Chapter 100 Extra: So Sweet
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In the provincial shooting competition, An Lan won the second place, only 0.1 points behind Gu Liyu, and 0.3 points higher than the third-placed Xu Xingran. Initially, it was a bit regretful, but when An Lan opened his locker, a heart made of folded cardboard fell out.
An Lan bent down to pick it up, looking at it from all angles but couldn’t figure it out.
At this moment, Ye Yun walked in, leaned over to take a look, and laughed, “An Lan, you’ve received a love letter.”
“Love letter? There isn’t a single word on it!” An Lan unfolded the heart, and both sides were empty.
“Your straight-A mentality is really clueless.” Ye Yun pointed to the slogan on the cardboard.
“You are a candy from heaven.”
An Lan blinked and casually said, “Really? Probably a mistake.”
After saying that, An Lan was about to throw the cardboard into the trash in the changing room, but he thought that if someone wanted to confess in this way and accidentally put it in the wrong locker, it wouldn’t be good to throw their feelings in the trash. So An Lan tried hard to fold it back into a heart shape, but unfolding a heart was easy, folding it back was not.
While struggling, An Lan suddenly felt a soft touch on the back of his neck. An Lan didn’t need to turn around to know that it was a kiss from Gu Liyu.
Since the teeth marks on his neck had healed, every time An Lan lowered his head to reveal the back of his neck, he would almost certainly be kissed by this guy.
“What are you doing?” Gu Liyu’s voice sounded.
“Oh, I want to fold this heart back.”
“Who gave it to you?” Gu Liyu’s voice lowered.
“Huh? Someone put it in my locker, probably a mistake. I want to fold it back.”
Gu Liyu took the cardboard, squinting slightly.
“You are a candy from heaven.”
Gu Liyu’s voice never had a romantic touch, and when he said this line, it didn’t sound sweet at all. Instead, it gave a sense of urgency, like hurrying to light a charcoal fire before winter.
“Haha, this slogan is quite interesting.” An Lan quickly chuckled.
Gu Liyu, however, was skillful with his hands, and in no time, he folded the heart back and handed it to An Lan. “Here.”
Suddenly, An Lan felt that the heart was like a hot potato. If he took it, Gu Liyu might use it against him later. Not taking it would be awkward.
However, Gu Liyu directly put the heart back into An Lan’s locker.
“Let’s go, there’s still an award ceremony.”
Speaking of the award ceremony, An Lan sighed and said quietly, “Didn’t know to be nice on me. Second place in the college entrance examination didn’t add any points..”
Gu Liyu, standing not far away, said, “Just to make you study hard.”
“Doing this will make you lose me.” An Lan said with his mouth, but still took a few steps to Gu Liyu’s side and went to receive the award together.
Soon, the news that Gu Liyu, An Lan, and Xu Xingran swept the top three in the shooting competition spread to the school.
The next day, as soon as An Lan put down his backpack, Qiao Chuluo in the front row turned his head and said, “An Lan, I feel like I’m getting farther away from you.”
“What’s wrong? If you’re not satisfied with the relationship between the front and back desks, I’ll talk to Xingran. Change seats when the monthly test results come out tomorrow, and let you sit next to me?”
“Give it a rest, Class Monitor won’t go for it. He’s shipping you and Gu Liyu so hard he’s almost becoming a mod. Too bad it didn’t work out.”
An Lan almost choked on himself.
Didn’t expect that Xu Xingran also had such a hobby?
“So what does it mean that the distance between you and me is getting farther?” An Lan asked.
“Because you’re becoming more and more popular. In this year’s school grass selection, you are one of the candidates, and you rank fourth in votes! There’s even a special section for you on the campus forum. I can’t even become the moderator. The competition is fierce!”
“Ah? I’m ranked fourth in the school grass selection?” An Lan didn’t take it seriously, just smiling.
“D*mn, you don’t know the moderator who likes you, every action of yours is captured so perfectly! Loving you deeply! Thanks to your moderator, you can now be popular in ABO orientations!”
Looking at Qiao Chuluo’s expression, he was as excited as when they discussed who was the school grass among the three top-quality alphas.
An Lan couldn’t help it and opened the campus forum. Unexpectedly, there was indeed a section named after him.
What’s going on?
There was a picture gallery with many photos of An Lan. There were pictures of him leaning against the window and smiling stupidly at Xiao Chen below, pictures of him napping under a big tree with a group of people by the sports field at noon. Other people looked distorted and real, but he was tilting his head, a small shadow falling between his eyebrows, like a little fairy who doesn’t touch the world… d*mn, who’s the little fairy!
There were even pictures of him participating in the qualifying rounds of this quarter’s competition, waving to Qiao Chuluo and others. Confident and chic.
Underneath, a group of people were lamenting, saying that they didn’t know An Lan was so handsome before, and now he has been locked in as the official match for their school by Gu Liyu. Whoever dares to break the official CP will be the sinner of their school.
This forum probably updates once every three or four days. But once updated, the post’s activity would definitely be the first on the entire school forum.
An Lan didn’t know who the owner of this forum was, but the photos he took were mostly in public places, and An Lan’s life was not disturbed, so he wasn’t too angry. He was just a little worried about this person who took the photos. What if Gu Liyu silenced them?
An Lan anonymously logged onto the forum and posted a message: [The photos taken by the owner are really good. It’s just that the awareness of An Lan’s territory in CP is too strong. The owner should live well!]
Not long after, the owner personally replied to him: [Gu Liyu & An Lan, locked for ten thousand years, will never change.]
An Lan was stunned for a moment. Oh, it turned out to be a fan of him and Gu Liyu’s CP.
Afternoon’s last physical education class was free activity, and An Lan has developed a passion for playing basketball. He follows Xu Xingran and Xiao Chen every day. They decided to determine An Lan’s belonging through rock-paper-scissors. Somehow, Xiao Chen always loses to Xu Xingran, making An Lan feel that rock-paper-scissors is definitely not luck-based.
As usual, Gu Liyu went to prepare for his physics competition, brushing competition questions in the third-floor teaching research room.
Feeling the absence of Gu Liyu’s gaze, An Lan indulged himself.
“Xingxing! Pass to me, pass to me, pass to me!”
Xu Xingran passed the ball, An Lan shot, scored.
Xiao Chen’s face turned dark. He deliberately ran past them, saying in a strange tone, “Xingxing! Xingxing! Xingxing! All about the Xingxing! I think you’ll be dazzled with stars tonight!”
An Lan shook for a moment and looked at the third-floor window. Fortunately, Gu Liyu was still working on competition questions.
“Xingxing! Save me! Save me!”
An Lan called for help, and Xu Xingran blocked Xiao Chen again. An Lan jumped and scored a slam dunk.
The basket shook.
Cheers erupted from the sidelines. “So handsome” resounded, making An Lan uncomfortable.
In this basketball game, Xu Xingran once again overwhelmed Xiao Chen.
When school was over, Xiao Chen’s face was dark. It seemed like he was going to break ties with Xu Xingran the next second.
An Lan quickly stepped forward to mediate, “Ah Chen, don’t be angry! Can I join you in next week’s PE class? We can team up against Xu Xingran. Come to my house today! Bring Lele! My mom made sweet and sour spare ribs, both of you love it!”
“That’s agreed, next week, you’ll team up with me! We’ll take care of Xu Xingran together!”
“Of course of course!”
An Lan nodded, and as he was about to agree, his collar was pulled from behind. An Lan took a step back and happened to fall into the arms of the person behind him.
“I have a competition next Friday.” Gu Liyu’s voice sounded.
An Lan immediately turned around, and Gu Liyu handed him a tissue to wipe off the sweat.
“Oh… then next week, I won’t play basketball. I… will I come to Shidafu High School to find you?”
The physics competition is held at Shidafu High School. In the morning, there’s a math competition, and in the afternoon, there’s the physics and chemistry competitions. It’s quite a distance from An Lan’s high school. If An Lan wants to wait for Gu Liyu after the competition, he has to rush over as soon as school ends. Basketball games and such… can be planned for another day.
Xiao Chen’s face turned dark again, but he dared not express his anger.
“Are you going or not? The sweet and sour spare ribs will be cold!”
Xu Xingran humorously draped his arm over Xiao Chen’s shoulder and said, “He’s going to visit his in-laws, what are you doing here.”
“You, come on, I’ve paid for An Lan’s mom’s meals. I want to go back and eat sweet and sour spare ribs.”
An Lan turned around and took back his school uniform jacket from Qiao Chuluo’s hands. He saw a group of classmates looking at Qiao Chuluo with envy, as if An Lan’s school uniform was a treasure.
Gu Liyu lowered his head, hooked his finger around An Lan’s backpack strap, effortlessly lifted it, and placed his other hand on An Lan’s shoulder.
Classmates showed an admiring expression.
“Really worthy of our national CP~”
“Even their backs look so good together!”
An Lan put his hand into the pocket of his school uniform, and hey, why is there something in the pocket again? He took it out and saw it was another heart folded with wrapping paper!
Inhaling sharply, An Lan quickly stuffed the heart back into his pocket.
“What’s wrong?” Gu Liyu looked down.
“No…nothing…”
“I’ve seen it.” Gu Liyu said.
An Lan’s heart skipped a beat, so he tremulously took out the heart.
This time, there was no way to claim that the other party had given the wrong one, especially when everyone knew that Qiao Chuluo was holding An Lan’s school uniform.
“For… for you…” An Lan decided to confess.
“You’re really cowardly. What someone gave you, why are you giving it to me? It’s not like you folded it for me.”
That “you’re really cowardly” triggered An Lan.
Moreover, Gu Liyu not only wasn’t angry, but why did it seem like he was smiling?
Illusion, it must be an illusion.
Yeah, who said he couldn’t occasionally receive one or two love letters? Is he not allowed to be the school grass in the eyes of many people? Being the school grass means being the dream lover of many people, right?
An Lan suddenly felt that it was perfectly justified to receive a love letter. He opened the heart, and there was not a single word inside, just an advertising slogan: “Whether you’re feeling down or happy, seeing you makes me feel warm and sweet again.”
Is this the packaging of some biscuits?
An Lan turned it over and over, while Gu Liyu walked ahead as if nothing had happened.
That night, An Lan browsed the school forum and saw that the moderator had updated a photo, which captured the moment An Lan lingered in the air while slam-dunking.
An Lan didn’t think he looked so cool, but he gave a heart to the moderator.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was the day for Gu Liyu to participate in the physics competition.
After making up the missed classes with the homeroom teacher, An Lan swept a bicycle to wait for Gu Liyu at the gates of the Shidafu High School.
He had just ridden the bike into a nearby alley, thinking of taking a shortcut when he saw a few boys playing basketball coming towards him.
Judging by their uniforms, they should be from the neighboring Fifth High School.
“Make way! Make way!”
An Lan was about to pass through between them when suddenly someone stopped him.
“Are you… are you An Lan from Third High?”
Balancing on one foot, An Lan stabilized the bike.
“What’s up?” An Lan thought he hadn’t provoked anyone from another school. Why did these people stop him?
“Are you really An Lan…” The face of the tall guy holding him back turned a bit red.
“Is there something?” An Lan looked at the three of them, assessed their strength, and considered that he had learned a few days of close combat from Song Kelan. Rumor has it that Song Kelan was not the school flower back then but the female version of the school bully, never bullying classmates, just roaring whenever she saw injustice—a “bully.”
Having followed Song Kelan for several days, An Lan learned a set of skills to act as a “school tyrant.”
“Are you… alpha or beta?” The tall guy released An Lan’s shoulder but still held onto his bike, afraid that he would ride away.
“Huh? What does it have to do with you?” An Lan scratched his head.
“I’ve seen your shooting competition and watched the video of you playing basketball from Third High. I think you’re especially cute…”
Cute?
You’ve seen my shooting competition and basketball game, and instead of finding me handsome, you think I’m cute? Is your brain stuck in the door?
An Lan pressed the pedal, but the other person stopped him.
“Your schoolmates say… Gu Liyu is your boyfriend?”
“Ah, yes.”
Knowing who my boyfriend is, why won’t you let me go?
“Then, are you an omega? Has he marked you?”
An Lan curled his lips, raised an eyebrow, grabbed the guy’s wrist, twisted it back, and the tall guy’s face immediately turned pale. He took a step back, holding his wrist.
“Guess—”
When they looked up, An Lan had already ridden far away.
Originally, An Lan calculated that he should arrive at Shidafu high just in time when riding his bike. However, being stopped by the guys from Fifth High in the alley made him late.
He only saw the participants scattering, and Gu Liyu leaned against the gate of Shidafu high, holding his hands in his pockets.
An Lan quickly went up, “Little carp—how was the competition?”
He shouted loudly, attracting everyone’s attention.
Gu Liyu was already conspicuous in the crowd, and An Lan’s shout instantly drew everyone’s attention.
Originally, he wanted to give him a hug, but Gu Liyu ruthlessly pressed him down.
“Why did it take so long?”
Even though he pressed him down, the next second, Gu Liyu’s arm came around, encircling An Lan’s neck. Not only that, Gu Liyu kissed An Lan on the forehead, and quite forcefully at that. Several omegas showed disappointed expressions, and shattered glass hearts were scattered all over the floor.
Of course, An Lan felt quite pleased.
“Nothing, just wanted to take a shortcut while riding, but it turned into getting lost in the process, so it took some time.”
“What’s on your backpack?” Gu Liyu lifted his chin.
An Lan turned his head and discovered another heart made of cardboard in the net next to his water bottle.
How did this thing appear again?
And every time it appears, Gu Liyu catches him red-handed?
An Lan took it out, racking his brain on how it could have appeared. Could it be the three guys who stopped him in the alley? That’s not possible; they couldn’t have predicted that they would meet him there. How could they have prepared this cardboard heart in advance?
Moreover, the last time he found a cardboard heart was in his school uniform jacket after playing basketball, so this person must be a fellow student from his school.
Gu Liyu popped up from An Lan’s forehead, “Still stunned? Let’s go.”
Gu Liyu drove there, and An Lan followed him into the passenger seat, tossing his backpack onto the back seat, out of sight.
Who knew, as soon as the car hit the road, Gu Liyu said, “Did you meet someone today?”
“What kind of person did I meet?” An Lan furrowed his brows and suddenly realized that he had been grabbed by the guys from Fifth High in the alley today. It seemed like the guy was an alpha, but he didn’t leave any pheromones on him?
An Lan raised his sleeve and sniffed; d*mn, there was indeed a faint smell of that guy’s pheromones. Could it be that he really liked him? So, when he saw him, he got excited and subconsciously revealed his pheromones… it smelled like lavender.
“Oh, bumped into someone while riding a bike in the alley.”
“You bumped into him, and he released pheromones?” Gu Liyu’s voice was light, without any blame, more like teasing.
An Lan smiled, “How would I know! So, is the physics competition hard this time?”
“It’s quite simple.”
“How about we celebrate with dinner tonight?”
“Sure.”
Finally, diverting the topic from the source of pheromones, An Lan happily enjoyed a hot pot meal, forgetting about the cardboard heart incident.
Returning to the room after a shower at night, he saw his backpack on the floor and remembered.
Gu Liyu went to take a shower, and An Lan squatted in front of the backpack, flipping out the cardboard heart while listening to the sounds from the bathroom.
This time, it was the packaging box of a certain brand of potato chips, with the tagline: “I am your perfect expectation.”
Honestly, being confessed to with such effort did touch him a little.
Unfortunately, he already had Gu Liyu.
An Lan wanted to fold the heart back, but he still couldn’t figure out how this thing was folded. After much effort, he gave up the treatment.
“You’re trying to put someone else’s heart back; it’s not that easy.”
Gu Liyu’s voice sounded from above.
An Lan’s hand trembled; why didn’t this guy make any noise when walking?
“Ah? I… I was just curious… just curious…” An Lan chuckled.
“Curious about what?” Gu Liyu squatted next to An Lan, casually grabbing the piece of cardboard.
“Curious about which snack’s advertising slogan this is.”
“What’s your favorite snack? Candy, biscuits, or chocolate?”
See, see, this guy on the surface doesn’t care, but he remembers everything!
“Tsk, there are so many delicious things in this world, but this one suits my taste the most!”
An Lan turned his face, grabbed the towel around Gu Liyu’s neck, pulled it in front of him, and unexpectedly kissed him.
The fragrance of ambergris filled the air, stimulating all of An Lan’s sensory nerves. Gu Liyu’s warmth, his touch, his embrace were full of irresistible attraction.
An Lan’s heart was pounding so much that he felt like reaching into his chest and covering it tightly with his hands.
However, Gu Liyu had already captured An Lan’s lips, stepping back one step at a time while holding him. Then, he pushed him up, and Gu Liyu sat on the bed, while An Lan ended up sitting on top of him.
“Do you want some ice-cold cola?” Gu Liyu leaned against An Lan’s lips and said.
His pheromones, carried by his breath, flowed through An Lan’s lips and teeth, entering his bones and bloodstream. Every cell seemed to be flying towards this man.
His embrace was even broader than before. Despite An Lan having grown taller, every time he was held by Gu Liyu, he felt so small.
“No, thanks.” An Lan understood too well the meaning behind Gu Liyu’s “ice-cold cola.”
After a certain incident, Gu Liyu seemed particularly interested in things that could lower the temperature in his mouth, like ice-cold cola or Sprite.
But An Lan was determined not to assist him.
“I’ll have it then.” Gu Liyu smiled, with a low brow and his nose brushing against An Lan’s, even the light laugh sounded seductive.
The scent of ambergris was gentle, and it made An Lan lean towards Gu Liyu’s neck, kissing his temple and ears. As he heard Gu Liyu’s increasingly rapid heartbeat and deepening breath, An Lan’s inner dissatisfaction grew.
“A snap” sounded, Gu Liyu had actually opened a bottle of cola. He took a sip and leaned against An Lan’s ear, saying, “Lower your voice; my parents are home today.”
An Lan then understood that Gu Liyu did it on purpose. The more An Lan endured the suffering, the more mischievous Gu Liyu became.
Despite taking a bath, he was covered in sweat, and his hair stuck to his face. Yet, Gu Liyu seemed to enjoy seeing An Lan in such a disheveled state.
The next day, An Lan had dark circles under his eyes during class.
Next to him, Xu Xingran couldn’t help but tease, “Were you tutored by Gu Liyu last night, or did you go on a night raid?”
Xiao Chen, not being nice, poked An Lan’s back with a pen. Seeing his black eyes, he showed a shocked expression and commented, “Tsk… that exhaustion is something. Have some oysters at noon to boost yourself…”
Before he could finish, An Lan gave him a punch on the head.
During lunch, as An Lan laid on the desk browsing his phone, his exclusive section on the campus forum updated with a photo of him chatting with Qiao Chuluo in the corridor. His expression was lively, and the sunlight fell on his face, making anyone who saw the picture involuntarily smile.
An Lan reviewed all the photos posted by the forum moderator. Each one showcased his best appearance, creating an illusion of his perfect self.
Someone once said that only with a heart filled with beautiful feelings could one capture beautiful things in the lens.
An Lan was very grateful to the forum moderator who took his photos. However, if this moderator was discovered by Gu Liyu, An Lan worried he might be silenced! An Lan privately messaged the moderator, expressing sincere gratitude and hoping to add them as friends.
Thinking that he might receive the friend’s account after waking up from a nap, An Lan unexpectedly felt a tap on the back of his head.
“Little carp, you can’t just hit my head recklessly just because you’re my boyfriend!” An Lan showed a very unhappy expression.
“Have you added your boyfriend’s friend?” Gu Liyu, with one arm around An Lan’s shoulder, asked in a cold tone.
“I did.” An Lan lifted his arm, “I want to sleep; your arm is too heavy.”
“You added and still want to add? How many boyfriends do you want?”
Gu Liyu’s alpha possessiveness flared up again, and An Lan thought he might be jealous. He was about to turn his head and go back to sleep when suddenly he realized, like a groundhog emerging from the ground, his back straightened.
“Is that forum… the moderator is you?”
“What do you think?”
Gu Liyu glanced coolly at An Lan.
An Lan suddenly understood. Of course, with Gu Liyu’s temperament, how could he tolerate someone taking pictures of him? And those angles… looking back, all of them were angles of Gu Liyu looking at him.
“Fool.”
Gu Liyu flicked a hard paper-folded heart between his fingers, landing perfectly on An Lan’s forehead.
An Lan was stunned for a moment, but when he opened it, it was a piece of chocolate, with the slogan: “Take a bite of me; I am your sweetheart.”
Lowering his head to sniff, besides the rich chocolate scent, there was also a faint smell of Gu Liyu’s pheromones.
…He was really foolish! Gu Liyu was so skilled at folding back that heart every time!
An Lan suddenly turned and hugged Gu Liyu, waking up all the classmates who were taking a nap. They looked over, only to see An Lan forcefully kissing Gu Liyu’s cheek.
“Let me taste you; you are my sweetheart!”
The forum’s top post that day was: “Even though the college entrance exam is tough, fortunately, you are sweet.”
Author’s note:
Gu Liyu: I’m much more amazing than my mom.
Song Kelan: That’s right, I ship my husband with his brothers. You directly ship with your partner, proving that the student surpasses the master!
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