The Coveted Gloomy Beta Roommate Chapter 8.2

Part 2

“Little brother, add me on WeChat?”

Tang Xingye stood by the seat, looking expressionlessly at this Alpha who was covered in designer brands and smelled of choking pheromones. The other party had been dawdling here for ten minutes, deliberately tapping his knuckles on the table while ordering, his gaze sweeping maliciously over his face.

Tang Xingye cursed in his heart but pretended to be calm on the surface, acting like he didn’t hear: “Okay, would you like to order anything else?”

“Just chatting, making friends. I won’t do anything to you, high-achieving student.” Ji Yu leaned over the counter, the luxury watch on his wrist reflecting the light. “Otherwise… I might complain about your poor service attitude.”

Tang Xingye lifted his eyelids and repeated coldly, “This store does not provide personal contact information.”

Ji Yu’s face darkened, and his pheromones suddenly became oppressive. People around him frowned in discomfort.

“You won’t give it? Doesn’t your store claim ‘customer first’? You can’t even fulfill this small request?”

“Call your manager over.”

Tang Xingye’s fingertips curled slightly, and he lowered his eyes, looking fragile and pitiful.

People nearby didn’t dare to breathe loudly, watching the Alpha unilaterally harass Tang Xingye, secretly sending messages to livestream it.

[Isn’t Young Master Ji the one who hates Betas the most? Is this… harassing a Beta for contact info?]

[Does B or not B matter? He’s so beautiful. If I could mark him, in his reproductive cavity… hehe, I’d be willing too.]

[So pitiful, so beautiful. Wifey is about to drop small pearls (cry). Indeed, the colder he is, the more suited he is to be bullied to tears.]

[Crying is nothing. He’s suited to be messed up, eyelashes all sticky… pitifully taking it in.]

Ji Yu smiled, but the smile didn’t reach his eyes. “I’m not asking you to add me for free. If I order a few more menus, your commission should be considerable, right?”

His gaze remained fixed on Tang Xingye’s cold eyes.

Ji Yu was deliberately looking for trouble.

Ji Yu had seen Tang Xingye before, at the Beijing University student speech. Tang Xingye, standing on the stage delivering a speech as the freshman representative, looked exactly like some kind of inviolable flower on a high mountain.

He wasn’t a Beijing University student. He was dragged there by his father that day, his ears still ringing with the hateful reprimand: “Look at him! Then look at yourself!”

At family gatherings, he was tirelessly compared to his cousin, Ji Chen.

“Ji Chen didn’t even want the guaranteed admission spot; he insisted on testing into Beijing University himself! And you? You can’t even touch the edge of a 211 university. You’re a disgrace to the Ji family!”

He was disdainful in his heart. It’s just a lousy degree. So what if he’s excellent? In the end, won’t he still have to bow his head, won’t he still have to bend his waist for a living? Just like now.

Who asked Tang Xingye to have bad luck and run into him just when he was scolded by his dad again? Ji Yu naturally directed his anger at him. He can’t touch Ji Chen, but can’t he handle a powerless Beta?

He should have felt gratified.

But when Tang Xingye frowned slightly at his request, his long eyelashes drooping and casting a small shadow under his eyes, Ji Yu suddenly realized that what he wanted was far more than simple “trampling.”

Watching that cold face dyed with shame and anger, eyelashes trembling, yet forced to swallow his pride.

A handful of fresh snow, melted by his own hands, then crumpled.

How interesting would that be?

Tang Xingye didn’t feel afraid because the Alpha in front of him looked powerful and wealthy; he felt mostly annoyance. He had encountered this situation many times.

When those people faced dissatisfaction elsewhere, they would make things difficult for the waiters, getting angry just for the sake of getting angry, to show off their power.

This kind of face almost made Tang Xingye want to vomit. Based on past experience, if a customer caused a scene, there was a high probability that he would be forced to apologize and have his wages docked again.

Tang Xingye was just a few days away from settling this month’s salary and perfect attendance bonus. Once the money was settled, he would resign. This job was meant to be a transition anyway. Waiting for the student loan disbursement while working three part-time jobs was already taking a toll on his body.

He silently noted the information of the Alpha in front of him. If the other party was just saying it casually and didn’t come to harass him, he would delete and block him after successfully getting his salary.

If he doesn’t know what’s good for him, the dog Alpha can wait to be beaten up by me in an empty alley.

Tang Xingye planned how to beat him up in his mind, while smiling and nodding on the surface. “Okay.”

When Tang Xingye took out his phone, Ji Yu still held a shred of vigilance, thinking Tang Xingye would fob him off with someone else’s WeChat.

Until Tang Xingye smiled slightly, his eyes curving, and Ji Yu forgot to breathe.

His face magnified and cleared in those black and white eyes. The tear mole at the corner of the eye was like an ink painting spreading out; a rolling water droplet stained it with temptation, mysterious and blurred.

Close enough to smell the faint cold fragrance in his hair, Ji Yu’s fingertips lifted uncontrollably, wanting to touch this picture scroll that was within reach—

It was interrupted mercilessly.

“I was saying, who looked so familiar—” A gentle voice laced with a smile sounded from behind, and the romantic atmosphere vanished instantly. “Ji Yu, you’re really not being authentic. Coming out to play, why didn’t you call us brothers?”

Having his good thing interrupted, Ji Yu’s face turned gloomy as he turned to look at the newcomer.

Lu Zhi stepped forward, his expression cold. “Causing trouble?”

Ji Yu sneered. “What business is it of yours who I make friends with?”

“Friends?” Zhou Lin suddenly laughed out loud, tapping his fingertips lightly on the table. “Ji Chen was asking me just this morning if I had seen you recently.”

Seeing Ji Yu’s suddenly changing expression, his smile deepened. “Say… does he know that his younger brother is forcing a Beta to be friends?”

Hearing Ji Chen’s name, Ji Yu’s face turned a bit pale. Muscle memory formed from childhood made him feel fear towards Ji Chen.

He knew all too well his cousin’s attitude towards this kind of thing. Last year, when his brother harassed a waiter in a bar, Ji Chen caught him and dislocated his arm in public. The click of the bone dislocation still echoed in his mind.

Ji Yu’s face was gloomy. He just glared at them fiercely and slunk away.

The shift leader, hearing that a customer was causing trouble, rushed over. Seeing the situation resolved, he breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that these people knew each other, he asked Tang Xingye to thank the guests.

Tang Xingye, like an NPC, politely squeezed out: “Thank you.”

In his heart, he rolled his eyes. What are you pretending to be good people for?

Zhou Lin smiled gently. “Want to try the new tiramisu? I heard you like coffee flavor.”

“No need, I don’t really…”

He was about to refuse when he caught the shift leader’s warning look from the corner of his eye, and the curious gazes of several colleagues. Tang Xingye didn’t want to make things too stiff. Fine, don’t eat for nothing. He pointed casually at a classic dessert. “Thank you, I want to eat this.”

Zhou Lin turned to instruct the other staff.

Tang Xingye lowered his eyes, the snow-white rabbit ears drooping slightly, looking pitiful, well-behaved, and obedient.

“Heh,” Lu Zhi stared at the slightly trembling rabbit ears and sneered. “You certainly are easy to talk to.”

— Clearly ignoring him online, but giving it up so readily when someone pestered him for contact info in reality.

From the first time they met, he didn’t know Tang Xingye was such an easy-to-talk-to Beta. This little liar who kept him on the hook on the anonymous app responded to every request from other Alphas in reality.

He wanted to transfer money to Tang Xingye and applied for friendship several times, but Tang Xingye wouldn’t approve him.

— Yet he sends leg photos to him on a social app.

Sick.

Tang Xingye looked up and glanced at Lu Zhi’s expression. Since the first day of school, this person has been baffling.

He looked away to look elsewhere. Tang Xingye felt he wasn’t wrong to curse Lu Zhi, but for the sake of Lu Zhi actually helping out today, cursing him now would be a bit impolite.

Mn, I won’t curse Lu Zhi for the time being today.