Ch32 - YouYou and Sister-in-law (?)

Li Cheng and his teammates worked hard to prepare for the competition but time was like water running through their fingers, quickly slipping away.

The provincial competition was divided into three days. The preliminary and semi-finals of the swimming event were held on the first day, the second day was the men’s individual final.

The schedule was very tight, especially for someone like Li Cheng who had four finals to participate in a day. It was definitely going to be a challenge.

The second day happened to be a Sunday. Xiao Yiheng took his schoolbag and left home with the excuse of going to school for extra classes. However, instead of textbooks, his school bag contained other things. 

The Provincial Stadium was located in the city center, and there happened to be a direct bus from his house.

He was lucky to get a seat when he got on the bus. Within two stops, a gray-haired grandmother got onto the bus with a bag of fruits and vegetables. Mindful of her old age, Xiao Yiheng gave his seat to the elderly.

In the swaying bus, Xiao Yiheng held the ring with one hand and took out his phone with the other to send a message to Li Cheng.

Pursue Unremittingly: I’m almost there, where to gather?

Small Round Orange: [Black question mark face].jpg

Small Round Orange: What ‘gather’?

Pursue Unremittingly: Gather with the families of other players in your team.

Pursue Unremittingly: [smile].jpg 

Small Round Orange: …

Small Round Orange: Since you know that the other team members are all family members, don’t join in the fun ok?

Small Round Orange: Can you not be clear about your own identity!

Pursue Unremittingly: What is my identity? 

Pursue Unremittingly: Throw away when you use it up, and run away when you squeeze it dry. Not fit to be seen chaff. [Smile].jpg

Small Round Orange: …

Small Round Orange: [Tableflip].jpg

When Li Cheng received the message from Xiao Yiheng, he had just finished warming up in the swimming pool. He was sitting at the edge of the pool wearing a bath towel and pressed at his phone irritably. 

Why didn’t God let Xiao Yiheng continue to have a fever? Why was there no extra class today for the seniors? Why didn’t Xiao Yiheng lose his ticket accidentally?

Why did he have a hot head that day and want to give the ticket to Xiao Yiheng?

Although Li Cheng knew Xiao Yiheng saying: “last time I saw your lower body, this time I can see your upper body” was just a joke, he couldn’t stop his heartbeat from speeding up. In the swimming pool, the male and female athletes were all dressed in cool, tight-fitting swimsuits that contour to the body, outlining extremely clear and incomparable body lines.

Li Cheng had always been very confident about his figure. He had abdominal and pectoral muscles. He also had a tall, fit, and beautiful posture. If other people liked to watch it, let them watch it. But if Xiao Yiheng wanted to watch it, then that was a different story. 

Li Cheng couldn’t tell where this shyness came from. He irritably threw the bath towel to the ground causing the water to drip down from his body.

Li Cheng was very thin, the lean kind of thin. Well-proportioned muscles covered his body, and every muscle was a masterpiece of heaven. When he arched his back, his protruding spine formed a path, each vertebra emerging one by one from the back muscles. One end of the “path” extended under his swimming trunks, while the other end was hidden in the wet blond hair.

The strands of blond hair fell on both sides of his cheeks, some were attached to his slender neck, in sharp contrast with the wheat-colored skin.

He frowned and thought about how to make Xiao Yiheng sneak into the stadium without attracting the attention of other players. Suddenly, a hand stretched out from behind and brushed against the back of Li Cheng’s neck, even deliberately scratched it lightly with fingertips. 

“Fuck!?” Li Cheng exploded in an instant, he jumped up, clutched the back of his neck vigilantly, and stared at the ill-behaved hand.

99% of the omega glands in the world were in the back of the neck. If someone deliberately touched it, it was no different from sexual harassment. Even if Li Cheng’s glands were not on the back of his neck, he couldn’t tolerate others being so shameless.

“Surnamed Ji [Mr. Ji], did the water get logged in your head?” Li Cheng glared, his eyes like a sharp knife, shooting towards the wretched alpha on the opposite side.

“Just saying hello to an old opponent.” The alpha named Ji Xun was also a freestyle short-distance swimmer. The conflict between him and Li Cheng could be traced back several years. 

Ji Xun had straight A cancer through and through, and he looked down at the omega Li Cheng in his heart. In the early years, the two had equal victories in the pool, but in recent years, Li Cheng had won more championships than him.

How could Ji Xun tolerate an omega with a better standing than him? His behaviour worsened. Every time they met, Ji Xun would deliberately take advantage of Li Cheng verbally. Today, he had gotten worse and actually touched the back of Li Cheng’s neck!

Li Cheng clenched his fists. “You must not want your dog face? Since when is it ok to greet an omega on his glands? If I kick you down there, would it or would it not be regarded as returning a gift to you?”

While talking, Li Cheng’s eyes squinted between Ji Xun’s legs as if to estimate which place was better to hit. 

The swimming trunks were very tight and hugged the body closely. Everyone’s “measure” could be seen at a glance.

Ji Xun’s lower body suddenly felt chilly. He subconsciously clamped his legs and said sternly “You…You dare not do it! There are many cameras here, if you dare to fight before the competition, you will be disqualified.”

“Heh,” Of course Li Cheng knew the rules. He sneered, “Don’t worry, your place is so small, I’m afraid I can’t find it.”

“You…you, you…” 

“You, you, you, you shit. Dad is busy,” Li Cheng lowered his voice, the mockery in his eyes overflowing, “Daddy is busy changing your age.”

“…”

As athletes, some players deliberately changed to a younger age in order to get more medals. It was obviously a minor’s competition, but you could see many mature faces on the field. This kind of thing was contemptuous, but everyone was tacitly aware and no one would say it directly like Li Cheng.

Ji Xun’s age had been changed to two years younger. He should have gone to university long ago, but he hadn’t entered university for a long time. Now, he was still in the high school group, competing for medals with swimmers younger than him. Truly extremely shameless. 

Li Cheng hated this kind of age-changing deception the most so he ripped Ji Xun’s fragile mask of pride with a single sentence. Ji Xun’s eyes turned red and raised his fist as he rushed over. Li Cheng twisted and avoided it nimbly.

“What? Does it hurt your self-esteem to be exposed by someone about this age change con?” Li Cheng raised his chin and ruthlessly attacked the alpha’s ridiculous self-esteem, “I thought your self-esteem had already been ripped to shreds by me a long time ago when I defeated you.”

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Xiao Yiheng was a little surprised. He subconsciously asked, “Is it obvious?”

“Yes,” The old grandma said, “Although you don’t have a smile on your face, your eyes are smiling.”

Xiao Yiheng glanced at the glass window upon hearing the words. In the shadowy reflections, the boy’s eyes had a layer of warm light, which melted the ice wrapped around him. 

The old grandma reached her destination after only two stops. Before getting off the bus, she took out a handful of sugar oranges from her grocery bag and enthusiastically stuffed them into Xiao Yiheng’s school uniform pocket: “Young man, you take it, these little oranges are very sweet. The person who sold it to me said this orange is sweeter than first love, try it.”

Xiao Yiheng declined, but in the end, had to accept them. His coat pocket was filled with chubby little oranges with green leaves that offset the orange-red fruit. They looked very appetizing.

The provincial swimming pool was the last stop of this bus. When Xiao Yiheng arrived at the station, huge publicity panels had been set up inside and outside the stadium, with photos of star players listed on it. Li Cheng was a popular player predicted to win the championship. He was also a rare omega player, which had attracted a lot of attention.

Xiao Yiheng stopped in front of the exhibition board. Li Cheng’s blonde hair was particularly conspicuous in those conventional ID photos. He grinned generously at the camera, with eyes that narrowed into two beautiful arcs, and several medals were hanging on his chest—all golden—displaying the glory he had won in its entirety. 

There were spectators who came from other places that talked about Li Cheng’s photos.

“I’ve heard of this boy named Li Cheng. Although he is an omega, he is very capable! I have seen him in previous games, and there is no opponent in the same age group in our province.”

“So awesome? In racing competitions, omegas are too rare.”

“He is a short-range player, specializing in 100m and 200m. You have never seen him compete right? He enters the water like a small cannonball. The audience hasn’t reacted yet and the game is over!” 

“Then why doesn’t he enter a sports school, he can directly enter the national team in the future!”

“I know about this! Before Li Cheng differentiated, many sports school coaches wanted to recruit him, but then he differentiated into an omega, and they hesitated. They didn’t dare to accept him, worried that he might not have enough stamina. As a result, this golden ticket was picked up by Huacheng No. 1 High School! That group of school coaches are now going to regret till they go crazy.”

You say, I say, this group of spectators gathered here and together shared the gossip from the swimming ring.

Xiao Yiheng listened with interest. He had never known before that Li Cheng was so amazing, even the audiences from other places and provinces had heard of his name. 

Those gossipers did not notice Xiao Yiheng standing behind them and continued to chat.

“But I can also understand the original choice of the coaches. Omegas have estrus after all. If the sports season coincides with the estrus period, it will affect the performance.”

“Training hard for a year, and then hitting the estrus period, all that work in vain.”

“This is actually a kind of bet. The sports school coaches lost the bet and Li Cheng won the bet.” 

“I wonder what his pheromone tastes like.”

“Such a great omega, I reckon the pheromones have the taste of a torpedo right?”

Xiao Yiheng:” …… ”

No, he cannot laugh. 

Xiao Yiheng was the only alpha in the world who has tasted Li Cheng’s pheromones. The sweet, spicy, sour, and bitter pheromone was still on the tip of Xiao Yiheng’s tongue. Every night, he couldn’t help but reminisce in his dreams.

After hearing other people say that Li Cheng’s pheromone was torpedo flavoured, Xiao Yiheng really wanted to award this group of gossipers a “most rich imagination” award.

However, every time Li Cheng entered the swimming pool, everyone else was like deep-fried fish, blowing up all the opponents—from this level, Li Cheng was indeed “torpedo-flavored”.

Xiao Yiheng calmly took a step closer to them, pretending to be looking away, but actually pricked his ears for more information. 

“How good is Li Cheng now? Even if he’s an alpha, no one is better than him, ok?”

“How about Ji Xun? He has the same style of short-range freestyle swimming. Ji Xun is an alpha, and he has won many championships.”

“Ji Xun is out of the question.” The man looked around and said in a low voice, “I heard that Ji Xun changed his age. He was able to win the prize before because he bullied the younger students. He participated in U13 at the age of 15 and participated in U15 at the age of 17. A few years older than others, can you not win the championship?”

“I’ve heard about this. Ji Xun relies on being an alpha and loves to bully the beta of the same team. He doesn’t usually train very seriously, and his grades have declined severely.” 

“Oh, is that true?”

“My neighbour’s nephew’s classmate’s uncle is in the city sports school, it’s true! ”

Until then, Xiao Yiheng realized that he knew too little about Li Cheng. He didn’t know what Li Cheng’s specialty was, nor who his opponents were. If he hadn’t met this group of spectators who were willing to share gossip, he was afraid that he would only be a layman watching the game today.

He silently wrote down Ji Xun’s name with a hunch that this alpha was not a simple thing. 

The crowd of spectators had been gossiping for a long time. Seeing that the competition was about to begin, they hurriedly lined up to enter the stadium.

Xiao Yiheng held the VIP ticket in his hand. The entrance was in the other direction. He was about to leave when he suddenly noticed a small figure in the crowd.

It was a young girl—about ten years old—wearing a light yellow dress and carrying a heavy school bag. Her hair had two croissant braids with a fluffy hair ribbon on the left and right.

There was a children’s mobile phone hanging around her neck, adorned with beautiful glass beads, looking very much in line with the aesthetics of a little girl her age. 

She walked through the crowd with difficulty, arrived at the exhibition board, raised the phone to turn on the camera mode— and with a “click”—she took a picture of Li Cheng on the board.

She quickly set this photo as the mobile phone wallpaper, having so much fun that her braids were all messed up. When she laughed, the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were filled with a deep sense of familiarity, bright and cheerful. Xiao Yiheng guessed her identity almost instantly.

“Are you Li Cheng’s younger sister?” Xiao Yiheng knelt down and greeted her.

“Huh? How did you know?” The little girl widened her eyes in surprise, her eyebrows raised high, looking like a small version of Li Cheng. 

She looked at the big brother in front of her curiously. He was so tall, his eyes seemed to have stars, and he looked like the photo of a celebrity pasted on the pencil case of her classmate who sits at the same table. Uh… he’s just one step worse than her brother. Just a bit.

Xiao Yiheng wore a school uniform to go out today. He pointed to the school badge on his chest and said, “I am your brother’s classmate, I also came to see him play.”

He noticed that there were no adults around her, frowned, and asked, “Did you come alone? Your parents didn’t accompany you?”

“They don’t like watching brothers’ games. They sent me here and left,” The little girl shook her head and then suddenly stretched out her hand, grabbing onto Xiao Yiheng’s finger, “Before, I was alone cheering for my brother, today, there is one more you, great! Let’s cheer for my brother together!” 

“Okay.” Xiao Yiheng gently shook his arm up and down, as if shaking hands with her, “Let’s cheer for him today.”

Xiao Yiheng took the little sister’s hand and walked with her to the VIP entrance channel.

He had never dealt with such a young child before. He was a little worried at first, but the little sister was very sensible, not noisy. She looked too much like Li Cheng. Xiao Yiheng looked at her as if he was watching a young version of Li Cheng. This “little Li Cheng” didn’t swear, beat people, or lose their temper proudly. She was so well-behaved that Xiao Yiheng couldn’t adapt.

Love the house and its crow. Li Cheng was the person Xiao Yiheng liked so Xiao Yiheng naturally felt the need to take good care of his little sister. 

Xiao Yiheng looked at her dangling pigtail and wanted to ask her whether the hair ribbon that Li Cheng used to tie his hair up during fights came from her collection.

“By the way, my name is Xiao Yiheng. The ‘yiheng’ in ‘to pursue unremittingly.” Xiao Yiheng asked, “What is your name?”

He only inquired that Li Cheng had a younger sister, but didn’t know her name.

“My name is Youyou,” The little girl also introduced herself in his style, “The ‘you’ in the grapefruit ‘you’.” 

“…”

How did Li Cheng’s family get their names? The elder brother was named Orange, the younger sister was named Pomelo, and even the duck he raised was called Little Lemon.

Xiao Yiheng joked with Youyou: “Does your house have a tangerine?”

This made Youyou recall something and ask in surprise, “How did you know?” 

Xiao Yiheng:? ? ?

Youyou brought the school bag on her back to the front, carefully opened it a little, and said softly, “I will tell you a secret—”

Xiao Yiheng looked down and saw what Youyou had actually packed in that heavy school bag. A plump orange cat!

Xiao Yiheng: …… 

The orange cat had a round face and was as fat as a bag of rice. It lay lazily in the school bag, not even bothering to meow a bit. It lazily opened its eyes and licked the strange two-legged beast, and closed its eyes again, sleeping.

Youyou reached into her school bag and touched a handful of the orange cat’s shiny and smooth fur: “It’s called Big Tangerine. Originally, my mother didn’t want me to raise it. I begged my mother for a long time before she agreed!”

Youyou looked up at Xiao Yiheng, shaking his arm, she said “My brother still doesn’t know about me raising it. I want to give him a surprise. Can you help me keep this secret?”

Xiao Yiheng thought for a while and replied, “Since you told me a secret, then I will tell you a secret too.” 

Then, he opened his backpack revealing a lively, smart duck, poking its head out of the schoolbag.

“Come on, Little Lemon, get to know the Big Tangerine.”

…

The security check of the VIP channel wasn’t strict. Xiao Yiheng smoothly took the grapefruit, tangerine, and lemon into the venue to cheer for the orange. 

The first match was the men’s 50m freestyle final. The match had not yet started so there was chaos everywhere. Xiao Yiheng held Youyou in one hand and the tickets of the two of them in the other while searching for their seats.

The VIP stand was located on the middle and upper-level side of the swimming pool. This area overlooked the entire swimming lane and was the best viewing area. Athletes who did not compete and family members also sat here, cheering for their teammates.

Huang Yelun hugged the schoolgirl who he had just chased after, the two whispered like a pair of lovebirds—too corny to watch.

Halfway through the love story, Huang Yelun suddenly froze. 

The school girl pushed him and asked: “What’s wrong with you?”

Huang Yelun: “…” He rubbed his eyes vigorously and asked in confusion, “Is it because I have been training too hard recently and started having hallucinations? How did I see Xiao Yiheng coming over here with Youyou?”

Xiao Yiheng was Brother Li’s opponent and Youyou is Brother Li’s sister. How could these two get together?!

This was the VIP area. Tickets were not for sale. It was normal for Youyou to have tickets. How could Xiao Yiheng have tickets here? 

But the two figures in the aisle were extremely similar to the two people he knew.

With the familiar croissant braids, Youyou walked cautiously on the steps. She was holding a little yellow duck in one hand, the other hand was held by the tall and handsome young man beside her. Someone who didn’t know would think they were brother and sister.

The young man who looked like Xiao Yiheng glanced down at Youyou and said, “Be careful, the stairs are very steep. Do I need to hold you?”

Huang Yelun breathed a sigh of relief. He was definitely mistaken, how could it be Xiao Yiheng? Even though he looked like Xiao Yiheng, had the same voice as Xiao Yiheng, and wore the school uniform of Huacheng No. 1 High School—everyone knew Xiao Yiheng’s personality was like an immortal iceberg. It was absolutely impossible to talk to others in such a gentle voice! 

However, after three seconds, his mind was shattered.

Xiao Yiheng sat down beside him calmly, his voice was as cold as ice cubes: “Please close your mouth, okay?”

Huang Yelun held his chin that was about to dislocate—Xiao Yiheng actually appeared in the audience of the swimming competition? This is even more incredible than winning the breaststroke Olympic championship!

Not only was Huang Yelun shocked, but the faces of other players were also full of incredulity. 

They looked at Xiao Yiheng for a while and then at the constantly calling “big brother, big brother” Youyou. They really didn’t understand how the two got together.

Youyou didn’t know their thoughts. She had met her brother’s teammates several times before. She happily hugged the duckling to greet them with a voice as soft as cotton candy.

Among this group of teammates, Youyou was the most familiar with Huang Yelun.

Seeing Huang Yelun staring at Xiao Yiheng without blinking, she asked curiously: “Brother Dahuang, do you know Brother Xiao?” 

Huang Yelun bit the bullet and said, “…Uh, know, know.”

This was the school’s most famous alpha. Who dared to say they didn’t know him?

Xiao Yiheng’s expression remained unchanged, he sat there calmly, not caring what the group of people thought, assumed, or viewed of his relationship with Li Cheng.

He let Youyou sit down, grabbed a handful of sugar oranges from his pocket, carefully peeled the skins for her, picked out the white meridians, and put them into her little hands: “The competition will take a while, are you hungry? First, eat a few small oranges to cushion your stomach.” 

Youyou was a little girl who liked to share. Instead of eating these oranges, she turned and distributed the oranges to all the players present.

Sugar oranges were originally very small. The oranges were only a little bigger than a coin so they looked funny and cute when placed in the palm of this group of players.

Huang Yelun received the orange from the little princess and said flatly, “Thank you, Youyou, I especially love oranges…”

Xiao Yiheng glanced at him lightly, twisting the orange peel in his hand into pieces. 

Huang Yelun: “—but I’m going to compete, and I can’t eat now, so I’ll leave it to Youyou.”

The other team members were shot again by Xiao Yiheng’s icy eyes. How dare they touch the oranges? They hurriedly returned them.

Youyou held a handful of sugar oranges, happily satisfied. She decided that she would leave all these little oranges for her brother to eat!

Huang Yelun looked worriedly at Xiao Yiheng’s profile, and a bold guess emerged. 

He took out his phone and clicked on Li Cheng’s dialog box.

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: Brother Li, are you there?

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: I have an important report!

Small Round Orange:? 

Small Round Orange: Spit it out! I’m going for the roll-call.

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: Guess who I saw in the stadium!

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: I saw Xiao Yiheng!

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: He came with your sister! ! ! 

Small Round Orange:……

Small Round Orange:…………

Small Round Orange:…………cough, then what?

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: He was very good to Youyou, smiled at Youyou, and even peeled oranges for her to eat! 

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: It’s really terrible! ! !

Small Round Orange: [Black question mark Face].jpg

Small Round Orange: What’s so terrible about this?

Small Round Orange: He knows me and helped me take care of my sister. Isn’t it normal? 

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: Brother Li, why don’t you understand the seriousness of the matter?!

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: Why is Xiao Yiheng—this cruel and ruthless person— so good to Youyou?

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: There is only one explanation ! ! !

Small Round Orange:? 

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: Xiao Yiheng is a big pervert who wants to be your brother-in-law! ! ! !

Small Round Orange: …

[Prodigal Froggy of the Pool] was blacklisted by [Small Round Orange].

Huang Yelun:? 

Huang Yelun: Grievance.jpg

Heh.

Today, Huang Yelun had accurately missed the truth of the matter.

Ch32 - YouYou and Sister-in-law (?)

Li Cheng and his teammates worked hard to prepare for the competition but time was like water running through their fingers, quickly slipping away.

The provincial competition was divided into three days. The preliminary and semi-finals of the swimming event were held on the first day, the second day was the men’s individual final.

The schedule was very tight, especially for someone like Li Cheng who had four finals to participate in a day. It was definitely going to be a challenge.

The second day happened to be a Sunday. Xiao Yiheng took his schoolbag and left home with the excuse of going to school for extra classes. However, instead of textbooks, his school bag contained other things. 

The Provincial Stadium was located in the city center, and there happened to be a direct bus from his house.

He was lucky to get a seat when he got on the bus. Within two stops, a gray-haired grandmother got onto the bus with a bag of fruits and vegetables. Mindful of her old age, Xiao Yiheng gave his seat to the elderly.

In the swaying bus, Xiao Yiheng held the ring with one hand and took out his phone with the other to send a message to Li Cheng.

Pursue Unremittingly: I’m almost there, where to gather?

Small Round Orange: [Black question mark face].jpg

Small Round Orange: What ‘gather’?

Pursue Unremittingly: Gather with the families of other players in your team.

Pursue Unremittingly: [smile].jpg 

Small Round Orange: …

Small Round Orange: Since you know that the other team members are all family members, don’t join in the fun ok?

Small Round Orange: Can you not be clear about your own identity!

Pursue Unremittingly: What is my identity? 

Pursue Unremittingly: Throw away when you use it up, and run away when you squeeze it dry. Not fit to be seen chaff. [Smile].jpg

Small Round Orange: …

Small Round Orange: [Tableflip].jpg

When Li Cheng received the message from Xiao Yiheng, he had just finished warming up in the swimming pool. He was sitting at the edge of the pool wearing a bath towel and pressed at his phone irritably. 

Why didn’t God let Xiao Yiheng continue to have a fever? Why was there no extra class today for the seniors? Why didn’t Xiao Yiheng lose his ticket accidentally?

Why did he have a hot head that day and want to give the ticket to Xiao Yiheng?

Although Li Cheng knew Xiao Yiheng saying: “last time I saw your lower body, this time I can see your upper body” was just a joke, he couldn’t stop his heartbeat from speeding up. In the swimming pool, the male and female athletes were all dressed in cool, tight-fitting swimsuits that contour to the body, outlining extremely clear and incomparable body lines.

Li Cheng had always been very confident about his figure. He had abdominal and pectoral muscles. He also had a tall, fit, and beautiful posture. If other people liked to watch it, let them watch it. But if Xiao Yiheng wanted to watch it, then that was a different story. 

Li Cheng couldn’t tell where this shyness came from. He irritably threw the bath towel to the ground causing the water to drip down from his body.

Li Cheng was very thin, the lean kind of thin. Well-proportioned muscles covered his body, and every muscle was a masterpiece of heaven. When he arched his back, his protruding spine formed a path, each vertebra emerging one by one from the back muscles. One end of the “path” extended under his swimming trunks, while the other end was hidden in the wet blond hair.

The strands of blond hair fell on both sides of his cheeks, some were attached to his slender neck, in sharp contrast with the wheat-colored skin.

He frowned and thought about how to make Xiao Yiheng sneak into the stadium without attracting the attention of other players. Suddenly, a hand stretched out from behind and brushed against the back of Li Cheng’s neck, even deliberately scratched it lightly with fingertips. 

“Fuck!?” Li Cheng exploded in an instant, he jumped up, clutched the back of his neck vigilantly, and stared at the ill-behaved hand.

99% of the omega glands in the world were in the back of the neck. If someone deliberately touched it, it was no different from sexual harassment. Even if Li Cheng’s glands were not on the back of his neck, he couldn’t tolerate others being so shameless.

“Surnamed Ji [Mr. Ji], did the water get logged in your head?” Li Cheng glared, his eyes like a sharp knife, shooting towards the wretched alpha on the opposite side.

“Just saying hello to an old opponent.” The alpha named Ji Xun was also a freestyle short-distance swimmer. The conflict between him and Li Cheng could be traced back several years. 

Ji Xun had straight A cancer through and through, and he looked down at the omega Li Cheng in his heart. In the early years, the two had equal victories in the pool, but in recent years, Li Cheng had won more championships than him.

How could Ji Xun tolerate an omega with a better standing than him? His behaviour worsened. Every time they met, Ji Xun would deliberately take advantage of Li Cheng verbally. Today, he had gotten worse and actually touched the back of Li Cheng’s neck!

Li Cheng clenched his fists. “You must not want your dog face? Since when is it ok to greet an omega on his glands? If I kick you down there, would it or would it not be regarded as returning a gift to you?”

While talking, Li Cheng’s eyes squinted between Ji Xun’s legs as if to estimate which place was better to hit. 

The swimming trunks were very tight and hugged the body closely. Everyone’s “measure” could be seen at a glance.

Ji Xun’s lower body suddenly felt chilly. He subconsciously clamped his legs and said sternly “You…You dare not do it! There are many cameras here, if you dare to fight before the competition, you will be disqualified.”

“Heh,” Of course Li Cheng knew the rules. He sneered, “Don’t worry, your place is so small, I’m afraid I can’t find it.”

“You…you, you…” 

“You, you, you, you shit. Dad is busy,” Li Cheng lowered his voice, the mockery in his eyes overflowing, “Daddy is busy changing your age.”

“…”

As athletes, some players deliberately changed to a younger age in order to get more medals. It was obviously a minor’s competition, but you could see many mature faces on the field. This kind of thing was contemptuous, but everyone was tacitly aware and no one would say it directly like Li Cheng.

Ji Xun’s age had been changed to two years younger. He should have gone to university long ago, but he hadn’t entered university for a long time. Now, he was still in the high school group, competing for medals with swimmers younger than him. Truly extremely shameless. 

Li Cheng hated this kind of age-changing deception the most so he ripped Ji Xun’s fragile mask of pride with a single sentence. Ji Xun’s eyes turned red and raised his fist as he rushed over. Li Cheng twisted and avoided it nimbly.

“What? Does it hurt your self-esteem to be exposed by someone about this age change con?” Li Cheng raised his chin and ruthlessly attacked the alpha’s ridiculous self-esteem, “I thought your self-esteem had already been ripped to shreds by me a long time ago when I defeated you.”

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Xiao Yiheng was a little surprised. He subconsciously asked, “Is it obvious?”

“Yes,” The old grandma said, “Although you don’t have a smile on your face, your eyes are smiling.”

Xiao Yiheng glanced at the glass window upon hearing the words. In the shadowy reflections, the boy’s eyes had a layer of warm light, which melted the ice wrapped around him. 

The old grandma reached her destination after only two stops. Before getting off the bus, she took out a handful of sugar oranges from her grocery bag and enthusiastically stuffed them into Xiao Yiheng’s school uniform pocket: “Young man, you take it, these little oranges are very sweet. The person who sold it to me said this orange is sweeter than first love, try it.”

Xiao Yiheng declined, but in the end, had to accept them. His coat pocket was filled with chubby little oranges with green leaves that offset the orange-red fruit. They looked very appetizing.

The provincial swimming pool was the last stop of this bus. When Xiao Yiheng arrived at the station, huge publicity panels had been set up inside and outside the stadium, with photos of star players listed on it. Li Cheng was a popular player predicted to win the championship. He was also a rare omega player, which had attracted a lot of attention.

Xiao Yiheng stopped in front of the exhibition board. Li Cheng’s blonde hair was particularly conspicuous in those conventional ID photos. He grinned generously at the camera, with eyes that narrowed into two beautiful arcs, and several medals were hanging on his chest—all golden—displaying the glory he had won in its entirety. 

There were spectators who came from other places that talked about Li Cheng’s photos.

“I’ve heard of this boy named Li Cheng. Although he is an omega, he is very capable! I have seen him in previous games, and there is no opponent in the same age group in our province.”

“So awesome? In racing competitions, omegas are too rare.”

“He is a short-range player, specializing in 100m and 200m. You have never seen him compete right? He enters the water like a small cannonball. The audience hasn’t reacted yet and the game is over!” 

“Then why doesn’t he enter a sports school, he can directly enter the national team in the future!”

“I know about this! Before Li Cheng differentiated, many sports school coaches wanted to recruit him, but then he differentiated into an omega, and they hesitated. They didn’t dare to accept him, worried that he might not have enough stamina. As a result, this golden ticket was picked up by Huacheng No. 1 High School! That group of school coaches are now going to regret till they go crazy.”

You say, I say, this group of spectators gathered here and together shared the gossip from the swimming ring.

Xiao Yiheng listened with interest. He had never known before that Li Cheng was so amazing, even the audiences from other places and provinces had heard of his name. 

Those gossipers did not notice Xiao Yiheng standing behind them and continued to chat.

“But I can also understand the original choice of the coaches. Omegas have estrus after all. If the sports season coincides with the estrus period, it will affect the performance.”

“Training hard for a year, and then hitting the estrus period, all that work in vain.”

“This is actually a kind of bet. The sports school coaches lost the bet and Li Cheng won the bet.” 

“I wonder what his pheromone tastes like.”

“Such a great omega, I reckon the pheromones have the taste of a torpedo right?”

Xiao Yiheng:” …… ”

No, he cannot laugh. 

Xiao Yiheng was the only alpha in the world who has tasted Li Cheng’s pheromones. The sweet, spicy, sour, and bitter pheromone was still on the tip of Xiao Yiheng’s tongue. Every night, he couldn’t help but reminisce in his dreams.

After hearing other people say that Li Cheng’s pheromone was torpedo flavoured, Xiao Yiheng really wanted to award this group of gossipers a “most rich imagination” award.

However, every time Li Cheng entered the swimming pool, everyone else was like deep-fried fish, blowing up all the opponents—from this level, Li Cheng was indeed “torpedo-flavored”.

Xiao Yiheng calmly took a step closer to them, pretending to be looking away, but actually pricked his ears for more information. 

“How good is Li Cheng now? Even if he’s an alpha, no one is better than him, ok?”

“How about Ji Xun? He has the same style of short-range freestyle swimming. Ji Xun is an alpha, and he has won many championships.”

“Ji Xun is out of the question.” The man looked around and said in a low voice, “I heard that Ji Xun changed his age. He was able to win the prize before because he bullied the younger students. He participated in U13 at the age of 15 and participated in U15 at the age of 17. A few years older than others, can you not win the championship?”

“I’ve heard about this. Ji Xun relies on being an alpha and loves to bully the beta of the same team. He doesn’t usually train very seriously, and his grades have declined severely.” 

“Oh, is that true?”

“My neighbour’s nephew’s classmate’s uncle is in the city sports school, it’s true! ”

Until then, Xiao Yiheng realized that he knew too little about Li Cheng. He didn’t know what Li Cheng’s specialty was, nor who his opponents were. If he hadn’t met this group of spectators who were willing to share gossip, he was afraid that he would only be a layman watching the game today.

He silently wrote down Ji Xun’s name with a hunch that this alpha was not a simple thing. 

The crowd of spectators had been gossiping for a long time. Seeing that the competition was about to begin, they hurriedly lined up to enter the stadium.

Xiao Yiheng held the VIP ticket in his hand. The entrance was in the other direction. He was about to leave when he suddenly noticed a small figure in the crowd.

It was a young girl—about ten years old—wearing a light yellow dress and carrying a heavy school bag. Her hair had two croissant braids with a fluffy hair ribbon on the left and right.

There was a children’s mobile phone hanging around her neck, adorned with beautiful glass beads, looking very much in line with the aesthetics of a little girl her age. 

She walked through the crowd with difficulty, arrived at the exhibition board, raised the phone to turn on the camera mode— and with a “click”—she took a picture of Li Cheng on the board.

She quickly set this photo as the mobile phone wallpaper, having so much fun that her braids were all messed up. When she laughed, the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were filled with a deep sense of familiarity, bright and cheerful. Xiao Yiheng guessed her identity almost instantly.

“Are you Li Cheng’s younger sister?” Xiao Yiheng knelt down and greeted her.

“Huh? How did you know?” The little girl widened her eyes in surprise, her eyebrows raised high, looking like a small version of Li Cheng. 

She looked at the big brother in front of her curiously. He was so tall, his eyes seemed to have stars, and he looked like the photo of a celebrity pasted on the pencil case of her classmate who sits at the same table. Uh… he’s just one step worse than her brother. Just a bit.

Xiao Yiheng wore a school uniform to go out today. He pointed to the school badge on his chest and said, “I am your brother’s classmate, I also came to see him play.”

He noticed that there were no adults around her, frowned, and asked, “Did you come alone? Your parents didn’t accompany you?”

“They don’t like watching brothers’ games. They sent me here and left,” The little girl shook her head and then suddenly stretched out her hand, grabbing onto Xiao Yiheng’s finger, “Before, I was alone cheering for my brother, today, there is one more you, great! Let’s cheer for my brother together!” 

“Okay.” Xiao Yiheng gently shook his arm up and down, as if shaking hands with her, “Let’s cheer for him today.”

Xiao Yiheng took the little sister’s hand and walked with her to the VIP entrance channel.

He had never dealt with such a young child before. He was a little worried at first, but the little sister was very sensible, not noisy. She looked too much like Li Cheng. Xiao Yiheng looked at her as if he was watching a young version of Li Cheng. This “little Li Cheng” didn’t swear, beat people, or lose their temper proudly. She was so well-behaved that Xiao Yiheng couldn’t adapt.

Love the house and its crow. Li Cheng was the person Xiao Yiheng liked so Xiao Yiheng naturally felt the need to take good care of his little sister. 

Xiao Yiheng looked at her dangling pigtail and wanted to ask her whether the hair ribbon that Li Cheng used to tie his hair up during fights came from her collection.

“By the way, my name is Xiao Yiheng. The ‘yiheng’ in ‘to pursue unremittingly.” Xiao Yiheng asked, “What is your name?”

He only inquired that Li Cheng had a younger sister, but didn’t know her name.

“My name is Youyou,” The little girl also introduced herself in his style, “The ‘you’ in the grapefruit ‘you’.” 

“…”

How did Li Cheng’s family get their names? The elder brother was named Orange, the younger sister was named Pomelo, and even the duck he raised was called Little Lemon.

Xiao Yiheng joked with Youyou: “Does your house have a tangerine?”

This made Youyou recall something and ask in surprise, “How did you know?” 

Xiao Yiheng:? ? ?

Youyou brought the school bag on her back to the front, carefully opened it a little, and said softly, “I will tell you a secret—”

Xiao Yiheng looked down and saw what Youyou had actually packed in that heavy school bag. A plump orange cat!

Xiao Yiheng: …… 

The orange cat had a round face and was as fat as a bag of rice. It lay lazily in the school bag, not even bothering to meow a bit. It lazily opened its eyes and licked the strange two-legged beast, and closed its eyes again, sleeping.

Youyou reached into her school bag and touched a handful of the orange cat’s shiny and smooth fur: “It’s called Big Tangerine. Originally, my mother didn’t want me to raise it. I begged my mother for a long time before she agreed!”

Youyou looked up at Xiao Yiheng, shaking his arm, she said “My brother still doesn’t know about me raising it. I want to give him a surprise. Can you help me keep this secret?”

Xiao Yiheng thought for a while and replied, “Since you told me a secret, then I will tell you a secret too.” 

Then, he opened his backpack revealing a lively, smart duck, poking its head out of the schoolbag.

“Come on, Little Lemon, get to know the Big Tangerine.”

…

The security check of the VIP channel wasn’t strict. Xiao Yiheng smoothly took the grapefruit, tangerine, and lemon into the venue to cheer for the orange. 

The first match was the men’s 50m freestyle final. The match had not yet started so there was chaos everywhere. Xiao Yiheng held Youyou in one hand and the tickets of the two of them in the other while searching for their seats.

The VIP stand was located on the middle and upper-level side of the swimming pool. This area overlooked the entire swimming lane and was the best viewing area. Athletes who did not compete and family members also sat here, cheering for their teammates.

Huang Yelun hugged the schoolgirl who he had just chased after, the two whispered like a pair of lovebirds—too corny to watch.

Halfway through the love story, Huang Yelun suddenly froze. 

The school girl pushed him and asked: “What’s wrong with you?”

Huang Yelun: “…” He rubbed his eyes vigorously and asked in confusion, “Is it because I have been training too hard recently and started having hallucinations? How did I see Xiao Yiheng coming over here with Youyou?”

Xiao Yiheng was Brother Li’s opponent and Youyou is Brother Li’s sister. How could these two get together?!

This was the VIP area. Tickets were not for sale. It was normal for Youyou to have tickets. How could Xiao Yiheng have tickets here? 

But the two figures in the aisle were extremely similar to the two people he knew.

With the familiar croissant braids, Youyou walked cautiously on the steps. She was holding a little yellow duck in one hand, the other hand was held by the tall and handsome young man beside her. Someone who didn’t know would think they were brother and sister.

The young man who looked like Xiao Yiheng glanced down at Youyou and said, “Be careful, the stairs are very steep. Do I need to hold you?”

Huang Yelun breathed a sigh of relief. He was definitely mistaken, how could it be Xiao Yiheng? Even though he looked like Xiao Yiheng, had the same voice as Xiao Yiheng, and wore the school uniform of Huacheng No. 1 High School—everyone knew Xiao Yiheng’s personality was like an immortal iceberg. It was absolutely impossible to talk to others in such a gentle voice! 

However, after three seconds, his mind was shattered.

Xiao Yiheng sat down beside him calmly, his voice was as cold as ice cubes: “Please close your mouth, okay?”

Huang Yelun held his chin that was about to dislocate—Xiao Yiheng actually appeared in the audience of the swimming competition? This is even more incredible than winning the breaststroke Olympic championship!

Not only was Huang Yelun shocked, but the faces of other players were also full of incredulity. 

They looked at Xiao Yiheng for a while and then at the constantly calling “big brother, big brother” Youyou. They really didn’t understand how the two got together.

Youyou didn’t know their thoughts. She had met her brother’s teammates several times before. She happily hugged the duckling to greet them with a voice as soft as cotton candy.

Among this group of teammates, Youyou was the most familiar with Huang Yelun.

Seeing Huang Yelun staring at Xiao Yiheng without blinking, she asked curiously: “Brother Dahuang, do you know Brother Xiao?” 

Huang Yelun bit the bullet and said, “…Uh, know, know.”

This was the school’s most famous alpha. Who dared to say they didn’t know him?

Xiao Yiheng’s expression remained unchanged, he sat there calmly, not caring what the group of people thought, assumed, or viewed of his relationship with Li Cheng.

He let Youyou sit down, grabbed a handful of sugar oranges from his pocket, carefully peeled the skins for her, picked out the white meridians, and put them into her little hands: “The competition will take a while, are you hungry? First, eat a few small oranges to cushion your stomach.” 

Youyou was a little girl who liked to share. Instead of eating these oranges, she turned and distributed the oranges to all the players present.

Sugar oranges were originally very small. The oranges were only a little bigger than a coin so they looked funny and cute when placed in the palm of this group of players.

Huang Yelun received the orange from the little princess and said flatly, “Thank you, Youyou, I especially love oranges…”

Xiao Yiheng glanced at him lightly, twisting the orange peel in his hand into pieces. 

Huang Yelun: “—but I’m going to compete, and I can’t eat now, so I’ll leave it to Youyou.”

The other team members were shot again by Xiao Yiheng’s icy eyes. How dare they touch the oranges? They hurriedly returned them.

Youyou held a handful of sugar oranges, happily satisfied. She decided that she would leave all these little oranges for her brother to eat!

Huang Yelun looked worriedly at Xiao Yiheng’s profile, and a bold guess emerged. 

He took out his phone and clicked on Li Cheng’s dialog box.

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: Brother Li, are you there?

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: I have an important report!

Small Round Orange:? 

Small Round Orange: Spit it out! I’m going for the roll-call.

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: Guess who I saw in the stadium!

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: I saw Xiao Yiheng!

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: He came with your sister! ! ! 

Small Round Orange:……

Small Round Orange:…………

Small Round Orange:…………cough, then what?

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: He was very good to Youyou, smiled at Youyou, and even peeled oranges for her to eat! 

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: It’s really terrible! ! !

Small Round Orange: [Black question mark Face].jpg

Small Round Orange: What’s so terrible about this?

Small Round Orange: He knows me and helped me take care of my sister. Isn’t it normal? 

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: Brother Li, why don’t you understand the seriousness of the matter?!

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: Why is Xiao Yiheng—this cruel and ruthless person— so good to Youyou?

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: There is only one explanation ! ! !

Small Round Orange:? 

Prodigal Froggy of the Pool: Xiao Yiheng is a big pervert who wants to be your brother-in-law! ! ! !

Small Round Orange: …

[Prodigal Froggy of the Pool] was blacklisted by [Small Round Orange].

Huang Yelun:? 

Huang Yelun: Grievance.jpg

Heh.

Today, Huang Yelun had accurately missed the truth of the matter.