Ch57 - “I like you! Fuck, I like you!”

On the ability of sophistry, how could Li Cheng, the No. 1 study scum in the world, compare to Xiao Yiheng?

Xiao Yiheng’s extraordinary speech technique skillfully deflected and easily turned Li Cheng’s brain into mush.

Not only that, he also pushed Li Cheng’s legs apart with his knees, and gently rubbed at the location of Li Cheng’s glands on the inner thighs. Through the thin layer of swimming trunks, the fragile glands were faintly hot. It was clear that Li Cheng had not yet reached the estrus period, but there was a kind of heat that couldn’t be ignored rising from his legs. 

Li Cheng’s upper and lower heads were unusable. Xiao Yiheng, a bad guy, seduced his body while occupying his mind. Li Cheng was a pure single-line creature. How could he stand up to a two-lines operation? In an instant, Li Cheng’s CPU was overloaded by the excessive amount of information and lost all thinking ability.

Why did he care about Xiao Yiheng’s thoughts so much? Why did he not explicitly reject Xiao Yiheng’s confession? Why did he avoid it deliberately? Why did Xiao Yiheng show a hint of joy after admitting that he was jealous?

Countless questions poured into his brain, and all the questions pointed to the same answer, and this answer was something that Li Cheng had never thought of before, nor dared to think about it.

Because mysteriously and inexorably he knew that if he had admitted that answer–he would no longer be himself.

From then on, all his emotions would be affected by another person, and his happiness and sadness would be written on the other person’s name. This was a kind of emotion that Li Cheng had never experienced. It seemed to be related to pheromones, and yet it seemed that it had nothing to do with pheromones.

Xiao Yiheng’s palm was close to Li Cheng’s lips, and the omega’s hot breath sprayed on the alpha’s palm. With their eyes intersecting, Li Cheng didn’t need to speak. His eyes had revealed everything.

Xiao Yiheng considered and moved slightly, his palm loosened, and Li Cheng’s vague voice came from under his fingers.

Li Cheng: “Xiao Yiheng, I…” 

—The door of the locker room was suddenly pushed open before the latter words had time to exit.

“Li Cheng! All the players are training, why are you lazing here?” Coach Wu Xu rushed into the locker room angrily. After he saw the situation in the locker room, he was instantly dumbfounded, “You…you two…”

He saw that the lovers slammed in front of the locker by an alpha wall, disheveled and gazing at each other. This was obviously…

Wu Xu covered his heart, and looked ready to swallow a whole bottle of quick-relief medicine to save his heart at any time: “You, you, you, how can you do this kind of thing in the sacred swimming pool!!!” 

Xiao Yiheng: “…”

Li Cheng: “…”

“Coach, you misunderstood, we have nothing to do with each other!” Li Cheng was red in the face and red in the ears. He hurriedly explained to the coach that he subconsciously struck out physically and it actually let him break free from Xiao Yiheng’s restraint. He was already strong, and with a violent push with both hands, Xiao Yiheng felt his arms empty and his body lost his balance. He took two steps backwards. If Xiao Yiheng hadn’t caught the cabinet next to him in time, he would have fallen to the ground.

At the moment he retreated, Li Cheng clearly saw that a trace of disappointment flashed in Xiao Yiheng’s eyes. 

And the ambiguous atmosphere that was about to be pierced just like a layer of window paper, under this push, disappeared instantly.

“Xiao Yiheng, you, are you okay?” Li Cheng wanted to help him, but with the coach fuming nearby, he could only retract his hand awkwardly and asked in a panic, “You didn’t hurt anything, right? Do you want me to accompany you to the infirmary?”

“Go to the infirmary?! Out of the question. Neither of you are allowed to go!” Coach Wu strode over, grabbing their arms with one hand, “Violating the team regulations and still thinking of slipping away, how can there be such a convenient thing!”

… 

By the swimming pool, Li Cheng leapfrogged around the bank, panting for breath after three laps.

On the other side, Xiao Yiheng had a cold face as he held a mop in his hand and wiped the floor. He had completely suffered from the absurd disaster. If he had been a member of the swimming team, he would be leapfrogging with Li Cheng as well.

From this point of view, he had been assigned an “effortless” job of scrubbing the floor. It could be regarded as a lenient treatment by coach Wu.

Like a clumsy little frog, Li Cheng jumped over Xiao Yiheng’s side, whispering his name. 

Xiao Yiheng ignored him. It was unclear if he heard it or not.

Li Cheng’s voice was a little louder: “Xiao Yiheng, is your foot okay? Did you sprain it in the locker room just now?”

Xiao Yiheng limped with his right foot while walking, and only touched the ground with the sole of his forefoot. Li Cheng worried that his injury would get worse and wanted to persuade him to go back to rest.

But Xiao Yiheng’s response was unexpected. 

He saw the alpha boy suddenly put down the mop and raised his right hand.

Li Cheng: ?

Xiao Yiheng: “Coach, report!”

Li Cheng: ?? 

Xiao Yiheng: “Coach, Li Cheng is not leapfrogging properly. He came over and found me to chat.”

Li Cheng: ???

Coach Wu’s faint voice came from across the pool: “Li Cheng, leapfrog one more lap!”

Li Cheng: … 

Fuck, it was said that business could not be done with benevolence and righteousness. Xiao Yiheng, this bastard, couldn’t even be brotherly since his confession failed???

…

Because he was punished with five hundred frog jumps in one night, Li Cheng’s legs trembled, and his thighs and buttocks were sore and painful. His legs were so weak that he almost fell and almost lost his ability to take care of himself. Even for going to the toilet his roommates had to help him.

Was this the most miserable? 

It was not.

The most miserable thing was that his relationship with Xiao Yiheng had dropped to a freezing point.

When Li Cheng finished the leapfrogs, Xiao Yiheng had already cleaned the venue and left. After Li Cheng returned to the dormitory, he turned things over in his mind and couldn’t bear to ignore the voice in his heart. He texted Xiao Yiheng to remind him to go to the infirmary to get his foot checked.

But Xiao Yiheng didn’t reply. 

Li Cheng hesitated for a while and finally added a sentence: “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have pushed you away in the locker room…”

When he pushed Xiao Yiheng away in front of the coach, the disappointment that flashed in his eyes made him quite uncomfortable. Li Cheng had always been fearless, but at that moment, he turned into a coward, and he blurted out “I have nothing to do with Xiao Yiheng!” in front of the coach. Even if… even if the two of them were just ordinary friends, that was not okay.

This time, Xiao Yiheng replied.

Pursue Unremittingly: What I want is not sorry. 

Li Cheng: “…”

Did Li Cheng know what Xiao Yiheng wanted? Of course Li Cheng knew.

He rolled over on the bed irritably, wrapped his fist in the quilt, and hammered twice on the pillow.

Xiao Pang who was sleeping across from him let out a groan in his sleep. Li Cheng lay down quickly, and covered his head with a pillow, trying to suffocate himself to death. 

But as a result, he only got a night of tossing and turning. When the sky was bright, he fell asleep for a while in a daze. But in his sleep, he saw Xiao Yiheng’s figure again and over again.

He dreamed that they boarded the Titanic, he was Rose and Xiao Yiheng incarnated as Jack.

Xiao Yiheng was poised and graceful, and invited him to a dance. They danced under the spotlight with Xiao Yiheng’s arms around his waist, and made no secret of his infatuation with him; as soon as the picture changed, they returned to the private room. Xiao Yiheng asked him to take off his clothes and ask him to be his model.

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In the middle of the painting, the ship hit an iceberg. Xiao Yiheng dragged him and ran against the crowd, but all the escape boats were gone. Xiao Yiheng only found a door panel. He gave up the chance of survival to Li Cheng and left behind the priceless ‘Heart of the Ocean’ necklace.

Just as Xiao Yiheng was about to leave, Li Cheng held him.

“Don’t go.” Li Cheng said affectionately, “My Heng, I am a swimming champion, I will take you around for a swim.” 

Then, Li Cheng threw away the heart of the ocean, took off the golden swimming medal from his neck and put it on Xiao Yiheng’s chest…

Li Cheng after waking up: “…”

He sat on the dormitory bed with a demented expression on his face, head in his arms and thick dark circles under his eyes.

Xiao Pang stood on the ground and asked curiously: “Li Cheng, what exactly did you dream of? You kept shouting: ‘I swim very fast, you hold me tight!'” 

“…” Li Cheng muttered, “I dreamed of hitting an iceberg.”

Since he ran into Xiao Yiheng, he was hitting icebergs in and out of his dreams.

…

Since that day, Li Cheng and Xiao Yiheng hadn’t said a word on the chat software. A lot of emotions could not be conveyed in words across the screen of the mobile phone. 

Li Cheng wanted to talk to Xiao Yiheng in person, even if… even if it eventually changed from “chat” to “quarrel”, he still wanted to see him.

However, Li Cheng failed to see Xiao Yiheng’s figure in school.

There was no Xiao Yiheng in the physical education class of the third year seniors; there was no Xiao Yiheng in the cafeteria at noon; Li Cheng even went to the art classroom to find him, but the lights in the classroom were off.

Li Cheng couldn’t help it and ran to Yan Jing to inquire about Xiao Yiheng’s situation. 

Yan Jing then discovered that he was not only a tool man, but also an NPC.

NPC Yan Jing said, “Xiao Yiheng has asked for leave. He hasn’t come to school these days. Wait, why haven’t you two reconciled yet?”

Li Cheng thought, “Reconciled”? The premise of “reconciliation” was to be on “intimate terms.” Previously, could they be regarded as being “intimate”?

… 

In the blink of an eye, it was the weekend.

That weekend were the last two classes of《Physiology Health Class》. After the course was over, there would be a simple open-book exam. As long as one scored 60 points or more, they could pass the completion assessment.

And these last two classes were the only opportunities for Li Cheng to talk to Xiao Yiheng face to face.

Li Cheng woke up very early in the morning and dressed himself neatly. He even exaggeratedly combed his blonde hair with hair oil to make them stay put on his scalp properly. 

As a result, the person in the mirror…looked like a rehabilitated cowboy.

Li Cheng: “…”

Forget it. He hurriedly wetted and washed his hair again. The water droplets on his hair were soaked up by the towel, and the golden hair returned to its original mess.

He was anxious to go out, but just as he opened the door of the dormitory, Little Lemon, who had been sitting on the balcony for a long time, suddenly rushed over with a chirp, opened his small yellow colored mouth, and grabbed his shoelace with one bite. 

Li Cheng almost tripped over and looked down at it. It also raised its neck, blinking at him with two black bean-like eyes.

Little Lemon had just passed the embarrassing period of molting. It’s yellow fluff had faded, and had been entirely replaced with white feathers. It became all the more plump and cute, and it wobbled as it walked back and forth. It had a stubby neck and a round head and looked as cute as the ones in cartoons.

After it’s molting, Li Cheng secretly took it to swim in the swimming pool for two laps. The little guy really inherited his excellent genes and swam lightly and swiftly—If Li Cheng hadn’t sunk to the bottom to take a look, it would be impossible to imagine how fast its duck webs pedaled.

It was now a mature big duck, and it could no longer be held with one hand. It spread out into a ball on Li Cheng’s feet, and the duck’s beak firmly held Li Cheng’s shoelace. It acted like a spoiled child insisting on letting Li Cheng take it out to play. 

Li Cheng hesitated for a few seconds, then picked it up and put it in the school bag.

It was said that children were the cornerstone of the relationship between husband and wife, that duck… should also be the cornerstone of him and Xiao Yiheng.

Little Lemon was very well-behaved and sat inside the school bag honestly, motionless. Li Cheng successfully smuggled it into the affiliated junior high school without attracting anyone’s attention along the way.

When he entered class and put down his school bag, the duck poked his head out of the zipper and looked around curiously. 

“Oh, is this a little duck?” The omega girl sitting behind Li Cheng exclaimed in surprise. The moment she yelled, the classmates rushed up immediately.

“Don’t squeeze, don’t squeeze!” Li Cheng said hurriedly. “He’s called Little Lemon. He’s only two months old. Don’t scare him.”

He took Little Lemon from his school bag and put it in his arms. The other hand gently stroked its head all the way to its tail.

The little students gathered around, trying to touch it, but they were afraid of scaring it. 

“It’s so fat in two months?” Wei Huohuo also squeezed into the crowd. This child had always been mean-mouthed. Obviously, he wanted to play with the duck but he had to say the last thing it wanted to hear. The duck pecked him in anger.

Little Lemon was very smart. Others said it was fat and could understand it. It stretched out it’s beak and pecked Wei Huohuo fiercely, then turned around, pointed it’s butt at him angrily, and put it’s head into Li Cheng’s embrace.

Wei Huohuo was pecked and was naturally angry, yelling for revenge.

Li Cheng laughed at him: “How are you going to take revenge? The duck pecked you, and you want to peck it back?” 

“I want…I want…” Wei Huohuo scratched his head for a while, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, “I want to report to the teaching assistant. Let the teaching assistant confiscate your duck!”

Sure enough, he was a brat, thinking that “report to the teacher” was actually the most severe punishment.

Li Cheng was about to laugh at him when suddenly, a cold and familiar male voice came from the door of the classroom.

“Class is about to begin. What are you doing together?” 

Hearing the familiar voice, Li Cheng immediately turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound. The first-year junior high school students around him also looked at the door of the classroom timidly.

Xiao Yiheng stood outside the door with a cold face, holding the textbooks and roster for class under his elbow.

Beside him, Xu Yinyin, the alpha assistant in another class, stood shoulder to shoulder with him, one hand still on Xiao Yiheng’s shoulder.

Seeing the two teaching assistants present, the little beans scattered like sparrows that had been driven away, and returned to their seats obediently. 

Only Li Cheng held the duckling and stood blankly beside the podium.

Xiao Yiheng’s calm gaze slid over Li Cheng and fell on the little lemon in his arms. He paused for a few seconds and frowned slightly. There was no warmth in his eyes, only unfamiliarity.

Li Cheng: “…” Didn’t you even recognize your own child? Xiao Yiheng, this scum A, was really very cruel!

Xu Yinyin, who was standing beside Xiao Yiheng, was startled when she saw Little Lemon. She yelled very exaggeratedly, and subconsciously hid behind Xiao Yiheng: “Shit! Why is there a big white goose in the classroom!!” She was frightened. It didn’t look fake, and she grabbed Xiao Yiheng’s clothes tightly with both hands, and almost hid her whole person behind Xiao Yiheng. 

Li Cheng watched her cling to Xiao Yiheng with both hands, only to feel a rush of anger about to come out of his eyes.

“What big white goose?” Li Cheng pointed to Little Lemon and said, “This is a duck, a little white duck! The goose has a long neck and a big body. How does it look like a goose?”

But Xu Yinyin kept shaking her head and said in fear: “When I was a child, I was bitten by a goose in the countryside. As long as it is white, capable of swimming, and quacks like a bird, I am afraid.”

Just like someone who had been bitten by a dog as a child would be afraid of even a three-pound puppy when they grew up; Xu Yinyin had a big white goose PTSD. Now she saw a three-pound duck, and in her horror also forgot that she is an alpha. 

Xiao Yiheng’s gaze first fell on Xu Yinyin’s hand holding his sleeve and patted her to appease. Turning his eyes to look at Li Cheng: “Li Cheng, why did you bring the duck to class?”

Ah! Li Cheng thought sourly, as expected, an alpha’s heart changed faster than anyone else. When Little Lemon was born, Xiao Yiheng wanted to let Little Lemon follow his surname. That was the utmost cherishing; now that there was a new person around, he just changed it to “the duck” directly.

Li Cheng gritted his teeth and asked, “Senior Sister Xu Yinyin is not an assistant in our class. Why did you bring her to the class?”

“Because…” 

“Because Xiao Yiheng’s foot was injured?” Xu Yinyin pointed her finger at Xiao Yiheng’s right foot. “Don’t you know? His foot has been injured for several days, and he was on sick leave to rest at home. I was in class today. I was afraid that he would find it inconvenient to walk, so I supported him.”

Li Cheng: “…” He choked. Only then did he understand that Xiao Yiheng didn’t show up on campus that week not to hide from him. “…Of course I know.”

He braced himself and said, “I even know how he got hurt.”

Although, this was not something worth showing off. 

Xu Yinyin helped Xiao Yiheng walk to the podium. Li Cheng tried to intervene to help several times, but after reaching out his hand, he drew it back.

The last two classes were for basic revision. Xiao Yiheng would take everyone to review all the knowledge learned in the previous classes.

Seeing Xiao Yiheng struggling to stand, Xu Yinyin helped him move over a chair and brought a water glass. From beginning to end, Li Cheng resembled a superfluous person standing next to the podium, just like a wooden stump that had put down roots.

“Its fine, thank you.” Xiao Yiheng nodded at her, “Thanks for your hard work today.” 

“It’s okay~” Xu Yinyin made an OK gesture playfully, “You helped me with volunteering, and I will repay you this time~ Who and whom are we.”

Li Cheng didn’t understand what they were talking about at all. He stood awkwardly to the side, feeling that his hair shouldn’t be dyed blond, but green.

“By the way, there is this duck.” Xiao Yiheng pointed to the duck in Li Cheng’s arms and said to Xu Yinyin, “Pets are not allowed in class. Could you please take this duck to the office?”

Xu Yinyin: !!! 

Li Cheng: !!!

He clung to the duck in his arms, and argued strongly for what was right: “Why can’t I bring pets in class? He’s not noisy and doesn’t cause trouble. He’s very calm. This class is so boring. Do you know how much self-control it takes me to stay awake?”

“…so that’s the reason you brought the duck?”

Li Cheng blurted out: “If I get sleepy and tired, I can rub my hand along it. Then I won’t be sleepy.” 

Xiao Yiheng’s path: “There are many ways to prevent sleeping in class, there is no need to rely on the duck.”

“Who can I rub my hand along if not the duck?” Li Cheng let slip, “Could it be that you want me to rub you?!”

Xiao Yiheng: “…”

Fortunately, the other students in the class were not meat-eating animals. The little peas in the first year of junior high school weren’t yellow, so they couldn’t hear the ambiguity of Li Cheng’s words. 

Only Xu Yinyin awkwardly interrupted: “…I’m sorry to bother you. No matter what Li Cheng wants, I’m really afraid of geese, you two talk first, I’m leaving.”

Little Lemon: “Ga!” Please, he’s a duck, not a goose!

Thereupon, Little Lemon was arranged as an external crew, and just stayed in the class.

Li Cheng didn’t listen to a word of what exactly was said in this review class. He held his chin all the way and looked sideways at Xiao Yiheng who was sitting behind the podium. 

It looked like he was afraid that others wouldn’t notice how fiery his gaze was.

Wei HuoHuo took up his pen and added a few sentences to his fake observation notes—

《Li O (and Xiao A) Observation Notes》

1. When Xiao A was in class today with his lame leg, Li O said, “I know how Xiao A’s foot was injured” → → I have reason to suspect that Li O broke Xiao A’s leg and seized the evidence. 

2. Today Li O brought a duck to class. It looked delicious.

3. Li O kept staring at Xiao A during class today, trying to kill him with his eyes.

The two-hour review class was finally over. Other students gained revision notes, Wei Huohuo reaped fake material, and Li Cheng harvested a field of duck feathers.

Little Lemon, who was almost plucked bald: “…Ga QAQ” 

Before the end of class, Xiao Yiheng put his hands on the podium and got up to look at the 30 students below the stage.

“Tomorrow morning, the open-book exam for《National Physiology Health Course》will be conducted and it will take two hours. Please bring your pens, books, and teaching materials to take the test. Don’t be late.” He stopped, his tone became more serious, “Also, in the previous tests, before the start of examination, some students wanted to bribe teaching assistants and get the exam questions in advance. I hope that there will be no students in our class who have such unrealistic fantasies.”

Li Cheng: “…” Why did Xiao Yiheng glance at him when he said the last sentence?

What did he mean! Did he think he was the kind of person who wormed his way into being friends with the teaching assistant to cheat? 

……Well, he admitted that he did have one or two such ideas.

After the bell rang, the students carried their school bags and bid farewell to the teaching assistant. Only Li Cheng dawdled on his seat and refused to leave.

Little Lemon nimbly flapped his two small wings. He wanted to jump from Li Cheng’s desk to the podium.

However, its wings were about to degenerate and could not bear the weight of its plump body to soar. It managed to jump, flapped its wings twice, and dropped down like a balloon full of water. 

At the critical moment, Xiao Yiheng stretched out a hand to support it.

Little Lemon hadn’t seen Xiao Yiheng for nearly a month, and almost forgot that he had a father besides Li Cheng.

It wasn’t until it smelled the familiar smell of Xiao Yiheng that the small box of its memory opened. It quacked in excitement, its bottom sank and landed heavily. Finally, it sat in the hollow of Xiao Yiheng’s palm, and began to act familiarly and coquettishly.

“…Little Lemon?” Xiao Yiheng was slow to react, “Are you Little Lemon?” 

Little Lemon happily called “Ga!” That’s right, that’s right, he’s the cute little lemon!

Li Cheng snorted: “Hehe, you haven’t seen the child for a long time. He just grew up, you can’t recognize him anymore?”

“The color has changed.” Xiao Yiheng put the plump duck into his arms, “It is fatter and more beautiful.”

The former Little Lemon was covered in yellow and plump down. It was only recently that he passed the embarrassing molting period and grew snow-white wings. It was more rounded than before, and his head and body were like two snowballs stuck together. 

When Xiao Yiheng saw it for the first time, he really didn’t realize that it was the original Little Lemon. He believed that Li Cheng liked the new and hated the old, and he brought a better-looking small duck from somewhere.

“Like the new and hate the old?” Li Cheng raised his voice, “This is the way you see me?!”

“…Just an analogy.”

“An analogy won’t work!” Li Cheng snatched the duckling from Xiao Yiheng’s arms, opened the classroom door and let it out, “Be good. Ducky, you go out to play by yourself. Xiao Yiheng and I have something to say.” 

Little Lemon nodded sensibly, waddled with small duck steps, and walked in the corridor with a quack.

The classroom door closed again, leaving only Li Cheng and Xiao Yiheng in the class.

Xiao Yiheng asked calmly: “What do you want to talk about with me? I thought the things we had to say have already been said before.”

Li Cheng folded his arms across his chest and ordered: “Say it again when you are done.” 

“…”

Their eyes met. One had flames burning in his eyes, while the other was as cold as ice, without any waves.

This was not what Li Cheng expected.

Li Cheng’s spine suddenly softened. He felt uncomfortable everywhere. He put down his hands on his chest and stood up straight, but he felt that he was not himself when he stood that way. 

“Xiao Yiheng, don’t… don’t look at me like this,” He swallowed, and said hurriedly, “Don’t you look at me with the same eyes when we first met.”

“Do you remember the look in my eyes when we first met?”

“Of course I remember,” Li Cheng raised his hand, as if he wanted to touch Xiao Yiheng’s eyes, but raised his hand halfway, and then put it down again, “You looked at me like seeing a stranger who had dropped from the sky.”

“…But you were a stranger who fell from the sky to me at that time.”
They both thought of the day of their first meeting at the same time. In the quiet alley, the blond boy fell from the wall and dropped in the embrace of Xiao Yiheng. 

“But you caught me!” Li Cheng murmured, “You have caught all of me, you have embraced all of me. You have marked me twice. Now you want to be a stranger with me. It’s too late for that.”

Xiao Yiheng laughed angrily at his appearance that was so lovable and reckless, exhausting all sense in the world: “It’s not that I want to be a stranger with you, but you want to be a stranger with me—do you need me to remind you? In the locker room, you pushed me away in front of the coach, saying that I have nothing to do with you.”

No. Close. Ties. Exist.

These four words froze Xiao Yiheng’s heart from that moment.

After getting to know Li Cheng, he discovered that even if he had frozen his feelings, there was someone who could break the ice and make his heart beat again. But when he dug out his feelings from under the ice and showed them to Li Cheng, Li Cheng escaped again and again. 

Li Cheng thought Xiao Yiheng was angry, but in fact, Xiao Yiheng was not angry.

He was disappointed.

But in Li Cheng’s view, he was also very wronged.

“I spoke sharply that time and I have apologized to you.” Li Cheng bit his lower lip and complained, “And you also have to bear the responsibility! You said those kinds of words to me once or twice. First in the art classroom you said this and that, and then again in the locker room. Even if I am compared with a rubber band, after being dragged along by you for so long, I demand to bounce back!” 

Xiao Yiheng questioned back, “What is ‘this and that’?”

“……” Li Cheng was so angry that he slapped the table, “Xiao Yiheng, don’t act stupid with Laozi! You are asking me about the shameful things you said? If you write down all the tiger-wolf words you said, it would not be wrong to punish you to wipe the floor of our swimming pool for a hundred years!”

Once again, it’s this kind of behavior right?

Obviously I want to have a good chat, but he must be noisy when not even three sentences are spoken. 

When he first met Li Cheng, Xiao Yiheng suspected that Li Cheng grew up eating gunpowder, but he soon discovered that what Li Cheng ate was not gunpowder, but popping candy that would pop and dance on the tip of his tongue.

Really, truly.

The candy was really sweet.

Xiao Yiheng laughed and asked him, “So? You came to class today to take me back to your swimming pool and wipe the floor for you for a hundred years?” 

Li Cheng was dumbfounded.

Of course not.

Li Cheng was here…He was here…was here…

He opened the bag on the chair, took out a brand new textbook, turned two pages casually, and said stiffly: “I’m here for class.” 

Xiao Yiheng’s expectations of him fell through again. The alpha shook his head, and said in a low voice: “Since you are here for class, then class is over now, you should go.”

Li Cheng pursed his lips: “You haven’t left yet, why should I leave?”

“I did not go, because my foot is injured.” Xiao Heng pointed to his feet, “I’m waiting for Xu Yinyin to pick me up.”

“…” Li Cheng’s hair was about to explode. 

Xu Yinyin, why was it Xu Yinyin again! Granted that with the ways of the world, one had to protect against fire and guard against theft. Could it be that it was still necessary to guard an alpha now?!!

A nameless flame sprang out from the bottom of Li Cheng’s heart. He was like a little lion whose territory had been violated, anxiously defending his territory.

“Can’t I do it?” Li Cheng raised his voice, “I am taller and stronger than her. Why are you waiting for her to pick you up? Can’t I pick you up?”

If Xiao Yiheng had to rely on someone, Li Cheng hoped this person was himself, it could only be himself. 

The proud little lion couldn’t wait to keep Xiao Yiheng in captivity in his own territory, leave him with the smell of his own pheromone from head to toe, and let all the people who coveted his prey go away!

“Li Cheng, do you know what your words mean?” Xiao Yiheng raised his eyes, his gaze burning, and looked at the boy who unconsciously exuded the scent of sweet orange, “Are you… jealous?”

Li Cheng was startled.

Jealous? Whose vinegar did he eat? Xu Yinyin? 

Just because Xu Yinyin and Xiao Yiheng were both high school seniors and had many topics in common, she was responsible for taking him to school, so Li Cheng was jealous?

How can…

At this moment, Xiao Yiheng’s mobile phone on the podium rang.

Li Cheng glanced at it, and unexpectedly saw Xu Yinyin’s text message on the phone. 

Yinyin as promised: Xiao-ge please help!!! That big white goose is blocking the door of the office. I, I, I dare not go out. I’m afraid it will catch me!!!

Li Cheng: “…”

OK! OK! OK!

Good, good, good. 

Li Cheng grabbed Xiao Yiheng’s mobile phone, his fingers flew over the keyboard, and sent a message to Xu Yinyin.

Pursue Unremittingly: I am the big white goose. Your Xiao-ge has already been bitten to death by me. Now it’s your turn.

Pursue Unremittingly: 鹅mazing

Xiao Yiheng: “…” 

Xiao Yiheng: “Although, in fact, it’s not necessary…”

Li Cheng sneered: “How many times have I said that it is a duck, not a goose. This IQ deserves to be bitten by Little Lemon.”

He straightway shut off Xiao Yiheng’s mobile phone to ensure that no one would be able to bother them again.

In the next second, the anxious little lion’s eyes were red rimmed, and pounced on his prey. 

“Xiao Yiheng, you listen clearly!” Li Cheng grabbed Xiao Yiheng’s collar and declared loudly, “—I like you! Fuck, I like you!!!”

—If he could be jealous only by becoming a boyfriend, very well, from now on, Li Cheng was Xiao Yiheng’s boyfriend.

The omega boy bared his fangs and brandished his claws, leaned forward to meet him, and touched the alpha, his lips unruly.

This was the first kiss between them. 

But it wasn’t like a kiss at all, it was more like a little beast biting its prey.

The lips were torn by the teeth, and between the entanglement of the lips and tongue, both of them tasted a hint of blood.

“…Idiot,” Xiao Yiheng held the back of his neck and gently licked the blood on Li Cheng’s lips with the tip of his tongue, “Kissing so hard, are you going to eat me up?”

Ch57 - “I like you! Fuck, I like you!”

On the ability of sophistry, how could Li Cheng, the No. 1 study scum in the world, compare to Xiao Yiheng?

Xiao Yiheng’s extraordinary speech technique skillfully deflected and easily turned Li Cheng’s brain into mush.

Not only that, he also pushed Li Cheng’s legs apart with his knees, and gently rubbed at the location of Li Cheng’s glands on the inner thighs. Through the thin layer of swimming trunks, the fragile glands were faintly hot. It was clear that Li Cheng had not yet reached the estrus period, but there was a kind of heat that couldn’t be ignored rising from his legs. 

Li Cheng’s upper and lower heads were unusable. Xiao Yiheng, a bad guy, seduced his body while occupying his mind. Li Cheng was a pure single-line creature. How could he stand up to a two-lines operation? In an instant, Li Cheng’s CPU was overloaded by the excessive amount of information and lost all thinking ability.

Why did he care about Xiao Yiheng’s thoughts so much? Why did he not explicitly reject Xiao Yiheng’s confession? Why did he avoid it deliberately? Why did Xiao Yiheng show a hint of joy after admitting that he was jealous?

Countless questions poured into his brain, and all the questions pointed to the same answer, and this answer was something that Li Cheng had never thought of before, nor dared to think about it.

Because mysteriously and inexorably he knew that if he had admitted that answer–he would no longer be himself.

From then on, all his emotions would be affected by another person, and his happiness and sadness would be written on the other person’s name. This was a kind of emotion that Li Cheng had never experienced. It seemed to be related to pheromones, and yet it seemed that it had nothing to do with pheromones.

Xiao Yiheng’s palm was close to Li Cheng’s lips, and the omega’s hot breath sprayed on the alpha’s palm. With their eyes intersecting, Li Cheng didn’t need to speak. His eyes had revealed everything.

Xiao Yiheng considered and moved slightly, his palm loosened, and Li Cheng’s vague voice came from under his fingers.

Li Cheng: “Xiao Yiheng, I…” 

—The door of the locker room was suddenly pushed open before the latter words had time to exit.

“Li Cheng! All the players are training, why are you lazing here?” Coach Wu Xu rushed into the locker room angrily. After he saw the situation in the locker room, he was instantly dumbfounded, “You…you two…”

He saw that the lovers slammed in front of the locker by an alpha wall, disheveled and gazing at each other. This was obviously…

Wu Xu covered his heart, and looked ready to swallow a whole bottle of quick-relief medicine to save his heart at any time: “You, you, you, how can you do this kind of thing in the sacred swimming pool!!!” 

Xiao Yiheng: “…”

Li Cheng: “…”

“Coach, you misunderstood, we have nothing to do with each other!” Li Cheng was red in the face and red in the ears. He hurriedly explained to the coach that he subconsciously struck out physically and it actually let him break free from Xiao Yiheng’s restraint. He was already strong, and with a violent push with both hands, Xiao Yiheng felt his arms empty and his body lost his balance. He took two steps backwards. If Xiao Yiheng hadn’t caught the cabinet next to him in time, he would have fallen to the ground.

At the moment he retreated, Li Cheng clearly saw that a trace of disappointment flashed in Xiao Yiheng’s eyes. 

And the ambiguous atmosphere that was about to be pierced just like a layer of window paper, under this push, disappeared instantly.

“Xiao Yiheng, you, are you okay?” Li Cheng wanted to help him, but with the coach fuming nearby, he could only retract his hand awkwardly and asked in a panic, “You didn’t hurt anything, right? Do you want me to accompany you to the infirmary?”

“Go to the infirmary?! Out of the question. Neither of you are allowed to go!” Coach Wu strode over, grabbing their arms with one hand, “Violating the team regulations and still thinking of slipping away, how can there be such a convenient thing!”

… 

By the swimming pool, Li Cheng leapfrogged around the bank, panting for breath after three laps.

On the other side, Xiao Yiheng had a cold face as he held a mop in his hand and wiped the floor. He had completely suffered from the absurd disaster. If he had been a member of the swimming team, he would be leapfrogging with Li Cheng as well.

From this point of view, he had been assigned an “effortless” job of scrubbing the floor. It could be regarded as a lenient treatment by coach Wu.

Like a clumsy little frog, Li Cheng jumped over Xiao Yiheng’s side, whispering his name. 

Xiao Yiheng ignored him. It was unclear if he heard it or not.

Li Cheng’s voice was a little louder: “Xiao Yiheng, is your foot okay? Did you sprain it in the locker room just now?”

Xiao Yiheng limped with his right foot while walking, and only touched the ground with the sole of his forefoot. Li Cheng worried that his injury would get worse and wanted to persuade him to go back to rest.

But Xiao Yiheng’s response was unexpected. 

He saw the alpha boy suddenly put down the mop and raised his right hand.

Li Cheng: ?

Xiao Yiheng: “Coach, report!”

Li Cheng: ?? 

Xiao Yiheng: “Coach, Li Cheng is not leapfrogging properly. He came over and found me to chat.”

Li Cheng: ???

Coach Wu’s faint voice came from across the pool: “Li Cheng, leapfrog one more lap!”

Li Cheng: … 

Fuck, it was said that business could not be done with benevolence and righteousness. Xiao Yiheng, this bastard, couldn’t even be brotherly since his confession failed???

…

Because he was punished with five hundred frog jumps in one night, Li Cheng’s legs trembled, and his thighs and buttocks were sore and painful. His legs were so weak that he almost fell and almost lost his ability to take care of himself. Even for going to the toilet his roommates had to help him.

Was this the most miserable? 

It was not.

The most miserable thing was that his relationship with Xiao Yiheng had dropped to a freezing point.

When Li Cheng finished the leapfrogs, Xiao Yiheng had already cleaned the venue and left. After Li Cheng returned to the dormitory, he turned things over in his mind and couldn’t bear to ignore the voice in his heart. He texted Xiao Yiheng to remind him to go to the infirmary to get his foot checked.

But Xiao Yiheng didn’t reply. 

Li Cheng hesitated for a while and finally added a sentence: “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have pushed you away in the locker room…”

When he pushed Xiao Yiheng away in front of the coach, the disappointment that flashed in his eyes made him quite uncomfortable. Li Cheng had always been fearless, but at that moment, he turned into a coward, and he blurted out “I have nothing to do with Xiao Yiheng!” in front of the coach. Even if… even if the two of them were just ordinary friends, that was not okay.

This time, Xiao Yiheng replied.

Pursue Unremittingly: What I want is not sorry. 

Li Cheng: “…”

Did Li Cheng know what Xiao Yiheng wanted? Of course Li Cheng knew.

He rolled over on the bed irritably, wrapped his fist in the quilt, and hammered twice on the pillow.

Xiao Pang who was sleeping across from him let out a groan in his sleep. Li Cheng lay down quickly, and covered his head with a pillow, trying to suffocate himself to death. 

But as a result, he only got a night of tossing and turning. When the sky was bright, he fell asleep for a while in a daze. But in his sleep, he saw Xiao Yiheng’s figure again and over again.

He dreamed that they boarded the Titanic, he was Rose and Xiao Yiheng incarnated as Jack.

Xiao Yiheng was poised and graceful, and invited him to a dance. They danced under the spotlight with Xiao Yiheng’s arms around his waist, and made no secret of his infatuation with him; as soon as the picture changed, they returned to the private room. Xiao Yiheng asked him to take off his clothes and ask him to be his model.

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In the middle of the painting, the ship hit an iceberg. Xiao Yiheng dragged him and ran against the crowd, but all the escape boats were gone. Xiao Yiheng only found a door panel. He gave up the chance of survival to Li Cheng and left behind the priceless ‘Heart of the Ocean’ necklace.

Just as Xiao Yiheng was about to leave, Li Cheng held him.

“Don’t go.” Li Cheng said affectionately, “My Heng, I am a swimming champion, I will take you around for a swim.” 

Then, Li Cheng threw away the heart of the ocean, took off the golden swimming medal from his neck and put it on Xiao Yiheng’s chest…

Li Cheng after waking up: “…”

He sat on the dormitory bed with a demented expression on his face, head in his arms and thick dark circles under his eyes.

Xiao Pang stood on the ground and asked curiously: “Li Cheng, what exactly did you dream of? You kept shouting: ‘I swim very fast, you hold me tight!'” 

“…” Li Cheng muttered, “I dreamed of hitting an iceberg.”

Since he ran into Xiao Yiheng, he was hitting icebergs in and out of his dreams.

…

Since that day, Li Cheng and Xiao Yiheng hadn’t said a word on the chat software. A lot of emotions could not be conveyed in words across the screen of the mobile phone. 

Li Cheng wanted to talk to Xiao Yiheng in person, even if… even if it eventually changed from “chat” to “quarrel”, he still wanted to see him.

However, Li Cheng failed to see Xiao Yiheng’s figure in school.

There was no Xiao Yiheng in the physical education class of the third year seniors; there was no Xiao Yiheng in the cafeteria at noon; Li Cheng even went to the art classroom to find him, but the lights in the classroom were off.

Li Cheng couldn’t help it and ran to Yan Jing to inquire about Xiao Yiheng’s situation. 

Yan Jing then discovered that he was not only a tool man, but also an NPC.

NPC Yan Jing said, “Xiao Yiheng has asked for leave. He hasn’t come to school these days. Wait, why haven’t you two reconciled yet?”

Li Cheng thought, “Reconciled”? The premise of “reconciliation” was to be on “intimate terms.” Previously, could they be regarded as being “intimate”?

… 

In the blink of an eye, it was the weekend.

That weekend were the last two classes of《Physiology Health Class》. After the course was over, there would be a simple open-book exam. As long as one scored 60 points or more, they could pass the completion assessment.

And these last two classes were the only opportunities for Li Cheng to talk to Xiao Yiheng face to face.

Li Cheng woke up very early in the morning and dressed himself neatly. He even exaggeratedly combed his blonde hair with hair oil to make them stay put on his scalp properly. 

As a result, the person in the mirror…looked like a rehabilitated cowboy.

Li Cheng: “…”

Forget it. He hurriedly wetted and washed his hair again. The water droplets on his hair were soaked up by the towel, and the golden hair returned to its original mess.

He was anxious to go out, but just as he opened the door of the dormitory, Little Lemon, who had been sitting on the balcony for a long time, suddenly rushed over with a chirp, opened his small yellow colored mouth, and grabbed his shoelace with one bite. 

Li Cheng almost tripped over and looked down at it. It also raised its neck, blinking at him with two black bean-like eyes.

Little Lemon had just passed the embarrassing period of molting. It’s yellow fluff had faded, and had been entirely replaced with white feathers. It became all the more plump and cute, and it wobbled as it walked back and forth. It had a stubby neck and a round head and looked as cute as the ones in cartoons.

After it’s molting, Li Cheng secretly took it to swim in the swimming pool for two laps. The little guy really inherited his excellent genes and swam lightly and swiftly—If Li Cheng hadn’t sunk to the bottom to take a look, it would be impossible to imagine how fast its duck webs pedaled.

It was now a mature big duck, and it could no longer be held with one hand. It spread out into a ball on Li Cheng’s feet, and the duck’s beak firmly held Li Cheng’s shoelace. It acted like a spoiled child insisting on letting Li Cheng take it out to play. 

Li Cheng hesitated for a few seconds, then picked it up and put it in the school bag.

It was said that children were the cornerstone of the relationship between husband and wife, that duck… should also be the cornerstone of him and Xiao Yiheng.

Little Lemon was very well-behaved and sat inside the school bag honestly, motionless. Li Cheng successfully smuggled it into the affiliated junior high school without attracting anyone’s attention along the way.

When he entered class and put down his school bag, the duck poked his head out of the zipper and looked around curiously. 

“Oh, is this a little duck?” The omega girl sitting behind Li Cheng exclaimed in surprise. The moment she yelled, the classmates rushed up immediately.

“Don’t squeeze, don’t squeeze!” Li Cheng said hurriedly. “He’s called Little Lemon. He’s only two months old. Don’t scare him.”

He took Little Lemon from his school bag and put it in his arms. The other hand gently stroked its head all the way to its tail.

The little students gathered around, trying to touch it, but they were afraid of scaring it. 

“It’s so fat in two months?” Wei Huohuo also squeezed into the crowd. This child had always been mean-mouthed. Obviously, he wanted to play with the duck but he had to say the last thing it wanted to hear. The duck pecked him in anger.

Little Lemon was very smart. Others said it was fat and could understand it. It stretched out it’s beak and pecked Wei Huohuo fiercely, then turned around, pointed it’s butt at him angrily, and put it’s head into Li Cheng’s embrace.

Wei Huohuo was pecked and was naturally angry, yelling for revenge.

Li Cheng laughed at him: “How are you going to take revenge? The duck pecked you, and you want to peck it back?” 

“I want…I want…” Wei Huohuo scratched his head for a while, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, “I want to report to the teaching assistant. Let the teaching assistant confiscate your duck!”

Sure enough, he was a brat, thinking that “report to the teacher” was actually the most severe punishment.

Li Cheng was about to laugh at him when suddenly, a cold and familiar male voice came from the door of the classroom.

“Class is about to begin. What are you doing together?” 

Hearing the familiar voice, Li Cheng immediately turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound. The first-year junior high school students around him also looked at the door of the classroom timidly.

Xiao Yiheng stood outside the door with a cold face, holding the textbooks and roster for class under his elbow.

Beside him, Xu Yinyin, the alpha assistant in another class, stood shoulder to shoulder with him, one hand still on Xiao Yiheng’s shoulder.

Seeing the two teaching assistants present, the little beans scattered like sparrows that had been driven away, and returned to their seats obediently. 

Only Li Cheng held the duckling and stood blankly beside the podium.

Xiao Yiheng’s calm gaze slid over Li Cheng and fell on the little lemon in his arms. He paused for a few seconds and frowned slightly. There was no warmth in his eyes, only unfamiliarity.

Li Cheng: “…” Didn’t you even recognize your own child? Xiao Yiheng, this scum A, was really very cruel!

Xu Yinyin, who was standing beside Xiao Yiheng, was startled when she saw Little Lemon. She yelled very exaggeratedly, and subconsciously hid behind Xiao Yiheng: “Shit! Why is there a big white goose in the classroom!!” She was frightened. It didn’t look fake, and she grabbed Xiao Yiheng’s clothes tightly with both hands, and almost hid her whole person behind Xiao Yiheng. 

Li Cheng watched her cling to Xiao Yiheng with both hands, only to feel a rush of anger about to come out of his eyes.

“What big white goose?” Li Cheng pointed to Little Lemon and said, “This is a duck, a little white duck! The goose has a long neck and a big body. How does it look like a goose?”

But Xu Yinyin kept shaking her head and said in fear: “When I was a child, I was bitten by a goose in the countryside. As long as it is white, capable of swimming, and quacks like a bird, I am afraid.”

Just like someone who had been bitten by a dog as a child would be afraid of even a three-pound puppy when they grew up; Xu Yinyin had a big white goose PTSD. Now she saw a three-pound duck, and in her horror also forgot that she is an alpha. 

Xiao Yiheng’s gaze first fell on Xu Yinyin’s hand holding his sleeve and patted her to appease. Turning his eyes to look at Li Cheng: “Li Cheng, why did you bring the duck to class?”

Ah! Li Cheng thought sourly, as expected, an alpha’s heart changed faster than anyone else. When Little Lemon was born, Xiao Yiheng wanted to let Little Lemon follow his surname. That was the utmost cherishing; now that there was a new person around, he just changed it to “the duck” directly.

Li Cheng gritted his teeth and asked, “Senior Sister Xu Yinyin is not an assistant in our class. Why did you bring her to the class?”

“Because…” 

“Because Xiao Yiheng’s foot was injured?” Xu Yinyin pointed her finger at Xiao Yiheng’s right foot. “Don’t you know? His foot has been injured for several days, and he was on sick leave to rest at home. I was in class today. I was afraid that he would find it inconvenient to walk, so I supported him.”

Li Cheng: “…” He choked. Only then did he understand that Xiao Yiheng didn’t show up on campus that week not to hide from him. “…Of course I know.”

He braced himself and said, “I even know how he got hurt.”

Although, this was not something worth showing off. 

Xu Yinyin helped Xiao Yiheng walk to the podium. Li Cheng tried to intervene to help several times, but after reaching out his hand, he drew it back.

The last two classes were for basic revision. Xiao Yiheng would take everyone to review all the knowledge learned in the previous classes.

Seeing Xiao Yiheng struggling to stand, Xu Yinyin helped him move over a chair and brought a water glass. From beginning to end, Li Cheng resembled a superfluous person standing next to the podium, just like a wooden stump that had put down roots.

“Its fine, thank you.” Xiao Yiheng nodded at her, “Thanks for your hard work today.” 

“It’s okay~” Xu Yinyin made an OK gesture playfully, “You helped me with volunteering, and I will repay you this time~ Who and whom are we.”

Li Cheng didn’t understand what they were talking about at all. He stood awkwardly to the side, feeling that his hair shouldn’t be dyed blond, but green.

“By the way, there is this duck.” Xiao Yiheng pointed to the duck in Li Cheng’s arms and said to Xu Yinyin, “Pets are not allowed in class. Could you please take this duck to the office?”

Xu Yinyin: !!! 

Li Cheng: !!!

He clung to the duck in his arms, and argued strongly for what was right: “Why can’t I bring pets in class? He’s not noisy and doesn’t cause trouble. He’s very calm. This class is so boring. Do you know how much self-control it takes me to stay awake?”

“…so that’s the reason you brought the duck?”

Li Cheng blurted out: “If I get sleepy and tired, I can rub my hand along it. Then I won’t be sleepy.” 

Xiao Yiheng’s path: “There are many ways to prevent sleeping in class, there is no need to rely on the duck.”

“Who can I rub my hand along if not the duck?” Li Cheng let slip, “Could it be that you want me to rub you?!”

Xiao Yiheng: “…”

Fortunately, the other students in the class were not meat-eating animals. The little peas in the first year of junior high school weren’t yellow, so they couldn’t hear the ambiguity of Li Cheng’s words. 

Only Xu Yinyin awkwardly interrupted: “…I’m sorry to bother you. No matter what Li Cheng wants, I’m really afraid of geese, you two talk first, I’m leaving.”

Little Lemon: “Ga!” Please, he’s a duck, not a goose!

Thereupon, Little Lemon was arranged as an external crew, and just stayed in the class.

Li Cheng didn’t listen to a word of what exactly was said in this review class. He held his chin all the way and looked sideways at Xiao Yiheng who was sitting behind the podium. 

It looked like he was afraid that others wouldn’t notice how fiery his gaze was.

Wei HuoHuo took up his pen and added a few sentences to his fake observation notes—

《Li O (and Xiao A) Observation Notes》

1. When Xiao A was in class today with his lame leg, Li O said, “I know how Xiao A’s foot was injured” → → I have reason to suspect that Li O broke Xiao A’s leg and seized the evidence. 

2. Today Li O brought a duck to class. It looked delicious.

3. Li O kept staring at Xiao A during class today, trying to kill him with his eyes.

The two-hour review class was finally over. Other students gained revision notes, Wei Huohuo reaped fake material, and Li Cheng harvested a field of duck feathers.

Little Lemon, who was almost plucked bald: “…Ga QAQ” 

Before the end of class, Xiao Yiheng put his hands on the podium and got up to look at the 30 students below the stage.

“Tomorrow morning, the open-book exam for《National Physiology Health Course》will be conducted and it will take two hours. Please bring your pens, books, and teaching materials to take the test. Don’t be late.” He stopped, his tone became more serious, “Also, in the previous tests, before the start of examination, some students wanted to bribe teaching assistants and get the exam questions in advance. I hope that there will be no students in our class who have such unrealistic fantasies.”

Li Cheng: “…” Why did Xiao Yiheng glance at him when he said the last sentence?

What did he mean! Did he think he was the kind of person who wormed his way into being friends with the teaching assistant to cheat? 

……Well, he admitted that he did have one or two such ideas.

After the bell rang, the students carried their school bags and bid farewell to the teaching assistant. Only Li Cheng dawdled on his seat and refused to leave.

Little Lemon nimbly flapped his two small wings. He wanted to jump from Li Cheng’s desk to the podium.

However, its wings were about to degenerate and could not bear the weight of its plump body to soar. It managed to jump, flapped its wings twice, and dropped down like a balloon full of water. 

At the critical moment, Xiao Yiheng stretched out a hand to support it.

Little Lemon hadn’t seen Xiao Yiheng for nearly a month, and almost forgot that he had a father besides Li Cheng.

It wasn’t until it smelled the familiar smell of Xiao Yiheng that the small box of its memory opened. It quacked in excitement, its bottom sank and landed heavily. Finally, it sat in the hollow of Xiao Yiheng’s palm, and began to act familiarly and coquettishly.

“…Little Lemon?” Xiao Yiheng was slow to react, “Are you Little Lemon?” 

Little Lemon happily called “Ga!” That’s right, that’s right, he’s the cute little lemon!

Li Cheng snorted: “Hehe, you haven’t seen the child for a long time. He just grew up, you can’t recognize him anymore?”

“The color has changed.” Xiao Yiheng put the plump duck into his arms, “It is fatter and more beautiful.”

The former Little Lemon was covered in yellow and plump down. It was only recently that he passed the embarrassing molting period and grew snow-white wings. It was more rounded than before, and his head and body were like two snowballs stuck together. 

When Xiao Yiheng saw it for the first time, he really didn’t realize that it was the original Little Lemon. He believed that Li Cheng liked the new and hated the old, and he brought a better-looking small duck from somewhere.

“Like the new and hate the old?” Li Cheng raised his voice, “This is the way you see me?!”

“…Just an analogy.”

“An analogy won’t work!” Li Cheng snatched the duckling from Xiao Yiheng’s arms, opened the classroom door and let it out, “Be good. Ducky, you go out to play by yourself. Xiao Yiheng and I have something to say.” 

Little Lemon nodded sensibly, waddled with small duck steps, and walked in the corridor with a quack.

The classroom door closed again, leaving only Li Cheng and Xiao Yiheng in the class.

Xiao Yiheng asked calmly: “What do you want to talk about with me? I thought the things we had to say have already been said before.”

Li Cheng folded his arms across his chest and ordered: “Say it again when you are done.” 

“…”

Their eyes met. One had flames burning in his eyes, while the other was as cold as ice, without any waves.

This was not what Li Cheng expected.

Li Cheng’s spine suddenly softened. He felt uncomfortable everywhere. He put down his hands on his chest and stood up straight, but he felt that he was not himself when he stood that way. 

“Xiao Yiheng, don’t… don’t look at me like this,” He swallowed, and said hurriedly, “Don’t you look at me with the same eyes when we first met.”

“Do you remember the look in my eyes when we first met?”

“Of course I remember,” Li Cheng raised his hand, as if he wanted to touch Xiao Yiheng’s eyes, but raised his hand halfway, and then put it down again, “You looked at me like seeing a stranger who had dropped from the sky.”

“…But you were a stranger who fell from the sky to me at that time.”They both thought of the day of their first meeting at the same time. In the quiet alley, the blond boy fell from the wall and dropped in the embrace of Xiao Yiheng. 

“But you caught me!” Li Cheng murmured, “You have caught all of me, you have embraced all of me. You have marked me twice. Now you want to be a stranger with me. It’s too late for that.”

Xiao Yiheng laughed angrily at his appearance that was so lovable and reckless, exhausting all sense in the world: “It’s not that I want to be a stranger with you, but you want to be a stranger with me—do you need me to remind you? In the locker room, you pushed me away in front of the coach, saying that I have nothing to do with you.”

No. Close. Ties. Exist.

These four words froze Xiao Yiheng’s heart from that moment.

After getting to know Li Cheng, he discovered that even if he had frozen his feelings, there was someone who could break the ice and make his heart beat again. But when he dug out his feelings from under the ice and showed them to Li Cheng, Li Cheng escaped again and again. 

Li Cheng thought Xiao Yiheng was angry, but in fact, Xiao Yiheng was not angry.

He was disappointed.

But in Li Cheng’s view, he was also very wronged.

“I spoke sharply that time and I have apologized to you.” Li Cheng bit his lower lip and complained, “And you also have to bear the responsibility! You said those kinds of words to me once or twice. First in the art classroom you said this and that, and then again in the locker room. Even if I am compared with a rubber band, after being dragged along by you for so long, I demand to bounce back!” 

Xiao Yiheng questioned back, “What is ‘this and that’?”

“……” Li Cheng was so angry that he slapped the table, “Xiao Yiheng, don’t act stupid with Laozi! You are asking me about the shameful things you said? If you write down all the tiger-wolf words you said, it would not be wrong to punish you to wipe the floor of our swimming pool for a hundred years!”

Once again, it’s this kind of behavior right?

Obviously I want to have a good chat, but he must be noisy when not even three sentences are spoken. 

When he first met Li Cheng, Xiao Yiheng suspected that Li Cheng grew up eating gunpowder, but he soon discovered that what Li Cheng ate was not gunpowder, but popping candy that would pop and dance on the tip of his tongue.

Really, truly.

The candy was really sweet.

Xiao Yiheng laughed and asked him, “So? You came to class today to take me back to your swimming pool and wipe the floor for you for a hundred years?” 

Li Cheng was dumbfounded.

Of course not.

Li Cheng was here…He was here…was here…

He opened the bag on the chair, took out a brand new textbook, turned two pages casually, and said stiffly: “I’m here for class.” 

Xiao Yiheng’s expectations of him fell through again. The alpha shook his head, and said in a low voice: “Since you are here for class, then class is over now, you should go.”

Li Cheng pursed his lips: “You haven’t left yet, why should I leave?”

“I did not go, because my foot is injured.” Xiao Heng pointed to his feet, “I’m waiting for Xu Yinyin to pick me up.”

“…” Li Cheng’s hair was about to explode. 

Xu Yinyin, why was it Xu Yinyin again! Granted that with the ways of the world, one had to protect against fire and guard against theft. Could it be that it was still necessary to guard an alpha now?!!

A nameless flame sprang out from the bottom of Li Cheng’s heart. He was like a little lion whose territory had been violated, anxiously defending his territory.

“Can’t I do it?” Li Cheng raised his voice, “I am taller and stronger than her. Why are you waiting for her to pick you up? Can’t I pick you up?”

If Xiao Yiheng had to rely on someone, Li Cheng hoped this person was himself, it could only be himself. 

The proud little lion couldn’t wait to keep Xiao Yiheng in captivity in his own territory, leave him with the smell of his own pheromone from head to toe, and let all the people who coveted his prey go away!

“Li Cheng, do you know what your words mean?” Xiao Yiheng raised his eyes, his gaze burning, and looked at the boy who unconsciously exuded the scent of sweet orange, “Are you… jealous?”

Li Cheng was startled.

Jealous? Whose vinegar did he eat? Xu Yinyin? 

Just because Xu Yinyin and Xiao Yiheng were both high school seniors and had many topics in common, she was responsible for taking him to school, so Li Cheng was jealous?

How can…

At this moment, Xiao Yiheng’s mobile phone on the podium rang.

Li Cheng glanced at it, and unexpectedly saw Xu Yinyin’s text message on the phone. 

Yinyin as promised: Xiao-ge please help!!! That big white goose is blocking the door of the office. I, I, I dare not go out. I’m afraid it will catch me!!!

Li Cheng: “…”

OK! OK! OK!

Good, good, good. 

Li Cheng grabbed Xiao Yiheng’s mobile phone, his fingers flew over the keyboard, and sent a message to Xu Yinyin.

Pursue Unremittingly: I am the big white goose. Your Xiao-ge has already been bitten to death by me. Now it’s your turn.

Pursue Unremittingly: 鹅mazing

Xiao Yiheng: “…” 

Xiao Yiheng: “Although, in fact, it’s not necessary…”

Li Cheng sneered: “How many times have I said that it is a duck, not a goose. This IQ deserves to be bitten by Little Lemon.”

He straightway shut off Xiao Yiheng’s mobile phone to ensure that no one would be able to bother them again.

In the next second, the anxious little lion’s eyes were red rimmed, and pounced on his prey. 

“Xiao Yiheng, you listen clearly!” Li Cheng grabbed Xiao Yiheng’s collar and declared loudly, “—I like you! Fuck, I like you!!!”

—If he could be jealous only by becoming a boyfriend, very well, from now on, Li Cheng was Xiao Yiheng’s boyfriend.

The omega boy bared his fangs and brandished his claws, leaned forward to meet him, and touched the alpha, his lips unruly.

This was the first kiss between them. 

But it wasn’t like a kiss at all, it was more like a little beast biting its prey.

The lips were torn by the teeth, and between the entanglement of the lips and tongue, both of them tasted a hint of blood.

“…Idiot,” Xiao Yiheng held the back of his neck and gently licked the blood on Li Cheng’s lips with the tip of his tongue, “Kissing so hard, are you going to eat me up?”