Chapter 161
Back in the classroom, Shen Shuyu finally found a chance to call the System out.
The System didn’t know what had happened yet. It asked in confusion: [Host, what’s wrong? Did something happen? One is at your service anytime, anywhere!]
Shen Shuyu said concisely: [Shen Xili confessed to me.]
[Oh my, isn’t it normal for someone to confess to Host? Host is so excel…] The System stuttered, then asked frantically: [Who? Who???? Host! Who did you say confessed to you????]
[Shen Xili.] Shen Shuyu endured his exploding head: [Can’t you read?]
The System formed garbled code in Shen Shuyu’s mind: [Did I miss something big? How did Shen Xili confess to you, Host? This, this, this? Huh? This?]
[Stop ‘this-ing’.] Shen Shuyu also felt a headache coming on. [I didn’t call you out to act surprised at everything.]
The System quieted down. It asked: [So Host… do you have something you need me for?]
Shen Shuyu choked. [Forget it, go into sleep mode.]
He didn’t know why he called the System out either. Shen Xili gave him too big of a shock today. He was upset and didn’t know who to talk to.
Shen Shuyu took a deep breath. The System’s indicator light flashed twice. This time it didn’t speak immediately but said: [Host, I just searched and found that some hosts also had emotional entanglements with the protagonist during their missions. But you don’t need to worry; we won’t stop any emotional development of the host. The only thing I want to remind you is, if your mission in this world isn’t completed, you’ll have to go to other worlds to do missions. When you leave, it will also be when this body truly dies. I believe you also know clearly that this body has long been dead.]
Shen Shuyu frowned, his head hurting even more: [I wanted to ask you last time, after triggering the plot outside the plot, how exactly is the mission considered complete??]
The System said: [For the plot outside the plot, there is no record in our database. We can only take it one step at a time.]
Shen Shuyu sighed. “Fine.”
“What ‘fine’?” A questioning voice came from beside him.
Shen Shuyu looked over, meeting Wen Jiafei’s eyes. He blinked. Shen Xili had made him so dizzy today that he accidentally spoke his reply to the System out loud.
Shen Shuyu looked at Wen Jiafei and shook his head. “Nothing, nothing at all. I was talking to myself.”
Wen Jiafei withdrew his gaze and continued looking at the book in his hand.
Shen Shuyu licked his slightly dry lips. After this interruption from Wen Jiafei, his thoughts finally cleared up a bit.
Shen Xili was unwilling to return to the Shen family. Besides being related to Zhong, could it also be related to him?
Shen Shuyu felt his head growing two sizes bigger. Why on earth did Shen Xili like him?
Shen Xili said the dream told him to trust him.
So what was Shen Xili’s dream?
Shen Shuyu pressed his pen against his chin. Great. He finally solved the big trouble of the Child Bug in Shen Xili’s body and thought he could calmly wait for Shen Xili to return to the Shen family, and then his mission would be declared a success.
But now a bigger trouble had arrived. Shen Xili liked him. Shen Xili might not return to the Shen family because of this matter. His mission was going to fail.
Wen Jiafei kept watching Shen Shuyu. Seeing him relax one moment and tense up the next, he lowered his eyes, absent-minded.
Actually, he saw it all just now.
The image of Shen Xili kissing Shen Shuyu was replaying in his mind right now. He didn’t know why, but his first reaction upon seeing that scene was to leave.
It wasn’t the awkward feeling of bumping into a friend’s romance, but a complex emotion of irritability, depression, wanting to stay away from them, and also wanting to pretend he hadn’t seen anything.
Wen Jiafei turned a page. It was really strange. Clearly, he had guessed yesterday that the relationship between the two might be unusual, but after really bumping into such a scene, his heart was still uncomfortable.
And when he met Shen Shuyu just now, he even wanted to loudly question Shen Shuyu if the two of them were together.
Wen Jiafei turned another page, and three words just happened to catch his eye.
Possessiveness.
Possessiveness?
Does friendship have possessiveness too?
Wen Jiafei inhaled slowly. That must be it.
Shen Shuyu was the first person willing to make friends with him. Although he bullied him before, he treated him very well now.
And he only had Shen Shuyu as a friend. If Shen Shuyu fell in love, the time meeting him would be shortened, and Shen Xili would be wary of him because of his Alpha identity.
He knew deeply how controlling Alphas were in relationships with their Omegas. Alphas didn’t like their Omegas being with other Alphas, and would get jealous even of the same gender but different body types.
Ordinary Alphas were like this; a top-tier Alpha like Shen Xili would only be more so.
Shen Shuyu sniffed, smelling a scent of bitter orange in the air again. He couldn’t help looking at Wen Jiafei sitting beside him. Wen Jiafei was quietly reading a book, but the content of the book was completely different from the teacher’s content.
He was dazed, as if spacing out.
Shen Shuyu’s gaze fell on the back of Wen Jiafei’s neck. He seemed to have smelled Wen Jiafei’s pheromones more than once recently. He wanted to ask Wen Jiafei before, but there were too many things recently, and he never had a chance to ask if he had undergone secondary differentiation.
After all, he hadn’t heard Wen Jiafei mention going to the hospital to treat his glands, so only one reason remained.
Secondary differentiation.
Shen Shuyu observed Wen Jiafei. He seemed unaware, letting his bitter orange pheromones scatter freely in the air.
Shen Shuyu blinked. But it was strange; with such an obvious pheromone scent, others had no reaction at all.
Betas aside, there were many Alphas in the Mecha Department, and he knew Alphas hated the pheromones of Alphas other than themselves.
Shen Shuyu looked left and right. No Alpha in the class had any reaction; their expressions were normal.
He pursed his lips again. It seemed he still had to find a chance to ask Wen Jiafei.
Although his own affairs were a mess, secondary differentiation wasn’t a small matter. He still had to confirm with Wen Jiafei.
The two endured until the end of class with their own thoughts. This was the last class of the morning. Shen Shuyu stretched his slightly stiff neck. He had no idea what the teacher said in this class.
Everyone had been in class all morning and was now extremely active about going to eat. Shen Shuyu packed up too. He turned his head to look at Wen Jiafei. “I have something to tell you.”
Wen Jiafei’s eyes dodged a bit, and suddenly he curled his lips in self-mockery. Was he going to confess to him?
Wen Jiafei hummed. “Speak.”
He stopped packing his things.
Shen Shuyu had intended to eat together and ask while eating. Seeing Wen Jiafei stop packing, he thought for a moment—that worked too; the classroom was quite private.
He looked left and right to confirm the surrounding students had left. To be safe, he leaned a bit closer to Wen Jiafei’s ear.
Wen Jiafei instinctively dodged. Shen Shuyu gave him a puzzled look but didn’t mind, asking, “Are your glands healed?”
Wen Jiafei instinctively raised his hand to cover his glands. “What?”
He didn’t quite understand Shen Shuyu. His glands had long been destroyed; there was no chance of recovery.
Seeing his reaction, Shen Shuyu let out an “Ah.” “Isn’t bitter orange your pheromone?”
As soon as his voice fell, he saw Wen Jiafei’s ears turn red visible to the naked eye.
Wen Jiafei asked, “How do you know?”
Shen Shuyu said, “I asked you last time, and you hemmed and hawed. Why aren’t you hemming and hawing this time?”
Shen Shuyu remembered mentioning it to Wen Jiafei before, but Wen Jiafei never responded directly. The first time he didn’t know the reason; the second time he got suspicious; now he was really sure.
Shen Shuyu said, “I smelled it.”
Wen Jiafei put down his hand, his good-looking brows furrowing. “You smelled it?”
Shen Shuyu nodded. “Yeah, smelled it. Just now during class, there was a heavy scent of bitter orange.”
After speaking, he looked at Wen Jiafei and asked back, “You didn’t know?”
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