Chapter 20
[I am not good at anything, but eating is my first priority]
-Chen Xiaoyi: Hi guys, let's go for the National Day holiday! I have coupons for the newly opened forest park in the eastern suburbs, and a 40% discount at the hot spring hotel!
-Brother Yuanzi: Hot spring!
-Ji (fourth tone) brother: Hotel!
-Chen Xiaoyi: 40% off!
Yaoyaozi: No? You call three days a long vacation?
-Chen Xiaoyi: Oh, what a pity, we have four days off.
-Yaoyaozi: Did anyone in your class really make it into the top ten in the city?
-Chen Xiaoyi: Holy shit, not only that, Lu Ge's deskmate is really a hidden talent, number one in the city. I was shocked when I saw his grades. How could someone get a fucking 140 in Chinese! 149 in foreign language!
-Yaoyaozi: Holy shit, pretty girl?!
-Brother Yuanzi: Perhaps a student who failed both Chinese and English has more say.
-Yaoyaozi: Are you mocking me?
-Ji (fourth tone) brother:? Are you mocking me?
-Chen Xiaoyi: Who cares about you two? This is obviously a satire on Brother Lu.
Yaoyaozi: Hey! Chen Yi, you're such a jerk! You're going to rebel, right?
-Ji (fourth tone) brother: Open your eyes and look at the name of our group. Where does our food come from?
-Chen Xiaoyi: I was wrong, Dad! Kneel down right now! I still need you to bring me my meals!
-Brother Yuanzi: Father, I am only making fun of these two @遥遥子@寄 (fourth tone)哥
Yaoyaozi: ...So where's Lu Ge? Is he really going for the aloof style now?
-Brother Yuanzi: I was just asked to have a talk with Lao Du about the results this time.
-Chen Xiaoyi: Gu Fang was also called away.
-Ji (fourth tone) brother: Are you going to compare them?
-Yaoyaozi: It’s so cruel, I like it.
"Lu Si, tell me something," Old Du said, holding a cigarette between his legs. "What's wrong with your brain? I've been teaching for over 20 years and I've never seen anyone get full marks in math and physics but not even pass in Chinese or English."
The Chinese teacher and the English teacher's desks were right across from each other. They lowered their heads to correct homework, smiling without saying a word.
This damn oppressive feeling.
Lu Si drooped his tired eyelids and rubbed the hair hanging behind his head with his hands, not knowing how to explain.
It scored like this in the exam, and he actually wanted to know the reason.
"Teacher Du," Gu Fang took over the topic naturally, "It's normal to have some areas that are not good at. A person has some areas that they are good at, and some areas that they are not good at."
Lao Du said, "So Teacher Wu told me that you failed the physical exam three times, right?"
Gu Fang: “…”
He silently lowered his eyes and instantly wilted like a little rabbit. Lu Si even hallucinated that two long ears were drooping.
"Teacher Du." Lu Si opened his lips lightly.
Old Du raised his eyes and glanced at him, his eyes seemed to say, you kid finally spoke, what's your insightful opinion.
"Physical education is not included in the college entrance examination." Lu Si answered very quickly.
Old Du slammed the table. "Just because physical education isn't included in the college entrance exam means you don't have to worry about your health anymore, right? When you start working, you young people will realize that health is the foundation of revolution!"
The two of them listened in silence when the Chinese teacher across from them suddenly interrupted, "Aren't they desk mates? I remember? Isn't Lu Si the head of the Culture and Sports Department? Since they both have weak academic scores, why not set up a mutual aid group?"
Lao Du's eyebrows jumped: "That makes sense."
Teacher Wu was playing with his phone in the corner and looked up to join in the fun. "I think it's okay. Gu Fang shouldn't ask me to take the test anymore. It's too torturous. Ask Xiaolu to take the test for him. Whichever test he passes will be published."
"Did you hear that?" Lao Du looked at them.
"I heard it." Gu Fang said.
"But I didn't quite understand it." Lu Si added for him.
Old Du didn't care whether they understood or not. He waved his hand and said, "Let's try it for a month. When you have time, you can tutor each other and exchange experiences. After a month, we'll see how it works. If it doesn't work, we won't force it. Okay, go back to class."
The corridor was shaded by lush green vines. When they arrived at Class 2, Lu Si took the lead and quickened his pace to enter through the back door.
When passing by Gu Fang, Lu Si raised his voice slightly, with a lazy tone of someone who was still sleepy and trying to stay awake, as if it came right next to Gu Fang's ear.
"Wait for me in the playground after school."
The wind brought by the walking had a cool minty scent. Gu Fang's heart seemed to be gently tickled. He froze in place, looked up deeply, and watched Lu Si greet Chen Yi and others as if nothing had happened.
After the school bell rang, the playground on the top of the mountain was covered with a layer of golden light from the setting sun.
At the side of the runway, Lu Si pressed the watch and had a further estimate of Gu Fang's physical fitness.
When Gu Fang passed by on his second lap, Lu Si also started running after him. His voice was not loud, but loud enough for the two of them to hear clearly: "Can you breathe in and out according to my rhythm?"
Beads of sweat dripped down Gu Fang's forehead. He barely managed to spare a bit of energy, turned his head away, and looked at him with blue eyes.
There were few people on the playground after the holiday, only sports students were training in the distance, and occasionally voices calling each other's names could be heard.
But Lu Si could no longer hear what those loud-mouthed athletes were shouting. The breeze brought the sound of Gu Fang's rapid and hot breathing, but his eyes were calm and peaceful. Lu Si could not read anything from the depths of his pupils. He could only hear his own unsteady heartbeat, thump thump, which turned into two words in Gu Fang's eyes.
--What a nice view.
Whether it was the panting or those blue eyes like glass beads.
Lu Si's eyes wandered slightly, and he saw Gu Fang's pale red lips moving up and down.
"What?" Lu Si half-closed his eyes, came back to his senses and glanced at him.
"I asked," Gu Fang took a breath and repeated what he had just asked: "What?"
"Breathe in the rhythm of my running," Lu Si explained with a raised eyebrow, "This rhythm is most suitable for you."
Gu Fang lowered his head and glanced at Lu Si's steps. It seemed that he could indeed keep up. He turned his head and looked forward, paying attention to Lu Si's footsteps with his peripheral vision - it was amazing, Lu Si seemed to know how long and how far his next step would take, and he was almost completely synchronized with him, walking side by side.
When their steps overlapped, Lu Si's cold voice was carried on the wind: "Inhale, inhale, inhale..."
Gu Fang felt that his pleasant voice seemed to have magic, and unknowingly, it controlled his breathing. Lu Si's pronunciation was like his fingertips pressing the black and white keys one by one on the piano, and Gu Fang's breathing was like the notes flowing from his hands, completely under his control.
I don’t know if it was really effective or just a diversion of attention, but although my lungs still felt burning, the adrenaline stimulated Gu Fang to run tirelessly, keeping pace with Lu Si.
Lu Si was able to catch up with the pace with his physical strength. He did not feel tired while running. Instead, he felt a sense of accomplishment and a little excitement.
After running a few laps, Lu Si unscrewed a thermos cup and handed it to him: "Glucose water, warm."
"Thank you." Gu Fang lowered his eyes and took a few sips. His originally porcelain-white face was now flushed with red after the intense exercise, and his Adam's apple rolled as he swallowed.
Lu Si was originally observing his physical condition casually, but when his eyes moved to the Adam's apple on his fair neck where he was swallowing, he paused and suddenly couldn't move his eyes away.
After a moment, Lu Si turned his head away very deliberately, with an indescribable complexity in his dark pupils.
He had never experienced the beauty of Omega that others talked about before.
But right now, he was the one who couldn't take his eyes off...
The beauty of the Omega before him was not aggressive, but rather soft and gentle. However, at first glance, one could be drawn in, and by the time one discovered the danger inherent in this beauty, it was already too late.
Lu Si was obviously still in the first stage, but it was enough for him to be confused by the contradiction between stepping into the trap or not.
Because he turned his head away, he didn't notice that Gu Fang's face suddenly became increasingly red. Gu Fang naturally felt this and understood the reason, and his face froze slightly.
Sweat is one of the main carriers of pheromones.
When Lu Si handed him the thermos, Gu Fang could smell the mint scent that enveloped him, refreshing yet lightly sweet. This elusive, mysterious scent only served to arouse the dark, sadistic desire within him, the desire to extract the slightest hint of sweetness.
But this is not right.
In order not to show any strangeness, Gu Fang took the glass of water calmly, drank it with his eyes lowered, and restrained himself secretly.
He still remembered the stunned look on Lu Si's face when he asked him to let go during the last estrus period.
That was not a good experience, either for him or Lu Si.
Because he stopped drinking water, Lu Si thought he had had enough and naturally reached out to take it.
Gu Fang had his eyes downcast, concentrating on memorizing the periodic table, when suddenly a hand reached out in front of him, wrapped in the scent he longed for. Gu Fang's brain suddenly went blank - without thinking, he slapped the hand away.
Lu Si's hand was suspended in the air.
"Hey! It's time to collect the equipment!" The gym student called out to his classmates on the other end.
The shout was like a cloud from above. Lu Si and Gu Fang were frozen. The surroundings fell silent, and an unknown awkward atmosphere flowed between them.
No one spoke.
After a long while, Gu Fang lowered his eyelids, covering his empty blue eyes, and said softly, "I'm sorry."
Lu Si just glanced at him from afar with a faint look in his eyes, without answering or moving forward.
Gu Fang pursed his lips, not knowing what to do. He put the cup back into the net pocket on the side of Lu Si's schoolbag, picked up his own schoolbag, tilted his head, apologized again, and turned away.
Try to walk at a normal pace, neither fast nor slow, so as not to let Lu Si notice anything unusual.
In fact, what Gu Fang wanted to do most now was to pounce on Lu Si, grab the back of his neck and take a deep bite.
Such an ugly desire made him feel ashamed and embarrassed, and the best solution suggested by reason was to escape quickly.
Lu Si stood still, and the hand that was hanging in the air was lowered after a while and placed next to the blue stripes on the outside of his school pants.
His eyes were cold, and his long eyebrows were still raised easily, revealing a calmness that came from extremely strong self-control.
But the fingertips of the hand that was lowered were twitching slightly, irregularly and out of the person's control.
Lu Si's brain was working at high speed, and he soon figured out the reason. It was the pheromones emitted from his body after a long run.
...That's enough.
Reason told Lu Si that it was enough to find the reason here. This was exactly what he had always done.
Don't think about deeper reasons.
"Minister!" Several passing athletes carrying mats naturally recognized him. "Why aren't you in a hurry to leave during the holiday? What's going on?"
Lu Si stood there coldly, raised his eyes and looked around with a slightly confused look.
...Is it really that annoying? His pheromones.
Wanliang’s fifth anniversary is tonight.
As the largest and oldest live house in the city, the anniversary celebration naturally attracted countless music fans to come and support it. A long queue formed at the door before it got dark.
Lu Qi walked out of the noisy hall with his phone in hand and waved to the boy at the entrance: "Here!"
Gu Fang was wearing a baseball cap and a mask, his entire body covered tightly, revealing only a pair of clear blue eyes. He blinked slightly and said, "Sorry, something happened earlier, so I'm late."
Lu Qi waved his hand, not caring much, and led him inside to find Sister Qing's location. He glanced at his face and asked, "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"Yes, a little." Gu subconsciously touched the barrier patch behind his head, his eyes curved, "But it will be fine after a while."
She has already gone into estrus once this month, and the symptoms have eased after leaving Lu Si, so I don't think it's a big problem.
Lu Qi actually put on a cool face and looked at him with concern: "If you don't feel well, don't force yourself."
"It's really okay." Gu Fang took out a bottle of AD calcium from his pocket, handed it to her, and smiled with his eyes, "Or?"
Lu Qi took it and asked doubtfully, "Is this the popular drink among you high school students these days?"
Gu Fang was startled, and glanced at the folk singer on the stage, a faint smile floating in his eyes: "Isn't there a saying - it may be a little childish for junior high school students, but it's just right for us high school students."
Lu Qi snorted, "Childish."
TS was the third to last to appear.
Sister Qing was in the middle, neither up nor down. She took out her cell phone and waved it in the dark, unable to make out whose face was whose.
Gu Fang stood in the darkness, his deep eyes fixed on the young man in the center of the stage.
The young band leader had broad shoulders and a thin waist. He stood tall, his lips pursed coldly, his eyes raised sharply, and his face expressionless as he held the guitar in his hand.
He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that Lu Si's face was particularly cold tonight, and there was a vague sense of irritability suppressed in his brows.
But he restrained himself very well. The guitar suddenly plucked out a series of long notes, which startled the audience to cheer and applaud. The scene became more and more agitated. Except for Gu Fang, no one noticed the restlessness in the heart of the person who plucked these notes.
Maybe someone else noticed it.
During the intermission, TS had another song to sing. Lu Qi tugged at Gu Fang's sleeve and whispered, "That song was originally written by my brother over a month ago for this anniversary performance."
Gu Fang lowered his eyes and looked at her dimly.
Lu Qi lowered his voice and said, "Maybe he's still not satisfied. The rest of the band approved of the song, but he gave up on it and substituted it with a song he hadn't performed before. Maybe because of this, he hasn't been in a good mood recently."
There was a hint of anxiety in Gu Fang's eyes. After all, Lu Si didn't show any bad mood at school.
Maybe there was, but Lu Si never showed it in front of him.
Gu Fang's heart felt like it was being gently pinched, and a sour and tender pain welled up in his heart. Even so, Lu Si still agreed to Lao Du's request, and his thoughtless behavior on the playground after school undoubtedly added to his troubles.
Even the unhappiness inflicted by ordinary friends can deepen the distress of an already depressed person. However, Lu Si is the kind of person who does not vent his depression to others, but only pours it into music.
But Gu Fang also has his own worries.
The stars are beautiful, but his desires are ugly.
The closer he got to the stars, the more crude the appearance of his soul became.
Loss of control, desire, sadism towards the one he cherishes most, and dirty, ugly desires—these were all things he hated the most.
The performance continued, but the air became increasingly hot and humid.
The lights on the stage went out one by one in Gu Fang's world, and there was nothingness all around. These were the people and things that his limited energy could not take care of. Only Lu Si was left in the center, with his eyelids pressed down, playing a slow-paced lyric song.
Pheromones mixed with sweat and breath came from all directions and pressed towards Gu Fang alone.
The melody was as gentle as moonlight, and Gu Fang only needed to look at Lu Si on the stage to feel his heart at peace. The music was so gentle that he felt like Lu Si would start singing in the next moment, but she didn't.
It turned out that he hoped Lu Si would make a sound, or just cast a cold look at him, so that the bad pheromones around him would not be so unbearable for him.
But this gentle song is ultimately dedicated to everyone.
As soon as the performance ended, Gu Fang said hello to Lu Qi and Song Ciqing and walked quickly to the bathroom.
After lingering in the cubicle for a while and coming out with the barrier patch and new mask on, most of the audience had left, and the remaining ones were mostly customers drinking at the bar.
Gu Fang lifted his mask, looked around, and lowered his eyes to look at his phone.
-I'll wait for you at the exit. Sister Qing will treat us to barbecue!
-Yeah, coming right up.
Just as Gu Fang was putting his phone back into his pocket, he was greeted by the presence of several Alphas. Without thinking, he adjusted the brim of his hat and tried to avoid them, but one of them leaned over and stopped him, saying, "Hello, can you add me on WeChat when you have time?"
Gu Fang lifted his eyelids and glanced at him calmly: "I'm busy."
Then he slowly lowered his eyes and tried to go around to the other side, but was stopped by the man's companion: "We are just making friends, don't be so cold, kid."
The man pronounced the word "little friend" in a very frivolous manner.
Gu Fang stood still, his eyebrows slightly raised under his baseball cap, and said good-naturedly, "I'm underage."
The man laughed and said, "Minors can't make friends. What law stipulates this?"
"Little boy, you're an Omega, right?" Another man stepped forward, forcing Gu Fang back to the wall. He quietly clutched the phone in his pocket. "I can smell your pheromones. They're quite unusual..." He looked at his companion. "Is it the scent of orchid grass?"
"It must be orchid," his companion said, "but I can't smell what kind of orchid it is."
The guests were all gathered at the bar in the distance. The lights nearby were dim, and if you weren't paying attention, you would hardly notice what was happening here.
His vision was still a little dizzy, and Gu Fang smelled the strong smell of alcohol on them, frowning in embarrassment.
"Little boy, are you wearing a barrier patch?" The man suddenly reached out to touch the back of Gu Fang's neck, "The pheromone smells so faint..."
Gu Fang's eyes darkened, and he was about to grab that hand tightly, but before he could make any move, another hand came from the side - easily picked up the top layer of clothing, pulled the hand, turned it in the direction, and threw it away heavily, quite disgusted.
"Looking for my little friend," Lu Si stood in front of Gu Fang, forcibly separating the others from Gu Fang, and raised his eyebrows. "What's the matter?"
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