?
??
???
These question marks basically summed up every student’s inner thoughts in the long yet brief silence that followed.
The professor, fully satisfied with the atmosphere he had created, even gave an enthusiastic round of applause for the couple caught red-handed during class.
Clap, clap, clap.
Wonderful.
But he quickly realized that after the initial commotion, the classroom fell into an odd, almost eerie silence.
So silent that even his clapping suddenly felt awkward and out of place.
The clock on the wall continued ticking dutifully, but for some reason, even it sounded… cautious.
The professor couldn’t understand.
Are students these slow to react nowadays??
Come on, get excited!
Make some noise!
Laugh!
At least offer some blessings or something!
Why do you all look so terrified?!!!
The entire Class A had fallen into a strange and curious state.
But they all shared one thing: everyone’s eyes were focused in the same direction.
Ji Qiu’s hand was still covering Liang Yan’s hand. The lab report they had used earlier to hide themselves lay quietly on the desk now, grinning like a nosy onlooker enjoying the show.
The two were still sitting close—so close it practically confirmed the professor’s declaration.
At a glance, Liang Yan’s expression still looked somewhat calm, but the palm of his hand held by Ji Qiu had begun to sweat uncontrollably.
And yet, only one thought echoed in Liang Yan’s mind:
—So thrilling.
It wasn’t like he had never been the center of attention before, so he wasn’t exactly nervous—just a little dazed.
Regret? Not really. If he had wanted to refuse, he could’ve stopped Ji Qiu from kissing him. But in the end, hadn’t he even… kissed him back?
As for Yin Tongguang…
Forget Yin Tongguang—Little Yin was utterly defeated. After keeping this secret bottled up for so long, he was practically going to burst… And these two just went and kissed in public like that?!
Was it because he often dragged Liang Yan to study, leaving no time for him to be alone with Ji Qiu?? Was that it??
Yin Tongguang began to self-reflect.
But still—
Even if you lent him two brains, he couldn’t have imagined these two would kiss during class!!
Is this the uncontrollable, incomparable attraction between an A and an O?!
He buried his face in his hands and sighed dramatically.
He could finally add a bold new chapter in his little gossip notebook:
“Some people are dead, yet still live on.
Some people are alive, yet already dead.
On the Xth day since Little Qiu’s passing, his smile and voice will forever stay in our hearts…”
Later on, Ji Qiu would recount (read: dramatize) the memory like this:
“I was just saying it casually.
Thrilling—way too thrilling.”
But right now, putting the side chatter aside—
There was not even any discussion in the room. It was as if, until the people involved gave an explanation, no one could accept what had happened.
Before, the ones shipping “OO” were mostly the Betas in the class. But even they hadn’t expected that the CP they’d been joking about would suddenly become real.
And worse, most students in Class A were Alphas. Among them, many were Ji Qiu’s die-hard fans, while a few admired Liang Yan’s looks.
Now you’re telling them these two got together??
What even is this??!!
No! No way! Impossible!
Just as everyone was silently trying to digest this shock, a twist came.
“Teacher! Teacher, please don’t blame him!!” Ji Qiu finally stepped forward amid the awkward silence. “It was me who forced him! I kissed him first! It’s all my fault! Please punish me without mercy!”
Liang Yan: “?”
Class: “……”
Professor: “……”
Sssssss—
Everyone collectively sucked in a breath.
The plot was thickening by the second.
So this was a tragic love story between a cold, indifferent Omega and a devoted, passionate Omega??
No one knew what the rest of the class imagined, but more and more gasps filled the air.
But the professor wasn’t about to let “Writer Ji” continue the drama.
He snorted and bluntly exposed him:
“Do you think I’m blind? It was clearly the one next to you who kissed you first.”
Ji Qiu: “……”
Damn.
He was momentarily at a loss for how to continue acting.
The class: “Sssssss—”
What is going on!!
This world must be doomed.
Too surreal.
Ji Qiu was blocked by the professor and fell silent for a moment—then quickly came up with another plan.
He composed himself, then looked up with slightly red-rimmed eyes: “T-Teacher…”
The heartless professor had no idea what he was about to say. “Hm?”
“I know he couldn’t help himself either,” Ji Qiu said, tearfully, with a look of delicate sorrow, “Because we both know… this kind of love is destined to face hardship and won’t be accepted by normal people! So… so that’s why—”
Professor: “Huh?”
What the hell are you talking about?
“Wuuu—!”
Before the professor could figure it out, other students in the room suddenly began to cry softly in sympathy.
What was happening now???
The course professor couldn’t understand why people were making those weird noises—he had just caught two students in a relationship, that’s all??
He just wanted to call out the student a little, warn him not to be so bold. He never expected to uncover a dramatic and socially “unacceptable” tragic love story.
“Uh…” The professor felt like a line of ellipses was hanging above his head, and somehow he now found himself in an awkward situation he couldn’t get out of. “You—don’t cry… What’s his name?”
He turned to ask the student in the first row.
After hearing Ji Qiu’s name, the professor’s irritation with him gradually gave way to a slightly more comforting tone:
“Well, Ji Qiu, stop crying for now. Tell me—why do you say it’s not accepted by others? I just told you not to kiss during class. I didn’t say I wanted to separate you two…”
“Teacher!” someone in class finally couldn’t hold back anymore. “They’re both Omegas!!”
“Yes, teacher!”
“Wuwuwuwu please don’t ask anymore, I can’t handle this!!”
“Oh my god—it was Liang Yan who kissed Qiuqiu first—ahhh—!!”
The classroom, which had been dead silent until now, suddenly exploded in chaos. No matter what kind of reaction it was, they all expressed disbelief over this suddenly revealed romance.
It was utter pandemonium.
The professor hadn’t expected this twist either. He looked at Ji Qiu, who was still sobbing (though with almost no real tears), and realized that whatever he said now would probably be too late. What’s more, the whole class had plunged into some sort of collective depression. It took a long time of knocking on the blackboard before he was able to pull their attention back.
“All right, all right. I was just saying. I didn’t mean any bias about orientations. Let’s just leave it at that, and if you want to talk more, do it after class.”
“Oh right, uh, just be more careful in the future. I won’t say more,” the professor said, sighing as he glanced at Ji Qiu, still hiccupping with fake sobs, and then turned to look at the other party involved—who had remained silent the entire time.
He noticed this student hadn’t changed expressions at all, as if this whole thing had nothing to do with him, and he didn’t care one bit that their unusual relationship had been exposed.
“What’s the name of that student?” the professor asked again, curious, turning back to the first row.
“Liang Yan!” an Alpha responded.
“Oh, oh, oh.” The professor nodded as if making a mental note… Wait—Liang Yan???
Did he hear that right?
“Sorry, what’s his name? Say it again?”
The students kindly repeated it for him.
The professor had only recently started teaching at this campus. Because of their shared field, he had always held deep respect for Dean Liang Chen. He knew the dean’s only son was named Liang Yan and was also studying here, but he didn’t know his grade or department.
When he looked at Liang Yan again, his eyes were filled with new meaning.
Wait… the dean’s son is gay?!
Does Dean Liang know?
Did I just accidentally expose a huge secret??
Should I help Liang Yan keep this from his father?
Am I doomed now??
He suddenly started worrying about his job.
No—someone like Dean Liang surely wouldn’t overreact to this kind of thing…
But still, he might think differently of me, right?
The professor’s lips twitched stiffly: “Okay, I understand.”
After that, he could no longer bear to look at the two students in the corner. He finished the rest of the lecture as quickly as he could, packed up his PPT, and left the classroom.
He decided to go to the temple that afternoon and say a prayer.
To wish the dean’s son a smooth love life, and to wish himself continued employment.
Sigh.
After he left, the classroom—which should have been buzzing with chatter after dismissal—remained stuck in a gloomy silence.
“Qiuqiu…” someone finally mustered the courage to approach the two in the back row. “You two…”
Before they could even ask “what’s going on with you two?”, Ji Qiu cut in first, still sounding heartbreakingly fragile:
“Will you support us?”
The student froze from the counter-question and instantly forgot why he had come over in the first place.
“Y-Yeah, of course.”
At this point, there was no turning back.
That brave soul, who had come bearing the hopes of the whole class, ended up offering their blessing instead:
“You two will definitely be happy together.”
Though his tone was still full of reluctance and disbelief.
Ji Qiu smiled—a sweet, sugary smile that looked exactly like when he used to pretend to be an Omega. That smile still made the Alpha in front of him dazed and spellbound.
Holding Liang Yan’s hand tightly, Ji Qiu said with heartfelt emotion,
“Class A is so great! Yan Yan and I thank you all for your blessings! I’ll visit you often!”
That Alpha: Wait, no… I don’t think this was my intention at all…
At that moment, Liang Yan had also packed up his books. He let Ji Qiu pull him up, nodded slightly to everyone, and—rarely—spoke:
“Thank you.”
Then the two of them, hand in hand, walked out of the classroom together.
…Still radiating the nauseating stink of love.
At that moment, the whole classroom of Alphas collectively emitted an air of hopeless despair.
Not long after, the internal forum of the medical university was nearly blown up.
After all, this wasn’t just shocking news for Class A and Class S—but for the entire School of Clinical Medicine. No one could believe it.
This day became one of historic significance. Campus network traffic skyrocketed—surpassing even peak periods like course registration—because while registration was limited by year level, this gossip was for the entire school.
The topic of conversation was clear and simple:
“So OO love really does exist.”
【Aaaaaaaaah!!! OO love is actually real! It’s! Real!】
【Officially confirmed! Certified by the professor!】
【The first OO couple in our school—wuwuwu I’m crying as I type this】
【No—this—can’t—be—】
【Aaaaaah my Qiuqiu!! I refuse to accept this!!】
【I still can’t imagine what it’s like for two Omegas to be together】
【The teacher even caught them kissing in class. I just… I just… sigh…】
【Emotionally I still can’t accept it, but somehow I really want to see what that scene looked like】
【This isn’t real! This isn’t real!!】
【This is real! This is real!!】
【You guys don’t get it—real or not, what does it matter… I’m just tired…】
At the end of the thread, someone commented:
【Damn, I suddenly feel really bad for Jiang Xinglan. The two Omegas he was chasing… ended up together.】
And those Alphas who used to confidently proclaim “they’re just really close girlfriends” were now completely at a loss for how to describe their feelings.
The two most outstanding Omegas in the department!
One’s a total heartthrob! A sweetheart! An absolute angel! The flawless Ji Qiuqiu!
The other, a bit cold and aloof—but gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous, undeniably gorgeous Liang Yan!
Why on earth would these two Omegas decide to get together?!
Are the Alphas on campus not good enough anymore??!!
Every Alpha who had ever entertained thoughts about the two now instinctively adjusted their (imaginary) hats.
Straightened them—because they’d all been tilted.
No matter how they tried to make sense of it, they simply couldn’t accept the fact that they’d been “cheated on” by… another Omega.
They could practically hear the rain falling on the grass.
And all their complex feelings boiled down to one sentence in their hearts:
—What the hell?! Why them!!!
But it didn’t stop there. Within just a few days, the news spread beyond their campus and circulated throughout the entire university district.
People were passing it around like this:
“Hey, do you know the medical university? There’s a real OO couple there now—like, genuinely OO. And not just anyone—they’re like the dream Omega types on campus, absolutely no joke.”
“What? Are you serious? Got proof?”
“Yeah, the professor himself confirmed it. They were caught kissing in class. Later, one of the Omegas even cried and confessed in front of everyone, asking the class to bless them.”
“Whoa… tsk tsk tsk.”
Even Jiang Xinglan, upon hearing the news, calmly and sincerely sent a message to Liang Yan:
“He told me before that he liked you. That day, you confirmed it yourself. This path won’t be easy, but since you’ve chosen each other, I truly wish you happiness.”
After reading the message, Liang Yan felt a mix of emotions.
He was glad that Jiang Xinglan wasn’t being overly clingy—but that line, “this path won’t be easy”, almost made him laugh.
Still, all he could reply with was:
“Thank you. We will.”
Although the gossip had been wild these past few days, as the two main subjects of this so-called “OO romance,” real Omega Liang Yan and fake Omega Ji Qiu, their lives were barely affected.
Well—except for the fact that after class that day, Ji Qiu got pinched hard enough to bruise his waist for overacting in front of the professor.
Other than that, the main change was that whenever Ji Qiu came looking for Liang Yan, there were always more people watching, pointing, and whispering in disbelief.
Very soon, people realized that the heartthrob Ji Qiu they used to obsess over had now become Liang Yan’s exclusive, all-purpose human treasure box.
He brought breakfast in the morning, waited after class at noon, dropped in on Liang Yan’s lectures if he was free, always paired up with him in lab sessions, and sometimes at night, they could even be seen walking back together from the artificial lake—before sweetly going back to their own dorms.
Originally, Ji Qiu even had a “personal fan club” at school. Now, aside from a few Betas who were happily shipping “YanQiu,” most of the Alpha members were heartbroken and had withdrawn. They claimed they simply couldn’t accept that their precious little O had become another Omega’s.
One Alpha, who wished to remain anonymous, said:
“Don’t ask. Just know that I’m salty. Very salty.”
Still, some optimistic Alphas joked that life’s all about new experiences—like getting “cheated on” by the Omega you chased, only for the other party to also be an Omega.
Meanwhile, a group of pure-hearted Beta bystanders happily continued shipping the YanQiu couple after getting over the initial shock.
From now on, the truth was real!
Every interaction between them was genuine CP material!
Ah—truly a couple that had captured the attention of the entire campus.
Everyone said it with sour jealousy.
As for the professor who uncovered all this…
Classes went on as usual, but among the student body, a curious rumor began to circulate about him.
It was said that the newly arrived professor in the Clinical Medicine Department—if you kissed someone in his class, that relationship was guaranteed to be blessed.
After all, if even an OO couple could make it, then what couldn’t?
That day, Liang Yan and Ji Qiu were planning to visit Xu Yishu at the Fine Arts School. Last time, Xu had clumsily broken a sampling device, and with his heat period approaching, Liang Yan was worried. So he and Ji Qiu decided to personally bring a replacement over and check up on him.
They hailed a ride through an app and waited by the roadside, casually enduring the usual stares from curious classmates.
The aftermath of their “scandal” wasn’t small. Once something reached a certain level of popularity, it inevitably drew some backlash. In recent days, not all the looks directed at them were friendly. A few particularly biased individuals even confronted them directly, saying that an OO relationship could never last.
Their driver was caught in traffic, and while they were still waiting, an Alpha who had once chased Ji Qiu walked over toward them.
“Ji Qiu, there’s no future between two Omegas. I used to think you were doing fine on your own, so I stopped pursuing you. But you—” he pointed at Liang Yan behind Ji Qiu, “—two Omegas have no way out.”
Ji Qiu instinctively shielded Liang Yan behind him, then blinked innocently and said, “But I just like Yan Yan.”
Liang Yan nearly got goosebumps all over from his tone.
That Alpha kept pestering them with a few more unreasonable remarks, but Ji Qiu deflected every single one with his superb conversational Tai Chi skills. In the end, the Alpha seemed to give up and, sounding slightly unhinged, snapped, “What can two Omegas even do together?! Can you mark each other during heat? You’re just being delusional!”
After saying that, as if deeply disappointed in Ji Qiu, he turned to leave.
Originally, that could’ve been the end of it.
But Ji Qiu apparently couldn’t help being cheeky and called out, “Well, that’s not necessarily true! Even though we’re both Omegas, I, I…”
“I can still win over Yan Yan with my charisma and my sweet and intense pheromones!”
Liang Yan, listening from the side: ???
As soon as the guy left, Ji Qiu realized he had dug his own grave and immediately started apologizing. “Yan Yan!!”
“Yan Yan, don’t be mad, wuwuwuwu!!” Ji Qiu was one step away from hugging his leg—though at this point, even that probably wouldn’t change much. Their relationship had already been exposed, so who even needed to keep up a persona anymore? The most important thing was coaxing him back.
Liang Yan stopped and looked at him.
“I was wrong, okay?!”
This kind of scene had been happening a lot lately. Just as Liang Yan was about to let it slide, Ji Qiu suddenly clung to his arm and declared righteously, “Fine, fine—our future kids can take your last name!!”
…?
“………………”
Liang Yan took a deep breath.
He was just about to say something when their ride arrived.
Ji Qiu was overjoyed, thinking he had narrowly escaped disaster.
The driver was quite cheerful. Seeing that his passengers were two young men who were both strikingly handsome, his mood lifted just from looking at them.
Except… the atmosphere between the two wasn’t quite right.
Both sat in the backseat. The slightly taller boy sat nervously on the left, clearly on edge, while the one on the right leaned back against the seat with his eyes closed, holding his phone—he didn’t look approachable at all.
“Where to?” The driver smiled at them after they buckled their seatbelts.
“Oh, to the—” Ji Qiu started to say the Academy of Fine Arts and that they just needed to make a U-turn, but was cut off by Liang Yan, who replied with a frosty tone:
“Crematorium.”
Liang Yan said it with his eyes still closed.
[mfn]If you enjoy my translations, you can show your support by leaving a comment or donating to my Ko-fi. It will be much appreciated. Thank you! [/mfn]
