Chapter 7

Chapter 8 — Let Me Borrow Your School Uniform

“What happened here…” Luo Zhiyu fishes out his clothes from the washing machine, “Why did it turn out like this?”

“I don’t know…” Jing Ximing clutches the white dress shirt he had bought not long ago, depressed, “How did it just bleed like that? What kind of quality is this…”

Feeling as if he has been wronged, Luo Zhiyu exercises his right to protest.

[Not Zhiliao]: You there?

[Second Year Excellent Student Representative]: What? Fairy scrunching eyebrows.jpg

[Second Year Excellent Student Representative]: I have a self-study block right now.

[Not Zhiliao]: The military training uniform’s quality sucks, can I file a complaint? needs to be taught, so the school moved it to the self-study block in the evening.

“Oh.” Luo Zhiyu isn’t that interested, but he remembers his reason for coming here in the first place and mumbles, “Xiao Yan, can I, borrow your school uniform.”

“Borrow my uniform?”

The teacher’s voice travels from the Class 3 classroom: “Students who have presented as alphas, you have to be aware of your isolation period. Your pheromones are unstable in this period, so you have to be careful about staying away from others and managing your emotions. This is to ensure that you do not harm others and influence your life and studies.”

“Now, let us introduce some basic knowledge regarding your secondary gender. I will explain to everyone the appropriate distance between alphas and omegas, to maintain a pure friendship…”

Outside the classroom, Xiao Yan appraises Luo Zhiyu for two seconds and quickly connects the dots between his “Better safe than sorry” theory and the picture of the blue-soaked load of laundry. He concludes with confidence: “I see. You don’t have a uniform to wear anymore, right?”

The schadenfreude in his tone is too obvious. Luo Zhiyu wants to hit someone again.

“Yeah.” He is asking a favour of him after all, so he holds in his anger, lowering his head meekly.

“Luo Zhiyu, are we on this kind of terms with each other?” Xiao Yan looks at him, a hint of ridiculing in his gaze, “It hasn’t even been three days since school started and you have: swiped my meal card, drank my soda, and now you want to wear my school uniform. What kind of person do you take me for?”

What kind of person? Luo Zhiyu doesn’t know, he hasn’t thought about it. The only thing in his mind right now is the school uniform — in particular, the one that Xiao Yan is currently wearing.

“You tempted me with the watermelon and soda, but I’ll let it go.” Luo Zhiyu puts on a pleasant attitude, “Really, I won’t hold a grudge, that ends here.”

“You were beating me up with a broomstick at lunchtime.” Xiao Yan takes the opportunity to settle the score between them, “Do you want to reflect on that?”

Luo Zhiyu: “I am reflecting.” The broomstick was a little heavy; he should’ve gone with the tree branch.

“At least you have a good attitude.” Xiao Yan nods.

“Are you going to let me borrow it or not? Yours is going to dry tomorrow, but I don’t have any to wear. Everyone needs to wear one and you’re the only person in second and third year that has their first-year uniform with them.” Luo Zhiyu’s gaze is locked fixedly on the school uniform on Xiao Yan, “The Director said, friendship and unity.”

“Since excellence has brought us to meet here,” Luo Zhiyu elevates the topic at hand, “I think we should cherish it.”

In the classroom, the teacher’s voice has not paused this entire time —

The teacher gets more and more impassioned: “As such, there can be pure and innocent friendships between alphas and omegas, but one must be aware of the distance with which you interact.”

“Nevermind.” After all, Xiao Yan is at the root of today’s events, and he decides to take responsibility, “I’ll let you borrow it.”

The teacher in the classroom reaches the conclusion, raising their voice: “Keeping in mind that the bulk of presentations happen in high school, there are some actions that everyone must be aware of. First, an alpha cannot casually stare at an omega’s neck — this is very rude, and no touching either. ‘Just joking around’ is not an excuse.”

“Pheromones are very important for both alphas and omegas…”

“One must also be careful with personal belongings that might soak up one’s pheromones…”

Xiao Yan takes Luo Zhiyu’s tattered uniform jacket and unzips his own, taking it off. He is about stuff it into Luo Zhiyu’s hands

For a second there, Luo Zhiyu thinks he is truly touched by this plot twist of a development in their schoolmate camaraderie.

“No taking off the nameplate, no washing it in the same load as the military training uniform. Return it to me in two weeks.” Xiao Yan emphasizes multiple points, “Return it as borrowed, do you hear me?”

“I…” Luo Zhiyu is about to respond when the Class 3 teacher finally reaches their point of emphasis, hitting the blackboard, raising their voice suddenly, all the more enunciating —

“Thus, as discussed: omega students, pay attention! You have to remember, in school, if an alpha student says that he will let you borrow his school uniform, we can assume, with statistical certainty — that this alpha student is being a pervert.”

Luo Zhiyu: “……”

Xiao Yan: “???”