After Pretending to Be an Alpha, I Was Exposed by My Rival - Chapter 12

Before the express takeout arrived, Zhou Yijue had already starved himself flat.

He lay on the sofa, bored and wanting to watch a movie. He clicked through the options, searched around, and still could not find anything he wanted to watch. After closing it, he simply opened the projection of the game interface and watched Yuan Big Head and Lujian’s group run dungeons to pass the time.

Yuan Big Head never once forgot his cute loli-girl persona. He kept acting cute toward the two girls Lujian had brought, calling them “big sister” and “pretty sister” every other sentence, making Zhou Yijue feel disgusted.

Yet Yuan Big Head did not feel embarrassed at all. From time to time, he even deliberately used the chance of playing the game to rub against the two beautiful girls.

Those two beautiful girls probably really thought Yuan Big Head was also a cute girl in real life, so they tolerated his taking advantage of them—or rather, they even seemed to enjoy it a little.

Watching through the holographic projection, a thought suddenly popped into Zhou Yijue’s mind: could these two beautiful girls also be two muscular men in real life?

If that were true, it would be rather interesting.

He began to look forward to it with a bit of wicked anticipation.

Inside the game.

Yuan Big Head was single-mindedly trying to seduce the beauties, using both coquettishness and cuteness. Besides “ying ying ying,” he even pretended to fall and sprawled in front of the two beauties, tearfully asking to be picked up.

Watching him, Zhou Yijue could not help imagining what he looked like in reality, and he was so chilled that goosebumps rose all over him.

Tsk.

Truly shameless.

“Ying ying ying, I’m so bad at this. Big sister, will you dislike me?” Yuan Big Head blinked his watery loli eyes and asked the slightly taller beauty with a pout.

The taller beauty overreacted, looking somewhat flattered. She immediately said excitedly to Yuan Big Head, “Of course not. Little sister, don’t be afraid. The two of us sisters are very strong, and this big brother too. Don’t look at him just because he’s using the game’s original avatar. He’s actually very powerful. Follow us, and we won’t let anything happen to you.”

“That’s right, that’s right. We’ll definitely protect you.”

Houzi and Wu Qi were so excited that they rolled all over the floor, howling inwardly.

“Ahhh, little sister is so cute.”

“Awoo, little sister talked to me.”

Inside Zhou Yijue’s mind: Hehe, these two pretty sisters are so gentle. In real life, they must be gentle, cute, and kind Omegas. I must seize this opportunity properly.

As a Beta, Zhou Yijue dreamed of marrying a gentle, kind, and cute female Omega.

In this era, Omegas usually belonged to powerful Alphas.

Betas were naturally inferior to Alphas. This innate disadvantage meant that when pursuing partners, they often could not compete against Alphas.

So, faced with this rare opportunity, Yuan Big Head was more proactive than ever. Like a male peacock about to spread its tail, he desperately showed off his presence.

Zhou Yijue could not bear to look and covered his eyes.

Ding-dong, ding-dong.

The doorbell rang.

His express takeout had arrived.

Zhou Yijue stood up and quickly walked out. He opened the door, took the takeout, said thank you, watched the delivery person walk away, and then closed the door.

Starving, he swiftly split apart his chopsticks, opened the food, and began eating while continuing to watch Yuan Big Head show off his presence.

Sometimes it was hard on the eyes. Sometimes it made people unsure whether to laugh or cry. Unexpectedly, it even went well with his meal.

After Zhou Yijue finished two boxed meals, three dishes, and a bowl of soup, he let out a satisfied burp. He pulled out a tissue and wiped his mouth. Having just eaten his fill, it was not suitable to shower or sleep yet. After thinking about it, he decided to log back in and play for a while longer.

The moment he came online, Lujian invited him into the team.

Seeing Lujian’s team invitation, Zhou Yijue was dazed for a moment. But it only lasted an instant before he pressed accept.

“Full?” Lujian asked.

Even Lujian’s voice was the game’s most basic default voice.

This person was too lazy.

In this game, when players first logged in, they could sculpt their face according to their own wishes. Details including voice could also be changed. If a player was confident in their own looks and voice, they could even create a game character that matched their real height and appearance one-to-one.

However, most people chose to create their ideal game character.

For example, Zhou Yijue was extremely unhappy with his excessively fair skin in real life, as well as his body type that could only develop a thin layer of muscle no matter how much he trained. So when creating his game character, he deliberately made a tall, mighty, dark-skinned muscular man.

His dark-skinned muscular man and Yuan Big Head’s fair, tender loli formed a sharp contrast.

Yuan Big Head often complained about his game character, saying he had made it too ugly, but Zhou Yijue enjoyed it.

People with outstanding looks never felt inferior, nor did they care whether their game character was handsome or ugly, because they did not need their game character’s appearance to attract other people’s attention.

Yuan Big Head understood this deeply and felt all kinds of envy, jealousy, and hatred inside.

So good-looking and a powerful Alpha too. It was lucky this person was his brother. Otherwise, just feeling jealous every day would waste most of his time.

“Mm, I’m full.” Zhou Yijue’s voice had been adjusted to sound much rougher than his real voice. It sounded like that of a rough, muscular man.

“Then let’s keep running dungeons. Continue Jorōgumo or switch to another dungeon?” Lu Chizhou asked.

“Whatever. I’m fine with anything,” Zhou Yijue said.

“What about you all?” Lu Chizhou simply asked the others.

Houzi and Wu Qi both looked eagerly at the loli beside them and asked ingratiatingly, “Little sister, which one do you want to run?”

Yuan Big Head mistakenly thought his charm had been accepted by the two beautiful girls. He was so excited he almost bit his tongue as he said, “Anything is fine. As long as I’m with you, I’ll do anything.”

Houzi and Wu Qi’s faces began to flush, and they revealed lecherous smiles. “Then let’s continue Jorōgumo.”

“Great God Zhou Er Fushi is online! Great God, carry us! We only want the clear rewards. We won’t take any dropped equipment.” When the passersby saw Zhou Yijue’s dark-skinned muscular man come online, they immediately scurried over, wanting to continue teaming up and begging to be carried.

Zhou Yijue glanced at Lu Chizhou.

Lu Chizhou smiled and said, “I don’t mind. You decide.”

Zhou Yijue turned to the passersby and said, “One time per person. Line up and get on.”

“Ahhh, thank you, Great God!”

“So touched. Great God is too good.”

“Ying, I want to take a commemorative photo with Great God Zhou Er Fushi and Great God Lujian.”

“Oh my god, I’m going to have a heart attack. These are my two favorite great gods. Not only are they appearing together today, I can even run a dungeon with both great gods at the same time. I’m moved to tears. I love Jorōgumo.”

With Zhou Yijue and Lu Chizhou together, their dungeon-clearing speed was extremely fast, averaging once every ten-plus minutes.

They carried countless little brothers.

The world channel filled with little loudspeaker messages thanking them.

The people drawn in by the loudspeakers multiplied rapidly. Before long, a long line had formed.

Messages about them on the world channel flew by even more wildly.

“As expected, staying up cultivating immortality has its benefits.”

“Good thing I didn’t sleep.”

“So what my buddy said was true—the great gods really do like appearing at night.”

“Am I dreaming? Great God Lujian and Great God Zhou Er Fushi are in the same frame? They’re the Top 1 and Top 2 in my heart.”

Zhou Yijue did not care much about the messages on the world channel and did not see the words Top 1 and Top 2. Otherwise, out of habit, he might have challenged Lujian to PvP to decide the ranking.

Because of Lu Chizhou, ever since entering Lekaman Academy, he had become the eternal number two.

Because of that, the thing he hated most was second place.

Houzi and the others would occasionally switch out to look at the world loudspeakers, then come back and broadcast them excitedly.

“Great gods really are great gods. The whole world is full of your fangirls and fanboys now.”

Lu Chizhou had been watching Zhou Yijue’s movements the whole time. Sensing that his actions had slowed down, he opened the previous clear record and saw that the latest run had taken more than twenty minutes.

Logically speaking, after repeating it so many times, they should have become faster and faster because they were familiar with it. But because they had played for too long and it was already very late, everyone’s body had fallen into a state of fatigue, so everyone’s speed had dropped.

Especially Zhou Er Fushi’s speed. It had dropped even faster than his.

Lu Chizhou, who had been paying attention to Zhou Er Fushi’s condition the whole time, noticed the moment his state declined.

So after finishing the final run, Lu Chizhou kicked all the passersby out. In the internal team, he turned on voice chat and said, “It’s late. Time to rest.”

Zhou Yijue rubbed his eyes and hummed in agreement.

Then he prepared to exit the game.

Just as he was about to log out, a friend request notification popped up on the screen first.

[Lujian has requested to add you as a friend.]

Zhou Yijue clicked agree.

The other party’s message came very quickly.

“You’re really good at this game.”

Zhou Yijue thought for a moment and replied, “Just average. You’re not bad either.”

Lu Chizhou said, “I’ve played for a long time. I started when this game was still in testing. I’m one of the earliest batch of players.”

“I’ve played for quite a while too. The game has been out for ten years, and I’ve probably played for seven or eight. My friend dragged me into the pit.” Zhou Yijue almost said Yuan Big Head had dragged him in, but before sending it, he suddenly remembered this was in-game and quickly deleted it, changing his wording.

“That’s quite long too. I didn’t expect that after playing on the same server for so many years, we never ran into each other. What a pity,” Lu Chizhou said.

“Not really a pity. When I first started playing, I was only a teenager. If I’d met you back then, I definitely would’ve fought you. Maybe we would have become enemies,” Zhou Yijue said.

He was now twenty-two. Seven or eight years ago, he would have been fourteen or fifteen, the most rebellious age. Boys in that chuunibyou stage all had the illusion that they ruled the entire world and refused to admit defeat to anyone.

If they really had met, the two of them might have fought to the death over who was number one.

“Then we should be about the same age. Seven or eight years ago, I was also a teenager,” Lu Chizhou said.

“I’m twenty-two.”

“What a coincidence. I’m twenty-two too.”

“It is pretty coincidental. Let’s spar again sometime. I have to log off. I still have class tomorrow.” Zhou Yijue had just sent the message when everything before his eyes went dark. The screen suddenly blacked out.

The power had gone out.

“We really are fated. I also have class tomorrow.” Lu Chizhou sent that sentence over and saw that the other party was already shown as offline.

He ignored the tiny bit of regret in his heart and also logged off.

Zhou Yijue took off the holographic helmet and sank into complete darkness.

The circuit breaker had tripped.

“Currently troubleshooting the electrical fault. Estimated time required: ten minutes.” The blue-and-white-toned robot butler slid out, circled in front of him, left behind a faint glow, and then turned away.

Ten minutes later, the power returned.

Zhou Yijue had fallen asleep on the sofa.

…

“Hehehe…” Yuan Big Head propped his chin on his hands, lost in a lovesick state.

His face wore a lecherous smile.

Zhou Yijue showed a disgusted expression and pushed Yuan Big Head’s elbow. “Wake up. It’s class time.”

Yuan Big Head suddenly hugged Zhou Yijue’s arm, squeezing into his embrace like a delicate little bird. He rubbed around wildly and said shyly, “Little Zhouzhou, I’m so happy.”

“Happy my ass. You haven’t even confirmed whether the other person is male or female.” Zhou Yijue poured cold water on him with a cold face.

“How annoying.” Yuan Big Head poked Zhou Yijue’s chest with his finger and said in a pinched voice, “My sixth sense tells me the other party is definitely a gentle, kind, and cute Omega.”

“You’re a loli in disguise yourself, yet you still expect the other person to be real with you?” Zhou Yijue speechlessly pushed Yuan Haojun’s hand away. With a little force, he bent back Yuan Haojun’s restless finger.

Yuan Haojun was trapped in his beautiful fantasy and could not get out. His cheeks were flushed, and he covered his face with both hands, giggling foolishly while imagining things.

Lu Chizhou happened to glance over and saw Yuan Big Head burying his head in Zhou Yijue’s arms. The two were interacting intimately and even hugging each other.

Lu Chizhou was so angry his teeth itched, and he ground them hard.

His gaze aimed in Yuan Big Head’s direction and narrowed dangerously.

Yuan Big Head suddenly seemed to sense something. He straightened his waist and rubbed his arms. “Little Zhouzhou, do you feel like it suddenly got a little cold?”

“Get lost~” Zhou Yijue threw the school uniform jacket hanging on the back of the chair over and covered Yuan Haojun’s big head with it.

Houzi and Wu Qi were also whispering in each other’s ears, quietly discussing the “little sister” in the game.

Wu Qi’s face was full of spring-like desire. “Tell me, does that little sister like me? She talked to me so much last night, and she even deliberately fell in front of me, asking me to kiss and hug her. Hehehe…”

“No, no. The little sister should like me. She let me hold her several times last night. Although it was only in the game, I… hehehe, I had a beautiful dream last night.” Thinking of last night’s beautiful dream, Houzi could not help slurping.

Wu Qi looked disgusted and threatened him. “You actually defiled my goddess like that?”

“What do you mean your goddess? She’s clearly my goddess,” Houzi argued.

“Bullshit. She’s my goddess. The one she likes is me.” Wu Qi also refused to back down.

As the two argued, they almost grabbed stools and started fighting.

Later, Lu Chizhou suppressed them with one look and two slaps.