The Cannon Fodder Became the Empire's Beloved Omega - Chapter 11

“Ji Huai!”

Li Hong was the first to react, rushing to the fallen Omega’s side with furrowed brows. “Are you alright?!”

“I’m fine.”

Ji Huai shook his head, casting a regretful glance at his foot. “It’s just. I probably won’t be able to continue the exam.”

He looked up at Yu Ruan with a sorrowful expression. “Perhaps this is the fate of Omegas. No matter how hard we try, we can never compare to Alphas. And we still get mocked for all sorts of reasons.”

Li Hong’s expression grew increasingly grim as he supported Ji Huai. Finally unable to hold back, he said, “Enough, don’t say anymore. This isn’t your fault. You’ve already tried your best.”

“But I…”

Lin Han approached from a distance, glancing at the two. “Injured?”

Ji Huai silently lowered his head, pulling up the pant leg that covered his calf to reveal a swollen ankle. “Probably won’t be able to continue the exam. I’m sorry, Teacher Lin.”

Hearing this, Li Hong could no longer contain his anger. “You don’t need to apologize! This was never your fault to begin with!” He glared fiercely at Lin Han. “If he hadn’t insisted on making you and Yu Ruan spar, how could you have gotten hurt by Yu Ruan?”

“No, I…” Ji Huai hesitated, his eyes reddening as he looked at Yu Ruan. “This isn’t Yu Ruan’s fault either. He’s not an Omega, so he doesn’t know how fragile Omega constitutions are.”

This statement completely ignited Li Hong’s fury.

He sprang to his feet, strode over to Yu Ruan in two or three steps, and reached out to grab Yu Ruan’s collar.

Seeing this, Lin Han immediately stepped between them, blocking Li Hong’s outstretched hand with a frown. “What do you think you’re doing?”

“He injured Ji Huai this badly, what do you think I’m going to do?!” Li Hong retorted. “Are you planning to keep shielding him and let him escape punishment?!”

Lin Han narrowed his eyes, his expression turning icy.

Yu Ruan felt quite wronged.

Anyone with eyes could see that the earlier “accident” was clearly Ji Huai faking a fall. However, the other had chosen his angle well, just positioning himself in most people’s blind spot. Unless someone deliberately reviewed surveillance footage, it would be difficult to determine who was at fault.

“Li Hong, don’t be so angry.” Ji Huai struggled to stand up, carefully tugging at Li Hong’s sleeve. “Yu Ruan definitely didn’t mean to. It’s just that as an Omega, I’m really holding everyone back. It was my mistake to begin with. I should apologize.”

He pleaded earnestly.

Yet his words not only failed to extinguish Li Hong’s anger but instead poured fuel on the fire. For a moment, his pitiful appearance stirred sympathy among the onlookers.

Whispers and murmurs spread through the crowd as people quietly discussed the “accident.”

As the chatter reached their ears, Yu Ruan noticed the corners of Ji Huai’s lips seemed to curl upward briefly. Then, just as quickly, it disappeared, replaced by tear-filled eyes as he gazed at Yu Ruan.

Truly worthy of being the main protagonist shou, Yu Ruan genuinely couldn’t compare.

Yu Ruan was utterly impressed by Ji Huai.

He was about to skillfully take the blame and follow the script of being universally despised and expelled from the school. But before he could speak, Lin Han suddenly asked, “Did he push you?”

Ji Huai blinked his moist eyes. “Teacher Lin, please don’t say anymore. I know, Yu Ruan didn’t.”

“Why is it that what I saw was you tripping over your own feet?” Lin Han said. “Would you like to explain, Ji Huai?”

Upon hearing this, Ji Huai’s face instantly turned pale. He looked at Lin Han with a mix of shock and fear. “T-teacher, are you implying that I deliberately framed Yu Ruan?”

Lin Han’s expression remained cold and indifferent, like a stone frozen for centuries. “Yes.”

He didn’t even bother to conceal his meaning.

Whispers erupted around them, making Ji Huai instinctively bite his lip.

Li Hong couldn’t hold back any longer. “Lin Han, we call you ‘teacher’ out of respect for the profession, not for you as a person. Your current behavior is completely unworthy of being a teacher! How can you falsely accuse your own student like this?”

Lin Han remained unmoved. “Do you think I’m falsely accusing Ji Huai?”

“What else could it be?” Li Hong said, suppressing his anger. “Ji Huai is clearly the victim here. Just because he’s an Omega, does that mean everything he does is wrong?”

“Li Hong,” Ji Huai grabbed his hand, lowering his head and speaking softly in dismay, “stop it.”

“I don’t care about the process, only the result,” Lin Han stated. “There was no direct contact between them. The so-called victim is completely baseless.”

Li Hong sneered. “Everyone knows you favor Yu Ruan! With just your word, who knows if it’s true or not?”

“I am not biased,” Lin Han said calmly.

“If you’re not biased,” Li Hong glanced at Ji Huai and mocked, “then why did you deliberately pair Yu Ruan, an Alpha, against Ji Huai, an Omega?”

At this, Lin Han’s expression shifted slightly. He glanced sideways at Yu Ruan, his lips parting as if to speak.

The others chimed in indignantly:

“Teacher Lin, you’ve really gone too far.”
“Yeah, even if you like Yu Ruan, you can’t be this biased.”
“Poor Ji Huai.”

Yu Ruan nervously watched Lin Han, certain he was about to reveal the truth.

Unexpectedly, at that moment, a health teacher rushed into the training ground from outside. Panting, he clutched a medical kit and looked around in confusion at the tense atmosphere. “Is anyone injured? I just got a call from the monitoring room saying a student tripped during the exam and sprained their ankle. They asked me to come check it out.”

“…” The crowd fell silent.

The timing was too coincidental. For a moment, even Yu Ruan didn’t know how to respond.

An eerie silence spread across the training ground. Everyone exchanged glances, but no one dared to speak first.

The health teacher, receiving no reply, was utterly baffled. “Huh?”

Finally, someone mustered the courage to ask, “Teacher, what do you mean by ‘tripped’?”

The health teacher grew even more puzzled. “The monitoring room teacher told me they saw a student clumsily trip over their own feet and fall flat on the ground. They asked me to hurry over and check. What’s wrong? Is no one injured here?”

Hearing this, the silence grew even heavier. Ji Huai, surrounded by the crowd, turned deathly pale, swaying unsteadily as if he might collapse at any moment.

“Are you feeling unwell, student? Do you need me to take a look?” the school nurse kindly asked.

Ji Huai instinctively shook his head.

With these words, everyone’s attention returned to him.

However, after the earlier deception, the gazes directed at Ji Huai had shifted from initial sympathy and indignation to an indescribable complexity.

Who would have thought that someone who appeared so innocent and harmless could be so deceitful?

And they had almost fallen for his act, nearly slandering an innocent classmate.

Now, someone finally recalled the previous “cheating” incident and couldn’t help but connect the two events.

Back then, Ji Huai had insisted that He Xin was the one who framed Yu Ruan and that he had nothing to do with it. But given his behavior today, perhaps He Xin was the one who took the fall for him?

Goodness, how could someone be so malicious!?

Shocked glances converged on Ji Huai, making his expression grow increasingly unpleasant.

Panicked, he turned to the school nurse and said, “Teacher, maybe the teacher in the monitoring room made a mistake? Perhaps the camera angle was bad, making it seem like I fell on my own. But I really didn’t lie.”

Before he could finish, someone couldn’t hold back and interjected, “Ji Huai, can’t you just admit your mistake honestly? No one would think less of you for it.”

Unexpectedly, these words seemed to strike a nerve. Ji Huai suddenly turned his head, his voice sharp as he retorted, “I’ve never done such a thing! Don’t you dare slander me! You’re just discriminating against me because I’m an Omega.”

Before he could finish, someone rushed into the training ground, sweating profusely, and called out, “Teacher Lin!”

Lin Han turned at the sound.

Everyone looked over and saw that it was the school disciplinarian, who was usually accustomed to throwing his weight around. At this moment, sweat dripped from his temples, and his bald head gleamed under the light. He swallowed nervously and said, “I heard you were conducting exams here.” He spoke anxiously, “I hope I’m not disturbing you.”

It seemed that even the disciplinarian had heard of Lin Han’s fearsome reputation.

Lin Han didn’t deny it. “What is it?”

The disciplinarian wiped his sweat. “Well, a group of people has arrived outside the school, asking specifically to see Yu Ruan. I came to fetch him and bring him over.”

His gaze shifted to Yu Ruan, and he immediately broke into a smile. “Student Yu, hurry, come with me. The Chief Secretary is waiting outside.”

Before he could finish, a pair of impeccably polished black military boots stepped through the doorway. The person wearing them was clad in a crisp military uniform, the bright yellow tassel on his left shoulder swaying gently.

Behind him followed a large group of attendants. Their movements were rigid, their expressions stern, and they looked utterly intimidating.

Yu Ruan’s heart sank. Anxiously, he thought: Has the male lead’s protagonist aura finally activated after I’ve repeatedly humiliated him?

With so many people here, it was clear that his fate would be utterly miserable!

For a moment, Yu Ruan felt a pang of despair. He steadied himself and inwardly reassured himself: Don’t panic, don’t panic, don’t panic. This is just standard procedure. Who told me to mess with the male lead and his love interest earlier?

As expected.

In the next moment, Li Hong, who was holding Ji Huai with a pained expression, suddenly looked as if he had spotted a familiar face and exclaimed joyfully, “Uncle, what brings you here?!”

The man whose name was called furrowed his brows almost imperceptibly. He quickly glanced up at the man walking ahead in a crisp military uniform, then lowered his head again as if he hadn’t heard anything.

Li Hong, however, remained completely unaware and continued, “Uncle, could you do me a favor? My friend was just wronged, he’s innocent, and only the surveillance footage can prove it.”

“Hmm?”

Suddenly, the man in military attire spoke up. He strolled in leisurely, the sound of his heels thudding dully against the wooden floor. Raising his eyes, he smiled and asked, “Who was wronged?”

His gaze shifted and settled on Yu Ruan’s face. “Was it you?”

Yu Ruan blinked in confusion.

He didn’t recall knowing this person, yet the man seemed strangely familiar with him.

This immediately sparked a flicker of doubt in his mind.

Li Hong’s expression shifted slightly as he said, “Of course, it wasn’t him!”

“Oh?”

“Not only was it not him, but on the contrary, he’s the one who did something wrong and refuses to admit it!” Li Hong shot an angry glare at Lin Han. “Even the teacher was bribed into being an accomplice, helping him frame an innocent classmate!”

Hearing this, the man Li Hong had called “uncle” suddenly changed expression, desperately trying to signal him with his eyes.

Li Hong pretended not to notice and calmly averted his gaze.

Seeing this, the newcomer chuckled softly.

“So that’s how it is,” he mused, nodding thoughtfully. Then, turning to Lin Han with a smile, he said, “It’s been a while, Marshal Lin. It seems you’ve been doing well on Konan Star, I’m truly glad to see it.”

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