The Tang Family’s Seven Os

Xia Cheng Lang came out ten minutes early when school ended and bought two cups of milk tea from Grandma Wang at the school gate.

Chen She came out with him, already used to seeing this, he knew that Xia Cheng Lang was going to Tang Liu Yuan’s home to do his homework every day after school, so he didn’t ask more questions.
He waved at Xia Cheng Lang and went to the sports field to exercise by himself.
As the college entrance examination was getting closer and closer, he decided to test for the police academy, so he was practicing in advance.

Xia Cheng Lang was leaning against the milk tea stall, he had been coming here for days to buy milk tea and Grandma Wang already knows him.
After making the milk tea, she asked smilingly: “Is it for Liu Yuan again ah?”

Xia Cheng Lang took the milk tea and smiled, “En.”

“Young man, Liu Yuan is very good, you must treat him well.” Grandma Wang looked at Xia Cheng Lang lovingly and admonished him.

“Don’t worry, Grandma Wang.” Xia Cheng Lang smiled brightly and agreed without hesitation.

The school bell rang at some point and the students came out, all dressed in school uniforms, looking full of vigour and vitality.
Whenever this time came, Grandma Wang would reveal a charitable smile.
Xia Cheng Lang once heard from Tang Liu Yuan, Grandma Wang’s son used to be a teacher at this school and later died in a car accident to save a student.
Since then, Grandma Wang moved to the school gate to sell milk tea, and the students all like her very much.

Now that school has just ended, Grandma Wang’s stall is already full of people, and she asks them one by one about the flavours they want.
For regular customers like Tang Liu Yuan, she doesn’t need to ask, she is able to remember.
Although she is old, she looks at this group of children as if she is looking at her own children.

Tang Liu Yuan walked over with his schoolbag on his back, first greeted Grandma Wang, then took a sip of the milk tea Xia Cheng Lang handed over and asked in a low voice: “What are you talking about with Grandma Wang?”

Xia Cheng Lang curled his lips and moved to Tang Liu Yuan’s ear and lowered his voice: “Grandma Wang told me to treat you well.”

As Xia Cheng Lang spoke, his breath blew against Tang Liu Yuan’s ear, which flushed red, “I’ll go explain to Grandma Wang.”

Grandma Wang thought Xia Cheng Lang was an Alpha and misunderstood their relationship because she saw the two of them getting close.

Xia Cheng Lang reached out and tugged on his school bag strap, pulling him in the direction of home, muttering unhappily: “Explain what ah? The elderly is happy to see you have a boyfriend, just let Grandma Wang be happy.”

“What boyfriend……” Tang Liu Yuan murmured, he glanced back at the stall surrounded by people, Grandma Wang looked up and smiled at him, reaching out and pointing at Xia Cheng Lang and gave a thumbs up gesture.

Tang Liu Yuan was stunned for a moment and smiled back when he saw the smile on Grandma Wang’s face.
He turned back to tug the strap of his school bag back from Xia Cheng Lang’s hand, stroked the strap and said: “Then I’ll explain next time.”

He was a bit at a loss for words when Grandma Wang was so happy.

Xia Cheng Lang took his schoolbag off and naturally carried it on his own body, saying casually: “I have a basketball game tomorrow, why don’t you come and watch me play?”

Tang Liu Yuan looked up at him, many of the basketball team members are Alphas, Tang Liu Yuan couldn’t help but feel a little worried, “Can you do it?”

“Don’t worry, I’ve participated in many of these games, no problem.” Xia Cheng Lang’s voice was a bit low, after telling one lie, he had to round it up with countless lies, but now every time he lied to Tang Liu Yuan, he would feel a bit sad and panic in his heart.

“Then that’s good.” Tang Liu Yuan nodded his head.

“Are you coming to see me play or not? If you don’t come, I’ll go to your class to look for you.”

Xia Cheng Lang’s tone was somewhat domineering, but his expression was like that of a small child who didn’t get to eat candy, Tang Liu Yuan couldn’t help but smile and say, “Okay, I’ll be there.”

As the two of them spoke, they unknowingly reached Tang Liu Yuan’s house.
Xiao Nai Cha immediately greeted them when it heard the sound, it already grew a little bigger, raised a little fat by Tang Liu Yuan.
Not sure if it’s because its still young, it doesn’t have the usual arrogance of average cats.
Instead, it is super sticky with Tang Liu Yuan and Xia Cheng Lang

Xia Cheng Lang squatted down and stroked Xiao Nai Cha, then familiarly walked into the house, changed into his own slippers, put down his and Tang Liu Yuan’s school bags, looked around the house and asked: “Xiao Qi hasn’t come back yet, has he been abducted by my cousin again?”

“En.” Tang Liu Yuan washed a plate of fruits and brought it to him.
He liked to eat fruits and had to eat a few every day after school.

Xia Cheng Lang took the fruit plate with great pleasure and first peeled a mangosteen and fed it into Tang Liu Yuan’s mouth.
Tang Liu Yuan only took one bite and then did not eat any more, but eagerly squatted down to hug Xiao Nai Cha.

Dissatisfied with Tang Liu Yuan’s neglect, Xia Cheng Lang put the rest of the mangosteen into his own mouth, approached Xiao Nai Cha, grabbed its little paw and shook it, saying somewhat jealously, “I heard that for every mangosteen eaten, a cat will lose a small little jio jio1This was written in English, it means foot/feet in Sichuan dialect.……”

Xiao Nai Cha can’t understand his words, not only was it not afraid, but instead grabbed his finger with his paw and licked it.

Tang Liu Yuan pushed his hand away and glared at him: “Don’t you scare it.”

“It doesn’t understand.” Xia Cheng Lang bristled, watching blearily as Xiao Nai Cha hogged Tang Liu Yuan’s embrace, and was emboldened2有恃无恐 (yǒu shì wú kǒng): an idiom, not afraid because subject has strong backing/support/someone to rely on.
to roll over in Tang Liu Yuan’s arms, he indignantly peeled another mangosteen and ate it.

It was only when the whole plate of fruits had been wiped out that Xia Cheng Lang clapped his hands and began to do his homework.

Tang Liu Yuan also put the cat down and sat down opposite Xia Cheng Lang to do his homework, which he did quickly and finished in no time.

Xia Cheng Lang, on the contrary, was always very slow in writing his homework.
He could not finish it until it was dark, and even when he did, he would dawdle until it was completely dark before leaving.
Tang Liu Yuan is used to his speed, and he is too lazy to rush him.

As usual, Tang Liu Yuan looked slightly sideways at Xia Cheng Lang’s workbook and asked: “Is there anything you don’t know?”

Xia Cheng Lang took out the error book he had prepared since early on, “I don’t know any of these.”

Tang Liu Yuan took the error book and looked at it, then explained it to Xia Cheng Lang in a low voice, always very meticulous when he talked about the problems, his voice low and soft, without any impatience.

After speaking for a while, he looked up and asked: “Is this understandable?”

“En?” Xia Cheng Lang was staring at his eyelashes, slightly lost in thought, and said in a trance, “I can understand……”

Tang Liu Yuan nodded and looked at the book to continue explaining the next question.

Xia Cheng Lang looked down at him, because he was so close, he could smell the faint fragrance of tea on Tang Liu Yuan.
Tang Liu Yuan’s eyelashes were very long, and the tail of his eyes that rose was a little cute.
His lips that opened and closed from time to time were moderately thick, and must be very sweet to kiss.

From time to time, Tang Liu Yuan will ask him if he can understand.
He always gives an “en” casually, his eyes falling on his face, reluctant to leave.
Every part of Tang Liu Yuan seems to be to his liking.
The more he looks, the more he likes.

Tang Liu Yuan did not stop until he had finished explaining all the errors, lifting his glass to drink a mouthful of water.

Seeing how dry his mouth was from explaining, Xia Cheng Lang felt a bit distressed and snatched the error book over, saying: “I understand everything.”

Tang Liu Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly, “Why did you understand so quickly today?”

In the past, Xia Cheng Lang often had to ask him to explain things again before he would give up.

Xia Cheng Lang put his books away, smiled and said: “You’ve been teaching me for so long, I have to make some progress.”

“Time really flies, it’s almost time for the college entrance exams ……” Tang Liu Yuan’s face was slightly gloomy and he couldn’t help but feel a little worried.
Although Xia Cheng Lang’s grades had improved a lot, it was still too difficult for him to get into a good university with his current grades.

Xia Cheng Lang smiled, not taking it seriously, “You have such good grades, no need to worry.”

“What about you?” Tang Liu Yuan asked, looking at him.

The smile on Xia Cheng Lang’s face froze, and he lowered his eyes slightly, his loose gaze settling down, and after a moment of silence, he looked at the books on his desk and whispered, “Liu Yuan, do you want to go to the same university as me?”

“Want.” Tang Liu Yuan answered without thinking, and froze for a moment when he finished.

Xia Cheng Lang moved his fingers and lowered his head to reveal a shallow smile.
He raised his head to look at Tang Liu Yuan, his tone returning to its previous carelessness, but mixed with an indescribable seriousness: “I will continue to work hard, maybe I can get into the same school as you?”

Tang Liu Yuan didn’t take it seriously; it was almost impossible for Xia Cheng Lang to improve his grades in such a short period of time, even for a genius, it is practically impossible, but at that time, he could at least enrol in a school close to Xia Cheng Lang.

He smiled and put Xia Cheng Lang’s workbook in front of him, “You’d better finish your homework first.”

Xia Cheng Lang let out an exaggerated sigh and lowered his head as he continued to write.

Tang Liu Yuan picked up a book from the nearby bookshelf and looked at it quietly, picking up a pen from time to time to make notes.

Xiao Nai Cha was playing with a ball of wool on the carpet to one side, occasionally looking up at them and meowing softly twice, trying to get the attention of its two masters.

Xia Cheng Lang finished his homework, took Xiao Nai Cha into his arms, fed it some dried fish and looked up at the book cover in Tang Liu Yuan’s hand, “Another medical book?”

“En.” Tang Liu Yuan nodded, still not taking his eyes off the book, he was always extra focused when reading medical books.

“You want to study medicine in the future?” Xia Cheng Lang reached out and wiped the crumbs that had gotten on the side of Xiao Nai Cha’s mouth.
He had once picked up these books of Tang Liu Yuan’s and looked at them, the knowledge in these books had long since surpassed the curriculum of a third year medical student, it was evident that Tang Liu Yuan had been preparing for a long time and already had a large reserve of medical knowledge.

Tang Liu Yuan nodded gently and finished the page before looking up at him and saying: “I hope I can help Omegas get rid of the trouble of pheromones.”

Tang Liu Yuan had always had this dream since he was a child, and he knew that many people thought his idea was incomprehensible, or even simply impossible to accomplish because no one had been able to solve this problem for so many years, but he just persistently and seriously worked towards his dream, only now he no longer spoke it out loud like he did when he was a child, but worked on it alone in silence.

But at this moment he looked at Xia Cheng Lang and said it out without hesitation.

He was a little nervous and timid, wondering if Xia Cheng Lang would laugh at his naivety and whimsy.

Xia Cheng Lang looked at him and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, but instead of laughing at him as he had thought, he looked at him and said in a serious tone: “I believe you can definitely succeed.”

Tang Liu Yuan’s eyes widened slightly, and he felt a gentle tap on his heart, with a roar and dizziness, and in that moment, he could see nothing but Xia Cheng Lang.

1This was written in English, it means foot/feet in Sichuan dialect.2有恃无恐 (yǒu shì wú kǒng): an idiom, not afraid because subject has strong backing/support/someone to rely on.

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