Chapter 95: I Won’t Abandon You!

Shen Yu froze, staring at him in confusion.

He still hadn’t recovered from the words—“The one I like is you.”

Ji Laili, completely unaware that he was an idiot too, confidently tossed the title onto Shen Yu instead.

“Idiot, Senior Shen.”

“Didn’t you realize? The one I like is you.”

Like a meat pie falling from the sky, it landed squarely on Shen Yu’s head, leaving him utterly dumbfounded.

“…Me?” he asked, hesitantly.

“You.”

“Was it really not that obvious?”

Ji Laili had assumed that as soon as Shen Yu heard the nickname, he’d instantly think of him.

“Which means…” He grinned smugly. “I hid it pretty well, huh?”

Shen Yu, who had wanted to kill him just a second ago: “……”

Not just “pretty well”—extremely well.

Still struggling to believe it, Shen Yu pressed his lips together. “I’m not an Omega…”

Before Ji Laili could respond, he seemed to have already composed himself, his voice tightening as he spoke in a neutral tone. “I’m still in my differentiation period.”

“Laili, if you prefer Omegas…”

Shen Yu wanted to say that being an Omega wasn’t so bad.

In his past life, he had already lived as an Omega for years—his differentiation had never fully settled. If he still ended up as an Omega in this life…

Then so be it.

If he were an Omega, maybe he’d have an advantage.

After all, AOs naturally had the upper hand.

But when the words were about to leave his lips, Shen Yu found himself unable to say them.

“I…”

“You what?!” Ji Laili cut him off loudly, chanting like a spell,

“I like you, I like you, I like you, I like you, I like you—I like you a LOT!”

After blurting out “I like you” several times in a row, he took a breath and grinned, his eyes curving.

“I just like you, idiot Senior. Aren’t you the top student?”

“I’ve been first place for two years in a row.”

Shen Yu, momentarily dazed, instinctively defended his ranking—and the moment he realized he had just said something dumb, his gaze wandered, looking anywhere but at Ji Laili.

“Exactly, you’re first place.”

Ji Laili grabbed his chin and turned his face back toward him, gazing into his red-rimmed eyes.

“Senior,” he said, “are you lying to me?”

“What?” Shen Yu’s eyes reddened further.

“If you’re not in your susceptibility period, why do you cry so easily?”

His fingertip lightly brushed against Shen Yu’s eye corner, warm with Alpha heat.

Like flipping a hidden switch, the pressure in his chest loosened slightly, but his tears still wouldn’t stop falling.

“Shen Yu,” Ji Laili said, “Do I have to like an Omega?”

“…You said you had a little Omega you liked…”

Thinking back to his self-directed and self-acted performance, Ji Laili blinked innocently.

“That was just a joke.”

“The little butterfly is you. But I never said the little butterfly had to be an Omega. As long as it’s Shen Yu, it’s all the same to me.”

“Want me to prove it?”

Ji Laili took off his star-brain communicator and handed it to him, looking a little embarrassed.

“If you check the ID, you’ll see for yourself.”

Shen Yu’s eyes fell on the ID—and the familiar nickname next to it.

—“Blue Little Butterfly.”

He clenched the device tightly, his knuckles turning white.

At that moment, it felt like he had grasped everything—his heartbeat roared in his ears, then slowly settled, steady and strong, pulling him back into calm.

So this is what it feels like… to get back something you thought you’d lost.

Shen Yu gathered himself, his emotions once again locked away, returning to his usual untouchable, aloof senior demeanor.

He fastened the communicator back onto Ji Laili’s wrist.

Ji Laili rotated his wrist, about to stand up—only to have his arm yanked back immediately.

The mask of Senior Shen shattered in an instant.

His eyes were still red, and he stared at Ji Laili nervously.

“Did you change your mind?”

“Huh?” Ji Laili almost laughed.

“Why would I? I’m literally confessing to you—how would that even work? I just think this position is really uncomfortable.”

His gaze flickered downward, helplessly eyeing the situation.

Since Ji Laili had previously pinned him down onto the chair, now reaching across a whole table just to hug him… was just plain inconvenient.

It’d be better to move the table out of the way.

Following Ji Laili’s gaze, Shen Yu finally noticed the table.

How annoying.

He glared at it darkly, then kicked it away without a second thought.

The table flew across the room, crashing directly into the cleaning robot.

Ji Laili stared at the poor robot, now sprawled out on the floor, limbs akimbo.

At that moment, his sleeve was tugged.

When he looked down, a cold and beautiful man, his red-rimmed eyes filled with anticipation, was looking up at him.

“Will you still hug me?”

The Little Butterfly Is Asking Me for a Hug!

Who cares about a cleaning robot at a time like this?!

Ji Laili: “Hug!”

He happily threw his arms around Shen Yu.

Meanwhile, onlookers who had been watching the drama unfold were not happy—some even started arguing.

Soon, a video of Ji Laili and Shen Yu hugging in public spread like wildfire across the forum.

The comment section was filled with question marks.

At first, the Alpha spectators hadn’t dared to eavesdrop, so they quietly recorded the conversation instead.

An Alpha who prided himself on being fluent in various combat languages, including lip-reading, smugly translated the video… and then his mind went blank.

What do you mean—”Shen Yu, do you really like me?”

This had to be a translation error!

Another Alpha, refusing to believe it, double-checked the lip-reading… and got the exact same result.

That day, a certain military instructor, known for his expertise in combat languages, fell into an existential crisis.

“Instructor, the lip-reading technique you taught us seems wrong. Why does ‘I really want to kill you’ translate to ‘I really like you’?”

“Instructor, did you mess up the training materials? Or does this require reverse translation?”

Some were even more ruthless—they went anonymous and directly cursed him out.

“Damn it! Do you even know how to teach?! If you don’t, just QUIT!”

The certain Instructor, who had just graduated from military school and was already being worked to the bone: ……

The sky was falling. These students were terrifying.

Frustrated, he typed out a series of responses like “How could this be?” “Hold on, let me check.” “Calm down, okay?”—before storming onto the forum to clear his name.

A few minutes later, he completely lost it.

“HOW IS THIS HAPPENING?! Why does it always translate to ‘like’?! WHERE DID I GO WRONG?!”

Passing by, Eugene sneered: “Heh. Foolish instructor.”

Ji Laili had already gone all-in, yet they were still fumbling around like clueless fools.

At this rate, the Federation Military Academy was doomed.

Determined to set things right, Eugene went back and edited three CP (couple pairing) videos to boost their popularity.

Compared to Eugene, who had experienced extreme emotional highs and lows, Lei Po and Zhai Yifei were completely losing their minds.

Lei Po scoffed, “Like? Ha! What a joke. Even if Ji Laili doesn’t hate Shen Yu, there’s NO WAY he actually likes him!”

He concluded, “This video is obviously fake!”

Zhai Yifei narrowed his eyes and ordered his underlings, “Debunk this rumor within three minutes.”

“I trust that Laili must have had no other choice but to act this way.”

“Understood, Young Master Zhai!”

Eugene, passing by again: “…Heh.”

Time to edit ten more CP videos!