Humiliation

"Xiao, you really put me through hell last night."

A young man with a blond ponytail blocked Gu Xiao's path, a smile on his lips. "You have no idea. I almost never woke up."

Gu Xiao gave the unfamiliar man before him an indifferent glance and walked straight away.

"Hey, Xiao, what's with that look? Don't tell me you don't recognize me?"

Fu Huai's lips twitched, and he calmly stood aside.

"May I ask just what the hell you are?"

Hill was furious. "I'm Hill, Hill Aisili! You knocked me unconscious with a kick last night. Xiao, you're too violent."

"It's you?" Gu Xiao looked him over a few times and scoffed. "Sorry, your hair color isn't distinctive now. I couldn't recognize you."

Hill puffed out his cheeks in anger. "You need to compensate me."

"This is the first time anyone has dared ask me for compensation." Gu Xiao tipped his chin at Fu Huai. "Give him money."

Hill was even more unhappy. "Xiao, I don't want money."

"Then what do you want?"

Hill looked innocently at Gu Xiao. "I want to date you. Xiao, you're so beautiful. I want you to be my boyfriend. If you think I'm not enough on my own, my older brother Shelley can be your boyfriend too."

This foreigner really was... courting death!

"Mr. Aisili, perhaps you mean you want to be friends with A-Xiao." Fu Huai looked at him with smiling eyes. "I'm sorry, but not just anyone can become A-Xiao's friend."

Hill hurried to explain, "No, no, no, not friends. Boyfriends!"

"Xiao, you're really beautiful. I was drawn to you the first time I saw you."

Gu Xiao let out a soft laugh at Hill.

"Xiao," Hill said dazedly, "you're even more charming when you smile."

"Fu Huai, get farther away from me."

Realizing something, Fu Huai frowned and obediently moved away.

"Xiao, do you want a date alone with me?" An enthusiastic smile spread across Hill's face. "Oh my God, I never thought you'd actually say yes! Can I ask my brother to send over a bouquet of irises right now?"

Gu Xiao thought that some people really did find all sorts of bizarre ways to court death.

Hill gazed at Gu Xiao's exquisite, beautiful face and took a besotted step forward, as though bewitched.

Suddenly, he grunted, his face turning deathly pale as he was forced to his knees.

Hill raised his head, and the fear familiar to Gu Xiao finally appeared in his eyes.

That was more like it. A hint of a smile rippled through Gu Xiao's eyes too.

He still preferred the sight of people kneeling at his feet.

"Xiao," Hill forced out, "this joke isn't funny."

Gu Xiao stood there, looking down at the blond man.

"If you overestimate yourself, you need to bear the consequences. Hill Aisili, isn't this what you wanted?"

No, he didn't want any of this!

Hill looked up at the man, but the fear in his eyes turned into desire.

He would have this man, no matter what price he had to pay!

Hill passed out.

Fu Huai slowly walked over. "A-Xiao, let's go."

"Mm, let's go."

As for the young man unconscious on the ground, no one cared.

"A-Huai, have I been too easygoing lately?" Gu Xiao said expressionlessly. "Is that why these people are acting so brazenly, one after another?"

Fu Huai sighed. "No, A-Xiao. It's because you're too kind."

Gu Xiao: "..."

He could tell Fu Huai was serious.

Did this person truly think he was kind?

How interesting.

"Oh, right, A-Xiao." Fu Huai looked at Gu Xiao darkly. "The fiancé your mother chose for you is coming back to the country next week."

Gu Xiao frowned. "Is he?"

He had completely forgotten about that.

"Gu Xiao" did have a fiancé, a male omega who was gentle on the surface but vicious inside and only ever targeted the protagonist, who was loved by all.

Fu Huai's expression was a little strange. "Yes. He's probably coming back this time to... break off the engagement."

"Hm?"

Was that part of the plot?

Fu Huai explained, "Your former fiancé underwent a second differentiation and became... an alpha."

Gu Xiao's expression shifted.

"He differentiated into an alpha?"

"Yes." Fu Huai's Adam's apple bobbed several times before he continued. "I heard he was abducted six months ago and injected with some toxic drugs. Afterward, he differentiated into an alpha. No one knows yet what drugs he was injected with."

"Was this aimed at him or the Gu Family?" Gu Xiao asked directly. "Fu Huai, how do you know so much?"

Faced with Gu Xiao's questioning, Fu Huai smiled, his smile impeccable. "A-Xiao, are you suspecting me?"

"If you insist on thinking that, there's nothing I can do." Gu Xiao tossed the question back at him, his expression far from pleasant. "Deal with those twins first."

Fu Huai was very obedient. "All right."

A-Xiao didn't seem to care about his fiancé.

That made sense. To A-Xiao, he was merely a stranger he had never met.

As for them... they would never allow an omega to appear by A-Xiao's side.

An omega still had far too legitimate a claim.

A-Xiao only needed to stay by their side forever.

They didn't need any omegas.

The hospital.

Hill, who should still have been unconscious, looked at Shelley in bewilderment and grievance.

"Why was Xiao so mean to me?"

Shelley said coldly, "Why don't you tell me what you did? You know what kind of person Gu Xiao is. Why did you insist on provoking him?"

Hill was defiant. "I just wanted to try winning that beauty over on my own."

"But you don't have that kind of ability." Shelley looked at Hill with annoyance. "Gu Xiao isn't an ordinary person. In fact, his status is more exalted than either yours or mine. Put away those tricks you use on omegas!"

Hill was deeply unconvinced, but he couldn't refute Shelley.

He still couldn't accept it.

Xiao's temper wasn't as bad as the rumors said, was it?

Maybe if he tried a little harder, Xiao would be moved.

"Hill, I'm warning you one more time. Don't provoke Gu Xiao again." Shelley's face darkened. "If you dare contact him in private again, I'll send you back. Don't forget what we came here for!"

Hill gave a childish smile. "Of course I haven't forgotten, my dear brother. This time, we've come to bring about a change of dynasty at Aisili Noble Academy."

Only then did Shelley breathe a sigh of relief. "Good, as long as you know."

"Oh, right," Hill said casually, "someone named Lu wants to work with us."

Shelley was puzzled. "Lu?"

"Yes. He said his name was Lu Keyan."