When Xia Shizhao got home, she found herself feeling even more unwell, so she gave all the servants a day off, leaving her alone in the huge house.
Xia Shizhao paused on her way back to the bedroom, then on a whim, she went to the solitary confinement room. After unlocking the door with her fingerprint, Ye Qiuling dragged her inside.
As Ye Qiuling's breath gently caressed her neck, Xia Shizhao's face contorted in horror, and she cried out, "No!!!! You can't do this!"
Ye Qiuling seemed to have lost consciousness, clinging tightly to her. She felt something strange on the back of her neck, a warm sensation flowing to her limbs, and her initial fear was quickly soothed.
System, help! System!! How did Ye Qiuling turn into an alpha at this moment?!
Xia Shizhao, who had been silently pleading for help for a long time without receiving a response, slowly began to lose consciousness.
I don't know how much time has passed.
Xia Shizhao propped herself up and sat up, only to find that Ye Qiuling was not in the solitary confinement room. Her long hair accidentally brushed against the back of her neck, causing her to shudder in pain.
"Ouch, my neck hurts so much."
She carefully reached over, her hand covered in blood.
Damn, is Ye Qiuling a dog? She bit so hard and ran so fast.
He walked out of the solitary confinement cell, cursing and swearing.
Xia Shizhao called out to the system several times, but it didn't respond. Frustrated, Xia Shizhao glanced at his neck, his eyes blazing with anger. "Ye Qiuling!!! Is she a dog?! This hurts so much! I hope she doesn't catch me, or I'll bite her to death!"
Ye Qiuling, who had run away, also came to her senses and sat on the steps with a look of confusion in her eyes. Why had she wanted to bite Xia Shizhao just now, and why did she seem to have temporarily marked her?
He touched his little tiger teeth.
She frowned. Impossible. She's a beta. It's impossible to mark her.
Ye Qiuling, who had run away, didn't plan to go back and chose to go directly to school.
At home, Xia Shizhao silently reduced the effects of his pheromones to the minimum. His facial features were all over the place, and he grimaced as he applied medicine to his neck. He hadn't used the S-grade repair fluid on Ye Qiuling, but he had to use it on himself. He was really impressed.
Suddenly the system spoke:
'What happened to your neck?'
Why didn't you wait until I died to come back?!
Xia Shizhao roared inwardly.
The system's electronic voice was full of doubt:
'What's wrong???'
I've been tagged!
'impossible!'
After explaining the system detection, he repeated, "That's impossible. You weren't flagged; you were simply bitten by the beta."
'impossible!'
'The detector can't possibly be malfunctioning! Besides, this is your first time experiencing a fever period, how do you know what temporary labeling feels like?'
Xia Shizhao was taken aback by the question. "Oh, right?" she scratched her head. "Maybe she was mistaken."
The system reassured her: 'According to the plot, Ye Qiuling won't become an alpha until two years later. Your feeling of something being strange might be because omegas are more sensitive during their heat cycle.'
'Yeah?'
Xia Shizhao was still a little confused, but she was a carefree person and simply stopped thinking about things she couldn't figure out.
Xia Shizhao spent a pleasant week at home working on his 'carefree and leisurely' job, while Ye Qiuling was having a blast at school.
Rumors, from who knows where, spread that Xia Shizhao disliked this older sister, and some brainless people naturally took the lead in bullying her.
On the day he returned to school, Xia Shizhao hummed as he passed the restroom in the residential area, not noticing Ye Qiuling who had just come out.
She glanced gloomily at Xia Shizhao, who had just returned to school, while wearing a mask.
The pain at the corner of her mouth made her lower her eyebrows and eyes even further, as if she were surrounded by a black mist.
Xia Shizhao, completely unaware of the situation, felt a chill run down his spine as soon as he arrived in the classroom. Upon hearing the system's notification, he desperately wanted to return during his fever period so he could escape the plot.
The thought of framing Ye Qiuling for pushing her down at noon gave Xia Shizhao a headache.
Frustrated, Mu Qinwan, chewing on a pen cap, looked at her and asked, "You can't do this math problem either?"
Xia Shizhao glanced down at the math problem and could only say that the world in the book was different; the entirely new knowledge caused her a lot of trouble back then.
After thinking for a moment, he wrote down the question and handed it to Mu Qinwan, who was standing next to him. He was still pondering what to do when he realized that no matter what he did, it was a dead end.
After reading the solution to the problem, Mu Qinwan exclaimed in surprise, "You've been secretly studying behind my back again, haven't you? Your problem-solving speed is so fast!"
Xia Shizhao spread his hands triumphantly:
"No, I learned it openly and honestly, you just didn't see it~"
The two sisters were playfully fighting when a lion's roar startled them both.
"Finally caught you, Xia Shizhao! You dared to ignore me last time!!!"
Xia Shizhao immediately recognized the person who had ambushed her last time.
Without any politeness, he said, "Who are you? Do I know you? What are you yelling about? Are you trying to see who can shout the loudest?"
Upon hearing this, the whole class was shocked, because Xia Shizhao used to be a man who rarely spoke except to a few familiar people, let alone shouted.
Mu Qinwan opened her mouth slightly and let out a soft "wow".
When Xia Shizhao looked at her, he gave her a thumbs up to show his appreciation, then slammed his hand on the table, "Li Guangxi! If you shout again, don't think that just because your family is a top noble family in the Moon Alliance, I won't dare to scold you!"
"Heh, I'm an aristocrat, so of course I have the right to say that," Li Guangxi said arrogantly, arms crossed and chin held high. "Guess whether the school will help you or me?"
Having been rebuffed, Mu Qinwan gritted her teeth but remained silent.
Xia Shizhao smiled and pressed her down to sit. "What? Are you happy to see me get dumped?"
"Of course."
Li Guangxi snorted coldly.
Xia Shizhao nodded in sudden realization, "Oh, I get it, you like that childish brat from the He family~"
What? A childish brat? Mu Cheng was sleeping in the classroom when he suddenly felt an itch in his nose. He sneezed and woke up completely.
Hearing discussions about Li, he frowned in disgust. Then, hearing her go and cause trouble for Xia Shizhao, he immediately got up and ran out.
He rushed to the door and heard Xia Shizhao's disdainful tone, which made him laugh in exasperation.
"Here you go. I don't like him anyway. He's like an idiot, riding a motorcycle to school early in the morning as if he's afraid someone will run him over."
With her hands outstretched, Xia Shizhao's words and gestures clearly showed her disdain.
But Li Guangxi said unhappily:
"A woman with no taste, she's so handsome."
In fact, many people saw He Mucheng arrive at school on his motorcycle that day, and many secretly supported Li Guangxi's cool comment.
The person in question emerged from behind the door, arms crossed, leaning against the wall, and said in a nonchalant tone:
"Xia Shizhao, you really have no taste! I'm so handsome, and you actually called me brain-dead."
Xia Shizhao looked at him with a forced smile and spoke gently:
"Get out of here right now, and stop smelling your perfume. You're so afraid people won't know what your pheromones smell like, aren't you, you peacock?"
"Brother Mu Cheng, don't talk to this ignorant woman, let's go."
"Let go of me, we shouldn't touch each other," he said, shaking off Li Guangxi's hand as if it were burning his own, then looked at Xia Shizhao, "I'll wait for the day you regret this."
Then he left confidently.
"Brain-dead."
After whispering to each other, Xia Shizhao and Mu Qinwan looked at each other and remained silent.
Mu Qinwan leaned close to her ear and said, "He seems to really have a problem with his brain. It's a good thing we broke off the engagement, otherwise it would be too miserable to live with a fool. If it were me, I would rather have my glands removed than be with him."
Xia Shizhao expressed his support, but also whispered, "Small intestines wrapping the brain, confident and greasy, it's a waste to give him such a good face."
For some reason, Si Qingyue in front of her burst out laughing.
Startled, the two thought they had been overheard and quickly gestured for silence.
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