I Like Your Pheromones - Chap 7
Class Ten got the match point, all they had to do was win the next round and the entire match will be over.
After the third round started, perhaps it was because of the disparity in the scores but the sports class was getting a little impatient, with many moves not executed well.
On the other side, because of that last shot in the previous round, Duan JiaYan felt that he actually has quite a bit of chemistry with Lu XingCi, their level of cooperation got better as the match went on, resulting in the difference between the scores to increase exponentially.
The atmosphere on the court was getting tenser.
Unlike their explosive confrontation at the start, the Sports Class felt that they could actually lose this match and their actions got more desperate, with Du XuChen’s being the most obvious.
Even if he had to miss the ball, he’s determined to make things difficult for Duan JiaYan.
When playing basketball, it is very normal to collide with other players but to do it as much as Du XuChen, Duan JiaYan could clearly see that the other guy was out to get him.
It’s just a pity that his speed was too slow, Duan JiaYan only had to pay a little more attention to his actions and he could easily avoid him.
With one last rebound, the round was over.
“44 – 23”
What a massacre.
“Aaaaa! My brothers in the Sports Class,” Chen Yue, who was sitting outside the basketball court, cried out. “The square dance on the flag-raising podium?”
A few of the students from the Sports Class were still devasted at the result of the match, and after hearing someone still asking for them to go perform the Square Dance, one by one slowly revealed an apprehensive expression. They clearly were reluctant to hold onto their end of the deal.
Seeing how the other side wanted to renege on their promise, the boys in Class Ten were clearly unhappy, “You dare to challenge us but don’t dare fulfil your end of the bet? You think you guys are masters even though you lost?”
“Weren’t you guys pretty adamant before?” It wasn’t sure who shouted out Hei Pi’s name, “Jiang Lin, what happened to your class?”
“That’s right, you aren’t the type to run away from a promise right Jiang Lin?”
Boys all have a certain level of self-esteem, especially Hei Pi, who is what one might consider a typical boy in society, with a strong sense of dedication and righteousness. When he heard the other side calling him by his name, he felt that they were respecting him and giving him face.
“Let’s dance,” Hep Pi gritted his teeth, looking towards his side of the court. “Previously we agreed to the bet in front of so many people, let’s not make an ass of ourselves.”
The boys in the Sports Class all looked ashen, especially when they overheard Duan JiaYan and Lu XingCi discussing whether to play ‘My Wife is the Best’ or ‘Seven Beautiful Celestial Fairies’. They were all shocked at Duan JiaYan’s crude song choices.
Lu XingCi couldn’t help laughing when he saw Duan JiaYan’s choice of songs, “I don’t really know these songs, you choose the song instead.”
Duan JiaYan had a really black heart. Looking left and right, he felt that since it was a Square Dance, these boys can still shamelessly try to weasel their way out of performing by saying that they can’t dance so he thought of an idea, “Why don’t you guys go follow the girls over there dancing aerobics, you have to properly learn the moves!”
He pointed in the direction of a freshman class’s physical ed lesson. A group of female students were currently dancing along to the music played by their teacher, it was actually quite refreshing.
But asking these group of tall burly guys to twist their waists, twirl their arms, and spin around in circles was just frightening.
“Once you’ve correctly mastered the moves, you can come down from the podium. Those that have not can continue following their dance, till the song is over,” Chen Yue piped in. After his suggestion was raised, the other boys in Class Ten readily agreed to it.
This time, as a way to end this humiliating experience faster, those who were planning to lazily follow along to the dance had no choice but to properly follow the dance.
“Hei Pi! Brother Hei Pi’s dancing is not bad!”
“I think so too! His dancing can be compared to those at the national level!”
Duan JiaYan lazily sat like an emperor by a tree. After hearing the others say that, he generously nodded his head, his actions were frankly asking for a beating, “Then Jiang Lin can come down first.”
Hei Pi released his breath.
After him, a few students were also pardoned from dancing, and could leave the aerobics team. All the way till the end, though it wasn’t sure if Class Ten did it on purpose, only Du XuChen was left.
Previously when there were still other students it was still okay, but now that there was only Du XuChen, watching him follow the female students with their dance felt like one was watching a play.
Class Ten was trying its best to hold in their laughter, even the Sports Class was having trouble holding in their laughs.
Someone chortled, ”God damn it, this is too funny.”
“Du XuChen is pretty funny, his basketball skills are also horrible.”
“Fuck, why did I decide to help him play basketball…”
Chen Yue saw Lu XingCi using his phone by the side and made his way over, “Lu-dog, what are you doing?”
“Nothing much,” Lu XingCi said.
He looked towards Du XuChen, the latter had already finished the dance and was making his way down. Because he had probably figured out that he was being deliberately targeted by Duan JiaYan, the gaze he levelled at the guy was discomforting.
After everyone dispersed, Lu XingCi told Chen Yue he’ll make his way back to class by himself, and told Chen Yue to make a move first.
After taking a look, he made his way to where Du XuChen was.
Du XuChen had headed to the washroom. As lessons were still going on, the sinks were all empty. Hearing footsteps behind him, Du XuChen turned around to see who it was, a jolt of fear stabbed through him, “Lu-ge?”
“I want to talk to you about something.”
Du XuChen was a little confused, “About what?”
Lu XingCi held his phone out in front of him, on the screen was Du XuChen’s performance from earlier. He probably only started filming towards the end as Du XuChen was the only one in the video. His dumb-looking actions coupled with the aerobics music resulted in a pretty funny video.
Du XuChen instinctively reached out to snatch the phone.
As if anticipating the move, Lu XingCi drew his hand back, easily avoiding him.
Du XuChen saw that his sneak attack failed, and not daring to continue fighting with Lu XingCi, quickly changed his attitude.
“Delete it alright, Lu-ge,” Du XuChen said with a slight small. “There’s no point in you keeping that video, funny videos are a dime a dozen. If you like to watch that, I’ll send you another video later. We haven’t added each other as friends yet. Aren’t we considered acquaintances already, why not add each other and we can continue chatting…”
“Promise me one thing and I will delete this.”
“What thing? If it’s too difficult, I might not be able to do it too,” After hearing that Lu XingCi was willing to delete the video, Du XuChen’s attitude got even warmer. “Don’t be too hard on me ah. If it’s something even you can’t do, I’ll definitely not be able to do it.”
“It’s not difficult,” Lu XingCi laughed. “After I delete this, don’t go looking for trouble with Duan JiaYan.”
Du XuChen startled, opening and closing his mouth yet not saying anything.
Lu XingCi noted his hesitation and raised an eyebrow, “Too difficult for you? Then I’ll hold on to this video. It is quite interesting, maybe I should share it with a few others to spread the joy.”
If Lu XingCi really spreads this video around, his face will be utterly lost.
“No no no!” Du XuChen had always cared about his face, if not why would he start a basketball fight with Class Ten. Lu XingCi had completely gotten hold of his weakness. “The next time I see Duan JiaYan I’ll walk the other way. No, I’ll run the other way, okay? I wouldn’t dare touch someone you’re protecting Ge.”
Lu XingCi nodded, he pressed his phone twice, “It’s deleted.”
“Lu-ge, are you able to…”
Lu XingCi looked at him, “Don’t believe me?”
Because he has single eyelids, his gaze looked exceptionally sharp.
Du XuChen was scared by his one glance and held back his tongue. He laughed eagerly, “How can I? I just wanted to take a quick look to put myself at ease.”
Without a word, Lu XingCi took out his phone and showed his gallery to Du XuChen.
The video was really deleted.
Du XuChen released his breath.
With the threat gone, his tightly wounded mental state could finally relax. He thought in his heart that this young master was really a little too naive, he so easily believed Du XuChen’s words. Although he wouldn’t dare touch Duan JiaYan in front of everyone, if he did something behind his back…
Just as he was thinking about this, Lu XingCi patted him on the shoulder as he made his way out. “Don’t forget what you promised me. If you forget, I’ll have to find a way to make you remember. It’ll be troublesome for both of us.”
He didn’t know if Lu XingCi did it on purpose but the moment when his hands landed on Du XuChen, he released an overwhelming amount of Alpha pheromones. That moment of aggression was akin to throwing a bomb on Du XuChen’s shoulder.
This need to oppress one another is natural among Alphas, as is their instinct to go against one another. Out of respect, Alphas would usually put on scent blockers daily.
Du XuChen saw white from Lu XingCi’s pheromone assault, and did not move an inch till Lu XingCi was far away.
He did not know when it started but he realised his body was covered in cold sweat
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Lu XingCi made his way to Class Ten and saw that the students who had made their way back before him were all miserably standing outside the classroom. Each of them held onto a textbook and looked like they were meditating with it.
Lu XingCi realised that this was chemistry class.
The teacher in charge of this class had an explosive temper, and was harsh and ruthless to his students. Seeing his classmates like this, it was likely that the chemistry teacher had exiled them to outside the classroom.
Chen Yue saw him making his way over and waved the book in his hand, “Teacher said that he originally wanted to use the time in class to review our exercise books but since more than half the class was gone, it showed that we only needed half an hour to do that. So if we aren’t done writing about these two chapters by the time class is over, we’ll have to write down the knowledge notes of these two chapters.”
Zhou XingChen was already resigned to his fate, “Which two chapters? Let me see if it’s a lot to write or not.”
Lu XingCi knew that his teacher was irritable but he never thought he’d be this irritable.
But after all, over twenty students in his class, both girls and guys, skipped his class. Looking at the classroom from his table must have been like looking at the empty gums on an old lady.
One look and he’ll be frustrated.
Looking at Lu XingCi turning all quiet, everyone ended up feeling bad from dragging him into this, “Class monitor, you can try knocking on the door, Teacher will definitely let you in.”
Even Duan JiaYan didn’t refute this suggestion.
Chen Yue had earlier taken out Lu XingCi’s exercise book as well. Flipping through it, Lu XingCi said, “Chapters seven and eight right? By the end of the lesson, I’ll be done with one chapter. For the other chapter, you guys can do some research with your phones?”
Everyone was so god damned touched that they almost cried.
What is this strength? With one word he could give an incomparable sense of security to everybody present.
This is the power of a genius.
Their exercise book was made by the chemistry teachers at Yi Zhong, every chapter only had a few questions but the difficulty was high. It was almost impossible to find the exact question online. One could only find a similar question and work out the answers from there.
The students who fared a little better academically divided up the questions and started looking up the questions to solve it.
Duan JiaYan who didn’t even get a question to solve had the audacity to fan the flames bigger, “The battle between men and machine has started! Who will be able to use these remaining 15 minutes to solve the questions before the bell rings? Will we be congratulating Team Smartphone, or will we be congratulating Lu XingCi–”
Lu XingCi twirled his pen around as he glanced at him, “How are you this capable at talking?”
Duan JiaYan, “My mouth has a mind of its own. It likes to talk, I can’t bring myself to stop it.”
Lu XingCi’s gaze fell to his lips and Duan JiaYan somehow felt like he was getting hooked.
He felt something like a current traveling down his spine.
Thinking that this was some new way of taunting him, Duan JiaYan retorted, “Never seen it before?”
Lu XingCi, “I’ve indeed never seen it before.”
He’s suddenly being so amiable, Duan JiaYan felt that something was amiss.
Lu XingCi drawled, “You have such a way with your mouth, why don’t you use it to help you solve these chemistry questions?”
Duan JiaYan, “…”
Author notes:
He still has you ah.
T/N: Duan JiaYan omg HAHAHA Also Lu XIngCi is being a good (future)bf in this chapter d’awww.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter!
