Wanting to Pull the Flower on the Lofty Peak Down from His Pedestal

"We're just letting them leave?" Feng Ji still looked a little dumbfounded. "A-Xiao, what exactly is going on between you and A-Chuan? Did you two fight?"

Gu Xiao scoffed. "Fight about what? Didn't he just get back? He hasn't even given me a birthday present, and he's already thinking about fishing for men."

Why did A-Xiao's words sound so strange?

Feng Ji felt a little uncomfortable. He said quietly, "A-Xiao, there's actually a reason A-Chuan is acting like this. The alpha he pursued last time turned him down. That guy was pretty good-looking too, and a big celebrity. He looked... seventy or eighty percent like the scholarship student."

"Oh?" Gu Xiao's interest was piqued. "He's even playing with substitutes."

Feng Ji perked up too. "That's why I said A-Chuan knows how to play. A-Xiao, you can't learn from him..."

"Feng Ji, stop talking nonsense," Fu Huai interrupted Feng Ji's rambling. "Let's go, A-Xiao. It's already started."

Everyone was looking forward to seeing whom Gu Xiao would choose for the opening dance.

Fu Huai asked him directly, "A-Xiao, may I have a dance with you?"

Hearing this, Gu Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly and chuckled. "You? No."

"Why turn me down so quickly?" Fu Huai sighed and reached out to pat Gu Xiao's shoulder. "Who do you want to ask, then?"

Gu Xiao looked around, his gaze settling on nothing in particular.

"You and A-Ji can do the opening dance." Gu Xiao sat down and crossed his legs, saying with the ghost of a smile, "Having you two open for me is good enough."

Gu Xiao's words made both Fu Huai's and Feng Ji's expressions change.

"A-Xiao, you're joking, right?" Feng Ji grew anxious. "How are Fu Huai and I supposed to dance together?"

Fu Huai pushed up his glasses. "I don't mind."

He held a hand out to Feng Ji. "Xiao Ji, may I have the honor of asking you for a dance?"

Feng Ji's face turned green. "You beat me to it."

Since A-Xiao wanted to watch, then he would... obey rather than stand on ceremony.

Feng Ji and Fu Huai entered the dance floor.

Gu Xiao propped up his chin and watched the two of them, in a fairly good mood.

On the dance floor, Feng Ji still looked unhappy. "Fu Huai, what's the meaning of this?"

"What do you mean, the meaning of this?" Fu Huai maintained his perfect smile. "What are you trying to say?"

Feng Ji tightened the arm around Fu Huai's waist and pulled him close. The distance between them was such that they could have kissed.

Fu Huai felt a little sick.

Feng Ji's eyes were also full of distaste.

"Don't play dumb!" Feng Ji sneered, lowering his voice as he stared straight at Fu Huai. "Has A-Xiao noticed something?"

Fu Huai's smile remained unchanged. "What could he have noticed? That you're coveting him?"

Feng Ji almost stomped his foot in fury. "Don't act like you're so open and aboveboard yourself!"

"Relax. Plenty of people like A-Xiao. Neither you nor I are special." Fu Huai's eyes curved. "What's wrong with liking someone? In A-Xiao's eyes, everyone ought to like him anyway."

Feng Ji's expression darkened. "But he'll never fall for anyone."

Wouldn't he?

Fu Huai kept smiling.

A-Xiao was human, not a god.

He probably had no one he liked now only because the person he liked had yet to appear.

None of them would be A-Xiao's choice.

So what?

He, Fu Huai, would never give up on what he wanted.

So what if he sat high above everyone else?

He just had to pull him down.

He believed that everyone who willingly gathered around A-Xiao alongside him shared the same thought-

To pull the flower on the lofty peak down from his pedestal, and then possess him.

Outside the clubhouse lobby, Ji Chuan looked at Lu Keyan expressionlessly.

And Lu Keyan looked back at Ji Chuan without the slightest fear.

"You've got some nerve," Ji Chuan said with a smile. "What are you staying by A-Xiao's side for?"

Lu Keyan said calmly, "My goal is the same as yours."

"Are you worthy?"

Lu Keyan smiled instead. "Everyone loves asking me that question. But-are you worthy?"

Ji Chuan's expression changed abruptly. "Come with me."

"Sure." Lu Keyan's demeanor transformed completely, without any of the timidity he had shown in the clubhouse.

Ji Chuan knew that this version of Lu Keyan was his true self.

But of those who stayed by A-Xiao's side, who wasn't acting?

Everyone was acting.

It was merely a question of whose performance could satisfy A-Xiao more.

Ji Chuan took Lu Keyan straight to his dorm.

As one of the members of F4, Ji Chuan also had a dorm that occupied a large plot of land.

But unlike Gu Xiao's dorm, his had many rooms.

"Aren't you worried A-Xiao might not know his own strength and accidentally kill you?"

Hearing this, Lu Keyan said dismissively, "Young Master Gu has never killed anyone. You, on the other hand, Young Master Ji-if Young Master Gu knew every alpha you found was his substitute, would he find you disgusting?"

Ji Chuan's expression darkened abruptly. "You've got a lot of nerve."

"Likewise." Lu Keyan shrugged. "But I'm not as lucky as you. I arrived over a decade too late."

Ji Chuan couldn't be bothered to spar with Lu Keyan. "A-Xiao isn't someone you can covet. Either leave him, or we'll force you to leave."

"Young Master Ji, aren't you being a little too arrogant?" Lu Keyan asked in puzzlement. "Do you think I won't fight back?"

The instant Lu Keyan finished speaking, Ji Chuan suddenly felt a wave of pressure-

His face went pale at once. "You..."

He had barely uttered the word when his knees buckled, and he dropped to his knees before Lu Keyan with a thud.

It was... the pressure of SSS-rank mental power!

Ji Chuan looked at Lu Keyan in terror. No wonder the Lu Family had grudgingly accepted Lu Keyan despite him being an illegitimate son.

So that was it. That was why!

Cold sweat streamed down Ji Chuan's forehead as he gritted his teeth and resisted Lu Keyan's oppressive power.

"Your endurance is pretty good," Lu Keyan asked with a soft laugh. "But Young Master Ji, are you sure you want to keep resisting? If I don't know my own strength and your alpha gland gets destroyed, all I'll be able to do is regret it."

Even A-Xiao didn't have mental power this strong...

Ji Chuan lowered his head, seemingly submitting. "What do you want to do?"

Lu Keyan withdrew his pressure. "Nothing. I just hope you can maintain your... interest in me."

Ordinary methods certainly wouldn't make Young Master Gu turn his gaze toward him.

Then what if one of F4's members took an interest in him?

Young Master Gu would take an interest in him then, wouldn't he?

"And I'll help you too," Lu Keyan said calmly. "I know what you want to do. Until then, I'll cooperate... amicably with you."

The way Ji Chuan looked at Lu Keyan changed.

What kind of person was this?

Just what the hell had those old men at the academy recruited through special admission?

Ji Chuan gritted his teeth. "Fine. I agree."

If he refused, not only would his gland be destroyed.

There was also A-Xiao...

If A-Xiao knew what they had done, he definitely wouldn't forgive them.

But what had they done wrong?

The only blame lay in A-Xiao being far too charming.