After Pretending to Be an Alpha, I Was Exposed by My Rival - Chapter 8

Zhou Yijue’s mecha appeared first. The moment Lu Chizhou’s mecha appeared, Zhou Yijue pushed off hard with his feet and flew toward Lu Chizhou’s mecha with full force.

Bang.

The two mechas collided in midair with a loud crash, sparks flying from the point of impact.

The two fought fiercely. Lu Chizhou was clearly deliberately holding back against Zhou Yijue, so even after fighting for a full hour, neither of them had determined a winner.

It was only when class ended and the teacher forcibly ordered them to stop that the two finally quit fighting. Zhou Yijue was furious. After coming out of the simulation pod, the moment his feet touched the ground, he swung his fist and punched Lu Chizhou.

Lu Chizhou reacted extremely quickly. He wrapped his palm around Zhou Yijue’s incoming fist, used the force to pull him slightly, and made Zhou Yijue lose his footing and fall into his arms—throwing himself into Lu Chizhou’s embrace once again.

“You two have a pretty good relationship. Train well. With your talents, you’ll definitely shine brightly in the future.” The teacher passed by them and praised them with a smile.

“We don’t—”

Zhou Yijue wanted to deny it, but before he could finish speaking, Lu Chizhou touched his narrow, slim waist. That was his sensitive spot. The moment it was touched, he went weak and almost let out a sound, missing the best chance to deny it.

“Haha, not bad, not bad. Feelings formed during school days are the most sincere. In the future, when you go onto the battlefield and look back on today, you’ll surely feel quite emotional. Young men, work hard. And the rest of you, learn properly from Zhou Yijue and Lu Chizhou. They are your role models.” The teacher smiled in satisfaction.

As soon as he left, Zhou Yijue immediately struggled out of Lu Chizhou’s arms and glared viciously at him. “Stop touching me. Be careful, or I’ll chop off your hand.”

The students came out of the simulation pods one after another. Lu Chizhou suddenly leaned close and lowered his voice beside Zhou Yijue’s ear. “If you chop off my hand, how am I supposed to hold you in the future?”

“You…” Zhou Yijue was furious and flustered. His face turned red as he raised his elbow and struck Lu Chizhou in the stomach, then stormed out of the simulation training room.

“Little Zhouzhou, wait for me.” Yuan Big Head quickly followed after him.

Wu Qi and Houzi were fooling around when they looked up and saw Lu Chizhou staring fixedly at Zhou Yijue. The two exchanged a glance and quickly ran over, sandwiching him from both sides and standing on tiptoe to block Lu Chizhou’s line of sight.

Wu Qi asked, “Brother Lu, what are we eating tonight?”

Houzi cut in, “How about skewers? A new skewer place opened outside the academy’s east gate. It tastes pretty good. Want to go?”

Lu Chizhou took a small white pack of mint candies from his pocket, poured two into his mouth, and bit down hard. “We’ll eat.”

After school.

Lu Chizhou, Wu Qi, and Houzi strolled over to the newly opened skewer restaurant. They sat by the window near the entrance. Houzi picked up the menu. “What do you guys want to eat?”

Wu Qi said, “Grilled chicken wings, chicken skin, chicken legs, chicken feet, chicken kidneys, chicken—”

Houzi said, “Why don’t we just order you a whole chicken?”

Wu Qi said, “Who wants a chicken? Not a whole one. Just what I said. Two skewers each of chicken legs and wings, and more than ten skewers of the rest.”

Houzi said, “Hehe, keep dreaming. Even if you want it, it’s impossible. This is now a civilized and harmonious socialist society…”

Wu Qi said, “Fuck, so that’s what you meant…”

Lu Chizhou said, “Both of you shut up. Do you want to get locked in the little black room?”

Their class’s disciplinary director was a lunatic. He enforced civility and discipline with a strictness that made people’s hair stand on end. He did not only regulate students’ behavior, but also strictly regulated their speech.

Violators would not only be publicly criticized throughout the whole school, but their names and ID photos would also be projected on a holographic screen beside the school gate, rotating for an entire week. They also had to hand-copy the three-thousand-word school rules one hundred times.

The punishment methods were outrageous.

When their group of freshmen had first entered the academy, they had been newborn calves unafraid of tigers. Almost every day, someone was hung up on the wall for everyone to watch. Anyone who violated school rules more than three times would be locked in the little black room and repeatedly educated by the disciplinary director. They would be questioned over and over again about the contents of the three-thousand-word school rules. For every wrong answer, another hour of confinement would be added, until they could get a perfect score and satisfy the disciplinary director enough to be released.

That was why a saying spread among the students of Lekaman Academy: “Do you want to be locked in the little black room?”

Wu Qi and Houzi had both been locked in there during their first month at school. Now, they could basically recite the three-thousand-word school rules backward and forward. Neither of them had ever been good at memorization, so the fact that they could memorize three thousand words of school rules in a month showed just how badly they had been forced.

In their words: it had been a life in purgatory.

As soon as Wu Qi and Houzi heard “little black room,” they immediately shut their mouths, not daring to keep spouting nonsense.

After about twenty minutes, the skewers were brought to the table one after another.

The skewer restaurant gradually filled with customers. Almost all the seats were occupied. Only Wu Qi’s table still had three empty seats.

Some people came in wanting to share their table, but before they could get close, they were scared off by the three’s cold looks.

Zhou Yijue was dragged into the restaurant by Yuan Haojun. Yuan Haojun grinned and patted his chest in guarantee. “Little Zhouzhou, I’m telling you, I’ve eaten here once before. It’s really delicious. It’ll definitely make you want to come back ten times after the first.”

A waitress came forward. She was a sweet-looking girl. The girl smiled at Yuan Haojun, her smile pure, sweet, and adorable. Yuan Haojun became dazed the moment he saw her.

The waitress smiled and asked, “May I ask if there are two guests?”

Yuan Haojun smiled foolishly, his hands secretly rubbing together, eager to try. “Hehe, yes, two. Miss, can we exchange WeChat later?”

“I’m sorry, there are quite a lot of customers today. The only seats left are over there at a shared table. Would the two of you mind?” the waitress asked again.

“We don’t mind, we don’t mind. Of course we don’t mind.” Yuan Haojun smiled so hard he was almost drooling.

Although the girl in front of him was a Beta, she was extremely cute. She had a round apple face, plump and soft-looking cheeks, and when she smiled, two charming little dimples appeared beside her cheeks. One smile could intoxicate a whole city.

“Then, gentlemen, please wait a moment. I’ll go ask for their opinion.”

The waitress walked to Wu Qi’s table and asked for their opinion. “Gentlemen, may I ask if these two gentlemen can share your table?”

“Huh? Share a table? No. I can’t enjoy eating skewers with strangers.” Houzi glanced sideways at her, his straight-man nature making him blind to the cute waitress’s charm.

He had just finished speaking when Lu Chizhou slapped the back of his head, nearly burying his face into the plate of skewers.

“Brother Lu?” Houzi looked aggrieved.

Lu Chizhou pushed his face away with one hand and said to the waitress, “Please make sure they share our table.”

Houzi: “…”

Wu Qi: “…”

The two secretly leaned close and whispered into each other’s ears.

“Could Brother Lu’s brain be broken? When we rejected those other people who wanted to share the table just now, he didn’t have any opinion at all. Why is he so eager now? Did he take a fancy to the waitress?”

“But isn’t the person Brother Lu likes Li Ziyan from the next class?”

“Could it be… he fell in love with someone else?” Wu Qi worked hard to widen his small eyes to express his shock.