Chapter 65: Why Only Repulse Me?
Shou Jiaxun was currently discussing feelings with an old high school classmate he wasn’t particularly close to.
Bai Fan was also an Omega, Guo Duoyu’s diehard “wife”. He was very gossipy and loved spreading rumors, but he also had a bit of loyalty in him. The key point was that their social circles didn’t intersect at all.
Shou Jiaxun felt no pressure chatting with him because it felt like talking to someone from another dimension. Even if Bai Fan copy-pasted their conversation everywhere, it wouldn’t impact Shou Jiaxun’s life.
Bai Fan said: “Don’t listen to what those idiots say. Your belly, your rules. If you want to give birth, do it. If you don’t, then don’t. When are you coming back? I’ll buy the medicine and pick you up at the airport, ensuring you can solve the problem as soon as you land.”
Shou Jiaxun’s mood improved slightly, and his voice carried a smile: “Thanks, no need to trouble you, I’ll buy it myself.”
Bai Fan chuckled along with him: “Can you tell me who the other guy is? Just pure curiosity, I won’t tell anyone.”
Shou Jiaxun sighed: “A colleague I’m on a business trip with. We had a really good relationship, but now it’s super awkward. I can’t face him, you know? It’s like… now whenever I see him, I can’t help but shiver.”
“Ah? That’s not okay!” Classmate Bai scolded in a low voice: “You’re the boss, your colleague works for you, so he’s just a wage earner trying to cling to the big boss to rise in status through the child, skipping decades of hard work. He’s dreaming.”
“He’s not that kind of person,” Shou Jiaxun didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Yesterday was truly an accident. I bought the medicine myself… Neither of us expected this to happen.”
“Do you know him very well? How do you know he’s not ‘that kind of person’?”
“I knew him back when I was running a street stall. He helped me a lot. I’ve been to his house, and he often tells me about his family. Overall… I think he’s a very straightforward, really nice guy.”
Bai Fan pressed: “Where’s he from? How old? What does his family do?”
Shou Jiaxun weakly gave a brief summary: “Fellow Beijinger, same graduating year, both fathers are IT engineers.”
“Sigh…?” Bai Fan said meaningfully: “Then why not give it a try with him? You also said he’s a nice guy. If you’re willing to bring him on a business trip, it shows you don’t dislike him. You can hold off on the baby, but you should keep the baby’s father on probation and think about it. Otherwise, it’s pretty unfair to him too, right? Furthermore, I think his conditions are good. If you really don’t want him, introduce him to me, I’ll recommend him for a job at my dad’s company.”
Shou Jiaxun was left speechless, taking half a minute before speaking again: “It’s me…”
But just as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by a voice in the background on Bai Fan’s end: “Little Bai, chatting with your lover? Half an hour on one call.”
“Sorry boss, hanging up now.” Bai Fan laughed awkwardly as he hung up the phone, but immediately sent a Feixin message to Shou Jiaxun: “I just started this job, the boss keeps a close eye. Let’s chat here. What were you going to say?”
Shou Jiaxun had instinctively wanted to tell someone he was a man and very straight. But after calming down for a few seconds, he quickly realized that the “straight” here was not the same “straight” he knew from his past life.
So he rationally skipped the topic and decided to just chat about everyday life with his old classmate to relax his nerves: “You’re working at your dad’s company now?”
Bai Fan: [No, my dad said the interpersonal relationships at their company are too complicated. He told me to find a small company outside to train for two years and get street smart before coming back.]
Shou Jiaxun: [Haha, is the small company easy to slack off in?]
Bai Fan: [It’s alright. Whether it’s easy or not now depends on you.]
Shou Jiaxun: [? / Why]
Bai Fan: [Purple devil smiley face emoji / Because my big boss right now is Guo Duoyu’s dad.]
Shou Jiaxun bolted upright from the bed, looking like a corpse suddenly springing to life: “What the fuxx?!”
Shou Jiaxun: [Guo Duoyu introduced you to the company?]
Bai Fan: [No, a friend recommended me.]
Shou Jiaxun: [What’s your friend’s name?]
Bai Fan: [You wouldn’t know them even if I told you. My friend’s friend works at your company, surnamed Liang. They said you had a social recruitment opening for a ‘Little Red Flower’ account operation specialist, so I came.]
Shou Jiaxun felt a wave of dizziness and fell back onto the bed: [You know everything, and you still tricked me into saying so much?]
Bai Fan: [I swear on my conscience, I don’t know anything. I just onboarded today at noon. Aside from knowing my direct manager is surnamed Fan and there are three cute teammates in the group, I know nothing.]
Shou Jiaxun rubbed his head with a headache: [That’s good. Can you forget everything we just chatted about?]
Bai Fan: [Hush money is negotiable (ˉ▽￣～)]
Shou Jiaxun instantly felt that another layer of frost had formed over his life, which was already buried in thick snow.
In the end, the “hush money” they agreed upon was that Shou Jiaxun would treat his old classmate Bai Fan to a luxurious lunch for a week after returning to China.
Bai Fan comforted him: [President Shou, rest assured. Although I love gossiping, I have professional ethics and won’t spread rumors blindly. Since this matter is quite explosive to me, I’d definitely suffocate if I couldn’t tell anyone at all. So I’ve decided to only tell my dad. My dad isn’t in your circles, so it won’t affect your life or career.]
[I truly thank you. It’s a deal.] Shou Jiaxun was exhausted after the nerve-wracking chat with his old classmate. He put down his phone and fell straight asleep.
With a friend like Bai Fan, expecting him to solve problems was too much to ask, but they were really good at diverting the “focus.”
For example, when President Shou woke up, thought of this old classmate, and then saw Liang Bo, his head didn’t seem to hurt quite as much.
Liang Bo waited at the door a few minutes early. The first thing Shou Jiaxun saw when he opened the door was a tall young Alpha dressed very strictly in long sleeves and pants.
“Didn’t we agree to meet downstairs?” Shou Jiaxun asked.
Liang Bo lied openly: “My watch is fast. I didn’t see you downstairs, so I came up to check.” As he spoke, he took Shou Jiaxun’s suitcase and wheeled it along with his own.
Shou Jiaxun followed behind him, sighing inwardly: “Sigh, still so sensible.”
But as the two got in and out of the elevator, left the hotel, entered the airport, and even after sitting on the plane, they didn’t say another word. One was heartbroken, the other looked lost in despair.
However, the truly terrifying part was yet to come. The flight was over ten hours long, and Liang Bo didn’t give him a chance to speak.
When Shou Jiaxun pressed the call button for the flight attendant, Liang Bo asked for a pillow, blanket, and soda water for him, and pre-ordered the bolognese spaghetti meal that suited Shou Jiaxun’s taste.
This saved Shou Jiaxun a lot of breath and a large amount of time, giving him plenty of leeway to ponder his life.
For a few fleeting moments, he actually considered: “Should I just accept my fate? It’s hard to find someone as virtuous as Little Liang.”
But every time he thought of this, he couldn’t help but tense up, panic surging to the point his heart rate spiked, like a stress response.
This was very different from when he considered marrying Guo Duoyu before. When he thought about being with Guo Duoyu, he would automatically substitute it with his interaction model with Uncle Guo.
It was purely living together—eating and shopping together, commuting together, playing cards, binge-watching shows, smoking, and occasionally drinking a little wine at night. Skipping the physiological needs part, it was very comfortable.
The picture of being with Liang Bo was exactly the opposite. Bedroom matters took up the bulk of it, and if they were together, a baby would be born very soon; maybe not long after, Liang Bo would want him to have a second one…
“Liang Bo,” Shou Jiaxun called out softly to the father of his “cell nucleus” after the plane entered low-power mode.
The lighting in the cabin was very dim. Liang Bo turned on the small reading light above them and turned his head to look over, waiting affectionately for his further instructions.
Shou Jiaxun originally wanted to say: “Should we give it a try?”
But the moment he clearly saw the other’s face, the image of being pressed on the bed by a man and having sex instantly sprang into his mind again.
He subconsciously tensed his body and shrank toward the other side, concluding with a stutter: “I… I feel we… really aren’t suitable. Better… just forget it.”
Liang Bo bit his lip and turned his face back. He raised a hand to turn off the reading light, then sighed faintly in the darkness: “You considered marrying Guo Duoyu before, so you don’t repulse all Alphas. You just repulse me?”
Translator’s Note:
- Rise in status through the child: A translation of “父凭子贵”, a twist on the traditional phrase referring to women rising in status upon birthing an heir, here applied to the baby’s father.
- Corpse suddenly springing to life: Translates “诈尸,” used humorously to describe Shou Jiaxun shooting up from bed in extreme shock.
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