“Auntie, I want to confess to you.”
In the other room, the man lowered his head. Toward the older woman who was teasing the little cub, he hesitated again and again, but still opened his lips and said in a low voice.
“I’m actually not some shop owner… At least, not until recently.”
“Oh?”
The older woman looked at him with gentle eyes, curved lips, and curved eyes, waiting with interest for what he would say next.
Gong Ze took a deep breath.
His slightly pale fingers clenched tightly, cold with nervousness.
After a pause, Gong Ze continued quietly: “Also, I’m not like Feng Yuan… someone who received an elite education. I… only studied up to high school, and…”
His throat felt dry.
In front of his lover’s mother, he was so ashamed he wished he could hide.
“…And I… have also been married once…”
“…”
“…”
The experience of dropping out of high school, his poor origins, rebelliously and arrogantly leaving home until his parents’ hearts went cold and they stopped caring about him, and because of youthful ignorance casually treating his future, he had also been married once.
This was the source of his inferiority.
And also an indisputable fact.
He was moved by Feng Yuan’s feelings for him and Feng Yuan’s protection, and felt happy, but he did not want to use falsely fabricated perfection to obtain Feng Yuan’s family’s blessings and support.
Saying this was very arrogant.
But Gong Ze hoped that what they knew and acknowledged was the real him, not a persona he and Feng Yuan had bragged into existence.
At least that way, getting along would be more at ease.
Moreover, when a lie is exposed, what it brings is an even greater hidden danger. The parents of someone important would be angry because of it, feel deceived, feel hurt. Better to be honest.
If he truly loved Feng Yuan, why would he deceive and hurt his family?
So…
“Even if after knowing the truth you don’t agree to Feng Yuan and me being together and don’t accept me, I still feel that regarding what kind of person your son’s marriage partner actually is, you and Uncle have the right to know the truth.”
The quiet Alpha lowered his eyes.
In Mama Feng’s view, he was inferior, a little embarrassed, yet seriously considering his and Feng Yuan’s future—those delicate parts that Feng Yuan would not consider.
He said: “Even if you don’t agree, you and Uncle would also be doing it out of worry for your own child Feng Yuan, that in the future being with me he would suffer, would not be happy.”
“You and Uncle love Feng Yuan. I love him too. You and Uncle hope he will be happy, so I can also understand and empathize.”
The Alpha clenched his palms tightly, his knuckles white.
His voice was hoarse and difficult.
“…Because more than anyone, I fear becoming a burden to someone as proud as Feng Yuan, becoming a stain on his life, the source of his misfortune…”
“…” As he shyly expressed his feelings, Mama Feng restrained the expression on her face and listened seriously and solemnly. Finally, Mama Feng interrupted him and asked softly: “Do you mean that if your shortcomings make Feng Yuan unhappy, you would leave him?”
The Alpha shook his head.
“I… I love him…” His ear tips reddened. “I don’t want to leave him… Nor do I want to just leave easily. That would be very, very unfair to Feng Yuan’s feelings for me…”
Feng Yuan had not even feared his shortcomings.
Yet he, because of inferiority, had run away himself.
This way he would be too unfair to Feng Yuan. Although he was a useless good-for-nothing, he would not evade the responsibility he should bear.
At least he was still an Alpha!
“I-I won’t let go! As long as he still insists, I will insist too!”
He summoned his courage and said loudly to his lover’s mother.
“I will work hard, work hard to become an excellent person, to become an Alpha who can make Feng Yuan happy and is worthy of Feng Yuan. I… at least in Auntie and Uncle’s eyes, can reach the level of barely being allowed to have Feng Yuan entrusted to me…”
Whether it was studying or working.
Before, he had been useless and muddled. Now he would work hard for Feng Yuan, himself, Panpan, and their future!
“Daddy.” Panpan nervously clutched Gong Ze’s pant leg. The child did not understand so many principles, but he could sense the adults’ feelings. He said quietly: “Daddy is amazing. Go for it.”
“Child…” Mama Feng covered her mouth, moved, her eye rims slightly red.
Although she would not completely relax just because of a few sentences from Gong Ze, seeing that Gong Ze also deeply loved her child, Mama Feng was still touched that her son had someone who loved him.
After calming herself a little, Mama Feng looked at the cute Panpan, then at Gong Ze, who had confessed everything. A smile appeared on her face.
“I understand what you mean, child. I have nothing else I want to ask. Let’s go back together.”
Gong Ze heard the acceptance in her words and raised his head in surprise and shock: “Auntie…”
Mama Feng took the initiative to hold his hand and patted his arm. “From now on you must work hard, and also urge Feng Yuan to work hard. Your future needs you two to protect it yourselves.”
Gong Ze could not suppress his shy smile and nodded vigorously: “Mm! I-I understand! Thank you.”
Mama Feng smiled: “Let’s go.”
“Okay!”
…………
On the other side, Papa Feng was also having a heart-to-heart with his son.
Generally speaking, most Omegas were close to their mothers, and Alphas to their fathers. But their rebellious son was close to neither. Since childhood, when something happened, he quietly kept it in his own heart and stirred up trouble without telling them, his parents, a single thing.
Papa Feng sighed and worriedly looked at Feng Yuan, who was fearless toward him, frequently looking outside, sitting as if there were fire under his butt, ready at any moment to go find someone next door. He really did not know how to start.
Usually he did not discipline Feng Yuan much.
It was said that when Omegas grew up they should avoid their fathers (except for Omega fathers), and Papa Feng had done the same. Besides, Papa Feng’s personality leaned toward the secretly passionate type. Many heartfelt words were stuck in his throat, and when he saw his son, he could only force out one or two lines like “mm” and “okay.”
As a result, Feng Yuan was not that close to him.
But this did not mean Papa Feng did not love his only son.
Also, Papa Feng had once thought of teaching his son in order to make his son worship him, like him more as a father, and shorten the distance between father and son.
But unfortunately, Feng Yuan was like a tiger by nature, competitive and fond of winning.
He simply did not need anyone to urge him. From childhood to adulthood he was class monitor, top student, school bully, club overlord—three bullies in one.
He was devoted to bringing every classmate a father-like pressure and dominance.
The young version of Feng Yuan had already had power control deep in his bones.
Not to mention he was also a typical Leo.
Arrogant and proud but with strong leadership ability. Addicted to the taste of being pursued and followed, school was happier than home—at home his dad was the boss of the house (territory), and he could only be second.
But school was different.
At school he could be the boss.
Papa Feng was at a loss for words: I’ve never seen any child get up at six in the morning to go to school and be smiling…
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