He had finished all the snacks he brought and now had nothing to do. He tore a paper and folded a little frog, then used a steel ruler as a diving platform, and let his "finger figure" dive... But the feeling of self-entertainment was really lonely.
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Taking advantage of the teacher's inattention, he secretly looked back and accurately caught the he li ji qun figure in the last row. No, he li ji qun was not enough to describe Xiao Yiheng; it should be he li... uh, he li... Li Cheng scratched his head and thought for a while, and could only admit that he was uncultured. [hè lì jī qún: a crane in a flock of chicken (idiom); way above the common; manifestly superior.]
Bother! As long as Xiao Yiheng was the "crane," then everyone else around him couldn't even dredge a "chicken" and could only become background.
Li Cheng saw Xiao Yiheng put the unfolded roster on his lap, looking down. He wondered what he was writing down to look so absorbed... humph! He didn't seem to care about the seat transfer at all.
Li Cheng pursed his lips, took out his phone, and pinged Xiao Yiheng.
Sure enough, Xiao Yiheng, who was working with his head lowered, paused, seeming to feel his phone vibrate. But instead of taking his phone out, he reached into his trouser pocket and fumbled to turn off the vibration.
After doing all this, Xiao Yiheng looked up in the direction of Li Cheng, and the eyes of the two "stuck" together even though separated by the whole class.
Xiao Yiheng raised his eyebrows to ask him what he was doing and why he was texting during class.
Li Cheng grimaced back, meaning, "It makes me happy to harass you when I'm bored."
The two communicated with their eyes, and they obviously didn't say a word, but the atmosphere between them got better and better.
Witnessing all this, Wei Huohuo's eyes spun around, and he immersed himself in making up fake material in his observation notes.
The female teacher, standing in the middle of the classroom, smiled coldly and called out: "Li Cheng, what are you doing looking back? Do you want to read the text aloud to the whole class?"
Li Cheng: "..." F*ck, does this teacher have six eyes? How come she can catch everything I do?!
Li Cheng could only get up reluctantly, grab his textbook, and hurriedly flip to the unit for today's class with a prompt from a school girl in the back row, intending to finish reading it as quickly as possible. As a result, he was stuck before he could even utter the first sentence.
"Er..."
The female teacher urged: "Read it! Don't make the whole class wait for you."
Li Cheng could only bite the bullet and read on stumblingly.
"Chapter Three,《Marking Behavior》" After reading the title, he paused for a full three seconds. He desperately told himself not to think about it, but the words seemed to pour themselves into his eyes as if they had self-consciousness, scrambling to get into his memories.
"...Marking is the oldest and most primitive form of communication between alphas and omegas."
"When omegas' estrus arrives, the psychology and physiology of omegas will be greatly affected, and they will become more sensitive and irritable. At the same time, their pheromones escape their bodies uncontrollably."
"Once an alpha senses an omega's pheromones, the marking can be carried out at once, thus establishing a relationship between the two parties."
Fortunately, the next content was much more serious.
"In the past, 'marking' was regarded as an act by which an alpha claimed sovereignty. After marking, the alpha will leave some their pheromones in the omega's body, which can keep the omega away from harassment by other alphas."
"Because marking only occurs between alphas and omegas, betas cannot marry either of these two genders, aggravating inequality among the three genders."
"However, with the development of science and technology and the progress of the times, this inequality has been gradually broken."
"Alphas, omegas, and betas can all freely choose their partners[see Chapter 5《Freedom of Love and Freedom of Marriage》for details.]"
"Even if an alpha and an omega are together, there is no real need for marking behavior. [For details, see Chapter 4《Temporary Suppression Patches, Short-term Inhibitors, and Long-term Suppression Surgery》]"
"Marking behavior must follow three principles: first, both parties must be willing; second, it should happen in a private and quiet place; and third, it should distinguish between temporary marking and permanent marking."
After reading the last word on this page, Li Cheng's courage was finally exhausted. Blood rushed to his head, but fortunately he was sitting in the first row, so no one could see the bright red tips of his ears.
To be honest, this "National Health Education" textbook was indeed very well written, clearly explaining the relationships between the three sexes, which was suitable for children's early education.
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However, Li Cheng was a big boy. He was also an omega who had actually experienced estrus and had a temporary mark. Asking him to read this chapter aloud in public was simply putting his shame and roasting it on fire. He not only felt the temperature of his cheeks rise linearly, but even the glands located at the femoral artery were getting hotter and hotter.
He tensed his body subconsciously, trying to resist the rising heat. But his glands were located on the most sensitive inner thigh, where the rough jeans cloth rubbed against them, making him even more restless.
He sat back in his chair and stared at the overlapping and staggered word "mark" on the page, his thoughts involuntarily returning to everything he had experienced in the art classroom that day. He also remembered how Xiao Yiheng's alpha pheromones had protected him in the provincial games' lounge the other day...
Suddenly, Li Cheng's phone, hidden in his sleeve, vibrated.
He seemed to feel something and turned around to look at Xiao Yiheng, who was sitting in the last row of the classroom.
Xiao Yiheng's gaze had already been fixed there.
The eyes of the alpha boy and the omega boy entangled again.
Bang, bang, bang.
Li Cheng suspected that the whole class could hear his heartbeat.
...
During the rest of the class, Li Cheng's mind was completely wandering and didn't listen to anything.
His only came back to himself when the bell rang to signal end of class.
The female teacher returned to the podium at some point, her lips drooped down, and her tone of voice was as if everyone owed her a lot of money.
"Okay, did everyone hear the assignment? Don't think that "National Health Education" is not important just because it's an elective! This course is linked to your graduation certificate. Let me be clear; besides the final exam score, this assignment will also count towards your total grade." The female teacher knocked on the table with her pointer, which whooshed through the air. She warned, "Don't even think about copying from the internet. I've checked a huge number of assignments, and I'll know exactly which sentence you copied. You must write it yourself! Do you hear me?!"
"We hear you~" the youngsters, who were scared like little quails, dragged their words to answer in the classroom.
Only Li Cheng was totally confused, having no idea what the teacher was talking about.
What assignment? What homework? How come no one ever told him that this course still had homework?
"Also, according to the regulations of the Ministry of Education, all junior high school students under 15 years old who have differentiated should write a 600-word major assignment, while senior high school students over 15 years old who have differentiated should write a 1200-word major assignment." The female teacher looked at Li Cheng, who was sitting near the podium, and added, "Student Li Cheng, don't forget to hand in your 1200-word major assignment next Saturday in class!"
Li Cheng: "..."
Hateful! He didn't even know what the so-called "major assignment" was yet, and now he was suddenly hit with this bad news, being told that he had to write something twice as long as the others'.
He usually struggled to write even a 600-word essay, so the hell would he find a 1200-word assignment?
After class, Li Cheng wanted to ask the girl sitting in the back what the homework was, but he was too embarrassed to ask. After all, asking a child who was five years younger than him about his homework was just too shameful.
The class quickly emptied out. Even that small gas tank Wei Huohuo rolled away grunting. For a while, he was the only one dawdling along with Xiao Yiheng, who was tidying up the lesson plans, in the classroom.
The same empty classroom, the same two people... in a daze, Li Cheng thought he was back to that day.
He shook his head quickly, tossed away those unrealistic bad ideas in his mind, coughed, and asked, "...Xiao Yiheng, what is the homework the teacher gave?"
Xiao Yiheng stopped what he was doing and looked up: "Didn't you take notes in class?"
Li Cheng raised his chin confidently and boldly: "Isn't it because of you!"
If Li Cheng's language proficiency were better, he would think of an idiom associated with his own behavior – to rely on favor and be proud.
Xiao Yiheng lost his temper and readily told him the topic of the assignment.
It turns out that the homework assigned by the teacher was about self-gender cognition. Each student had to write an essay with at least the specified number of words about their second gender. The subject matter was not limited; it could be a narrative, an argumentative essay, or something else entirely.
The broad regulations actually made this type of assignment more difficult to write.
Li Cheng's scalp went numb when he heard the topic.
"How am I supposed to write this stuff?" he muttered. "Forget it, I'll go look for Huang Yelun and see how he wrote it before. I'll refer it."
"..." Xiao Yiheng paused for a few seconds after hearing this. His words were cold for some reason, "Why are you looking for him? I remember he's a beta. How do you plan to refer what he wrote?"
"Why can't I refer to it?" Li Cheng also heard the coldness in his tone and frowned as he asked, "He's my little brother. If I don't refer to him, who else can I refer to? Can I refer to you?"
"Yes."
"I knew it was impossible... Huh?????"
Xiao Yiheng looked away and glanced at the "Code of Conduct for Teaching Assistants" in his hand. The first rule was "No favoritism or cheating allowed." He quietly closed the book. "I'm first in my grade, he's second-to-last. Whose assignment is more worthy of reference, do I need to explain?"
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The cunning hunter only needed to throw out a bait, and sure enough, the dull little lion foolishly walked into the trap.
Damn, although he had often copied homework since he was a kid, he hadn't ever copied a top scorer's homework!
"Where's your homework?"
"At my house of course." Xiao Yiheng looked at him, a glint of light hidden in his phoenix eyes. "My parents are out of town for a seminar this weekend, so I'll be home alone."
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