「 ✦ Extra 1 ✦ 」

"I heard that senior Wen Yao is very fierce."

As Du Bozhou was about to leave the classroom, he overheard this comment from his classmates.

"What makes her fierce?"

Du Bozhou set down what he was holding and looked at the classmates gossiping nearby.

A few students turned to him.

"I'm not sure, but the second-year seniors all say not to provoke her."

Du Bozhou chuckled lightly, somewhat dismissive. "Is that so."

After all, she's just a third-year student, only two years older than them. How fierce could she really be?

"What's there to be afraid of?"

Du Bozhou wasn't someone who held respect based on age and didn't think there was anything particularly impressive about her.

After parting ways with his classmates, Du Bozhou hurried to the lab.

The seniors he knew were all sitting in the lab, and they greeted Du Bozhou.

At that moment, a woman walked into the lab. She was dressed similarly to a university student, wearing a white shirt that was very neat, as if it had never touched dust.

Her hair was elegantly pinned up, and her features were delicate. Although her face looked young, her profile exuded a mature expression, creating a noticeable distance between her and those around her.

Du Bozhou had met many people, but he couldn't quite determine this person's age.

"Good morning, Senior Wen." someone beside Du Bozhou called out.

"Good morning." she replied, setting down her bag.

"Senior Wen, Professor Yuan said yesterday—"

Senior Wen?

—Is this the fierce senior they were talking about?

Du Bozhou couldn't help but lower the book in his hands.

He had just formed a fierce impression in his mind, but upon seeing her, he was momentarily taken aback.

Wen Yao seemed to notice Du Bozhou, glanced at him, then turned back to the other students. "Professor Yuan's new student?"

"Yes, his name is Du Bozhou."

"Professor Yuan won't be coming to school for the next few days due to meetings." Wen Yao said as she flipped through her schedule, looking at Du Bozhou. "You."

Du Bozhou's shoulders tensed. "Huh?"

"Let me see your proposal."

After half an hour, Du Bozhou was completely in awe of Wen Yao.

Not only did she quickly grasp his ideas, but she also elevated the level of his paper several notches, offering perfectly timed suggestions. It was as if she had done this countless times before, making these judgments in an instant.

Her tone when raising questions wasn't very harsh, but it was quite cold. The questions seemed very formulaic, yet each one pierced through to the core of the issue, making Du Bozhou blush with embarrassment over his mistakes each time.

"Thank you, Senior Wen..."

Unconsciously, he also naturally started calling the person in front of him "Senior."

"No need to thank me. Just submit the revised proposal directly to Professor Yuan. Also, remember to turn in your course schedule by tomorrow, each lab needs to keep track of it."

Wen Yao said this and nodded slightly.

"Ah, okay." Du Bozhou replied respectfully.

Wen Yao slowly walked away to attend to other matters.

—Actually, she wasn't fierce, she was just a bit cold.

Du Bozhou thought to himself, somewhat disappointed for some reason by Senior Sister's indifferent demeanor.

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Two weeks later, the lab held a welcome party for the new students. In the evening, the restaurant became quite crowded, and several people sat in front of Du Bozhou, chatting with him.

Du Bozhou was actually very good at socializing. He understood that a friendly attitude towards others was a fundamental principle of social interaction.

As a result, many found him to be a charming Alpha—outstanding by birth, with well-defined features. Whenever he smiled at others, they responded to his smile even more enthusiastically.

Although he often found this rather uninteresting.

However, his social skills allowed him to maintain a smile even while thinking this.

"Du Bozhou, do you have an Omega?" someone asked.

"Oh, that... no, not yet." Du Bozhou smiled and glanced to the side.

Sitting nearby, Wen Yao remained expressionless among the seniors, quietly eating her meal.

Many people poured her drinks, but she remained silent, unmoved like a mountain, sitting quietly to the side and occasionally exchanging a few words with the professor.

She didn't seem like a student but more like a second professor in the lab.

Even while drinking, she still exuded elegance, giving off a sense of refinement.

After a while, the noise in the room picked up again, and it was already ten o'clock.

When Du Bozhou glanced over at Wen Yao again, he noticed she was resting her forehead against the back of her chair, her eyes slightly closed.

"Is Senior Wen okay?" Du Bozhou quietly asked another senior nearby.

"She's fine," the senior replied, continuing to eat. "Someone will come to pick her up."

"Someone will come to pick her up?"

Du Bozhou didn't quite understand what that meant at first, but before long, the scene became lively again. Wen Yao still sat alone, one hand propping up her head, quietly closing her eyes as if she had fallen asleep.

After a while, a person entered the restaurant. The person was wearing a military green windbreaker on top and slim black jeans on the bottom. She had on a black baseball cap, the brim casting a shadow over her eyes.

The person looked around the restaurant.

—How suspicious.

If this person casually picked up a beer bottle, she would look like a criminal.

Du Bozhou thought to himself as he watched the person's wandering figure.

He leaned closer to his friends, just about to say something when he noticed that the person suddenly looked in Wen Yao's direction. Her steps seemed to have subtly quickened as she approached Wen Yao from behind, slightly bending down to ask in her ear, "Wen Yao, can you still stand?"

In that moment she lowered her head, her eyes remained hidden, but Du Bozhou noticed that the curve of her jaw was quite attractive.

"Jiang..." Wen Yao softly murmured something. Du Bozhou was too far away to hear clearly, but the way she said the name was gentle, a warmth he had never heard from this usually indifferent senior.

The person seemed to smile at her words, "Ready to go home?"

"Mm." Wen Yao nodded.

Wen Yao's fingers touched the woman's arm, as if they were tightly connected, not letting go.

The person Du Bozhou had just deemed suspicious slung Wen Yao's bag over her shoulder and wrapped her own scarf around Wen Yao's neck.

"Professor Yuan, she's had too much to drink today, so I'll take her home now." The person said, putting her arm around Wen Yao's shoulders and helping her stand up. 

"Next time, you all should come to my house for dinner."

Professor Yuan bid them farewell, seeming familiar with the person.

"Hehe, I was just thinking about having the ribs cooked by Professor Yuan's wife." the person replied casually.

Professor Yuan smiled.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, the person led Wen Yao out.

"Everyone, enjoy your meal. We're leaving now. Professor Yuan, don't drink too much, or Professor Yuan's wife will get mad."

Professor Yuan waved them off.

A few minutes after they left, someone glanced at the clothes nearby, "Wen Yao forgot her jacket."

After they left, it wasn't long before someone noticed the coat lying nearby. "Wen Yao forgot her jacket."

"Jiang Shuyi has already left."

Jiang Shuyi must be the name of that woman, Du Bozhou thought.

For some reason, Du Bozhou reached out to take Wen Yao's jacket. "I'll go return this to Senior Wen."

He smiled.

"Thank you."

To catch up with the two, he jogged ahead.

He quickly caught up with them.

Even though it hadn't been long since they left the restaurant, Jiang Shuyi had already taken off her military green jacket and draped it over Wen Yao's shoulders. Du Bozhou hadn't worn a jacket when he came out, but seeing the person's gesture, he suddenly felt cold.

But the woman didn't seem to feel cold at all as she wrapped her arm around Wen Yao's shoulders.

"Um..."

Du Bozhou didn't know how to address her, so he simply called out to the drunken Wen Yao.

"Senior Wen, you forgot your jacket."

Wen Yao looked at Du Bozhou with dazed eyes and noticed her jacket in his hand.

"...Sorry."

Wen Yao took the jacket.

Du Bozhou wasn't sure what to say at that moment, but the woman beside Wen Yao laughed brightly at him. "Thank you, I didn't even notice."

"Ah, it's nothing." Du Bozhou responded awkwardly.

—This woman's personality is so different from Senior Wen's.

Just a while ago, with a cap on and a bit of distance, it was hard to see clearly, but now, Du Bozhou noticed that this woman had a very bright smile.

If he had encountered someone like her on a normal day, he would definitely find it hard to dislike her.

Du Bozhou thought.

"You should head back quickly, so you don't catch a cold. The weather forecast says it might snow later." The person said with a smile.

Du Bozhou paused for a moment, glancing at the woman's shoulders, which were also bare of a coat. He originally wanted to say, "Aren't you cold too?"

However, seeing Wen Yao leaning on that woman's shoulder, looking quite comfortable, he couldn't bring himself to say it.

"Oh, okay."

Du Bozhou replied and jogged back to the restaurant.

After a while, he couldn't help but glance back. Wen Yao and the woman were already walking further away. The woman took a few steps and playfully reached out to tousle Wen Yao's hair.

Her movements were bold, but Wen Yao neither minded nor resisted, allowing the woman to play with her hair. In the end, she even adjusted the woman's coat.

For a moment, Du Bozhou felt that the sight of the two of them together was very harmonious, making him feel a bit envious.

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