Don’t Wait for Your Boyfriend in the Crematorium

 

The date at the zoo was a great success.

 

Because the weather was too hot, Ren Shuhan bought a hairband with a furry ball attached to it and tied Jiang Qingyue’s hair into a short ponytail. Perhaps influenced by being a second gender, he didn’t resist the small accessory typically used by girls this time. He sat still while waiting for Ren Shuhan to comb his hair.

 

His previous cute reaction of getting angry but obedient was adorable, and now he was equally adorable being obedient without any self-awareness.

 

When they passed by the aquarium’s performance hall, Jiang Qingyue didn’t want to go in, but Ren Shuhan bought two tins of ice cream, and he happened to win a free couple ticket for the show, so they ended up watching the dolphin show inside.

 

Jiang Qingyue sat in the front row, and there was one dolphin that didn’t cooperate well and wanted to play with him. Jiang Qingyue even touched the dolphin’s snout and whispered, “When I make money in the future, I’ll buy you and set you free.”

 

It was exactly the same as what he said to a young foal at the racecourse when he was a child. Ren Shuhan couldn’t help but suppress his laughter and secretly made a promise to him: Yes, when I make money in the future, I’ll buy entire aquariums for you.

 

After the date, they went to the bookstore again and bought more study materials.

 

Ren Shuhan noticed that when he was picking stationery, Jiang Qingyue instinctively chose the cheapest ones. Ren Shuhan felt heartbroken but couldn’t say it out loud.

 

His baby still didn’t have a sense of security.

 

On the way back, Ren Shuhan took the initiative to hold his hand, and he didn’t refuse him.

 

His hand was two sizes smaller than his own, but it was actually quite strong. However, it felt soft when held in his palm. Ren Shuhan held it tightly and speculated that perhaps only time could soothe his uneasiness. After all, the thing they lacked the most in their relationship compared to the previous world was companionship.

 

They spent their days studying and doing exercises, occasionally going on dates on weekends. Two weeks passed quickly, and the autumn sports meet at Yi High School was about to begin.

 

In the original work, Yi High School and Shiyan High shared the same sports facility for the sports meet because the two schools were close to each other and had always been the most competitive schools in the district. Whenever there was a chance for comparison, they would compete, so it was normal to hold the sports meetings together, even if he was shielded from the protagonist’s halo.

 

As a transfer student, Ren Shuhan was no longer a member of the Physical Education Committee, but the sports committee strongly requested him to fill all the slots to bring glory to the school.

 

However, in this kind of athletic competition between two prestigious high schools, which Ren Shuhan, who had been scouted by a sports school, saw as chickens pecking each other, he didn’t care.

 

“Just put me in whatever activity.”

 

Ren Shuhan didn’t really mind, but suddenly he remembered something from the original work. He and Song Xici seemed to meet at some point, but he hadn’t paid close attention and couldn’t recall which event it was.

 

“Wait,” he added, “Don’t put me up for track and swimming, anything else is fine.”

 

Whether it was the 400m or 800m, he would be done if they put him up for any of these.

 

“Oh,” the Physical Education Committee sighed, “I wanted you to run the last part of the relay!”

 

Each person could only participate in four events, but the relay didn’t count, so to fill all the slots, they couldn’t just avoid the track race. However, Ren Shuhan firmly refused to budge.

 

Jiang Qingyue volunteered: “I can run in the relay. I can run pretty fast.”

 

The Physical Education Committee said, “…Class flower, let’s be serious and not joke around.”

 

At the sports meet, Omegas were usually in charge of distributing water, cheerleading was allowed, and obstacle races were fine too, but competitive events were a no-go. Since it didn’t distinguish between first and second genders but only second genders compete separately from Alphas and Betas, they couldn’t fill the quota for the basic events, and no one cared.

 

The relay was a class event that didn’t separate by gender. In theory, Omegas could participate, but no one would do that for the sake of rankings.

 

“I really can,” Jiang Qingyue insisted, “Let’s practice and try it out. I won’t slow down anyone.”

 

Ren Shuhan was a bit puzzled. In the previous world, Qingyue had an average physique because he was too focused on studying and lacked exercise. He was far behind Ren Shuhan, unless his physical condition suddenly improved like him.

 

The Physical Education Committee reluctantly agreed, thinking of it as accompanying him in playing around. As a result, after the practice, they put him in the fourth part of the relay, and they also registered him for the 400m and 800m relays. They even wanted to register him for other track events in the Omega category.

 

“Enough,” Ren Shuhan quickly stopped them, “Jiang Qingyue will only run these two events.”

 

“Shuhan, you’re not only unwilling to cooperate, but you’re also obstructing other outstanding students,” the Physical Education Committee felt exhausted, “What’s your grudge against this activity?”

 

? Are you teaching me how to do things?

 

It seemed that it was time to establish a new reputation of the class tyrant.

 

In the end, under Ren Shuhan’s threats, the Physical Education Committee only registered Jiang Qingyue for the relay and track events. Jiang Qingyue didn’t care much about what events he had to participate in. Although his physique wasn’t like an Omega, he had a typical Omega mindset and just wanted to watch Ren Shuhan’s competitions.

 

He was looking forward to it.

 

However, right after the sports meeting started, he was targeted by someone.

 

During warm-up, Ren Shuhan was secretly called out by the Publicity Committee member who showed him a small note.

 

It was a cheer message submitted to the radio broadcast club. Each class submitted many of them, including messages to support their own school and class, messages for secret crushes, and even messages related to specific sports, which would be read by the announcers and broadcasted throughout the school.

 

But the contents of this note were filled with malicious intent, wishing “Jiang Qingyue’s parents, a student from Class 1 of Year 1 at Yi High School, the best of health in prison.”

 

“The person in charge of reviewing the messages didn’t tell anyone else, just me,” the broadcast committee member told Ren Shuhan. “Don’t tell Qingyue either, okay?”

 

“Hmm,” Ren Shuhan took the note, his face turning dark. “Thanks.”

 

“He said it seemed to be a submission sent from the Experimental school,” the broadcast Committee member patted his shoulder cautiously. “Let’s not make a big fuss about it.”

 

Ren Shuhan nodded and walked away: “Tell Qingyue that I’m going to do the long jump event first.”

 

In reality, he went straight to the stands of the Experimental Class and called Song Xici out, showing him the note.

 

“I warned you last time,” Ren Shuhan licked his fangs out of habit and flexed his fingers. “You should have anticipated the consequences, right?”

 

The students from the Experimental Class were all in panic. They thought Shuhan was coming back for revenge, but their class’s fate still relied on Song Xici. If he were to be mercilessly beaten by Brother Han again, and the teacher found out, both of them might have their qualifications for the competition revoked.

 

“This isn’t my handwriting,” Song Xici calmly responded, as he had already prepared his answer. “If I’m not mistaken, it should be Chu Lu’s from Class 12. He’s also an Omega and has a crush on you.”

 

Ren Shuhan took back the note: “I misjudged you. Thanks.”

 

Song Xici shrugged and returned to his class.

 

In fact, as long as Ren Shuhan came to his class to confront him, he achieved his goal. Now, in the eyes of their classmates, he and Ren Shuhan were quite familiar.

 

According to the original plan, the school forum should have already had many people discussing the CP concerning him and Ren Shuhan, but there was none. So, in the past few days, he deliberately posted a few anonymous threads discussing “Brother Han and Brother Ci being a good match.” However, no one replied except for a few scattered comments:

 

“You have too much free time.”

 

“Why talk about classmates when there are celebrity CPs to fangirl over?”

 

“I know Brother Han, but who is Brother Ci?”

 

“Brother Ci is Song Xici, the one who ranked first in Class 2 last time. He’s a Beta. It’s over.”

 

Song Xici: “…Shit, fangirl over me!”

 

Previously, when he used his transcript to mock Song Xiyue on the forum, there were still many people discussing it!

 

But forget it, this plot could wait.

 

Today, when Chu Lu would be confronted by Ren Shuhan like this, he would feel wronged. He would definitely tell Ren Shuhan about Song Xiyue’s dark history. As someone who talked behind people’s backs, regardless of whether what he said was true or not, Ren Shuhan would dislike him and probably dislike Song Xiyue as well. Then, Ren Shuhan would pay more attention to him instead. Would there still be so few people shipping their CP?

 

Chu Lu was really something. As a malicious supporting character, why didn’t he do his part as a villain?

 

It had been several days since Song Xici had hinted at him this at the dance, but he still hadn’t made his move. Song Xici suspected that his brain wasn’t working well, so he had to send the note himself today. He had to use his own system’s feature to imitate his handwriting and prepare this note.

 

However, he didn’t expect that when Ren Shuhan went to confront Chu Lu, Chu Lu would be shocked.

 

“What?” He asked, “Song Xiyue’s parents are in prison? I thought the Song Family didn’t report the case.”

 

Ren Shuhan didn’t feel like he was pretending.

 

“It’s no wonder.” Chu Lu said with disdain. “Before Song Xiyue came, I used to get good grades and people were nicer to me. I guess it’s like father, like son.”

 

Ren Shuhan crumpled the note and stepped forward, saying, “It doesn’t matter what you think. Don’t tell anyone about this and I’ll owe you one.”

 

“I won’t say anything.” Chu Lu just stared at him before asking,” But is it necessary for your to care so much about his business?”

 

Ren Shuhan said frankly: “I like him, no matter what others think.”

 

“What’s so good about him?” He said with clenched teeth. “How can he compare with me? You know that he is such a person, yet you still like him? You don’t like me at all, are you blind?”

 

“Just don’t say anything about this all. I know better about the two of us, and I don’t need your judgment.” Ren Shuhan didn’t want to waste any more time with him, so he ended up leaving after this.

 

It was hard to determine who did it, but for Ren Shuhan, there was no need to hurry. After waiting for another two weeks, and once the system update was complete, none of this would be hard anymore.

What mattered now was to protect Jiang Qingyue.

 

When he returned to the classroom, he found Jiang Qingyue sitting in the middle of a pile of snacks, and the Broadcast Committee member was looking at him with a fond expression, like he was a pitiful little thing, and he continuously fed him.

 

“…” There are still good people, Ren Shuhan decided not to dwell on it and went straight to report for the track and field events.

 

As he turned around, Chu Lu came to Yi High School, poking his head around, looking for Jiang Qingyue.

 

“What’s going on?” Jiang Qingyue obliged and took him to a secluded place, asking, “Sorry, I’ve been having memory loss recently. Did I know you before?”

 

He seemed vaguely familiar.

 

Chu Lu stared at him in surprise, observing him from head to toe, and said hesitantly, “Do you remember Song Xici? Your younger brother.”

 

“I know him,” Jiang Qingyue responded warily. “Does he want to see me?”

 

Chu Lu shook his head: “He wants to pursue Ren Shuhan. I came here secretly to warn you. Don’t get too complacent. Keep an eye on your man!”

 

If he could prevent Song Xici from succeeding while also tightly controlling Ren Shuhan, which would lead to Ren Shuhan’s aversion1Basically, he wants Jiang Qingyue to be too jealous and controlling of Ren Shuhan, which would disgust him. At the same time, that’d also stop Ren Shuhan from getting together with Song Xici, and that’d leave the field open for Chu Lu, Chu Lu thought, wouldn’t that be a benefit for him?

 

 

Oh, we’re getting another interference! (*μ_μ) They’re obviously not going to be able to get to Ren Shuhan, but who knows what’ll happen with Jiang Qingyue

 

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1Basically, he wants Jiang Qingyue to be too jealous and controlling of Ren Shuhan, which would disgust him. At the same time, that’d also stop Ren Shuhan from getting together with Song Xici, and that’d leave the field open for Chu Lu