Feng Yuan had arrived earlier.
He stood in the distance, his mood heavy, a weight pressing on his chest, watching Gong Ze in that stuffy costume handing out flyers to passersby.
During this time, some people took the flyers, some waved their hands without even looking up and walked away, and some took the flyers, but before they had even walked two meters, they simply let go and tossed them on the ground.
Because the boss had said that in such situations, the flyers had to be picked up and redistributed, Gong Ze would squat down, pick up the flyers one by one, dust them off, and place them under the other flyers.
This was perfectly normal. There were countless people doing this kind of work every day. It was just part of the job. There was nothing to be sad about. But Feng Yuan, watching Gong Ze do this kind of work, just felt… strange.
He felt that Gong Ze shouldn’t be doing such menial, meaningless work.
Although handing out flyers wasn’t shameful — it was often the first choice for many students working their way through school — and all jobs were equal, if you stripped away the values and looked at reality, in the eyes of a young master like Feng Yuan, working in the service industry was worse than picking up trash.
Feng Yuan’s face burned.
Watching him down there, humble and dejected, picking up flyers off the ground, getting ignored by passersby, Feng Yuan felt a deep sense of shame and anger on Gong Ze’s behalf.
As if he were the one being humiliated.
If anyone ever dared to make him hand out flyers, Feng Yuan would bankrupt their store.
When Gong Ze and his unimportant coworker sat down to rest, Feng Yuan, filled with fury, strode over and couldn’t help but interrogate Gong Ze:
“This is the job you were talking about? You’re doing this? You’d rather do this than be with me?!!”
Feng Yuan’s arrival startled both Gong Ze and Gu Xiangyu.
Gu Xiangyu looked at Gong Ze, gesturing with his eyes: Who’s this? Do you know him?
Gong Ze didn’t notice Gu Xiangyu’s look. He nodded at Feng Yuan, not understanding. “This is my job.”
Seeing that Gong Ze still didn’t realize what he’d done wrong, Feng Yuan was so angry he almost choked. He stepped forward, grabbed Gong Ze’s collar, and growled, “GONG ZE! Are you genuinely stupid or just pretending? You— forget it. I can’t be bothered to drag this out with you.”
“Now, I’m giving you two choices. Either throw away those stupid flyers and come back with me, and I’ll pretend the last few days never happened, or I’ll buy a truckload of flyers. You like handing them out so much? I’ll let you hand them out until you can’t anymore!”
Gong Ze frowned, frozen in place.
He didn’t know why he was angry again. They weren’t involved anymore, and he didn’t want to listen to him.
So he turned his head away and ignored Feng Yuan.
“Hey, don’t put your hands on him.” Gu Xiangyu was startled and quickly reached out to help Gong Ze, trying to separate them.
Feng Yuan shifted his annoyed gaze from Gong Ze to this interfering nobody. “Who are you? This has nothing to do with you. Go away.”
“That won’t do.”
Gu Xiangyu’s gentle expression disappeared. He looked seriously at Feng Yuan. “I’m Gong Ze’s coworker. I don’t care if you two know each other or not. If you have something to say, say it properly. But no violence.”
Looking at the refined, gentlemanly Gu Xiangyu, if Feng Yuan hadn’t smelled the Alpha pheromones on him, Feng Yuan, the jealous type who would explode over anything, might have suspected this man was Gong Ze’s new flame.
An Alpha?
Heh. Since he was an Alpha, there was no need to be considerate.
Feng Yuan sneered. Gong Ze noticed that the way he looked at Gu Xiangyu had changed in an instant, a subtle shift.
Before his fist could smash into Gu Xiangyu’s completely unprotected nose, Gong Ze hurriedly grabbed Feng Yuan’s arm.
“How can you be so unreasonable?”
Gong Ze’s face darkened as he tugged at his arm.
Intercepted, and hearing Gong Ze’s unhappy tone, Feng Yuan instantly exploded. “You’re stopping me? You’re protecting him?!”
Gong Ze and he were supposed to be on the same side. Yet Gong Ze was helping an outsider!
Before Gu Xiangyu’s eyes, in a blur, the next second his vision was filled with Feng Yuan’s fist. He stood there dumbfounded for a moment before reacting. The refined Professor Gu was scared, and also shocked.
In broad daylight, in the open—
He was actually going to hit someone on the street?
And they had barely exchanged a few words. This guy just suddenly threw a punch?
Gu Xiangyu’s eyes widened. This, this was simply…
“Simply insane!”
Gu Xiangyu angrily pushed Feng Yuan’s hand away.
“I’m using the method you Alphas love most. Fight it out. The loser shuts up. What? Aren’t you an Alpha?” Feng Yuan gave him a cold glance.
Then he turned his face back and continued staring intently at Gong Ze.
“Are you coming with me or not?!”
Gong Ze: “…”
Looking at Feng Yuan’s paranoid, maniacal eyes, he knew that if he didn’t satisfy Feng Yuan today, Feng Yuan would make things unpleasant for all of them. In fact, Gong Ze would have to be in even more pain before he’d let it go.
Gong Ze’s face was expressionless, but inside, he felt like a resentful wife, full of complaints and regret.
If he had another chance, he would rather carry bricks than meet Feng Yuan.
This guy was simply a mad dog among Omegas!
“…Gu Xiangyu, you go back to work first. I’ll talk to him. I’ll come back to hand out flyers later.” He said quietly to Gu Xiangyu, implying that he should leave quickly. The mad dog was about to bite.
But Gu Xiangyu was a righteous and good person. He looked at Gong Ze, then at the menacing Feng Yuan, and said to Gong Ze with concern, “I’m afraid that if I leave, he’ll hit you, buddy…”
Gong Ze stole a glance at Feng Yuan.
Feng Yuan gave a cold, mocking smile.
Gong Ze: “…”
The wimpy Alpha drooped his head, suppressed his overwhelming urge to flee, and said something he himself didn’t believe. “He won’t. He’s… my former boss. He has a bad temper, but he’s very generous. He’s helped me a lot.”
“Your former boss? That’s him?”
Gu Xiangyu leaned in close to Gong Ze’s ear and whispered. He noticed that after he did this, Feng Yuan’s gaze on him instantly turned sharp, radiating displeasure. Gu Xiangyu swallowed nervously and thought, This doesn’t look like your former boss. This looks like a current partner catching someone cheating.
“I can only say you were absolutely right to quit…”
Gu Xiangyu commented.
Gong Ze gave a dry, hollow laugh.
“Alright, I’ll go back to work. If he gets physical with you, remember to dodge and shout for help.”
“Mm…”
Gu Xiangyu, still very worried, looked back over his shoulder several times, put the big head of his costume back on, and went back to handing out flyers. Gong Ze was left alone with Feng Yuan, who stood with his arms crossed, radiating cold air.
Then Gong Ze realized that although he had said he would talk to Feng Yuan, they really had nothing to talk about.
They had known each other for less than two weeks. They had only spent one full day together — the first day they met — and then they broke up the next day.
He didn’t understand why Feng Yuan was contacting him again.
Was he coming to get his card and money back?
The wimp was horrified.
No, no!
He could have the card back, but the money was gone! How could he be like this? He gave it to me, and now he wants it back? Were all rich people this evil?
The tall Alpha’s eyes darted around nervously. He lowered his head, afraid to look at Feng Yuan’s face.
His forehead was sweating, and he secretly rubbed the seam of his pants with his fingers, thinking about how to get Feng Yuan to give up on asking for the money back, when Feng Yuan, unable to stand his ‘silent stubbornness’ — not saying a word, giving him the cold shoulder, his defiant personality — took a deep breath and spoke in a deep voice:
“Gong Ze, have you thrown your tantrum long enough? If you have, then hurry up and come back. I’ve said I’m willing to let bygones be bygones. Pretend nothing ever happened.”
But the man whose head was full of thoughts about how not to return the money looked up blankly, revealing a face that made Omegas’ glands tingle.
He tilted his head slightly, as if not understanding.
“Was I throwing a tantrum?”
The man asked, confused.
It seemed as if he didn’t understand what Feng Yuan meant, that he was simply asking a question. But Feng Yuan was certain it wasn’t that.
Gong Ze was challenging him, expressing his pent-up grievance and resentment over the past few days.
The Alpha’s deep, passionate eyes, with their long lashes and deep sockets, gazed at Feng Yuan, seeming to hold countless traces of loneliness and defiance.
Pfft.
Feng Yuan’s anger instantly deflated like a leaky balloon, and his heart softened.
Especially when his gaze dropped and he noticed the ridiculous, tattered plush bear costume Gong Ze was wearing, and the man’s sweat-dampened face, the tender flesh of his heart felt like it was being pricked by a small knife, again and again.
Feng Yuan’s tone instantly softened several degrees. He put away his terrifying, dark expression, stepped closer to Gong Ze, and reached out to put his arm around Gong Ze’s waist.
Completely changing his previous manic, crazy demeanor, he coaxed, “Fine… I was in the wrong too. I left you on the mountain and then never contacted you. How was I supposed to know you were so stubborn? You’d rather leave me and come here to suffer than swallow your pride.”
Feng Yuan stroked Gong Ze’s plump waist through the Bear Brown costume, and, looking up at the Alpha who was half a head taller than him, laughed, “You embarrassed me in front of my friends. Wasn’t I allowed to be angry?”
“Alright, now, be good. I wrongfully accused you last time. You weren’t asking me for anything. You just wanted to be with me. I was being paranoid and wronged you.”
During these past few days, as Feng Yuan had been trying to figure out when Gong Ze would apologize to him, he had constantly replayed the events of that day at the foot of the mountain.
Why had Gong Ze argued with him?
What right did he have to argue with him?
The Alpha had defied him just to go down the mountain and rent some crappy apartment. Was renting an apartment more important than going out to have fun with him?
It had to be a roundabout way of asking for something.
He thought Gong Ze was asking him for a house. Annoyed, he had promised that if Gong Ze would just behave, he would get a house. But Gong Ze had gotten very angry, saying he just wanted to go down the mountain to rent a place, that he wasn’t asking him for anything.
And then they had fought…
Feng Yuan was frustrated and couldn’t figure it out.
Jiang Lin’an had helped him analyze it. “Gong Ze isn’t one of those little lovers you’ve casually played with before, the kind you can throw money at without a care. He’s clearly an ordinary, upright person. He’s not with you just for your money. Didn’t you give him a hundred thousand yuan for an emergency, to save his family member? He’s with you because he’s grateful.”
Feng Yuan didn’t say anything.
But he felt that made sense.
So, back then, he had really misunderstood Gong Ze. And Gong Ze felt that his sincere feelings had been insulted?
Besides, Gong Ze wasn’t the type of person to find a sugar daddy. If he left Feng Yuan, Gong Ze could just go back to his own world, go to work, and continue living his life.
On the other hand, Feng Yuan, having seen Gong Ze, couldn’t stop thinking about him. And since he hadn’t gotten Gong Ze into bed yet, he wasn’t willing to let it go.
To teach Gong Ze a lesson and make him obediently apologize and come back, Feng Yuan had even canceled the credit card he had given Gong Ze.
And what was the result?
Since they had separated, the card hadn’t been used once.
This made Feng Yuan even more convinced of his guess. The reason Gong Ze was with him was actually because of feelings!
This made Feng Yuan, who hated Alphas but had been smitten with Gong Ze from the first time he saw him, both surprised and delighted.
Although, for him, Gong Ze was just someone to play with.
But he wanted Gong Ze to feel more than just play — he wanted genuine emotion. That was probably a common flaw of all sugar parents.
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