Wolf Servant

Chapter 7: He Questions My Upbringing, and It's Your Fault

An hour later, Bai Jue stood at the entrance of the Imperial Royal Knight Academy, undergoing the routine inspection for entry—scanning his badge to confirm his identity and iris, searching for any prohibited dangerous toys on his person...

The inspector was a sophomore from the student council. When he reached out with gloved hands towards Bai Jue, the black-haired youth instinctively frowned, wrinkling his nose. "Don't touch me."

The poor Beta inspector froze, his hand suspended in mid-air.

Bai Jue stared at him firmly, his beautiful black eyes flashing with an overly proud and provocative gleam: Yes, just like this, don't move. Dare to touch me?

The air seemed to freeze momentarily. Some students waiting in line for security checks had to pause as the previously smooth queue came to a halt. Bai Jue felt the gaze of the housekeeper Fai Se, who was simultaneously undergoing inspection in another line, shooting over—

But he didn't care.

The conversation this morning had left him seething with anger, and now he just wanted to vent it out on some unlucky soul.

On Fai Se's side, he wasn't surprised to find that his restrained gaze didn't make the youth behave any better.

Instead, the youth's face appeared even more defiant... His fingertips, clutching the gloves he had just taken off, twitched slightly. The young Beta's eyelashes fluttered lightly, and as he raised his eyes, he saw the people who had been standing around him unconsciously take a step back...

Fai Se lifted his foot, intending to walk through the crowd towards Bai Jue. But just then, he suddenly saw a hand reaching out from the crowd, patting Bai Jue's shoulder...

Bai Jue clearly paused.

At the same time, Fai Se stopped in his tracks, lifting his hand to adjust his cap, his gaze flickering slightly.

—The person patting Bai Jue's shoulder was a young man wearing a white military uniform. He had large black-framed glasses, and his black hair was soft and obediently falling around his face. His military uniform was impeccable, indicating that he was also a first-year military academy student like Bai Jue.

He was a member of the wolf race with a very pure ancient Eastern lineage. Both his parents were probably of this lineage...

But paradoxically, he was just an ordinary guy.

Yes, ordinary—

The question that surprised Bai Jue was not only about this young man daring to casually pat his shoulder like a brazen rascal but also the unexpected ordinariness of him.

Nowadays, there weren't many wolf races with Eastern bloodline. Black hair and black eyes were almost synonymous with "rare commodity"—Bai Jue only inherited half of his mother's Eastern bloodline, and his eyes weren't entirely black but more like deep blue under the sunlight. Yet, even so, he had received so many compliments since childhood that it had become tiresome to hear...

So using the word "ordinary" on this young man in front of him seemed a bit strange, but for now, Bai Jue could only think of that: the person in front of him, with half of his face hidden behind those black-framed glasses, looked dull and lifeless.

Judging from the expressions of the people around, it seemed like everyone thought they were hallucinating—

Wasting such a rare bloodline like this.

In modern times, mainstream aesthetics dictate that natural black hair or black eyes add a touch of mystery and sexiness. So not to mention Omegas with this lineage, even ordinary Betas were quite popular for it...

Because Omegas have always been seen as fragile, needing protection. And after reaching adulthood, Omegas would inevitably face the dilemma of "heat," where their pheromones unconsciously drive the Alphas in the entire school crazy, causing them to attack en masse... So to avoid such chaos and to protect Omegas from being attacked by deranged Alphas, Omegas generally don't attend regular military academies—

So everyone was aware that the freshman in front of them was a Beta.

...At least, he smelled like one.

Just an ordinary Beta.

Not very appealing, nor intimidating.

So after a moment of astonishment, Bai Jue quickly regained his composure. He wrinkled his nose, lifted his hand to remove his hat, and used it to knock away the hand resting on his shoulder. "I allowed you to touch me?"

Having his hand knocked away by the hat, the dull-looking youth's expression didn't change much. He spoke in a cold tone, "You're blocking those behind us from reporting on time."

At this point, if Bai Jue were in wolf form, he would've sworn his ears were standing up, and his fur was starting to bristle. He bared his teeth, looking at the Beta in front of him with a mocking tone, "Oh, so what?"

"This is not the place for you to throw a tantrum," the youth glanced at him calmly.

For a moment, the surroundings fell silent enough that you could hear a pin drop...

Interesting.

At this moment, Bai Jue was almost about to burst into laughter—

He was being scolded.

In public.

Slightly squinting his eyes, his sharp gaze swept over the youth in front of him, who remained cool despite being lectured. He hadn't done anything despicable like releasing his pheromones at the school gate to suppress others—although at this point, the surrounding people were far enough away...

Except for the Beta who was lecturing him now.

If it wasn't for Bai Jue clearly seeing a drop of sweat falling from his hat onto his meticulously ironed collar...

Oh, he wasn't as bold as he imagined.

Bai Jue smirked, "Quite daring. What kind of roughneck are you who doesn't understand manners?"

"My mentor told me that in the military academy, whether noble or commoner, at least until graduation, everyone is equal classmates," the youth straightened his posture, his thin lips slightly pursed. "It seems like your mentor didn't tell you this."

The youth's retort felt like a slap questioning Bai Jue's upbringing—

At least that's what the onlookers thought. Some even gasped in shock: Is it really okay to be so stimulating at the school gate on the first day of school?

And unexpectedly, this time Bai Jue didn't say anything—

His silence even made people think he was feeling ashamed.

Until thirty seconds of dead silence passed, and the crowd behind the two parted completely, forming a path in the middle. A tall man in a dark military uniform was approaching. At this moment, the taciturn youth, who had his back to the crowd, seemed to sense the change in atmosphere. He turned his head and immediately saw Fai Se standing behind him.

In the sunlight, the man's back was silhouetted, leaving only a towering and majestic shadow—

In this campus, even as a Beta, he was still the most dazzling figure—Fai Se.

"..."

The youth's facial expression remained unchanged. He moved his lips slightly, about to say something...

And at this moment, the man with gloves holding a pair of gloves had already brushed past him without even looking, approaching the dark-haired Alpha not far away. He lowered his eyes, raised his hand, and with his long and neat fingertips, he patted the shoulder of the Alpha, removing some imaginary dust or something that had never existed before.

"Fai Se," Bai Jue looked at the man in front of him, not bothering to lift his eyes, and lazily said, "Someone seemed to have questioned the enlightenment education you gave me."

"My mistake, Young Master," Fai Se replied smoothly, taking the detector from the unlucky Beta who stood dumbfounded and hadn't finished the inspection yet. He scanned Bai Jue's head.

"It's your fault," Bai Jue glanced at him from the corner of his eye, "Look, you've taught me to be an unreasonable and arrogant nobleman who only knows how to suppress others with his status."

"Mm."

The man bent down, sweeping the detector over Bai Jue's chest, waist, and shoes.

After checking, he handed the detector back to the bewildered student council Beta. Putting on his gloves, he reached for Bai Jue's belt—this was the final step of the routine inspection, checking for the presence of micro-weapon devices behind the belt.

Bai Jue slapped away the man's hand with confidence, making a proposal that almost made the surrounding spectators faint in shock: "Then apologize to him."

The man: "..."

Fai Se straightened up, turning around—his gaze, for the first time, officially fell on the taciturn youth standing behind him. At this moment, the youth's face was no longer as calm as before; it was slightly pale... The glasses hiding behind the lenses seemed to shrink slightly.

Under Fai Se's gaze, he took a step back, biting his lower lip.

Bai Jue chuckled at the sight, slightly tilting his body, reaching out to grab the man's hat, and forcefully turning his head back in the original direction he was going. "It seems like he doesn't need it anymore."

His tone was smug enough to make people itch.

But Fai Se just calmly met the smiling eyes in front of him, and responded with a simple "Mm," as if nothing had happened just now, with an indifferent expression. He was about to reach for Bai Jue's belt for inspection again—

Bai Jue leaned back a second time to avoid his hand, frowning, "I didn't allow you to touch me either."

Fai Se's cold face finally cracked, revealing a hint of helplessness. "Young Master, without completing the inspection, you cannot enter the campus. This is also the case for the principal; there are no exceptions. Are you planning to stand here like a fool on such an important day?"

Bai Jue: "..."

Of course not.

On such a great day, refusing to shine and make a mark on the battlefield of sacred choices, but standing at the gate like a statue, who does that?

One minute later, shocking everyone to the point of swallowing an elephant whole with their astonishment, Bai Jue, with a stern face, took off his belt himself and handed it to the man wearing black leather gloves, then turned away.

The man seemed accustomed to this, calmly checking the belt in front of the admiring members of the student council, and then folding it up and holding it in his hand. He followed in the direction Bai Jue had left—

Leaving behind a dropped jaw on the ground.

On this morning, which should have been bustling with the peak of the school rush, the entrance to the campus was unusually silent.