Chapter 34
Lu Si’s guitar lessons are every Sunday from 3pm to 5pm.
I teach in an old residential area, teaching several children from nearby families. The hourly fee is not high compared to other specialized training institutions, but it is not low either.
He was able to get this job mainly thanks to his impressive Level 10 certificate in classical guitar and the certificates of awards he had won in various music competitions since elementary school.
Although they are all primary school students, teaching them is not difficult. I can always find the energy to correct them one by one. The only problem is that they are too noisy.
In addition, the parents are also worried. Half of them are worried about their children, and half of them are worried about the teacher's teaching level. They always move a chair to watch over the students. The feeling of being watched all the time is not very pleasant.
At the end of the two hours, the children became well-behaved as they left, transforming from little devils back into little angels. They held their parents' hands sweetly and called out, "Goodbye, Teacher Lu!"
Young Mr. Lu took off his glasses, a faint smile playing on the corners of his lips: "See you next week."
It was mid-November in this city and the weather was already very cold. Lu Si wore a long-sleeved white shirt inside, a gray-blue knitted vest over the shirt, and a loose thin windbreaker on the outside.
He was waiting for a car across the street with his guitar case slung over his shoulder. There was no traffic light at the zebra crossing, so he waited until the traffic thinned out and found a chance to cross the street.
This is the food street near the junior high school. After crossing the zebra crossing, you will see the back door of the milk tea shop.
On Sunday, although there were no students in the junior high school, there were still many young people coming here to shop and eat.
Lu Si came to the employee locker room, took off his windbreaker, picked up a hanger from the wall and hung it up, then tied on the brown apron from the store.
As he put on the matching brown sleeves, the door opened and the employee from the previous shift greeted him: "Hi! Xiaolu!"
Lu Si nodded to the girl.
The milk tea shop only needs one person to look after the store on a daily basis, and they operate on a shift system. The two of them often work the day shift and night shift on Sunday afternoons. With more and more handovers, they became familiar with each other.
The girl is a sophomore this year.
When Lu Si was working part-time, he hardly met anyone younger than himself, so he followed him wherever he went, calling him Xiao Lu.
Lu Siben was about to go to the front to check on the store when the girl suddenly came over with a cell phone.
She laughed and said, "Last time, a classmate of mine came to the store and happened to run into you. She wanted to ask me for your WeChat, but I didn't think it would be right to give it to her without your consent. Xiaolu, do you want to see a picture of my classmate? He's a very cute Omega!"
Lu Si's slender and sharp eyebrows raised slightly.
"No thanks," he said politely.
"You didn't even glance at me? How cruel, Xiaolu—" the girl dragged out her voice, pretending to complain. She blinked and added some gossip, "You rejected me so bluntly. Do you have someone you like?"
Lu Si couldn’t help but think back to the night before last.
That chaotic night of confession.
Lu Si lowered his eyelids: "There is someone I like."
After saying that, he went to the front counter. Before any customers came to the store, he wiped the counter inside and out again.
The girl followed him out and was in no hurry to leave. She showed great concern about the love life of her cool and handsome colleague, leaning her hands on the table and asking questions non-stop.
"Is it O or B?"
"Have you confessed?"
"Xiaolu, is it easy for you to chase after someone?"
"We should be together now, right?"
Lu Si picked up the measuring cup and wiped it, and his eyes gradually became clear.
That night, in the dark studio, he clearly saw the depression and struggle in Gu Fang's eyes.
Lu Si's first reaction...
He couldn't remember his first reaction, only surprise and disbelief.
He stayed there for a long time, and still remains here today.
Perhaps no other Alpha has ever experienced what he has experienced: the person he confessed his love to suddenly turned from an Omega into an Alpha overnight.
Even a realistic person like Lu Si couldn’t understand what the two A’s meant.
Lu Si had been pondering this question for the past two days. Is there anything that can guarantee that two A's can stay together for a long time?
The family is not okay.
Neither do pheromones.
Even if they like the smell of their partner's pheromones, the presence of pheromones from their Alpha counterparts will inevitably repel them. They might be able to control this with reason during normal times, but what about during their susceptible period?
Even without considering the susceptible period, no matter how much rationality you have, you will eventually feel tired one day.
The same measuring cup was wiped many times in Lu Si's hands.
Finally, under the girl's surprised gaze, he slammed the measuring cup on the table with a bang.
He believed that Gu Fang also understood the same logic.
No matter what the answer in Gu Fang's mind is.
Lu Si was still willing to fall into this seemingly losing trap.
He smiled politely at the girl: "I'm still pursuing him."
If he didn't do this, when Lu Si could clearly see the day when he was old, he would definitely say to someone with regret -
I regret so much that I didn’t persevere when I was seventeen.
But Lu Si's character would not allow such a thing that would definitely cause regret to happen.
Gu Fang painted the painting, packed up the easel, and prepared to leave the studio.
All the students who came to the same art studio for tutoring had left. Gu Fang was standing with his hands behind his back, trying to untie the knot of his apron that was tied too tightly, when the studio tutor suddenly called him.
"Xiao Gu," the teacher said, "the provincial joint exam is in December. There's only less than two weeks left, so time is a bit tight."
Gu Fang finally untied the knot that was tied too tightly, took it off, shook the apron, and said seriously: "I will do my best."
The teacher nodded approvingly at his enthusiasm before mentioning something: "Well, I have a classmate from the Academy of Fine Arts in a neighboring city who is organizing a sprint training camp in the last two weeks of November."
The teacher paused and said, "The training will be very intense, but Xiao Gu, you missed the summer training. I suggest you try it out this time. It can be considered a way to improve yourself. What do you think?"
Gu Fang was silent for a moment, lowering his eyes to consider.
"I'll go," he said finally. "Thank you, teacher."
Early Monday morning, countless students walked or rode bicycles, heading towards the gate of No. 12 Middle School, facing the rising sun.
Lu Si bought a cup of soy milk and a bag of soup dumplings at the Dongmen Market and asked the store to pack them up. He also bought a bag of freshly baked cookies and a box of heated milk at the cake shop next door.
After entering the school, I met Xie Ziyao holding a basketball at the entrance of Qiushi Building.
Seeing him carrying two bags of breakfast, Xie Ziyao whistled, "Dad Lu, when it comes to health preservation, you're the best. Breakfast should be a combination of Chinese and Western!"
Lu Si was too lazy to pay attention to him. He went to the fourth floor, turned a corner and went in with him.
Xie Ziyao was puzzled: "Aren't you from the fifth floor?"
Lu Si raised the breakfast in his hand and said simply, "Give it to someone."
Yaoyaozi's brain circuit finally clicked this time, and he said excitedly: "Dad! I'll help you explore the way!"
This person was the one who was scouting the way ahead of Lu Si. He lay down at the door of Class 7, peeking inside furtively. Then he turned to Lu Si and said mysteriously, "Brother Lu, the target is not here!"
"You have two choices! Put the things down and leave now, or wait for Xiao Piaoliang, oh no, the target, to arrive, then hand the things to him personally and show your sincerity!"
"Boring." Lu Si also glanced at the door of Class 7, and sure enough, Gu Fang's seat was empty.
He simply handed both bags of breakfast to Xie Ziyao and said, "Put them on his desk for me."
Xie Ziyao was anxious to get someone to play basketball. When he saw Gu Fang's deskmate, Tao Yi, coming out of the office with a stack of papers, he gave him breakfast: "This is for your deskmate. Brother Lu sent it to you."
Tao Yi was stunned for a moment and looked at Lu Si: "Don't you know that Gu Fang has asked for leave?"
Lu Si was slightly stunned.
Xie Ziyao sighed: "How do you know? How long will it take?"
"Here." Tao Yi glanced back at the office. "I met Teacher Su. She said the joint entrance exam is in December, right? Gu Fang went to the next city for intensive training. It's a completely closed-door training camp, and I heard it's very intense."
Tao Yi looked at Lu Si again, with some complexity and sympathy in his eyes.
"And you haven't heard yet?"
"What did you hear?" Xie Ziyao acted like a person without internet access.
Tao Yi didn't mind and patiently explained, "I heard the teachers in the office chatting about Gu Fang's secondary differentiation into Alpha. It seems that Gu Fang didn't intend to hide this. The teachers all found it incredible."
"Ah?!" Xie Ziyao opened his mouth wide, his brain a little overloaded.
Tao Yi continued, "On Saturday before, someone from our school heard about this and posted it on the school forum. It went viral that Saturday, and now it's Monday, are you two still unaware of it?"
Before Saturday, the most popular post on the school forum was the big blunder that happened on the night of the confession.
Countless people commented on this post.
"We still don't know the name of the person who confessed his love that day."
"In the end, I don't know if I confessed my feelings or not."
"I am very worried about the psychological status of contemporary high school students."
After Saturday, the hot topics on the school forum changed.
"I witnessed so much heartbreak for A this night."
"That night, I witnessed so much of O's madness."
"That night, all the Class B students in No. 12 Middle School said they didn't care."
"I woke up in a dream, and my wife suddenly became my husband."
After Tao Yi left with a long sigh, Xie Ziyao had not yet completely absorbed and digested the news.
He rolled his eyes blankly and looked at Lu Si eagerly.
Then, for the first time in the life of the single-celled organism Yaoyaozi, a variety of emotions such as shock, complexity, and sympathy flowed through his eyes at the same time, and finally turned into a hand patting Lu Si's shoulder.
"Dad, I'm so sorry, it's okay. It's just my first love that ended before I even realized it. It's not a big deal. There are plenty of fish in the sea. Why should I have a one-sided love for this one?"
Xie Ziyao recited the latter sentence with great passion and rhythm, probably because he really wanted Lu Si to get out of the shadow.
Lu Si understood how single-celled organisms expressed their emotions.
Therefore, he also patted Xie Ziyao's hand on his shoulder, indicating that he understood. Then, he ruthlessly brushed it off, raised his eyelids lazily, and said concisely:
"I'm still in love with her, what the hell is that?"
The training was held in a school affiliated to an art academy in a neighboring city.
The affiliated high school has two campuses, one in the city and one in the suburbs. The training campus is located in the suburbs, nestled against a hillside with picturesque scenery. During the day, the teachers often take us to the mountains for sketching, assigning us assignments and practicing sketching and quick sketching.
Ignoring the endless practice of drawing until you vomit, you can enjoy the many beautiful mountain views on the way up and down the mountain, which is also a rare leisure activity.
When I was coming down the mountain that day, I passed by an orange grove. The oranges were bright yellow and red, hanging from the treetops, and they were obviously ripe at a glance.
It just so happened that there was a teacher who often came here to organize training sessions and knew the owner of this forest. He told everyone to pick as much as they could eat and he would treat them.
Everyone was excited. They were exhausted from running around carrying their easels, but now their waists and legs were no longer sore. They rushed into the woods as if they were seeing oranges growing on trees for the first time.
Gu Fang didn't squeeze into crowded places and walked deeper into the woods.
Just as he set his eyes on the oranges on a tree, he suddenly heard a "ouch" behind him. Gu Fang turned around and saw a boy carrying an easel accidentally stepping into a pit.
"Be careful." Gu Fang stretched out a hand. "The weeds are very deep here, and some of the potholes are hard to see."
After pulling the man out, Gu Fang asked him, "Are you okay?"
"It's okay, it's okay. I'm lucky that I didn't sprain it." The boy bent down and rubbed his ankle, then looked up and smiled brightly at Gu Fang.
There was a thin layer of sweat on the boy's forehead, and a faint smell of pheromones wafted out. Coincidentally, his pheromones also smelled of orange, mixed with a hint of grapefruit.
Gu Fang took a half step back calmly.
Since the second differentiation, he really no longer feels disgusted by anyone's pheromones.
But when I smelled the boy's pheromones, I felt not only that it was not disgusting, but also that it smelled a bit pleasant.
The boy also took a half step back to avoid suspicion and thanked Gu Fang sincerely.
The two kept their distance, picking oranges from the same tree. The boy turned and asked, "Are you an Alpha?"
Gu Fang nodded.
The boy said, "That's rare! I've participated in so many training camps, but this is the first time I've seen an Alpha studying art."
His smile was as bright as an orange. "Would you like to meet me? My name is Chuchi, Chu for the first grade of the new year, and Chi for being late. What's your name?"
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This is an assist, an assist, an assist.
I believe that after seeing this, someone will thank him hhh
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