After realizing what a temporary mark meant, Ye Shaoyang wanted nothing more than to flee Tianhuan overnight. Just as his worldview was about to collapse, his phone suddenly rang with a message from the Tianhuan group chat.
[Coach Lin]: @Everyone, everyone has worked hard during this period. The Alliance's schedule for the next stage of matches hasn't come out yet, so the whole team gets 3 days off. Have a good rest.
[Coach Lin]: Sending everyone a red packet.
Coach Lin sent several large red packets in a row, and everyone popped up to grab them.
[Old Qin]: Awesome, I can just make a trip home.
[Jiang Shui]: 3 days? Then I'll go back too, to get some clothes.
[Xiao Xing]: I won't go back; my parents aren't home. I'll stay at the team base and play games, hehehe!
Ye Shaoyang looked at these familiar names with complex emotions.
The deed was done; running away was useless.
If he left Tianhuan now, he would become a sinner for the ages. He would be letting down these teammates who trusted and supported him, as well as the many fans who had expectations for Tianhuan. Tianhuan wasn't just his team; it carried the hopes of countless people. Everyone had worked hard for so long and finally made it into Group S. If he ran away, would that be appropriate?
Running away was impossible; he could only bite the bullet and face it.
Pretend nothing happened? Or actively admit his mistake to Captain Chi?
What should he say? Sorry Captain Chi, I didn't know a temporary mark was so intimate. I thought it was just a simple bite on the neck. I wronged you by letting you mark me twice.
This… he couldn't say it at all!
Fortunately, the marking was a secret between him and Chi Shuo; no one else knew. Ye Shaoyang couldn't tell his teammates, and he was too embarrassed to ask his younger brother Qin Rui for help. Once he said it, he would be completely socially dead.
Ye Shaoyang's mind was a mess. Suddenly, he had an idea—go online and ask other Omegas for help to see how to smooth this over? After all, he wasn't a native of this world. Omegas born and raised here should have more experience with such problems, right?
Anyway, the forum was anonymous; no one knew him.
Having made up his mind, Ye Shaoyang immediately went online and searched for the largest emotional forum in China, registered an ID called "Alien," and then posted a thread.
Title: I was temporarily marked by my good bro twice; what should I do?
Content: I was a bad student and didn't listen carefully in physiology class during middle school. I didn't know what a temporary mark represented. Once before, there was an emergency; my pheromones almost went out of control, so I grabbed my good bro to take a bite.
After a few months, I couldn't buy suppressants, and my pheromones went out of control again. I thought, the first time is strange, the second time is familiar, so I let him bite me again.
Today I found out that a temporary mark is equivalent to DO-ing an incomplete lovemaking.
I have no face to see him! [Cracked.jpg]
But he is my very good friend and colleague, and we have to work together in the future.
Our project team must achieve results this year, and everyone has worked hard for this for a long time. If I run away at this time, it would be irresponsible to my colleagues. Moreover, besides the awkwardness of seeing him, I actually quite like our company, and I really want to get the year-end bonus. I can't give up halfway.
What should I do?
Can you Omega brothers and sisters give me an idea?
Since it was a public forum, Ye Shaoyang naturally wouldn't tell the truth. Team, e-sports competition—if he mentioned these words, his identity would be exposed in minutes. So, he used "project team" and "company" to be vague.
As China's largest free forum, the traffic was terrifying.
Ye Shaoyang's post received quite a few replies as soon as it was posted.
1L: OP, you are not a bad student; you are a little hooligan~
2L: Is your neck okay? Your bro is truly miserable, too miserable.
3L: Hahaha, feeling bad for your good bro. I'm an Alpha. In my opinion, my first mark must be given to the person I like. Your bro was tricked by you into giving away his first time just like that, and now you don't want to take responsibility? Too scummy.
4L: Telling the truth means social death and the end of friendship. You didn't know? Only ghosts would believe you!
9L: OP actually doesn't know what a temporary mark means? With the name Alien, did you really come from an alien planet? Isn't this common sense? [Confused.jpg]
10L: Agree with the above. My 5-year-old nephew understands this kind of common-sense question.
11L: Even my baby in kindergarten knows what a temporary mark means. OP, you don't understand?
17L: OP has provided my laughter for the whole day. Hahaha, laughing while rolling on the floor.
18L: Let me give OP an idea. Let him completely mark you, then you won't be awkward anymore [Doge.jpg]
22L: Why do I think OP is a bit cute? Silly, saying to the Alpha bro, "Brother, come bite me." Hahaha, I really want to interview this Alpha good bro about his feelings.
23L: Above, I think the Alpha's worldview shattered at the time. He must have thought OP had a crush on him.
32L: It's really hard to end this without getting married.
33L: Either make the best of a mistake, turn the temporary mark into a complete mark, and be with him. Or end the friendship and don't contact each other anymore. OP is confirmed stupid, candidate for the scummest Omega of the year.
34L: OP, wake up. He was willing to bite you twice; does he like you?
Ye Shaoyang: "…"
Watching the netizens' enthusiastic replies, his whole face was about to burn up.
Confirmed stupid, candidate for the most rogue Omega of the year, the kind that would be scolded to death by Alphas if posted on Weibo.
He was indeed careless enough. Transmigrating to a new world, he ran to be an e-sports player without fully figuring out the world settings, his mind full of competitions and championships, and ended up causing such a big misunderstanding.
It's hard to end this!
Ye Shaoyang hugged the kitten and fell into deep thought.
Little White sensed her owner's entanglement and gently rubbed her head against his arm. Ye Shaoyang sighed, patted Little White's head, and muttered to himself: "Should I just pretend I don't know? Telling the truth really means the end of friendship… Sigh, if the mid-laner and jungler end their friendship and the relationship becomes stiff, we can't play the matches anymore."
Once he said it, they definitely couldn't be friends anymore.
This was just like telling a good bro in reality: "Sorry, I asked you to help me jerk off, but I didn't expect jerking off to be a very serious matter. I thought it was as simple as shaking hands." That bro would be weird not to beat him up.
Moreover, the suppressant was still in the development stage, involving genetic issues, so it definitely wouldn't be developed so quickly. His pheromones might go out of control recently—that meant he had to continue asking Chi Shuo to bite him.
This is the most awkward part, okay!
Once he revealed it, what should he do the next time he asked Chi Shuo to bite him?
Ye Shaoyang's brain was about to explode.
He opened the forum, wanting to see if there were any new good ideas, but saw a reply from the moderator.
389L [Moderator Reply]: If this is true, it seems that OP is quite career-minded. Even after causing such a misunderstanding, he didn't think about resigning and running away, so he can't be called scummy, just ignorant.
There is a saying "ignorance is not a crime." You didn't bully him on purpose. If you are really good friends, I believe that one day when you tell him the truth, he will understand.
However, whether you can continue to be friends is uncertain. OP, think twice.
Ye Shaoyang calmed down and carefully sorted this out.
Now was not the best time to show his hand to Chi Shuo. First, it was too awkward to say; second, he still needed to ask Chi Shuo to help supplement the mark. If he said it, he couldn't continue!
If Chi Shuo didn't supplement the mark for him, he couldn't play matches anymore, and Tianhuan couldn't win the championship.
Is the championship more important, or are personal feelings more important?
The answer barely needed consideration.
Chi Shuo debuted in Season S6 and had played for four years now, always suffering from controversy. Although he didn't say it, Ye Shaoyang could feel his desire and persistence for the championship.
To change Tianhuan's predicament, he personally invited Ye Shaoyang to join the team and argued strongly at the shareholders' meeting to secure the highest rookie signing fee for Ye Shaoyang… All these showed how important Chi Shuo considered the Tianhuan team.
Ye Shaoyang knew very well that for Chi Shuo, nothing was more important than leading Tianhuan back to the championship seat.
This was also the reason why Chi Shuo, although somewhat resistant in the hospital at first, eventually marked him—Chi Shuo was the captain and didn't want to see a teammate he valued lose control of pheromones and be unable to become an e-sports player.
If it were just a personal grudge, Chi Shuo might forgive him?
But if his issue affected Tianhuan's performance and ruined Tianhuan's hope of winning the championship, then he would definitely become the person Chi Shuo hated most.
Both having been captains, he should be able to distinguish how to choose between the big picture and trivial matters.
Having thought this through, Ye Shaoyang replied on the forum: "Thank you for everyone's suggestions, I know what to do."
Matches still had to be played, and marks still had to be supplemented.
Everything as usual.
Although it would be very awkward in his heart, fortunately, the mark only needed to be supplemented once every few months. This bit of awkwardness could be temporarily ignored. In the future, when Tianhuan won the world championship, he would formally apologize to Chi Shuo.
Any way of apologizing would do.
Ye Shaoyang took a deep breath and finally calmed down.
He opened his phone, hesitating whether to send a message to Chi Shuo. As if they had a telepathic connection, Chi Shuo sent him a message just then, concise and comprehensive: "Go for lunch?"
After returning from the hospital, Ye Shaoyang had been hiding in the bedroom reading the brochure and scrolling through the forum. Before he knew it, it was already 12 noon. Ye Shaoyang replied: "Okay."
He put Little White down, added some cat food to the bowl, and then went out.
Chi Shuo just came out of the bedroom. The moment they opened the doors, their eyes met. Ye Shaoyang quickly looked away as if electrocuted, the tips of his ears involuntarily turning slightly red.
Seeing him lower his head with red ears, Chi Shuo couldn't help asking with concern: "What's wrong?"
Ye Shaoyang held back the impulse to dig a hole and crawl into it, pretending to be calm and saying: "Nothing, let's go."
Saying that, he quickly walked out of the dorm.
Chi Shuo looked at the other's stiff back in confusion. When facing him before, Shaoyang always had a frank smile on his face. Today, his eyes were dodging, seeming embarrassed to look him in the eye?
Chi Shuo suddenly remembered the brochure Ye Shaoyang stuffed into his pocket when leaving the hospital.
From the cover, it was exactly the same as the "Scientific Marking" brochure the doctor handed him. It was obviously a popular science reading material printed in bulk by the pheromone specialist department of the Central Hospital and distributed to Alphas and Omegas.
The content inside was very detailed, describing the process of complete marking with both pictures and texts. For example, how an Alpha enters an Omega's body without hurting the Omega, forms a knot in the reproductive cavity, and completes the complete marking.
Could it be that Shaoyang saw that and felt embarrassed?
When Chi Shuo went downstairs to eat, Ye Shaoyang was sitting with Cheng Xing chatting. Old Qin and Qu Jiang took leave to go home, and many people from Team 2 also took advantage of the 3-day holiday to go out and play. There weren't many people left in the team.
Chi Shuo took his tray and sat down next to them. Ye Shaoyang lowered his head and ate silently. Chi Shuo didn't say much either. Cheng Xing looked blankly at his master, then at Brother Yang, feeling that the atmosphere between these two wasn't quite right.
Usually, didn't Brother Yang talk quite a lot during meals?
Why did he become a mute gourd today?
Until the meal was finished, the table was extremely quiet.
Cheng Xing awkwardly broke the silence: "Um… I-I want to go see a movie tonight, the recently popular sci-fi movie 'Alien No. 773', do you guys want to go?"
The two said in unison: "Not going."
Cheng Xing: "…Oh."
He quickly cleaned up his plate and slipped away.
Chi Shuo and Ye Shaoyang returned to the room together.
After walking into the dorm, Ye Shaoyang looked at Chi Shuo's tall back and braced himself to call him: "Captain Chi."
Chi Shuo stopped and looked back: "Mn. What's wrong?"
Ye Shaoyang said: "Today at the hospital, the doctor said my pheromones might go out of control recently. Uh… next week we have to play Group S matches. I was thinking, how about, before the matches start, you… we…"
Fck fck fck, saying "you bite me" used to be so smooth.*
Now knowing what a temporary mark means, it's so hard for him to say it!
This was tantamount to him asking Chi Shuo again—come and jerk me off again?
Ye Shaoyang's face was flushed red, looking down helplessly.
Halfway through, he chickened out again, turned around and ran towards the bedroom: "Cough, let's talk about it another day…"
Chi Shuo gently grabbed his arm, his voice gentle: "I understand. If a problem occurs during the competition, it will be difficult to handle. So, you want me to supplement a mark for you before the match, so there won't be any worries, right?"
Ye Shaoyang blushed to his ears and nodded stiffly.
Chi Shuo asked: "Now?"
Ye Shaoyang felt like he was marching to the execution ground in his heart; better to die early and be reborn early!
With a blushing face, his voice as small as a mosquito: "Mn, if it's convenient, just… just supplement it today."
Ye Shaoyang, do you want your face (dignity)?!
Uh, don't want it anymore. For Tianhuan to win the championship, he's going all out.
Anyway, he had already been shameless twice. Is there a big difference between three times and two times?
Not really big.
Chi Shuo looked at Ye Shaoyang's flushed cheeks, feeling a little puzzled in his heart.
The previous two times he spoke of marking righteously; is he shy today? Looking down with red ears, Chi Shuo felt a little moved.
He led Ye Shaoyang to the sofa and gently held Ye Shaoyang's shoulders.
Just as he leaned his lips over, Ye Shaoyang suddenly shrank his neck and dodged.
Chi Shuo: "?"
Ye Shaoyang's face was flushed red: "I-I need to do some mental construction first."
Fck!
Thinking that biting the neck equals giving each other a handjob, he didn't dare to stretch his neck over, ahhh!
Save me.