Chapter 60p1: Online Dating a Bad Beta 13
That scent was very faint, only for a second. When she smelled it again, she could only smell the disinfectant in the operating room, mixed with a bitter medicinal smell.
At first, Xi Congshuang couldn’t tell what that smell was. Her hand loosened, and she placed the person in her arms on the bed.
“…”
It wasn’t until Tan Yicheng’s butt touched the bed that she realized what had just happened.
She had been carried to bed like a child. This had happened so suddenly and unbelievably that she didn’t come to her senses for a long time.
Tan Yicheng: “Why did you carry me to bed?”
Xi Congshuang was puzzled. “Isn’t it right to take care of a patient after surgery and help her back to her hospital bed?”
When she was hospitalized before, the nurses had all taken care of her like this. She was just learning from them.
Tan Yicheng: “…”
Sometimes she really didn’t understand if Xi Congshuang was smart or pretending to be stupid. After looking at Xi Congshuang for a long time, she found that she really thought so, and was speechless.
She had never heard of anyone needing to be carried back to their hospital bed after surgery. Out of a hundred patients after surgery, 98 could lie back on their own. One was unconscious, and the other was her, Tan Yicheng.
Seeing Tan Yicheng’s reaction, Xi Congshuang knew that she had made another common sense mistake in the interstellar era.
It seemed that the medical level in the interstellar era was a hundred times more developed than she had imagined. She suddenly felt a little envious of such a living environment.
Xi Congshuang said, “You should rest well. I’ll go out first.”
“Xi Congshuang.” The person on the bed suddenly called out to her. Xi Congshuang stopped and looked back.
Tan Yicheng did not look this way, but at the window. She was like a caged bird that was injured, always longing for the freedom outside the cage.
It wasn’t that the cage prepared was not exquisite and gorgeous, the bird’s nest not soft enough, or the care not meticulous enough, but that no bird would ever like a cage.
It was time to make a decision.
Tan Yicheng said, “After I recover, we’ll be even. I won’t take revenge on you.”
Whether it was a dual personality or something else, she didn’t want to be entangled in that kind of life anymore. It would only be detrimental to her future.
Xi Congshuang was stunned and stood at the door in a daze.
She still remembered the strong killing intent that night, the look of wanting to get rid of her. She had not expected her to let go so quickly.
She wanted to say that being soft-hearted was not a good thing, and she also wanted to say other things, but in the end, she said nothing.
She opened the door and returned to her own room. Xi Congshuang was still thinking about the smell she had just smelled.
After a long while, the person sitting on the sofa picked up the hair hanging in front of her chest and sniffed it.
She remembered. It was the smell of citrus.
She had not expected Tan Yicheng to be an alpha with a citrus-scented pheromone, sour and sweet.
***
The two-month recovery period was not over. Only a month after the surgery, the restless Tan Yicheng chose to return to school.
After a follow-up visit, Professor Wei Lin agreed to her request and let her return to school, but she had to have regular check-ups and continue to take medicine during the check-ups.
Tan Yicheng agreed to all the conditions. As long as she could go back to school, she would do anything.
Things were always precious in comparison. The red apple only felt that the more Tan Yicheng followed the doctor’s advice, the more Xi Congshuang seemed to avoid medical treatment.
As for repeating the same mistake, from the current situation, there was no such possibility yet.
The rumors about the two of them were rampant in the world. The nurses, who only believed in their salaries and not in love, were almost shipping this couple. They believed in love in their spare time to spice up their work and life.
In the nurses’ mouths, Xi Congshuang and Tan Yicheng were just a proposal away from getting married, but the couple themselves were still in a state of mutual resentment.
The possibility of sparks flying was minimal, and getting married was even more difficult than climbing to the sky.
Even if there was, it, a little apple, couldn’t stop it. Who was it but a little apple, TvT.
It had tried. Xi Congshuang was a stubborn person. The more you persuaded her, the more she got into it, and then she would sing “I will love you even if I die” and her mental state would become human-like again.
Now it could only pray that Xi Congshuang’s taste would be consistent from beginning to end, always dedicated, and at the same time, pray for the mission to be completed as soon as possible.
After thinking for a moment, the red apple said to Xi Congshuang, “You can be unscrupulous for the sake of the mission.”
Xi Congshuang was thoughtful. “Is that so?”
The red apple: “Yes, yes.” Hold high the banner of everything for the mission!
Xi Congshuang nodded. “That’s good.”
***
Tan Yicheng was indeed anxious about returning to school. She had thought that if she waited until she had recovered from her injuries to enroll, she would not be able to catch up with accumulating credits for promotion.
The First Academy adopted a credit system for graduation. If you didn’t have enough credits, you couldn’t graduate. There were many seniors who couldn’t graduate every year.
It was said that the five years in the mecha department were the longest ten years of one’s life.
Every year, credits were also included in the assessment criteria for promotion, and the credits she had accumulated before were not enough for promotion.
Now, if she returned to school, she could still catch up with the next batch of students. If she missed the various theoretical exams at the beginning of the school year, she would have to wait for the next academic year. At that time, it would be a long time before she could graduate.
Continuing to stay in the hospital and waste time was really a waste, so she thought of returning to school as soon as possible.
In the end, she did get her wish and returned to school.
At first, she was not used to the lively campus life. She was overly concerned about the gland on the back of her neck. When she raised her hand to touch it, she would touch the suppression patch prescribed by the hospital.
A smooth touch came from the back of her neck. The suppression patch had a medicinal component, and she could always smell a faint, elusive medicinal smell.
Although it was like a shackle, Tan Yicheng felt at ease because of it. She cherished this hard-won opportunity to return to school.
To be able to walk openly in the school, to walk freely in crowded places without being stimulated by the residual pheromones in the air, which would cause the gland on the back of her neck to ache and lose her reason.
The side effects of a damaged gland were never as simple as being unable to mark. Being unable to mark was just the lightest side effect. In addition, there was the inability to control the leakage of one’s own pheromones.
Furthermore, the excruciating pain of the gland was no less than having countless people cut the back of one’s neck with a blunt knife. No one could maintain their reason in this kind of pain.
If she hadn’t stopped that night and had really killed that person, she wouldn’t have been able to stand here and see the sun.
Xi Congshuang would never know that before the night Tan Yicheng had made up her mind to find her, she had experienced a night of torment.
With the thought that she couldn’t let the other party off so easily, she had brought a knife and had come to the address she had long since memorized.
Then she had seen a completely unexpected Xi Congshuang…
“Tsk, why am I thinking of her again? What does the second personality have to do with me?” Tan Yicheng said with annoyance.
Recently, she had been thinking of Xi Congshuang a lot. During that time in the hospital, she had gotten too used to the other’s presence. After returning to her original life, she felt unaccustomed.
They were already even. There would be no more chances to meet in the future. From now on, they would go their separate ways.
“What’s the relationship, senior sister?” A clear voice came from behind, and someone walked to her side.
Another person’s voice came from the other side. “We agreed to go and eat together after the mechanism exam. Senior sister, you didn’t wait for us again.”
Tan Yicheng had just finished her mecha theory exam. She had only taken a few steps when she was flanked by two classmates.
In Tan Yicheng’s eyes, being classmates with an alpha who was a year younger was no different from her previous classmates, but she had not expected that the alphas who were a year younger were much more enthusiastic than her classmates.
Every day, they would circle around her, calling her “senior sister” this and “senior sister” that, which gave Tan Yicheng a headache.
They even said that the two of them had watched her competition and had been so impressed by her heroic posture of piloting a mecha that their scalps had tingled, and they admired her very much. Tan Yicheng had taken it all as polite words and had not taken it seriously.
After all, her former classmate, who had been on good terms with her, had told her that she would have her family admit their mistake and that a talent like her should not be buried, but then she had had her sister pretend to have amnesia and had bought a boat ticket to escape.
Xiang Wei looked at the smart device in her hand. “It’s still early. Let’s go and eat, senior sister.”
The other person was still concerned about what she had just heard. Qi Qianqian: “Senior sister, what did you say your relationship with whom was?”
Tan Yicheng: “…”
These two were also big-hearted. They didn’t feel at all that they had been deliberately left behind by Tan Yicheng and still warmly invited her.
Xiang Wei: “The big chicken legs are going to be gone. Are we still going to eat?”
Qi Qianqian: “Why is senior sister’s expression so strange? Could it be your ex-girlfriend?”
Tan Yicheng finally stopped, looked to her right, and pointed to her own face. “Is my expression so easy to read?”
Why does everyone say my expression is strange?
Qi Qianqian pondered, “Hmm… how should I put it?”
Xiang Wei, who was concerned about the big chicken legs, quickly said, “Senior sister, don’t mind her. Qianzi’s alpha mother is a psychologist. Her first reading book was her mother’s brick-thick professional book. It’s a family tradition. She’s better at micro-expressions. If you mind her, you’ll fall into a trap.”
She added, “So are we going to eat chicken legs?”
Qi Qianqian said embarrassedly, “Oh, don’t expose me.”
Tan Yicheng: “.” I was tricked.
There was one thing she couldn’t figure out. It was fine if Qi Qianqian had a family tradition, but what about Xi Congshuang?
Not to mention that her expression management had reached the standard of being inscrutable, at least it was not so easy for people to see through. How could she be seen through by Xi Congshuang every time?
Unable to figure it out, Tan Yicheng still took one in each hand and brought them to the cafeteria to eat big chicken legs.
These past few days had been theoretical exams. She had adapted well for the time being and did not feel that it was hard.
After getting her food, she was about to go and sit down with her classmates when she caught a glimpse of a slender figure walking past the crowd, which was very familiar.
Tan Yicheng subconsciously looked up and only saw a sea of students who were coming to eat like wolves. She did not see where that figure had gone.
I must have seen wrong.
How could Xi Congshuang be here? She should be in the company, or on some spaceship admiring the stars. In short, it has nothing to do with her.