Chapter 132: “I will stop you from being together, no matter what.”
Fu Qishang could actually guess that something had come up for Wei Qi.
It felt like the man had been temporarily called over just to have a meal with him.
When Liang Yeta appeared, he understood even more clearly.
This must be Ai Li’s handiwork.
“May I sit here?”
Due to his long time in a wheelchair, the Alpha’s steps weren’t entirely steady, but his slender figure added a touch of scholarly elegance.
Fu Qishang nodded.
“Since there’s no one else, let’s eat together.”
His feelings for Liang Yeta now were… complicated.
To say he didn’t like him… impossible.
To say he liked him the same way as before… not quite.
So Liang Yeta was right.
They should become friends.
A state of ‘more than friends, less than lovers’ probably suited the current him best.
“I happened to come here for dinner today and ran into you…”
Liang Yeta, usually eloquent when negotiating contracts, was now stuttering over a simple sentence.
The Alpha looked at Fu Qishang, who was eating dinner methodically across from him, and suddenly didn’t know how to face him.
“Mn, what a coincidence,” Fu Qishang replied.
Liang Yeta choked up slightly. After a long silence, he probed tentatively:
“…Is Wei Qi treating you well? How is your relationship?”
Fu Qishang looked up at him.
It was a somewhat heavy look of blame.
He didn’t know if it was blame, or perhaps just a glance devoid of emotion.
But in Liang Yeta’s eyes, Fu Qishang was blaming him.
It was only right to blame him.
Only giving feedback after the Omega’s passion had burned out—anyone would feel resentful.
For a moment, Liang Yeta wanted to retreat.
He wanted to apologize and pretend he had business to attend to, then leave.
At least that would avoid an even more awkward situation.
But Liang Yeta suddenly remembered what Shen Zhuo had said to him before leaving.
The boy had said: “You keep trapping yourself in a sealed room where you don’t know how to love, hoping that this will make up for past mistakes.”
“You want to use this as an excuse to escape feelings.”
“Other people’s, and your own.”
“But have you thought about it? It is precisely this kind of escape that hurts people more.”
The boy looked at him.
Those pitch-black eyes had given him immense strength in countless moments, and had also given him despair countless times.
“Loving someone isn’t something learned all at once,” Shen Zhuo said.
“I also learned how to love someone through little things, one by one.”
The boy’s voice was cool and indifferent, like the tinkling of a mountain spring.
Calm, tranquil, forming its own pure land.
That voice was like a warning bell, suddenly striking Liang Yeta’s heart—
“The first step to learning how to love is to accept yourself, and then face him.”
…
“Liang Yeta?” Fu Qishang furrowed his brows. “What’s wrong? You’ve been staring at me. Is there something on my face?”
Liang Yeta suddenly snapped back to the present.
He said, “Fu Qishang.”
Fu Qishang paused. “…Hm?”
“Wei Qi isn’t suitable for you,” the Alpha finally spoke. “I will ruin your marriage.”
It was like a bolt of lightning from the blue.
Fu Qishang’s eyes widened.
In his impression, Liang Yeta had always been the image of a gentle and cultivated gentleman.
He never spoke or acted rashly, always maintaining a calm composure of assured victory.
What was wrong with him? Did he take the wrong medicine??
“You can hate me, but I definitely won’t let you marry him. No matter what method I have to use, I will stop you.”
Liang Yeta spoke with absolute decisiveness. To Fu Qishang, it looked like he had seen a ghost.
“Did you… suffer some kind of shock?”
Fu Qishang didn’t understand why the man would suddenly say this. “No, why? Don’t you want to see me happy?”
“But he can’t give you happiness!”
Liang Yeta looked agitated, but out of respect for the public setting, he didn’t shout. However, the veins on the back of his hands were bulging.
Seeing Fu Qishang’s shocked expression, he paused for a moment and softened his attitude:
“Of course I want you to be happy. But he said that after you get married, he would make you stay at home to assist your husband and raise children.”
Fu Qishang’s eyes flickered. He took a sip of wine to mask his reaction.
“So what? Isn’t it normal for an Omega to assist their husband and raise children after marriage?”
“But you don’t like that, do you?” Liang Yeta’s breathing was rapid as he finally became willing to voice some of his inner thoughts.
“You like Ares, you like the battlefield. You want to dedicate your strength to the Empire, to humanity.”
“Even if not on the battlefield, you hope to do something for the people. That’s why you’ve been running welfare institutions for so many years.”
“You aren’t someone who would be willing to just guard a home.”
“You can go much further and bring tomorrow to more people. That is what you have been doing all these years.”
“Isn’t that right?”
Fu Qishang turned his head away, no longer looking at him.
His heart was beating violently.
But his chest hurt just as violently.
He didn’t know why Liang Yeta understood him so well.
The boy’s heart and mind were now filled with only one question.
Why.
Why come and provoke him now, when he had already decided to let go, to forget?
Did he think this was fun?
Did he feel happy seeing him lose his composure?
Or was it intentional? Deliberately saying these things, deliberately showing how well he understood him, testing his attitude, just to turn around and reject him again, mocking his overestimation of himself?
Did he really not want to let him go that badly?
Did he want to see him act like a joke one more time?
…What a bastard, Liang Yeta.
“Don’t act like you know me so well. We are just friends.”
The boy stood up, his mocking tone cold. He stared into the man’s eyes and questioned him, word by word:
“What right do you have to control me?”
“…”
Fu Qishang left with a sweep of his sleeves. Liang Yeta sat there, staring at the retreating back of the blonde boy.
Suddenly, the back of his head was smacked.
“…Hiss!” Liang Yeta covered the back of his head and looked at the assailant.
It was Shen Zhuo.
“That’s how you pursue someone?” Even watching from the side, Shen Zhuo was furious on Fu Qishang’s behalf.
“Look at that, even Shen Zhuo-zhuo can’t stand it anymore. Tsk tsk tsk.”
Ai Li sat directly opposite him with his arms crossed, legs crossed, and said with an air of giving up:
“Alright, the trial is over. I sentence you to life without a wife.”
Liang Yeta rubbed the back of his head, not understanding why Fu Qishang got angry. “But I just said what I wanted to say.”
Shen Zhuo was already taking deep breaths beside him.
Why was this batch of students so hard to manage!
Was saying “I like you” that difficult?!
Dumping a phrase like “I won’t let you marry someone else” on an Omega he had rejected, followed by a speech proving how well he knew him—this was tantamount to telling the Omega one thing:
He was going to be a clingy stalker.
And Fu Qishang was the type of person who hated ambiguous relationships the most.
If you like someone, be together; if not, act like strangers.
Fu Qishang was willing to give, willing to try, but that didn’t mean he could accept Liang Yeta getting entangled with him after rejecting him.
Facing someone who rejected you reappearing, citing all your preferences, and obstructing your next relationship…
It felt like he was deliberately toying with your feelings in the palm of his hand.
This feeling was even more disgusting than harassment.
So even if Liang Yeta’s first sentence had been “I like you, don’t marry someone else,” it would have been a hundred times better than what he actually said.
Now, Fu Qishang probably just felt Liang Yeta was playing him for a fool.
“Grow a mouth, Young Master Liang.”
Chu Baixian strolled in slowly from outside.
“You pushed him away yourself.”
Chu Baixian had been called over by Ai Li.
Du Feng was busy in the Royal Palace and had no time. That kid Ji Weishen was purely lucky and didn’t actually understand romance that well.
Among everyone, only Chu Baixian could serve as a love guru, and he happened to have some free time to educate these greenhorns.
Liang Yeta closed his eyes and leaned his head back.
“Maybe I should just forget it. I feel like I still…”
“Shut up!”
“Shut up.”
“Just shut up.”
Getting rejected in unison, Liang Yeta lowered his brows, actually looking a bit aggrieved:
“Oh.”
Chu Baixian rested his chin on his hand and looked at him. “Did you say you liked him?”
Liang Yeta mumbled, “No… I didn’t.”
“Why didn’t you say it?”
“I…”
“You don’t like him?”
“No! …That’s not it.”
Chu Baixian shifted his posture. Although casual, his eyes held a profound loneliness:
“While you still can say ‘like’ and ‘love’ to him, seize the opportunity.”
Liang Yeta saw the lotus brooch on Chu Baixian’s collar.
He knew about Chu Baixian’s story.
Liang Yeta pursed his lips.
After a while, he nodded. “I understand.”
“So…” Chu Baixian tapped his fingers on the table. “Tell me, what do you plan to do?”
“I…” Liang Yeta was at a loss for words.
He really didn’t know what to do.
He really had just spoken his mind directly.
Chu Baixian closed his eyes and sighed deeply, looking at Shen Zhuo. “I finally know why you called me over.”
Then he paused and said to Liang Yeta, “Flowers and jewelry, cater to his likes. Give him whatever he likes, contact him often, care for him often. These things—”
Liang Yeta raised his eyes and asked tentatively:
“I should do all of them?”
Chu Baixian looked at him. “Don’t do any of them.”
Liang Yeta: “…”
Ai Li secretly poked Shen Zhuo on the side and whispered in Shen Zhuo’s ear:
“Why do I feel like I don’t understand what Brother Chu is trying to do either? Is he good at chasing people?”
Shen Zhuo whispered back, “He managed to woo a world-class dance champion back in the day.”
Ai Li gave a thumbs up, then seemed to remember something and shook his head regretfully. “Fate plays tricks on people.”
“What you need to do is express your feelings without disturbing him or pestering him.”
Chu Baixian patted his chest. “Show your sincerity.”
Liang Yeta looked troubled. “Then I should…”
“First, you need to show your attitude. Fu Qishang dislikes entangled relationships, so you must show that you aren’t the type to trifle with him for amusement.”
“Second, he was so passionate about you before, and after you poured a bucket of cold water on him, he’s inevitably disheartened. There are many ways to make him burn again, but the most effective one is to burn yourself.”
“Finally, don’t beat around the bush. If you like him, say you like him. If you want to be together, say you want to be together. Stop blindly thinking about whether you’re worthy or if it will work out. The most important thing in life is the present.”
Chu Baixian drank the water Liang Yeta handed him with both hands and hooked the corner of his mouth:
“The master leads you to the door, but cultivation depends on the individual.”
“Chasing someone mainly comes down to one word—”
“Sincerity.”
Chu Baixian hadn’t come for nothing; he ordered another table full of food. After sweeping through it like a tornado, he patted Liang Yeta on the shoulder:
“Consider the meal cost as tuition fees. I’m heading back first.”
Liang Yeta silently paid the bill again, bowed his head to Chu Baixian, and walked him to the door.
When Liang Yeta walked back and looked at Ai Li and Shen Zhuo, his eyes suddenly shone with light.
“I think I know what I should do.”
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