Li Cheng watched him run away at lightning speed but his own heart was playing drums.
…After all, what exactly happened? Why did his glands exude the smell of Xiao Yiheng's pheromones?
Just now, Li Cheng wanted to use his fists to teach Ji Xun a lesson, but somehow, before he raised his fist, the alpha pheromones suddenly gushed out, pushing back the provoking scumbag.
All of this happened out of instinct. Li Cheng was just thinking about it but couldn't figure out the reason at all.
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If this truant king had actually attended the "National Health Education Class," he would have found the answers to all this in Chapter Three: Marking Behavior.
——【After the temporary marking occurs, the alpha's pheromones will remain in the omega's body for a short time. The higher the genetic level of the alpha, the longer his (her) pheromones stays within the omega's body.
Research has shown that this has three benefits: First, the alpha's pheromones can soothe the omega and accompany them psychologically; second, the alpha uses this to declare sovereignty and warn other alphas to stay away from their partners; third, when danger occurs, the alpha's pheromones can protect the omega and deter opponents.
When the temporary mark is converted to a lifetime mark, the alpha's pheromones will remain in the omega's body permanently until one party dies. 】
And now Li Cheng, who was ignorant of all this, scratched his head and decided not to care about these "minor details."
He just considered it as owing Xiao Yiheng another favor. Anyway, there was no need to worry about owing him too many debts.
…
Li Cheng rested in the lounge for more than an hour, during which other swimmers came and went. Some left with pride after winning prizes, while others left dejected with nothing to show for their efforts.
Sports is a competitive field. If one works diligently, then one is rewarded. The harder you 'plow,' the more you 'harvest.' Some people are satisfied with only 'one harvest' and naturally did not want to exert another nine points of effort.
Huang Yelun's luck was pretty good; he actually won the silver medal in the 50-meter breaststroke! This was his "zero breakthrough." Prior to this, his best result was third place at the provincial level.
Li Cheng congratulated him: "Hey, DaHuang, extraordinary performance."
Huang Yelun proudly wagged his tail: "My girlfriend is watching from the stands, so I have to show myself well in front of her."
Li Cheng laughed and scolded, "Indeed it's the power of love!"
"Li-ge, don't laugh," Huang Yelun said seriously, "Once you meet sister-in-law, you'll definitely be better than me, this peacock who spreads his tail. You'll be even more vigorous and radiant!"
"……"
If Huang Yelun communicated a lot more with the group of Little Tigers, he would find that Li-ge already had a sister-in-law by his side.
After a while, it was announced over the loudspeakers that the men's 100-meter freestyle match was about to start. Li Cheng hurriedly discarded any distracting thoughts and went to report at the inspection area.
Only this time, he obediently put on his jacket, blocking the sight of others.
Li Cheng was assigned the second lane. The finals' lane allocation was closely related to the results of the semifinals. Li Cheng ranked second among the ten athletes, with good seedlings from other schools in the province to his left and right. As for Ji Xun, that guy came in fourth, and was separated by a lane from Li Cheng.
The contestants on both sides were familiar faces; they had met countless times in various competitions. Li Cheng was too lazy to say hello to them. There were no friends on the field. After all, on the road to the gold medal, there was only one choice: 'You die, I live.'
…
In the stands, the "family members" of the athletes from Huacheng No. 1 High School were sitting together. When athletes were competing in other swimming styles in the stadium, Xiao Yiheng pulled Youyou to his side and took the time to get the child to do her homework.
Youyou felt very wronged and thought: What's going on with this brother? She said that she didn't bring her homework, and he actually used his phone to temporarily download the "Primary School Student's Favorite Summer Homework" from the internet! Are you kidding me? Which primary school student likes summer homework?!
Xiao Yiheng taught her mathematics. Xiao Yiheng had long heard that Li Cheng's grades were among the lowest in the school. Fortunately, Youyou did not inherit his shortcomings. Although she pouted when doing the questions, fortunately she got every question right.
At the very same time that Youyou was sinking and floating in the sea of questions, there was an announcement on the loudspeakers that the 100-meter freestyle finals were about to start. Before Youyou could even cheer, Xiao Yiheng put away her homework at thunderous speed, took her to the VIP seats, told her to keep her eyes wide open, watch Li Cheng's match closely, and lastly to write an essay of no less than 400 words on "An Unforgettable Match," and show it to him for grading when they met next time.
Youyou: "…?" She hugged the duck, tears about to flow, face expressing doubt, "We will meet again next time?"
Xiao Yiheng said lightly: "Not just next time. We'll see each other often in the future."
A BGM older than herself started playing in Youyou's mind: "Child, do you have a lot of questions?" She was a little confused. Was Li Cheng her family or Xiao Yiheng's family? How come Xiao Yiheng cared more about her brother's competition than she did?
Inside the stadium, with the accompaniment of an impassioned entrance tune, ten athletes stepped into the competition area again.
Xiao Yiheng's gaze fell accurately on the boy placed second.
This time, Li Cheng wore a sports jacket that covered the beautiful scenery of his upper body. The spectators in the surrounding stands uttered countless disappointed sighs and could only put their phones away resentfully.
Li Cheng didn't spare any energy for the people around him. He was trying hard to regulate his breathing and prepare for the final entry into the water.
Before taking off his jacket, his gaze flicked across the VIP area of the stands, intentionally or unintentionally. He thought he'd done it all covertly, but all his small movements were accurately captured by Xiao Yiheng.
The line of sight of the two people was already entangled. Xiao Yiheng opened his mouth and said something. Li Cheng was too far away from him to hear, but the shape of his mouth seemed to be…"Jiayou?"
Li Cheng slowly looked away, thinking to himself, of course he would do his best. He had a pact with Xiao Yiheng - he wanted to win a gold medal for him to see.
…
The whistle blew.
—Li Cheng pushed off the starting block with both feet, and his body instantly soared and plunged into the water like a wave-piercing arrow!!
The moment Li Cheng entered the water, all the noise in the world was silenced, leaving only the sound of gurgling water flowing past the young man's ears. The underwater world was quiet. Li Cheng had a crazy thought and felt that what was flowing in his body was not blood, but seawater.
After a short dive, the waves held up the boy's honey-colored body tyrannically yet tenderly. Li Cheng stretched out his arms and with alternate strokes, like a dexterous fish, swam quickly towards the finish line.
Short-distance swimming is all about speed. From the moment you take off, you must do your best to sprint towards the finish line. Li Cheng's feet pounded the water, stirring up waves. From above, he looked like a mermaid playing in the sea.
In the audience, Xiao Yiheng leaned forward and because of tension, his eyes closely chased the figure leaving the others far behind in the water.
Since childhood, Xiao Yiheng had not been exposed to any sports except running because of his busy schoolwork. Not to mention swimming competitions, he hadn't even watched a basketball or football game. This was the first time in his life that he sat in the stands and experienced an exciting event with his own eyes.
The most important thing was… the person participating in the competition was the boy he liked.
The temperature in the stadium was not high, it was even a little cold, but Xiao Yiheng felt like the blood in his whole body was boiling, burning his body.
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Youyou was screaming in excitement for a long time, yelling "Gege, jiayou! Gege, jiayou!" until her throat became hoarse.
The track was 50-meters long and one had to touch the wall and turn halfway through. When only a short two meters away from the wall of the pool, Li Cheng suddenly swung his arms violently and at the same time, lowered his head and pressed his shoulders, his body moving down and his feet slammed towards the walls with knees bent and kicked away!
His body was as fast as lightning, and he rushed out again in the blink of an eye.
"Beautiful!"
"The second move was so clean!"
"This turning speed is among the fastest even in the youth group."
"That's Li Cheng from Huacheng No. 1 High School, right? Although he's an omega, we really can't underestimate him."
As several whispers sounded in the VIP area of the stadium, Xiao Yiheng looked back calmly. He didn't know when a few middle-aged people in casual clothes came and sat in the back row of the stands. They stared at the swimming pool intently and spoke in hushed voices. Exchanging opinions, they hurriedly jotted something down with pen and paper in their hands.
If Huang Yelun was there at this time, he would make a fuss and tell Xiao Yiheng - these were all famous coaches in the circle! Some of them worked at top universities, some served the national team, and they had all won countless championship trophies.
In the swimming pool, the competition had reached its most intense stage.
The last 50-meters passed extremely fast. Li Cheng took the lead, and the athletes in lanes one, three, and four followed closely behind and were neck-to-neck. However, Li Cheng's advantage was the most obvious; he was a full arm's length ahead of the others, and he was still accelerating!
Ten meters, nine meters, eight meters…
three meters, two meters, one meter - touching the wall!!
—Li Cheng was the champion!!!
The buzzer announcing the championship sounded simultaneously, and Li Cheng surfaced, raising his arms high to celebrate his first medal!
This was his first championship in this competition, but it would definitely not be the only one.
Li Cheng raised his eyes to look at the VIP seats, his eyes bright and hot.
The young man was like a rising sun, blooming brilliantly on the water.
"Brother Xiao, look!" In the audience, Youyou pulled the sleeves of the person beside her, "Big brother is waving to me."
"Mn," Xiao Yiheng chuckled softly, "He is."
…
The morning's competitions came to an end. As for the awards, they would not be distributed until the end of the afternoon's competitions.
Li Cheng couldn't leave the swimming center because there was still a competition in the afternoon, and could only eat with his teammates in the canteen of the swimming center.
Fortunately, competitions of this scale were not too demanding. As long as the family members of the contestants paid money, they could also eat together in the internal cafeteria.
Xiao Yiheng held Youyou's hand, Little Lemon in his arms, and Big Tangerine in his backpack. He took his family to the internal cafeteria to find someone.
Li Cheng watched the family appear in front of him and was sluggish for a few seconds, then couldn't help but say, "…You really look like a trash A."
Xiao Yiheng didn't hear clearly and asked him what he had said.
Li Cheng hurriedly changed his words: "Nothing. I just asked what would you like for lunch. I won the championship, so it's my treat!!"
He said this very loudly, and other contestants passing by gave him envious looks.
Xiao Yiheng liked his pride that didn't care about others, like a little lion showing off with his tail held high, making people want to rub his head.
The internal canteen of the provincial swimming pool was very large. They found a good sunny spot by the window. As soon as Xiao Yiheng put down his schoolbag, Youyou couldn't wait to take her brother's hand to choose dishes.
The athletes' meal served at noon was buffet style. More than 20 vegetable and meat dishes were served, all of them piping hot. In addition, there were all kinds of sweetened fruits and desserts. Youyou was dazzled and wanted to eat a bit of everything.
In the end, Youyou picked a plate of egg tarts, fried chicken, fruits, and the only vegetable was a salad mixed with sweet mayonnaise.
Xiao Yiheng looked at Youyou's plate, then looked at Li Cheng's plate with meat and vegetables in front of him, and said disapprovingly: "How can you let Youyou only eat these things for lunch? It's all sugar and oil. This is not a proper meal at all."
Li Cheng said: "She eats those nutritious things at home all the time. She finally came out to play with me, so I just want to pamper her more. I don't control her in everything."
"This isn't about being controlling." Xiao Yiheng said, "Didn't you notice she has cavities?"
Xiao Yiheng liked his pride that didn't care about others, like a little lion showing off with his tail held high, making people want to rub his head.
The internal canteen of the provincial swimming pool was very large. They found a good sunny spot by the window. As soon as Xiao Yiheng put down his schoolbag, Youyou couldn't wait to take her brother's hand to choose dishes.
The athletes' meal served at noon was buffet style. More than 20 vegetable and meat dishes were served, all of them piping hot. In addition, there were all kinds of sweetened fruits and desserts. Youyou was dazzled and wanted to eat a bit of everything.
In the end, Youyou picked a plate of egg tarts, fried chicken, fruits, and the only vegetable was a salad mixed with sweet mayonnaise.
Xiao Yiheng looked at Youyou's plate, then looked at Li Cheng's plate with meat and vegetables in front of him, and said disapprovingly: "How can you let Youyou only eat these things for lunch? It's all sugar and oil. This is not a proper meal at all."
Li Cheng said: "She eats those nutritious things at home all the time. She finally came out to play with me, so I just want to pamper her more. I don't control her in everything."
"This isn't about being controlling." Xiao Yiheng said, "Didn't you notice she has cavities?"
Although Xiao Yiheng only spent a short morning with Youyou, he observed that when Youyou spoke, the deepest part of her teeth were a little black, which were obviously cavities.
"......" The careless older brother Li Cheng really hadn't noticed. He shrank his neck with a guilty conscience and recalled that every time he met Youyou, he would bring her milk tea, pudding, etc. He wondered if it had anything to do with those snacks?
However, in front of Xiao Yiheng, he still insisted on his own reasoning: "It's okay for kids to eat junk food occasionally. Besides, as her older brother, even I don't mind, so why are you, an outsider, interfering?"
"Outsider?" Xiao Yiheng smiled coldly upon hearing this, "Ha, when you don't need me, you call me an outsider; but when you need me, you take off your pants faster than anyone else–"
"—Shut up and eat for laozi!!" Li Cheng instantly blushed, and between the sparks flying around, he immediately stuffed a piece of food into Xiao Yiheng's mouth.
Fortunately, Youyou had been fighting with the two bones of the fried chicken wings intently without paying attention to what they were talking about.
Li Cheng's face was about to drip blood. What did he mean by "take off your pants faster than anyone else"? It was clearly an honest and clean monetary transaction between them, but he described it as a shady, illicit affair.
Xiao Yiheng's clenched his teeth lightly, biting down on the food in his mouth. He chewed very slowly, and only then did Li Cheng realize that what he put into Xiao Yiheng's mouth in a panic was actually a piece of orange. The delicate orange flesh rolled on the tip of the alpha's tongue, and soon disappeared between his lips and teeth.
Li Cheng looked away in a fluster.
This rubbish A is absolutely doing it deliberately! Why does he eat an orange so lewdly in public?
…
In the corner of the cafeteria, Ji Xun's eyes were resentful and aimed onto Li Cheng, who was sitting by the window.
Opposite him, a middle-aged man with a coach's badge was talking endlessly.
"Ji Xun, I told you a long time ago. Today's game is very important. If you want to continue to study and go to the national team for training, then you have to win at least one gold medal! But look at your performance this morning. In the 50-meter freestyle, you set off later than others and only got a silver medal. And what happened to the 100-meter freestyle? Isn't that your main event? You can't even outperform an omega?!!!" The coach said a lot of things, seeing that Ji Xun wasn't listening at all, he suddenly became angry and slammed his fist on the table. "Ji Xun, are you even listening to me?"
Ji Xun did not answer, but asked gloomily about an irrelevant issue.
"Coach, if an omega suddenly has the smell of alpha pheromones, what could be the reason?"
"…" The coach was puzzled, "Why are you asking this?"
"Can't I ask?"
The coach thought about it and said: "It depends on who the omega is. If it's an ordinary omega, he is likely to have just finished marking and still carrying alpha pheromones. If the omega is an athlete, then it's possible that they've been injected with illegal drugs, such as hormones formulated with artificial alpha pheromones."
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"Injecting hormones?"
The coach was taken aback, then suddenly reacted. He looked at Ji Xun, then looked back at Li Cheng by the window: "Do you doubt Li Cheng…?"
"Not a doubt." Ji Xun said, "I was in the lounge today and I did smell an alpha's scent on him."
The coach had a solemn expression and said suspiciously: "But it's also possible that he was just marked by someone."
"Impossible!" Ji Xun said categorically. "Which alpha would fancy an omega like Li Cheng? Besides, even if he really didn't inject hormones, asking the drug inspectors to cause him a little trouble will be enough to affect his match performance."
"…" The coach hesitated for a while. It was disgusting to report another player without clear evidence. But in the end, the idea of seeing his beloved pupil win the championship got the upper hand, and he still selfishly chose to stand by Ji Xun's side.
After all… an omega stealing the show in the racing pool was really too eye-catching.
"......" The careless older brother Li Cheng really hadn't noticed. He shrank his neck with a guilty conscience and recalled that every time he met Youyou, he would bring her milk tea, pudding, etc. He wondered if it had anything to do with those snacks?
However, in front of Xiao Yiheng, he still insisted on his own reasoning: "It's okay for kids to eat junk food occasionally. Besides, as her older brother, even I don't mind, so why are you, an outsider, interfering?"
"Outsider?" Xiao Yiheng smiled coldly upon hearing this, "Ha, when you don't need me, you call me an outsider; but when you need me, you take off your pants faster than anyone else–"
"—Shut up and eat for laozi!!" Li Cheng instantly blushed, and between the sparks flying around, he immediately stuffed a piece of food into Xiao Yiheng's mouth.
Fortunately, Youyou had been fighting with the two bones of the fried chicken wings intently without paying attention to what they were talking about.
Li Cheng's face was about to drip blood. What did he mean by "take off your pants faster than anyone else"? It was clearly an honest and clean monetary transaction between them, but he described it as a shady, illicit affair.
Xiao Yiheng's clenched his teeth lightly, biting down on the food in his mouth. He chewed very slowly, and only then did Li Cheng realize that what he put into Xiao Yiheng's mouth in a panic was actually a piece of orange. The delicate orange flesh rolled on the tip of the alpha's tongue, and soon disappeared between his lips and teeth.
Li Cheng looked away in a fluster.
This rubbish A is absolutely doing it deliberately! Why does he eat an orange so lewdly in public?
…
In the corner of the cafeteria, Ji Xun's eyes were resentful and aimed onto Li Cheng, who was sitting by the window.
Opposite him, a middle-aged man with a coach's badge was talking endlessly.
"Ji Xun, I told you a long time ago. Today's game is very important. If you want to continue to study and go to the national team for training, then you have to win at least one gold medal! But look at your performance this morning. In the 50-meter freestyle, you set off later than others and only got a silver medal. And what happened to the 100-meter freestyle? Isn't that your main event? You can't even outperform an omega?!!!" The coach said a lot of things, seeing that Ji Xun wasn't listening at all, he suddenly became angry and slammed his fist on the table. "Ji Xun, are you even listening to me?"
Ji Xun did not answer, but asked gloomily about an irrelevant issue.
"Coach, if an omega suddenly has the smell of alpha pheromones, what could be the reason?"
"…" The coach was puzzled, "Why are you asking this?"
"Can't I ask?"
The coach thought about it and said: "It depends on who the omega is. If it's an ordinary omega, he is likely to have just finished marking and still carrying alpha pheromones. If the omega is an athlete, then it's possible that they've been injected with illegal drugs, such as hormones formulated with artificial alpha pheromones."
Work stolen from https://chipoholictranslations.blogspot.com
"Injecting hormones?"
The coach was taken aback, then suddenly reacted. He looked at Ji Xun, then looked back at Li Cheng by the window: "Do you doubt Li Cheng…?"
"Not a doubt." Ji Xun said, "I was in the lounge today and I did smell an alpha's scent on him."
The coach had a solemn expression and said suspiciously: "But it's also possible that he was just marked by someone."
"Impossible!" Ji Xun said categorically. "Which alpha would fancy an omega like Li Cheng? Besides, even if he really didn't inject hormones, asking the drug inspectors to cause him a little trouble will be enough to affect his match performance."
"…" The coach hesitated for a while. It was disgusting to report another player without clear evidence. But in the end, the idea of seeing his beloved pupil win the championship got the upper hand, and he still selfishly chose to stand by Ji Xun's side.
After all… an omega stealing the show in the racing pool was really too eye-catching.
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