Chapter 48 Cause and Effect That diary that looks quite old...

The sky was damp and the ground was wet, and the heavy rain did not stop, falling heavily on the grass, eaves, and gravel roads, hitting Huo Yubai's eardrums one after another.

Alpha blinked his rain-soaked eyes and said, "Okay."

Ji Mingtang, who was standing opposite, was wearing a Dou-li hat and had one hand on the door panel. He was standing in the rain with an extremely cold expression.

She shouldn't get involved in other people's karma and should just stand by and watch, but she couldn't help but feel sorry for Ah He and speak up for him.

Whatever Colonel Huo wants to do, there are plenty of people to help him, but what about Ji He?

Ji He was alone.

When the lieutenant surnamed Gu found Ji Mingtang, she was completely at a loss. When she heard the name Huo Yubai again, she suddenly remembered Chen Feng's past.

The pages that the night wind turned over, and the name that Ji He wrote in the notebook, every stroke of the pen passed through the years and came before her.

Ji Mingtang felt a little regretful that he should have advised Ji He, the stubborn fool.

She looked at Huo Yubai again, smoothed her rain-soaked robe, turned around, and said, "Come in with me."

Alpha Hun was soaked all over. He followed Ji Mingtang into the courtyard. He felt that this place was inexplicably familiar.

Maybe he passed by there before, who knows.

Ji Mingtang was not friendly to him at all, and was so cold that it was beyond Colonel Huo's expectations.

The other person is Ji He's half relative, so it's normal for him to dislike him or even hate him.

Huo Yubai accepted it silently and sat on the hardwood bench. After a long while, he asked, "Why didn't Dean Ji wait for me at the agreed place?"

“I forgot.”

Without the protection of his hat, Ji Mingtang slowly turned his head to look at Alpha, his eyes gradually becoming more angry.

"Excuse me, Colonel Huo, why is Ji He on that civilian interstellar spaceship? Is he on a special mission?"

Huo Yubai pursed his lips and answered honestly, "Sergeant Ji has applied to be transferred to Huoyao Star."

"Really?"

Ji Mingtang smiled instead of getting angry and said, "If it was really a job transfer, why was he alone on that spaceship?"

"Colonel Huo, you know how he feels about you, don't you?"

"Although I don't know what happened between you, I know Ji He's character. He would never leave you unless he had no other choice."

Colonel Huo raised his eyes slightly, as if he was somewhat puzzled as to why Ji Mingtang knew all these things.

Ji Mingtang said this while looking at Huo Yubai. Alpha was much thinner than the last time they met, and he looked terrible.

"It's my fault."

“I didn’t take good care of him.”

Ji Mingtang snorted coldly and said sarcastically, "You should take care of yourself first."

"President Ji, did Ji He grow up here?"

Ji Mingtang stood up, picked up an old-fashioned hot water kettle, and poured some water into the cup.

"Um."

Steam was spreading, and Ji Mingtang opened his mouth, ready to make Ji He's words clear.

Even if I become a ghost, I can't be a ghost who died unjustly.

"Ahe lost her mother when she was very young and was sent by the village to be raised by couples who had difficulty in having children."

"He is good-looking and young, and he could have grown up well in his new family."

"But his mother happened to be a prostitute, and he remembered everything that happened, so he was rejected again and again."

"He became the oldest child in the orphanage. Although he was almost ten years old, he still looked like a seven or eight-year-old child."

Ji Mingtang said as he handed Huo Yubai a cup of hot water. As he wished, he saw that the other person's expression froze.

She knew Ji He too well and knew that he would never reveal his vulnerability to others. She was sure that Huo Yubai didn't know about these things.

"He never told me that."

When Alpha heard Ji Mingtang's words, his brows furrowed deeply. He felt as if his heart was being pierced by needles. It hurt so much that his voice became a little hoarse.

Ji Mingtang seemed not to have heard what the other party said, and continued to recall: "Ahe often came back with injuries, with bruises all over his body. Every time I applied medicine to him, the child didn't say a word, and never cried out in pain."

"He is very smart and patient, but the world always makes him feel suffocated."

"During the festival that year, the kids who bullied him locked him in the yard, so he could only climb up to the roof to secretly watch me."

Ji Mingtang raised his eyes, and through the mist, he choked up and said, "Colonel Huo is a man of many things, I'm afraid he doesn't remember."

Huo Yubai's soul was violently poked, and the fading memories were released all at once like a flood of beasts.

The child that he caught was Ji He.

The child who didn't know why he lived was Ji He.

The child who didn't have time to say goodbye was Ji He.

Alpha opened his mouth halfway, his heart was in a knot, and the pain made him a little dazed.

Ji Mingtang observed Huo Yubai's reaction and said, "It seems that he has not forgotten it so completely."

Huo Yubai's Adam's apple moved up and down, and he said hoarsely, "What happened next?"

It was difficult for Alpha to connect Ji He with the bullied child.

After all, when he met Ji He, he had grown into a handsome young man, wearing the gray-green uniform of the Federal Army. He was completely different from the past.

Ji Mingtang snorted and continued, "Ahe participated in the interstellar joint examination. Everyone advised him to give up the federal military academy, but he still wanted to go."

"I don't know how difficult it is for a Beta without pheromones to be in the federal military academy, but Colonel Huo has experienced it and must know it."

Huo Yubai thought of what he had said to Ji He and remembered that Ji He said he was prejudiced against him.

At that time, he was too lazy to think about why the other party was so persistent, and he never thought that the source of Ji He's persistence would be himself.

"The first place in the interstellar joint examination can have countless positive and negative paths, but Ji He insisted on going all the way to the end."

"Huo Yubai, why do you think this is happening?"

Alpha felt a pain in his heart, and an indescribable sourness surged up.

"I……"

Ji Mingtang blew on the hot water, took a sip to moisten his throat, and continued, "Colonel Huo, do you really like him?"

"Or do you really care about him?"

"Or are you just pretending to be here with me because you lost it?"

Huo Yubai stood up excitedly and wanted to defend his love, but Ji Mingtang handed him an old notebook.

"You don't have to rush to defend yourself."

"Whether you are affectionate or indifferent is meaningless to me."

"Since you are here, Colonel Huo, please read carefully what Ji He has wanted to say to you for so many years."

Alpha lowered his head, took the diary that looked quite old with both hands, and opened to the first page.

The time on it is the day when Ji He and Huo Yubai first met. A startling glance at the god-sacrificing ceremony was the beginning of Ji He's inner demon.

It's still raining outside.

Ji He's handwriting changed from being immature at the beginning to being mature. Countless days and nights, countless words that he wanted to say to Huo Yubai, finally saw the light of day at this moment.

That strong and lasting feeling took root in the dark and grew into a towering tree in a place unknown to Alpha.

Every word and every sentence seemed to break Huo Yubai's heart.

How could he deserve such love?

Alpha could no longer control his emotions and let out a roar of extreme despair.

Huo Yubai held the diary against his chest with one hand and pounded the wall with his other hand, clenching it into a fist.

Tears flowed from his red eyes and almost soiled Ji He's notebook.

"sorry."

The man pursed his lips and covered his eyes with his hands. He could get high marks anywhere as long as he worked hard, but he failed when it came to loving Kiko.

"Jihe."

The suppressed sobbing sound was wrapped in the sound of rain, as thick as a humid mist that made it hard to breathe.

In such a painful situation, Huo Yubai finally recognized his own heart.

He not only likes Ji He, but he has also fallen in love with her without even knowing it.

Huo Yubai walked forward without knowing his destination as the crowd came and went. Suddenly, a Beta youth wearing feather earrings appeared in his sight.

Alpha was stunned for two seconds, his pupils shrank, and he quickly followed the young man's back. The next second, the other person just turned around.

Their eyes met briefly in the crowd.

The flame of hope was severely extinguished, and Huo Yubai's smile froze on his face.

The young man reached out and fiddled with the feathers hanging on his ears, tilted his head and said coquettishly to his mother beside him: "The steamed cakes from that store yesterday were so nasty. I only left them for half an hour, and they were as hard as rocks."

"You, why are you so coquettish?"

Alpha stood there in a daze, his throat inexplicably thickened, staring at the back that looked 70% similar to Ji He, his mind confused.

"Ji He, where are you?"

During the stolen three days, Huo Yubai did not find Ji He, but the capital star finally discovered something was wrong. Admiral Huo became angry and sent Gu Chaowen to bring Alpha back to Star No. 2.

Lieutenant Gu, who had been willing to help Huo Yubai, was scolded half to death by his own boss and drove a mecha to find Huo Yubai.

There are layers of green trees on the distant mountains, and tourists are constantly coming and going.

"I have to say, this place is really beautiful."

Gu Chaowen stretched his neck and looked up at the green leaves covering the sky above him. Having grown up in reinforced concrete, he rarely had the opportunity to see such scenery.

The white-feathered bird that was originally perched on the branch tilted its head to stare at the strange Alpha, then flapped its wings and flew away.

Lieutenant Gu quickly locked onto Alpha's location and walked over at a brisk pace.

Most of the natives here are Betas, who cannot smell pheromones and cannot detect the cypress scent coming from Alphas in the air.

"Huo Yubai."

Lieutenant Gu kicked the door open. The pressure from the S-class Alph Xisu was no joke. He felt his knees suddenly go weak and he almost lost his balance.

"You have done me a great disservice this time!"

It was not until Lieutenant Gu entered the room that he realized something was wrong.

This doesn't seem like pheromone intimidation, but more like an Alpha's rejection of other Alphas during their susceptible period.

"Huo Yubai?"

Gu Chaowen called out again.

Huo Yubai closed his eyes tightly, his skin was slightly hot, but he had not completely lost his mind. He said in a trembling voice: "Suppressant...suppressant."