Chapter 79: Top Trending Topic [Du Xun Officially Announces Marital Status]
Under normal circumstances, Du Xun would never declare his sovereignty like this.
Shen Zhuo, however, was rather pleased.
So, he leaned in close to Du Xun to see what he was planning to do.
He watched as the man took his phone out of his pocket, unlocked it, aimed it at the marriage certificates on the table, and tapped the screen.
Du Xun: “Why is there no picture?”
Shen Zhuo: “……”
“You didn’t open the camera app.”
Du Xun paused, glanced at the phone, then at their marriage certificates, and suddenly tossed the phone aside.
Du Xun during his susceptibility period was not only straightforward and roguish but also somewhat unpredictable.
In the next second, Shen Zhuo was pulled into his embrace.
Du Xun’s breathing was heavy and scorching; his skin felt hot enough to burn.
“No more photos,” the man nuzzled his fuzzy head into the crook of the youth’s neck.
His hair tickled the side of Shen Zhuo’s neck.
“Want to f*ck Wifey.”
Shen Zhuo: !
Before he could react, his world spun.
By the time he landed, Du Xun had already carried him onto the bed.
The Alpha’s high nose bridge gently grazed down his collarbone, inevitably eliciting a shiver from the youth.
Shen Zhuo hastily glanced at the time.
The practical weekly test was at one o’clock this afternoon.
Hopefully, there would be enough time…
No, rather, hopefully, he would still be able to walk.
“Du Xun.”
The Alpha had been behaving so well today.
Shen Zhuo couldn’t bring himself to say any words of refusal.
As his lips were captured, ground against, and sucked, he could only stammer incoherently:
“In three hours… I have a test…”
But his words already carried a tearful tone of being unable to withstand it.
Soon, he was drowned in the intense, surging tide of pheromones.
Perhaps Du Xun had actually listened.
At twelve o’clock, Shen Zhuo managed to massage his legs and find time to go to the cafeteria to buy some food.
Du Xun sat on the bed.
Before Shen Zhuo could say anything, the man who had had his fill started acting aggrieved first.
“Does Wifey not want me anymore?”
Shen Zhuo took a set of clothes from the closet to change. As he was buttoning up, he felt two hands wrap around his waist.
Du Xun started hugging him and sniffing all over again.
Du Xun’s frame was simply too large; Alphas already had a size difference compared to Omegas, and since Du Xun was exceptionally tall, the difference was even more pronounced.
It felt like he could span Shen Zhuo’s waist with just one hand.
He had always been able to pick him up effortlessly.
Or easily carry him over his shoulder.
Du Xun’s body temperature was still high during his susceptibility period.
When he pressed close, along with the overwhelming scent of rosemary, there was his scorching body heat.
Shen Zhuo had gotten used to this oversized accessory.
“I’m not leaving you. Wifey is hungry and wants to buy us something to eat.”
In just these few days.
Shen Zhuo felt he had become much more talkative.
But just as he was about to leave, a sharp pain suddenly shot through his gland.
Shen Zhuo’s body instantly went soft and numb, falling backward, only to be caught steadily by the man.
His gland was bitten open, the sensitive area clamped down on like prey.
Physiological tears instantly welled up in the youth’s eyes.
He endured the marking through a teary haze, his mouth open, emitting unconscious sobs and pants, unable to speak a single word.
Only when the temporary mark was formed again did Du Xun let him go.
“My Omega.”
Du Xun kept a straight face as he cupped Shen Zhuo’s cheeks, planting kiss after kiss on the youth’s lips.
“Mine.”
“You are mine.”
“In this life, the past life, and every life to come, you are mine.”
In a trance, Shen Zhuo thought he saw a look of absolute clarity in Du Xun’s eyes.
But in just a few seconds, that clarity scattered and was submerged once more.
Du Xun was far too insecure.
Shen Zhuo lowered his gaze, a dark emotion flashing through his rippling eyes.
“Mn, I am yours.”
Shen Zhuo whispered in the man’s ear, like a promise, with a soft, light smile:
“Shen Zhuo will never abandon Du Xun.”
Hearing this, Du Xun finally quieted down.
In the end, Shen Zhuo decided to take Du Xun with him to the cafeteria.
Ares’ cafeteria had private rooms that could be booked, so they didn’t have to worry about exposure.
Before leaving, Du Xun took both marriage certificates from the table and kept them close in his pocket.
Putting his mask, sunglasses, and hat back on, the Alpha returned to his aura of “strangers keep away, I only care about my wife.”
Shen Zhuo spoke to him softly, and Du Xun answered just as quietly.
It was currently lunchtime, and there were many students on the road.
Almost everyone who passed them cast glances at Du Xun beside Shen Zhuo—some surprised, some curious, others disdainful.
Some even secretly took out their phones to take photos and videos, quickly uploading them to Omniscient.
The Empire’s interest in the S5 was extremely high.
Thus, unbeknownst to Shen Zhuo, a trending topic titled “S5 Omega Keeping a Toy Boy Alpha” shot straight to number one.
It attracted millions of reposts.
The comment section was incredibly foul.
——
Actually, all along the way, Du Xun desperately wanted to kiss his Omega.
Not just kiss.
He wanted to hug, to mark, to f*ck.
But he didn’t.
Even in his susceptibility period, he would abide by his agreement with Shen Zhuo.
It was something branded into his subconscious that he had to do.
A principle he would uphold even against his instincts.
Shen Zhuo noticed this too.
So, after entering the private room, he took the initiative to peck Du Xun on the lips.
Before Du Xun could deepen the kiss, Shen Zhuo’s phone vibrated so hard it nearly fell to the floor.
The name displayed on the screen was Ai Li.
This person had bombarded him with over twenty messages in a minute.
Just as Shen Zhuo was about to open them, the door to the private room was suddenly shoved open.
The first thing Shen Zhuo saw were countless camera flashes.
There were also students from the Ares News Club.
Noisy interrogations erupted.
A dozen microphones were thrust competitively in front of Shen Zhuo.
“Student Shen, are you keeping an Alpha as a lover? Do you feel no shame in such behavior?”
“Student Shen, as an S5 Omega, do you think this is right? Do you consider this your privilege?”
“Student Shen…”
Anything related to the S5 Omega would be a breaking story.
To grab attention and increase exposure.
They didn’t care that the law actually permitted this; they just hurled abuse.
The news reports were no longer about correct, objective questions.
They were merely sensational gossip designed to whet appetites and grab attention, blowing small matters infinitely out of proportion.
Laughable.
Stupid.
Shen Zhuo looked up, staring coldly at the ceaselessly flashing cameras.
He had given all his pheromones to Du Xun for soothing.
His glands were currently empty, with no dosage available to use for suppression.
But, so what?
“You’re very concerned about my love life?”
Shen Zhuo curled his lips. “You all have too much free time, don’t you?”
The youth merely sat there; there wasn’t even a ripple of pheromones in the air.
Yet when that cold, indifferent voice rang out, everyone was intimidated.
“Student Shen, please answer the question directly!”
A shrill voice cut through the crowd, right to the youth’s face.
Shen Zhuo shifted his gaze, locking eyes with that person almost instantly.
The look cast from his pitch-black eyes beneath long lashes was like a sharp, lethal glint in an abyss.
Though devoid of any emotion, the person abruptly paused.
“Setting aside the fact that Imperial law stipulates S-rank Omegas can have legal lovers,” Shen Zhuo slowly stroked the ring on his finger, “what is the problem with me taking my husband out for a meal?”
The noise from the crowd stopped instantly, as if the pause button had been pressed.
Everyone looked at each other, too shocked to speak.
What???
Shen Zhuo is married???
“Oh my god! Look at the number one trending topic!!”
A scream erupted from the crowd.
Everyone hurriedly pulled out their phones to check.
Shen Zhuo seized the opportunity to glance worriedly at Du Xun, who had his back to the crowd and his head bowed.
“Are you okay?” Shen Zhuo touched the back of his hand.
Du Xun, still wearing his sunglasses and hat, put down his phone, smiled, and shook his head.
Shen Zhuo noticed that in the Alpha’s other hand, he was holding two marriage certificates.
The Omega raised an eyebrow.
He felt he knew what the number one trending topic on Omniscient was.
In the next moment, Shen Zhuo heard all the noise behind him cease completely.
The students from the News Club fell silent in unison, standing dumbfounded as they stared at the Alpha who was standing up and turning around.
The man scanned the crowd, his gaze chilly.
Even through the sunglasses, his blue-gray pupils carried immense intimidation.
Everyone was completely stupefied.
Du Xun took off his sunglasses. His indifferent voice was as imperious as always, but now carried an obvious layer of contempt and disdain:
“If you have questions, come ask me.”
The Crowd: …
The Crowd: Holy sh*t!
The Crowd: Who dares?!!
The air remained frozen for a long time before slowly starting to flow again.
The crowd was drenched in cold sweat, their faces filled with shock.
They couldn’t utter a single syllable.
No one wanted to experience this kind of earth-shattering revelation a second time.
Those who had signed up to interview Shen Zhuo wished they could slap themselves.
“Du… Commander Du…” The leading student was scared pale.
No one told them the Alpha Shen Zhuo brought was Commander-in-Chief Du!
Oh my god!!
What kind of story were they trying to break?!
They actually questioned if he was a kept Alpha right in front of the lawful husband?!
Ahhhhh!
It’s over, it’s definitely over now!
“We, w-w-we didn’t… didn’t mean t-that…” The person who had been chiming in was on the verge of tears.
Du Xun cast a cold sidelong glance.
“We were just curious! Curious… right… we…”
The rest of the group looked miserable, stammering and unable to complete a single sentence.
In front of Du Xun, even the most eloquent language was useless.
Du Xun’s expression was steady and indifferent, showing not a single crack in his composure: “Everyone receives a major demerit.”
“A five-thousand-word self-reflection letter, on my desk by tomorrow.”
“Training for the next month is doubled.”
Everyone left the private room like walking corpses, the atmosphere exceptionally gloomy and defeated.
However, the moment the door closed, Du Xun clung to the youth.
He pecked Shen Zhuo’s cheek, unable to keep his hands off him.
“I don’t like them.”
Shen Zhuo was looking at Omniscient.
The trending topic [S5 Omega Keeping an Alpha] at the top had already been pushed down to second place.
The number one spot was a personal post that had been released just two minutes ago and instantly shot to the top.
The trending topic was titled [Du Xun Officially Announces Marital Status].
Clicking on it revealed a status update Du Xun had just posted.
The content was very short, consisting of only one line of text and a picture.
[Posted by: Du Xun]
[Married, to me.]
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The image showed their marriage certificates.
The page with the photos.
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