He is not my Alpha! - Chapter 1
The cold air of early spring in City B was still pervasive. But the entrance of the Second High School was bustling with noise.
The originally quiet streets on both sides of the Second High School entrance were lined with food stalls. The smell of jianbing guozi (savory crepes) and egg-filled pancakes wafted through the air. The old man at the school gate, with a strong voice, loudly roared at anyone not wearing a school uniform, accurately pulling them out of the line to enter the school one by one.
“Ji Yifei actually took a leave of absence today!” Jiang Jie took advantage of the security guard’s inattention, used his backpack for concealment, opened his phone, and was about to post an update on his moments telling his friends that his miserable life had begun. Then, he saw the message from Ji Yifei.
“I took a leave.” The four words caused the classmates of Class 1 to break down. Li Jiang next to him immediately roared, “What the heck does this guy mean! We agreed to come to school together to be beasts! What does he mean by taking a leave!”
Li Jiang was so angry he took out his phone, ready to call, but as soon as he pulled it out, a roar came from the right.
“Li Jiang! Hand over your phone!” Before Li Jiang could react, a person wearing a blue shirt and square-rimmed glasses walked over with his hands behind his back.
“Sh*t…” Li Jiang couldn’t help but curse in front of the Dean… The first kill of the “Dog Wang” [Dean Wang] this semester was actually himself. No one has this kind of luck…
In contrast to the clamor of the Fourth High School, Ji Yifei was currently sitting motionless on the steps outside the hospital entrance, as if dead.
Wrapped in a black down jacket, he sat alone on the steps, wishing he could zip his entire body inside the jacket. He held a lab report in his hand, momentarily unsure of whom to seek out.
In his current seventeen years of life, Ji Yifei had only encountered two things that left him helpless.
The first was being forced to join the graduation ceremony performance in elementary school because of his good looks. The result was his singing of “Jasmine Flower” was so terrible the whole venue burst into laughter. To this day, he doesn’t know who has that video.
The second was when he differentiated into an Omega in the third year of junior high. The always tough, big man differentiated into an Omega, and a jasmine-scented one at that.
The content on the lab report in front of him made Ji Yifei’s vision go black. He wished he were illiterate.
Today, he felt that something was wrong with his body. He couldn’t smell the pheromones of Alphas and Omegas. Today, his father mistook his heat period date and forgot to spray his inhibitor, and he didn’t sense anything. It wasn’t until his mother came back, frowned, and sprayed his father with the inhibitor that he snapped back to his senses.
He pretended to have a cold to avoid the start of school and ran to the hospital for a check-up. The result turned out to be this.
“I f**king told you…” Ji Yifei cursed, with ten thousand grass mud horses [a Chinese internet meme for an alpaca, used as a homophonic substitute for a common curse word] running through his heart, unsure of whom to curse first. His phone vibrated. He saw it was an unfamiliar number and swiped across the screen.
“I’m already at the hospital entrance. Where are you? I’ll come find you.” The boy’s voice came from the other end of the phone. His husky voice was transmitted, unconsciously tugging at one’s heart. But right now, Ji Yifei was completely uninterested in the voice; he only wanted to tear the person apart with his bare hands.
“Second floor, examination room 704. Come over yourself.” He hung up the phone quickly and cleanly.
Ji Yifei had been silent in front of the doctor since receiving the check-up report. The doctor asked for a long time, but he never spoke. When he finally opened his precious mouth, he still didn’t say why he was marked or by whom.
To be honest, seeing this boy so well-dressed and protected, the doctor thought he was some celebrity who had secretly gotten pregnant.
Ji Yifei was silent for a while longer. He looked at the lab report in his hand over and over, confirming that the check-up result was correct.
Ji Yifei took a deep breath and slowly said, “Doctor, wait a moment…”
Before Ji Yifei could finish his sentence, the door to the consultation room was pushed open.
One could tell that this person had rushed over. His clothes were messy, the collar of his sweater under his down jacket hadn’t been straightened, and his glasses were slightly askew with a bit of fog, likely caused by his heavy panting while wearing a mask.
Although he wasn’t the celebrity the doctor thought of, he was indeed very handsome.
As soon as Shang Yan entered the door, he met the doctor’s gaze, followed by a confused smile. He then turned his eyes to the… black caterpillar sitting on the stool.
The person was wrapped entirely in a long black down jacket, wearing a black mask… and black sunglasses. It was hard not to notice.
Shang Yan chuckled inwardly: “What kind of aesthetic does this person have… Does he dress this casually in private?”
Shang Yan walked straight to Ji Yifei and pulled the diagnosis report from his hand.
“Name, Ji Yifei… Diagnosis result, has been permanently marked…”
Shang Yan glanced at the lab report in his hand. Although he had already known the result, he couldn’t help but freeze.
“Marked subject is a peppermint-scented Alpha.” The person holding the lab report was the person himself.
He put down the lab report and looked at Ji Yifei. The other party had already released his grip and clasped his hands in front of his chest. Even through the sunglasses, one could feel that this young master was about to interrogate him…
Shang Yan slowly spoke, “I’m sorry…”
As expected of Shang Yan, one sentence made Ji Yifei speechless with anger. Even though he knew the problem was not entirely Shang Yan’s fault, he still couldn’t help but be furious.
Ji Yifei couldn’t help but say, “I’ve been permanently marked! And the bastard who marked me is this jerk right in front of me!” His voice was a little hoarse, but it held a tone of self-mockery.
Shang Yan looked at the person in front of him, as if trying to see the person’s true expression through the sunglasses and mask, although he could easily imagine it.
He still remembered Ji Yifei pulling on him last night… the whole room filled with the smell of jasmine…
Shang Yan was silent again, then spoke, “I never even entered the reproductive cavity, so how could it be a permanent mark?”
Ji Yifei had expected him to say that and replied, “I also thought about this question, so I came to have you tested.” Ji Yifei’s volume was a little lower than before.
But only he himself knew that this was giving himself a chance, a chance to tell himself that that day was just a drunken mistake, just a temporary mark.
“Doctor, can he and I do a pheromone compatibility test?”
When he said this, Dr. He understood. This clearly looked like a reliable Alpha. He didn’t expect young people nowadays to be so wild, not even knowing if the other party was compatible with them. They’re so young…
Shang Yan turned to get tested, while Ji Yifei waited for him at the door. He looked at his phone, where people everywhere were complaining about the start of school. The Class 1 group chat was also full of people complaining about collecting homework and the teachers’ “chicken soup for the soul” at the start of school.
Scrolling up, he saw that Li Jiang had been caught by “Dog Wang” (Dean Wang) for the first time this semester and was currently being lectured in the office.
Ji Yifei had to admit that this was the moment he most wished he could be at school…
(One hour later)
“Congratulations! Your pheromone compatibility is as high as 98%! You can absolutely call yourselves a match made in heaven!”
The nurse happily told them the good news, only to find that this “match made in heaven” had one person whose face read “world destruction” and the other whose expression was unreadable, but slightly dazed.
Could it be… a “one-night stand”!
The nurse stood there awkwardly. Finally, the one wearing glasses snatched the report from her hand and dragged away the person whose face was clearly screaming “world destruction.”
Shang Yan looked at the result sheet in his hand, and the stone hanging in his heart finally shattered into fine pieces. He pulled Ji Yifei back to the consultation room they had just left.
“Matches the marked subject, confirmed to be Ji Yifei’s Alpha.” Because an Alpha’s gland cannot be tested for marking status, the test had to be conducted by comparing the Alpha’s internal pheromones with those in the Omega’s gland. The result was predictable. That day, they didn’t just have a temporary mark; because their pheromone compatibility was too high, it automatically became a permanent mark.
“Do you believe it now?” Ji Yifei’s voice sounded behind him. Shang Yan rushed to the doctor without turning his head, and Ji Yifei good-naturedly followed him.
Both of them simultaneously placed the test result sheet in front of the doctor. The doctor picked it up, looked at it, then looked at the two people facing him, and sighed, “The mark is normal. The pheromone compatibility index reached 98%. Other than the fact that the two of you are a little young, there is no problem.” He finished and looked up at the two seventeen- or eighteen-year-old boys in front of him.
Upon hearing this, Ji Yifei was consumed by anger. He couldn’t help but stand up and slap the table, causing the doctor’s table to shake. But the old man in front of him didn’t react. He picked up his teacup, slowly took a sip of water, and said to the seemingly more mature Alpha next to him, “Please pay attention to your Omega’s behavior. If there are no other symptoms, please leave. There are other patients waiting.”
Hearing “your Omega,” Ji Yifei grew even angrier. He wished he could tear the old man in half and have him buried with Shang Yan. But he swallowed his anger and said, “He is not my Alpha!” He turned and left immediately after speaking.
The car slowly drove towards Shang Yan’s house. It was impossible for Ji Yifei to go home right now. Since no one was home at Shang Yan’s place, they had to go there.
The two didn’t speak on the way. Ji Yifei maintained his “world destruction” expression.
Shang Yan felt equally terrible. After all, compared to the two of them, Ji Yifei was the one who suffered more damage.
Shang Yan: “Ji Yifei.”
Ji Yifei: “The user you called is currently turned off…”
Shang Yan: “Ji Yifei.”
Ji Yifei: “The user you called has crashed…”
Shang Yan: “Ji, Yi, Fei.”
Ji Yifei: “The user you called…”
Ji Yifei only wanted to zone out like this right now, not think about anything… just like this… quietly…
Shang Yan didn’t expect this reaction and reached out to Ji Yifei.
Ji Yifei saw the hand reaching out to him through his sunglasses and dodged to the side.
“Turned on?”
“On! On! On! Forced to turn on! Hurry up and say what you want to say! I’m in a terrible mood right now!”
Ji Yifei’s mind was a mess right now. Not just now, but ever since he woke up and saw the scene of chaos, his mind had not been online.
He looked at Shang Yan sitting across from him, who was incredibly calm, as if he hadn’t done anything.
Perhaps it was a psychosomatic reaction, but looking at Shang Yan now, his lower back hurt, and the back of his neck ached faintly.
“Calm down first. Let’s think about other solutions…” Before Shang Yan could finish, Ji Yifei interrupted him.
Ji Yifei: “Fine, Shang Yan, you’re fking amazing. For a whole month in my dreams, it was you every day. In my dreams, you were hugging me, wanting to mark me, and I couldn’t push you away! You fking hugged me and marked me, and… and…”
He was already having trouble speaking. He felt his tears were about to start falling again.
He looked at Shang Yan’s expression, which was also terribly dark.
Ji Yifei realized that he had accidentally blurted out the dreams he’d been having all month. He opened his mouth again: “That day… that night I was also in a bad mood. I saw you and thought it was a dream… so I…” He couldn’t continue talking. He had been having explicit dreams about the other party for a month. He was drunk because he was in a bad mood and thought he was dreaming. He called the other party, and the two lost control while drunk.
He looked at Shang Yan, who seemed to want to speak but held back, his face filled with astonishment. Ji Yifei felt even more distressed.
Shang Yan looked at the person next to him and said, “Actually… I’m not the same as you.”
Ji Yifei asked: “What do you mean ‘not the same’?”
Shang Yan: “I also had dreams about you… but in the dream, you were in heat, clinging to me, asking me to mark you, and you also…”
Shang Yan stopped here, looking at Ji Yifei with a complicated expression.
Ji Yifei: F**k! Am I that shameless?!
Shang Yan sighed and looked at Ji Yifei: “The only way now… is to wait until you turn eighteen to have the mark washed away…” Shang Yan’s heart was also complicated at the moment. He had also lost his mind that day, being called by Ji Yifei late at night, and he couldn’t control himself, leading to today’s result. The consequences of an Omega getting the mark washed away have a great impact on the body. After waking up that morning, Ji Yifei had disappeared, only leaving him a text message saying, “We’ll talk about it when school starts,” and hadn’t contacted him since.
The car happened to reach the destination. Ji Yifei got out of the car, closed the door, and took out his phone, ready to call a taxi to go home.
Suddenly, he felt that the weather today was quite hot.
Shang Yan sensed something was wrong. He grabbed Ji Yifei’s hand and said:
“Are you going into heat?”
Sure enough, as soon as Shang Yan touched him, Ji Yifei’s body went soft. Ji Yifei felt his whole body was like a pool of spring water. He now desperately desired Shang Yan’s pheromones…