reputation ↩

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