After Pretending to Be an Alpha, I Was Exposed by My Rival - Chapter 2

Zhou Yijue was somewhat distracted the entire day.

He was not sure whether Lu Chizhou had discovered his secret. If he had, would he report him? If his disguise as an Alpha was exposed, not only would he be removed from the mecha major, it would also be recorded in his file. From then on, he would never be allowed to engage in related work again. He would either have to do clerical work, or marry an Alpha and live the life of a househusband, serving his spouse and raising children.

He would rather jump off the roof of the research building and die outside than give birth to even a single child for any stinking Alpha.

Zhou Yijue sat toward the back of the classroom. With a sideways glance, he could see Lu Chizhou. When he made that firm vow in his heart, his resentful gaze was still fixed on Lu Chizhou’s back.

The classic representative of a stinking Alpha.

Heaven was really unfair. Hmph.

Zhou Yijue swallowed down the sour jealousy seeping through the gaps of his teeth, withdrew his sour gaze, and looked toward the homeroom teacher at the blackboard, who was speaking so passionately that spit flew everywhere.

“Little Zhouzhou, why do you look so burdened with worry?” Yuan Haojun propped up Experimental Tutorial on Science-Fiction Mecha Anatomical Analysis, shrank his neck, and hid his big head behind the book. Tilting his head, he quietly asked Zhou Yijue, “Where did you go just now? I couldn’t find you anywhere. I sent you messages and you didn’t reply. I wanted to tell you the teacher temporarily changed classrooms, but I couldn’t.”

“Nowhere.” Zhou Yijue’s voice was muffled. Clearly, he was unhappy.

After being run into by Lu Chizhou in the restroom, he had stayed like this the whole time. Unless he figured out whether Lu Chizhou had discovered his secret, there was no way he could calm down.

When exactly had that guy Lu Chizhou appeared in the restroom? How much had he seen? How much did he know?

These questions had been circling in his mind the whole time, refusing to leave.

“Old Lu, what are you looking at?” Wu Qi had just been about to follow Lu Chizhou’s gaze when Lu Chizhou pushed him back and conveniently covered his face with the thick textbook. A faint smile hung at the corner of his lips. “Are you possessed by a gossiping auntie? Why are you so curious? Listen properly in class.”

“You still haven’t told me what you went to do before class started. I was talking to Gouzi, and when I suddenly turned around, you were gone.” Wu Qi pulled the book off his face and smiled slyly. “With our relationship of knowing each other since we were wearing split-crotch pants, that smile of yours definitely means something’s up.”

“You still haven’t told Auntie Zhou about failing last week’s weekly test, right? Should I help you mention it to her after school today?”

“Please don’t, Brother Lu. I was wrong.” Wu Qi became serious in one second, turned to look at the blackboard, and pretended to be a model student.

His mother liked Lu Chizhou. He was good-looking and had terrifyingly good grades. Compared with her own son, she only wanted to shove him back inside and give birth to a piece of char siu instead—it would be better than looking at him and getting angry.

If his mother found out he had failed again, she would definitely break one of his dog legs.

After class ended, Zhou Yijue told Yuan Haojun to leave first. He dawdled until almost all the classmates had left, then hugged his schoolbag and walked out. He swept his gaze over the backs of the crowd in front of him, locked onto one person, and followed him.

Lu Chizhou entered the changing room. Seeing that only he had gone inside, Zhou Yijue gritted his teeth and followed him in.

But after entering, he did not see Lu Chizhou. He only saw a row of closed doors.

Just as he was hesitating over whether to knock on the doors and look for him, a powerful presence suddenly approached from behind. A shadow fell over him, and a low male voice sounded beside his ear.

“Yo. Looking for me?”

That tingling, numbingly pleasant voice slipped into his ear. At that moment, the influence an S-rank mental-power Alpha had over an Omega produced a chemical reaction in him. Zhou Yijue’s ears involuntarily turned red.

Lu Chizhou only had eyes for him, so naturally, he saw the change in his ears and gave a soft laugh.

“Heh.” So cute.

He got shy so easily.

In the entire school, there was probably only one person who could describe Zhou Yijue as cute.

“Don’t casually speak beside my ear.” Speaking was one thing, but breathing against it too? He was simply a bastard.

Because Zhou Yijue was angry, his face flushed red. But in Lu Chizhou’s eyes, it was misinterpreted as shyness.

Who knew why he would misunderstand it like that?

If Zhou Yijue knew what Lu Chizhou was thinking right now, he would absolutely swing his fist and first beat up that handsome face that even his own mother liked.

Lu Chizhou admired Zhou Yijue’s flustered, hopping-mad appearance, took two steps back, and raised both hands in a gesture of surrender. “All right, all right. I’ll stand farther away.”

“I’m asking you…”

“Ask away.”

Zhou Yijue glared. “Don’t fucking interrupt.”

Lu Chizhou blinked. “Okay.” …So cute.

Zhou Yijue’s eyes widened even more.

“Today in the science building, why did you enter the restroom on the first floor? The class was clearly on the fourth floor.” Zhou Yijue carefully weighed his words and asked rather indirectly. He did not know how much Lu Chizhou had seen, but he could not take any risks.

He did not dare take even the slightest risk.

Once his identity as an Omega was leaked, he would have no room left to choose.

“Didn’t you go there too?” Lu Chizhou asked back.

“I happened to pass by and urgently needed to pee. I didn’t know beforehand that the classroom had been changed.” Zhou Yijue’s expression was extremely fierce. With his arms crossed, he only lacked a big gold chain and tattoos on his arms to complete the look.

“I also happened to pass by and urgently needed to pee. When I went in, I saw you buttoning your shirt… Why were you buttoning your shirt after peeing?”

“What the hell does that have to— I was sweating. It was too hot, so I washed a little.” Zhou Yijue habitually snapped back, but halfway through, he remembered that he was trying to probe for information and could not block the path so quickly. He swallowed the last word back down. “You really only saw me buttoning my shirt when you came in? You didn’t see anything else?”

“Was I supposed to see something else?” Lu Chizhou asked.

“No. You weren’t supposed to see anything. That’s it. Goodbye.”

After Zhou Yijue got the answer he wanted, he immediately abandoned Lu Chizhou and slipped away. If he stayed with this person for even one more second, he was afraid he would be unable to resist jumping up and beating him up.

Lu Chizhou touched his own face and looked at Zhou Yijue’s back as he fled in what seemed like shyness—though it was not. A charming smile spread across his handsome face.

To think he had put in so much effort just to attract his attention. How could this person be so cute?

After Zhou Yijue learned that Lu Chizhou had not discovered his secret, he returned to his irritable, keep-away-from-me appearance. Wearing a villainous face, he walked along the campus avenue.

“Stop right there!”

Three strong Alphas walked toward him and blocked Zhou Yijue’s path. Two of them wore tomato-and-scrambled-egg-colored uniforms, so they were not students from this school.

“So you’re the punk who dumped our precious Anran again and again?”

“So what if I am? You want to fight?” Zhou Yijue had been hot-tempered since childhood and was very good at fighting. When he was young, he had been the king of the alley kids. After entering school, he beat down several upperclassmen and directly rose to become the boss of No. 1 City High. It was only after graduating from university and starting work that he had restrained himself slightly.

Now that he was in this interstellar era where the strong were respected, he was even less likely to restrain himself.

He knew most boys of this age bullied the weak and feared the strong. If he showed fear, they would definitely bully him even more. But if he acted more arrogant than anyone else, they would not dare casually make a move.

“After school tonight, wait at the school gate.” The slightly taller tomato-and-scrambled-egg boy pointed at him, his finger almost jabbing Zhou Yijue’s tall, straight nose.

Zhou Yijue’s eyes shifted, focusing on the rough-skinned, thick-jointed finger in front of him. A fierce light appeared in his eyes. “Why wait until after school? We can fight now. Come on. All at once or one by one? Up to you.”

One of the tomato-and-scrambled-egg boys: “…” He’s this arrogant?

The other tomato-and-scrambled-egg boy, who wore glasses, showed a look of disapproval and shook his head. “No. Fighting on campus will get us a disciplinary record.”

The corner of Zhou Yijue’s mouth twitched a few times. “If you fight off campus and get caught, you’ll still get a disciplinary record.”

The tomato boy was puzzled. “Then why aren’t you afraid?”

Zhou Yijue smiled. “You’re the ones asking for a fight. At most, I’ll count as acting in self-defense. If I accidentally use excessive force, it’ll probably be because I was too scared and accidentally hit too hard.”

“…”

“……”

“Big Brother, I suddenly remembered I haven’t finished my homework. I’ll go back and do my homework first.”

“I also remembered I haven’t finished the big questions at the back of my math paper. I’m going back too.”

The two tomato-and-scrambled-egg boys turned and ran, escaping extremely fast. Only the boy wearing the same blue-and-white uniform as Zhou Yijue remained, staring at him with his whole body stiff.

Zhou Yijue unhappily ran a hand through the curly hair on his head. The single ahoge on top of his head turned into two.

With an impatient pair of dead-fish eyes, he grabbed Sun Zhengqiang by the collar and abruptly dragged him closer, glaring down at him fiercely from above.

“Grandson, is this all you’re capable of? Next time you look for backup, at least find someone reliable. You stirred up my urge to beat someone, then didn’t even fight me. I’ll get very angry, you know. Do you know the consequences of making me angry?”

“I-I was wrong. Brother Zhou, spare my life.” Sun Zhengqiang wanted to cry but had no tears. He recalled the fear of being dominated by Zhou Yijue during mecha training last semester.

How had he been so blinded by lust that he dared to provoke Lord Zhou?

“Grandson, look at your pathetic state…” Zhou Yijue let go and tugged at his shoulder strap. “I’ll spare your life for now. I’m thirsty. Go buy me a drink. Make it ice-cold.”

“I-I’ll go right away.” Freed from his grip, Sun Zhengqiang immediately ran toward the convenience store, afraid that if he ran even one step slower, Zhou Yijue would chase after him and beat him into a pig’s head.

Sun Zhengqiang walked out of the convenience store holding an icy-cold soda. He had only taken a few steps when someone suddenly hooked an arm around his neck and dragged him into the small grove.

“Who—? Brother Lu, hello.” Sun Zhengqiang was just about to curse when he blinked and saw Lu Chizhou standing in front of him. He immediately revealed a fawning, lackey-like expression and looked at Lu Chizhou ingratiatingly. With two hehe laughs, he obediently offered the soda in his hand to Lu Chizhou. “Brother Lu, the weather is hot. Have some water.”

“Sun Zhengqiang, do you know what you did wrong?” Lu Chizhou patted Sun Zhengqiang’s face twice. He happened to pat the spot Zhou Yijue had hit earlier. Zhou Yijue had not held back, and the corner of Sun Zhengqiang’s mouth was still hurting. Now, after Lu Chizhou hit him twice there too, the pain made him let out a useless howl.

“Brother L-Lu, please instruct me. I-I don’t know.” Sun Zhengqiang shrank his neck. Half of his face was swollen, and he weakly and pitifully tried to hide backward. But two people stood behind him: Houzi and Wu Qi, Lu Chizhou’s buddies since childhood.

“Hm?” Lu Chizhou narrowed his eyes dangerously.

Sun Zhengqiang was so frightened that his legs trembled. “Brother L-Lu, I was wrong. Please be magnanimous and give me a hint.”

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t know. If you make a mistake, you should suffer a little.” As Lu Chizhou spoke, he gave Houzi and Wu Qi a look. The two cooperated smoothly. One covered Sun Zhengqiang’s mouth, while the other clenched his fist and punched Sun Zhengqiang several times in the stomach.

“Wuwu…” Sun Zhengqiang hurt so much that tears came out. The soda in his hand fell to the ground and rolled to Lu Chizhou’s feet. Lu Chizhou picked up the soda, wiped the dirt off the outside, and stuffed it back into Sun Zhengqiang’s hand.

Wu Qi and Houzi also stopped beating him.

Sun Zhengqiang looked at Lu Chizhou, who had suddenly come closer, and trembled all over in fear. His two legs pushed against the ground as he kept retreating.

“Hold it properly.”

Although Lu Chizhou usually liked to smile and seemed very gentle and harmless, when he actually beat someone up, he was more ruthless than anyone else. Everyone said that the most terrifying first-year at Lekaman Academy was Zhou Yijue, but in Sun Zhengqiang’s opinion, the most terrifying one was Lu Chizhou.

Even when Zhou Yijue bristled with anger, he was only a large dog. Once you understood the trick, he could be tamed. But Lu Chizhou was a poisonous snake that could bite.