Chapter 68 Online Dating with a Bad Beta 21: Was the Bite Deep?

"Senior, are you doing this on purpose?"

She had just questioned Xi Congshuang yesterday, and today Qi Qianqian was interrogating her about where she had gone last night, causing her to search for her for a long time.

Tan Yicheng recalled last night, when she asked that question but someone grabbed her wrist and asked, "After you learn it, will you dance with other omegas? If so, I don't want to teach you."

She had almost forgotten how she got back to her dorm last night, but she could still remember the feeling of being lost and disoriented, as if her heart was beating out of control, making it hard to fall asleep for a long time.

Her ears quietly gained attention, but her face remained calm: "I didn't do it on purpose. I can't dance, so I declined their invitation."

Xiang Wei turned her head in shock, and Qi Qianqian, as expected, didn't believe it. She said, "How is that possible!"

Tan Yicheng did not refute this. She had said this more than once, and the answers she received were always similar.

Immediately afterwards, Qi Qianqian added, "I wonder what kind of omega you like, senior."

Tan Yicheng calmly put on her gloves, preparing to begin training, thinking to herself that her senior sister was probably a mutant and didn't like omegas.

I don't like any kind of omega, but I do like woody scent inhibitors.

They started out making pheromone-based fragrances, and they don't waste this patent when developing or producing products later on, adding as many different fragrances as possible.

The goal is to ensure that users cannot smell the medicine while taking it, thereby creating a subtle sense of resistance.

This seemingly insignificant selling point unexpectedly gained popularity among the AO community. Nobody likes taking pills and injections every day. Being in heat is already painful enough; having to personally prick the back of one's neck with needles just makes one feel miserable.

Moreover, the inhibitor can temporarily change the scent of pheromones, which is harmless and only lasts for about two hours.

Even two hours is enough to make many AOs willing to pay for it.

Anyone would get tired of smelling only the same scent on themselves year after year.

At the time, Gloria didn't know who had notified her, but a batch of inhibitors were sent to her while she was hospitalized. Tan Yicheng saw one of each and thought she was being asked to choose a few to keep. She was in a daze and picked out a few to keep.

Afterwards, she received several boxes of inhibitors with a shelf life of at least ten years, all of which had a woody scent, exactly the same as the inhibitors she had chosen before.

The fruity alpha always wished she could have woody or wine-scented pheromones, as that would make her seem more mature. But things didn't go as planned; she was born with a sweet and sour orange scent.

She is cute, but not mature at all.

Alphas and omegas experience heat cycles once a month after reaching adulthood, and each use of suppressants costs a lot of money. Why would she refuse something that could save her money? So she accepted the offer.

This problem also stumped Xiang Wei. The two looked at Tan Yicheng for a long time, then huddled together and whispered to each other.

Qi Qianqian: "Senior sister would probably prefer... uh... a gentle and quiet type of omega? She looks composed and strong."

Xiang Wei: "We still need to talk a bit more, otherwise it will be too quiet and the two of us will be speechless."

"What you said makes a lot of sense. A lively and cheerful little sun? And her pheromones have a floral scent?"

"It's not impossible. Calm and quiet people are easily attracted to cheerful and bold people because the other person has qualities that they don't have."

Tan Yicheng, who was being meticulously analyzed, was completely wrong.

She turned to the two heads that were whispering and guessing, and said, "Shall we have a fight?"

The huddled heads snapped apart instantly, both screaming in terror, "No—! Spare my life!"

Tan Yicheng suddenly became deaf. While saying that he couldn't hear in either of his ears, he dragged one person to the training field with each hand.

The training finally ended in the evening. The exhausted students dispersed, leaving the building much emptier. Tan Yicheng was kept behind by the instructor and left a little later.

Starving to the point of ecstasy, Qi Qianqian and Xiang Wei helped each other leave, their destination the cafeteria.

In the past, there would definitely have been students who resented Tan Yicheng for often receiving special treatment. They would complain and be beaten up, and then, despite being sore all over, they would be pulled up by the instructors to continue training.

Everyone stopped being resentful of Tan Yicheng's special treatment.

The instructors' private lessons weren't something everyone could handle. Instructor Lin didn't treat his students like human beings at all; he was even more ruthless than the students from the mechanical repair department next door when dealing with scrapped robots—both sides were aiming to break what they had in their hands.

Privately, the students unanimously agreed to assign Instructor Lin to the Mecha Repair Department, achieving a two-way exchange. On the surface, they continued to obediently accept their reprimands and showed their love for their instructor.

By the time the instructors finally decided to let Tan Yicheng go, the sun had already set, most of the students had left, and the whole building was quiet.

Tan Yicheng took a shower and changed her clothes before taking the elevator downstairs.

As the sun sets and the moon rises, and the city lights begin to twinkle, no matter how repulsive the teaching buildings may seem during the day, it is undeniable that the North Campus gradually reveals its romantic nature after nightfall.

Of the four campuses, the North Campus has the best scenery, but unfortunately, as a campus for a bunch of alphas, there's no romance to be appreciated here.

If Tan Yicheng takes a shortcut after leaving the teaching building, he will pass a huge lake, which looks like a large piece of silver satin spread on the surface of the lake, sparkling.

I don't know which principal had the quirky sense of humor, but one day while taking a walk, he saw that after the moon rose, the shadows of the neatly trimmed artificial plants on the lake looked like a pair of swans embracing each other, and he resolutely changed the name to Lover's Lake.

Despite its rather common name, the place is quite charming, and many young couples stroll hand in hand nearby, enjoying the innocent romance of their youth.

Campus romance...

Tan Yicheng stopped as she passed by and saw a young couple standing together in the distance. The shy omega gave her some baked cookies that he had made with his friends that day. The alpha who received the gift showed obvious surprise on his face. He hurriedly opened the package and put the bear-shaped cookie into his mouth.

Then her expression froze at the lethal dose of sugar. It was as if her tongue had been hit by a hundred thousand tons of sugar at once. For a few seconds, she lost her ability to speak, while the omega next to her looked at her expectantly.

The alpha, enduring the pain of having her tongue slapped, gave a wry smile and a thumbs-up, her lips quivering as she said it was delicious.

The omega was clearly pleased to receive the praise, and kept shaking the alpha's hand.

Looking at the lips, the omega said: "Great! My friend said it's just as sweet as if I threw the sugar factory owner in. I'll make it for you again next time."

The alpha's bitter smile gradually turned into tears, and she gritted her teeth and nodded.

Tan Yicheng had excellent eyesight and clearly saw the scene, and he felt great respect for the alpha with the iron tongue.

Campus romances will never happen to me. Before leaving school, I didn't even consider that omegas, who were pampered at home, could never like alphas from ordinary backgrounds.

Especially for omegas born from the central star, marriage at this time is no longer a simple union of two young people forming their own small family.

So-called campus romances are nothing more than fleeting moments, and will always be forced to end due to various factors.

"Honkai value -2, current Honkai value 37.95."

Not far from Lover's Lake, a passerby paused and looked around.

A new batch of medicines arrived at the school clinic today. It was supposed to be her and Dr. Fan counting them together, but Xi Congshuang thought it would be too much trouble and wanted to persuade Dr. Fan to go back first, so she could do the counting herself.

Xi Congshuang's original intention was to wait for her to leave and then call a few people to handle it. However, Dr. Fan insisted on staying behind to take inventory, so Xi Congshuang was busy until now and only just left the school.

In retrospect, leaving school a little later isn't such a bad thing after all.

She walked towards Tan Yicheng, who was standing with her back to her and facing the lake. She thought Tan Yicheng was looking at the lake, but when she got closer, she saw that Tan Yicheng was looking at a young couple.

Tan Yicheng, who was in front, turned around before she got completely close, a look of surprise flashing in his eyes: "Why are you still here?"

As far as she knew, the school clinic didn't close that late.

Xi Congshuang: "I had some things to do today, so I was a little late."

She was also very curious as to why her Honkai Impact stat dropped even though she hadn't done anything, and then she saw the couple feeding each other cookies.

Because she saw others giving her cookies and feeding her cookies, her Honkai value dropped. Could it be that she also wanted to receive that kind of treatment?

Xi Congshuang asked, "You like to eat cookies too?"

Tan Yicheng recalled: "Actually, it was alright. In the past, during field training, I ate too many compressed biscuits and nutrient solutions, so it was hard for me to develop any interest in these two things other than maintaining physiological functions."

Xi Congshuang was puzzled. After carefully observing the shape, she asked, "Do you like bear-shaped cookies?"

Tan Yicheng was shocked: "How could you think that?!"

Are you going to send me cookies that are as sweet as those made by the sugar factory owner, and make me eat them all?

Didn't you see that alpha is about to die from eating?

I didn't dare leave because I was afraid she would really die and I wouldn't have time to call an ambulance to give her insulin!

Xi Congshuang glanced at what the alpha was eating again, confirming that it was a bear-shaped biscuit and not poison, so there was no need to be so alarmed.

She then asked, "So what do you like?"

Tan Yicheng was afraid that one day she would eat a bear-shaped cookie associated with a sugar factory owner, so she subconsciously replied, "If I had to say, I still quite like eating cake."

Seeing Xi Congshuang's thoughtful expression, she added, "The kind you bought last time was very good; it wasn't overly sweet, just right."

She was genuinely afraid of the lethal amount of sugar in the bear-shaped cookies, so she specifically added the qualifier "not too sweet." Besides, a proper cake shop wouldn't make a deadly sweet cake that would poison customers; they still need to keep in business.

"I'm glad you liked the cake that time," Xi Congshuang said.

Tan Yicheng recalled that night and turned to look at the person beside him. Xi Congshuang was looking ahead. The young couple had already left, leaving only the lake surface shaded by the intertwined swans.

After watching for a while, she suddenly said, "You just came out of the teaching building, you probably haven't eaten yet, right? Do you want to go out to eat?"

Tan Yicheng thought to herself that there might still be food available in the cafeteria, but she had already accepted Xi Congshuang's dinner invitation.

When she came to her senses, she had already reached the school gate, where an aircraft was already parked.

Xi Congshuang walked straight forward, and the cabin door opened with a click. The person in the co-pilot's seat turned around and said, "Good evening, President Xi. Your prediction was correct. President Weng is working on smoothing things over to have the herbs she's currently cultivating re-evaluated... Miss Tan?"

The speaker was none other than Gloria.

Tan Yicheng didn't expect to see her here. After glancing at Xi Congshuang, who looked perfectly normal, she completely believed what Xi Congshuang had told her at the school clinic. Her real purpose was still her uncle.

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, they all entered the aircraft and took their seats.

Although she had long been prepared for the two of them to appear before her at the same time, this day still came too soon.

Gloria believed the rumors that were circulating throughout the company; in fact, she was one of those who firmly believed them.

There are many ways to make the boss slip up if he simply wants to lead the vice president to do something irreversible, but he chose the most troublesome one.

Why? Because Tan Yicheng is at the school.

Initially, she had doubts about her boss's patience. His orientation was quite obvious; he had dated several alphas from the First Academy online before, but she found them all too clueless and too straightforward, so she didn't choose to meet them.

Once you accept Tan Yicheng, an alpha who is completely clueless about romance, you might change your mind if another alpha comes along who is more to your liking.

But no, this time she had unexpected patience, even managing to arrange a meeting outside with the alpha who had previously been covered in wary barbs.

Behind her, the faint sound of conversation could be heard: "Where are you planning to eat later? If you don't want to eat out, my house is quite quiet."

Tan Yicheng stammered, "Eating out is fine."

It wasn't that he hadn't been to Xi Congshuang's house before, and had even stayed there for a few nights, but this invitation seemed to carry a strange and unclear meaning, and his body temperature rose as well.

Xi Congshuang nodded: "You're right."

She then raised her wristband, set a new destination for the aircraft, and a beeping sound came from the control panel. The aircraft changed course and headed towards the new destination.

After a moment of silence, Gloria, who had been listening intently, was somewhat disappointed. Judging from the current situation, the progress was far less than she had imagined.

Bewitched and boarding the aircraft, Tan Yicheng didn't know where to look. She wanted to look at the people next to her, but worried that it would be too blatant, so she turned her head to look at the reflection in the aircraft's glass.

The person sitting beside me had a calm profile, her eyes slightly raised as she operated a virtual screen that others couldn't see. Suddenly, her movements slowed down, presumably as she was reviewing documents.

The atmosphere inside the aircraft was strangely quiet, giving her a sense of security. Xi Congshuang's lack of constant talking made her feel relaxed, but at the same time, a feeling of unease quietly crept into her heart.

She then realized that Xi Congshuang had initiated many of their conversations, and once she stepped back, the silence between them became even more pronounced.

The temperature on the central star is pleasant all year round, so Xi Congshuang is used to wearing a light jacket over a low-cut undershirt. When she got into the car, her collar got messed up, revealing her beautiful collarbone.

Tan Yicheng's gaze unconsciously fell on her collarbone. Suddenly, she frowned, her gaze towards the reflection in the window becoming puzzled, and she turned to look at Xi Congshuang.

Is it just my imagination? There's a faint shadow under her collarbone.

Just then, Xi Congshuang raised her hand, and her collar slipped down a little further. Tan Yicheng, whose gaze was fixed on her collarbone and wouldn't move down even a fraction, actually saw the true face of that barely visible shadow.

It was a bite mark that had almost healed, but Xi Congshuang's fair skin made even the slightest imperfection very noticeable, which Tan Yicheng noticed.

When did she get injured? Tan Yicheng, who was not only physically as strong as steel but also quite quick-witted, blurted out, "When did you get injured?"

Xi Congshuang subconsciously pressed her hand below her collarbone, looked over in surprise, and asked, "It's almost healed, how could you tell?"

Tan Yicheng's heart sank. She realized that if it wasn't due to external injuries, the person who could leave marks here must be someone very close to her.

Who could it be?

And judging from the degree of wound healing, it should be within the next few days.

In that instant, countless names flashed through Tan Yicheng's mind. Before she could compare them one by one and identify the suspects, the person who was adjusting his collar spoke.

Xi Congshuang: "But it's normal that you could tell, since you were the one who bit me."

Tan Yicheng: "?!" What!

She raised her hand to touch the back of her neck, and instantly remembered everything. Her face, which had been trying to remain calm, turned bright red.

I made a huge blunder—that day, after my antidote was replaced, I felt like my soul was floating, my vision was blurred with tears, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

I never heard Xi Congshuang mention it again, and I thought that I hadn't bitten too deeply and that I had already recovered.

Unexpectedly, that mark remained on Xi Congshuang's body.

Trying to remain calm, but unable to stay composed this time, Gloria turned around in shock: "?!"

At what stage of the process did this happen?

It wasn't that the progress was too slow; it turned out that her thinking was too superficial!

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Boss, I really want to improve!