After Entering a Contract Marriage with a Disabled Alpha - Chapter 33.2

Wang Kexin remarked, “Bros before hoes, man. You’re such a simp.”

The three of them chatted as they headed upstairs. Wang Kexin hesitated for a moment before saying, “A lot of people know about the Lin Shuxing thing now.” He asked curiously, “What exactly did he do?”

Qin Yiyang said vaguely, “I heard he tried to drug an Alpha. I don’t know the specifics.”

Pei Yu had thought he would tell the whole story.

“Drug an Alpha? Is he insane?” Wang Kexin was shocked. “If that’s true, Lin Shuxing is definitely getting expelled from Yangshen.”

Qin Yiyang replied, “I’m not sure about that…”

“You know even less than I do! You’re a total blank slate.” Wang Kexin hopped up the stairs toward the third floor. “Bye! See you at the break!”

On the way to the classroom, Pei Yu whispered, “I thought you would just come out and say it.”

“Why bother telling them all that?” Qin Yiyang replied. “I’m not stupid enough to blab about your and my brother’s private business.”

Pei Yu smiled softly. “True.”

Inside the classroom, several students were gossiping about Lin Shuxing. They whispered about how he had looked down on Pei Yu at the banquet, how Qin Shen had stepped in to defend him, and how Lin Shuxing had been taken away by the police—rumor had it he was facing criminal detention.

Following media reports after the banquet, the students finally realized what kind of person Pei Yu’s fiancé actually was. To put it bluntly, aside from his leg injury, the Alpha met every single requirement for an Omega’s “dream partner.” He was handsome, wealthy, and doting. The scene of him standing up for Pei Yu had been incredibly dashing.

The looks directed at Pei Yu shifted from pity to faint envy. However, they were still high school seniors after all; after a bit of gossip, the morning self-study bell rang, and everyone in Class 3 settled down to memorize their texts.

When the session ended, Pei Yu found a heart-shaped tin of chocolates in his desk, left by an anonymous sender.

“Why would someone give me this?” Pei Yu was puzzled. His relationship with Qin Shen was public knowledge. Why would anyone still send him chocolates?

Zhou Yue turned around and saw it. “Wow~ It’s definitely from an admirer! You’re so good-looking, it’s only natural.”

Qin Yiyang was equally confused. “But he’s already engaged to my brother.”

Zhou Yue acted like an expert on the subject. “You guys don’t get it. Some people just want to express their feelings; they don’t necessarily expect to end up together.”

“There’s no name. How am I supposed to return it?” Pei Yu peeled off a pink heart-shaped sticky note attached to the tin. It read: Hope you’re happy every day (smiley face).

“Since you don’t know who sent it, you might as well eat them. It’s the thought that counts,” Zhou Yue suggested. “This brand is Swiss; it’s actually quite expensive.”

“I don’t know…” Pei Yu hesitated.

Qin Yiyang thought for a moment. “We shouldn’t just eat anything. What if it’s tampered with?” After the orange juice incident, he was extra cautious about things of unknown origin.

Pei Yu agreed, “But if it really is a sincere gift, I shouldn’t just throw it away.”

“Just eat it. There isn’t that much drama between students; it’s not like someone’s going to poison you,” Zhou Yue said, pointing at the chocolates. “Each one is individually wrapped with a seal. If they’d been opened, there would be a mark. If you’re really worried, let me be the guinea pig and test the ‘poison’ for everyone!” She picked up a chocolate.

Pei Yu blinked. “Huh?”

“I’m eating it, okay?” seeing no objection, Zhou Yue unwrapped it and popped it into her mouth. As the sweetness melted on her tongue, she mumbled, “Super delicious. Go ahead and eat.”

“You’re really gutsy,” Qin Yiyang remarked. “Fine… let’s eat.”

Pei Yu nodded. There were eleven chocolates in the box, more than he could eat, so he shared them with Qin Yiyang and the surrounding classmates. He tried one himself and tucked the remaining two into his pocket.

During the break after the third period, Pei Yu received a message from Qin Shen:

Qin Shen: I heard from Qin Yiyang that someone gave you a box of chocolates?

With so many people around and no teacher present, Pei Yu habitually hid his phone as he typed:

Pei Yu: Yeah, I don’t know who sent them. I shared them with my classmates. Qin Shen: It seems an engagement ceremony is indeed very necessary (smile).

Pei Yu: “…”

He slowly typed back:

Pei Yu: Mr. Qin, please don’t be so jealous [GIF: Calico cat rolling on its back].

The sight of the orange-and-white cat acting spoiled made Qin Shen’s lips curl. Just as he was about to tease him further, he received another photo. In the photo, two heart-shaped chocolates lay in a soft, fair palm.

Pei Yu: I secretly saved two for you.

A smile danced in Qin Shen’s eyes:

Qin Shen: You specifically saved the heart-shaped ones?

Pei Yu paused, embarrassed to admit the truth:

Pei Yu: No, the whole box was heart-shaped. I just picked two at random. Qin Shen: Oh, I see.

Pei Yu breathed a sigh of relief, but then his phone vibrated again. Qin Shen had sent him a picture: a product listing for the Defee Qixi Valentine’s Custom Heart-Shaped Chocolate Gift Box.

In the product details, it specified that out of the eleven chocolates, only the three in the very center were heart-shaped.

“…”

Sitting in the cool, rainy classroom, Pei Yu’s face instantly flushed crimson. His head felt like it was steaming. He closed WeChat and indignantly stuffed his phone into the dark depths of his backpack.

On the other side, having received no reply, Qin Shen tentatively messaged:

Qin Shen: Angry?

He waited three minutes. No response. Well… he’d provoked the kid again.

Jiang Yibai came out of the restroom and approached Qin Shen and Li Shuang, who were waiting for the elevator. He caught the smug, lovestruck smile on Qin Shen’s face.

“I say, can you dial it back a bit?” Jiang Yibai said. “The business partners haven’t even left yet. If they saw the ‘Cold-faced CEO Qin’ smiling like this, your image would collapse.”

Qin Shen put his phone away and lifted his chin slightly. “I don’t cultivate a specific image.”

“Tsk, tsk. Smiling like that… chatting with your ‘wife’ again?” Jiang Yibai teased.

Qin Shen paused. “Is it that obvious?”

“It’s always obvious with virgins in their first relationship,” Jiang Yibai laughed.

“Pfft—” Li Shuang couldn’t hold it in.

The next second, the temperature around Jiang Yibai and Li Shuang plummeted. Qin Shen looked at them with cold eyes, wordlessly releasing a chilling, high-pressure aura.

“Assistant Li, do you find it funny? I recall you’ve never been in a relationship either,” Qin Shen said with a polite, icy smile.

“…”

Li Shuang felt wronged. Personal attacks were uncalled for!

The elevator doors opened, and they stepped inside. Jiang Yibai leaned lazily against the wall, stretching. “But I am curious—what made you smile like that?”

Qin Shen said flatly, “He stopped replying to my messages.”

“…” “…”

Jiang Yibai and Li Shuang were speechless. How does being in love turn a genius into an idiot?

One of those two chocolates eventually ended up in Qin Shen’s mouth. Or rather, half of it—he and Pei Yu shared them.

The tutors Qin Shuo had found were now staying in the Qin family’s side building. Since it was senior year, there was evening self-study and only one day off on weekends. Except for Sundays, the only times for extra tutoring were during lunch or after evening self-study. Since Pei Yu and Qin Yiyang needed their naps at noon, the tutoring usually happened at night. Because it got so late, the five teachers (Math, English, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology) were allowed to stay at the mansion for convenience.

Tutoring took place in the study. The study was vast, divided into several rooms. Qin Shen’s workspace was separate from the tutoring area to avoid mutual distractions.

The night was quiet. Qin Shen rubbed the bridge of his nose, a hint of fatigue between his brows. He flexed his stiff fingers and wrists. He maneuvered his wheelchair toward the tutoring room to check in.

The wheels rolled silently over the carpet. Those inside were so focused they didn’t notice the door being pushed open.

The first thing he saw was the Alpha tutor explaining a problem to Pei Yu. Qin Yiyang was sitting across from them. Under the bright lights, Pei Yu was leaning in close to the teacher, nodding occasionally as he listened.

Qin Shen’s brow furrowed. The thought of Pei Yu being stained with another Alpha’s pheromones caused a surge of irritability to flare up in his heart. He knew he was being irrational—it was a perfectly normal teaching session—but he couldn’t help it.

Could his rut be approaching?

Qin Shen gripped the armrests, the veins on the back of his hands bulging. His cedar and mint pheromones leaked out slightly due to his agitation. Pei Yu, who had a 100% compatibility rate with him and was intimately familiar with that scent, looked up sharply.

He saw Qin Shen standing motionless at the door.

Pei Yu: “?”

The math problem the teacher was explaining was complex, so Pei Yu couldn’t get away immediately. By the time the explanation finished and he looked up again, Qin Shen was gone. A few minutes later, his phone buzzed.

Qin Shen: Come do your problems in my room. It’s more convenient for your “treatment” if you’re close by.

…Fair enough.

Pei Yu wasn’t the primary focus of the tutoring; the teachers were mainly there for Qin Yiyang. Pei Yu just asked about difficult questions here and there. He excused himself and walked into Qin Shen’s study with his notebook. He grabbed a chair and sat right next to Qin Shen.

As the faint scent of little roses reached him, Qin Shen’s agitation finally began to subside. He moved closer until their arms were pressed together. Pei Yu paused, glanced at him, and then went back to his work.

Once he finished the problem at hand, a husky, low voice whispered in his ear, and an arm wrapped around his waist.

“Baby, don’t ask that Alpha teacher for help, okay?” Qin Shen’s eyes were swirling with possessiveness and obsession.

“Huh…?” Pei Yu thought he was acting strange. He felt Qin Shen’s forehead. “Are you sick? You’re even jealous of a teacher explaining a problem?”

“He’s not as handsome as you anyway, what are you worried about?” Pei Yu joked.

The joke didn’t soothe him. Instead, Qin Shen wrapped both arms around the boy’s shoulders and buried his face in the crook of his neck, deeply inhaling his rose scent. He could smell the faint, annoying trace of the other Alpha’s pheromones that Pei Yu had accidentally picked up.

“You should only smell like me,” Qin Shen said, his voice darkening as his fingers nipped at the nape of Pei Yu’s neck.

“Ah… that tickles.” Pei Yu shifted his neck, still not quite understanding the sudden intensity. Is he really that jealous?

Pei Yu said hesitantly, “I mean, I can, but if I run into a math problem I can’t solve, I’ll have to wait until school the next day to ask a teacher.”

“Tell me which one. I’ll explain it to you,” Qin Shen said.

Pei Yu was skeptical. “Can you do it? How many years has it been since you graduated?”

The next moment, Pei Yu paid the price for his careless words. His waist was nipped suggestively.

Qin Shen smiled dangerously. “Is my baby reminding me of my age again?”

Pei Yu: “…” Note to self: shut up.

“Fine, you try it?” Pei Yu showed him the problem.

It was a “Question 3” type—the most difficult kind. Some were rare and tricky; even Pei Yu had struggled with it for a long time and only had an incomplete answer. He thought Qin Shen was just talking big. After all, they say senior year of high school is the peak of a person’s knowledge.

“This problem goes like this…”

Qin Shen looked at it for a few minutes, picked up a piece of scratch paper, and began calculating methodically. Elegant, flowing numbers appeared on the page. Pei Yu watched and listened intently. When Qin Shen reached the crux of the problem, his eyes widened.

“And this is the other result you missed,” Qin Shen concluded.

Pei Yu didn’t even need to check the answer key; he knew Qin Shen was right.

“It really is! You actually solved it. You’re amazing.” Pei Yu’s eyes sparkled with genuine admiration. The steps were clear, with not a single redundant calculation.

Qin Shen’s lips curled up. He loved it when Pei Yu looked at him like that. He seized the opportunity to ask for a reward. “Since I solved it, don’t I get a prize?”

Pei Yu felt a sense of foreboding. “What kind of prize?”

Qin Shen smiled. “How about a kiss?” Just enough to cover up those other pheromones.

Pei Yu’s ears turned hot. Under the man’s intense, deep gaze, a lightbulb went off. “Sure, a kiss it is.” He didn’t say it had to be on the lips.

Qin Shen felt a thrill. “Mhm. Go ahead.”

Pei Yu suppressed a giggle, leaned in slowly and Smack!

Before Qin Shen could react, Pei Yu planted a quick kiss right on his cheek.

Suddenly, the door burst open with a “Bang!”

“Brother Pei, Teacher Zhang asked me to check if you have any more.”

Qin Yiyang froze. Seeing this critical hit to his single status, he ground his teeth.

“Weren’t you guys supposed to be STUDYING?!!!”

Pei Yu blinked, his entire face turning beet-red as he scrambled to push Qin Shen away.

Qin Shen, who hadn’t even gotten a “taste” yet: “…”

He turned to Qin Yiyang, his eyes filled with the dissatisfaction of the interrupted. “We are… balancing work and play.”

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