Ch89 - It’s Not Really That Ugly, Is It?

Translator: Mogumoguchan

Editor: Sarcasm 

After working hard, Yan Qiu slept like the dead. 

Next morning, on waking up in Ji Xinglan’s arms, he looked at the clock. It was just seven, so he leaned back against Ji Xinglan. 

 

 

While he slept, Yan Qiu sneakily kissed his eyes. Pretending like nothing happened, he then sat up to get dressed. 

He had just lopped the sweater over his head and had not even had the time to pull it over his head yet, when he sneezed.  

Ji Xinglan immediately opened his eyes and pulled the blanket over Yan Qiu. “Are you feeling sick?”

 

He had just woken up so Yan Qiu’s voice was still nasally. “No.”

But he still pulled the sweater over himself quickly. Then wore another one over it. 

If he did not wear thick layers he might really end up getting sick. 

 

When Yan Qiu went down to the dining room, he found that Mrs. Ji seemed to have left last night. 

Ji Xinglan  had told him yesterday that this was the Ji family’s mansion. After his parents divorce; his father shifted to City A (Asleah, alternative. I’m not actually fond of it when authors decide to just call places City A, but thought I should discuss with you first. Once you choose one, just tell me on discord), and his mother resolutely moved out. She didn’t even stay overnight. 

But Ji Xinglan had grown up in this place, so he refused to move out. Resigned, Mrs. Ji could only have the butler stay here with him. 

 

After breakfast, Ji Xinglan took Yan Qiu’s temperature. Finding nothing wrong, he gently brushed the fringe aside and asked him to lay in bed, while he made him ginger tea.  

The moment Ji Xinglan went out, closing the door behind him, Yan Qiu, cocooned in the blanket, reached out arduously to look for his terminal. Finding it on his bedside table, he picked it up.

He woke up early today because he had been thinking about something. 

He had seen a military hiring notice on the school website two days ago. 

The online registration for the same was to start at 8 AM today. Yan Qiu wanted to apply, so he waited until it was time to log into the school website and read through the hiring requirements.  

This was not the first time Yan Qiu had thought about their future. 

They might end up holding each other’s hands while the priest bore witness and everyone cheered for them. Then, they would live the rest of their lives together. 

Ji Xinglan was the ace student of the military school. With his results, after he graduated, there was no doubt that he would enter the allied forces to work. If he did well, he might even take over his father’s position. 

But if he did that, he would end up walking down the same path as Ji Xinglan’s parents. Both of them seldom met each other because of Ji Nai’s job. Overtime, their passion as well as feelings for each other faded away. In the end, they split up.  

Even though he knew that Ji Xinglan’s feelings for him would not erode, he knew that he could not be so selfish and use love to stop Ji Xinglan from having a bright future. Yan Qiu felt anxious. 

Based on his current state and with how much Ji Xinglan liked him, he would definitely make all the arrangements for him. Mrs. Ji had also mentioned multiple times that Yan Qiu could go and help her in her company in the future. If he did not want to, he could also simply stay at home. 

 

But Yan Qiu was an alpha at heart, and someone who valued his pride a lot. He might be dating Ji Xinglan, but he did not want to leech off the other person. 

Why should he wait at home for Ji Xinglan? He was not a cat.  

Yan Qiu did not want to become an omega behind his alpha. He wanted to stand together with Ji Xinglan. 

Working in the allied forces was a dream of all young and talented alphas. It had also been Yan Qiu’s dream originally. He had taken the military school test in the past for this, but unfortunately, he failed. 

Yan Qiu stopped thinking about that. He carefully read through the hiring requirements and downloaded the registration form. 

Once he excluded the positions he could not apply for, he found a civil post that had no restriction to a person’s secondary gender, but, an A+ in all subjects on graduation, and an interview score of 85 and above, was a must.  

This was his only chance to get into the allied forces to work. 

Since there were practically no requirements for any physical abilities and gender when it came to the civil post, Yan Qiu could take it. The biggest problem was his results. 

All A+s?

They might as well test his physical abilities.  

Yan Qiu thought about this while staring at the white walls. Scoring A+ in all subjects was really difficult. He was not a brilliant student after all. 

So he wondered whether he should tell Ji Xinglan that he had registered. If he did not manage to get in, it would be really embarrassing. 

But if…if he really managed to get in, he would be able to achieve his dream and he could work together with Ji Xinglan. 

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“What are you doing?” Placing the cup on the bedside table he asked, “Are you having midterms?” 

“No.” Yan Qiu put down the contemporary history book as he felt dizzy. Countless people’s names danced in front of him. 

He shook his head as Ji Xinglan tucked his hands under the blanket and fed him ginger tea. Yan Qiu’s icy fingers finally had some heat in them and his eyes became clearer as well. 

 

When Ji Xinglan took the cup outside, Yan Qiu started studying diligently again. He picked up the textbook and began memorizing. 

With his intellect, he refused to believe that he could not memorize the contemporary history of just a few decades! 

While Yan Qiu was reading with his back against the headboard, Ji Xinglan came in with a form. 

He handed the printed form to Yan Qiu. “Fill this up. Remember to write neatly.”

Yan Qiu took the form and looked at it. He was shocked. 

Ji Xinglan had actually printed the military registration form for him.  

They were thinking the same thing! 

When Ji Xinglan saw that Yan Qiu had not moved despite picking up the pen, he thought that he did not want to go. So he tried persuading him, “Fill in the registration form. When you graduate, it’ll be best if you can work in the military. It doesn’t matter whether you succeed or not. At least trying won’t hurt.”

Yan Qiu simply put the cap back on the pen and smiled shyly. “Don’t need to. I already filled in the online registration form.”

“You did?” Ji Xinglan smiled. He took away the registration form and teased, “And here I was wondering why you were suddenly working so hard.” 

Yan Qiu huffed and picked up the book again. 

Ji Xinglan sat down on the edge of the bed and with his fingertips tickled Yan Qiu’s chin. “You want to work with me, right?”

Even though he was thinking about this, Yan Qiu still denied it, “Who said I will definitely be working with you? If at that time someone else ends up in your office, don’t come crying.”

Ji Xinglan smiled. “Then I’ll move into your office.” 

Yan Qiu looked at his partially joking look and saw the seriousness hidden behind. His own gaze turned gentle. 

They might be unable to work together, but at the very least, he would be close to Ji Xinglan. When they got off work, Ji Xinglan would pick him up and they would go home together. 

……

Ji Xinglan placed a lot of importance on this matter, and the effort he put into this was just as great as Yan Qiu.  

He originally wanted to hire a teacher for Yan Qiu, but Yan Qiu thought that they would just end up wasting money. There was no teacher whose results were better than Ji Xinglan. After all, his achievement as the first in all the subjects in the military school was not for show. 

Besides, alphas had a slight advantage in terms of intelligence. Basically, all the top students were alphas. If Yan Qiu asked any other alpha to tutor him, this person would end up getting jealous. 

 

Forget studying in the same room, this person refused to even let his own friends see his omega. 

So when Ji Xinglan mentioned that he wanted to tutor Yan Qiu, Yan Qiu hesitated.  

In the beginning, he used tutoring as an excuse to have the teacher sit them together, but up until now, Ji Xinglan had never taught him anything. Yan Qiu did gain a lot of knowledge in a certain field, though. 

“You don’t trust me?” Ji Xinglan asked. 

Yan Qiu shook his head. 

Of course he did. Even if he did not, he had to. The only person he knew who could get A+s in all his subjects was Ji Xinglan.  

“Since I don’t have to pay for a home tutor, do I need to pay you tutoring fees?” Yan Qiu asked. 

Ji Xinglan smiled. “You don’t have to pay me. But could you not have your personal home tutor sleep on the couch?”

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Personal home tutor. For some reason, it did not sound like a proper title. 

But Yan Qiu did not think much about it. Casting him a glance, he agreed readily, “Sure.” 

He could reduce the days Ji Xinglan needed to sleep on the couch in exchange for tutoring. No matter what, he only benefited from this and suffered no losses. 

……

Ji Xinglan cleaned up the study and moved his things to the side, leaving half the space for Yan Qiu. 

The table in the study was huge; enough for two people to sit at both sides.  

Yan Qiu brought his textbooks and sat across from Ji Xinglan. He had missed out on more than half a year’s worth of classes, so he had to look through the textbooks first. 

The printer in the corner of the study spitted out papers until they gathered in a pile. 

“It’s the end of December now. You have until the end of April before you take the exam. You have four months.” Ji Xinglan calculated the time and placed the thick stack of past year papers in front of Yan Qiu. 

Yan Qiu reached out to touch them. The papers that had just been printed were still a little hot to touch.  

Ji Xinglan stood across the table. With his height, he could easily touch him. Ji Xinglan stapled the papers and seriously said, “Honestly, the possibility of you getting in isn’t high, but if you study properly, it’s not impossible either.”

In truth, Ji Xinglan had always thought that Yan Qiu was pretty smart. It was just that he had been fooling around with Xie Yu and the others, so he did not study properly. 

 

It was a rare sight to see Yan Qiu read seriously. Ji Xinglan smiled a little and brought out a clip from the drawer to hold back Yan Qiu’s fringe, revealing his fair and smooth forehead. 

The white hair clip had pink flowers on it and was really cute. 

Yan Qiu stared at him. He was already used to Ji Xinglan buying all sorts of cute things and putting them on him. He just chewed on his pen and continued flipping through the textbooks and said nothing. 

Studying five subjects together was plain torture. 

Ji Xinglan sat across from Yan Qiu, smiled at him and turned on his computer. “Study well. Read through the textbooks first. If you have any questions, ask me. If you can get in, we’ll be able to meet each other every day hereafter.”

Thinking about it made him happy. With this thought in his mind, Ji Xinglan knew that he was going to push Yan Qiu to get in.  

“The wages, benefits, and everything else are pretty good too.” Ji Xinglan held his cup and said, “You don’t want to take my money, right? This is much better than washing dishes and working other odd jobs.”

Yan Qiu hummed in agreement. 

This was for him and for himself. 

Both of them sat facing each other on the office table. With only a computer screen separating them, they both did their own tasks.  

Ji Xinglan looked up a few times from his work, and with a gentle gaze, watched Yan Qiu study. 

He looked really cute like this.

……

Yan Qiu studied for a few hours.  

He even set up a plan for himself. He practically brought out all the energy he had used when he had woken up early and slept late to knit the scarf. 

Ji Xinglan accompanied him. They did not go anywhere during the weekend and just stayed in the study. 

It must be said that all the hard work over the past two days proved to be effective. When Yan Qiu sat for his classes, he was now somewhat able to understand what his teachers were saying. 

This was already a miracle to Yan Qiu, since he practically started from scratch this semester.  

When he saw that the student in the last row was actually taking down notes in class, the math teacher was shocked. 

Over the last few days, the temperature had been dropping. Sitting by the window, his hands were a little cold while writing. Yan Qiu would occasionally shake his hands and legs to gain warmth. 

 

Since it was not snowing, the stingy school had refused to turn on the heater. Ji Xinglan went to the supermarket to buy a stack of warm patches for him, and whenever class ended, he would get him warm water. 

Yan Qiu took the cup and looked up to see Ji Xinglan wearing the scarf. He could not hold back his laughter.  

This morning, before they left their house, Yan Qiu asked him to wear a scarf. Ji Xinglan refused, but in the end, they came to a compromise. Ji Xinglan dragged out the scarf Yan Qiu had knitted for him. 

As expected, when he wore it, he looked like a homeless man. 

But this was good too. Yan Qiu thought while taking a sip of the warm water,‘If Ji Xinglan wears such ragged clothing every day, no one will steal him from me.’

…… 

During recess, Sun Mang came to the class to give them their physical examination results. 

Tired from all the studying, Yan Qiu was lying on the table and sleeping. Unable to wake him up, Ji Xinglan went up to get it for him. 

She had already seen their enrollment forms, so Sun Mang knew about their relationship, so she said nothing. Instead, when Ji Xinglan took the physical examination report, she whispered something to him. With grim expressions, both of them went out. 

When Yan Qiu woke up, he did not see Ji Xinglan, but thought nothing of it. He just rubbed his eyes and grabbed his pen, wanting to do a few more exercises before class started.  

At that moment, his alarm went off. 

Picking up the terminal to switch off the alarm, Yan Qiu saw that there was a new message. He thought that Ji Xinglan was looking for him, so he opened it and took a look. 

But it was not from Ji Xinglan but Lin Wei. 

Lin Wei’s message had links to two forum threads.  

Over the past few days, Yan Qiu did not play with his terminal. He did not loiter in the forums and because he wanted to study hard, he even uninstalled all his single-player games. 

But Lin Wei must have definitely sent the messages over for a reason. So he tapped them open to take a look. 

One of the headlines was: A cold alpha is knitting a scarf in class, but for whom?

The other was: Announcement: Young Master Ji wore casual clothes to school today! He’s so handsome I’m dying! 

The first thread was of Xie Yu knitting a scarf, and it looked a little hilarious. 

But when Yan Qiu tapped open the second thread, he frowned a little. 

 

There was a sneak shot inside that seemed to have been taken when Ji Xinglan went to get water in the corridor in the afternoon. 

There were people discussing it excitedly in the thread.  

[The scarf Young Master Ji wore today is so cool!]

[That’s right. He looks like a wandering artist. It looks really fashionable. (✿✧∪✧)]

[AAAAAAHHHH WHERE CAN I GET THAT SCARF?! I CAN’T FIND THE SAME BRAND EVEN IF I SEARCHED THROUGH ALL OF TAOBAO!]

[Sis, if you find it, send me the link!] 

[Ah, you idiots. Do you think that you can actually get Young Master Ji’s scarf from Taobao?]

[That’s right. It’s definitely a high-class brand tailored for only a small group or is custom made!]

Yan Qiu rubbed his nose and felt a little speechless. 

Custom made… Well, it was actually, really custom made.  

He had made it personally for Ji Xinglan and there was only one in the world. 

As a harmless-looking school beauty that all omegas in school hated to the core, Lin Wei was really beautiful and knew how to dress up. That was also if you ignore all her other qualities. 

Yan Qiu believed in Lin Wei’s understanding of beauty so thought that she wanted to make fun of Ji Xinglan’s getup today. 

But he did not expect that Lin Wei would send him a message that was filled with absolute confidence in her own theory. [Xie Yu was knitting a scarf a few days ago in the classroom, and suddenly, Ji Xinglan wore a really ugly scarf to class today.] 

Yan Qiu found himself speechless. 

‘I feel like you’re trying to suggest something to me, but I just can’t figure it out.’

Yan Qiu had seen the pink scarf Xie Yu knitted around Li Chengyan’s neck during PE class today. It even had an “L” knitted on it. 

When he saw the scarf, Yan Qiu’s first reaction was not how the both of them got together, but instead, he felt pity toward Li Chengyan.  

…Though he had to say, Li Chengyan seemed pretty willing to wear the scarf. He wore a scarf, equally ugly as Ji Xinglan’s, and happily played soccer on the field. 

That was why that side of the field was empty today. Plenty of onlookers backed down because of what they saw. 

 

Lin Wei saw that he did not understand what was going on, so she sent another message. [I can only say this. Think about who knitted the scarf Ji Xinglan is wearing. Scum just aren’t worth it!]

‘I knitted it!’ 

Yan Qiu blinked. But in the end, he could not help but want to defend the scarf he knitted. [That scarf… is not that ugly you know?]

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