After Teasing the aloof Arch-Nemesis Omega - Chapter 4

Fang Zhijin’s bedroom was on the far left. It was the room here with the best lighting and ventilation, and directly opposite it was the protagonist’s bedroom.

She closed the door, shutting out the lively roommate’s gaze.

The furniture inside the bedroom had already been replaced with styles Fang Zhijin liked. Aside from the room’s size and a few subtle layout differences, it was almost identical to her original residence.

Fang Zhijin sat loosely on the sofa and tapped open her communicator.

Many people sent messages to her communicator every day. Some were people from Domain A inviting her to attend various gatherings, while others were dedicated staff from certain stores informing her about new arrivals. Fang Zhijin rarely replied to these messages.

At the very top of her message list were messages from the two roommates she had just added.

Yuan Qiaoqiao had sent a “little rabbit peeking out” sticker, along with a very lively sentence: I’m Yuan Qiaoqiao. Hello, Classmate Fang Zhijin!

In comparison, the other roommate, Jiang Wan, was much calmer. She simply sent two words: Hello.

Fang Zhijin leaned back against the soft sofa, lowered her eyes, and casually slid her fingertips across the screen, sending two stickers back.

When she was alone, there was rarely any expression on her face. Her entire person was quiet.

There were also some people who messaged her, asking why she wanted to live on campus.

Fang Zhijin stared at this sentence. Only after a long while did she reply carelessly with two words: Curiosity.

Yes, curiosity.

Fang Zhijin had lived nearly twenty years now, and life was dull. So she chose to find herself some amusement. If she did not follow the choices in the dream, what would happen?

Of course, this kind of choice did not include her attitude toward the protagonist.

Fang Zhijin curved her lips, narrowed her eyes, and leisurely thought that, after all, the protagonist had caused her to die so miserably in her dream.

So of course she had to do something to disgust the other party.

That night, Fang Zhijin dreamed again.

Only this time, the content of the dream changed a little.

It was no longer as simple, irregular, and fragmented as it had been over the past few days.

Instead, it was something more complete and more specific.

She dreamed of herself on the day school started, the version who had not gone to see the protagonist. On the stage in the middle of the grand cathedral, she read the same speech as today. The moment the spotlight above shone down, she seemed to meet someone’s gaze in the crowd.

That gaze was very faint. It stood at the very back, hidden behind layers of figures, and was quickly blocked.

Even though they were very far apart, Fang Zhijin felt a mysterious sense of familiarity. But in the dream, she only swept her gaze past lightly and looked away.

The dream was from her own perspective and could not be switched at will. In the dream, after she came down from the speech platform, she sat casually backstage and heard people nearby chatting.

“Today, a poor commoner from Domain D seemed to have gotten into a conflict with an Alpha from Domain A.”

“I know. I saw it too when I passed by the teaching building. There were more than ten people gathered around watching the show.”

“That Alpha even wanted to use pheromones to teach her a lesson, but in the end, the person from Domain D had stronger pheromones than him.”

“The one from Domain A got hit by the pheromones and knelt straight on the ground. Tears and snot were all over the floor. I laughed so hard, hahaha. He looked super pathetic!”

“Exactly, exactly. I even have a video. It’s already spreading around the school.”

“But seriously, that person from Domain D is too arrogant. She made someone from Domain A lose so much face. Isn’t she afraid she’ll be targeted in the future after offending him like that?”

“She definitely will be. That Alpha already said he absolutely won’t let that Yu Yunlan have an easy time in the future.”

“Let’s pity her for one second. It wasn’t easy for her to get admitted from a place like Domain D.”

In the dream, Fang Zhijin sat there looking at the communicator on her wrist. She did not participate in the conversation, only unconsciously remembering the name “Yu Yunlan.”

…

A vibration came from the communicator. The alarm rang at the set time, and Fang Zhijin opened her eyes, her gaze gradually becoming clear.

The sky was faintly bright. She turned off the alarm on her communicator, then got up and got out of bed.

Two days had already passed since school started, but today was only the first day of classes at Elite Academy. In order to maintain her perfect image in front of others, Fang Zhijin applied very delicate makeup in front of the mirror and carefully chose a pair of pearl stud earrings.

Fang Zhijin’s skin was very fair, and even her earlobes carried a jade-like quality. The pearl studs set against them looked especially fitting.

When she left her bedroom, the timing happened to be very coincidental. The door opposite hers also opened at that exact moment.

Yu Yunlan’s cold face appeared before her eyes. Her complexion was no longer as pale as yesterday, so the side effects of the special drug had probably subsided for the time being.

This time, she was finally no longer wearing her own clothes. Instead, she had changed into Elite Academy’s standard uniform.

The school uniforms could be picked up at a designated place, but since the academy was full of wealthy people, dedicated personnel usually delivered the uniforms to their doors. However, Domain D was too backward and shabby, so those who delivered uniforms probably did not pay much attention to someone admitted from there.

The clothes the protagonist was wearing should have been something she later went to pick up herself.

Perhaps because she had lived in Domain D before, Yu Yunlan carried an attractive kind of tension. The uniform wrapped around her slender yet flexible waist, showing off her beautiful waistline completely. Yet she wore her clothes very neatly, the collar button fastened seriously all the way to the top. Paired with her emotionless face, the contrast was striking, even giving her a seductive abstinent air.

Fang Zhijin did not hide her gaze. Her appraisal was far too obvious. Yu Yunlan looked at her, still cold and indifferent, and did not greet her. She directly walked outside.

But Fang Zhijin noticed that the other girl’s footsteps had clearly quickened a little.

Looking at Yu Yunlan’s departing back, Fang Zhijin curled a strand of her own hair around her fingertip, the corners of her lips lifting into a slight arc.

So, after what she had done yesterday, the protagonist really was resistant and disgusted after all.

This put her in an excellent mood.

…

When freshmen first enrolled, the members of each class were randomly assigned by the system. The courses everyone had to study were fixed; only the classrooms were somewhat different.

The other two roommates were not in the same classroom as Fang Zhijin. When she entered the classroom, more than half the students had already arrived.

After seeing Fang Zhijin, a barely noticeable commotion appeared in the class. After all, who would not want to build a good relationship with someone from such a top family background and with such a gentle personality?

Some people who considered themselves relatively familiar with Fang Zhijin even waved at her, signaling whether she wanted to sit beside them.

But Fang Zhijin only smiled. She looked around the classroom before finally fixing her gaze on a corner near the wall.

That spot was not very eye-catching, and the view for class was not very good either. For the time being, only one figure with a distant aura sat there, faintly revealing a small part of an exquisitely cold side profile.

Yes, she and the protagonist were in the same class.

Fang Zhijin leisurely walked over.

On the other side, Yu Yunlan sat by the wall. No one nearby had come over. A faint trace of fatigue finally appeared in her eyes.

Last night, she had gone to pick up her uniform. After returning, she secretly injected herself with an Omega-specific suppressant, temporarily getting through her heat.

Generally speaking, a body that had been injected with the special drug would suppress Omega pheromones inside the body. Even during heat, there was no need to worry.

It was just that this method caused great damage to the body, so the empire had listed it as an illegal drug.

But last night, her Omega pheromones had almost overflowed.

Yu Yunlan pressed her lips together. It seemed that her body had already developed a certain resistance to the drug. She needed to think of a solution.

As she was thinking, a layer of shadow suddenly fell across the desk in front of her. Someone had come to stand beside her.

Yu Yunlan raised her head and saw a familiar face.

The other person calmly sat down. When Yu Yunlan looked over, Fang Zhijin propped her chin on one hand and looked back at her, her brows and eyes smiling. Her other hand lazily waved twice, counting as a greeting. “Ah, what a coincidence. I saw there was no one here, so I came over and sat down.”

Yu Yunlan: “…”

Her breathing paused, and a ripple quietly rose in her calm heart.

It was this Alpha again. Fang Zhijin.

The moment she saw her, Yu Yunlan would think of yesterday’s scene: the look in the other girl’s eyes when she leaned close, her breath, and the faint ticklish sensation when her hair brushed across Yu Yunlan’s forearm.

The skin of her arm, wrapped beneath the uniform, seemed to feel that ticklish sensation again. This made Yu Yunlan’s hand move involuntarily. Then, with an indifferent face, she shifted her gaze away.

This Alpha was very dangerous. Whenever Yu Yunlan got close to her, her body became somewhat strange.

Yu Yunlan thought that she had to stay farther away from this Alpha.

Meanwhile, some people in the classroom who had noticed the situation exchanged glances, not quite understanding why Fang Zhijin had chosen to sit in that corner and even chat with someone from Domain D.

But soon, someone chose to sit in the row in front of Fang Zhijin. Seeing that someone would actually ignore Fang Zhijin, she looked at Yu Yunlan several more times in surprise.

However, this was a good opportunity. She hurriedly turned around and took the chance to strike up a conversation with Fang Zhijin.

“Fang Zhijin, hello. Do you still remember me? We met at a banquet a month ago.”

“Wow, your pearl earrings are so pretty.”

“Oh, right, have you seen the school forum? There are so many funny posts~”

Fang Zhijin maintained her posture with her chin propped up, replying now and then.

There was a smile on her face. Every movement carried nobility and courtesy. This was the temperament formed through long-term aristocratic etiquette training. She did not need to deliberately display it; it could be seen from the smallest details.

Yu Yunlan could not help glancing to the side from the corner of her eye. When she realized that she had unconsciously paid attention to this Alpha again, her fingertips quietly tightened, and for once, she felt somewhat annoyed.

She knew it. This Alpha made her become somewhat strange.

Yu Yunlan raised her eyes and looked nearby. She even thought about whether she should change seats. But after looking around, she found that many people had already arrived at the originally empty seats around her.

She was sitting by the wall. If she wanted to change seats, it would not only attract some people’s attention, but would also be troublesome.

Yu Yunlan could only dismiss the thought.

She simply turned sideways in the other direction, as if admiring the scenery outside the window to her front right.

On this side, the person in the front row was still talking to Fang Zhijin.

She chatted with Fang Zhijin for several minutes. Finally, after talking for a while longer and seeing the gentle smile on Fang Zhijin’s face, she tentatively said, “Um, Fang Zhijin, I’m organizing a small gathering at my house next week. Do you want to come and have fun?”

Her family could only be considered a small family in Domain A. Leaving aside the benefits her family would gain if she could build a good relationship with Fang Zhijin and invite Fang Zhijin to her little gathering, just in terms of face alone, she would be able to show off in front of her friends.

The more she thought about it, the more excited she became. She looked at Fang Zhijin with a face full of anticipation.

Of course, this situation was not exactly rare. There were also others nearby trying to invite Fang Zhijin, or who had already found gaps to come over and say a few words. Their seats were simply not as close as the one in front, making it less convenient to speak.

“Mm…” Fang Zhijin seemed to be thinking.

The gaze opposite her grew increasingly fervent.

Under that person’s stare, Fang Zhijin’s brows furrowed slightly, as if she were troubled. “Sorry. I can’t be sure of my schedule during this period.”

The person opposite her still wanted to fight for it. “Then the week after next is fine too! Believe me, if you come, you’ll definitely think it’s fun.”

At this moment, if someone observed Fang Zhijin extremely carefully, they would notice that the smile at the corners of her lips had lowered by the tiniest arc.

She pressed down the annoyance in her heart and no longer responded directly. Instead, she extended her index finger and lightly placed it against the bead of her upper lip, saying, “Shh. We should be a little quieter. Class seems like it’s about to start.”

“O-okay.” That person turned her head back a little unwillingly.

It was finally quiet. Fang Zhijin thought this almost coldly in her heart.

The instructors teaching at Elite Academy were all leaders in their industries and had their own teaching systems. Most of them were rather strict, and during class, no one really dared to openly cause trouble.

Today’s class belonged to the broad category of pheromones. Although Elite Academy’s school rules stated that pheromones could not be released casually, classrooms were an exception. Since school had just started, the instructor was not in a hurry to explain anything too profound and instead chose to liven up the classroom atmosphere.

The classroom walls had built-in amplifying devices that spread the instructor’s voice from the front.

“For today’s first class, let us first understand some basic things.”

“Everyone should know that under different circumstances, pheromones produce different effects. Sometimes they are in an attacking state, and sometimes they are in a soothing state. In most cases, switching between the two is difficult to control on one’s own.”

“So this requires training afterward. The higher one’s rank, the stronger the body’s five senses become, and the better one’s control over pheromones will be.”

“I will choose some students to come up and demonstrate.”

At this point, the instructor paused and said, “I heard there are several people in this class with very high pheromone ranks.”

Someone below immediately shouted, “That’s right, teacher, that’s right! Fang Zhijin! She got in with all S grades!”

The instructor raised a hand and pressed her palm downward in the air, saying, “All right, I know. But the classroom’s amplifying devices are very good, so there’s no need to be so loud.”

The others let out a burst of good-natured laughter.

The person who had shouted so loudly also belatedly felt a little embarrassed and buried their head down.

“There also seems to be someone named Yu Yunlan, correct?” the instructor said.

Before class, she had learned about some things in advance. She knew of Fang Zhijin. Fang Zhijin belonged to the very top group of people in Domain A; even Elite Academy’s principal had to be somewhat polite to her. She was a naturally favored child of heaven.

Besides her, the instructor had also noticed a student admitted from Domain D. Her pheromone rank was high-level, and she seemed to be an Alpha. Her entrance assessment results were close to all “S” grades.

In a place like Domain D, where resources were extremely scarce, this was very rare.

This rarity made the instructor want to help her.

So the instructor said, “How about the student named Yu Yunlan comes up and tries?”

Not expecting to hear her own name, Yu Yunlan paused. She stood up.

The gazes of the class immediately gathered over. Among them, one gaze was especially vicious, as if it wished it could pierce through Yu Yunlan’s body.

Fang Zhijin sensed it too. She looked over and discovered that it was the Alpha who had surrounded Yu Yunlan yesterday.

The instructor asked, “Are you willing?”

Yu Yunlan nodded.

Some people in the classroom looked confused, not knowing who this Yu Yunlan was or where she had come from.

But after others told them, those people pursed their lips, somewhat disdainful.

Oh, she was from Domain D.

For Yu Yunlan to go up to the front, she inevitably had to pass by Fang Zhijin’s seat. When she walked past, her fingers accidentally brushed against the hair of the person beside her.

It was only a very small strand. When her fingers brushed past it, the other person probably would not feel anything at all. Yet Yu Yunlan’s body paused again.

There it was again, that ticklish sensation.

After she went up to the stage, the instructor said, “You still need a partner to cooperate with you.”

“Is anyone willing to come up and help?”

No one in the class responded. No one wanted to cooperate with someone from Domain D.

“No one?” The instructor looked around.

At this moment, Fang Zhijin slowly raised her hand and said with a smiling expression, “Teacher, I can do it.”