In less than two months, Liang Huan and Shi Yaojin have changed seats three times. Xing Yeze thought sinisterly that he would never allow the fourth change to happen.
As soon as Liang Huan sat next to Xing Yeze, Xing Yeze stretched out his long arms and put them on the back of the chair behind Liang Huan, quietly holding Liang Huan in his arms and swearing his sovereignty.
[Oh, I know, I know~ Boss Huan is yours~] The classmates exchanged glances, and no Alpha dared to covet Liang Huan’s waist strength and stamina.
Back when the top student wasn’t interested in Boss Huan, we still had the guts to drool over him—his fists couldn’t stop our shameless thirst. But now that the top student’s done a full 180 and slapped us all in the face with how smitten he is, just one look from him is enough to dry up all our drool on the spot!
“Bro! Next time, crush Lin Mingrui under your feet!” Liang Huan, whose romance quotient was in the negatives, had no idea Xing Yeze had tanked his grades on purpose. He even tried to comfort him fiercely, completely missing the point.
Uh, he wasn’t being fierce toward Xing Yeze—it’s just that he instinctively gets fierce whenever he says something like ‘crush underfoot’.
… Lin Mingrui was extremely frustrated.
Back before Boss Huan’s abnormal pseudo-differentiation, when he and the top student kept to their own lanes, if he did well and came in second, Boss Huan would even cast him a regal, approving glance—like an emperor bestowing favor—urging him to pull the top student down from his eternal first-place throne.
Boss Huan, I refuse to accept that your bond with the top student is just brotherhood!
I’ll only accept that you like him without realizing it—that what you feel for him is love, not brotherhood!
“Mn.” Xing Yeze had a hard time holding back his smile, trying to pretend to be troubled by the decline in grades.
A pair of black eyes stared at Liang Huan’s gland, and he suddenly took Liang Huan’s hand into his palm.
“…What are you doing?” Liang Huan said inexplicably, and his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
“I justneed to ‘personally’ feel Boss Huan by my side, and I can instantly settle down and focus on studying.” Xing Yeze said this with a perfectly straight face, spouting nonsense with utter seriousness—though his pen was indeed gliding smoothly across the exercise book, writing with the ease of divine inspiration.
Liang Huan was stunned when he saw this and did not struggle to pull his hand out, but his heart beat faster and faster.
[The top student is the top student. He is openly flirting in the classroom without fear of being scolded by the teacher.]
[So it’s not that campus romance is not allowed, but that it should not affect study.]
[Ahem, ahem—it feels like the top student’s totally under Boss Huan’s spell, head over heels. Are we sure this won’t affect his studies?]
[Don’t worry. The teacher won’t even have time to get angry—Boss Huan would be the first to shut it down.] Lin Mingrui typed back gloomily in the forum thread.
[No no no, I have a feeling that before Boss Huan even gets the chance to blow up, the top student’s family will already be grilling him! Tsk tsk tsk, my dad says the atmosphere in his household is suffocatingly strict…]
The comments were not exaggerating. Sure enough, when Xing Yeze returned home in the evening, he unexpectedly saw his parents at the same time.
His parents always hated each other. They would not see each other if they could. Even under the threat of his grandparents, they would take turns coming to the villa to accompany him for dinner.
“Well? Why have your grades dropped?” Lin Yin stood with her arms crossed, and to avoid being overshadowed by Xing Yeze’s height, she had deliberately put on fifteen-centimeter heels—just enough to barely meet his gaze as he continued to grow.
Her expression was full of impatience, not concern and worry. Obviously, she didn’t care about Xing Yeze’s grades. To be precise, she didn’t care about anything about Xing Yeze. It was just that she had to ask about Xing Yeze’s grades under the pressure of her parents.
“It’s not just your paternal grandparents—your drop in grades even alarmed my parents. What, did you flunk on purpose just to get our attention? To make us care about you?” Lin Yin sneered coldly.
“…” Xing Yeze also sneered secretly but did not refute.
He only did such stupid things as trying every means to attract his parents’ attention when he was a child. Now he simply disdains the love of Lin Yin and Xing Li, and it would be best if these two people could get away as far as possible.
Xing Yeze knew it wasn’t necessarily the teacher who informed his family. His grandparents on both sides—especially his paternal ones—kept close contact with the school principal. There was no way he could hide his drop in grades from them.
He hadn’t expected that even his maternal grandparents would be alarmed by the drop in his grades—and that the news would eventually reach Lin Yin’s ears.
“I’m guessing it’s because of an Omega, right?” Xing Li said with a half-smile—perhaps because Alphas understand Alphas best.
“It’s like our Xing family is cursed. Every generation of heirs ends up keeping the Omega they actually love hidden away like some shameful secret, while marrying one they don’t love to put on a show of marital bliss.” He looked at Xing Yeze meaningfully. “I didn’t expect you to be the same. In the end, you’ll become the very person you hate most—just like me.”
T/N: Hi guys, short chapters today so double. I also saw in advance how long chapter 30 is and it’s kinda short so most likely double updates tomorrow too so see you till then ^^
