After the engagement party, everyone took out the gifts they had prepared and gave them to them.
Uncle Lu took out two gold items, one was a cool golden statue of Hermes and the other was a cute Cupid, and asked Lu Yang to choose one of the two.
Grandpa Lu took a look at the side and reminded him lightly: “You are a wolf.”
“Yeah, I know.” Lu Yang agreed, while reaching out to the cute Cupid, flicked the peach heart arrow on it, and said to Ruan Mian: “Do you think this is cute? Let’s put this in the house, it’s shiny, it would be very beautiful.”
Grandpa Lu: “…”
Although Ning Zifei was not very satisfied with Ruan Mian, her cousin’s wife, it was her cousin’s engagement anyway, so of course her gift could not be less.
She took out her phone, clicked on a few pictures, and said, “I customized a few couple sweatshirts for you abroad, what colors do you like?”
Grandpa Lu coughed and reminded again, “You are an Alpha.”
“Yeah, I know.” Lu Yang took the phone and showed the pictures to Ruan Mian, “Let’s customize a set in deep pink. Both of us look great in pink. And let’s get another set in light pink for summer—fresh and breezy…”
Grandpa Lu: “…” Don’t want to talk anymore.
After giving the gifts, everyone said goodbye and left, Lu Yang and Ruan Mian stood at the door to see them off.
Ning Zifei always felt that her cousin was going to settle accounts with her, so she wanted to slip away while there were so many people.
Lu Yang yanked Ning Zifei, who was stooping and heading outside, into the corner of the backyard. He flicked her on the forehead and said, “If you dare to bully my little Tutu again, do you not believe I’ll pull out every single one of your wolf’s fur?”
Ning Zifei, who was used to bickering with Lu Yang since childhood, wasn’t intimidated by his threat. She rolled her eyes and said, “If you don’t want me to bully him, how about you let me pet his fur?”
Lu Yang narrowed his eyes, and the aura around him instantly turned cold. He looked at her without saying a word.
Ning Zifei felt a chill on her back when he looked at her, but when she thought of Ruan Mian’s soft appearance, she felt that Ruan Mian’s rabbit fur should be very good to touch, and she was reluctant to give up.
She lowered her voice and whispered with a lack of confidence: “I’ll just pat it…”
Lu Yang curved his lips, “Is he cute?”
Ning Zifei remembered Ruan Mian lowering his head and biting a carrot. Although she didn’t want to admit it, she nodded, “Cute.”
She couldn’t help but imagine that if Ruan Mian could let her feed him a carrot when he turned into a rabbit, it would be even cuter.
Lu Yang stroked his hair on his forehead and smiled brightly, “Mine.”
Is he cute?
He’s mine.
After a while, Ning Mixiang heard a few shrill wolf howls coming from the backyard in the house. She was stunned for a moment and hurried to the backyard to take a look.
Lu Yang and Ning Zifei didn’t know when they both turned into wolves. Lu Yang chased Ning Zifei with a nimble figure. Ning Zifei whimpered and fled madly, treating the backyard as a fighting arena.
Ning Mixiang thought the two of them were joking around again, so she ignored them and went back to the front yard to continue seeing off the guests.
At night, Lu Yang leaned against the window, the cold, clear moonlight casting a gentle glow over him. In his hand, he held three strands of wolf fur, a faint, inscrutable smile curling at the corners of his lips. His long fingers delicately stroked each strand of fur one by one.
When Lu Yang smiled, it was like the first thawing of ice and snow. When he didn’t smile, he looked both cold and beautiful. But when he did this, curling only one corner of his lips, the chill that emanated from him was even more intense than when he wasn’t smiling, making anyone who glanced at him feel a shiver run down their spine.
After taking a bath, Ruan Mian walked out in the shape of a rabbit. Seeing the smile on his face, he couldn’t help shivering and secretly covered his rabbit fur tightly, for fear that he would pull his rabbit fur.
“Stop covering it.” Lu Yang glanced at the lop-eared rabbit, huffed, and blew the wolf fur in his hand out of the window.
He dusted his hands, walked over, and picked up the lop-eared rabbit. The rabbit’s body was soft and pliant, his ears hanging down on either side, giving him a thoroughly vulnerable and easy-to-bully appearance.
Lu Yang sat down on the bed, put the lop-eared rabbit on his legs, gently rubbed the rabbit’s belly, and petted his furry long ears. The rabbit laid obediently on his legs and stretched his limbs.
Lu Yang lowered his eyes and looked at Ruan Mian, who did not resist being petted, and the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up.
This is the rabbit he raised with great difficulty, one candy at a time. No one else but him can pet him.
Ruan Mian was rubbed by Lu Yang for a while, and he couldn’t help feeling a little sleepy. He squinted his eyes, yawned a little, rolled a few times on Lu Yang’s legs, rolled onto the soft quilt next to him, and turned back into human form.
He had just finished taking a shower, and there was still a little moisture on his body. He lazily spread out on the quilt, looked up at Lu Yang, and said with sleepiness in his voice, “Baby Lu, I just finished taking a shower, you should take a shower quickly. We played games last night and slept too late, got up late this morning, and were scolded by grandpa. We have to behave well today and go to bed early, otherwise grandpa said he would confiscate our game consoles.”
“Okay.” Lu Yang touched his wet hair, covered him with a quilt, stood up, and went to the bathroom.
Ruan Mian blinked as he looked at Lu Yang’s back. He couldn’t tell if it was just his imagination, but he felt that Lu Yang seemed to have grown taller after becoming an Alpha. With his tall, well-built frame, broad shoulders, and lean waist, his physique was simply perfect.
Lu Yang opened the door and walked into the bathroom. Ruan Mian closed his eyes and curled up in the blanket, feeling drowsy. He planned to wait until Lu Yang finished his shower before heading back to his own room, so he was making an effort to stay awake.
As he was nodding off, an earth-shattering scream suddenly erupted from the bathroom: “Ahhhhhhh!!!!”
Ruan Mian jolted awake, quickly scrambled out of bed, and frantically ran to the bathroom to open the door.
Moments later, another earth-shattering scream echoed from the bathroom: “Ahhhhhhh!!!!”
Hearing the commotion, Grandpa Lu was startled and quickly threw on a coat before rushing downstairs. He burst into the bedroom, pushed open the door, and asked, “What’s happening? What’s going on?”
Lu Yang and Ruan Mian huddled together in the corner, trembling and staring at a corner of the room. They shouted hoarsely, “Grandpa, over there!”
Grandpa Lu, thinking a thief had broken in, cautiously walked over and opened the bathroom door. Following their gaze, he saw an empty floor with a cockroach slowly crawling across it.
Grandpa Lu: “…”
Lu Yang and Ruan Mian clung to each other, urgently shouting, “Grandpa! It’s a cockroach!”
Seeing the tiny cockroach on the floor, Grandpa Lu was so enraged that he trembled all over. After a moment of silence, he shakily used his cane to squash the cockroach.
He pressed his hand against his chest, breathing heavily, unable to speak due to his frustration.
Once the cockroach was gone, Lu Yang and Ruan Mian finally relaxed, patting each other’s backs and comforting one another.
Lu Yang didn’t notice how ugly Grandpa’s face was, and he said to himself: “Grandpa, you arrived just in time.”
Grandpa Lu’s fingers trembled with anger, and he pointed at him and said word by word: “You are an Alpha, howling in the middle of the night, just because you saw a cockroach?”
Lu Yang nodded indifferently, and said with lingering fear: “Yes, Grandpa, you don’t know, this cockroach is so scary, I just opened the door and saw it flying there, my heart almost jumped out of fear.”
Grandpa Lu took a deep breath and shouted like a bell: “You are a wolf!”
Lu Yang looked at Grandpa Lu’s face, pursed his lips in grievance, and said in a buzzing voice: “Grandpa, you have changed, you were not like this before.”
Even when he was still a wolf before, Grandpa Lu would not only kill cockroaches for him, but also worry that he would be scared, comfort him in a soft voice, and buy him a lot of delicious and fun things.
Grandpa Lu was so angry that he knocked his cane hard, “You were an Omega before, but now you are an Alpha!”
Lu Yang raised his chin angrily and argued, “Grandpa, you are discriminating against Alphas! Just like gender discrimination, you are the marshal of the empire, this is wrong.”
Grandpa Lu covered his chest and groaned twice, almost fainting from anger.
Ruan Mian walked over and patted Grandpa Lu on the back, and said calmly and softly, “Grandpa, the teacher said that Alphas, Betas, and Omegas are born equal, and they cannot be discriminated against or isolated. They must be treated equally.”
Seeing the two of them singing the same tune, Grandpa Lu felt his throat tighten, unable to make a sound. He just wanted to roll his eyes and faint for a moment of peace and quiet.
He paused for a while, knocked the ground hard with his cane, and roared, “Lu Yang! You will go to the army tomorrow! If you don’t hone yourself to be an Alpha, don’t even think about coming back!”
After Grandpa Lu finished speaking, he turned around and left in anger.
Lu Yang was shocked, standing there in disbelief, his heart was in turmoil, and asked hoarsely, “What did Grandpa just say?”
Ruan Mian looked up at him worriedly and whispered, “Grandpa said he would send you to the army.”
Lu Yang blinked, and his voice began to tremble, “What does the army have?”
Ruan Mian thought for a while, “There are soldiers.”
“Are there game consoles?”
Ruan Mian shook his head, “No.”
“Are there air conditioners?”
“No.”
Lu Yang’s face was broken, and his voice trembled even more, “You?”
“…No.” Ruan Mian lowered his eyebrows and whispered in disappointment.
If Lu Yang was sent to the army by his grandfather, and if he also wanted to go to the army to accompany him, according to the Interstellar Military Law, Omegas were not allowed to participate in military training at all.
The army was worried that a group of Alphas and Omegas staying together would cause pheromones to interact and therefore distract each other, so if Omegas wanted to join the army, they could only do some deployment work behind the scenes, and could not go to the front line or train with the soldiers.
So even if he wanted to go to the army to accompany Lu Yang, he couldn’t go.
Ning Mixiang was applying a facial mask upstairs. There was bedtime music playing in the room just now, so she didn’t hear the screams of Lu Yang and Ruan Mian. Now the music was turned off, and the room was quiet.
She lay on the bed with her eyes closed. The breeze blew in from the window. The mask on her face was refreshing and comfortable. She hummed a song and happily enjoyed the quiet time of the night.
At this time, Lu Yang suddenly cried out from downstairs, each cry was more shrill than the last, “I won’t go!!! Grandpa, I won’t go!!!!!!!”
Ning Mixiang was shocked and sat up from the bed. The mask on her face fell to the ground. She opened her eyes wide and asked in confusion: “What, what happened?”
