Ruan Mei sat blankly on the mat, feeling that something was wrong, but her intelligence couldn’t figure it out, so she could only stare into space.
The large scale physical fitness test for the entire grade was a great opportunity for the girls to go into a fangirl frenzy. Ruan Mei overheard several girls next to her discussing:
“Gu Yanlin was so handsome just now! That moment when he jumped in the long jump, it was like he jumped right into my heart!”
“Did Gu Yanlin just go to the restroom?”
“Yeah, what’s wrong? He went quite suddenly!”
“Didn’t he just go before? Does the male god also have problems with frequent urination and urgency? I don’t believe it!”
Hearing this, Ruan Mei involuntarily stood up and rushed towards the restroom. Standing at the door of the restroom, she found a hidden corner to sneak a look.
She had a mysterious intuition that she might see something.
She saw Gu Yanlin lingering at the entrance of the restroom, as if waiting for someone, but he was looking in the direction of the girls’ side, not the boys’.
Not long after, Fang Zhishui came out from the girls’ side with a blank expression.
Fang Zhishui had probably washed her face her complexion was refreshed, with a light pink shade brought on by the cold water, and a few damp strands of hair stuck to her face. Her pupils were dark, and her expression was indifferent, as if she were suppressing some emotion.
Ruan Mei frowned and shrank herself further into the corner.
Gu Yanlin walked towards Fang Zhishui, stopped her, and took a brooch out of his pocket to hand it to her.
“Classmate, is this yours?”
Fang Zhishui snapped back to reality, looking a bit confused. She looked at Gu Yanlin, seeming not to remember who this person was.
She looked down at the brooch, paused for a moment, and then said, “It’s mine.”
Gu Yanlin smiled, “Then I’ll return this to you. By the way, could I add you on WeChat?”
Eavesdropping nearby, Ruan Mei’s heart stirred. Up to this point, everything Gu Yanlin said was his line from the original novel. This meant that, apart from the improbable location, this scene from the original plot was indeed happening.
Too bad…
Fang Zhishui suddenly shook her head, “Thank you, but I don’t want to add strangers on WeChat.”
Gu Yanlin: “…”
Stranger? Gu Yanlin always thought there wasn’t a single girl in the whole grade who didn’t know him, but who knew that Fang Zhishui would be the exception.
This sparked a competitive spirit in Gu Yanlin, and he smiled, “It’s okay. We’re all first year high school students. I’ve heard a lot about you, the top student in the whole grade. We can get to know each other slowly in the future.”
Ruan Mei thought, This is the heroine. Even a top figure like the male lead has to be polite in front of the heroine; one thing conquers another.
“No need, thank you for returning my brooch. I have something else to do, I’ll be going now.” Fang Zhishui politely but distantly shook her head, smiled at Gu Yanlin, and walked away.
Ruan Mei couldn’t eavesdrop any longer. She sprinted back to the fitness test area, sat down next to her mat, and waited for someone to come.
Her mind was a mess. Was that a small piece of the plot that just happened? But why didn’t it unfold as she remembered? In the original novel, the male lead asked the female lead for her WeChat, and she shyly but happily agreed.
The original novel was a wireless sweet romance the main couple’s relationship line was always very sweet, but the supporting characters and cannon fodder were not, as they existed only to be used to highlight the main couple like Ruan Mei herself.
After many days of immersive life experience, Ruan Mei felt that this world was inherently a real one, where everyone had their own story and was the protagonist in their own narrative. Even the fruit seller auntie had an unknown past and complex, ever changing behavior and personality.
Given this, the current change in the plot must be because the heroine, Fang Zhishui, had changed her personality or way of thinking.
Ruan Mei couldn’t figure out the reason, so she could only try her best to hide herself, pretending to be as clueless as before, to deal with Fang Zhishui and the male lead.
She let out a soft sigh, feeling a little worried.
Fang Zhishui returned, and the gym teacher glared at her, pointing at the others: “Everyone get ready, the next group is starting soon.”
Fang Zhishui walked over, lay straight down on the mat, closed her eyes, and placed her hands, palms up, under her head.
Her body was slender and well-proportioned. Below her long, thin calves was a flat abdomen, and…
Ruan Mei secretly swallowed and averted her gaze, feeling that the strange sensation inside her body was starting again. At the same time, she sensed a scent of strawberry emanating from around her.
She saw the Alphas (A’s) and Omegas (O’s) looking over. Several people probably smelled the strawberry scent but couldn’t find the source, their faces full of curiosity.
“It smells a bit nice…”
“Is it a new student? Must be an O, right?”
“Don’t say that. Maybe someone is just drinking a beverage.”
“How can a drink smell like that? She must have differentiated!”
Ruan Mei broke out in a cold sweat, forcing herself with willpower to ignore those people and pretend to be composed.
“Are you ready?” Ruan Mei asked softly.
Fang Zhishui nodded with a blank expression while keeping her eyes closed. Ruan Mei then placed her hands on Fang Zhishui’s calves, one on the left and one on the right.
Fang Zhishui, however, opened her eyes and looked at Ruan Mei teasingly, “How did I press you just now, you have to press me the same way, right?”
Ruan Mei was stunned for a moment, her face immediately flushing red again. She truly hadn’t expected the heroine to be so… brazenly flirtatious!
But she couldn’t refuse either. She had no choice but to turn around and sit on Fang Zhishui’s calves.
She didn’t dare to press down hard, so her bottom was slightly suspended. Fang Zhishui frowned, “You’re not pressing firmly enough.”
Ruan Mei hardened her heart and pressed down hard. Fang Zhishui’s calves were too thin Ruan Mei felt like she was sitting on two sticks, which was quite bony.
The teacher shouted, “Start!”
Ruan Mei stared at Fang Zhishui’s face. Seeing that her expression hadn’t changed at all, she began doing sit-ups with a calm demeanor, as if she wasn’t doing sit-ups but was on vacation.
She could feel Fang Zhishui starting to exert force. The moment she tensed up, her whole body would tighten, her slender body like a bow, the strength traveling through her calves and into Ruan Mei’s body.
Such strong power, such swift reaction would Fang Zhishui really turn into an Omega later? It wasn’t scientific at all.
Ruan Mei used all sorts of distracting thoughts to divert her attention, otherwise, she kept staring at the narrow gap revealed between Fang Zhishui’s lower abdomen, seeing the milky white skin stretch into lines when she exerted force, and also seeing Fang Zhishui’s not so large chest gently bounce when she sat up…
Ruan Mei felt hot all over, her mouth dry. She keenly sensed that the strawberry scent around her had intensified. She was in a difficult position and could only reluctantly turn her head away to look at the other classmates beside her.
Although Fang Zhishui made it look easy, she was the fastest one among the 12 people in Group 6.
Ruan Mei looked at others, thinking the heat in her mind would gradually subside, but instead, all her senses became focused on her buttocks.
With every up and down motion, Fang Zhishui’s calves would tense once, the force traveling from the calves and then being pressed down by Ruan Mei’s own weight. This interactive motion became even clearer after Ruan Mei looked away.
Ruan Mei, having been a sophomore in her previous life, had learned a lot of strange knowledge. At this moment, her thoughts couldn’t help but drift into the abyss:
“Going back and forth like this, and up and down… it’s a bit like that kind of below the neck exercise that’s supposed to be forbidden…”
Ruan Mei’s face exploded in red as she thought about it, and at the same time, she felt a very strange feeling of erection in a certain part of her body.
The moment this feeling appeared, Ruan Mei felt as if she had been struck by lightning, and all those fanciful thoughts instantly vanished!
She… she had that thing on her! That thing would react! After all, she had no experience and hadn’t thought of this possibility!
Ruan Mei immediately stood up, turned around, squatted down, and forcefully pressed down on Fang Zhishui’s legs with both hands, her facial muscles drawn tight.
Fang Zhishui was halfway through a sit-up when she saw Ruan Mei’s bright red ears and cheeks and asked strangely, “Why did you suddenly switch hands?”
Ruan Mei glanced at Fang Zhishui, her eyes containing extremely complicated emotions, and replied softly, “It’s uncomfortable for me to sit like that.”
Fang Zhishui was still being tested and couldn’t stop for too long without affecting her score. She just stared at Ruan Mei for a moment and continued the movement.
Ruan Mei felt like she was about to collapse inside. She never expected that merely concealing her identity would be this difficult! Why are there so many activities in high school that require physical contact? She just wanted to quietly be a study fanatic, so why was she constantly walking the line of exposing her identity?
Ruan Mei secretly made up her mind: After this physical fitness test is over, she would immediately go buy suppressants!
The infinitely long test finally ended. The gym teacher announced the results. In Group 6 with 12 people, Fang Zhishui did the most sit-ups in the allotted time, unsurprisingly taking first place, her score even approaching that of the first-place student in the Alpha group.
The gym teacher stared at Fang Zhishui with suspicion and asked her, “Are you sure you aren’t an Alpha who has already differentiated?”
Fang Zhishui shook her head very calmly.
Ruan Mei secretly glanced at her expression. Seeing Fang Zhishui look over at her strangely, she immediately looked away again, pretending to look at the scenery.
The gym teacher was still uneasy, so she directly took Fang Zhishui to the school clinic for an examination. Ruan Mei desperately wanted to follow but had no reason to, so she could only return to the classroom with the main group.
Fang Zhishui returned not long after. Although everyone was very curious about the medical examination results, not a single person dared to ask. Nothing could be discerned from her expressionless face either.
Ruan Mei was extremely curious, but several days later, when the fitness test scores were released as scheduled, she saw that Fang Zhishui’s score had not been invalidated, and she immediately understood that the medical checkup had not revealed anything unusual Fang Zhishui indeed had not differentiated at that time.
Ruan Mei did not have a mobile phone and was not very familiar with the ABO related settings of this world. After much thought, she went to ask the little hoodlum Qiang Kai in the front row: “Is there any way for someone who has already differentiated to pass the school’s physical examination?”
Qiang Kai squinted at her and said, “What, you differentiated? Finally turned into a useless Omega?”
Ruan Mei was prepared for this: “If you tell me, I’ll write one subject’s homework for you this week. You pick which one.”
Qiang Kai immediately leaned in and whispered, “Use a good quality suppressant, and the school’s routine check-up won’t detect it a special examination would be needed. But this is useless for female Alphas, because female Alphas grow that thing, and others will see it immediately. So, the suppressant method is basically only useful for Omegas. Only Omegas need to hide their sex; we Alphas are proud; no one would use suppressants!”
Ruan Mei agreed to Qiang Kai’s request to write his math homework and spent the class deep in thought about his words.
Could Fang Zhishui possibly have used a suppressant to evade the school’s routine check-up?
And she herself… it seemed she needed to put getting suppressants on the agenda. While they wouldn’t help pass the physical exam, they could at least keep her pheromone free and reduce a lot of attention.
Ruan Mei let out a long sigh, glanced at Fang Zhishui, and then recalled that strange sensation during the fitness test. Her cheeks slowly turned red.
After she looked away, Fang Zhishui looked in her direction, watched her quietly for a while, then turned her head away, a faint, imperceptible smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.