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Sleeping paralyzed all night, when Xie Zheng woke up the next day, his body felt like he had over-exercised at the gym. It was a mixture of extreme soreness and exhilarating comfort.

Lu Lu was already up, fully and neatly dressed, smilingly arranging the breakfast takeout on the table.

Xie Zheng narrowed his eyes and sized Lu Lu up.

The boy looked no different from when Xie Zheng first saw him, youthful and energetic, like a sunflower blooming a silly smile towards the sun, still carrying an innocent purity of someone inexperienced in the ways of the world. Unlike some of Xie Zheng’s fair-weather friends¹Literally translates to “fox friends and dog friends.” It’s a derogatory idiom for a bad crowd of friends who only gather to drink, party, or cause trouble., where one could tell at a glance what they had been doing the night before.

It was the same when the two of them were doing it—no matter how muddy his body got, Lu Lu’s expression remained clean and refreshing.

Xie Zheng reached for the cigarettes at the bedside.

Hearing the sound of the lighter cap opening and closing, Lu Lu turned his head. “Sanxian soup dumplings²A very popular Chinese breakfast item. “Sanxian” means “three fresh ingredients” (usually pork, shrimp, and egg/mushroom), and “xiaolongbao” are small steamed buns traditionally filled with soup and meat. and soy milk—is Uncle Xie used to eating this?”

Xie Zheng didn’t answer. He looked at Lu Lu’s face and smiled with narrowed eyes. His voice was still hoarse as soon as he spoke. “How do you still look like a fledgling³Slang for a virgin, or someone who is incredibly inexperienced and green.?”

Lu Lu didn’t expect Xie Zheng to reply to him with such a sentence. He raised his eyebrows in some surprise looking at Xie Zheng. After a moment, he was amused again, and burst out laughing with a pfft sound.

Xie Zheng felt annoyed the moment he saw this silly smiling face of his, cursing him as stupid in his heart.

After eating breakfast, Xie Zheng took out a suppressant and tossed it to Lu Lu. “Baby, help me inject this.”

Lu Lu smiled. “I haven’t used this kind before.”

Xie Zheng: “…”

In his impression, patch suppressants only appeared in the last two years. Lu Lu hadn’t even used the injection type before, which showed he was truly young.

Xie Zheng almost couldn’t control the twitching of the corner of his mouth. “You’re not even older than the dog I raised.”

“Dog?” Lu Lu looked at the bone tattoo on Xie Zheng’s arm. “Is it this one?”

Xie Zheng gave a sound of acknowledgement from his nasal cavity.

“What’s its name?”

“Mi Tuan.⁴Literally Rice Ball in english.” Xie Zheng knitted his brows, not wanting to continue this topic anymore. “Hurry up.”

Lu Lu found the position of Mi Tuan’s skull on Xie Zheng’s shoulder, and greeted it, “Hello Mi Tuan, I am the lover kept by your daddy.”

“…” Xie Zheng was speechless. “What the f*ck are you randomly teaching it?”

As soon as his voice fell, a sharp pain hit his lower abdomen. The sharp short needle was pierced into his skin by Lu Lu, and with a push, injected into his body bit by bit.

When the needle was pulled out, two drops of liquid medicine dripped onto Xie Zheng’s waist. Lu Lu raised his hand to wipe it away, and looking up, saw Xie Zheng’s expression.

Xie Zheng was undoubtedly a person who could endure pain very well, but at this moment, his eyebrows were tightly knitted, thin lips pursed, and his chest muscles trembled slightly.

Lu Lu only knew that injection-type suppressants hurt, but he didn’t expect it to hurt this much.

However, Xie Zheng’s expression at this time was too beautiful, looking as if he had been bullied. Lu Lu guessed that there were hardly a few people in this world, and it was even possible that he was the only person who had ever seen how Xie Zheng looked right now. 

As well as those other expressions—blurry to the point of his eyes losing focus, wheat-colored skin carrying a flush, smiling drowsily, and the way he looked biting his own tiger mouth.⁵The term 虎口 (hǔkǒu) literally means “tiger’s mouth,” but anatomically it refers to the fleshy web between the thumb and index finger.

Lethally hot.

Lu Lu’s hand pressing on Xie Zheng’s waist abruptly flipped Xie Zheng over, and his whole person knelt down, covering him. He urgently and impatiently kissed all the way down along Xie Zheng’s waistline. Xie Zheng’s teasing voice mixed with the sound of panting. “F*ck… Baby, why are you suddenly going into heat?”

The afterglow of last night was still there, so not much preparation work was needed. Lu Lu really wanted to see Xie Zheng’s face becoming comfortable because of him, so he worked exceptionally hard, only stopping when he heard Xie Zheng’s strange “uh” sound.

Xie Zheng arched his back, pressing on his lower abdomen in a very strange posture. Lu Lu blanked for a moment. “Uncle Xie, are you feeling unwell?”

Xie Zheng didn’t answer him immediately, letting out two sounds like dry heaving, and grabbed Lu Lu’s hand that was pressing on his waist, pressing it onto his lower abdomen.

Xie Zheng’s skin was a very healthy wheat color, and Lu Lu’s skin was originally pale. At this moment, with his fingers gripped in Xie Zheng’s hand, it even looked pallid in contrast.

Lu Lu stared blankly at their intertwined hands. His fingers twitched slightly, but did not understand Xie Zheng’s intention.

He then actually stroked a certain shape.

“Did you f*cking eat soup dumplings or vigor pills? Are you crazy?” Xie Zheng took a few forceful deep breaths, sneering. “If you don’t clean it up thoroughly later, I’ll kick your head like a ball, you idiot.”

Xie Zheng scolded fiercely, but Lu Lu knew he wasn’t really angry.

This posture, the thing his hand was stroking, gave Lu Lu a delusion of having this dominant man completely in the palm of his hand.

Lu Lu said softly, his tone very obedient, “I will clean it up.”

As he spoke, Lu Lu however recalled the knowledge points the teacher had taught in physiological health class.

If Xie Zheng were currently a healthy Omega right in his heat period, then he would have a fifty percent probability of entering a pseudopregnancy⁶A biological phenomenon that often features heavily in Omegaverse lore. If an Omega experiences a severe heat without actually conceiving, their body might temporarily mimic the symptoms of pregnancy due to hormonal spikes. state after it was over. 

If the act of marking or temporary marking had been performed, then Xie Zheng would have a ten percent probability of actually getting pregnant.

Lu Lu had never thought about children before.

He was only eighteen years old. It was hard to imagine a baby with his own facial features, and flowing with his same blood, appearing in this world.

When Lu Lu snapped back to reality, he heard Xie Zheng both praising him and cursing him, “…Stupid deer, good Xiao Lu… deeper… f*ck… no… you get the f*ck out…”

Lu Lu felt like honey basking in the sunlight, almost melting into sweet water. He bit Xie Zheng’s ear, becoming even more excited because of the fantasy that Xie Zheng would give birth to a child for him.

Xie Zheng cursed ten thousand swear words in his heart.

If compared under normal circumstances, Xie Zheng didn’t feel his stamina would lose to Lu Lu. 

However, the energy consumed by being the one on the bottom was far more than Xie Zheng had imagined, plus, Xie Zheng was already currently in his susceptible period. Xie Zheng was unexpectedly left with only the option of being suppressed.

He forcefully rolled over, leaned in close to Lu Lu’s ear, and threatened wetly, “Your guts have grown fat, daring to treat your husband like this? You just wait—see if I don’t f*ck you to death next time.”

Lu Lu smiled and agreed, “Uh-huh.” However, judging from his increasingly unrestrained movements, he obviously hadn’t listened at all.

—

When Lu Lu returned to school, it was already noon.

He had no classes today so he stayed in the studio drawing drafts.

Regarding his next piece, he actually already had inspiration.

The canine skeleton on Xie Zheng’s body looked very good; he could also use bones to form more things. The sky, the grassland, the snowy mountains, the whole world.

Lu Lu drew and revised, and the final draft gradually took shape.

A white bone version of the Venus de Milo.⁷Literally “Broken-armed Venus.” The famous ancient Greek sculpture of Aphrodite.

This kind of creative sculpture with some design elements was actually still too early for their current stage, but Lu Lu really liked this feeling of turning his immature inspiration into reality.

He was fully concentrated on finding references and refining the draft. This immersed state was ultimately awakened by a knock on the door.

“I saw that the lights in your studio weren’t off yet, so I guessed if you might be here.”

A few classmates from the same department poked their heads in. “Xiao Lu, the Folk Music Club is having a dinner gathering tonight. We’re going to crash the meal⁸Slang for mooching food or tagging along to a meal/event just to get free food without paying or being officially invited., do you want to come with us bo?”

The classmate used their hands to gesture a size. “I heard the shrimp at that restaurant are th—is big!”

“Th—is big huh.” Lu Lu held back a smile and mimicked his classmate’s way of speaking. “Then I definitely have to come along bo⁹A cute, slangy sentence-ending particle. It mimics the sound of a popping bubble or a quick kiss, used here by the college students to sound playful and affectionate..”

The place where the Folk Music Club had their dinner gathering was at a newly opened Chinese restaurant near the school.

Those who came to eat weren’t just the members of the Folk Music Club. There were also quite a few tagging along to join the fun, people they knew and didn’t know, bringing their friends and families. Anyway, the more people there were, the more cost-effective it was to split the bill.

Halfway through the meal, Cui Songbai also arrived in a great rush. He opened his eyes wide in great surprise. “I just saw Xie Zheng.”

“Xie Zheng?”

“A teacher?”

“Ah, I know him!”

Some of the students didn’t know Xie Zheng, so Cui Songbai typed Xie Zheng’s name into a short video app, and when the search results came out, the whole table rang out with a sudden realization of “oh—”

—So it was that president who was very handsome and very intimidating, who had gone viral on the internet a few times.

Hearing the others bring up Xie Zheng, Lu Lu somewhat couldn’t hold back his urge to smile. He pressed his collarbone, underneath a thin layer of clothing was covered entirely in bite marks left by Xie Zheng.

He secretly sent Xie Zheng a message: Uncle Xie

[Xie]: ?

[Xie]: [Transfer 0.5 Yuan]

[Xie]: Husband is busy, go buy a lollipop to eat

Lu Lu held back his laughter so hard that he was just short of burying his face under the table.

Cui Songbai said with a secretive tone, “He’s friends with our Teacher Song.”

As for Song Qingyuan, many more students actually knew him. 

The classmates gave another sound of sudden realization, “oh”.

The president of the Folk Music Club was a capable and sharp Omega girl. She pursed her lips and smiled. “I smell gossip.”

The students looked at each other, and for a third time, with sudden realization, went “oh.”

“Childhood sweethearts, wow.”

“And classmates too.”

“Isn’t Xie Zheng based in Linyuan? I don’t know how he suddenly came to Chen’an this time.”

“That day Song Qingyuan and he were talking and laughing on campus. They looked like a great match.”

“But aren’t they two Alphas…”

“It’s not like you don’t know Teacher Song’s situation. Rather than calling him an Alpha, it’s better to call him a Beta.”

The classmates gossiped enthusiastically, almost completely finalizing the conclusion that “Xie Zheng was actually bitterly in love with Song Qingyuan”.

Lu Lu looked at his reflection in the darkened phone screen. That little bit of a smile teased out just now was completely gone, his expression cold.

Lu Lu stood up. “I’m going to the restroom for a bit.”

The faucet in the restaurant’s restroom actually flowed out from a fruit basket carved into the arms of a Greek woman. Lu Lu liked this kind of clever design, and after taking several reference photos from front, back, left, and right with his phone, he bent down, caught a handful of water with his hands, and buried his face in it for a moment.

When he lifted his head again, Lu Lu saw his soaked reflection in the mirror in front of him, and the figure of a man’s back in a black suit, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist beside him.

Xie Zheng crossed his arms, with an amused tone. “What are you doing? Blowing bubbles?”

Lu Lu smiled. “It’s too hot.”

“Why are you here?”

“Club dinner gathering.” Lu Lu gestured. “I heard the shrimp here are th—is big.”

Xie Zheng gave an “oh” sound. “No wonder. The private room next to ours must be you bunch of little brats, so f*cking noisy.”

“Yeah, they all drank a bit of alcohol.”

Xie Zheng suddenly narrowed his eyes. “Did you drink or not?”

“I didn’t.”

Xie Zheng pinched both sides of Lu Lu’s cheeks with his two hands, teasing the good student. “Let Uncle check.”

Lu Lu cooperatively opened his mouth, sticking out a bit of his tongue.

This obedient face making such an expression was truly too impactful. Xie Zheng cursed “f*ck,” the hand pinching Lu Lu’s cheeks exerting a bit more force. “Husband has serious business to attend to, and you’re seducing me like this?”

Without waiting for Lu Lu to answer, Xie Zheng lifted his head to bite that section of tongue Lu Lu stuck out, holding it in his mouth, and tangling fiercely.

The feeling of kissing Lu Lu was truly very good. Lu Lu wasn’t coy, very cooperative. Xie Zheng couldn’t help but always think back to the very beginning, when he said the phrase “I don’t kiss,” which was really a bit pretentious.

Footsteps came from the corridor, and only then did Xie Zheng release Lu Lu’s cheeks. As the owner of the footsteps passed outside the restroom, Lu Lu suddenly said, “Right, Uncle Xie.”

Xie Zheng: “…?”

Lu Lu: “If you have other lovers in the future, according to seniority, shouldn’t I be able to get a raise?”

Xie Zheng: “…”

“Do you think you’re the female lead of a harem promotion drama?” Xie Zheng was both speechless and amused. “For the time being, there won’t be anyone else for you to exercise your official authority over, so put away your thoughts of getting a raise for now.”

Lu Lu laughed softly. “Mm.”

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  Literally translates to “fox friends and dog friends.” It’s a derogatory idiom for a bad crowd of friends who only gather to drink, party, or cause trouble.
• 2
  A very popular Chinese breakfast item. “Sanxian” means “three fresh ingredients” (usually pork, shrimp, and egg/mushroom), and “xiaolongbao” are small steamed buns traditionally filled with soup and meat.
• 3
  Slang for a virgin, or someone who is incredibly inexperienced and green.
• 4
  Literally Rice Ball in english.
• 5
  The term 虎口 (hǔkǒu) literally means “tiger’s mouth,” but anatomically it refers to the fleshy web between the thumb and index finger.
• 6
  A biological phenomenon that often features heavily in Omegaverse lore. If an Omega experiences a severe heat without actually conceiving, their body might temporarily mimic the symptoms of pregnancy due to hormonal spikes.
• 7
  Literally “Broken-armed Venus.” The famous ancient Greek sculpture of Aphrodite.
• 8
  Slang for mooching food or tagging along to a meal/event just to get free food without paying or being officially invited.
• 9
  A cute, slangy sentence-ending particle. It mimics the sound of a popping bubble or a quick kiss, used here by the college students to sound playful and affectionate.