Chapter 24
Lan Yexing took a long time to react to what Qiao You was saying, then he opened his eyes wide, blushed, and lowered his voice to retort: "I'm not touching you!"
He was clearly just checking to see if there were any perverted pieces of paper stuck on the other person!
Moreover, his movements were very gentle and careful, and he did not touch the other person's body at all. He was just checking the shirt!
Lan Yexing tried to pull his hand back, but the young man's cold big hand held his wrist tightly and he couldn't pull it free at all, so he simply gave up.
Unable to explain to the young man his motives for doing so, Lan Yexing tried to figure it out from another angle.
He looked at the other person sincerely and helplessly, and said, "Besides, we are friends now, and we are both male betas, so it won't matter if I accidentally bump into you."
Qiao You paused holding Lan Yexing's wrist. He looked at the boy with a subtle expression on his face and a deeper smile: "Junior, do you know what my orientation is?"
Lan Yexing was stunned and shook his head honestly. He didn't understand why the topic suddenly jumped to this point.
Qiao You raised his eyebrows and said, "My sexual orientation is male."
Therefore, this university only admits male students.
Lan Yexing blinked blankly, and it took him a while to understand what the other party was saying:
Joe lobbied that his sexual orientation was male, not specifically male omega or male alpha... In other words, his sexual orientation included male beta...
Lan Yexing suddenly opened his eyes wide, and his face turned completely red in an instant - even his neck was red and hot.
He immediately apologized very sincerely, his voice even stammering: "S-Sorry, I didn't mean it just now!"
It's normal to do what you just did with a friend, but if the friend's orientation includes homosexuality (even in this world with so many gender categories, it includes homosexuality), then the action just now is indeed offensive.
He will definitely pay attention to boundaries when he interacts with Qiao You next time!
The smile on Qiao You's face froze subtly: "...I don't blame you, nor do I ask you to apologize."
Lan Yexing: “.……?” What do you want?
Qiao You locked his gaze on the good-looking boy in front of him with a meaningful look. After a while, he let go of his wrist and turned back to continue reading. He said calmly, "At least don't be in the library in the future."
Lan Yexing took this answer as the young man's considerate understanding of the offense, so he nodded and, thinking that he was being considerate, did not continue the topic.
At this time, he looked at his watch: it was 7:45, and the time was approaching the dormitory curfew. Although he would be a little late if he rode his bike back now, the dormitory supervisors of Xingdu University probably felt that it was too cruel to implement closed management for students of this age, so they were generally more approachable and would not say much to students who exceeded the curfew time by less than half an hour.
So Lan Yexing stood up and said, "Senior, it's almost time, let's go back." The students who were here just now had all left one after another.
Qiao You, however, remained sitting there. He closed his book, opened his sports bag neatly, took out the notebook, bread, and milk, and handed them to Lan Yexing. He said, "You go first. I have something else to do."
He had the control alpha's vocal cords and eyes [pulled out] from behind and locked him in the utility room before he had the chance to study him thoroughly.
Lan Yexing took the canvas bag and opened his mouth to say something, but was considerate enough not to ask any more questions. He just said goodbye to him seriously: "Then be careful, senior. I'm leaving first."
After saying that, he got up and left.
After walking a few steps, he remembered something, paused, turned around and looked at the blond young man sitting alone by the dark glass window.
At this time, the tall young man was looking thoughtfully at the dark and lonely night outside the window. His profile was extremely handsome, but the relaxed and casual expression he had just had was gone, replaced by indifference and a hint of hostility.
As if sensing his gaze, Qiao You turned his head, holding his chin with one hand and looking at him with a smile: "What's wrong?"
Lan Yexing warned earnestly: "Senior, if you find any strange pieces of paper on your clothes before you go back to the dormitory to take a shower and change into pajamas today, tear them up and throw them away."
Qiao You waved his hand, looking at the boy's green eyes that unconsciously showed a warm and carefree smile, and he said, "I know. Let's go, junior."
So Lan Yexing smiled at him softly, turned and left.
Qiao You still sat there with one hand on his chin, looking at the boy's back nonchalantly. He waited until the boy left here completely, then he stood up and walked out the door with a cold smile.
…
After returning to the dormitory, Lan Yexing took a shower and lay down on the bed. On the bedside table was the notebook he took back from Qiao You. Perhaps because he had stayed at Qiao You's place for a few days, the notebook exuded a faint lemon scent, which made people feel at ease when they smelled it.
Lan Yexing hugged the soft and comfortable quilt and thought about many questions:
For example, what is the purpose of Leon sending people to capture Qiao You? -- This question can be extended to mean, what is the purpose of everyone in this university capturing Qiao You?
Also, what is Leon's role in Xiao Song's affairs? What secrets does he want to exchange?
…
At this moment, the dial on his right wrist lit up quietly, interrupting Lan Yexing's thoughts.
The system once again issued a task in text format: [Tomorrow evening at 5:00, all students of the business school where Qiao You is studying will go to the No. 5 auditorium to listen to a speech by a famous alumnus. Lin Qian believes that people like Qiao You, who come from a big family, will be impressed by the food of ordinary people. He will wait in the grove near the auditorium and invite Qiao You to taste the alley pies that are very popular among the ordinary people in Xingdu District recently, in order to capture him.]
System: [Host, please prevent this strategy event from happening. ]
Lan Yexing: “…”
Lin Qian attacked Qiao You for the third time.
He could no longer tell whether Lin Qian was too obsessed with Qiao You, or whether Leon needed someone around him to conquer Qiao You.
Anyway, neither of them is a good person, and Qiao You is really unlucky to be targeted by them.
Thinking of this, Lan Yexing picked up his phone and sent a message to the other party: [Senior, are you interested in alley pie? ]
Qiao You had already returned to the dormitory by then. When he saw the message, his handsome eyebrows raised: he thought Lan Yexing was going to treat him to some exotic pie to thank him for today's bread.
With slender fingers, he quickly sent a message back to Lan Yexing: [Would you mind trying it?]
Lan Yexing who received this message: “…” A young master like Qiao You is really interested in it!
However, this task is also easy to accomplish. He can go there early tomorrow evening and electrocute Lin Qian.
Moreover, Auditorium No. 5 is very close to where he usually climbs over the wall, so after completing the task he can go directly home to feed the cat.
As he was thinking, Lan Yexing slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep in the pleasant scent of lime at the bedside.
Jiang Xiaozhou, who was still writing a paper at his desk, was startled and quietly dimmed the light of the desk lamp on his side.
…
The next day, Lan Yexing received Leon's invitation.
It was Su Lou who brought the news to him.
Even though Omega still had hatred in his eyes when he occasionally looked at Lan Yexing, he did not dare to provoke him again.
He simply avoided Janes who was going to the evening class, and came to Lan Yexing to pass on the message: "Tomorrow at six o'clock in the afternoon, His Highness Leon will meet you in the private meeting room of the hotel you visited before."
It happened to be lunch time in the evening, and the classroom was empty.
Lan Yexing nodded coldly, without even looking at the other person, and turned away.
Su Lou stamped his feet in frustration behind the young man: "Hey, what does your expression of ignoring others mean? Lan Yexing, you are also a beta, can't you be more gentle with omegas? My life story is very pitiful!"
Perhaps because he had no friends and no channels to vent and talk, Lan Yexing was almost the only person he had ever interacted with in school. Su Lou strangely opened up in front of a beta he hated: "My family used to be very strong! Even Leon had to respect my old man as an elder! But my whole family, except me, all died in a weird fire!"
Lan Yexing paused, but did not turn around.
Su Lou sniffed in grievance, feeling that the emotions accumulated over a long period of time could no longer be suppressed: "Do you know how pitiful I am? My family is obviously the most loyal family to the royal family, but just because there will be a revolutionary in my family two generations later, they want to kill my family--"
Before the fire, the young boy accidentally overheard the conversation between the royal family and their elders outside the door.
After that conversation, the fire broke out inexplicably... Except for him, not even the dog survived.
Thinking of this, he felt cold all over, calmed down instantly, and immediately fell silent. He looked at Lan Yexing warily and said in a panic: "Hey, you didn't hear anything--"
Lan Yexing had already turned around. He looked at Su Lou with a sympathetic and conflicted expression and asked, "What did you mean by what you just said?"
What did they mean by thinking that a revolutionary would emerge from the Su Lou family in two generations, so they were all killed?
He didn't understand the meaning of this sentence at all.
Su Lou stared at the other party with eyes wide open, but the boy just looked at him coldly and calmly.
He wanted Lan Yexing's sympathy before, but now there was some sympathy in Lan Yexing's light eyes, and he was a little uncomfortable.
After a while, Su Lou slumped his shoulders, looked away awkwardly, and said, "I don't know."
He really didn't know what those words meant, so much so that he often suspected that the conversation that day was simply an illusion he had imagined.
Lan Yexing looked at him with a cold expression, but now he said, "Thank you for telling me this information. I will keep it confidential."
Lan Yexing: "You go and have dinner. I'm leaving now."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Su Lou, who was being cared for and thanked for the first time since the incident at home, stared at the boy's back in a daze, unable to recover for a long time.
…
Lan Yexing recorded the information and came to the vicinity of Auditorium No. 5.
It was around 5:30 in the afternoon, and the business school presentation in the auditorium was about to end in half an hour.
Lin Qianzheng, who had been waiting by the grove for half an hour, was holding a bag of pies and looking left and right nervously, as if he was on guard against someone coming to disrupt his pursuit.
But he seemed to be very resistant to this strategy. His face was pale and his whole body was tense, but he still gritted his teeth and prepared to do it.
Lan Yexing appeared silently behind him and electrocuted him. The shock was enough to make Lin Qian unconscious for an hour.
After that, he glanced coldly at the omega on the ground, turned and walked towards the iron fence on the other side of the woods.
…
At this time, the sun had set and night began to slowly fall. Lan Yexing climbed over the railing swiftly and was about to climb out, but suddenly he paused and his pupils shrank.
There were clear and powerful footsteps behind him.
The evening breeze made an eerie rustling sound in the grove, which sounded inexplicably eerie in the night and made the footsteps even more disturbing.
Lan Yexing: Could it be a student or a school staff member?
But he quickly thought of a countermeasure: no matter who it was, the other party couldn't see his face, so as long as he continued to flip over, there would be no problem.
Just as he was about to continue, his footsteps stopped. A deep, hoarse voice with a teasing smile clearly sounded behind him: "Junior, it turns out that you have a hobby of climbing over walls."
"Actually, he's not very good."
Lan Yexing suddenly opened his eyes wide when he recognized who it was. He lost his grip due to surprise and his whole body fell down.
Someone called his name in that pleasant voice: "Lan Yexing——"
A brilliant golden light flashed by.
There was a soft "bang" sound.
The blond young man lay on his back on the ground covered with soft fallen leaves. He looked at the bright stars in the sky with an indifferent expression and blinked.
The warm boy in his arms had messy black hair, a red face, and fallen leaves all over his body. He stammered, "Sorry, I'll get up right away--" while trying to get up, but because of his injured knee, he fell into his arms again like a star.
The boy's legs and arms moved in panic. He tried to get up for the third time, but he bumped into something. Qiao You groaned hoarsely, and his body stiffened. He put his strong arms around the boy's waist and held him firmly in his arms. He looked up at the sky helplessly, and said in a hoarse voice: "Can't you just stop moving?"
Lan Yexing, who had known about his friend's sexual orientation not long ago and knew that his actions were offensive to her, was actually devastated at the moment: "Who do you think caused me to fall?"
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