He is not my Alpha! - Chapter 5

Ji Yifei finally woke up because it was too cold. He himself couldn’t remember how he fell asleep in the end, only that the mint scent on his body hadn’t dissipated yet.

However, the scent of green tea was completely gone. Some Beta students had returned to the classroom, while a few Omegas and Alphas went to the infirmary for a physical check-up. It was said that one Omega even went into estrus on the spot.

Ji Yifei subconsciously touched the back of his neck and felt the scent blocker patch. He sighed and sat up. The seat next to him was empty. He wondered where the once arrogant Alpha, Shang Yan, had gone. Honestly, running off right after the marking. Anyone who didn’t know would think they had a casual hook-up, and the scumbag Alpha pulled up his pants and left after finishing!

He recalled what had just happened, thinking of Shang Yan’s flushed neck when he bit the back of his neck. He was the one who was marked, yet why was Shang Yan more shy than himself?

(Restroom)

Shang Yan stood in the single stall of the restroom, lifting his arm to carefully sniff the lingering jasmine scent on his body. Ji Yifei hadn’t emitted too many pheromones just now, but perhaps because of their posture, he also had a jasmine scent on him.

If anyone saw him like this, he would definitely be called a pervert who had invaded an Omega.

Shang Yan meticulously replayed Ji Yifei’s expression and tone when he was marked in his mind. He tried hard to suppress his desire with rationality, tidied up his appearance, and left the restroom.

As luck would have it, he met Wu Yiheng on his way back.

Judging by the direction Wu Yiheng was walking, he should be heading out of school.

Releasing pheromones indiscriminately on campus could lead to a school-wide notice of disciplinary action and suspension. Yet this person could leisurely carry his backpack, all smiles, and prepare to go out and play. He truly was a rare talent.

Wu Yiheng still had an impression of Shang Yan, but his impression was only: Ji Yifei’s rival and deskmate.

Wu Yiheng deliberately blocked Shang Yan, who was walking towards him, and sized him up and down.

Although Wu Yiheng, as a suitor of Ji Yifei, should have been sarcastic when he saw Shang Yan, perhaps adding how awesome Ji Yifei was, etc.

But faced with Shang Yan’s dangerously handsome face, Wu Yiheng even considered starting a TV drama-style AA relationship.

His pursuit of Ji Yifei was merely for the title of conquering the school tyrant of High School No. 4. As long as they were good-looking, he accepted all comers.

Shang Yan narrowed his eyes, feeling a bit displeased as he watched the Alpha across from him sizing him up and down.

Perhaps because of this “tiny bit” of displeasure, Shang Yan completely ignored Wu Yiheng blocking the way. He took a detour around him, deliberately bumping his shoulder as he passed.

Shang Yan didn’t even lower his head and continued walking forward, leaving only a faint remark: “Blocking the way.”

Wu Yiheng silently clenched his fist, wishing he could toss out the brain that had just thought about an AA relationship.

That brain was probably waterlogged and overgrown with moss.

Wu Yiheng mentally made a note against Shang Yan, staring at the person’s back. He cursed a few times under his breath, patted his just-bumped shoulder, and ran downstairs, climbing over the wall to go out and play.

(In the Classroom)

When Shang Yan returned, the class had already started. The “good student” made up a lie that he had been affected by an Alpha’s pheromones and went to the restroom to calm down, successfully deceiving the strictest teacher in High School No. 4—the Physics teacher, Teacher Yan.

Ji Yifei had excellent class habits. He was the type to take notes while listening, and occasionally answer questions posed by the teacher.

Therefore, if you simultaneously opened the books of the first-ranked (Shang Yan) and the second-ranked (Ji Yifei) students, you would discover where the difference between a top student and an academic genius might lie.

Ji Yifei wrote notes with one hand, and the other hand was placed neatly on the desk, just like the primary school student’s code of conduct. He barely looked like a bad boy or a school tyrant.

Shang Yan returned to his seat, flipped to the same page as Ji Yifei, took off his glasses, and rubbed his temples. Just then, the hardworking student Ji Yifei poked him with a pen.

Ji Yifei: “Are you… okay?” He noticed that Shang Yan often rubbed his temples and the bridge of his nose lately. He felt the other person looked preoccupied. Thinking about Shang Yan’s recent worries, the biggest one was probably himself…

Shang Yan answered while looking at the blackboard: “I’m fine.”

Ji Yifei figured he needed to listen seriously and stopped the topic. He opened his mouth softly: “Alright, you… don’t stress too much. Say what’s on your mind, don’t take on too much pressure. It’s just a marking, it’s no big deal.”

……

Shang Yan: Little friend Ji Yifei, perhaps you haven’t understood who this marking truly causes the most physical harm to…

Shang Yan nodded, signaled Ji Yifei to focus on the lesson, while he himself listened in one ear and let it out the other.

But he also gained some sweetness from it: Ji Yifei cared about him just now. If he could care about him, perhaps it meant he was beginning to subconsciously accept the marking…?

The thought of this marking gave Shang Yan another headache…

When school ended, Shang Yan rushed back to the dorm at lightning speed. Ji Yifei didn’t even catch a glimpse of him. He simply assumed he had a physiological need, short for an urgent need to pee, which was why he rushed back to the dorm. He didn’t say anything and returned to his own dorm.

(Night / Dormitory)

Shang Yan stared blankly at his phone screen. On the surface, he seemed to be looking out the window at the pitch-black night sky, but his eyes were honestly glancing downwards.

Shang Yan generally didn’t take off his glasses until bedtime. Sometimes he might even wear them while taking a shower. Those who didn’t know might think his prescription was too high, but he personally understood it as not wanting to take them off.

Perhaps because of things that happened in his childhood, he liked wearing glasses.

He felt that glasses could hide many emotions. Emotions he didn’t want others to see, they couldn’t perceive through his eyes.

It was 22:30 Beijing time, half an hour after school ended. Ji Yifei still hadn’t contacted him.

Today’s homework was the math test paper Ji Yifei did today. During self-study, he observed that Ji Yifei hadn’t touched that paper during the evening self-study. He had specifically “mentioned it” before school ended—that he could call him if he had any questions.

Shang Yan: “Is Ji Yifei’s phone broken?”

……

Shang Yan really couldn’t stand his own confusing behavior of staring at his phone for half an hour. He decided to change the situation.

(10 minutes later)

Ji Yifei had just finished showering and came out of the bathroom, wearing a fuzzy onesie. This pajama was often teased by his roommates as infant sleepwear. But that didn’t detract from the comfort of the garment.

Ji Yifei held a towel in one hand to dry his hair, while looking at the math test paper he held in the other.

He had been thinking about this problem since he went downstairs. He originally planned to ask Shang Yan after school. But the other person rushed back to the dorm due to a physiological need. He couldn’t exactly make him come back, so he had to bring the paper back to the dorm to think.

Half an hour had passed since school ended, and he still hadn’t figured out the problem. He had been thinking about it in his mind while showering. Even if he took a picture and searched an app, because it was an original problem, he couldn’t find the solution, and even similar problems made him confused.

Ji Yifei no longer cared about his undried hair. He decided to pick up his phone and change the situation.

The “Are you asleep?” in the input bar hadn’t been fully typed when a message from Shang Ten-Year-Old appeared in the chat history.

Shang Ten-Year-Old: “Asleep? Do you know the extension question on the morning math test paper? Ask me if you don’t.”

At this moment, Ji Yifei couldn’t care less about dignity. He turned around, reported to his roommates that he needed to use his phone, asked them to help keep an eye out for the teacher, picked up his phone, and sent a video call to Shang Yan.

Perhaps Ji Yifei didn’t notice the three heads behind him. Lin Ling rubbed his chin, pondering which Alpha Ji Yifei was texting (instinctively an Alpha). Jiang Jie directly moved his stool behind Ji Yifei’s stool. Although Ji Yifei’s phone had a privacy screen protector, he couldn’t see the content, but he still put on a show. Chen Ken stood behind Ji Yifei, holding a Chinese textbook and leaning on the stool.

When the video call connected and they heard the voice of the person on the other end, the three people dispersed in discord.

The three gathered together, peeking at Ji Yifei, who was concentrating on his question, while cracking sunflower seeds and discussing.

Jiang Jie cracked a sunflower seed while saying: “Hey… you guys say… is the school tyrant… really an Omega? So many Alphas… confess to him… and he doesn’t agree.”

Lin Ling felt uncomfortable with Jiang Jie’s broken sentences while cracking seeds, but he still nodded without saying anything.

Chen Ken, however, shook his head. He first glanced at Ji Yifei, then leaned his head closer to the two of them, whispering: “I heard that Wu Yiheng is pursuing Ji Yifei recently, and their pheromone matching is very high!”

The matter of Wu Yiheng pursuing Ji Yifei had started since the first semester of the second year of high school, but it only started to spread widely recently.

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Jie stood up in a hurry. If those two hadn’t pulled him down, he would have desperately shouted out his reply.

“Don’t you guys know what kind of person Wu Yiheng is!”

His sudden loud voice made Ji Yifei, who was doing the problem, also turn his head. He knew Jiang Jie had strong opinions about Wu Yiheng, but out of self-interest, he didn’t want Shang Yan to know too much about this matter. Before he could open his mouth to stop them, the person on the other end of the phone spoke first:

“Oh? What kind of person? Tell me about it.”

Jiang Jie immediately started speaking. Perhaps he was too angry, completely ignoring the deep voice, and opened his mouth incessantly, afraid that someone wouldn’t know what kind of person Wu Yiheng was.

“He’s the one who heavily released pheromones at school a few days ago! I heard he started dating in middle school, and his studies have always been mediocre, but he’s tricked quite a few people with that green tea-scented pheromone! He especially likes Omegas who are good at fighting! I heard he even slept with three Omegas at the same time before! This kind of scumbag should be arrested by the Omega Association!”

“Hmm… that’s indeed very idiotic.” That voice came again. The three people who were a little further away still didn’t hear anything unusual.

Jiang Jie and Lin Ling both nodded in agreement with that person, only to find Chen Ken resting his head on his hand, looking at the two with sympathetic eyes, and softly said:

“If I told you two that none of the four people in the dorm spoke just now, would you two collapse?”

Wait a minute, no one spoke just now…

The two instantly widened their eyes and looked towards the window. Ji Yifei was leaning his head on one hand, holding his phone in the other, looking over here. Their eyes met perfectly.

“Shang Yan, you were right, that Wu Yiheng is indeed no good.”

???

Shang Yan? Academic Genius Shang is also listening!

Shang Yan looked at Ji Yifei’s expression of watching a show and really wanted to shake him. Is there only water inside?

If he heard correctly just now, wasn’t Ji Yifei the Omega being pursued?

For a moment, Shang Yan didn’t know what to say.

Shang Yan: “I won’t talk anymore, hanging up now. Go to sleep early.”

Ji Yifei didn’t even have time to say goodnight to the other person, as the phone already showed that the call had ended.

Ji Yifei’s inner thoughts: Did I make him angry again?

On this side, Lin Ken and Jiang Jie were shaking Chen Ken’s shoulder. Lin Ken spoke resentfully: “Class monitor, you have no heart! Didn’t we agree he was a pure, little white lotus! Why didn’t you tell us two just now… Ah!!! This is the man voted most desirable to kiss in the entire High School No. 4! The white moonlight of all Omegas in the school!

Ji Yifei sighed silently after hearing this sentence. These Omegas were simply… judging a book by its cover.

Ji Yifei climbed onto the bed in a depressed mood, flipped over and lay down. He didn’t want to look at the problem Shang Yan had just explained to him or the formula he asked him to memorize again. He just kept scrolling through his Moments.

(Ten minutes later)

Moments:

Shang Ten-Year-Old: Some people’s brains might be waterlogged.

(One minute later. Alpha Dormitory)

New message on Moments:

“Ji Three-Year-Old liked this.”