Chapter 58

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Chapter Fifty Eight

After Jiang ShaoYan’s high-profile public display of affection during this time, the votes for the two of them for the Most Meng CP List far exceeded the second place count and everyone in the group chat finally didn’t have to help him vote every day under coercion.

Wang Zhe still hadn’t found out about it yet. Seeing that Jiang ShaoYan’s mood had recently seemed to be particularly good, he asked curiously, “Has something good happened?”

Jiang ShaoYan wanted him to be pleasantly surprised, so he restrained himself and didn’t say it. He just rubbed his head, “It’s nothing. Come practice.”

The so-called practice was to improve the kissing skills as previously discussed. It was only a few days until the vote’s award ceremony. Whenever he was free, Jiang ShaoYan would practice with the other man and Wang Zhe naturally welcomed this gladly. Gradually he built up his courage, so even when they were outside, if his omega made the demand, he’d daringly pull him into a desolate corner and grind against him.

All the sufficient preparations were already in place for them to take first place, but the night before the voting deadline something unexpectedly happened.

 

Xiao Xiao was the first to discover it. In the group chat, he frantically pinged Jiang ShaoYan: [@JiangShaoYan, it’s a disaster, YanYan!!! The third place couple is spamming votes!!!]

Jiang ShaoYan had been lying on Wang Zhe’s bed, browsing on his phone. When he saw this message, he immediately sat upright.

His extreme movement was seen by Wang Zhe, who was at his desk working on an assignment. He asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, just a change of posture.” Jiang ShaoYan couldn’t explain more, immediately opening the forum’s voting thread. As he’d been told, the third place, which was originally two or three thousand votes under them, had already surpassed the second place. The gap between them was only six hundred votes now.

He cursed inside and responded to Xiao Xiao: [Which department is the third place?] He needed to find this other party to have a “heart-to-heart discussion”.

Xiao Xiao: [This alpha called Xu Sheng seems to be from the computer science department, I guess he’s the crafty one.]

Jiang ShaoYan: [Got it.]

Just as he was opening his contacts and looking for his aunt’s number to get the other guy’s phone number, there was a *knock knock* on the dorm door.

Wang Zhe went to open the door, finding an unknown student standing outside. He asked, “Who are you? Who are you looking for?”

The man said nervously, “I-I’m looking for Yan Ge, I am Xu Sheng of the Computer Science Department……”

Jiang ShaoYan’s ears perked up and he immediately got out of bed. He walked to the door and glared fiercely at the other man, “I hadn’t come to find you yet, yet here you are at my door. What, come looking for a fight?”

When Wang Zhe saw how angry he was, his expression immediately shifted from gentle to imposing. He pushed Jiang ShaoYan behind him protectively and, disregarding the reason, coldly asked Xu Sheng, “What are you up to?”

Faced with two imposing, aggressive fiends, Xu Sheng felt terribly afraid. He trembled, “Yan Ge, I-I’m sorry! I will voluntarily take a beating if you let me have first place!”

These words were quite strange, plus he’d rushed here to take a beating. Jiang ShaoYan raised an eyebrow, “Come in and explain things clearly.”

As soon as the door was closed, Xu Sheng opened his mouth under their scrutiny, “That is……I really am the one spamming votes. My girlfriend absolutely wants to win first place, otherwise she’ll break up with me. She said I’m too useless, that she’d be better off with a freshman……” he said, cautiously glancing at Wang Zhe.

Mystified, Wang Zhe replied, “What votes? What first place?”

“Don’t you know that CP Vote? You two are in first place. The award ceremony is tomorrow.”

Now that’s just great, even the pleasant surprise was exposed.

Jiang ShaoYan got annoyed, “You shut up!”

Wang Zhe looked at him in surprise, “Xuezhang, were you getting votes for us?”

Jiang ShaoYan couldn’t hold the mask on his face and admitted angrily, “What, no, isn’t it something you were looking forward to.”

Wang Zhe blinked in surprise for a moment, then the corners of his mouth rose quickly. The expression on his face completely thawed. “How are you so cute……”

“Cute my ass……” Jiang ShaoYan said with a bit of ridicule. He turned to Xu Sheng and said fiercely, “You’re trying to curry favor with your girlfriend but what about me? Don’t tell me you’re saying I can’t fawn on my boyfriend?”

Wang Zhe couldn’t stop giggling on the sidelines.

Xu Sheng weakly said, “Just this one time. I’m begging you, Ge. I really can’t lose her…… She’s always hated that I don’t have much courage. If I can win first place this time and kiss her once in public, then she’ll look at me in a whole new light instantly……”

Wang Zhe’s smile dropped, “……First place has to kiss in public?” He seemed to realize something, turning an expression full of hidden bitterness towards his omega who’d always been wanting to kiss him these past few days.

“So it was actually like that……”

Jiang ShaoYan’s head suddenly started aching. His scheme had been exposed, so he didn’t dare to look back at him. He took out his anger on Xu Sheng, “I definitely won’t let you. Why? You think if you fucking spam votes to get first place, your girlfriend will really think highly of you?”

He wanted to scold him a few more times, but Wang Zhe pulled him into his arms and hugged him from behind.

“It doesn’t matter, just let him this once.”

Jiang ShaoYan was dumbfounded. He turned his head in disbelief, “Ah?”

“I can completely understand his frame of mind. If I were him, in order to make you happy, I’d do anything it took.” His voice was soft, almost clinging to Jiang ShaoYan’s ear, “Because you got so many votes for us, I’m already very happy. The final placement isn’t important at all, so just let him. ”

Jiang ShaoYan was still a bit unwilling, muttering, “But why? Do you know how much time I spent……”

Wang Zhe laughed lowly, heat spraying his ear, itchy and soft, “I know, especially for all that ‘practice’ with me, right?”

With a guilty conscience, Jiang ShaoYan said, “That wasn’t just for the vote……”

“I will not kiss you in public,” Wang Zhe said suddenly.

Jiang ShaoYan was stunned. He was about to ask why, but Wang Zhe turned him around to face him and hugged him close.

He said to Xu Sheng, “Rest assured, we won’t participate in the award ceremony tomorrow, but I don’t know if your vote spamming will get the approval you want. To move your girlfriend’s heart, relying on that kind of thing is useless, you need to rely on yourself.”

As if he’d received amnesty, Xu Sheng quickly expressed his thanks, then said he would work hard himself. After that, he flew from the scene of the crime to escape a beating.

Jiang ShaoYan raised his head from his chest and said in resentment, “You’re too kind, also……why don’t you want to kiss me in public? Are you still too shy?”

The expression in Wang Zhe’s brown-green eyes was dark and heavy, “I’m not shy, but when I kiss you, the only thing on my mind is you. I’ll forget wherever I am, and the more I kiss, the more engrossed I’ll get, and I won’t be able to stop……”

Stared at attentively like this, Jiang ShaoYan felt his heart begin to race. He unconsciously lowered his voice, “Then just don’t stop……”

“No. Do you know what expression every time you show after you’re kissed?” Wang Zhe slowly leaned closer, stroking his finger along his lips. “Mouth red, face flushed, eyes teary and dazed……extremely cute. I don’t want other people to see that kind of expression on you, so I won’t kiss you in public. ”

Jiang ShaoYan finally understood what ‘to eat your own bitter fruit¹‘ meant.

This is the alpha that I personally trained, so even if I’m ashamed, I have to bear it.

 

In the end, he ultimately listened to Wang Zhe’s declaration and withdrew from the competition. He didn’t even attend the awards ceremony, which made their many Meng fans cry in grief. The people in the group chat who’d helped vote for over half a month were indignant, but after hearing the reason, they had no choice but to forgive the pitiful man who spammed votes for love.

While the students were rushing into the auditorium to join in on the fun of the awards, Jiang ShaoYan and Wang Zhe went against the flow of people to go out the school gate.

Wang Zhe had said that he wanted to take him back to take a look at the junior and senior high schools where they had first studied together, in order to revisit the past.

 

The two schools were actually not too far away, just twenty minutes away by car. They first went to the junior high school. Wang Zhe took him to walk along the trail where they met for the first time.

“Xuezhang was really handsome at the time. In my eyes, your whole body seemed to radiate light like the Savior.” Wang Zhe’s eyes were full of admiration.

Jiang ShaoYan couldn’t keep from laughing, “How can you exaggerate so much.”

He suddenly recalled something and asked, “Hey, why were you being bullied back then? I heard those guys saying that you randomly released pheromones to hit on some xuemei?”

Wang Zhe immediately clarified, “Absolutely not! I was young at that time, so my pheromone was unstable. It would always leak out a bit after I exercised…… That’s what they were talking about.”

Jiang ShaoYan berated himself for being too slow. At that time when Wang Zhe had told him about those past events, he should’ve realized from these little clues that his alpha was concealing his power*. Then later on, he probably wouldn’t have been suppressed in bed like that……

Okay, maybe I still would’ve been.

The entrance of the junior high school was closed. So they walked around the outside of the campus once and then took a taxi to the senior high school. The senior high school was relatively relaxed. The gate guard still recognized Jiang ShaoYan, the problem student in those days, and let them in. As they wandered along, Wang Zhe babbled out his recollections, “This place hasn’t changed very much. I remember you always played at that basketball hoop, beating alphas one-on-one, you were especially awesome.

“And this grove off to the side, I once saw an alpha blocking you in there, I wanted to go help you at first, but then you hit him a few times and he went down……

“Your class changed seats once a week. So every so often during the month, you’d sit by this window. I’d pass close by to catch sight of you…… Every time I got out of class and had time, I’d come by to see you and you never found out about it……”

Although Wang Zhe said these words with a smile, Jiang ShaoYan’s heart still ached unbearably.

“I’m sorry…… It would’ve been nice if I’d found out sooner.”

He’d never been secretly in love with someone, so he didn’t know what it felt like, but just imagining those years, when Wang Zhe had buried his feelings deep in his heart silently, admiring him in loneliness and even taking a suppressant on his behalf and enduring mockery for not being impressive enough, made his heart throb with bitter, uncontrollable pain.

Wang Zhe seemed to understand his line of thought and he said softly, “No need to apologize. You can’t think that I felt sad at the time? Actually, I didn’t. I was content with the situation. Being able to catch a glimpse of you each day made me feel happy. My mind was filled with affection for you. So where was there room for me to feel sad? Instead, later on, the closer I got to you, the more I wanted you and the more likely I was to be disappointed by losing you.”

He smiled, “Of course, now I have everything I wanted. Being together with you every day, the only thing left over is happiness and contentment.”

Jiang ShaoYan’s heart completely softened. He took his hand and pressed it against his heart.

“Wang Zhe.”

“Yes?”

“Just like when we met, right here, confess to me again.”

Wang Zhe was stunned, then he came to understand. He let out a gentle, low chuckle and opened his mouth to say softly, “Xuezhang, I–”

“I like you, please go out with me.”

Jiang ShaoYan had rushed in and taken the lead. He smirked, wearing an expression that he was clearly proud of himself, but he continued, “I’m very good. Xuedi, don’t you agree?”

Wang Zhe’s heart was thumping hard. He raised his hand and gently pushed aside Jiang ShaoYan’s hair, which had been blown by the wind. He carefully looked over his face for a long time before he opened his mouth and said heavily, “I agree.”

“Then you have to pamper me and love me forever, otherwise I won’t spare you.”

“Mhm, I always will…… I love you.”

“Me too.”

The early summer sunlight was bright and warm, illuminating Jiang ShaoYan’s smiling face, full of love and happiness.

“I’ll tell you every day from now on, I love you.”

 

【Main Story END】

 

 

 

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Footnotes:\n

1. To eat your own bitter fruit (自食恶果): idiom, to bear the consequences of your own misdeeds ↩\n

2. Concealing one’s talents (深藏不露): idiom, to hide one’s light under a bushel ↩

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Our silly dog’s unrequited love was so beautiful T_T I appreciate that he never felt like JSY owed him anything for being secretly in love with him for so long, it was just a pure love he carried in his heart.

But, wait, there’s more! The story continues with three fanwai!

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