Chapter 102 - Pay Attention to Me

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Early Monday morning, a piece of explosive news swept through the entire First High like a severe winter gale.

 

The school tyrant, who once made a public confession with a great deal of fanfare, was finally dumped.

 

The one who leaked the news was someone who, on Sunday night, heard a heated argument coming from Dorm number 306, with the sound of dropping things and yelling angrily.

 

"Didn't I tell you to wait for me at home and not to run around?"

 

When a group of students rushed to the scene while following the noise, they saw that the dormitory was full of wreckage.

 

Yin Che stood opposite Jiang Yao, looking as cold as ever: "Is it still already happened, is it useful for you to blame me now?"

 

"Are you blaming me?"

 

Guo Zhixiong and the others picked at the door, cautiously probing: "Brother Yao... What's the problem? Why are you fired up so much?"

 

"Just ask him yourselves." Jiang Yao turned to leave, "I can't stand him anymore. Sorry, but let's break up."

 

On Monday, the school was buzzing all over with the recent news.

 

The final exam had just ended, and the students had nothing to do. The fire of gossip, like in a burning prairie, quickly spread out.

 

No one knew the exact reason until someone discovered some clues.

 

Right over the place where Yin Che's gland was located, there was a new trace of teeth mark.

 

Combined with Jiang Yao's words at the time and his determined attitude... Yin Che seemed to have been accidentally marked by someone else.

 

This was the bottom line for any alpha. Even if they once loved each other, their relationship might break down.

 

In this way, it makes perfect sense for these two to break up.

 

Zhang Ke didn't believe it and begged to hear the truth from the source: "Brother Yao, what they said is false, right?"

 

Jiang Yao impatiently said: "Don't ask me, I don't want to talk about it."

 

So the rumor was confirmed once more.

 

As the days went by, the gossip became more and more crazy, and someone even asked Yin Ze: "I heard that your brother was marked by another alpha, and Jiang Yao was furious enough to want to break up with him, is it true?"

 

"You fucking...," Yin Ze paused and held back, "Who knows, it's none of my business what he does."

 

In the test paper review class.

 

The teacher was spitting and giving a passionate speech on the podium, but the class of students at the bottom couldn't help but take a peek at the last row.

 

The two big guys were sitting at the back. One cocked his chair, not even holding a pen, scaring people with his cold to stare. The other was no different from the usual, just listening to the lectures, not sparing the slightest look to the side.

 

In the past two days, neither of them said a word to the other.

 

It's almost certain that they had really separated.

 

After class, Han Meng mustered up the courage to block Jiang Yao's way: "Brother Yao, this is such a small matter. I know you are uncomfortable in your heart, but Brother Che also didn't want this to happen ah... Think about how loving you two used to be. So go back to feeding us god food, I will never complain about you guys again."

 

"This is not a trivial occurrence for me. I can't tolerate this kind of thing." Jiang Yao bumped off his shoulder, "I've long had enough of his temper anyway."

 

Indeed, all the students could see how cold and violent Yin Che usually acted towards Jiang Yao.

 

Han Meng couldn't talk him out, so he could only try to stop the other one: "Brother Che, Jiang Yao must be angry, so you shouldn't feel offended. He'll be fine in a couple of days!"

 

"You guys, leave me alone." Yin Che brushed past him, "Don't mention this to me again either, I don't want to remember that."

 

Han Meng froze, and many horrible images came to his mind.

 

The moon was dark and windy, a feverish and groggy Omega came out to look for his Alpha, but unfortunately was forced by a passerby who left a bite mark on his glands... that's just too cruel.

 

Wednesday afternoon, at the Grade Assembly.

 

The Principal spoke for over an hour as he gave the audience a whole overview of the semester, yet the students in the auditorium were just feeling drowsy.

 

"I invite the student representative to come up to the stage."

 

Everyone's spirits were lifted at once.

 

Yin Che walked up to the stage with his speech in hand, as many whispers kept coming from beneath the stage, so much so that Zhang Jiaozhu had to come out to maintain order: "Quiet! This assembly student representative Yin Che, from third-year Class 1, has achieved first place in the last two important exams, with an excellent character and firm learning spirit..."

 

"Tut!..." the audience booed him loudly.

 

The emotions that had been pent up all semester reached their peak.

 

This was probably the most out-of-control speech in the history of the First High, even the pressure released by Zhang Jiaozhu failed to controm thousands of students.

 

Halfway through Yin Che's speech, someone even shouted, "Go down, you!"

 

This subsequently led to a loud burst of laughter.

 

Today, Yin Che wore a formal school uniform, a white shirt with a tie on the outside. He had a straight posture, standing on the stage like a tall poplar tree, with the light drawing a solitary shadow behind him.

 

He met the boos coming from all directions, eyes downcast, as he continued his speech.

 

His eyes occasionally lifted and swept across the stage, as if looking for a certain figure.

 

However, there was no way he could spot them because of the darkness at the bottom of the stage.

 

When he finished his speech and walked backstage, some students sitting on the side saw him wipe his eyes furtively.

 

It was a delightful scene.

 

Some students hesitated and said: "Isn't this a bit too much?"

 

Others replied, "What's too much? When he bullies his classmates, he's not too much?"

 

"But I have never seen him bullying anyone with my own eyes..."

 

"Everyone says so, how can it be untrue?"

 

......

 

After punishing the school bully for bullying their classmates, the students felt relieved and went home happily to embrace the short but happy winter break.

 

For the third-years in high school, they only had ten days. It was almost time for them to return to school after the New Year. In such a short period of ten days, the amount of homework was half that of summer vacation.

 

The students left one by one, and the distressed voices coming from the classroom were gradually thinning out.

 

Han Meng picked up his school bag and looked at the figure sitting quietly in the corner, hesitating to go forward.

 

Chen Yingying pulled him away: "I have just comforted those who needed to be comforted. Let him have a quiet time by himself."

 

The sun was setting in the west.

 

When there was no more student on the boulevard downstairs, Yin Che withdrew his sight and walked out of the classroom with his school bag.

 

The entire school building was empty.

 

Walking to the stairway, there was a sound of footsteps that came to meet him.

 

"Why haven't you left yet?" Tang Shasha asked.

 

Yin Che passed her by without a glance and didn't say anything.

 

Tang Shasara tried once more to stop him: "Hey, I'm talking to you."

 

Yin Che stood still and turned back: "What's the matter?"

 

Tang Shasha bit her lip, seemingly having a hard time speaking, but finally said, "Can you do me a favor? Su Qi was just called away by an Alpha junior. I've been waiting for her for half a day and she hasn't come back yet, I'm afraid something has happened to her, can you go with me to see if she's okay?"

 

Yin Che looked at her for a moment before he finally said: "Let's go."

 

Tang Shasha led him to the grove, however, the place was empty. The few rays of the sunset's residual light leaked in from between the bare branches of the trees, getting fainter and fainter.

 

"Strange, I remember the boy said they were coming here." Tang Shasha was puzzled, "Could it be that the two of them have already left?"

 

Yin Che looked at her without a word.

 

Tang Shasha looked delicate, there was always a hidden pride between her eyebrows, and her short hair made her look even more capable.

 

A year has passed and both her appearance and personality were still the same.

 

Some people, indeed, never change for the better.

 

"What are you staring at me for?"

 

Yin Che sighed softly, "No one left."

 

"What? You saw them?"

 

"Didn't see them, but..." his voice was caught in the cold wind, "I guess, they should be behind me."

 

Tang Shasha froze.

 

"*Snap*," the wilted, thin and brittle fallen leaves were stepped on and a slight warning sound was made before they shattered into the mud.

 

Someone was coming.

 

"Xuezhang*, long time no see."

[T/N: Senior or older male schoolmate.]

 

"Well, it's been a long time."

 

The person behind him came around to face him. Smiling, he said: "Are you here to find Su Qi? She just returned to her class, you probably missed her."

 

Tang Shasha looked back, "Oh, is that so? Okay, I'll go find her there then."

 

"Tell me the truth." Yin Che's eyes never left her, "I didn't originally expect it to be you."

 

"... What are you saying?" Tang Shasha hesitated for half a second.

 

That half-second was enough to prove all their guesses.

 

"Luckily I held back, otherwise, it would really have been a mistake to blame the wrong person." Yin Che walked towards her step by step.

 

"When you think about it, rumor-mongering is indeed your strong point. Back from that time with Yang Yile, to now with me."

 

"I just thought it was strange that although Su Qi also targeted me, she didn't seem to have that many tricks up her sleeve. Now I can finally understand, the one who really wants to get back at me is not Su Qi, but you, right?"

 

"You were the one who spread rumors to get me ostracized. It's you who added the catalyst to the milk tea. You were the one who went to make a double of the key, as well as the one who lured me with your own pheromones and locked me in the equipment room."

 

"Tang Sasha, aren't you ashamed of making use of your own friend in such a disgusting way?"

 

With every word he said, Tang Sasa's face got worse and worse: "I don't get what you're saying."

 

"Do you want me to go find Su Qi to confront her face to face? Or do you want me to get the school to discipline you again?"

 

The latter half of the sentence completely ripped open Tang Shasha's scars and tore off her mask.

 

"Are you threatening me?" She raised her eyebrows in anger, "Because of you and Jiang Yao, I was punished by the school, had my position taken away, and had the honorable distinction of being the third-best student in the grade withdrawn. Why can't I take revenge on you guys?"

 

"Aren't you the one who brought that on yourself?"

 

"You!" Tang Shasha couldn't stand it anymore and started yelling at the person next to her, "Hey! I've already brought him here, what are you dawdling about? Don't you want to teach him a lesson?"

 

Cheng Hao ignored her and smiled playfully at Yin Che: "Xuezhang is really calm. I thought you didn't care about the criticism, but you were secretly brooding about it in your heart. Unfortunately, you found out too late. You saw how everyone treated you in the auditorium just now, right? You're already totally isolated."

 

Yin Che rolled his eyes, "That's what you were after?"

 

"Yeah, I thought it would be troublesome, especially with that boyfriend of yours. I didn't expect it to go so smoothly. The residual effects of that bottle of Catalyst made you accidentally feverish, causing you to be marked by another alpha, right? Looks like the heavens are helping me, hahahaha." Cheng Hao laughed louder and louder.

 

Yin Che looked melancholy, as if he was immersed in the pain of their recent breakup: "Congratulations on achieving your purpose, what other purpose do you have? Just spit it all out."

 

"That's it..."

 

At this point, Tang Shasha already felt impatient: "Haven't you said enough? Stop talking nonsense with him, and just beat him up ah."

 

Cheng Hao was interrupted and looked unhappy: "Xuejie*, beating schoolmates up is not right ah. Have you forgotten what you wrote in the numerous posts you sent?"

[T/N: Senior or older female schoolmate.]

 

Tang Shasha stared at him in disbelief, "Cheng Hao, you said you were going to teach him a lesson for me, so I promised to help you. Now you are only one step away from the finale, and you betray me?"

 

"I did not betray you. I was talking about a lesson, a lesson doesn't necessarily mean beating someone up."

 

"Then what are you going to do?"

 

"Do this..." Cheng Hao blinked, his face came closer to Yin Che, making him feel extremely uncomfortable as the distance between them shortened swiftly, "Xuezhang, your boyfriend doesn't want you anymore, what about your estrus? How about doing it with me?"

 

Yin Che's gaze fell to his smiling face, "Do what, dream on?"

 

Tang Shasha vaguely understood: "Cheng Hao, you don't think you want to..."

 

"Xuejie, your mission has been accomplished. Since I've already promised you, I will definitely teach him a lesson." Cheng Hao grinned openly, revealing a mouthful of morose white teeth: "As for how to teach him a lesson, it'll be better for you not to look."

 

The concentration of Alpha pheromone in the air kept rising.

 

Tang Shasha took two steps back and covered her nose: "You... Are you not afraid of being caught? This is a crime..."

 

Although she hated him, she did not want to retaliate against him to this extent.

 

"I'm not afraid, what's so scary about this?" Cheng Hao smiled as his pheromones gushed out like crazy, "It's almost dark, Xuejie, if you don't go back, you're going to be forced to spectate some uncomfortable scenes."

 

Tang Shasha was stunned, she hesitated again and again before finally choosing to protect herself, "... You're crazy."

 

After cursing at him, she turned around and quickly ran out of the grove. The farther away from this madman she was, the better she felt.

 

"As if you were normal yourself." Cheng Hao gloomily looked in the direction she left, turned his head, and smiled away again, "Xuezhang is so powerful. I released so much pheromone, but you could actually still keep standing up."

 

Yin Che gazed at those familiar eyes, "You're Cheng Feng's son, right?"

 

Cheng Hao froze, his eyes gradually cooling: "How do you know?"

 

"You have the same eyes as your father."

 

Back then when he escaped and was caught back, he was tortured to the point he felt like ripping his heart out. There was a man who kept laughing loudly, with cruel and vicious eyes.

 

Later, he discovered that kidnapper was named Cheng Feng. He was the leader of the group, thus receiving the heaviest sentence; life imprisonment, and deprivation of all his property.

 

Yin Che vaguely remembered hearing Yin Ze once say that the other party also had a son. Despite that, he did such a heartless thing as kidnapping children, he was really scum.

 

At present, it seems that this son also did follow in his footsteps.

 

"Am I as charming as him?" Cheng Hao asked with a smile.

 

"No." Yin Che slowly said, "You look like a murderer, just like him."

 

Cheng Hao's face became ugly all of a sudden.

 

"Murderer... hehe, yes, I've been called the son of a murderer since I was a child." He snorted, "But my dad obviously didn't kill anyone, he was just working on the boss's orders, otherwise, where would he get the money to feed his family?"

 

"Just because he bullied an Omega, why should he be sentenced so heavily? Do I have to grow up under so many malicious stares, and be subjected to so much scorn?"

 

Yin Che indifferently said, "Oh, you call that 'bullying', nine years of compulsory education surprisingly taught you nothing from the legal perspective."

 

Cheng Hao heard his mockery and his tone gradually became agitated: "It's all your fault, our family was happy and prosperous, and we lost everything overnight. You can't understand how I lived and grew up since I was a child!"

 

"I studied hard to get into First High, just to see if you were living the same miserable life as me. So that the suffering my father was enduring in prison and the torture I was bearing all these years could be balanced."

 

"But you've actually recovered your Omega self, and even got a boyfriend. You were liked by everyone and lived so happily. Why? The judge said that my father caused serious lifelong injuries to you before he sentenced him to life imprisonment, but you were obviously not seriously affected at all. Why should my father have to spend so many years in jail for a trumped-up crime? Why should I suffer so much because of your insignificant injuries?"

 

Yin Che listened to him while keeping his calm: "So you want to be like your father and turn me into a beta and make me miserable for the rest of my life so that you can gain whatever balance in your heart, is that right?"

 

"That's right." Cheng Hao smiled fiercely and approached him again, "I want you to lose everything like me, so you can also experience what it feels like to be despised and spurned by everyone."

 

Yin Che turned sideways and dodged his hand: "Sorry, I can't experience it, I still have my family and friends. Unlike you, who grew up in a family with such a distorted outlook, and without a single friend. Cheng Hao, you are so pathetic."

 

Cheng Hao's smile stalled. The pheromones floating all around his body suddenly skyrocketed, as he became shrouded in intense hate and anger.

 

Yin Che's body swayed and he took two steps back, barely managing to stand firm.

 

"Are you still provoking me at this kind of time, Xuezhang? You are really not afraid of death." Cheng Hao's smile twisted, pulling out a bottle of catalyst from his clothes, his hand trembling from excitement, "It doesn't matter, you'll be crying and begging for mercy in a short while, but I'll still hold back my nausea to be able to fuck you, bite through your glands, impale your womb, and by the time your dear family and friends will come to find you, you won't be an Omega anymore."

 

Yin Che unbuttoned his shirt and pulled it up to cover his mouth and nose, breathing heavily, the faint Alpha scent temporarily warding off the invasion of the unfamiliar scents.

 

Cheng Hao laughed like crazy: "Also, your ex-boyfriend, seeing that you were bitten by someone else, hurried to break up with you. Guess what will he think of you when he knows that you've been fucked by someone else?"

 

"Well, I can't guess, because his ex-boyfriend won't let that happen."

 

Cheng Hao froze.

 

From his fingers to the crazy expression on his face, all of them were frozen.

 

Immediately after, his whole body began to tremble, and the more he shook, the weaker his legs became, and he fell to his knees in front of Yin Che with a thud.

 

This was the true mighty suppression of Alpha pheromones.

 

Yin Che also stepped back sharply and frowned: "It's too thick."

 

"Okay, I don't need to use pheromones anyway."

 

As soon as his words fell, his pheromones were quickly retracted like the ebbing tide as they dissipated without a trace in less than a second.

 

Jiang Yao moved to his neck, clutched Cheng Hao's back collar, and picked him up. He lifted his other fist up to his face, then slammed it down hard!

 

"I'll use my strength instead."

 

"Bang!" Cheng Hao fell to the ground, half dazed by this punch. He climbed up from the ground with difficulty, his nosebleed dripping straight down: "You two..."

 

Jiang Yao interrupted him with another punch, picking up where he just stopped, "We are such a loving pair."

 

Yin Che: "......"

 

Cheng Hao climbed up again, with a grim face: "I..."

 

"Blessed by the Heavens."

 

"Shit..."

 

"We'll go to the same university."

 

"Fuck..."

 

"Then we'll join the Industry and get married." Jiang Yao shook his fist and punched him comfortably, "To express you my gratitude, if there is a chance, I'll send our wedding candy right to your prison cell."

 

"......"

 

"......"

 

Cheng Hao's face was full of blood, hideous and horrible. He spat out a mouthful of bloody foam and a tooth that had been knocked out. However, he couldn't manage to speak for half a day.

 

Jiang Yao shook his hand and said with some fake affection and sincerity, "Xiaodidi*, I'll have to thank you for your consideration. As soon as you heard we broke up, you couldn't keep your calm and hurried to make a move. Otherwise, I would have to be an 'ex-boyfriend' for a few more days. Do you know how hard it is to simulate this kind of drama? We obviously love each other but have to pretend to be strangers... Oh, sorry, I forgot. You can't understand it because has ever loved you."

[T/N: Little Brother.]

 

Cheng Hao waved his hand at him: "Fuck you, Jiang Yao... You're so done, I'm going to sue you for assaulting minors..."

 

"You can sue me." Jiang Yao kicked him again then shook the camera in his hand, "The evidence is overwhelming, my father-in-law will send you right to the police station, right, CheChe?"

 

Yin Che, however, didn't reply, his brow were furrowed very tightly.

 

"What's wrong?"

 

"You settle it quickly." His gaze fell to the ground.

 

When Cheng Hao was punched down just now, the bottle in his hand fell off. Since the cork was loose, the liquid inside leaked out drop by drop.

 

A strange fragrance gradually surfaced in the air.

 

When he finally realized it, he had already inhaled a lot.

 

Yin Che quickly retreated to the edge of the grove, holding the trunk of a tree so he could stand firm. He unconsciously swallowed his saliva and felt his throat was suddenly becoming very thirsty.

 

"Are you okay?" Jiang Yao worriedly walked toward him.

 

"No..." Yin Che raised his eyes, his pupils suddenly narrowing, "Watch out!"

 

Cheng Hao was already lying half-dead on the ground. Abruptly, he didn't know where his strength came from, he stormed up in his place. He took out a utility knife from his pocket, lunged at Jiang Yao's back, and stabbed him in the neck, "Go to hell you!"

 

Jiang Yao also did not expect him to get up and immediately raised his hand to block him.

 

I'm afraid my arm will be pierced through by this stab.

 

However, the moment the knife was about to pierce into his flesh, it suddenly flew out of his hand.

 

Cheng Hao was the same as he also was sent flying.

 

"Screw this."

 

The boy who rushed in from the woods to kick the other guy flying had a disdainful expression on his face. He put down his leg and looked coldly at Jiang Yao: "Is this how you protect my Ge?"

 

The author has something to say:

 

Yin Ze: Why do I still have to show up at such critical moments? (??????)

 

Cheng Hao who was just sent flying: My life is so difficult.

 

(Finally, I can say it now! Cheng Hao was mentioned in chapter 55, and many people had already guessed it before, you're so smart! A high school kid can't make any serious waves, so he was just used as a tool, in order to speed up the mending of their relationship repair, but also to let CheChe, who they once failed to protect, be supported and guarded by his parents, his brother, and his boyfriend, all of them together, to make up for the regret of that year. CheChe had been afraid all his life, continuously reliving this nightmare in his dreams since the beginning. But now, he has been able to calmly face the son of the prisoner who once tormented himself. You'll have to praise Xiao Jiang having successfully cured him!)

 

Xiao Jiang: Next time, you have to explain before you decide to break up, okay? I was almost scared to death.

 

Yin Che: This did scare you to death?

 

Jiang Yao: It's not that I'm a coward, you were also scared to death after reading the comments.

 

Yin Che: I can't be blamed for that.

 

Jiang Yao: You can't blame me either, so... Who should I blame? (Stares---)

 

Cube: Blame me, blame me! Stop scolding and get on already with your own business!

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