After Differentiation, I Marked My Arch-nemesis - Chapter 90

Lu Yaoyi walked toward Jiang Youli, bathed in the morning sun’s rays.

The two of them smiled at each other.

“From now on, you won’t have to ride your own bike to school,” Jiang Youli patted her bicycle. “How about I be your knight and take you to school every day?”

Upon hearing this, Lu Yaoyi’s eyes curved, and her smile deepened.

She agreed without a second thought. “Okay.”

Jiang Youli was overjoyed.

Then she put her feet on the ground to steady the bike and took her backpack from her back, hanging it on her chest.

“All right, you can get on now.”

Lu Yaoyi walked over and carefully sat sideways on the back seat of the bicycle.

Jiang Youli stepped on the pedal and turned her head to ask Lu Yaoyi, “Are you ready?”

Lu Yaoyi: “Mhm.”

Jiang Youli: “Then hold on tight. I’m about to go.”

Lu Yaoyi leaned forward slightly and hugged Jiang Youli’s slender waist tightly, then rested her face on Jiang Youli’s back. She smelled the scent of fir and felt a great sense of satisfaction.

Jiang Youli looked down at the hands wrapped around her waist.

“Here I go.”

With that, she happily pedaled the bicycle and rode forward with the wind.

The hem of her skirt fluttered gently.

Both of the girls had sweet smiles on their faces.

Lu Yaoyi had imagined Jiang Youli riding her to school many times.

And now,

Her wish had finally come true and was no longer just a fantasy.

The morning sun’s rays broke through the hazy morning clouds and spread light all over the land.

Before long,

Jiang Youli rode the bicycle slowly into the school gates of Jiangcheng No. 1 High School.

The figures of the two girls were especially noticeable in the sunlight.

From the moment they entered the school gates, Jiang Youli and Lu Yaoyi attracted the attention of countless people around them. The students on the road were shocked and confused when they saw this scene. Jiang Youli actually rode her bicycle to school with Lu Yaoyi?

What was going on?

Weren’t Jiang Youli and Lu Yaoyi mortal enemies who couldn’t stand each other?

Why were they so close now?

And…

They both looked so happy.

Jiang Youli didn’t try to avoid anyone’s gaze. She rode the bicycle with Lu Yaoyi all the way to the bike shed before stopping and parking the bike inside.

Lu Yaoyi stood by and waited for Jiang Youli.

Jiang Youli parked the bike, walked over to Lu Yaoyi, and looked at the people around them.

Then she asked Lu Yaoyi obediently,

“Yaoyao, can I hold your hand?”

Before Lu Yaoyi could answer, she heard Jiang Youli continue,

“Look at all the people watching us now. We used to always be at each other’s throats. They must be very curious about why I rode you to school. How about I take this opportunity to tell them that you and I are actually…”

Jiang Youli suddenly looked a little embarrassed. “Yaoyao…”

Lu Yaoyi: “Mhm?”

Jiang Youli: “I want everyone to know that I like you.”

Lu Yaoyi curved her lips. “Okay.”

With Lu Yaoyi’s permission, Jiang Youli took her hand.

Their fingers intertwined.

“Let’s go.”

Jiang Youli held Lu Yaoyi’s hand tightly and walked toward the teaching building.

The two of them walked hand in hand on the tree-lined path.

The gazes from the people around them were almost devouring them.

It was already surprising enough that Jiang Youli rode Lu Yaoyi to school, but now they were even holding hands in public? The two of them had become the center of attention, and some students even took out their phones and secretly took pictures of them.

Before long,

The photos of Jiang Youli and Lu Yaoyi holding hands were widely circulated in the school group chats.

It was obvious what a male Alpha and a female Omega holding hands meant. The intertwined fingers of Jiang Youli and Lu Yaoyi said it all. Just yesterday, they were discussing what the relationship was between Lu Yaoyi and Tu Yimo, and today, they saw this scene.

Could it be that Jiang Youli was jealous and was publicly declaring her ownership?

It was simply unbelievable.

Jiang Youli walked into Class 1 of Grade 3 with Lu Yaoyi, hand in hand, in front of everyone.

When the students in the classroom saw them come in, they started to boo them.

“Wow—”

“What’s going on with you two?”

“Are you two together?”

…

Jiang Youli and Lu Yaoyi were immediately surrounded by the gazes of their classmates.

The two of them looked at each other.

“Lu Yaoyi hasn’t agreed to date me yet,” Jiang Youli explained to them very openly. “I’m pursuing her, but I haven’t won her over yet.”

Just then, someone shouted,

“You’re already holding hands. That’s no different from being together.”

Another round of laughter ensued.

Jiang Youli’s ears turned slightly red, and she smiled awkwardly. She turned her head to meet Lu Yaoyi’s gaze and smiled even more happily. There really wasn’t much difference between them being together now, but they still had to go through the proper steps before they were officially together.

She had to pursue Lu Yaoyi until she said yes.

The two of them let go of their intertwined hands.

Lu Yaoyi walked to her seat, took off her backpack, and hung it on the hook on the side of her desk.

Then she pulled out her chair and sat down.

Jiang Youli saw that Tu Yimo hadn’t arrived at school yet, so she took it upon herself to switch seats with Tu Yimo. There was nothing that could stop her from wanting to sit with Lu Yaoyi. At most, she would just treat Tu Yimo to a meal later.

Because it made her happy.

When Chen Huaian came to the classroom, he found that his deskmate had become Tu Yimo.

He didn’t even have time to put down his backpack before he ran to find Jiang Youli. He had already found out about Jiang Youli and Lu Yaoyi’s situation at home and was so shocked that he wanted to fly to school immediately to get a clear answer. He pulled Jiang Youli to the back of the classroom and asked her in a low voice,

“Boss, what’s going on with you and Lu Yaoyi?”

Jiang Youli had already known that the news about her and Lu Yaoyi was spreading like wildfire.

This was the result she wanted.

She was so happy she couldn’t even describe it. “The situation with Lu Yaoyi and me is exactly what you know. Didn’t someone post a picture of us holding hands?”

Chen Huaian was very surprised. “Are you two together already?”

Jiang Youli: “Not yet. I’m working hard to pursue her right now.”

Chen Huaian: “Boss… so you like Lu Yaoyi?”

Jiang Youli: “Mhm, I like her.”

“When did you start liking Lu Yaoyi?” Chen Huaian scratched his head in confusion. “Why have I never heard you mention this?”

“I don’t know when it started either,” Jiang Youli had thought about this question many times but had never found a definitive answer. “Anyway, when I realized that I liked her, it felt like I had liked her for a long time, so long that it felt like I might have always liked her.”

Chen Huaian was shocked.

He had never thought that Jiang Youli would one day like Lu Yaoyi, especially since Jiang Youli used to hate Lu Yaoyi so much. He then realized what a stupid thing he had done last year. “I even tried to set you and Pei Jingning up last year… No wonder I always thought you were acting strange toward Lu Yaoyi. So you liked Lu Yaoyi all along…”

Jiang Youli: “To be honest.”

Chen Huaian: “What?”

“Actually, for a while, I also thought I was being very strange, and the reason I was strange was because I realized that I felt something for Lu Yaoyi…” Jiang Youli remembered her cowardly past self and shrugged helplessly. “I just never wanted to face my feelings for Lu Yaoyi, so I always deliberately avoided and refused to look into why I was acting strange.”

When Chen Huaian heard Jiang Youli’s words, he suddenly felt a lot of regret.

If he had known that Jiang Youli liked Lu Yaoyi, he wouldn’t have forced Jiang Youli and Pei Jingning together, and he wouldn’t have made Jiang Youli confess to Pei Jingning in front of the whole school.

Why didn’t he realize that Jiang Youli liked Lu Yaoyi sooner?

What a disaster.

Just then, the class bell rang.

“Class is starting,” Jiang Youli patted Chen Huaian’s shoulder. “It’s time for morning reading.”

Chen Huaian nodded. “Mhm.”

For the entire morning,

The news about Jiang Youli and Lu Yaoyi being together spread like wildfire throughout the school.

They had always believed that no matter who ended up together, it would never be Jiang Youli and Lu Yaoyi. They never expected that the two most unlikely people would end up together.

Jiang Youli’s friends all knew how much she used to hate Lu Yaoyi and had said countless times that she would never like her. Now, Jiang Youli was being teased by her friends. They all laughed at how she was eating her own words, but besides feeling a little embarrassed,

She didn’t mind the teasing.

Not only that,

She was actually proud that she liked Lu Yaoyi.

She now wished that the whole world knew she liked Lu Yaoyi and that Lu Yaoyi was her Omega. This way, no one would dare to try and steal Lu Yaoyi from her. So she generously expressed her feelings for Lu Yaoyi to her friends and told them that she was working hard to pursue her.

But despite the teasing,

Her friends were all wishing her and Lu Yaoyi the best.

In the afternoon,

Right after lunch break, Jiang Youli was dragged by Chen Huaian to the bottom of the teaching building.

At first, Jiang Youli didn’t know what was going on, but she understood when she saw the photo on the bulletin board. A printed photo was stuck on the bulletin board, and the person in the photo was her.

The Jiang Youli in the photo had two bright red handprints on her face.

It was clearly photoshopped.

“Damn it,” Chen Huaan frowned. “Who put this photo up?”

The students around them all shook their heads and said they didn’t know.

Chen Huaian: “I’m going to tear it off.”

Jiang Youli took a step forward and stopped Chen Huaian. “Why tear it off?”

Chen Huaian: “You’re not going to?”

Jiang Youli: “I think this photo looks pretty good.”

Chen Huaian: “…”

Jiang Youli had behaved very well in school for the past year and a half, and she had changed the opinions and views of many students. But she also knew that there were still many people who didn’t like her, especially since many people in the school liked and coveted Lu Yaoyi.

It was probably someone who put the photo up during lunch break on purpose.

Just to make fun of her.

But her eating her own words didn’t bother her anymore.

She liked Lu Yaoyi and was more than willing to eat her own words.

Chen Huaian couldn’t help but ask, “You’re really not going to tear it off?”

“Just let the photo stay up there,” Jiang Youli’s lips curved, looking as if she didn’t care at all. “It’s a good way to let everyone know that I like Lu Yaoyi.”

With that, she left.

Later, the photo of Jiang Youli was still torn off by someone else.

During the last period,

Three minutes before class ended, Jiang Youli quietly said to Lu Yaoyi,

“Yaoyao, I’ll go to the bike shed and wait for you first after class.”

Lu Yaoyi asked curiously, “Why?”

Jiang Youli: “You’ll know when you get to the bike shed later.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Okay.”

The bell rang, signaling the end of class.

Jiang Youli grabbed her backpack and ran out of the classroom without looking back.

Jin Rubing walked to Lu Yaoyi’s side with her backpack and asked, looking at the empty seat next to Lu Yaoyi, “Yaoyi, why did Jiang Youli leave?”

Lu Yaoyi: “She said she’s going to wait for me at the bike shed first.”

Jin Rubing: “Oh…”

Lu Yaoyi picked up her packed backpack and stood up. “Let’s go.”

The two of them left the classroom.

Jin Rubing affectionately hooked her arm around Lu Yaoyi’s and whispered, “Yaoyi, you still haven’t told Jiang Youli that you actually liked her when you were little, right?”

Lu Yaoyi: “Mhm.”

Jin Rubing: “When are you planning to tell her?”

Lu Yaoyi’s eyes trembled slightly. “I’ll tell her when the time is right.”

“She definitely has no idea that you’ve had a crush on her for so long,” Jin Rubing was suddenly very envious of Jiang Youli for being liked by such an outstanding person like Lu Yaoyi. “When she finds out the truth, she’s going to be so surprised. I can even imagine what kind of expression she’ll have.”

Lu Yaoyi just smiled without saying anything.

The sun was setting.

Lu Yaoyi and Jin Rubing walked out of the teaching building and headed toward the bike shed.

They saw Jiang Youli from a distance.

Jiang Youli was standing next to her bicycle, holding a large megaphone. Jin Rubing didn’t want to be a third wheel and said goodbye, leaving early. Lu Yaoyi walked straight up to Jiang Youli. She looked down at the megaphone in Jiang Youli’s hand.

“Jiang Dingding, what are you doing with this megaphone?”

Jiang Youli didn’t answer but got on her bicycle. “Get on first.”

Lu Yaoyi walked over and sat sideways on the back seat of the bicycle, standing on her tiptoes slightly.

Jiang Youli stepped on the pedal and asked, “Are you ready?”

Lu Yaoyi: “Mhm.”

Jiang Youli then pressed the button and turned on the megaphone.

The megaphone immediately started playing Jiang Youli’s own voice on a loop.

—”Jiang Youli likes Lu Yaoyi.”

Lu Yaoyi was surprised when she heard this. “You…”

“Many people are now making fun of me for eating my own words, so I’m going to tell them that I’m very happy and willing to eat my own words,” Jiang Youli looked at the setting sun in the distance with a bright smile. “And also tell everyone who hears this megaphone.”

“Jiang Youli likes Lu Yaoyi and only likes Lu Yaoyi.”

It also served as a good way to get back at those who wanted to see her make a fool of herself.

This was what you call “defeating laughter with laughter,” Jiang Youli style.

Lu Yaoyi’s nose felt a little sour, and she leaned against Jiang Youli’s back, hugging her waist tightly.

“Okay.”

Although she thought Jiang Youli was adorably silly, she knew that Jiang Youli was using a clumsy but uniquely romantic way to tell everyone—that she liked her.

She was so happy that Jiang Youli was so open and generous about expressing her feelings for her.

Jiang Youli: “Let’s go. We’re going home.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Mhm.”

Jiang Youli rode the bicycle away.

The sound of the megaphone attracted countless people’s attention. Everyone who heard the megaphone saw two girls on the same bicycle riding through the streets toward the sunset. The megaphone in the female Alpha’s hand kept playing on a loop—

“Jiang Youli likes Lu Yaoyi.”

“Jiang Youli likes Lu Yaoyi.”

“Jiang Youli likes Lu Yaoyi.”