Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

Zhou Yanshu felt completely bewildered. He leaned against the wall and looked at Yu Zhuo, having no recollection of ever meeting him before.

But the child's dependence on him far exceeded that of ordinary people.

After the surgery, Yu Zhuo shamelessly stayed in the palace to recuperate. He was young and mute, so Zhou Yanshu decided to take him in temporarily after careful consideration.

Yu Zhuo liked to squeeze in with him, whether it was the bed, sofa, or chair... Yu Zhuo would always choose the place closest to Zhou Yanshu.

Zhou Yanshu examined Yu Zhuo's body and found that Yu Zhuo didn't even have glands on the back of his neck, so he was probably a Beta.

It won't affect me, we can sleep together.

"The doctor said your throat isn't injured, so why aren't you talking?" Zhou Yanshu casually twirled a white hair on Yu Zhuo's head with his fingers from time to time. "Is it that you can't talk, or that you don't want to talk?"

Yu Zhuo rolled his eyes, looking like he understood but not quite.

Zhou Yanshu could only teach him himself: "See this picture? You drew it yourself in class. This is you, and this is me. You're so much shorter than me, what should you call me?"

Yu Zhuo looked at the white paper spread out on the table. On the paper were two wooden figures, one yellow and one black. It was obvious that the drawing skills were poor, the lines were extremely rough, and the lines in the middle were broken several times.

"Ah." Yu Zhuo pointed to the taller yellow figure in the picture and nodded to Zhou Yanshu.

Zhou Yanshu remained unmoved: "What did you call me?"

Yu Zhuo pursed her lips and remained silent.

They stared at each other for a few seconds, then Zhou Yanshu frowned and said, "Brother, you know what to do? Call me brother, brother—brother—"

Yu Zhuo remained silent, rolled up the white paper and put it away, turning his back and ignoring Zhou Yanshu.

Zhou Yanshu scoffed: "She's quite young, but she has quite a temper."

At the same age, others could already answer questions fluently, but Yu Zhuo couldn't even pronounce the words clearly.

Zhou Yanshu had to admit that Yu Zhuo did have some flaws, but they were not irreparable.

"I'll ask you the same question again next week. If you still can't answer it, you can go sleep outside." Zhou Yanshu said coldly, "Anyway, you're not young anymore, it's time for you to be independent."

Yu Zhuo paused, grabbed Zhou Yanshu's sleeve, and shook his head.

“Hmm, I know you’re protesting, but it’s in vain.” Zhou Yanshu pinched Yu Zhuo’s cheek. “The sofa is waiting for you.”

Yu Zhuo clenched the white paper in her hand and silently bit the soft flesh inside her lip.

Zhou Yanshu had not yet undergone secondary differentiation, and he had no doubt that he would differentiate into an Alpha in the future. The elders within the Merfolk shared the same thought; they were even already selecting a suitable Omega for Zhou Yanshu.

Yu Zhuo took all of this into view.

He has no glands on the back of his neck, so he will most likely be a Beta in the future. It is precisely because he is a Beta and has no pheromones that he will not affect Zhou Yanshu, which is why the merfolk allow him to stay by Zhou Yanshu's side.

But as time goes by, Yu Zhuo's body will also grow rapidly. He estimates that he will be able to reach the same height as Zhou Yanshu and achieve the system's gender selection in two years.

Until then, he will maintain this short and weak appearance.

Yu Zhu crumpled the small painting in his hand into a ball, pursed his lips, and a gloomy look appeared in his eyes.

A week later, Zhou Yanshu asked Yu Zhuo the same question again. His ultimate goal was to get Yu Zhuo to speak, so he just sat in his chair and waited for Yu Zhuo to speak.

Yu Zhuo glanced at the clothes and quilts that Zhou Yanshu had already packed up, and unhappily spread the blueprints on the table.

There are still two little people, one yellow and one black, the yellow one is taller and the black one is shorter.

Zhou Yanshu sat in his chair, his chin resting on his hand. His knuckles were white, and he casually pointed to one of the small figures: "Who is this?"

“You,” Yu Zhuo began.

His voice was hoarse, far from the immature appearance that suggested his childlike nature.

Zhou Yanshu listened intently for a moment, then pointed to the side: "Who's this?"

"I."

"Okay." Zhou Yanshu looked at the table. "This is you, this is me, what did you call me?"

Yu Zhuo looked up at Zhou Yanshu for a moment, then hesitated and said, "Wife."

Zhou Yanshu: "..."

He didn't say a word, but changed the direction of his finger and pointed more forcefully at the two little figures on the paper: "I'll give you one more chance. What will you call me?"

Yu Zhuo: "Husband."

Zhou Yanshu: "..."

"Go and process my withdrawal from school tomorrow." Zhou Yanshu snatched the papers from the table, frowned for a moment at the two little figures on the paper, and then shifted his gaze to Yu Zhuo, "Are you in a relationship?"

Yu Zhuo lowered his head and remained silent.

Zhou Yanshu chuckled inexplicably, then pinched Yu Zhuo's nape and said, "Go to your room."

Yu Zhuo immediately dragged his packed clothes and sheets back into the bedroom.

Yu Zhuo is rapidly learning foreign knowledge, not only the language of the merfolk, but also everything about ABO in this world.

Zhou Yanshu is an Alpha. If the situation remains the same after the second differentiation, then he will undoubtedly marry the Omega that has already been chosen by his clan.

Yu Zhuo was secretly anxious. He had indeed grown rapidly in the past two years, but he was always a little short.

The bed in the bedroom was the one Zhou Yanshu slept in when he was a child. There was still room when Zhou Yanshu used to hold Yu Zhuo and lie on it, but at some point, Yu Zhuo had grown to be almost as tall as him.

But Yu Zhuo seems to have only grown taller, not smarter.

One night, he crawled into Zhou Yanshu's bed and asked him nervously, "Brother, what's that on the back of your neck? I don't have it."

Zhou Yanshu closed his eyes and said calmly, "Glands. They're not good things, it's good that you don't have them."

"I don't want it." Yu Zhuo pressed down on Zhou Yanshu and said in a muffled voice, "If you have it, I want it too."

His current weight is considerable, pressing heavily on Zhou Yanshu, making it difficult for her to breathe.

Zhou Yanshu didn't care at all. He put his arm around Yu Zhuo's neck and said with a faint smile, "What do you need this for? Who do you want to mark you?"

Yu Zhu tilted his head: "You're asking a question you already know the answer to."

“Even though you’re a Beta, I can still mark you.” Zhou Yanshu’s eyes crinkled as he spoke softly, touching Yu Zhuo’s lower abdomen. “It just might be a little difficult…”

Yu Zhuo paused, then asked in a low voice, "What about your engagement?"

"I can marry whomever I want, it's none of their business," Zhou Yanshu said softly. "As for the children... it's up to you."

Yu Zhuo felt a surge of joy. He hugged Zhou Yanshu and said, "Brother, why didn't you prepare flowers for me when you confessed to me?"

Zhou Yanshu: "..."

"I actually do whatever you say." Yu Zhu kissed Zhou Yanshu's cheek and spoke affectionately.

His gender depends on Zhou Yanshu's secondary differentiation.