He had good looks, pheromones that Feng Yuan liked, none of that infuriating Alpha gender superiority, and he even liked Feng Yuan. He had made Feng Yuan’s heart ache. How could Feng Yuan let Gong Ze escape?
Even if Gong Ze had a bit of a temper, Feng Yuan felt he could tolerate it and coax him.
Because Gong Ze was special.
He was with Feng Yuan because he had feelings for him.
So, with his arm around Gong Ze’s waist, not even minding the Alpha’s sweat smell, Feng Yuan’s tone softened by several degrees. “Gong Ze, come back with me, alright?”
And Gong Ze?
Gong Ze’s inner thoughts were just: ……
He looked at Feng Yuan, who was like wind and rain, one minute and sunshine the next. He couldn’t hear Feng Yuan’s internal monologue. He just thought Feng Yuan really seemed mentally unstable.
He had been angry just a moment ago, but after Gong Ze asked just one question, he suddenly became so gentle.
Gong Ze looked at him cautiously and asked, “But aren’t we over?” Wasn’t that what it looked like back then? Wasn’t that a breakup?
“Over, my ass.”
Feng Yuan thought he was just talking out of anger. He scoffed, stepped closer, and kissed the Alpha’s cold cheek.
He mistakenly thought Gong Ze was afraid he would get angry and abandon him again. Sweetly, he vowed, “Don’t overthink it. How can an Alpha be so melancholic? I was a little angry before, so I didn’t contact you. But I’m not going to abandon you.”
“……”
But I don’t want to continue with you anymore.
Feng Yuan looked mentally unstable. He wasn’t soft and sweet like an Omega. He was especially domineering and willful.
Gong Ze tried to say to Feng Yuan, “What if I don’t want to continue?”
Feng Yuan’s gentle expression instantly changed. He looked at Gong Ze expressionlessly. “Don’t be difficult.”
Gong Ze: ……
The wimpy Alpha’s lips turned pale from the fright.
Gong Ze trembled with fear. He felt that if he actually said he didn’t want to do this anymore, Feng Yuan might just stab him to death.
The cowardly, worthless man didn’t dare say another word. He clutched the head of his costume in his hands, feeling a deep sense of sorrow that he had just escaped one fire pit only to fall right back into another. His face was filled with gloom.
Feng Yuan didn’t care. He found the costume annoying, so he took it from Gong Ze and threw it onto the bench.
“Let’s go.”
“…Before I go with you, there’s something I want to say. But you have to promise you won’t get violent.”
Gong Ze said hesitantly.
“Fine. Talk.”
Feng Yuan didn’t care.
“…I feel… I can’t predict your temper. You’re always good to me one minute and bad the next.” Gong Ze looked up at him cautiously, then quickly lowered his head and mumbled, “You also get angry easily. I never understand why you’re angry. And, and my coworker also said you looked like someone who would hit people… You have to promise you won’t be like that with me anymore! Otherwise, I, I won’t go back!”
“So you have a lot of complaints about me.” Feng Yuan smiled sardonically. Just as Gong Ze was starting to feel scared and regretful, he slowly agreed.
“Fine.”
The poor Alpha didn’t yet know that the words of the rich were the lies of the devil.
Truly believing he had secured a guarantee, Gong Ze immediately broke into a smile. His handsome, charming appearance made Feng Yuan unable to resist kissing his cheek again.
How was this man built?
Everything about him was exactly what Feng Yuan liked.
Seeing Gong Ze happy actually made him happy too. The pent-up frustration of the past few days finally began to dissipate.
…
Gong Ze went to return the costume. Because he hadn’t worked the full time, the boss was unhappy and said he would only pay him one-third of the money.
Six hours paid two hundred yuan.
One-third was just over sixty.
“That’s not reasonable.” Gong Ze frowned and argued with the boss. “I was only two hours short of finishing the time. I handed out a lot of flyers. I should get at least over a hundred.”
“We originally planned to hire two people so we could finish handing out all the flyers. Now that you’re leaving, where am I supposed to find another person at the last minute?”
The boss said unhappily.
Gong Ze: “……”
Gong Ze, who wasn’t good at expressing himself and didn’t know how to deal with the boss’s unreasonable behavior, couldn’t argue loudly with the boss to intimidate him or shut him down.
“But when wronged, he would feel twice the grievance and pain of an ordinary person, and would inadvertently dwell on it for a long time afterward, ruining his own mood.”
He overthought things.
Sometimes, Gong Ze himself really hated his own personality.
When the boss got impatient and was about to leave, Gong Ze couldn’t think of anything else to say to argue. He took a step back and said quietly, “At least give me a hundred.”
“Eighty! Take it or leave it!”
The boss rolled his eyes, put the money on the counter, and left.
“……” Gong Ze picked up the money, his lips moving silently. Between going back to find fault with the boss and slamming the table and cursing him out, he chose to swallow his pride and leave.
Feng Yuan, waiting outside, looked up and saw the Alpha looking like a wet Golden Retriever that had been kicked. He frowned, snapped the unlit cigarette he had been holding between his fingers in two, threw it in the trash, and asked Gong Ze, “What’s wrong?”
Gong Ze told him what had happened.
He thought Feng Yuan would sneer disdainfully, “What’s a few measly dollars to make such a fuss over? I’ll give you tens of thousands, alright?”
But instead, after hearing this, Feng Yuan cursed under his breath, “Fucking hell.” His face dark, his long legs taking fierce strides, he pushed past Gong Ze and the glass door and stormed inside. He slammed his hand down on the counter where Gong Ze had just meekly picked up his money.
Bang!
The loud noise made both the customers inside and the boss at the cash register flinch.
Feng Yuan was like an enraged lion, his eyes vicious as he stared at the boss. “Think you’re pretty tough, huh? He was wearing that shitty piece of crap from your store, drenched in sweat, standing on the street handing out flyers for you, and you fucking give him pennies?”
“We agreed on an hourly wage. How many hours did he work? How many hours are left? Fuck! He only got two hundred yuan in wages, and you still have the nerve to deduct it, make that shitty face of yours, and act like a exploiting capitalist?”
I gave him a hundred thousand yuan and still had to come back and coax him.
Who the fuck do you think you are!?
The boss tensed up, his face stiff. “You’re trying to start something, are you? I’m telling you, I’m not afraid. Call the—”
“Call the police? Go ahead!”
Feng Yuan said coldly. “Call the police today, and I’ll come back and cause trouble tomorrow. Call the police tomorrow, and I’ll come back the day after. You might as well forget doing business. This young master has plenty of time.”
“You hired him and then withheld his pay in violation of the agreement. Are you in the right?”
He tapped the counter with his finger, scoffing. “And I can afford to drag this out. Can your business?”
The boss: “…………”
Two minutes later, Feng Yuan walked out of the restaurant with a wad of one hundred and twenty yuan in his hand. He shoved it roughly into Gong Ze’s hand.
Originally, the boss had wanted to give him even more, but how laughable. Was Feng Yuan short on money? He was just getting back what was rightfully Gong Ze’s. He wasn’t there to extort anyone. Who did they think he was?!
“Two hundred yuan is what I deserved.” Gong Ze held the money, looking at the extra forty yuan in his hand. “You even got the forty extra back?”
Feng Yuan was still sneering, the anger still on his face, saying he was going to make this crappy little shop regret being in business and teach the boss a lesson.
Gong Ze just stood there dumbly, looking at him as he raged.
“What?”
Feeling the gaze, Feng Yuan looked up.
Like a lion that had just finished a fight, still excited and ferocious, turning back to roar at its companion.
His face was full of displeasure. “What’s with that look? You think I, an Omega, am too fierce? I wasn’t even doing it for…”
“N-No.”
The person who had snapped back to reality quickly shook his head. A flush rose on his cheeks. Gong Ze licked his lower lip and, under Feng Yuan’s gaze, said woodenly, “I just think you look really handsome like this… Thank you…”
So Feng Yuan wasn’t just good at losing his temper. He was brave and fought for his own rights. That was really great!
If only I could be like that.
He muttered enviously in his heart.
This time, it was Feng Yuan’s turn to be frozen in place.
A few seconds later, the still-agitated Feng Yuan suddenly blushed. His eyes wide as he stared at Gong Ze, his lips pressed tightly together to suppress an uncontrollable smile. Feng Yuan lightly punched Gong Ze on the shoulder, his face now beaming. “You really are…”
The Alpha smiled shyly back.
The tension between them relaxed, and they grew closer because of this incident.
Before leaving, Gong Ze said goodbye to Gu Xiangyu. These past few days hadn’t been a complete loss for Gong Ze. He had raised Gu Xiangyu’s affection for him to fifty. Now he was Gu Xiangyu’s first friend in this world.
The first of anything is always different.
Gu Xiangyu was very reluctant to see his work partner leave. It wasn’t until Gong Ze promised that they would keep in touch and that he would visit Gu Xiangyu at his workplace that Gu Xiangyu finally stopped looking so downcast.
The two waved goodbye, and Gong Ze walked over to Feng Yuan.
Even though Gu Xiangyu was an Alpha, Feng Yuan’s eyes still stung with jealousy.
“Can we go now?”
“Mm.”
The luxury car started, leaving the big bear by the roadside far behind…
…
After this minor setback, their relationship actually improved.
In the past, Feng Yuan had been eager to get Gong Ze into bed. Now, he wasn’t in such a hurry, especially since Gong Ze had suffered so much after being ‘misunderstood’ by him.
Feng Yuan felt a great deal of pity and guilt toward Gong Ze.
To compensate the poor Alpha, Feng Yuan took him to wash off the sweat and body odor, then to the mall where he swiped his card and bought Gong Ze a lot of clothes. They had a rich dinner.
At the dinner table, Feng Yuan pushed a small gift box toward Gong Ze.
Gong Ze was wearing an expensive suit. His exceptional figure and looks drew frequent glances from the ladies and gentlemen around. He picked up the small box, puzzled, and opened it. Inside was a key.
Feng Yuan: “A friend of mine once gave me a few of the best penthouse apartments in the city, but I’ve never lived in them. Do you like it? It’s for you.”
Feng Yuan looked at Gong Ze, the corners of his lips curving up.
“It’s my apology to you.” He said to Gong Ze in a soft tone. “Be good. Don’t go live in those old, rundown neighborhoods. Don’t you have a sick family member? Those places are noisy and not conducive to recovery. This house is very quiet, one apartment per floor, and the building is mine. I guarantee no one will disturb your family.”
“This is my apology gift.”
“……”
Gong Ze hesitated, looking at the key. It was too valuable.
In this city, an apartment near the inner ring road, even a one-bedroom, would sell for several million. A penthouse in the city center would cost tens of millions.
An ordinary person like Gong Ze couldn’t even afford a bathroom with a lifetime of hard work.
Even though Feng Yuan was only giving him the apartment to live in, not transferring ownership, it was already making Gong Ze uneasy.
When Feng Yuan gave him a hundred thousand yuan, Gong Ze felt the wild joy of having a pie fall from the sky. But when Feng Yuan casually offered up tens of millions, Gong Ze felt afraid.
He was afraid that he, a small-time nobody, couldn’t handle something like this.
The Alpha closed the box. The little object seemed to be burning his hand.
He looked back at Feng Yuan and said hesitantly, “If you just want me to keep you company, to… be in a relationship with you… you don’t need to give me these things…”
Hearing Gong Ze say this, Feng Yuan almost felt pity for his honest, simple little lover. He said, amused, “I know you’re only with me because you love me.”
Gong Ze: “Mm, mm, mm?!”
The Alpha’s eyes widened.
What?
No, I don’t. What are you talking about!
“I don’t, I’m not—”
“Here we go again. I really don’t know why you’re so embarrassed.” Feng Yuan suppressed a laugh, taking Gong Ze’s protest as shyness. His lover was so well-behaved, it actually made him worry. Even though he was the sugar daddy, he found himself thinking from the little lover’s perspective, worrying for Gong Ze. “As long as we still like each other, just take whatever I give you. Gong Ze, love isn’t reliable forever, understand? Don’t be foolish and only think about love, thinking that loving someone is enough, regardless of whether they sacrifice anything for you.”
Bewildered, Gong Ze: …What the hell are you talking about?
Feng Yuan, earnestly and patiently: “My heart is with you, and I’m very happy. But I can’t even guarantee that I won’t change my mind. Love may not always be yours, but material things can.”
Gong Ze: “……”
Feng Yuan: “Don’t be foolish. Just obediently accept it.”
Gong Ze: “……”
Although he couldn’t understand his boss’s words, Gong Ze, who had been force-fed this soft rice and had it shoved down his throat with a spoon, silently rolled his throat.
Gulp.
He swallowed the soft rice.
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