Chapter 56 [VIP]

Medical students have no time to rest. When they have a holiday, they feel too idle. After classes resume, Pei Xingzhi starts to miss that holiday when he was so idle that he could only sleep.

What's wrong with sleeping? Sleeping is truly the most valuable and meaningful thing.

At 9:37 PM, Pei Xingzhi finished recording the final data, packed up his things, and glanced around at the classmates.

Everyone else was still conducting their own experiments, and everyone's face showed the same anxiety.

But what did that have to do with him? Pei Xingzhi didn't want to play the good guy anymore, so he stretched and slipped into the lounge to rest.

Ever since Xie Nanyi caught him in the lounge, he had developed a phobia of it. Fortunately, Xie Nanyi disappeared for a week, which eased his phobia a little.

The lounge still reeked of those pungent chemical reagents. He didn't turn on the light, relying on his memory to find his way to the bed in the lounge. With his body pressed against the bed, Pei Xingzhi's body, which had been floating all day, finally settled down.

The soreness in his calves and lower back also followed. Xie Nanyi had disappeared for a week, and he had practically lived in the lab during that time. He didn't have much work to do, and he spent most of his time helping others. At first, everyone was grateful to him, but gradually, it seemed that everyone took his help for granted.

As the strongest student, isn't helping others what he should do? It would be wrong if he did nothing.

He closed his eyes and immersed himself in the darkness.

He was like a traveler trapped in the desert, who, with his last bit of strength, climbed to the oasis before his life was over, only to find that it was just a mirage.

Just when he was about to see hope, they told him it was all just a pipe dream. He couldn't escape it; that was his fate.

Besides exhaustion, that familiar confusion returned. Pei Xingzhi wanted to cry, but found that he didn't seem to know how to shed tears.

So tired.

So tired.

So tired.

I really want to leave this place.

"Pei Xingzhi! Come here quickly and take a look! The effect here is different from yours! It's almost ten o'clock, I'm doomed if I don't finish soon! Pei Xingzhi! Come here quickly and take a look!"

Pei Xingzhi had only been lying down for a few minutes when the door to the lounge was opened from the outside. A blond Beta, holding a beaker in one hand and a tattered glove in the other, cried and begged Pei Xingzhi to help him look at his experiment.

Bright light streamed in, and Pei Xingzhi instinctively frowned, ducking from the light. After a few seconds on the bed, he slowly sat up. A sharp pain, like something rolling over his temples, exploded in Pei Xingzhi's mind along with Beta's voice.

"Wait a moment, I'll come and take a look for you later," Pei Xingzhi said, his hoarse voice startling even himself.

"What are you waiting for! I really can't wait here, brother. Get up quickly and help me take a look!" Seeing that Pei Xingzhi was still lying on the bed, the Beta went over and pulled him up.

Pei Xingzhi didn't expect him to come and pull him directly. He was pulled off the bed without any warning, and his ankle hit the corner of the bed, causing a deep wound.

"Hiss—" Pei Xingzhi cried out in pain, instinctively pushing the Beta away. He sat on the ground for a while, clutching his bleeding wound. When he looked up, he saw the Beta standing there with his hands raised, showing no intention of helping him up.

Pei Xingzhi rolled his eyes, leaned on the table next to him to stand up, turned on the light in the lounge, and found the spare first-aid kit to treat his wound.

"I...I...I didn't mean to..." Upon seeing Pei Xingzhi injured, the blond Beta immediately raised his hands to shirk responsibility.

The first thing he thought of after injuring him was to shirk his responsibility. Pei Xingzhi snorted coldly and did not respond to him with his usual good temper.

"Pei Xingzhi, you can't be serious..." Seeing Pei Xingzhi's attitude, the Beta couldn't keep up the act any longer, and a harsh word was about to spill out.

Pei Xingzhi ignored him, pursed his lips, and lowered his head to apply medicine to himself.

The lab's medications are highly effective, specially formulated to prevent students from coming into contact with chemicals during experiments. They are very potent, but the pain they cause is equally intense. Pei Xingzhi's hands trembled as he cleaned the wound with the medication, and a layer of sweat quickly appeared on his forehead.

"Pei Xingzhi... I'm sorry, it's my fault. Are you alright..." Yellow-haired Beta grinned and spoke. He still needed Pei Xingzhi's help, so he couldn't afford to make things too ugly. But he still didn't think Pei Xingzhi's injury was his fault. If he had left earlier, none of this would have happened.

Pei Xingzhi was in excruciating pain and had no mind to answer his question. He pursed his lips without replying, but his eyes seemed to say he hoped the blond Beta would leave as soon as possible.

"Then...then I'll go out first. You...you take your time tidying up. Um, don't let the wound get infected..." After receiving his signal, Beta left after saying this and ran out.

idiot

Watching his heartless departure, Pei Xingzhi inwardly grumbled.

After bandaging his wound, Pei Xingzhi lost all desire to stay. He had already finished his assignments long ago, and staying here was simply serving as free labor for these people. He was neither a teaching assistant nor a project leader, and he didn't need to rely on these people for any promotions. He didn't want to be enthusiastic anymore.

Although the wound had been treated, the pain lingered. Pei Xingzhi walked slowly with a limp. The distance from the door of the lounge to the door of the laboratory was only a dozen meters, but it took him several minutes to walk.

When the people in the lab saw him come out, they held up what they were holding, gesturing for his help. Pei Xingzhi pretended not to understand their hints and waved goodbye to them with a smile.

When the group saw him about to leave, their expressions immediately changed. One or two people who were used to having him do things jumped out and asked why Pei Xingzhi was leaving before his experiment was finished.

“I’ve finished my experiment.” Pei Xingzhi blinked, pretending not to understand the dissatisfaction in his tone.

It turns out that pretending to be stupid is so fun. No wonder these people always have this kind of expression when he needs their help.

"But we haven't finished yet!" An Alpha who usually bossed him around jumped out and blocked his way.

"But I've finished mine. And my foot is injured; I need to go to the hospital to see if any bones are broken." Pei Xingzhi continued to play dumb. What did their experiment have to do with him? He had no intention of helping them today.

"Pei Xingzhi—what will we do without you? We can't have done it so perfectly without your help." Seeing that the situation between the two was somewhat deadlocked, another Omega came over to act as a peacemaker, grabbing Pei Xingzhi's hand and pleading for his mercy.

“But you can do it even without me. We’re not even in the same group.” Pei Xingzhi pushed his hand away and blinked innocently, mimicking his usual expression.

"Besides, I've already been delayed for a long time today. Xie Nanyi has been urging me several times. If I don't go back soon, he'll probably come over. You know his reputation. If he comes, he'll cause a lot of gossip. So I'd better go back before he arrives." Seeing that he still wouldn't give up, Pei Xingzhi simply used Xie Nanyi as a shield.

They wouldn't care about him as a Beta, but they had to consider Xie Nanyi, an Alpha with a privileged family background.

Just as he expected, as soon as Pei Xingzhi uttered Xie Nanyi's name, the Omega, with a hint of hesitation, made way for him to exit.

Pei Xingzhi gave him his most genuine smile of the night, then turned and waved to the others behind him.

"Bye-bye everyone, thanks for your hard work, keep it up!"

Pei Xingzhi left the laboratory, and the fresh air outside eased his swollen brain a little.

He limped to a stone bench in the nearby grove, sat down, rubbed his calves, and breathed heavily.

For a brief moment, he felt suffocated and could barely breathe. He realized how comforting it was to not have to endure these things he thought were normal.

But he has experienced similar "grievances" countless times over the past ten years.

He thought he could get rid of this entanglement with his own strength, but he never expected that he could get rid of it all with just Xie Nanyi's name.

He doesn't even need to be there in person.

Aaaaaaahh ...

Why?

He sat on the bench for a long time, so long that the last streetlight in the vicinity went out, so long that the other students in the laboratory finally finished their experiments and walked in groups through the grove towards their dormitories.

Pei Xingzhi was sitting on a bench in the woods; you would hardly notice him unless you specifically went in.

Those people clearly didn't notice him. As they passed by in twos and threes, a few of the more hot-tempered ones couldn't help but bring up the topic of him.

"I don't know what he's so arrogant about. So what if he knows a little more? It's one thing to show off in front of the teachers, but why is he acting all high and mighty in front of us? He's just a Beta, what's with all the arrogance..."

"Tch, I have no idea how he got on Xie Nanyi's good side. Look at the way he talked about Xie Nanyi today, who knows what he's up to behind the scenes..."

"Xie Nanyi is just playing around with him. I have a friend who knows Xie Nanyi, and he said that Xie Nanyi doesn't take Pei Xingzhi seriously at all. He just..."

"What is it?"

"Of course it's because of that mark. What Alpha would bother chasing after a Beta? Once they get their hands on her, they're just..."

The man didn't recognize Pei Xingzhi's voice. He only realized something was wrong when he noticed his companions frantically giving him meaningful glances out of the corner of his eye.

He turned around abruptly, and Pei Xingzhi's familiar smiling face appeared in front of him.

He had probably just stood up from the stone bench beside him when the Alpha turned around, and Pei Xingzhi had only just regained his footing. His left foot was injured, and he leaned slightly to the side. His overly long hair was casually tied into a low ponytail with a small hair tie, and stray strands of hair clung to his ears, making him appear even more gentle in the hazy moonlight.

However, the words he spoke did not seem very gentle to the Alpha.

"Why did you stop talking?"