He’s So Sweet After Class

After the two arrived home, Jiang Chenming was watched by Mo Lingqiu as he entered the room and got into bed.

Jiang Chenming had half-jokingly been saying that if Mo Lingqiu was not around, he would not be able to sleep.

Mo Lingqiu had no way to deal with how he acted.  He could only sit beside the table, reading a book as he waited for him to fall asleep.

Jiang Chenming was probably really tired. Not long after he laid on the bed, he fell asleep. Mo Lingqiu glanced at him, put down the book and quietly left the guest room.

After returning to his own room, Mo Lingqiu made a phone call to his own mother. Han Ying quickly answered.

“Son, I just finished talking to Pan Zhe’s parents.” Neither good nor bad vibes could be heard from Han Ying’s tone. “You met up with Pan Zhe already?”

“I met him this afternoon.” Mo Lingqiu told the truth.

“Did he say something to you? His parents came running to apologize to me.”

“… Oh.” Mo Lingqiu almost thought his mother was going to say that Pan Zhe’s parents had come to get even with Han Ying.

“What?” Han Ying finally laughed out loud. “You don’t believe your mother?”

“No.” Mo Lingqiu roughly described what happened in the afternoon.

As expected, the next second, Han Ying began to fire out crazily. She first said that how Pan Zhe was bad, she shouldn’t introduce him to Mo Lingqiu in the first place and so on.

Mo Lingqiu listened to her talking energetically for about ten minutes and finally stopped before saying, “Mom, I’ve already rejected him and deleted him from my friend list.”

“That’s good, there can’t be a future with him!”

“… It never started in the first place,” Mo Lingqiu corrected.

Han Ying kept nodding. “That’s right, it never started, you can’t let such a person affect your life.”

“I won’t.”

“Then date Xiao Jiang properly.”

“Okay.” Mo Lingqiu replied absent-mindedly. After he answered, he realized that something was wrong, but it was too late to change his words. His mother was laughing wildly  from the other end of the phone.

“Indeed, today Pan Zhe complained to his parents that there was a very ugly Alpha who went over to pick you up. He said that he was short and stupid looking, and claimed to be your boyfriend, saying that you had a particularly poor taste.” However, Han Ying was not unhappy when she said this.”I thought for sure it was Xiao Jiang, a tall and handsome high-grade Alpha. He’s so many times better than that Pan Zhe guy.”

Mo Lingqiu sighed. “Mom, keep your voice down. Aren’t Pan Zhe’s parents working in the same research institute as you?”

“Don’t worry, they are also educating their own son.” Han Ying glanced at Pan Zhe’s father who was scolding and swearing loudly into the phone not far away from her. She felt great. “You and Xiao Jiang date properly alright. You’ve promised me and you can’t go back on your words.”

Even if it wasn’t true, Mo Lingqiu also had no words to refute. He could only let his mother’s words go in one ear and out the other.

After that, Han Ying talked to him about some of her own experiences when she was in her own relationships, taking the matter Mo Lingqiu said as something real.

After hanging up the phone, Mo Lingqiu looked at the dimming phone screen and really began to think about the matter of dating Jiang Chenming.

It was not only once that Jiang Chenming had confessed to him, but for him, he really didn’t know what kind of feelings he had for him. Or, maybe he had been single until now, had no crush before, and had never been in love, so he had no idea what real love was like.

Mo Lingqiu looked at the snow-white wall as he went into a trance for half an hour. He then still decided to do a summary of yesterday’s work first.

After the work was all done, Mo Lingqiu sent an email to the old professor and shared the experience of the business trip with him. After that, he looked at the time. It was already five o’clock.

When he came out of the room, he saw that Jiang Chenming’s room door was closed. The person inside must still be sleeping. Mo Lingqiu didn’t go and wake him up. Instead, he went into the kitchen, washed and cut the vegetables that were bought before, and set up the induction cooker on the dining table to cook hot pot.

The door of the guest room clicked open. Jiang Chenming came out of the room rubbing his head and met Mo Linqiu who was carrying the ingredients back and forth. “It’s already late?”

“It’s almost six o’clock.” Mo Lingqiu said, putting the last plate filled with vegetables on the table. “Wanna eat hot pot?”

“Okay.” Jiang Chen Ming hurriedly went to the bathroom and washed up. When he re-entered the living room, the water in the induction cooker was already boiling.

Mo Lingqiu was pouring the hot pot base into it, Jiang Chenming walked over. “I’ll help you.”

“It’s okay, go get a small bowl for me.” Mo Lingqiu glanced at the table and realized he had forgotten to get the bowl of vinegar.

“You want vinegar? I’ll pour some for you,” Jiang Chenming offered. Without waiting for Mo Lingqiu’s answer, he turned around and walked towards the kitchen.

Mo Lingqiu was quite puzzled, he didn’t say anything, how did this person know that he wanted to get a small vinegar bowl?

After Jiang Chenming came out with the vinegar bowl, he helped him add the hot pot base into the pot, and added ingredients like sliced carrots to it.

When the preparations were all done, the two sat down facing each other and started to enjoy the hot pot.

Jiang Chenming ate as he stared at Mo Lingqiu. “Teacher Mo, I’m competing against the Law Department tomorrow at two o’clock in the afternoon.”

“Okay.”

“It’s held at the North field, basketball court number 3.”

“Okay.” Mo Lingqiu kept nodding his head in response.

“If you’re busy tomorrow, you don’t have to come.”

Hearing this, Mo Lingqiu looked up with some surprise. “I’m free tomorrow.”

“Then come!” Jiang Chenming got excited all of a sudden. “I’ll wait for you.”

“En.”

Jiang Chenming looked at him and added, “Teacher, do you want to spray some blocker before you come? There are more alphas in the field.”

“It should be fine.” Mo Lingqiu thought, since he was already marked, other alphas would not come near.

“Remember to tell me if you are feeling uncomfortable.” After all, the mark on Mo Lingqiu’s body was only a temporary mark left by himself. Although the temporary mark of a high-grade alpha was more effective than a normal alpha, all temporary marks would still fade over time.

“Okay.” Mo Lingqiu, as the owner of his own body, could intuitively feel that his own pheromone condition had stabilized a lot. Moreover, whenever he came into contact with other alphas recently, the repulsion was much lighter than before.

After the two people shared and ate the large meat in the pot, Mo Lingqiu remembered something and took the initiative to ask, “I don’t think I’ve seen you go back home before.”

“I live alone, my parents are not in the country.” Jiang Chenming would not go home if there was nothing special going on, and since there was someone at home to take care of things, he didn’t need to worry much.

“Oh.” Mo Lingqiu once again ran out of questions. Jiang Chenming had never spoken about what his parents did for a living, and he could only guess that they were powerful entrepreneurs.

“Teacher Mo, you’re interested in my family’s affairs?” Jiang Chenming raised the tone of the last word.

“I’m just asking.” Mo Lingqiu glanced at him and quickly lowered his head.

Jiang Chenming smiled. “Okay.  Next time, when you’re free, I’ll take you to my home.”

“Huh?” Mo Lingqiu didn’t understand.

“Although there’s nothing to see inside the house, you can still stroll in the garden outside,” Jiang Chenming considered . “We can build a table to cook hot pot in the garden then, and there is also a barbecue rack in the garden. Everything still works.”

“… Okay.” Mo Lingqiu’s heart pounded as he heard about it. Outdoor hot pot and barbecue sounded rather attractive to him.

When Jiang Chenming saw Mo Lingqiu agreeing to it, he felt even happier. He then fished out the fatty beef from the pot and placed it into Mo Lingqiu’s bowl. “Teacher Mo, eat more.”

Mo Lingqiu didn’t know why this person’s mood turned good again, but since he had meat to eat, he naturally wouldn’t refuse it.

The next day at noon, Mo Lingqiu finished his lunch early at the cafeteria of the North Campus. He walked to the North Campus while thinking if he should bring something over.

When he thought of the basketball match, Mo Lingqiu turned around and went to the mini mart, where he bought two bottles of mineral water.

Carrying two bottles of mineral water, Mo Lingqiu walked unhurriedly to the basketball court of the North Campus nearby. He came to pick up Jiang Chenming several times before, so he knew roughly where it was.

However, the situation on the basketball court still managed to shock Mo Linqiu. He never thought that several basketball courts could be filled with so many people when it was just an inter-school basketball game. There were people standing outside of the court, coaches instructing inside the court, and of course there were also team members who were training.

“Jiang Chenming, lead everyone to run five more laps.”

Soon, Mo Lingqiu noticed the court where Jiang Chenming was at. However, the crowd around Court Three was surprisingly large. He could not squeeze in at that moment, only hearing Jiang Chenming sounding off  a responding ‘yes’ in the court.

Mo Lingqiu was not someone who liked to rush, so he simply stood at the outside of the crowd that he couldn’t squeeze in to and fell into a daze.

The coach asked Jiang Chenming to lead the group to run five more laps around the court in order to warm-up as preparation before the start of the match.

Jiang Chenming took the lead and led the team from the centre of the court. When he reached the edge of the fence, his footsteps paused for a moment. He sensed Mo Lingqiu’s pheromone, but in order to not disrupt the rhythm of the training, Jiang Chenming acted as if nothing had happened and continued running.

When they finished the five laps, Jiang Chenming broke away from the group and trotted to the coach. “Coach, I’m going out to bring someone in.”

“Okay.” The coach was unsure about what was happening and just assumed his friend had come to see the game. Since there were ten bench seats in the basketball court, there were still places available to sit so even if he brought someone in, no harm was done.

After Jiang Chenming got permission, he ran towards the direction where Mo Lingqiu was.

The students who were watching froze. They had no idea what was happening at that moment. Some of the more sensitive students realized that something was wrong and turned their heads to take a look. As expected, Mo Lingqiu was standing there, not moving.

Jiang Chenming walked out through the door, went through the heavy crowd, and stood in front of Mo Lingqiu. “Teacher Mo, you’re here.”

“You… aren’t you training?” Mo Lingqiu froze for a moment and slowly came back to his senses.

“But Teacher, you are here, so I came to pick you up.” Jiang Chenming’s face was all smiles.

Mo Lingqiu heard his straightforward words, and then looked at the surrounding people,  envious, jealous or just busy bodying, and his face turned slightly red.

“Let’s go,” Jiang Chenming said as he brought him into the court.

Mo Lingqiu looked at the surrounding people and asked, “I can go in?”

“Yes, there are three empty seats on our bench.” Jiang Chenming was afraid that Mo Lingqiu would be too embarrassed to enter, so he pulled him over and brought him into the court.

As expected, just as Jiang Chenming said, there were three empty seats on the bench next to the court. He took Mo Lingqiu to one of them and sat down, he then brought him something to eat.

When the players of the same team saw them, they laughed and whistled while boldly joked with Jiang Chenming.

“Teacher, sit here, I’ll continue training.” Jiang Chenming helplessly glanced at the group of whistling people and spoke to Mo Lingqiu as if in reassurance.

“En.” Mo Lingqiu naturally knew what these people were mocking about, but the purpose of him coming was because he had promised Jiang Chenming to watch the basketball game, and because he wanted to make sure of one thing.

If these people’s mocking could play a definite role, it might not be a bad thing.