I Like Your Pheromones Ch. 19: Dinner

In the evening of that same day, Zhao Minjun applied for a leave from the school, and during the self-study period at night, he took the whole class of students out.

First Middle was located in a bustling area of Ningcheng City. There was a large shopping center only a few kilometers away from the school. Only when the students got there did they find out that Zhao Minjun had called into reserved seats at Haidilao last night, so no matter if they were able to win first place today, their Haidilao meal couldn’t escape.

“Duan Jiayan,” Chen Yue saw Duan Jiayan and Song Yi looking for a seat and called them over, pointing to the two empty seats beside him: “Come, come, sit here.”

To the left of Chen Yue is Lu Xingci. After Duan Jiayan sat down, he and Song Yi will be to the right of Cheng Yue.

They just filled up the 12-person table. When it came time to order, Zhou Xingchen ordered six bottles of beer. The girl next to him asked in disapproval:

“Didn’t Teacher Zhao forbid us from drinking?”

“Shh–” Zhou Xingchen shook his head at her: “We’ll do it secretly. We’ll simply hide it when she comes over.”

“What are you ordering wine for? And six bottles?” Chen Yue casually: “Considering how much you can drink, will you even be able to finish it?”

“Isn’t Brother Lu here with us?”

Lu Xingci said with a smile: “I’m not going to drink. Since you ordered it, you should finish it yourself.”

Seeing that he really began to drink lemonade for self-cultivation, Zhou Xingchen glanced at the table. This table was evenly split, half-filled with boys and half girls; he didn’t really have the nerve to ask to drink with girls. Zhou Xingchen’s eyes brightened: “Duan Jiayan, let’s drink together. You must be able to drink, right?”

Caught off guard, Duan Jiayan looked up. Besides him, Song Yi watched this scene and couldn’t hold back his laughter: “Yup, Xiao-duan can drink.” He’ll be out after only one bottle.

Without waiting for Duan Jiayan to reply, Zhou Xingchen regarded him as his only hope and took the initiative to offer Duan Jiayan a full cup.

“I’ll toast you,” Zhou Xingchen held the glass: “I didn’t know you well before and wondered why you were always bending over backward. Back then, because… Enough, enough. After this experience, I’ll gain a better understanding of you, so we will be friends from now on.”

“You’re already starting to lay your heart bare before you even start drinking?” Duan Jiayan picked at his eyebrows. “I won’t be able to keep up with your rhythm.”

A burst of laughter came from the table.

“…” “Can’t you say something nice?” The corner of Zhou Xingchen’s mouth twitched.

“I can’t,” Duan Jiayan sent the cup forward and actively clinked it against his: “It’s no big deal. I didn’t like you either before.”

He has always sprouted an indifferent appearance. Those who don’t know him might wonder how to beat him up, but at times, he has a kind of temperament that makes people want to approach him.

Zhou Xingchen couldn’t help asking a follow-up: “How about now?”

“You’re now relying on me. How can I not like you?”

Duan Jiayan just placed down his glass and was about to sit down when Zhou Xingchen filled up his glass again.

“As long as you like me, we can be brothers,” Zhou Xingchen, who let Duan Jiayan’s words go to his head a little: “Come, let’s drink on!”

Duan Jiayan: “…”

He thought that after that glass, Zhou Xingchen would go find other people to drink with. He didn’t expect that Zhou Xingchen regarded him as a Savior, expecting him to finish the six bottles of beer together.

Seeing how his words have come to this, Duan Jiayan couldn’t really refuse directly. Moreover, if he can’t admit that he blacks out after only one bottle, Duan Jiayan was more or less at a loss for words.

Zhou Xingchen was still looking at him eagerly. Duan Jiayan had no choice but to drink with him.

Zhou Xingchen drank while he said, “I used to think that you were quite good at working hard, knowing not to look for trouble in front of Brother Lu. Fortunately, you didn’t offend Brother Lu, otherwise, you and I probably won’t have a chance to break the ice. “

“…” Duan Jiayan couldn’t help asking: “Is he already drunk? Can’t he think before speaking? “

“That’s just how he is,” said Lu Xingci, who was fishing for food with a strainer spoon. When he heard that, he continued, “he wasn’t very smart, to begin with.”

“Lu Xingci.”

“?”

“I’m suddenly aware that what you’ve lifted out is the last piece of fatty beef.”

“What about it?”

Duan Jiayan pushed his bowl forward: “Can I be the lucky one to eat that last piece of fatty beef?”

Lu Xingci looked over.

Duan Jiayan looked at him with great expectation.

Meeting that pair of amber eyes for a few seconds, Lu Xingci placed the spoon in front of his eyes and let him choose.

“Don’t you see? Your Brother Lu is much easier to talk to than you think,” Duan Jiayan got the food he wanted and was very satisfied: “He’s not as terrible as you said.”

“Brother Lu!” Zhou Xingchen cried: “I want this service, too!”

Lu Xingci scoffed softly: “Looking for trouble?”

Zhou Xingchen: “…”

Duan Jiayan and Zhou Xingchen were drinking with noise and excitement. Chen Yue couldn’t bear being so lonesome and followed them, drinking half a bottle of wine. There were girls from their table who drank a little too.

Suddenly, a girl said in a panic: “Teacher Zhao is here! Hide the wine!”

The boys first let out an unorganized “ahh” sound, then realized that it was not right, immediately putting the wine bottle under the table.

Zhao Minjun took in the whole scene of the chaos happening at this table. When she came over, her line of sight deliberately swept over each face.

Her stare made everyone feel diffident. Even Duan Jiayan sat straighter.

Zhao Minjun suddenly asked: “Duan Jiayan, what’s by your feet?”

Duan Jiayan put up a last-ditch struggle: “Teacher, can I say that this is a bottle of mineral water packaged like beer?”

Zhao Minjun said softly, “No.”

Duan Jiayan: “…”

Zhou Xingchen sat forward in his seat, planning to own up to all his mistakes and face the storm. However, Zhao Minjun relaxed her tense expression and laughed:

“Aren’t you going to toast me?”

Everyone was stunned.

The atmosphere became warm again.

“Teacher Zhao, I’ll toast you.”

“Hurry up. Which one of you can get a cup for her–?”

“Teacher Zhao!” Duan Jiayan suddenly roared: “I like you!”

“…….”

“Hahahahahahaha!” Chen Yue almost died of laughter: “Well said, well said!”

“Teacher, I like you too!” One of the girls, whose alcohol was going to her head, boldly said: “You’re too good to us. No teacher has ever written so many comments on my composition paper and also encouraged me… Wuwuwu…”

Seeing that she started crying, the other smiling girls beside her patted her arm.

“This isn’t fair,” Duan Jiayan blinked blankly: “Why didn’t I get any comments?”

“Have you ever handed in your compositions?” Zhao Minjun couldn’t help but remark: “I want to write comments for you, but where can I write it?”

Duan Jiayan was stunned and let out an “oh” Because of the alcohol, his brain didn’t react. Zhao Minjun touched his drinking glass: “You made great progress in the last monthly exam. Continue to stay diligent in your studies in the future.”

Before leaving, Zhao Minjun looked at the table. Although no one was drunk, some people seemed a little agitated. Zhao Minjun whispered to Lu Xingci: “Watch them. Don’t let them drink too much.”

Lu Xingci made a sound of acknowledgment.

Duan Jiayan’s drunkenness doesn’t show on his face. Although he got a little drunk, others can’t correctly judge his state by simply looking at his appearance.

Song Yi, a little worried, reminded him: “Xiao-Duan, take it easy. Don’t get drunk.”

Duan Jiayan had been drunk for a while already. At that moment, he heard the word “drunk” and suddenly placed his glass down: “

Lao Zi*

 is drunk! No more!”

*T/N: The personal pronoun I typically used arrogantly or jocularly.

Song Yi: “…”

Zhou Xingchen: “Who are you coaxing? You appear so much soberer than me. You’re even aware that you’re drunk. “

Duan Jiayan: “I blackout after a single bottle. So tell me, am I drunk or not?”

Zhou Xingchen: “…Then what were you pushing yourself back then for? I’m about to vomit from drinking too! As a matter of fact, I was drinking because you were drinking!”

Duan Jiayan was more irritable than him: “Isn’t it your fault for being so heartily with me? If I didn’t drink with you, doesn’t it make me look like a heartless person?”

Duan Jiayan said and suddenly slapped the table: “What kind of person am I?! Who am I looking down on?!”

“……” Zhou Xingchen was awed by his expressions: “Are you stupid?”

Duan Jiayan ignored him. Zhou Xingchen saw that his skin was as white as usual, and he didn’t look drunk at all.

“Are you really drunk?” Zhou Xingchen’s hand shook tentatively in front of him: “Do you still recognize me?”

“Yes, dumbass.” Duan Jiayan impatiently waved his hand away: “You’re credulous. Also henpecked. How low will your family status be in the future?”

“Hahahaha.” Chen Yue was really going to go crazy from laughter. He hadn’t expected that Duan Jiayan’s comments would be so incisive. He promptly pointed to himself: “Me, me, me! Coach Duan, do you still recognize me?”

“You’re the one who’s good at talking,” Duan Jiayan narrowed his eyes: “Your eyesight’s not bad. You’re also an expert in papering over issues. If you muddle through school a bit better, going to the foreign ministry won’t be just a dream.”

Chen Yue wasn’t angry to be described this way. He looked around and signaled Duan Jiayan to look at Lu Xingci: “What about this? Who is this? “

“That,” Duan Jiayan, a little confused, looked over there: “He’s my…”

“Your… what?”

It’s unknown who said with a smile: “Yours? How is he yours? “

Duan Jiayan let out a murmur with a vague voice.

“

Medicine…*

“

*T/N: PUN TIME. DJY is saying “medicine” [药] (Yao) which sounds exactly the same as [要] (Yao) which means “want”.

“Your want?” Song Yi also got involved in the noise: “What do you want? Xiao-Duan, speak clearly or you’ll be in an unclear relationship with the class president tomorrow.”

“

He’s just medicine?*

” Duan Jiayan was baffled: “Otherwise, what else can he be?”

*T/N: The second punchline, what DJY says is what I wrote in my translation, but the others hear “it’s just that I want [him]?”

“My god hahahahahahaha!”

“Lu-dawg, what do you think of this? He said that he just wants you hahahahaha!”

“No, Brother Duan, we can’t want this one. It’s not even clear which one of you two wants the other–“

“Have you all,” said Lu Xingci, suddenly raising his eyes, giving a casual smile, “said enough?”

“…….”

He was clearly smiling when he was talking, however, no one dared to continue making a scene.

Chen Yue coughed: “There are girls here. Let’s exercise a bit of restraint.”

The several girls who heard the conversation were both glad, yet a bit embarrassed. They were called out all of a sudden. One of them shook her head excitedly: “It’s alright. We know that you boys are all like this.”

They were quiet for a while. The other tables were more or less also finished eating.

Zhao Minjun paid for the bill and called for everyone to line up to leave.

Chen Yue supported Zhou Xingchen, who was finally feeling the slow-acting effects of the alcohol. Chen Yue was almost not able to hold up Zhou Xingchen by himself. Worried that Zhao Minjun would catch sight of them, they were walking at the end of the group.

Song Yi originally wanted to pull Duan Jiayan along, but he didn’t expect that just tapping his shoulder made Duan Jiayan grab Song Yi’s hand in response, twisting it so far that it almost snapped.

Song Yi let out a miserable shriek. Upon seeing this, the boy beside him wanted to lend a hand but was also pulled and twisted by Duan Jiayan.

“What the fuck!” The stunned boy almost let a curse slip out: “How does he have such a fast reaction speed even though he’s drunk? W-What do we do?”

“What else?” Lu Xingci said softly: “Tie him up to bring back.”

“…”

“Duan Jiayan,” he stood up. Before touching Duan Jiayan, he threatened with a vivid figure: “If you pull me, I will 

press your head into the Haidilao*

.”

*T/N: Into the hotpot o-o;

This threat seemed to have no effect. As soon as Lu Xingci voiced the last word, Duan Jiayan already reached out and was about to pull him.

Lu Xing stopped his hand. Just when Song Yi thought he would see the bloody scene the class president warned of— Duan Jiayan ending up in the Haidilao— the tall boy “tsk”ed and lifted the hand he was holding up, putting it around his own shoulder.

At the same time, the other arm wounded around Duan Jiayan’s lower back, grabbing his other hand, completely putting an end to the possibility of Duan Jiayan continuing to run amok.

Looking at Duan Jiayan completely shackled in Lu Xingci’s embrace with his caught hand still struggling unyieldingly, Song Yi was worried: “Can this work?”

Lu Xingci didn’t know whether this would work either, so he asked the person in question bluntly: “What are you squirming around for?”

Duan Jiayan sidestepped the question: “Let go.”

Lu Xingci also felt that struggling like this wouldn’t work so he hesitantly released his hand. Unexpectedly, right after releasing his hand, Duan Jiayan suddenly put his own arm around his shoulder and rubbed his arm against Lu Xingci with great satisfaction.

“Are we heading back?” he asked as he rubbed.

In front of Song Yi and the other’s dumbstruck expressions, Lu Xingci suddenly realized why his Dian Jiayan was behaving like this. Henodded: “Yes, we’re going back.”

“Alright, let’s go back,” Duan Jiayan said. Probably with that last fragment of shame left, he whispered in his ear: “Don’t run, I want to hold you on the way back.”

“I won’t run,” Lu Xingci paused for a moment and whispered: “Behave a little.”

They headed out of the shopping mall and walked at the end of the class.

It was already past nine o’clock. The autumn moonlight melted in the night win and the streets were full of lights.

Lu Xingci was worried that he couldn’t walk steadily, so he occasionally stretched out his hand to offer support.

But the thing that was hung on Lu Xingci was not ungrateful in the least. Duan Jiayan’s breath was directed too towards the side of his neck. Duan Jiayan was a little confused, pausing, and then mentioning the previous topic: “What is considered behaved?”

“Walking peacefully is considered behaved.”

“Then it’s impossible for me to be behaved in this lifetime,” Duan Jiayan knows himself well: “I just like to 

rattle on and on*

.”

*T/N: [逼逼逼] (Bi Bi Bi) Slang for talking nonsense.

“You were a 

paging machine*

 in your last life?”

*T/N: [逼逼机] (Bi Bi Ji) = bb Machine = Paging Machine

“How did you know?!” Duan Jiayan hit him with great delight: “You’re so clever, Lu Xingci!”

“…”

“Hey.”

Duan Jiayan completely leaned onto Lu Xingci’s back. Both his arms wrapped around his neck. Lu Xingci was half a head taller than him. When they walked, Duan Jiayan couldn’t help but stand on his tiptoes. He sniffed softly, “Why are you so fragrant?”

Duan Jiayan asked while trying to get closer to Lu Xingci’s neck.

Where the Alpha glands were located. The closer he got, the heavier the weak smell of grass.

He was so drunk that he almost lost his rationality. He only felt that he was incomparably fond of this smell. The person who is associated with this flavor made the dependence in his heart grow.

He wanted to approach the other, wanted to embrace him.

It’s as if he fell ill.

Obviously, for him, this person was simply his antidote.

Duan Jiayan stared at that section of skin and raved: “It smells stronger here…”

Lu Xingci could faintly discern the feel of his strands of hair flitting across his neck. Duan Jiayan’s hair was very soft and light in color, not at all resembling the temper of its host.

At that moment, the soft-haired head lightheartedly bounced around behind him and was about to rub against his glands.

Lu Xingci couldn’t endure it anymore. He tilted his head, reached out his hand, grabbed Duan Jiayan’s head and turned it, forcing it to his side—

The two pairs of eyes met.

The male student’s voice was clear and light: “Has no one ever taught you not to sniff at other people’s necks like a dog?”

“I have only been taught that if I take a fancy to someone’s neck, I should bite it like a man.”

“…”

“Can I bite you?”

“You can 

bite your own tongue and kill yourself*

.”

*T/N: [咬舌自尽] (Yao She Zi Jin) Idiom that means to commit suicide by biting off one’s tongue. (Fits this situation nicely.)

“…”

Seeing that Duan Jiayan was obedient for a bit, which was hard to come by, Lu Xingci paused, asking: “When you sober up, will you remember what you did?”

“I won’t,” Duan Jiayan scoffed, “Why should I remember the times I was humiliated?”

“…” Lu Xingci was silent for a moment and suddenly laughed: “You’re pretty good at 

self diversion*

.”

*T/N: [自我排遣] (Zi Wu Pai Qian) = Diverting oneself from negative thoughts. 

He was too tired to carry this thing on his back. After Chen Yue and Zhou Xingchen, Lu Xingci didn’t want to say hello.

This thing on his back was too troublesome. Passing by Chen Yue and Zhou Xingchen, Lu Xingci didn’t even bother waving to greet them.

Zhou Xingchen, who was close to passing away, was startled upright. He saw Duan Jiayan hanging on the back of Lu Xingci. For a moment, he didn’t understand the situation, subconsciously thinking that something bad happened to Duan Jiayan: “My brother got kidnapped! I’m going to save him!”

“Oh, save him,” Chen Yue said with a completely flat tone: “Don’t run back crying in a bit when you clearly see who is supporting him.”

“…I vaguely feel that the person holding him seems to be my father.”

“…Is that all you can do when you’re drunk? “

As soon as the class approached First Middle, Duan Jiayan, who had been quiet for a long time, began to toss and turn again. He muttered “I know what it is now” while recklessly flopping around on Lu Xingci’s back.

Lu Xingci was helpless: “What’s the matter this time?”

“Get your hand over here.”

Lu Xingci couldn’t do anything about it because of Duan Jiayan’s torment, so he could only extend his left hand casually.

“Not this one. The other one.”

When Lu Xingci put his right hand behind him, Duan Jiayan suddenly pulled his arm back with great strength.

He frowned and looked back to ask why he was pulling his right hand like a hungry ghost.

He was met with Duan Jiayan who drooped his eyes downwards, leaning close to the place where he was injured before.

The wound there had already begun to heal and it didn’t bleed again. There was only a shallow red mark left.

The pheromone in his blood is very rich. The closer he got to the place where Lu Xingci was injured, Duan Jiayan’s expression became more and more trance. He couldn’t help swallowing.

Pheromones are very rich in blood. The closer Duan Jiayan got to the place where Lu Xingci was injured, the more and more dazzled his expression became. His Adam’s apple bobbed, swallowing involuntarily.

When Lu Xingci reacted, Duan Jiayan’s lips had already covered his wounds.

The lips on his arm were inconceivably soft. Lu Xingci was stunned. Duan Jiayan, who had not been stopped in time, unscrupulously stuck out the tip of his tongue.

And licked.

The tip of the tongue swept across the wound and the boy who was stuck to him gave him an unconscious smile.

“This… It’s delicious.”

“…”

“But it’s just too little. Boss, can you add some more?”

“Crazy drunkard.” Lu Xingci cursed under his breath.