Chapter 107: Make You Call Me Brother (27)
“Xiao Ji, An Jing! Go to the back and move some drinks!”
Xiao Ji’s “None of your business” had yet to leave his mouth before Yun Zhou, the Vice President of the Student Council, caught the two of them and ordered them around.
Hearing this, Xiao Ji immediately turned around and walked toward the outside of the venue.
An Jing hadn’t even reacted yet. The greeting he was about to give Yun Zhou was still stuck in his throat. Seeing this, he swallowed it back down and hurried to catch up with Xiao Ji’s footsteps.
A box truck was parked at the back door of the gymnasium, loaded with all the drinks needed for tonight’s event. Xiao Ji was just about to climb into the truck to move the boxes of drinks when he was stopped by An Jing:
“I’ll go up. The drinks are heavy, you wait here.”
With that, he hopped into the truck bed first, then lifted a box of drinks from inside and handed it down to Xiao Ji.
Xiao Ji never actively sought out hardship. Since An Jing was willing to put in the effort, he simply stood his ground to receive the boxes.
On Gu Yinnian’s side, after dealing with Xu Xiaolin for a few sentences, he was already starting to lose his patience. The main issue was that he didn’t know where Xiao Ji was right now. If Xiao Ji saw him chatting and laughing with an Omega for a long time, there was no telling what kind of cold shoulder he’d be given later.
He was just about to pull out his phone and invent an excuse about a sudden emergency to get away when Yun Zhou suddenly patted his shoulder from behind:
“Yinnian, go to the back and help out a bit. We don’t have enough drinks, and after looking around, I could only find three people. Those big foolish guys in the council aren’t answering their phones or replying to messages. They’re so busy strutting around like peacocks displaying their feathers that they’ve forgotten their own last names.”
With a perfectly legitimate excuse handed right to him, Gu Yinnian breathed an immediate sigh of relief:
“Sure, I’ll go right now.”
As he spoke, he couldn’t wait to leave, but Yun Zhou grabbed him. “Take off that jacket. I rented it for a huge sum of money, it’s brand new. Can you treat it with a little more care?”
He had wanted to tell Xiao Ji the same thing just a moment ago, but from the time Xiao Ji received the order to when he went to execute it, there was absolutely no transitional questioning or affirmative response. Basically, the moment Yun Zhou’s words fell, Xiao Ji was already nearing the back door of the gymnasium.
Gu Yinnian let out an “Oh,” took off the jacket, and casually shoved it into Yun Zhou’s arms:
“Senior, if you don’t have anything to do, just hold it for me for a bit. Don’t stand idle.”
With that, he quickly left, walking with wind beneath his feet, deeply afraid that if he stayed a second longer, Xu Xiaolin would start talking to him again.
Watching Gu Yinnian’s eager appearance to go do manual labor, Yun Zhou chuckled and said to Xu Xiaolin:
“These two, they move fast enough. Really obedient.”
Xu Xiaolin looked at the jacket in Yun Zhou’s hands and asked him, “Senior Yun, aren’t you going to help with the work?”
“I am,” Yun Zhou said. “There are people coming to collect the empty bottles at the front door. I still need to go find other laborers right now.”
Xu Xiaolin nodded. “Then let me help hold the jacket. It just so happens I’m a little cold, lend it to me to wear for a while.”
Yun Zhou wouldn’t overthink things that much.
Besides, even though Gu Yinnian was the one wearing the jacket, it was actually Yun Zhou who had spent the money to rent it, all for the sake of keeping up appearances.
So he made the decision himself and handed the jacket to Xu Xiaolin: “Just return it directly to Yinnian later.”
Xu Xiaolin nodded, took the jacket, and smiled at Yun Zhou: “Okay.”
Gu Yinnian walked out the back door and took out his phone. He was just about to call Xiao Ji to ask where he was flirting with little Omegas, but when he looked up, he saw An Jing holding a box of drinks, standing at the edge of the truck bed, smiling down at Xiao Ji.
Xiao Ji reached out to take the drinks, but An Jing deliberately dodged, saying something to Xiao Ji.
Xiao Ji used the back of his hand to wipe his cheek. An Jing shook his head, bent down to put the box of drinks away, and reached his hand toward Xiao Ji’s face.
“Hey!”
Gu Yinnian shouted loudly, interrupting An Jing’s movement.
He took large strides until he was standing right in front of Xiao Ji, smiling as he looked at An Jing, then at Xiao Ji: “What are you two doing?”
At this moment, the phrase “a dagger hidden behind a smile” suddenly materialized perfectly in Xiao Ji’s mind.
He answered honestly: “Working.”
Gu Yinnian looked at Xiao Ji’s face, noticed a small patch of dust on his cheekbone, and directly raised his hand to wipe it away with his own thumb:
“Little dirty cat, working with your face?”
After he finished speaking, he looked at An Jing again: “He has differentiated, and he has a huge temper. Aside from me, anyone who touches him gets a beating. Consider yourself lucky today that I arrived in time; you should thank me.”
An Jing frowned: “I don’t think he looks like someone whose temper is so bad that he would hit people just from being touched.”
The smile remained fixed on Gu Yinnian’s face: “I said he’d get a beating; I didn’t say from whom. He won’t hit you, but I will.”
An Jing’s expression turned ugly at Gu Yinnian’s words. He once again pulled out the very phrase that had caused Gu Yinnian to break his defense the last time:
“Are you his Alpha?”
But this time, Gu Yinnian clearly wouldn’t break his defense again. He merely raised an eyebrow and said, “What I am to him isn’t important. What’s important is whether he’s willing to listen to me.”
Xiao Ji just stood quietly beside Gu Yinnian. Although he didn’t speak a word, his attitude was already self-evident.
Just as the atmosphere between the three of them reached a stalemate, two more Alphas ran out from the back door of the gymnasium to help with the work.
Originally, the sudden appearance of these two people should have been enough to break this tense atmosphere.
But the problem was that closely following behind these two was Xu Xiaolin.
Xu Xiaolin, wearing Gu Yinnian’s jacket.
Xiao Ji’s gaze swept over Xu Xiaolin once, and without a single word, he turned around and walked away.
At first, Gu Yinnian didn’t even process what had happened. Following the direction of Xiao Ji’s gaze just now and seeing Xu Xiaolin, his scalp instantly went numb. He immediately cursed a profanity and chased after the direction Xiao Ji had left.
As he walked, he cursed Yun Zhou for not doing human things.
The two Alphas who had just arrived were clueless. They looked at An Jing: “So we’re just here to cover a shift?”
An Jing looked at the retreating figures of Xiao Ji and Gu Yinnian, then exchanged a glance with Xu Xiaolin, saying nothing.
Earlier, when Xiao Ji saw Gu Yinnian talking to Xu Xiaolin, there was actually no turbulence in his heart.
But seeing Xu Xiaolin wearing Gu Yinnian’s jacket, he didn’t know if he was affected by his Alpha instincts, but even someone with typically dull emotions like him found it remarkably unacceptable.
Xiao Ji knew that with Gu Yinnian’s personality, that jacket definitely wasn’t given to Xu Xiaolin out of any tender, protective feelings toward her.
But that didn’t stop him from feeling right now that Xu Xiaolin had touched his things.
He returned to the gymnasium.
Because there were too many people here, it was inconvenient for Gu Yinnian to talk to him.
【This is a misunderstanding.】 037 tried to speak up for Gu Yinnian.
Xiao Ji: 【I know, but the fact is the clothes are on the Omega.】
037 had no counterargument and could only say: 【Aren’t you going to listen to his explanation? Your emotions are starting to fluctuate.】
Xiao Ji naturally knew his emotions were fluctuating, but he didn’t want to hear Gu Yinnian coax him right now.
Because to Xiao Ji, this kind of emotional fluctuation was very rare. He lacked this kind of fluctuation in the past, which always made the little Phoenix feel he was indifferent.
He felt that he should carefully experience this fluctuation, so as to understand and learn to empathize with every bout of irritability and even anger that Gu Yinnian had felt.
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