Duan Xu put away the note, poured himself a glass of warm water, and then sat down at the dining table to obediently finish the meal that Shen Yanlang had prepared.
After finishing his meal and returning to bed, he leaned against the headboard and glanced at his phone. "Is Shen Yanlang still on the plane at this hour?"
After thinking for a moment, Duan Xu sent Shen Yanlang a message: [I let you know I arrived. I'm a little sleepy, so I'm going to sleep now. Goodnight.]
After sending the message, Duan Xu soon fell asleep in bed.
At this time, Shen Yanlang was not on the plane, but in another apartment of his home, alone.
The room was dark. Shen Yanlang sat on the sofa, holding his phone as if it were a precious treasure, unwilling to let go.
When the screen lit up, he immediately picked it up to check. After seeing the message, his long-standing irritability was somewhat relieved. He touched the text on his phone, as if he could feel Duan Xu's soft skin, which made him very fond of it.
"Xuxu ..."
*
Duan Xu slept for a long time, from a little after 7 p. m. to 6 a. m. When he woke up, he found that it was still dark, but he had slept too much and couldn't sleep anymore.
He sat up, turned on the light, and immediately checked his phone, finding that Shen Yanlang had sent him a message around 3 a. m.
Shen Yanlang: [I've arrived, goodnight.]
Duan Xu, calculated the time difference, and realized it was around 11 PM there, so he sent a message asking: [Are you asleep?]
Shen Yanlang hadn't slept all night in his apartment, frowned slightly when he saw the message: [Why are you awake so early?]
Duan Xu: [I slept too much, I can't sleep anymore. You're still awake?]
Shen Yanlang: [I'm going to sleep right away.]
Duan Xu was a little disappointed; he wanted to talk to Shen Yanlang little longer, but he knew he'd be tired from catching his flight: [Then go to sleep early, goodnight.]
Shen Yanlang looked at the message and silently curled the corners of his lips, the gloomy feeling on his body seeming to dissipate a little.
Shen Yanlang: [Xuxu morning, Xuxu.]
Duan Xu smiled as he held his phone, then urged Shen Yanlang to go and rest.
Shen Yanlang didn't want to rest, but if he said anything more, Duan Xu would notice something was wrong, so he could only agree and then stared at the screen without replying to any more messages.
He stared at it until dawn, then finally turned his head, glanced out the window, and murmured, "Xuxu should be in class by now..."
Duan Xu was indeed on his way to class and had just entered the classroom when he noticed that everyone in the classroom was looking at him with subtle expressions.
Duan Xu was confused, and everyone else probably felt it wasn't a good sign, so they all looked away.
Duan Xu found it strange. He found a seat and sat down. A moment later, Tang Che, who hadn't approached him for a long time, suddenly sat down next to him.
"Duan Xu." Tang Che's expression was somewhat complicated, as if he wanted to say something but was afraid of hurting Duan Xu.
"Is something wrong?" What's going on? They all have such strange expressions.
After hesitating for a moment, Tang Che asked cautiously, "Are you alright?"
Duan Xu: "???"
"I'm fine!" Duan Xu thought to himself, puzzled. "What are you trying to say? And why are you all looking at me so strangely?"
Tang Che was taken aback upon hearing this. "You still don't know?"
Duan Xu was stunned. "What do you mean you don't know?"
Just then, the school bell rang, and the teacher walked into the classroom with books. Tang Che returned to his seat, and Duan Xu had no way to ask any more questions.
But Duan Xu feeling that something had happened, and it was something bad that involved him.
So, after Duan Xu of class, seeing how excited the teacher was, Duan Xu quietly took out his phone and opened the campus forum.
Judging from everyone's expressions, I guess many people already know, so this matter must be on the forum.
#Shocking! School heartthrob secretly meets omega in an empty classroom on Sunday!#
What's going on? Is the original poster deliberately spreading rumors?
[This isn't a rumor; someone actually saw Shen Yanlang enter Boya Building alone on Sunday afternoon, stay inside for three hours, and then run out, still carrying omega pheromones!]
[What nonsense! You've been following Shen Yanlang the whole time? Are you crazy?!]
[I'm the school heartthrob. That day was our group assignment; we went to Boya Building together, and there were five of us in the classroom!]
[Did you hear that? They're doing a group project! OP, delete this post right now, or the school heartthrob will sue you for defamation!]
[Just to be honest, I happened to be passing by there that day and I did see Shen Yanlang running out, and he definitely smelled of omega pheromones.]
[Holy crap! No way? What happened after the group assignment?]
[I don't know about that. The three of us left first that day, but one of the omega classmates stayed behind, saying he had something to say to Shen Yanlang.]
[Holy crap! Shen Yanlang really cheated on me?!]
[That goes without saying, it was definitely because their pheromones were intertwined. Shen Yanlang is an alpha after all, and he couldn't resist the temptation of the pheromones, so they... you know!]
[Afterwards, he probably felt sorry for Duan Xu and couldn't face that omega, so he ran away. Tsk tsk, I didn't expect Shen Yanlang to be so irresponsible, he's really despicable!]
[The person upstairs is talking nonsense! My Yan-ge is always a gentleman and would never do such a thing. Besides, he always carries suppressants with him, so there's no way he could be tempted!]
This reply from Zhou Zhou shows that they knew about this before Duan Xu, but they didn't tell him, probably because they didn't want to bother him.
When Duan Xu saw this, his lips were tightly pressed together and his brows were slightly furrowed. Something had indeed happened that day, but Shen Yanlang said he hadn't touched that omega, and he believed Shen Yanlang.
Later on, some people started attacking Shen Yanlang, while others defended him, and in the end, they even began to sympathize with him.
[No matter what, Shen Yanlang is definitely not going to escape, it's just that Duan Xu a predicament.]
[Sigh, they were so passionately in love just two weeks ago, and now they're breaking up. I feel Duan Xu.]
[It's such a pity. If Duan Xu were an omega, Shen Yanlang probably wouldn't have...]
I didn't see any replies from Zhou Zhou and the others after that. I don't know if someone stopped him from seeing it. If he had seen it, he would definitely have said that Duan Xu is an omega and doesn't need their sympathy.
Duan Xu put away his phone, no longer in the mood to listen to the lecture. He was very unhappy. Shen Yanlang such a good person and hadn't done anything to wrong him. These people didn't even know the truth, so why were they criticizing him?
After class, Duan Xu used his phone to send a private message to Zhou Zhou.
Duan Xu: [When did you find out about what happened on the forum?]
Zhou Zhou: [Uh...]
Zhou Zhou: [I found out yesterday morning. I wanted to tell you, but I was afraid you'd be upset.]
Zhou Zhou: [And we also believe that Yan-ge would never do anything to betray you.]
Zhou Zhou: [I wanted to clarify your omega status first, but Jing-ge contacted us and said to leave it for now.]
Duan Xu: [What do you mean?]