Deliberate Mark

Chapter 68: Gained Five Kilos

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: KarateChopMonkey’s drinking coke

“God, you’re so horny.” Gu Ang pooh-poohed him. Luckily there were no lights on, so he couldn’t see his bursting red cheeks. Of course he knew what Ye Fei meant, he wasn’t a kid anymore, he still knew the dirty words.

It was just that it wasn’t quite the same as it used to be. He was an Alpha before, and although his taste of pheromone was a bit delicate, he was still a pure Alpha, so it was easy to suppress people. Having gone through two rutting periods as an Omega, he could fully imagine Ye Fei would never be able to carry the load if he launched himself into a vicious crush.

Gu Ang insisted, “Later, later.”

Ye Fei rolled down, “Did you know there was such a thing as a contract between an Alpha and an Omega?”

Gu Ang was puzzled, “What do you mean?”

“After an Omega is marked by the same Alpha three times, he will reject other Alphas on his own,” Ye Fei flashed a smile, “So Guang Guang, whether you say yes or no, you’re mine.”

Gu Ang was shocked, “So, you marked me twice…” He covered his neck, “I’m going to hold the last line of defense, in case I back out.”

Ye Fei’s voice was calm, “Three times.”

“Where were the three times?”

“The time you took sleeping pills.”

Gu Ang felt his fists tingle a little, “You didn’t just kiss my neck, you fucking marked me while I was asleep?”

Ye Fei lay flat without resisting, “Go ahead and hit me, I can take it.”

The nail in the coffin was going to be said sooner rather than later anyway. Gu Ang closed his eyes and meditated, I’m not angry, I’m really not angry. I’m not angry at him for being angry at me, but I’m angry at no one for being sick.

After a moment of silence, Ye Fei lifted his eyes to look next to him, “So calm?”

Gu Ang’s face was expressionless, “I grew up. Probably too much stimulation in the past two days, I don’t think it’s a big deal.”

Ye Fei nodded, “Mn, I’ll be responsible for you anyway.”

Gu Ang spoke again slyly, “Don’t think I didn’t take a physiology class. Temporary markings could fail over time, it’s not like I’m fully marked anyway, it’s not a big problem.”

“What? You still want to cuckold me?”

“Mr. Ye Fei, you’re not my better half yet, so please watch your words.”

Ye Fei cursed an expletive and sullenly closed his eyes, “Go to sleep.”

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The next day, they slept in until noon and the two had lunch before making a slow trip to Wang Chuang’s office. Gu Ang was still joking and laughing with Ye Fei when he saw Principal Zhong Zhan also sitting inside with his legs crossed, he reflexively popped away and kept his distance from Ye Fei.

Ye Fei asked in a low voice, “What’s wrong?”

“My mom’s especially close to him, and I’m afraid he’ll snitch on both of us.” Gu Ang walked in with a straight face and stood in front of his desk.

Zhong Zhan saw the visitor and snickered, “The star of our school is here.”

Gu Ang waved his hand, “No, don’t be ridiculous.”

Zhong Zhan pushed up his glasses, “Are you two really serious? I see that everyone was discussing it with great enthusiasm.”

“False, there’s no such thing.” Gu Ang said righteously, “It’s all just empty talk.”

Ye Fei agreed with an expressionless face, “Yeah, just regular classmates.”

Zhong Zhan’s expression was a bit disappointed as he lay back, “The military students are just, too many are single and not into sororities, not interesting.”

Gu Ang was speechless. What did it matter to you, Principal, if students fall in love or not? He digressed, “What were we called for?”

Wang Chuang burrowed out from behind a pile of books on his desk, “Two things, the first is that you guys did very well on Ice Blue this time, we discussed it and are going to have you two give your opening speech tomorrow.”

“The script won’t be written.” Gu Ang let out a long sigh, “Teacher, forget about this kind of crowning, how could we, as soldiers, float the surface?”

Zhong Zhan interjected again, “You two are freshman role models, the power of role models is very powerful, so you must speak. If you don’t, I’ll deduct credits.”

Gu Ang, “……” You have made your decision, what’s the point of pretending to have a consultative tone?

“Okay.” Gu Ang suppressed impatience, “The second thing is?”

Wang Chuang smiled again, a face that looked thievish and mischievous. “Here’s the thing, this semester’s assignment is to go…”

“I’ve been so tired lately I don’t want to go anywhere.”

“No time.”

Gu Ang and Ye Fei had an extremely tacit agreement, and in unison, they refused again.

Wang Chuang felt Principal’s looming eyes beside him and pushed harder, “Don’t be in a hurry to reject it guys, I haven’t said when.”

The two children in front of him, one arrogant and the other aloof, were too difficult to communicate with. Feeling another vague pain in his liver, Wang Chuang hurriedly pulled a could of liver protection tablets out of the drawer next to his desk and smothered himself with one.

Gu Ang spoke up, “We’ll go ahead if there’s nothing else.”

Wang Chuang hurriedly raised his voice, ”You weren’t told to go in the next two days, it’s in a little over two months. The top five military schools in the Empire, including us, have a joint competition. We have three spots at Red Flame, and I recommended you two.”

“Red Flame couldn’t find anyone else?” Gu Ang asked rhetorically.

Wang Chuang hemmed and hawed, “You guys are better.”

Gu Ang dropped his eyes, he actually heard about the military school league and was still a bit interested. In his last life he didn’t care about these tournaments at school, didn’t even watch them live and couldn’t figure out the exact rules. But if they were all military students, he guessed he and Ye Fei could have won with their eyes closed.

Ye Fei was in it back in the day, and going again would be a second brush and even less fun.

Neither man spoke, and the office was silent.

Zhong Zhan spoke leisurely, “In this competition, there are three rounds. The news we’ve gotten so far was that as long as you pass the first round, you can go straight to the higher level when you join the army later.”

Gu Ang froze, “Are the rewards that awesome? Is it really okay to make it so big that you guys just help us both into the competition?”

When he had been promoted before, it was all hard fought on the battlefield. Putting it that way, he was suddenly a little heartbroken. He suddenly glanced at Ye Fei next to him and all was clear. This son of a bitch, no wonder this man had become his boss straight away when he had just entered the army in his last life. Went to ask him why himself, and he just said it was because of strength.

The two went up and down for two years before Gu Ang caught up with the progress of the latter. Thinking of those days of oppression, a handful of blood and tears.

Zhong Zhan smiled faintly, “It’s not really an inside job, it was also the school’s intention to let you two enter. Because in this competition, the contestants may… die.”

Wang Chuang looked at the two freshman kids, not expecting them to even change their expressions for a moment. So calm? Are you that psychotic? Or are you just scared?

Gu Ang nodded, sort of understanding the worst of it, “So what’s the first round going to be?”

“It’s unclear what the exact mission is, but I can reveal the location of this first round of eliminations.” Wang Chuang deliberately bought it, but Gu AngYe Fei didn’t even answer him, and he scratched his head a little awkwardly, “Z Xing, Xuancheng.”

Gu Ang’s expression finally changed a little, he had heard of this place. The planet, located on the edge of human civilization, was invaded by Zerg a few years ago. And Xuancheng had managed to turn into their lair. In other words, this time their field turned out to be a real battlefield… It was a racial battlefield where there was only life or death.

Gu Ang glanced at Ye Fei again, not expecting him to go to such a dangerous place in his freshman year. Ye Fei also froze for a moment, the first round of eliminations hadn’t been this dangerous at all in his last life when he was in the tournament. He hesitated a bit, having only come back from the dead on Ice Blue Star, was it really appropriate to fall into such a treacherous situation again? He locked eyes with Gu Ang and shook his head gently.

Obviously there was something big going on here, and it was definitely not clear in this place for a while.

Wang Chuang saw that neither of them said anything and took it as a tacit acknowledgement and continued talking about the match.

“The school also knows that this tournament is more dangerous, so they have specially spent a lot of money to transfer over some Zerg from the Institute and the front line. You can go to training ground eighteen in a few days to get a feel for it, before you lose your game for the first time against the Zerg, and that could be costly.”

Gu Ang looked up, and the two had fought the Zerg before with little problem. He obliged, “Okay.”

“Well that’s finished, you two get busy.” Wang Chuang let out a long sigh of relief, finally throwing the hot potato out of his hands.

The two men nodded at Zhong Zhan and exited the office.

Gu Ang finally couldn’t resist speaking up, “How come you didn’t tell me when you were doing such a dangerous mission freshman year?”

Ye Fei raised the corner of his mouth, “Why? Heartbroken?”

“Bah, talk seriously.” Gu Ang spat as he inclined his head.

Ye Fei put away his joking expression, “The tournament I participated in was a world away from the difficulty of this one. Neither did it put us on the front lines, nor did it send us to fight a vicious alien race like the Zerg.”

Gu Ang looked back on the crossing and how many things have changed since then.

If everything was a butterfly effect, what was the first step in the very beginning? He thought for a moment, without a clue, “Forget it, we’ll both go out together at once and look out for each other basically without much problem. I don’t believe yet that that Lu ChangBai guy can put his hands into the frontline army.”

Ye Fei nodded, “Let’s go to Bai’s house first to get your luggage back.”

Gu Ang would stop running around as long as he had control of the luggage. The two wandered slowly to Bai SiNing’s house, and before they could enter, they heard Bai SiNing wailing. Gu Ang pushed the door in with a frown, “What are you howling about? I could hear you in the hallway.”

Bai SiNing turned around, “Brother Ang you guys are here! Looking at you, did you make up?”

“Pretty much, you’re so nosy.” Gu Ang glanced at him.

“Just make up, so I can come and stay again.” A cool voice on the couch spoke.

Gu Ang was startled, “Why’s there a man sitting here, why were you silent?”

Lin XiuYong didn’t wear his glasses, and his entire person looked a lot softer, “I’ve been sitting here for a long time.”

“Why were you running to stay at Xiao Bai’s house every day?” Gu Ang had the illusion of his cabbage being swallowed by a pig when facing Lin XiuYong.

Lin XiuYong said, “I’m bored at home alone, he’s pretty funny.”

Gu Ang grinds his teeth, listen, scum were all in a rut. He dropped his eyes to see his suitcase lying in the living room, “What, you couldn’t wait to kick me out of here?”

“XiuYong said that you two must move back when you make up, and helped you collect whatever you wanted.” Bai SiNing bent his eyes with an auntly smile.

The two made up and he was happier than the parties involved.

Gu Ang kicked the suitcase, “So what did you just howl about?”

Bai SiNing’s face fell again, “I ate too much on the airship before, and I gained four pounds. it has only been a few days, can you believe it?”

Gu Ang walked over, glanced at the scale and snorted, “So you’ll stay in shape if you fight me a little more.”

Bai SiNing nodded frequently, “Brother Ang definitely didn’t gain weight, and was in a coma for two or three days.”

Gu Ang gave a proud expression, “That’s for sure, let’s show you what a standard body is.”

He stepped onto the scale barefoot and froze at the numbers. Put on weight, put on five kilos. Gu Ang’s weight had been at one number for almost years and had never changed.

Fuck, what did he do? How did he gain weight when he didn’t eat or sleep hard? Gu Ang, somewhat skeptical of life, hurriedly got off the scale, covering up the numbers and pretending nothing had happened.

Bai SiNing probed over, “How is it?”

“Of course it’s a very perfect standard weight.” Gu Ang lifted the hem of his shirt, “Look at the old man’s abs, aren’t they very nice?”

“Hmm…” Bai SiNing looked suspiciously left and right with a look of incredulity.

Gu Ang raised an eyebrow, “What’s wrong?”

Bai SiNing rubbed his chin, “Your abs are indeed still there, but why did it feel like the number has become less?”

Author’s Note: 

Oh, the human tragedy.