Zhao Yesi found some time to move the things he had left in the teaching and research office.

Lian Tiao happened to be there too, and they sat next to each other. In their second year of graduate school, they didn't have many classes or internships, so they spent most of their time in the teaching and research office.

All Zhao Yesi wanted to take away were a few professional books, as well as small items like chargers and USB flash drives. After the two of them finished packing, the table was empty.

Lian Tiao said sadly, "Ah, I'm leaving now."

"yes."

"Brother Xi, do you remember? Last summer, we stayed on campus to work on a project. The cafeteria was empty, so we ordered takeout every day. We ordered takeout from every place around the school."

"Remember," Zhao Yesi said, "you always leaked rice when you ate, making the table greasy. For a while, I called you 'Leaky Brother'."

Lian Tiao: “…”

At this point, Zhao Yesi also felt a little nostalgic: "Do you have anything to do tonight? How about we have one last takeout meal together in the teaching and research office?"

"Thanks for the invitation, but I have an appointment with my girlfriend. I'll pick her up from get out of class later."

Zhao Yesi suddenly asked, "Taking over the get out of class is also a kind of campus romance, right?"

"Ah? I guess so. I'll wait until you finish class."

Zhao Yesi fell into deep thought.

He never took anyone off the stage, nor was he ever taken off the stage by anyone.

Across the street was Liang Qinghuan's teaching and research office, where his teaching assistant was working. Zhao Yesi knocked on the door and said politely, "Hello, I'd like to see the exam schedule for the second year of graduate school."

The exam for a professional course lasted two hours, and Lu Huangzhi handed in his paper an hour early. After leaving the exam room, he took out his phone and thought about asking his senior to have dinner with him.

When he finished editing the message, he happened to reach the stairs. A boy in a half-high collared pullover was sitting on the steps. From his perspective, he looked like a small figure from behind.

The boy had earphones in his ears and a few books beside him - he was his elementary school senior.

Lu Huangzhi took a deep breath, barely recovering a bit of his health bar that had been drained by Meng Kong. He walked up behind the boy, bent down and took off his headphones, and said, "Zhao Zhitao, are you waiting for me?"

Zhao Yesi suddenly raised his head, holding a half-eaten Want Want senbei in his hand, and asked in surprise, "Why did you come out?"

He guessed Lu Huangzhi would hand in his paper early, but wasn't turning it in an hour early a bit too much? Luckily, he had nothing else to do and came early, otherwise he would have failed his first ever interview exam.

Lu Huangzhi smiled, "You really are waiting for me—what are you eating?"

Zhao Yesi's hand holding the Want Want Rice Cracker froze. He tried to defend himself, "No... your teaching assistant forced it on me."

Liang Qinghuan's assistant was a warm and enthusiastic little chubby boy who always had a variety of snacks around. Seeing Zhao Yesi's cuteness, he insisted on feeding him. Unable to refuse, Zhao Yesi took a few cookies. When Lu Huangzhi got bored, he couldn't resist eating one.

When Lu Huangzhi was waiting for him, he was leaning against a luxury car and smoking. When he was waiting for Lu Huangzhi, he was sitting on the steps of the teaching building and eating cookies.

Look how happily Lu Huangzhi is laughing, he must be laughing at him.

What a sin.

"He just gave you one piece?" Lu Huangzhi asked.

Zhao Yesi looked hopeless and said, "I gave him several."

"Where is it?"

Zhao Yesi reluctantly opened the middle pocket of his sweatshirt to show Lu Huangzhi: "It's all here."

Lu Huangzhi looked at him for a while, then raised his hands to cover his eyes.

Damn, who can withstand this?

Zhao Yesi quickly ate the remaining Want Want senbei, clapped his hands, stood up, and said, "Let's go eat, junior."

"Eat. Where do you want to eat?"

Zhao Yesi hesitated for a moment and said, "I want to eat in the school cafeteria with you once."

Lu Huang was startled and said with a smile, "Okay."

Most students don't like the cafeteria. The food isn't tasty, it's crowded, and there are long lines at mealtimes.

When Zhao Yesi and Lu Huangzhi arrived at the cafeteria, the last period had not yet ended. There were not many people and there was no need to queue.

Lu Huangzhi asked: "What do you want to eat?"

"Let me have a bowl of臊子面."

The sauerkraut noodles are one of the cafeteria's hot-selling items. The noodles are handmade, and the sauerkraut meat is generously packed with ingredients. A large bowl costs only eight yuan, making it a great value for money.

Lu Huangzhi glanced at the window selling臊子面 (sauerkraut noodles). There were already a few people queuing up. "I'll find a good seat and wait for you."

As Zhao Yesi stood in line, he would occasionally glance at Lu Huangzhi. Their school cafeteria was quite large, with hundreds of seats, and if you weren't careful, you'd lose track of everyone. He didn't want to be running around looking for someone with a bowl of sauerkraut noodles in hand.

There was no need to queue at the food window, and Lu Huangzhi moved quickly. Zhao Yesi watched him take his plate and find a seat closest to him. Lu Huangzhi sat down without picking up his chopsticks, scrolling through his phone while waiting for him.

A familiar-looking girl walked towards Lu Huangzhi and said something to him, probably asking if there was anyone sitting opposite him.

Zhao Yesi recognized that the girl was the schoolmate who added him on WeChat last time to inquire about Lu Huangzhi's situation, and he suddenly felt that the臊子面 was not as delicious anymore.

Stop! What are you doing? That's my place, I'm your alpha!

Zhao Yexi stared at the situation over there. He didn't even notice the team had arrived until the boy standing behind him reminded him, "Brother, it's your turn."

……hateful.

Lu Huangzhi politely declined the request of the junior schoolmate to have dinner with her deskmate, but the junior schoolmate then asked to add him on WeChat. Lu Huangzhi saw that the junior schoolmate's friend was waiting for her not far away, so he could only give her WeChat first, thinking that he would delete it later after making things clear.

Zhao Yesi sat down across from Lu Huangzhi, his face expressionless, holding a bowl of sauerkraut noodles. Lu Huangzhi handed him a braised egg from his own plate and said, "Zhao Zhitao is unhappy."

Zhao Yexi asked, "Did you add her on WeChat?"

"Her friend is here."

Zhao Yesi understood and said happily, "It's okay then."

Lu Huangzhi: ...It was so easy to coax him that he didn’t know what to say.

Zhao Yesi added, "I also added her on WeChat."

Lu Huangzhi raised his eyebrows, "Really?"

"But she hasn't looked for me much." Zhao Yexi said, "She should look for you often."

"Not if we officially announce we're no longer single."

Zhao Yesi was surprised: "Are you going to officially announce that you're no longer single? When?"

"That depends on you." Lu Huangzhi said, "When you give me the status, I will make it official."

Zhao Yesi opened his mouth, wanting to speak but stopping himself, and couldn't utter a word.

Lu Huangzhi laughed and said, "No rush, you take your time to think about it, and I'll wait."

He has plenty of patience with the primary school students.

Zhao Yesi felt like a real bitch. Facing Lu Huangzhi's pursuit, he neither rejected nor formally agreed. Wasn't this just keeping her hanging?

He decided to give his brain another 24 hours, no, 12 hours. Within half a day, he must figure out his true thoughts and give Lu Huangzhi an answer.

Lu Huangzhi probably saw what he was thinking and said, "You'd better let me chase you for a while longer."

Zhao Yexi exclaimed, "Why?"

"Because after I catch you, I will do a lot of things to you, and you will be very busy."

Zhao Yexi: "..."

"Do you have anything else to do today?" Lu Huangzhi asked.

"……No."

"Would you like to come to my house after dinner?"

Zhao Yesi had never been to Lu Huangzhi's home. He only knew that Lu Huangzhi did not live on campus, but he had no idea where he lived.

After getting in the car, Lu Huangzhi used the navigation to check the road conditions. When Zhao Yesi saw the location he had navigated to, he thought to himself: Lu Huangzhi's family is really rich.

But he wasn't at all self-conscious. His parents didn't earn as much as Lu Huangzhi's, but they were truly amazing. From childhood to adulthood, they had always been Zhao Yexi's pride.

Lu Huangzhi's home is a three-story riverside villa with simple and elegant decoration, which has a bit of asexual feeling.

Zhao Yesi asked, "Do your parents live here too?"

"No, I live alone." Lu Huangzhi said, "Shall I show you around?"

"Let's go, let's go."

"The first floor is the living room, dining room and kitchen, the second floor is the bedroom and study, and the third floor is mainly used for leisure."

Zhao Yesi asked, "What's fun?"

"Gyms, home theaters, e-sports rooms. When I was an undergraduate, I would occasionally bring friends over to play games at my house."

"The swimming pool is heated, and the water is changed once a week. It was just changed yesterday."

"The refrigerator has just been restocked. I think it has everything you want. If it's not available, you can ask the butler to bring it over."

Zhao Yexi said, "Fuck, even the butler has one. Have I transmigrated into a domineering CEO novel?"

"Not a personal butler." Lu Huangzhi said, "I'm from the property management."

"You've lost your dignity."

"I don't really like living with people I don't know. But this house does have two nanny rooms. My mom requested it, saying it would be convenient when we have children in the future."

Zhao Yexi couldn't help but ask, "You're trying so hard to introduce it, are you trying to sell the house to me?"

Lu Huangzhi said, "I just want you to stay here for three days while you're susceptible."

“…”

"Don't you think it's much better than being in the hospital?" Lu Huangzhi's voice seemed to be tempting him, "The bed in my room is very big."

Zhao Yesi's cheeks flushed as he asked, "How big is it?"

Lu Huangzhi laughed and said, "You'll know when you go and take a look."

"But you don't have a doctor or a nurse at home."

"I'm a doctor," Lu Huangzhi said in the same coquettish tone he used to Zhao Yesi during his susceptible period, "I'll give you an injection and an IV, okay?"

Lu Huangzhi's dirty talk is so fresh and refined, but his needle is a little too thick.

"...I'll think about it."

Lu Huangzhi curled his lips, "Okay. Want to play games? I'll play with you."

Zhao Yesi thought for a moment and said, "I want to watch a movie."

This was the second time he and Lu Huangzhi watched a movie together, and it was a niche art film.

The atmosphere of the home theater was no less than that of a movie theater: dim lighting, a huge screen, three-dimensional sound effects, soft sofas, and cola and popcorn at hand—everything was exactly like the first time they watched a movie.

He also looked at the boy next to him, just like the first time.

The boy's profile perfectly matches the appearance in my memory, and he is so handsome that it makes people's heart beat faster.

Zhao Yesi suddenly figured it out.

At first, he might have just cared about Lu Huangzhi, admiring his looks and talent. But as they got along, the initial seeds of affection grew and grew, eventually turning into love.

Even if there is no second gender, even if there is no attraction of pheromones, as long as he is allowed to get close to Lu Huangzhi, as long as they are given time to get to know each other, he will uncontrollably fall in love with this tall, handsome, sleepy, occasionally smoking, and slightly naughty junior.

He really likes Lu Huangzhi.

Lu Huangzhi also likes him.

What's the point of being so entangled?! He even went to the hospital for IV drip!

Even if a man would affect his sword-drawing speed, he would throw away the sword and fall in love with Lu Huangzhi!

With great enthusiasm, Zhao Yesi changed his WeChat nickname, which he had used for six or seven years. He had wanted to do this for a long time.

After making the changes, he didn't say anything and continued watching the movie as if nothing had happened, glancing at Lu Huangzhi from time to time.

Lu Huangzhi noticed his strangeness and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay," Zhao Yesi said in a tone that he thought was normal but was actually quite suspicious. "What could happen to me?"

Just as Lu Huangzhi was about to say something, the phone on the table lit up. Zhao Yesi watched him pick up the phone, his heart leaping into his throat.

Is it coming?! But he’s not ready yet!

...I'm not fucking ready. If you're not ready, why change your couple name?

Could Lu Xiyou understand what he meant? Wait, if Lu Xiyou had set a note on his WeChat, she wouldn't be able to find it for a while.

Otherwise, he should just say it directly. In front of Lu Huangzhi, look into his eyes and tell him: Junior, I like you too, let's have a relationship, the kind that we can sleep with.

That’s right, this is the correct way for a macho man to confess his love.

Okay, he admitted, he's not a macho man.

Lu Huangzhi clicked on the message, glanced at it, and said, "There's an emergency video conference at the institute. I'll go to the study to have it. You can continue watching."

Zhao Yesi's heart was stuck in his throat, neither rising nor falling, feeling extremely uncomfortable: "...Oh."

It was impossible for him to continue watching the movie. He couldn't even remember the hero's face. From the beginning, his mind was not on the movie, but on Lu Huangzhi.

Zhao Yexi turned off the movie, turned on stealth mode, and went downstairs quietly.

He stood at the door of the study, poking his head out to observe secretly. Lu Huangzhi sat at the desk with his back to him, talking to Liang Qinghuan.

Suddenly, Lu Huangzhi turned around and looked towards the door. Zhao Yesi quickly retracted his head, so fast that Lu Huangzhi only saw a fleeting afterimage.

Lu Huangzhi: ...Although I don’t know what Zhao Zhitao is doing, she is really cute.

In the video, Liang Qinghuan asked: "What's wrong?"

Lu Huangzhi said: "It's the kitten at home that's causing trouble, Professor."

Liang Qinghuan continued their previous conversation, "As I said, our biggest problem is how to make same-sex marriage law universal. If only marriages between alphas and omegas are legally recognized, while marriages between betas of the same primary gender are excluded, then it won't be much different from the previous heterosexual marriage law..."

Zhao Yesi leaned against the wall at the door of the study. The door was ajar, and he could hear the conversation between Liang Qinghuan and Lu Huangzhi.

He hadn't meant to cause trouble; he just wanted to know when Lu Huangzhi would check WeChat. He was sorry for interrupting their meeting.

He knows he is wrong, so he should just leave.

Zhao Yesi returned to the living room, his phone vibrating in his hand. Oh my god, Lu Huangzhi sent him a WeChat message? He was still in a meeting, so why did he have time to check his phone?

@Professor Liang, someone is slacking off here.

Lu Huangzhi said: [Wait for me for ten minutes.]

So, had Lu Xiyou already noticed that his WeChat name had changed? Ten minutes... what would Lu Xiyou say to him in ten minutes? Or would she say nothing and just get on with her business?

Zhao Yesi remembered the kiss at the back door of the library last time.

This is not at school, but at Lu Huangzhi's home. There is no risk of being discovered, so they can do anything excessive.

No, no, this is so awkward. He's almost dying of embarrassment. He's not suitable to be alone with Lu Xiyou right now, otherwise his heartbeat will explode and his pheromones will go wild.

Hearing footsteps coming from upstairs, Zhao Yesi flew away, saw a door, pushed it open and hid inside.

This is a cloakroom, and the dark brown cabinets are full of autumn and winter coats. Zhao Yesi saw an idiot in the dressing mirror.

Yes, he is an idiot, that's him.

This is my first time liking someone and confessing my feelings to them. I'm so inexperienced that I did something stupid. Please forgive me, thank you.

Wait until he calms down and his heartbeat returns to normal before going out and openly telling Lu Huangzhi that he likes him. Before that, please let him be timid again.

At this time, Lu Huangzhi sent another WeChat message: [Where have you been hiding? ]

【Zhao Yesi:. 】

【Lu Huangzhi:? 】

【Lu Huangzhi: Come out and give me a hug.】

Zhao Yesi couldn't hold it in any longer and squatted in Lu Huangzhi's closet. What did Lu Xiyou mean? Did he see it?

The dog alpha's lack of attention to details ruined a lot of his gentleness.

Zhao Yesi: I changed my WeChat name. Did you see it?

【Lu Huangzhi: I see.】

【Lu Huangzhi: Baby.】