CH 56

Although it was a working day, Cross City was still crowded with people, and there was an endless stream of customers.

Qiu Zhenyang first took Ling Mu to eat something, and then started to visit clothing stores.

“Take a look at this, there are a few that look like they’d suit you.” Qiu Zhenyang pulled Ling Mu into a high-end brand store, and asked the clerk to find some suits for Ling Mu to try.

Ling Mu felt a little stifled seeing the clothes. Even when his father was alive, he had never stepped into such a high-end brand store. Pursing his lips, he moved expressionlessly.

After Qiu Zhenyang saw him enter the fitting room, he sat on the sofa outside to wait. The clerk brought him coffee and biscuits with a smile, and the service was very good. Despite the store’s large size, there weren’t many customers, and the service was very good. After all, many major brands have shops in Cross City. 

“Qiu Zhenyang, come here.”

Suddenly a small voice came from the fitting room. When Qiu Zhenyang looked over, he saw Ling Mu’s blushing face sticking out from the fitting room, looking at him as if asking for help.

“What’s wrong?” Qiu Zhenyang asked as he stood up and walked over. He made a “no” gesture to the clerk who came over to check the situation, and blocked the edge of the door. “What’s the matter?”

Ling Mu bit his lower lip, opened the door a little more, and dragged Qiu Zhenyang in by the neckline.

“How do you wear this? Why is it different from normal clothes?” Ling Mu was only wearing trousers, and a white shirt with several long straps inside the clothes. The store clerks here are all female betas, so he was embarrassed to call them and could only ask Qiu Zhenyang to help.

Although clothing was generally the same as in Qiu Zhenyang’s previous world, some small details differed. The aesthetics here are slightly different, so there are unique details. Especially these high-end brands, each of which may be different.

Fortunately, Qiu Zhenyang had memories of similar clothes, so he had Ling Mu open his hands, while he lowered his head and helped him put it on while explaining to him. After he finished, Qiu Zhenyang even helped him put on the pants. Ling Mu letting him help dress him, gave Qiu Zhenyang a perverted sense of satisfaction in his desire for control.

“So cute.” After helping him dress, Qiu Zhenyang lowered his head and kissed Ling Mu’s lips as a reward.

“Tsk, can you restrain yourself outside!” Ling Mu was about to go crazy. Opening the door, he kicked Qiu Zhenyang out. Standing in front of the mirror blushing, he tidied himself up, and ignored the person trying to kiss him at every turn.

Qiu Zhenyang lightly patted the dust on his legs, suppressed the sweet smile at the corner of his mouth, and prepared to go find some more clothes for Ling Mu. But when he turned around, he suddenly found a familiar person not far away.

Cheng An’an.

“What a coincidence.” Cheng An’an smiled and greeted Qiu Zhenyang. A female omega looking to be in her 40’s stood beside him. She resembled Cheng An’an, but her eyes were timid and her expression was unnatural, as if from timidity.

Qiu Zhenyang knew without guessing that the woman should be Cheng An’an’s mother.

He nodded at Cheng An’an in response, then indifferently returned his gaze towards Ling Mu, who Cheng An’an also discovered. Compared to Cheng An’an’s smiling face, Ling Mu’s expression was very direct, and he looked away almost immediately as if he didn’t recognize him. He rarely acts condescending towards other people, but with Cheng An’an destined to be incompatible because of one Qiu Zhenyang, he didn’t even feel the need to make any superficial efforts.

“Don’t worry about him, just do our own thing.” Qiu Zhenyang took another suit that looked good and stuffed it into Ling Mu’s hand.

Ling Mu continued to try on clothes, and Qiu Zhenyang went back to the sofa to wait for him, bowing his head to scan his terminal. But after a while, the sofa beside him sank, indicating someone had sat down beside him.

“You brought Ling Mu to buy clothes, right?” Cheng An’an’s voice was still soft, acting as if nothing had happened, even after Qiu Zhenyang had torn faces with him.

Qiu Zhenyang balanced his right foot on his left leg, and folded his arms with an uninteresting “en” sound.

Seeing him like this, Cheng An’an chuckled: “Are you still mad at me?”

This sounded too intimate. Qiu Zhenyang frowned and looked at him sideways, feeling uncomfortable.

“After we quarreled in the mecha research class before, you ignored me.” Cheng An’an smiled bitterly, expression a little sour. “Anyway, we have been friends for a year, Qiu Zhenyang, why did you become so guarded against me all of a sudden? Did I do something wrong?”

“Is there a reason to ask me this now?” It was ridiculous. Qiu Zhenyang picked up a cookie and stuffed it into his mouth, almost spitting out because it was so unpalatable. But because he was in public, he could only swallow it with a dark face.

Cheng An’an looked a little hurt as he lowered his head and brushed the strands of hair scattered on his straight cheeks. Taking a deep breath, he said, “I know it’s my fault that I didn’t accept you before. I’m just too emotionally wary because of family problems, so I have never dared to take that step, and have to apologize to you.”

“Do whatever you want, your apology is your business, but not forgiving is mine. Anyway, there will be no intersection in the future, so don’t think about it. That’s all.” Qiu Zhenyang stood up impatiently, walked directly to Ling Mu’s fitting room, and stood outside the fitting room to wait for him.

After Ling Mu tried a few pieces, he couldn’t say whether he was satisfied or not. He didn’t know much about them, whereas Qiu Zhenyang was quite satisfied, and bought everything he had worn.

“Hey, why are you buying so much? Your birthday banquet is only for one night, right?” Ling Mu firmly grabbed Qiu Zhenyang’s hand with the card. These sets of clothes cost nearly one million! It’s not buying clothes anymore, it’s simply wasting money!

Qiu Zhenyang lowered his head and made a move to kiss him, but Ling Mu hurriedly let go of his hand like an electric shock, and jumped away.

“Hahaha, don’t be so nervous, I don’t really want to do that. It’s better to prepare more now, they will always be useful in the future. If you accidentally get any stains at the banquet, you can change immediately.” Qiu Zhenyang took advantage of the gap between Ling Mu’s jump, and directly gave the card to the clerk and asked her to swipe it, without giving Ling Mu the chance to stop it.

A store clerk laughed and teased the two of them: “You guys have such a good relationship. It’s rare to see alphas and omegas of your age come to buy clothes together. Most of them are alphas themselves.”

Free love is common in the interstellar, but because of gender characteristics, there aren’t really many alpha-omega couples who come together due to love. Many choose to get married in order to ensure the genetic perfection of their offspring, so the clerk’s words weren’t groundless.

Hearing someone affirm their relationship, Qiu Zhenyang immediately raised his chest proudly. “That’s right! Xiao Mumu and I are very much in love with each other. How can our relationship be bad?”

The clerk was even happier to see this and pulled Qiu Zhenyang in to talk.

After carrying the clothes out, Ling Mu glared at Qiu Zhenyang several times helplessly.

He might not be able to earn this money even after a lifetime of working!

“Okay, don’t think about it, let’s go and look at ties. The ties in the store just now weren’t very good-looking. I’ll take you to a store that specializes in them.” Qiu Zhenyang naturally took the bag from Ling Mu’s hand, and walked to the street humming a tune.

When the two returned to Qiu’s house after shopping, Qiu Zhenyang had no less than ten bags in his hands, and together with Ling Mu’s hands, there were almost fifteen. Ling Mu’s reluctance was tempered by Qiu Zhenyang. Although the latter accommodated him in many ways, he would use various reasons to temper Ling Mu’s actual decision, so in the end, he had the final say.

After shopping, the pair spent the next few days reviewing class material and practicing mecha.

Ling Mu inherited his father’s advantages and is very talented in mecha. Although he has no foundation, he learns very quickly. According to Shao Ming, in the same age group, it’ll be hard to find alphas that can make such big improvements like Ling Mu’s in such a short period of time.

A few days later, the two returned to school for the midterm exams.

With Qiu Zhenyang’s guidance, Ling Mu’s exam went very smoothly.

After the two-day exam, the results came out soon. Students everywhere were looking at the scores on their terminals with expressions of joy or worry.

“F*ck, Qiu Zhenyang, you’re too perverted! First in all six courses? How did you take the test?” Yuan Chenyu sat with everyone in the milk tea shop, staring at Qiu Zhenyang’s name hanging on the top, face twisted as if he didn’t know him at all.

Qiu Zhenyang shrugged. “I took the test with my brain.”

Although the original body’s grades were also very good, it definitely wasn’t at Qiu Zhenyang’s level. After the school tyrant Qiu Zhenyang crossed over, with his extremely smart head, he directly won first place across his classes, which was really dazzling.

Zhuo Hang patted Qiu Zhenyang on the shoulder. “Now you’re going to be more famous in school.”

Ling Mu brought four cups of milk tea over, then sat down at the table and began to check his grades.

“How did you do?” Qiu Zhenyang paid more attention to Ling Mu than his own grades. After all, they did hell training for this test.

After looking at the score sheet, Ling Mu smiled slightly and turned it to Qiu Zhenyang.

“That’s good, the average score is more than 75, and there are no failing subjects. You did a good job, you deserve to be my target!” Qiu Zhenyang’s eyes narrowed with joy, and he was obviously more excited than receiving his first ranked scores.

It was rare for Ling Mu to show his happiness obviously. He didn’t expect that with Qiu Zhenyang’s help, his progress would be so great!

Zhuo Hang and Yuan Chenyu looked at each other, and both of them shrugged helplessly.

This guy only has his own wife in his eyes.

“By the way, thank you for helping me open the store during this time. Come to my birthday party the day after tomorrow. I will definitely entertain you.” Qiu Zhenyang thanked his two partners. Because milk tea is very popular, Zhuo Hang and Yuan Chenyu helped open the store while he wasn’t at school. Fortunately, the process of making fried chicken and milk tea is done by the robots, and it’s quite easy for them to just collect money.

“It’s nothing.” There’s no need to say thanks when helping a brother out.

Qiu Zhenyang took a sip of milk tea, remembered one thing, and then said: “Also, the game thing I told you before has already been settled. My grandmother will help, and she will support the technology. If the two are interested, hurry up and prepare the funds.”

Qiu Zhenyang will naturally not forget this matter.

“I’ll transfer it to you tomorrow.” Zhuo Hang was very optimistic about Qiu Zhenyang’s project, and he agreed very readily. Yuan Chenyu also said that the funds would be available soon.

After a brief chat, Qiu Zhenyang took Ling Mu directly home. Interstellar Academy has a one-week vacation after the midterms, and students can come and go freely, and don’t need to ask for leave.

After two days of preparation, Qiu Zhenyang’s birthday party finally arrived.

Birthday party kicks off next chapter!

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