Chapter 97: Make You Call Me Brother (17)
Lin Mo’s chewing slowed down.
He thought for a long time. “So you mean, you want to wait for him to differentiate. If he’s an Omega, you’ll be together. If he’s an Alpha, you’ll let him be with someone else?”
Gu Yinnian didn’t speak.
He knew that what he said sounded noble, but he doubted he could actually do it.
Just An Jing alone made him so uncomfortable he didn’t know what to do.
If Xiao Ji really differentiated into an Alpha and met an Omega with high compatibility…
That meant not only giving away the treasure he had raised with his own hands, but also that all the kindness he had shown Xiao Ji in the past would be used by Xiao Ji on someone else.
Eating and living together with someone else. Waking someone else up in the morning, coaxing someone else to sleep at night.
Xiao Ji didn’t like to talk. If that Omega didn’t like to talk either, the two of them would probably resort to sign language.
If that Omega talked a lot, Xiao Ji might get annoyed, but as an Alpha, he would have to endure it and suffer.
The scariest thing was, how would someone like Xiao Ji raise a child?
Free-range, like he raised that bird of his?
Throw it in the yard, feed it if it comes back, leave it to fend for itself if it doesn’t?
And what about him? Where would he go?
In the past, Xiao Ji’s world seemed to revolve around only one person.
Gu Yinnian used to be the center of Xiao Ji’s world.
Once Xiao Ji really had an Omega, that Omega would definitely replace Gu Yinnian’s position.
Maybe in a year or so, Xiao Ji wouldn’t even remember who Gu Yinnian was.
Or maybe Xiao Ji wouldn’t forget him, but would instead consult him on everything—asking him to name the kid, asking him to pick up and drop off the kid when he was busy.
Maybe when that unknown, non-existent Omega was in confinement after giving birth, Gu Yinnian would even be asked to hire the nanny.
That would be too fucking messed up.
He thought about it over and over, and finally gritted his teeth and said to Lin Mo:
“I’m afraid I’d find it very hard to accept.”
Lin Mo looked at Gu Yinnian, puzzled. “Since you can’t accept it, doesn’t that mean that no matter what he differentiates into, you still have to be with him?”
“Then what the hell are you hesitating for now? Face it, Brother Nian.”
“Life is short—thirty thousand days at most. At worst, who knows if we’ll even live to see tomorrow? I say, just cherish the present and be done with it.”
Gu Yinnian was stunned. “But the pheromone repulsion…”
“That’s something to worry about after he differentiates.”
Lin Mo interrupted him. “To be honest, Brother Nian, I haven’t dated before, so I don’t understand a lot of things. But I know that with Xiao Ji’s looks, if you don’t tighten your grip, there are plenty of people eyeing him.”
“He doesn’t like that guy named An, so An doesn’t bring you enough of a sense of crisis. But what if he can’t wait for your response and happens to meet someone he wants to try with?”
…
Gu Yinnian had total insomnia because of Lin Mo’s words.
At 2:00 AM, while Lin Mo was drooling on his pillow, Gu Yinnian was wide awake.
He tossed and turned, holding his phone, scrolling through Xiao Ji’s blank social media page and staring at Xiao Ji’s profile picture—a black and white silhouette of a phoenix.
He didn’t know why Xiao Ji liked birds so much.
When they were kids, Xiao Ji said he wanted to teach Gu Yinnian how to draw a phoenix. The result looked like a brooding hen.
If not for the magnificent, flowery tail, Gu Yinnian honestly wouldn’t have seen any trace of a phoenix’s elegance.
After thinking it over and over, he finally sent a message to Xiao Ji:
[I miss you.]
After sending it, he stared at the chat box for a while. No matter how he looked at it, it seemed too blunt.
He wanted to withdraw it, but the time limit had passed.
He tossed the phone aside in agitation, wondering if Xiao Ji would reply with a cold question mark when he woke up the next morning.
At that moment, Xiao Ji was indeed asleep.
But he was a light sleeper. Some sounds he could automatically filter out, but others would wake him instantly.
Like the vibration of a phone in the dead of night.
Xiao Ji’s friend list was simply too monotonous.
Besides the Chen Lan couple and Gu Yinnian, there was only his doctor abroad and Song Zhi, whom he had added three days ago.
At this hour, the only person who would disturb him was Gu Yinnian.
Xiao Ji opened his eyes, picked up his phone, and sure enough, saw Gu Yinnian’s message.
The Little Phoenix in this life was just one among millions of ordinary people.
He wasn’t like Fang Yinnian from a wealthy family, throwing money around to solve problems.
Nor was he like the high-ranking General Xiang Yinnian, who rebelled whenever he was displeased.
The environment Gu Yinnian grew up in destined him to suppress parts of his nature and temper, always accepting reality and compromising with it.
It wasn’t that Xiao Ji didn’t want to talk to him; it was just that Gu Yinnian needed to understand priorities and see clearly what he truly wanted.
Seeing the message [I miss you] from Gu Yinnian now, Xiao Ji knew that Gu Yinnian had probably thought things through.
He didn’t want Gu Yinnian to lose sleep, so he didn’t make him wait. He quickly replied with one word:
[Balcony.]
After sending it, he got out of bed, threw on a jacket, and went to the balcony.
At this hour, the streetlights downstairs in the dorm area had all gone off duty.
Only a searchlight at the intersection was working overtime.
A crescent moon hung in the sky, half-hidden by clouds.
When Xiao Ji mentioned the balcony on the first day of school, he had intended to stand here, looking at Gu Yinnian from afar while talking to him on the phone.
But the next day, the An Jing incident happened, and Gu Yinnian retreated into his shell.
Xiao Ji stood on the balcony for less than a minute before he saw a figure quietly sneak out onto a balcony in the building opposite.
Shirtless, wearing only a pair of big shorts and holding a phone, the figure looked towards him.
Xiao Ji turned on his phone’s flashlight, immediately drawing Gu Yinnian’s gaze.
Soon, Xiao Ji’s phone rang. He answered but didn’t speak.
After a moment of silence, Gu Yinnian’s voice came through:
“Why aren’t you asleep yet?”
Xiao Ji answered honestly, “I was asleep. Your message woke me.”
Gu Yinnian’s tone carried a hint of guilt.
“I woke you up?”
“Yes,” Xiao Ji said.
Gu Yinnian was tongue-tied, suddenly unsure how to start.
But soon, Xiao Ji added another sentence:
“But I’ve been waiting for you to come and wake me.”
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