When in the military, Rong Shi occasionally heard some rumors about the royal family.

The second prince, Song Yu, was engaged to an omega from a prominent noble family at the age of twenty-five. 

However, on the eve of his engagement, he suffered a sudden pheromone rampage. His pheromone gland was removed, leaving him half-dead. After the engagement was called off, he quickly moved to Angel’s Seat for recuperation, surrendering the coveted throne.

In his previous life, he had never met the second prince himself. There were many people with the same name, but the person beside him was accompanied by the future head of the Royal Guard, basically confirming his identity.

Qin Luo coming here could be a personal choice, but a royal family member going out to study was basically equivalent to exile.

Rong Shi’s attitude was sincere, and his tone was steady: “Sorry, it just slipped out.”

Qin Luo: “…” Bro, explaining it like this will only add fuel to the fire!

Just as Rong Shi was about to let go, Song Yu grasped his hand instead. The other walked two steps closer, his voice whispering into his ear: “I think your name is very good, just like you, a feast for the eyes.”

A flurry of high and low whistles echoed in the corridor, coming from new students preparing for their exams.

“They’re actually flirting in the corridor early in the morning, are they serious?”

“If I looked like that, I could too.”

“So there really are alphas who like to get together with alphas.”

“What’s that? I’ve even seen omegas and omegas getting together.”

These discussions weren’t loud, but they reached Rong Shi’s ears one by one.

He turned his head, just in time to see the playful glint in Song Yu’s eyes.

Song Yu released his hand and walked away, feeling pleased.

After the person disappeared around the corner, a faint smile flickered across Rong Shi’s face: “A vengeful brat.”

On the way, he met Lu Ming, who was standing by the dorm door watching the show. Rong Shi didn’t even glance at him, but the other intentionally walked out with him.

Lu Ming smiled: “Chairman Rong is really busy. It seems you’re very confident about the new training?”

Seeing that he didn’t speak, he continued: “I heard you have to come in first to keep your chairman position. You need to work hard.”

Lu Ming had good looks and a somewhat pretty boy charm when he smiled, making him popular since childhood.

New students passing by heard these words and had an even better impression of him.

Rong Shi had caused such a big commotion. If he were removed from his position, Lu Ming would replace him. They were competitors, yet Lu Ming was so generously cheering on his opponent, showing great magnanimity.

When they reached downstairs, there were even more people. Everyone was rushing to leave at this time. Seeing Rong Shi and Lu Ming walking down side-by-side, their steps slowed.

Before stepping out the main door, Rong Shi stopped and looked at him. Others also looked over.

“It doesn’t matter to me whether I’m chairman or not, but as for you—” Rong Shi’s voice was cold, “try hard to hold onto second place. I believe in you.”

Lu Ming: “…”

“That’s too arrogant! It feels like Rong Shi isn’t afraid at all.”

“Just hearing that makes me think his grades are real.”

“Look at Lu Ming’s face, it’s so ugly.”

“Lu Ming is also unlucky to encounter such a strong opponent.”

As Rong Shi walked away, listening to the discussions around him, Lu Ming’s face alternated between green and white. His hands, hanging at his sides, clenched, knuckles turning white.

On the way to the cafeteria, Qin Luo couldn’t figure out what had just happened.

Why did Song Yu deliberately provoke him back in front of so many people? Was it just revenge for yesterday? From what he knew of Song Yu, shouldn’t he have just thrown a punch in such a situation? And such same-sex rumors, if they spread for too long, wouldn’t be a good thing.

“Bro, are you brewing something big?” Qin Luo walked beside him, asking in a low voice, “Give me a hint so I can think of a way to deal with it too.”

Song Yu didn’t answer, instead leisurely retorting: “How do you think the persona of someone who gives up after being exiled sounds?”

Qin Luo: “Huh?”

Three alphas walked past them. One of them pointed at Song Yu and said with a lewd, smiling voice: “Look, isn’t that the goddess?”

Another chuckled: “Looking like that, no wonder he’s messing around with an alpha.”

Yesterday, a hot post on the forum said that Rong Shi had a “first love face,” while Song Yu had a “goddess face.”

By this morning, that post had accumulated tens of thousands of replies.

Qin Luo’s face changed drastically. He turned around and called out to them: “Hey! What the hell did you say?!”

The alpha who spoke first looked over and apologized without sincerity, still smiling: “Sorry about that.”

“Damn it!” Qin Luo’s temper flared instantly. His knuckles cracked as he rushed over in a few steps.

If yesterday’s incident was an accident, then these people pointing and laughing at Song Yu now were doing it on purpose.

Before he could throw a punch, the alpha in front of him was suddenly lifted by a hand. Qin Luo turned to look, and that alpha had already screamed and fallen into the flowerbed by the roadside.

Seeing this, the other two alphas, one ran to help, and the other pointed at Song Yu and cursed: “Why are you hitting people?! Didn’t he already apologize?”

The alpha who ran to help had just stepped into the flowerbed when Song Yu grabbed him, punched him squarely in the face, and he fell beside the other alpha, writhing in pain.

Song Yu stood by the flowerbed, looking down at them, and scoffed: “Are your muscles all in your mouths?”

The only one not hit shrunk back, not daring to say anything.

Seeing Song Yu walk away after hitting them, Qin Luo was still furious. He dragged this alpha over and kicked him into the flowerbed, all three neatly arranged.

Qin Luo: “Only weaklings like to gossip behind others’ backs, how embarrassing!”

Until they walked away, the surrounding students who had been watching slowly began to discuss—

“I didn’t expect him to be so skilled. A second-year was knocked down by one punch.”

“They deserved it for mocking him to his face! They thought they were as good as Rong Shi.”

“Rong Shi didn’t mock anyone to their face, okay?”

“Seriously perverted, a disgrace to alphas.”

At eight o’clock in the morning, the new training written exam officially began. At the same time, Song Ke, lying in the healing pod, listened to his subordinate’s report, a twisted smile flashing across his face.

“He really proposed to an alpha?”

The special assistant nodded: “This matter has spread throughout the Central Military Academy forum. The other party is this year’s chairman, but his reputation isn’t great. Lu Youqi is putting pressure on the school, so the chairman’s position might be given up soon.”

Thinking of being pinned down and beaten by Song Yu that day, Song Ke gritted his molars, his eyes gloomy. “I never heard he had a tendency in that direction before.”

The special assistant respectfully said: “The second prince was already not favored by His Majesty. This time, after making such a serious mistake and being driven out of the palace by His Majesty, he might be feeling resentful and doing these things for revenge.”

Song Ke sneered: “What is this? A belated rebellious phase?”

The special assistant whispered: “It’s not out of the question that it’s an act.”

Song Ke stared at the glass cover of the healing pod and suddenly smiled: “Since he likes that alpha so much, as a brother, I naturally have to help him.”

Inside the exam room, Rong Shi clicked on the terminal embedded in the desk. A virtual screen was projected in front of him, in forced privacy mode, visible only to himself.

The exam content was divided into three categories: language, integrated sciences, and military theory.

He was serious about not wanting to be chairman, as this time his focus was no longer on courses and military merits. Some things needed time to investigate, and standing in such a high position without taking a side was very dangerous. He didn’t want history to repeat itself.

However, to prevent Qian Fan from crying and getting wrinkles again, he had to find a reasonable way to pass the buck.

Rong Shi first quickly scanned all the exam papers. They were all very basic questions, so simple that he could almost get the answer at a glance.

He estimated in his mind that students with average scores could probably get seventy or eighty points.

To be foolproof, he lowered his standard further, finally choosing sixty points, a just-passing score, which could reasonably lower his ranking without making him uncomfortable by failing.

After setting the score, Rong Shi began answering the questions. After finishing three exam papers, he checked the time; only half an hour had passed, and the exam time was four hours.

Having nothing else to do, he rested his chin on his hand and reviewed everything that had happened in his previous life from beginning to end.

In that last battlefield, he was affected by the omega’s pheromones and was not very clear-headed. No matter how many times he recalled it, the omega’s face was blurry and he couldn’t see it clearly at all.

However, there seemed to be a mole on their chin.

The bell for submitting papers interrupted his thoughts. The answer sheets were automatically submitted to the system backend, and within a few seconds, the scores appeared on the screen.

Seeing three sixty-point scores, Rong Shi satisfactorily closed the terminal and unhurriedly walked outside.

As soon as he reached the corridor, a burst of enthusiastic discussion erupted around him—

“Ahhh, I screwed up the exam! Only 48 in language!”

“You’re much better than me, I got 32 in integrated sciences! My dad will beat me again if he finds out. This time the questions were way out of scope!”

“I used to hear that the Central Military Academy’s exam system was brutal, but I didn’t expect it to be so abnormal! It’s not on the same level as the entrance exam at all!”

“I completely wrote nonsense for military theory and actually got 51 points, but I seriously answered every question in integrated sciences and only got 39 points!”

“Integrated sciences even had quantum universe questions, my goodness, it was like a textbook of heaven.”

Rong Shi was originally full of confidence, but every word he heard made his heart sink. When he reached the stairs at the end of the corridor, he couldn’t help but start doubting life.

Could it be that their papers were different from his?

Looking up, Song Yu stood at the end of the corridor in another building, also with a look of doubting life on his face.

The two looked at each other, speechless for a moment.

Rong Shi: “…”

Song Yu: “…”

Less than five minutes later, the school released the rankings for the new training written assessment. Rong Shi and Song Yu tied for first place with three sixty-point scores each. Qin Luo ranked third with a total score of 179, and Lu Ming ranked fourth with a total score of 177.

On the way to Assembly Hall No. 1, Rong Shi felt a strong gaze. Following the direction, he saw Lu Ming nervously turn his head away.

Rong Shi walked over: “Try hard to regain second place, good luck.”

Lu Ming: “…” Damn it!

After Rong Shi left, the few people around Lu Ming whispered.

“Rong Shi is really strong.”

“He seems completely stress-free. How does he do it?”

“His strength is obvious; how can he be like us?”

“So all that evidence on the forum was fake then? He easily got first place.”

“That Song Yu, wherever he transferred from, is actually so amazing too!”

“Academic gods have a mutual appreciation; their scores are exactly the same, a perfect match.”

Lu Ming’s polite smile completely dropped.

On the other side, Song Yu and Qin Luo walked towards the assembly hall.

“Bro, you really held back too much on your score, didn’t you?” Qin Luo saw him looking somewhere and followed his gaze, just in time to see Rong Shi’s dashing figure walking away after leaving Lu Ming with an ugly expression. “That guy also got exactly passing marks in all three subjects, he’s a true wolf.”

Song Yu watched him enter the assembly hall: “Somewhat interesting.”