CH 10

The class rep for their history class stood in front of Su Xiaohang, her hand tapping impatiently on the desk, “Can you hurry it up? I have to turn in everyone’s workbooks to the teacher’s office right now.” 

“Sweetcheeks, please just wait a little bit longer~ I’m almost done~” 

Su Xiaohang hunched over her desk, furiously copying everything from Jin Siming’s exercise book to her own. 

“You’ve only copied up to page 80, which means you still have 6 pages left to copy. I’m guessing you won’t be able to finish it before class ends. Just give me Jin Siming’s, you can just skip on handing yours in today.” 

“Aiya! Don’t do that babe!” Su Xiaohang held Jin Siming’s exercise book firmly to her chest, “Why don’t you wait until the next class is over before handing them in? I’ll finish writing it during gym class!” 

“No, the last time I did that the teacher scolded me for handing the homework in so late.” The class rep refused. 

“Aiya, my lord, please accommodate this lowly one just this once! If you help me this one time, I’ll give you a one-of-a-kind, ultra-exclusive picture of Jin Siming! How about it? It’s the only one, after all, ~ I can even throw in the privilege of getting to touch her abs if you want!” Su Xiaohang pandered. 

The class rep for history is a girl and an omega. Her face turned red at these words and then she glanced shyly at Jin Siming, hesitating a little bit before she said, “Su Xiaohang, will you die if you talk less?! Also, hurry it up! I’m only going to wait until the end of gym class at the latest!” 

After saying this sentence, she quickly turned and walked away. 

Meanwhile, sitting beside her, Jin Siming gave Su Xiaohang a stern glare, “Who told you to say such nonsense in my name? And when did I get abs? How come I didn’t know about it?” 

“Hey, I was just joking, but I never expected it to actually work? Hehe, Ming-bao, you are quite liked by the omegas~” 

“Should that really be your main focus right now?” Jin Siming rolled her eyes. 

“Tsk, an Alpha like you don’t have to care so much about these things.” 

“No, wait a minute, why does being an Alpha mean I can’t care about this?” 

Jin Siming felt the scars in her heart deepen. Ever since she has become an Alpha, she seems to have lost her right to be seen as cute and lovable. She was stripped of her role as the ‘damsel in distress’ and was forced to make many changes she was unwilling to accept. 

Ai….speaking of changes, she was starting to miss those days where she was allowed to go to the same bathroom together with Su Xiaohang.

Su Xiaohang poked her arm, “Hey, look at the back door.” 

Jin Siming glanced towards the side and saw 2-3 omegas standing outside the back door looking at them. When she met their gazes, they quickly moved away from the door and giggles could be faintly heard as they left. 

“Tsk, tsk, these days all those little O’s come to peek at you. Our Ming-bao has matured, this old mother’s painstaking efforts to pick out your outfits was not in vain~” 

Su Xiaohang patted her shoulders, looking very much like an old mother breathing a sigh of relief at their child finally growing up. 

Jin Siming shook off her hands, “But I never expected my relationship with girls to be so good now?” 

“Hey, hey, there was also clearly a cute little male omega too, okay?” 

Jin Siming recalled for a moment. She did see a cute little boy wearing round-rimmed glasses, with fair and tender skin just now. 

If it was before her differentiation, she would have felt smug and proud at having so much attention. However, she has always been unpopular with the other girls and omegas, so the sudden reversal of her reputation made her feel more than a little uncomfortable with the new eyes on her. 

“Aiya, Ming-bao, the next class is about to begin. We should pack up our stuff and go to the track field.” 

After history class is gym class. Su Xiaohang grabbed the history exercise book and followed Jin Siming to the gathering on the track field. 

Jin Siming rarely participates in sport activities during gym class and this time is no exception. After the gym teacher took attendance and dismissed them, Jin Siming was about to pull Su Xiaohang off to the side, when the teacher unexpectedly called out to her. 

“Hey, you, the tallest girl in the back row. Yeah, you. Come and help the sports committee carry the sports equipment.” 

“Me?” Jin Siming pointed at herself in surprise. Usually, this kind of menial labor had nothing to do with her. 

“Yes, yes, you. What are you standing there for? Hurry up.” The teacher urged impatiently. 

And so, under the watchful eye of the class, she moved towards the equipment room. 

“There are some bags over there, you can pack the stuff in there. Grab three basketballs, four badminton rackets….” 

A sports committee member quickly assigned her to some tasks the moment she walked in. 

She could only obediently follow her classmate’s orders and reluctantly grabbed the equipment while complaining in her heart. 

She never thought she would be used as free labor one day, after all, she had never done this kind of physical work before. 

However, when she did finish packing all the equipment into the bags, it wasn’t as heavy as she thought. 

Seeing the confusion and slight dissatisfaction on her face, the sports committee member smiled, “The gym teachers usually pick the tallest people to carry the equipment. Before, it was the same few boys, but they left early for a game today. So the tallest one left was naturally you. That’s why he called you.” 

“….” 

She had grown taller after her differentiation, but the only advantage it seemed to have brought her was the two words engraved on her face “free laborer”. 

After moving the bags onto the track field, she let out a long sigh of relief. Although she wasn’t physically tired, she felt mentally exhausted from the further destruction of her inner beliefs. 

As soon as the bags were set down, a girl and Yao Jin came over. 

“Aiya, why are there no tennis rackets?” The girl asked. 

The sports committee member explained, “There are not many tennis rackets left in the storage room. They were already gone when we arrived.” 

“Then what should we do, Jin-Jin? I can’t play tennis with you anymore, but I really want to play~” The girl shook Yao Jin’s hands in a spoiled manner. 

Yao Jin smiled gently, “No matter, you can use the one I bought.”

“Really?! You’re so kind, Jin-Jin! However, I don’t know how to play tennis….”

“No worries, I can teach you.” 

“Ah, Jin-Jin, you’re both beautiful on the inside and outside! You’re just too kind! You’re so awesome!” 

“….” 

The Jin Siming who was standing next to them felt a strange feeling rise in her heart. 

She already knew that Yao Jin was very popular, so she shouldn’t care, but ….it seems that Yao Jin is always very kind to everyone she meets, granting whatever anyone asks of her….is she always so gentle? 

Although they are bitter rivals and they never wear good expressions when facing each other, isn’t this girl a little too much? If it was her, she would have already rejected the girl after not getting any tennis rackets. How come Yao Jin is so good-tempered in the face of such a spoiled girl? 

Unexpectedly, she felt that the girl was like a thorn in her eyes, and a pretentious faker. With these thoughts in mind, she muttered quietly, “If you don’t have a racket and don’t even know how to play, then why are you even playing in the first place? Stop dragging others down with you.” 

Who would have known that the girl had actually heard her and turned around, “It’s none of your business!” 

Jin Siming crossed her arms and stared down at her with narrowed eyes. 

When the girl looked up at the tall statue staring down at her, she shrank back in fright. 

Meanwhile, Yao Jin had witnessed all of this and her sharp eyes bent a little as she smiled sweetly, 

“Is Classmate Jin defending me?”