CH 6

Jin Siming was greeted with a pungent and acidic smell the moment she entered the bathroom. 

She frowned, her brows furrowed as she covered her nose and mouth. She raised her eyes to see a girl standing near the sink who was pulling on the suppressant sticker on her neck. 

“Hey, please follow the rules and don’t cause trouble for others.” Jin Siming stared in disdain at the Alpha girl who had allowed her pheromones to leak so badly. 

When the girl heard her, she smiled in embarrassment, “Uh, sorry about that. The sticker was just a little too tight so I wasn’t feeling very comfortable.” After saying so, she reattached the sticker onto her neck. 

After covering her neck, the pungent smell wasn’t so obvious anymore, but Jin Siming still stood at the door and waited for the smell to completely disappear before going in. 

“This….does it really smell that bad? I just differentiated recently so I’m not familiar with some things…I’m really sorry about that just now. Oh, by chance, are you an Alpha too?” 

Jin Siming had thought the girl was a little airheaded at first but now she thinks there might also be a pit inside this girl’s brain. 

“What do you think? This is the Alpha restroom after all.” She gave the girl a dumbfounded look and then headed towards a stall. 

When she came out of the stall, she found the same girl still standing there and staring at her. 

“Hello, my name is Chen Ci. What’s yours?” When the girl saw her coming out, she immediately stretched out her hand and introduced herself. 

“……”

Jin Siming frowned and glared speechlessly at this strange Alpha. 

Please, they’ve only exchanged two sentences and now she’s acting all friendly. And who would want to make friends in the bathroom? Is this girl going crazy? 

After coming to the conclusion that there was definitely something wrong with this girl’s mind, Jin Siming stopped paying attention to her and went straight to the sink to turn on the faucet.

Seeing the impatient look on Jin Siming’s face, the girl quickly explained herself, “Sorry, I didn’t mean anything strange by that. I just wanted to know what my pheromones smell like. Is it….really that bad?” 

Jin Siming turned her head to look at her and then said, “Yes, it really smells that bad. Like the smell of burnt gasoline.” 

The girl opened her mouth in surprise after listening to this statement and then lowered her head in disappointment. 

Her reaction was to be expected, after all, which person would not feel uncomfortable after hearing that their pheromones smell like gasoline? 

Jin Siming shook the water from her hand and turned to leave when suddenly the girl grabbed her arm and leaned forward—

An Alpha’s instincts subconsciously repels other Alphas, so as soon as the girl approached, Jin Siming was filled with an unfamiliar sense of disgust and immediately pushed the other away. 

Bang! 

Chen Ci fell to the floor with a loud bang. She rubbed her aching buttocks, “You’re so strong! Fortunately my physique has improved a lot after the differentiation, otherwise I would’ve been sent to the school’s infirmary from that one push!” 

“What the hell is wrong with you! What are you doing, coming so close to me?!” Jin Siming exploded in anger. The disgusted feeling just now made her entire body feel very uncomfortable, and she subconsciously concluded that those feelings must be due to the Alpha who touched her just now. 

“Sorry. I thought that since we’re both girls that it wouldn’t matter that much. I just wanted to see what your scent smelled like since I wanted to know what another Alph’s scent is like. And do they all smell so unpleasant…..” Chen Ci sat on the ground and looked up at her innocently. 

Jin Siming: “……” 

Although she was angry, Jin Siming was also really curious about what her scent smelled like. 

“Then did you smell it?” She asked fiercely. 

“En, well a little bit, but it really is….stinky.” 

Boom—

Jin Siming felt as if a thunderbolt struck her in the head. 

Her scent is….stinky?!

How could it be stinky?!!!!!

When lunchtime came around, Jin Siming was still wallowing in her self-pity after receiving that deep blow to her ego in the bathroom. 

Su Xiaohang couldn’t stand her gloominess anymore, and dropped a pack of soft sweets next to her, “You were so happy this morning, but now you’re depressed? Here, eat some sweets and you’ll feel better.” 

Jin Siming stuffed two pieces of candies in her mouth, the sweet and then sour taste spreading over her taste buds, “Ai, if only my pheromones would smell as sweet as these sweets…..” 

“Ah? The smell of your pheromones? What does our Ming-bao’s scent smell like?” Su Xiaohang asked curiously.

Jin Siming would never admit to other people that her scent smells “stinky” and she nervously reached up to brush against the suppressant sticker on her neck. She looked away as she answered, “I’m not sure yet.” 

“Huh? So you can’t even tell what your own scent smells like?” Su Xiaohang hasn’t differentiated yet, and never listens during the basic biology class, so to her, differentiation and everything related to it was a very novel thing. 

“Bean Sprout~ Bean Sprout~ Do you not know what your scent smells like either? Hurry up and teach me the science, the ignorant masses here need the teacher’s help~” Su Xiaohang kicked the chair in front of them. 

Lu Qi had taken out his lunch and was about to eat it when he was kicked by his annoying deskmate behind him. He sighed and turned around. 

“Loudspeaker Su, I am only going to tell you this once, so listen closely. The smell of one’s pheromones is a very personal thing. Unless it is someone you are very close with, it is considered rude to ask others what their pheromones smell like. Do you understand? It’s a very embarrassing thing for others to hear you say, and you asked so loudly just now!” 

Su Xiaohang quickly covered her mouth when she heard his words and glanced around. Fortunately, it was lunch break and the classroom was very noisy. And since they sat in the corner of the last row, nobody noticed. 

“So that’s how it is. Then pretend I didn’t ask. But how come you can’t smell your own pheromones even after differentiation?” 

“One can smell their own pheromones, but they won’t be able to distinguish any particular scent from them. They’ll only be able to tell how intense the permonees they’re pumping out are. In fact, the so-called “scent” you speak of, does not exist objectively in this world. Kinda like how there is no such thing as colors in this world but we still see them because of the different refractions of light. To put it more precisely, it is simply our eyes deceiving us.” 

“Similarly, the “scent” of pheromones depends largely on our perceptual cognition. For example, two Alphas will repel each other while an Alpha and Omega will attract each other. If an Alpha smells the pheromones of another Alpha, to them it is a sour and unpleasant smell. But to the olfactory sense of an omega, it is a sweet and addictive smell.” 

After listening to Teacher Lu’s lecture, Jin Siming broke out of her gloom, “In other words, no matter what an Alpha’s scent smells like, to a fellow Alpha it can only ever be a pungent smell, perhaps even described as….stinky?” 

Lu Qing nodded: “Yes, you can put it that way as well.” 

Jin Siming breathed a sigh of relief. 

So she doesn’t have to worry about her pheromones being called stinky ever again!

However, now that she thinks about it, although she doesn’t listen seriously in biology class, she has never missed any important points. So why does Lu Qi know all this, but she doesn’t?

She couldn’t help but ask, “Are these things taught in class? How come I don’t remember?” 

“This…..these are not in our textbooks exactly….you should read some more books in your free time to expand your knowledge.” A suspicious blush appeared on Lu Qi’s face and he immediately turned around after he finished speaking. Then he laid down on the table as if he was going to take a nap. 

“Teacher Lu seemed to have blushed just now?” Su Xiaohang pretended to be surprised, “Teacher Lu deserves to be called an encyclopedia. He knows everything~ I really benefited a lot from listening to Teacher Lu’s little lecture just now. However, I wonder what kind of books Teacher Lu usually reads to have such a thorough understanding of this subject?” 

After saying this, she winked at Jin Siming. 

Jin Siming caught on that her friend was teasing Lu Qi again, however she didn’t help her this time. This is because no matter how strange the books Teacher Lu has secretly read, she is still thankful towards him. Otherwise she would’ve really thought she smelled stinky for the rest of the day. 

Ah, but fortunately, she isn’t stinky at all.