Chapter 5: Her Lover, the Deceiver

Under Jia Hua’s gaze, intensely eager to explore physiological knowledge, Zhen Yan abruptly stood up and deliberately lowered her voice: “Search the internet yourself!” After saying this, she glanced at Jia Hua and promptly rushed out of the classroom.

“Sister Yan, class is about to start, where are you going?” Zhang Juan, coming in from outside, ran right into Zhen Yan and asked curiously.

Zhen Yan flashed past her without even looking at her directly.

Zhang Juan was stunned for a moment, then jogged to the back row, right at Zhen Yan’s desk. She rapped her book against the desk to get the attention of Jia Hua, who was sitting by the wall inside. “Hey, Jia Hua, do you know where Sister Yan went? Class is starting soon, and it’s Teacher Li’s class. She really hates students being late.”

Jia Hua rested her chin on one hand. At the question, she raised her eyes to look at Zhang Juan, her expression placid. “So what?”

Jia Hua’s three words, neither light nor heavy, landed heavily on Zhang Juan’s heart.

Zhang Juan swallowed and her voice came out somewhat stammering: “It’s nothing… just that Zhen Yan has never been late to Teacher Li’s class before, so I’m a bit… curious.”

She never knew she could stammer like this. She chalked it up to disliking Jia Hua, not wanting to face her. So she quickly added, “Class is about to start, I’ll head back to my seat first.” With that, she immediately scurried back to her own seat and began drinking water furiously.

Her deskmate, seeing this, teased: “Why so panicked? Scared of something? What, is a ghost chasing you?”

After speaking, her deskmate even crossed her arms over her chest, fully expecting Zhang Juan to retaliate physically. But instead, she saw Zhang Juan meet her gaze and ask seriously, “Did I look panicked just now? Really scared?”

Her deskmate thought carefully and nodded seriously: “The moment you came back to your seat, your whole demeanor was panicked, like you were being chased by a ghost.” Then, afraid of sounding too absolute and offending her, added, “But actually, it wasn’t that bad.”

At the same time, the class bell rang. Teacher Li walked in steadily through the front door of the classroom and stepped onto the podium.

“Stand up!” the Class Monitor called out, rising.

The whole class stood and bowed: “Good morning, teacher…”

Teacher Li nodded sternly: “Be seated.”

As the whole class sat down, Zhang Juan, sitting in the middle section of the second large group, turned her head to look at the seats belonging to Zhen Yan and Jia Hua in the back row of the fourth large group. To her surprise, both seats were empty.

Not only hadn’t Zhen Yan come back, but Jia Hua was also gone!

And at this moment, Jia Hua was already on her way to the restroom.

Come to think of it, Zhen Yan had most likely run off because of her. So Jia Hua decided to personally go find her and bring her back to class, figuring that if the kid got punished by the teacher, who knew if she’d get mad at her again.

In Jia Hua’s perception, the only place a student could go between classes was the restroom. Following the original owner’s memory to the student restrooms near the sports field, she stopped.

Seriously looking at the seven doors before her, Jia Hua’s large eyes held immense astonishment.

Impressive. Actually, seven categories of restrooms were provided: six genders plus a disabled-accessible restroom.

Jia Hua sat on the long wooden bench outside the restroom. She had intended to initiate a voice call but accidentally pressed the video call button. Just as she was about to hang up and redial, she saw Zhen Yan pick up on the other end. All Jia Hua caught was Zhen Yan’s flushed face and flustered eyes before the video call was disconnected.

Jia Hua: ? Trouble?

Jia Hua frowned, stood up, and strode into the Female Alpha restroom. Just as she reached the sink area, a Female Alpha who was looking in the mirror noticed Jia Hua’s face.

“Jia Hua?!! Y-you, how did you just walk in here?! This is the Female Alpha restroom!” The Female Alpha was clearly seeing a Female Omega barge straight into the Female Alpha restroom for the first time and was very shocked.

Jia Hua glanced at her and was about to ask a question when she saw Zhen Yan walk out from the very last stall. Zhen Yan walked quickly over to wash her hands at the sink.

“What are you doing?” Zhen Yan asked while washing her hands.

Jia Hua, standing to the side, shrugged: “Looking for you.”

As the two were chatting, the Female Alpha next to them couldn’t take it anymore.

“Sister Yan, please, quickly take your girlfriend out of here. This is the Female Alpha restroom. Isn’t it not quite right for her to be here?”

Jia Hua was about to explain to her: “I’m not her girl—”

But Zhen Yan seemed to recover at that moment and immediately spoke up: “Sorry, I forgot. I’ll take her out right now.” As she said this, she grabbed Jia Hua’s wrist and pulled her out of the Female Alpha restroom.

Once outside, Zhen Yan finally released her grip, shoved her hands in her pockets, and looked straight ahead as she walked towards the teaching building: “Why did you come looking for me?”

An icy cool hand suddenly pressed against Zhen Yan’s forehead. Zhen Yan hastily stepped back. “What are you doing?”

Jia Hua withdrew her hand that was still hovering in the air and frowned, taking a step closer to Zhen Yan. She asked, “Do you have a fever?”

“Fever?” Zhen Yan touched her own forehead with the back of her own hand. “Not hot, I don’t have one.”

Jia Hua looked at the person opposite her, whose face was completely red. She didn’t argue but just pulled a small mirror from her pocket and handed it to Zhen Yan. “See for yourself.”

Zhen Yan took the mirror skeptically, opened it, and took a look. After seeing, she closed her mouth tightly, silently closing the small mirror, and handed it back to Jia Hua.

This time, it was Jia Hua taking the lead. “Let’s go.”

Zhen Yan followed behind, asking, “Where to?”

Jia Hua slowed her pace to walk side-by-side with Zhen Yan: “The Infirmary. Anyway, we’re already late. Isn’t having a sick note better than being directly marked as truant? We can just say you were feeling unwell and I came along with you. Wouldn’t that clear both of us?”

Zhen Yan: “…”

So all you care about is getting a sick note.

The two walked to the Infirmary. Jia Hua pushed the door open and walked in. Zhen Yan slowly followed behind, somewhat reluctant to enter.

She felt… this heat she was experiencing was a bit strange. It didn’t seem like a fever, but she couldn’t quite put her finger on it…

The school nurse was currently watching a tragic movie, her eyes red from crying, her nose sniffling. The trash bin was full of tissues she’d used to wipe her tears.

Seeing them enter, the nurse reluctantly turned off the show, used a tissue to wipe her tears and nose, then cleared her throat twice before looking towards Zhen Yan, who was standing behind Jia Hua.

“Student Zhen Yan, come to the front.”

Jia Hua raised an eyebrow, stepped aside, and let Zhen Yan behind her sit in the chair before the consultation desk, while she herself sat on a sofa off to the side, listening to their exchange.

Nurse: The one in the back, with her face so red… I’d have to be blind not to notice.

Nurse: “Name, age, class.”

Zhen Yan: “Zhen Yan, seventeen, Senior 3 Class 1.”

The nurse carefully examined Zhen Yan’s face. Without asking anything further, she stood up and led Zhen Yan to the adjacent examination room for a physical check-up.

The two came out quickly. The nurse sat before the computer, wearing glasses, typing on the keyboard with a solemn expression, not saying a word. Opposite her, Zhen Yan also remained silent, just sitting there with her hands clasped together in her lap, betraying her nervousness.

However, as time passed, Zhen Yan’s complexion slowly returned to normal, no longer that abnormal shade of red.

No one can face a doctor with a grim expression without the slightest bit of panic; after all, no one wants to be sick.

“Doctor, it’s not just a simple fever, is it?” Jia Hua’s voice broke the oppressive atmosphere.

The Doctor finally let go of the keyboard, looked at the computer screen for a long while, then shifted her gaze to Zhen Yan and said, “It’s not a fever.”

Zhen Yan’s brows furrowed tightly as she met the school nurse’s eyes. Unexpectedly, the nurse, who had been so stern, suddenly broke into a grin and raised her chin towards Zhen Yan.

“Student Zhen Yan, you’re about to become an adult, right?”

Zhen Yan nodded: “Next month.”

The nurse glanced back at the computer screen: “No wonder your energy is so active. It turns out you’re about to differentiate.”

“But wait, that’s still not right. Even right before differentiation, most Alphas’ and Omegas’ energy shouldn’t be this active, unless it’s… no, the contemporary human physique shouldn’t be able to produce…” The nurse’s voice trailed off, murmuring to herself.

The term “energy” in medical circles referred to the pheromones latent within underage Alphas or Omegas that hadn’t yet been activated. Adulthood was like a signal; everyone would experience differentiation only on that specific day. Only after differentiation would an adult Alpha or Omega possess their own unique pheromones.

Seeing the nurse keep murmuring to herself in front of her, Zhen Yan couldn’t help but interject: “Excuse me, does this unusually active energy inside my body pose any harm to me?”

The nurse shook her head upon hearing this: “According to the tests, the energy in your body has already calmed down. What’s strange, though, is why it started becoming active so many days earlier than expected. Did you… watch some risqué videos that stimulated it?”

The nurse’s last sentence struck Zhen Yan like thunder. She snapped back to her senses and instinctively whipped her head around to glance at Jia Hua, only to find herself meeting Jia Hua’s eyes directly.

Zhen Yan immediately turned back to the nurse and pursed her lips: “No.”

The nurse clearly didn’t believe her, but she still reached out and patted Zhen Yan’s shoulder: “I was just joking, don’t take it seriously.”

Zhen Yan had just breathed a sigh of relief when the nurse added, “Actually, it’s nothing even if you did. You’re almost an adult; it’s fine to appropriately learn about some relevant knowledge.”

Zhen Yan: “…”

The nurse winked, raising an eyebrow with a smile: “But remember to watch it secretly, oh~ And please remember, underage individuals are absolutely forbidden from engaging in sexual relations, okay~? Otherwise, it’s an electric whip reward, oh~”

When the nurse said the second “oh”, she even turned her head and glanced at Jia Hua.

The law clearly stipulated that underage persons could not engage in sexual relations. If both parties were willing, the punishment was: Alpha 40 lashes with the electric whip, Beta 30 lashes, Omega 20 lashes. If coerced, the perpetrator received 60 lashes plus prison time.

Zhen Yan: “…” Really want to tape her mouth shut.

Jia Hua: “…” What does that have to do with me?

The nurse took a bottle of medication from the medicine cabinet and gave it to Zhen Yan, instructing her to take one pill in the morning and one at night. After Zhen Yan paid with her student card, she told them they could leave.

Zhen Yan immediately stood up and started walking out. This Infirmary, she never wanted to come back to again!

But she hadn’t taken more than two steps before Jia Hua, getting up from the sofa, grabbed her.

Jia Hua pulled Zhen Yan back to the consultation desk and smiled faintly: “Sister School Nurse, because we were really worried about Zhen Yan’s health, we had to skip class to come consult you. So we need to trouble you to write a note for us. Later, we still have to give the note to the Subject Teacher. Thank you for your trouble.”

Zhen Yan heard this and slowly turned her head to look at Jia Hua, her thumb twitching faintly, an urge to give a thumbs up rising irresistibly. Absolutely speechless. Jia Hua truly never forgot her original goal.