When Feng Yuan walked over and sat down, asking them why they hadn’t called anyone to drink with them, Jiang Lin’an waved his hand. “That’s not important!” He stared at Feng Yuan’s expression and rubbed his chin. “The real question is, why are you so happy? Did you make up with Gong Ze?”
Jiang Lin’an was the closest to Feng Yuan.
He also knew that Feng Yuan had gone to find Gong Ze.
Gao Chun and Ji Huai were still out of the loop, their information still stuck at the time when Feng Yuan and Gong Ze had fought.
Hearing this, Feng Yuan arrogantly raised his perfectly shaped eyebrows, like a lion shaking its mane, and looked back at Jiang Lin’an. “Even better than that.”
“Wow! Look at you, all cocky, haha.” Jiang Lin’an finished laughing, then elbowed him slyly. “Could it be…”
At this, Feng Yuan’s smile was almost impossible to hide.
After a moment of shock, Jiang Lin’an looked delighted and understanding. “Nice! So, how was he…?”
“Hey, hey, don’t just whisper to each other. We still don’t know what’s going on!”
Ji Huai, dying of curiosity, leaned his head in. “Explain it to me.”
Gao Chun, who had been drinking, paused with his glass. He raised an eyebrow and looked first at Jiang Lin’an. He knew that if something was up with Feng Yuan, Jiang Lin’an would definitely have some inside information. Gao Chun said slowly, “Made up? I hadn’t heard about that.”
Feng Yuan, who had just ‘lit the bridal candles in the bridal chamber,’ pursed his lips in a reserved smile.
And Jiang Lin’an, playing along, explained to the other two: “Last time, Feng Yuan and Gong Ze had some words and then gave each other the cold shoulder. At the time, Feng Yuan told me he was determined to cure Gong Ze’s donkey-like stubbornness and see when Gong Ze would give in.”
Holy shit.
Interesting.
The two immediately pricked up their ears.
Jiang Lin’an laughed. “A week went by, and Gong Ze hadn’t paid him any attention at all! Instead, Feng Yuan was at home every day like a resentful abandoned wife in a cold palace. I…”
“Tch! What’s this ‘resentful abandoned wife’? I just didn’t want to lower myself to his level. He’s just a kid with a temper.” Feng Yuan interrupted, unhappy.
“Listen to him! Listen!! He’s already this in love, and still calls it a ‘kid’s temper’~~”
Jiang Lin’an winked at the others.
“A kid who’s two years older than you.”
Feng Yuan laughed and cursed, “Get lost. He’s not old. And his personality is innocent.”
Jiang Lin’an: “Oh my god, I’m getting so sour.”
Ji Huai joined in the laughter. “Feng Yuan, you’re done for. When you like someone, you start thinking of them as a child, then you can’t help but start feeling tender toward them and indulging them. It’s always like that when you’re dating.”
Feng Yuan was about to speak, but Gao Chun couldn’t wait any longer. “Don’t get off-topic.”
Only then did Jiang Lin’an continue.
“Then he couldn’t hold it in anymore. He missed the guy~”
“Get out of here!” Feng Yuan laughed as he drank.
Jiang Lin’an suppressed his gossipy grin. “He even asked me for advice on what to do. What else could he do? Go find the guy. Now, judging by how he looks—”
He glanced at Feng Yuan, smiling.
“He must have made up. Hell, he’s probably already scored.”
Ji Huai: “Wow.”
Gao Chun had a faint smile.
“Really?”
He asked Feng Yuan.
Feng Yuan couldn’t hold back from showing off any longer. With an air of feigned indifference — though his smile was harder to suppress than an AK — he said, “Mm.”
Waving his hand, he said, “You know what he’s like. An honest guy. He insisted on having feelings from me and didn’t want money. But do I have the energy to talk about this love nonsense with him? So childish~”
Seeing his smug expression, and his tone that wasn’t even pretending, Jiang Lin’an and Ji Huai snickered.
“Look at him, acting all insincere.”
“Buddy, just laugh if you want to. Watching you hold it in is painful for me.”
“Pfft!”
Feng Yuan scanned them with an expression that said, ‘What do you idiots know?’ “I’d give him things and he wouldn’t even take them. He’s ridiculously stubborn. I had to coax him and reason with him before he finally gave in. So annoying.”
Jiang Lin’an: When you say ‘so annoying,’ please don’t curl your lips up like the Nike logo. Thank you.
Ji Huai: Eww, the sour stench of love.
Gao Chun: Smile.jpg
Feng Yuan crossed his legs like a young master. “I can’t give him love. I just hope he behaves. I gave him a car and arranged a place to live. Last night, in our new home, heh…”
At this, Feng Yuan, remembering the feeling of the pheromone mark and Gong Ze’s suppressed breathing, trailed off, lost in thought.
The others noticed and chuckled softly.
“So now you know how good being in a relationship is, huh?”
Jiang Lin’an teased, smiling.
“You look all nourished by love… It seems Gong Ze isn’t just handsome; that part of him must be pretty good too.”
Ji Huai said wickedly.
Gao Chun drank his wine and said nothing.
“Of course. The person I chose is good in every way.”
Unable to help himself, the smug Feng Yuan peeled off his suppressant patch from the back of his neck to show them the healing bite mark.
Speaking of this, Feng Yuan got a little excited. “Being marked felt fucking amazing. Even though it’s only a temporary mark.”
Who knew that all three of them would look shocked when they saw his marked gland?
“Not that… I mean, it’s just a temporary mark, but Feng Yuan, you actually let an Alpha mark you??? Am I dreaming?”
Jiang Lin’an pinched his own thigh, wincing in pain. After the pain subsided, he stared wide-eyed at the back of Feng Yuan’s neck, repeating “holy shit” several times.
Ji Huai scratched his head. “A temporary mark is okay, but don’t do it too often. Be careful you don’t get addicted to his pheromones. If you get addicted to Gong Ze’s pheromones, the moment he releases them, you’ll go into a false heat. Even if you’re with another Alpha, other Alphas’ pheromones won’t affect you much anymore.”
Gao Chun, however, suddenly turned pale and stood up.
“Feng Yuan, you— you let him touch your gland?! Who is he, and who are you? How could you be with that kind of—”
Gao Chun stared at the bite mark under Feng Yuan’s suppressant patch and, in an instant, became so angry that he threw his glass on the table, shouting loudly.
After he shouted, Jiang Lin’an and Ji Huai looked at him in surprise.
Feng Yuan stopped smiling, his brow deeply furrowed.
Realizing what he had done, Gao Chun froze.
“Uh…” Jiang Lin’an laughed dryly in the awkward atmosphere. “It’s just a temporary mark. It’s not like they’re engaged. No need to react so strongly, Gao Chun.”
“What’s wrong with you?”
Ji Huai tugged at him, pulling him back down to his seat.
“…” Stiff, Gao Chun sat back down. He opened his mouth, scanning the faces of the others, each wearing a different expression. Finally, his gaze landed on Feng Yuan’s cold, scrutinizing face. He lowered his head and said stiffly, “Sorry… I didn’t mean it like that. I was just worried you might get serious…”
Jiang Lin’an quickly tried to smooth things over. “Ah, Gao Chun was just worrying too much. Feng Yuan, you…”
Feng Yuan suddenly interrupted him, staring at Gao Chun. “What if I do get serious?”
Jiang Lin’an: “…”
Ji Huai: “…”
Gao Chun: “…”
Gao Chun composed himself. When he looked up, he explained in a soft voice, “Feng Yuan, I’m not trying to interfere with you. I overreacted just now. You’re very strong, but you are an Omega after all. Omegas still need to take care of themselves—”
Feng Yuan gave a cold sneer. “You’re a Beta. You think you know more about this than I, an Omega, do?”
Gao Chun: “…”
Feng Yuan hated it more than anything when people said things like ‘Omegas are like this’ or ‘Omegas should do that,’ using such words to constrain and lecture him. He only recognized his primary gender.
He was a man.
He and other male Alphas and male Betas were all men. But he had been categorized as a vulnerable group, looked at by other men with a gaze that said, ‘You’re just an Omega,’ as if he were even less than a woman!
Feng Yuan hated that!
And Gao Chun, who knew exactly what kind of person Feng Yuan was, still said such things, stomping all over his bottom line and triggers. That was why Feng Yuan’s face had turned cold.
Jiang Lin’an knew at once that things had gone south.
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