“I know his gender,” Song Yu scoffed, disbelievingly retorting, “Who wouldn’t know the gender of someone they like? Do you think I’m stupid?”

Rong Shi: “…”

Rong Shi’s gaze drifted: “I thought you knew nothing about him, asking such simple questions.”

He was just making a casual excuse, but in Song Yu’s ears, it became, “You don’t even know why Bunny likes bunnies, and you say you like him? Heh heh, that’s hilarious. You’re no competition for me, you’re eliminated on the spot.”

Song Yu smiled outwardly, but inwardly, he was fuming. “I know a lot of things; it just suddenly occurred to me, so I just asked.”

Rong Shi continued to probe: “Then do you know his name?”

Song Yu: “…”

Rong Shi: “Which planet is his home planet?”

Song Yu: “…Damn it.”

Rong Shi: “What school does he attend?”

Song Yu: “…”

Can’t he just ask a question he knows the answer to?

Rong Shi: “You don’t know anything. What exactly do you know about him?”

Song Yu was about to retort when he suddenly realized that this old fox was trying to trick him into revealing information.

He was the one asking the questions, so how did he end up being asked so many questions in return?

He scoffed lightly: “I don’t know. Do you know, then?”

The setting sun was a bit blinding. Rong Shi, hands in his jacket pockets, pulled the brim of his baseball cap lower: “I know.”

Song Yu: “Tell me?”

“I can tell you, but—” Rong Shi intentionally paused, “I’ll only answer one. You choose.”

Song Yu: “…” He didn’t take the bait.

He wanted to know the answers to all three questions, but asking them would only tell Rong Shi that he didn’t know.

How well do they really know each other? Why would Rong Shi know so much about Bunny?

The more Song Yu thought about it, the angrier he got: “You don’t actually think I don’t know, do you?”

Rong Shi: “…”

Song Yu: “I’ll stick to my original question.”

Rong Shi: “Are you sure?”

Song Yu, enduring the pang in his heart, nodded nonchalantly.

Rong Shi quickened his pace, his tone casual: “I don’t know the answer to that question either. You’ll have to ask him yourself.”

“You damn—”

After all that, he was still played. Song Yu couldn’t stand it anymore and threw a punch.

Knowing he was about to get hit, Rong Shi subtly shifted his body, catching the punch coming from behind: “Fighting near the school, isn’t that inappropriate?”

A newlywed couple arrested for drag racing on a date, then brawling in the street due to resentment.

Rong Shi had already thought up the newspaper headlines.

“Hitting is affection, scolding is love.” The smile on Song Yu’s face grew fierce. “Some people are just asking for a beating, and there’s no stopping them.”

Given Song Yu’s temper, it was a miracle he had tolerated Rong Shi this long. Once a fight started, there was no stopping it.

Although it wasn’t the weekend, many students would be out and about before and after dinner.

After a few moves, some students started gathering from a distance, watching.

For some reason he didn’t want to dwell on, Rong Shi didn’t use his usual combat routines.

After a few moves, he felt like he was fighting himself.

He was too familiar with Song Yu’s combo routines.

So familiar that for every move Song Yu made, he knew what counter-move the other would use.

With every passing move, a dagger was plunged into his heart.

Rong Shi: “…”

The routines of masters are all similar; it’s just a coincidence.

As Rong Shi expected, the news of their fight spread like wildfire throughout the military academy. More and more people came from far and wide to watch, and cheers and screams could be heard now and then.

“Awwwww! Brother Rong is so damn handsome!!”

“Go, Goddess! I bet a hundred credits on you!”

“Excellent! Hit harder!”

“Brother’s long legs, absolutely amazing, ahhhhhh!”

“Haven’t seen such a pleasing combat match in a long time.”

“Is this also a date activity? Can you two be any straighter?”

For reasons he couldn’t dwell on, Rong Shi didn’t fight all out. He either defended or retreated; his fists just wouldn’t land a punch.

A momentary lapse in concentration was caught by Song Yu, whose long leg swept towards his head.

He grabbed the other’s ankle and pulled hard.

Song Yu used the momentum to flip, intending to scissor Rong Shi’s neck with his legs and pin him down.

But halfway through the flip, Rong Shi let go and stepped back.

Song Yu lost his balance, on the verge of falling to the ground.

Before he could even think, Rong Shi had already taken two steps and reached out his hand.

Then he was dragged down to the ground by the other party.

Rong Shi: “…”

Song Yu pinned his shoulders, flipping to the top, and his iron fist aimed directly at Rong Shi’s face.

Rong Shi gripped his wrist, powerfully flipped over, and pinned Song Yu’s hand to the grass. Just as he was mentally preparing to say something harsh, cheers suddenly erupted around them.

“That foreplay was so damn long, finally getting to the main course!”

“Kiss! Kiss!”

“Awwwww, kill me, brother!”

“Goddess’s profile is absolutely stunning!”

“Kiss me! If you don’t kiss, I’ll force it. You decide!”

“So intense! I love it!”

Rong Shi: “…”

Song Yu: “…”

By the time they returned to their dorms, their faces showing various emotions, the forum had already exploded.

The photo of Rong Shi pinning Song Yu’s hand down on the grass was being frantically shared, and the Omegas in the military and political departments were going crazy over it.

“It’s even more satisfying than being in a relationship myself, double the happiness~”

“So sweet! I’m going to get cavities!”

“I’m turning gay, I actually think this is beautiful.”

“Want to find an Alpha little brother for a relationship. I’m an Alpha, the kind with rather hard fists.”

“After watching live, I finally understand the love between two Alphas.”

“Am I the only one who thinks they were genuinely fighting?”

Back at the dorm, before he could even catch his breath, Rong Shi was summoned to Qian Fan’s office by a communication.

He hadn’t been in there long when Song Yu also arrived.

Qian Fan looked at the two students sitting opposite his desk, fuming.

They looked like decent people, so why couldn’t they do something decent?

He tapped the table with his pen: “Smashing charging ports, and drag racing in a crowded area? What kind of trendy new date activity is this, Rong Shi, you tell me.”

When he received the communication from the Security Bureau, he was stunned. If he hadn’t vouched for them so strongly, these two brats would have been stuck there until tomorrow.

Rong Shi’s face was calm, his voice cold: “First date, gotta do something romantic.”

Song Yu’s face was blank, he glanced at him as if he were an idiot.

Qian Fan was so angry he almost couldn’t catch his breath: “Most people can’t handle this kind of romance!”

Rong Shi calmly said: “But my wife likes to play like this.”

Song Yu: “…”

Seeing Qian Fan look over, Song Yu shook his head and laughed softly: “My little one is a bit mischievous. He caused you trouble.”

Rong Shi: “…”

After a brief assessment, Qian Fan glared at Rong Shi again: “Don’t try to push the blame onto Little Song. You go back and write a five-thousand-word self-criticism. Hand it to me tomorrow morning!”

Rong Shi: “…”

The two were lectured for an hour before being released.

Walking out of the office, Rong Shi: “You get two thousand five, I get two thousand five.”

Song Yu smiled lazily: “You’re the one who broke things, and you’re the one who ran. What does that have to do with me?”

Rong Shi: “Half each, and I’ll answer another question for you.”

“You think I’ll fall for that again?” Song Yu’s eyes were teasing, and he said proudly, “Go back and spin your tale slowly. I hope your hair is still there when we meet tomorrow.”

With that, Song Yu walked away mercilessly.

The cool night wind blew, chilling Rong Shi to the bone.

If it were his kitten, he would never let him face a hefty self-criticism alone.

This proves that Song Yu and the kitten are two different people.

The next morning, before class, Rong Shi handed in his handwritten five-thousand-word self-criticism to Qian Fan’s office.

Zheng Hai, the director of student affairs for the second year, was also there. The two were chatting.

Zheng Hai: “I heard it’s the military high command’s idea. They want to co-host it this year.”

Qian Fan: “They must be bored out of their minds. Only someone with ten years of brain thrombosis could come up with such a plan.”

Zheng Hai: “The process is already underway from above. Now we can only discuss which grade is suitable to participate.”

Qian Fan: “It would take at least a month back and forth, so second and third years can participate as a mission, but freshmen are excused.”

Zheng Hai: “No military merit, and you might even offend those rich aristocratic children. Who’d want to go?”

Rong Shi walked in, placed the self-criticism on Qian Fan’s desk, and casually asked, “What mission?”

Qian Fan took the self-criticism and flipped through it: “The Royal Academy’s annual Barren Star Survival Competition. They want to host it with the military academy this year.”

Walking out of the office, Rong Shi pondered the matter.

He had been considering when to make a trip to Imperial Capital Star, but many people were watching him now. If he went specifically, he’d need a reasonable excuse. If he could use this competition…

That evening, in Song Yu’s dorm.

Rong Shi picked up an injection syringe, labeled SYT7737.

This was stolen from the clinic owner’s package.

Song Yu sat on the sofa: “I’ve already had people look into it, no results yet.”

Rong Shi: “What about those liquid medications?”

Song Yu: “They all match the medical records, but it’s still incomplete. There might be other locations.”

Thinking of the All-Round Competition, Rong Shi had a rough guess.

The organization behind the scenes uses this competition to select talents in certain fields, then finds a 100% matched Omega to control their thoughts and actions, making the talents serve them.

The liquid medications likely serve as reagents, first to concoct a mimetic pheromone that matches them 100%, and then to use it to find the Omega whose pheromones completely correspond.

In that case, an Alpha’s medical record would necessarily correspond to another matching Omega’s medical record.

Rong Shi pondered, resting his chin on his hand, still feeling like something was off.

“I still reserve my opinion on your previous assertion that Omegas can control Alphas,” Song Yu said with a serious expression, “But for them to go to such great lengths, if it’s just for illegal marriages, that seems a bit outlandish.”

In the decades immediately following the abolishment of the intelligent matching system, widespread illegal marriage agencies did indeed emerge.

The vast majority of the populace had grown accustomed to the high-match marriage system, and suddenly losing this standard made many people uneasy.

Illegal agencies exploited this by charging exorbitant processing fees for fake proxy matching services.

Many families, in pursuit of high match rates and superior offspring, lost everything.

There’s also a very crucial clue in this matter—the prohibited stimulant.

Both investigated strongholds showed traces of the prohibited stimulant. Was it just a coincidence, or was there another reason?

“No.” Rong Shi took a blank piece of paper and drew on it. “An Alpha who participated in the All-Round Competition, medical record code 01, and liquid medication code is also 01. Then the Omega matched with him, their medical record code must also be 01.”

Alpha, Omega, liquid medication number, medical record code—the three must be linked together.

Song Yu looked at the diagram he drew: “Among the data we have, no two medical record numbers correspond. That means either these people haven’t completed the matching process yet, or we’ve only found half the data.”

Rong Shi: “Mhm.”

Two Lin brothers’ pheromones matched Gu Yan’s and Hu Feng’s 100%, but Gu Yan and Hu Feng didn’t appear in the medical records. Could it be related to their unsuccessful matching?

The two organized their thoughts all night but still felt they had too few clues.

Rong Shi: “You have a lot of subordinates. Pick some targets from the medical records and follow them for a while. Perhaps there will be clues.”

Song Yu had already started on this, but Rong Shi’s statement made him feel uneasy.

“How do you know I have a lot of people?”

Looking back, Rong Shi never seemed surprised by anything about him.

If Rong Shi knew what he was thinking, he would surely retort.

At least I’d be very surprised about your disguise.

Rong Shi didn’t answer, changing the subject instead: “Where’s your rabbit?”

Song Yu: “…”

Was his train of thought too jumpy?

Song Yu: “Are you thinking about it?”

Rong Shi: “Can I see it?”

Song Yu: “Dream on.”

Rong Shi: “…”

Near midnight, Rong Shi logged into Star Wars and once again unexpectedly ran into the kitten.

“Bunny!” The kitten happily walked over, naturally taking his hand. “I guessed you’d definitely be online tonight.”

Rong Shi glanced at his clasped hand, feeling a bit complicated.

“Why?”

The kitten smiled, his beautiful cat eyes slyly darting: “Because we haven’t seen each other in days. You must have missed me.”

One smile made Rong Shi’s exhaustion from the entire night disappear.

He squeezed the kitten’s hand, finding his previous speculation absurd.

The kitten and Song Yu were completely different species. Even if the universe ended, they couldn’t possibly be the same person.

Thinking this, his mood visibly improved.

“Mhm, I feel like something’s missing if I don’t see you for a day.”

The kitten chuckled: “Next time, should I mail myself to you?”

Rong Shi’s lips curved into a slight smile: “Then I’ll personally pick you up at the space station.”

The kitten opened the menu panel: “Playing Barren Star Survival tonight too?”

Rong Shi: “Okay.”

The two tacitly changed the subject, only saying “next time” but not when “next time” would be.

It was always a matter of stopping at a certain point, even when expressing true feelings through jokes.

Their duo queues always trended due to the overwhelming number of spectators, and the betting pools soared to absurd figures.

In the map, the kitten deftly took care of a Level 3 mutated worker bee, smiling as he said: “Do you think if we intentionally lost a match, we’d be wanted by the entire server?”

The public chat might be flooded for days with “Cat and Bunny actors, give me back my hard-earned money!”

Rong Shi’s attention, however, was completely drawn to his combo moves.

Perhaps it was because he had just seen Song Yu’s moves that afternoon, but now, watching the kitten’s actions, Song Yu’s face unconsciously flashed before his eyes.

“Bunny?” The kitten reached out and waved a paw in front of his eyes. “Are you sleepy?”

Rong Shi held his paw, secretly pressing his paw pads twice.

“A new transfer student joined our class recently. He has a head of blonde hair.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he noticed the paw in his palm stiffen for a moment, then heard the kitten say: “You… don’t like blonde hair?”

“Not really.” Rong Shi tilted his head, observing his expression. “After looking at it for a while, I think blonde hair is quite beautiful.”

The kitten’s eyes lit up, surprised: “You like blonde hair? Your taste is pretty good!”

Rong Shi: “…Mhm.”

The kitten leaned close to his ear, his voice full of laughter: “I’m blonde too, naturally!”

Rong Shi: “………………”

There were too many blonde people in the Empire; it was just a coincidence, a coincidence.

The next morning, just as Rong Shi was about to leave, there was a knock at the door.

He opened the door and was almost blinded by the brilliant smile on Song Yu’s face.

“Morning, Chairman Rong, wanna grab breakfast together~”

Rong Shi: “…”

On the way, Song Yu was in a great mood: “He confessed to me last night. Although I’m sorry, you’re out of the running.”

Rong Shi: “…”

Rong Shi: “How did he confess?”

Song Yu: “He said he likes me.”

Rong Shi: “…Did he say that?”

Rong Shi: “Are you hallucinating?”

Song Yu chuckled smugly: “Just face the reality. I’m the one he likes. You’re not within his preference.”

Rong Shi: “…”

Song Yu was definitely not the kitten, because he simply couldn’t understand what the other was saying.

This proves that Song Yu definitely likes another rabbit.

Rabbits are so common; it’s perfectly normal to have three, four, or five of them.

Author’s Note:

Song Cat: Bunny likes blonde hair, and I’m blonde. Therefore, he likes me. Perfect!

Bunny Rong: Hello everyone, starting today, my name is Rong Ostrich.