Chapter 68 Fighting and Loving Each Other
Such an ordinary sentence silenced everyone present, including Xie Xingchen.
He looked at Lin Yao, raising an eyebrow with a questioning expression.
Are you going to spend time with your boyfriend?
When did Lin Yao become so deceitful in his lies?
It's really hard to imagine someone as unassuming as Pei Xiang being in a relationship. Her eyes widened. "You have a boyfriend? Is he a guy? An Omega from military academy? Is he pretty?"
Lin Yao felt like he had dug himself a huge hole.
He didn't have a concrete image in his mind, and he didn't even know where to start making things up. In military school, he only knew one Omega, Jiang Qiran, who was also Xie Xingchen's arranged marriage partner.
He never thought about what kind of partner he would like to find in the future; the idea of dating always felt very far removed from his life.
In the past, when fellow Omegas from his school confessed their feelings to him, He Li would complain, "You can't even be interested in an Omega, don't end up with a double Alpha relationship for me."
"Double A is better than an AO relationship." That's what Lin Yao replied at the time, while he was doing practice problems and competing with Xie Xingchen for the top spot on the final exam.
He wasn't sexist, but he felt that Omegas were generally delicate and soft. He himself wasn't a very good person and didn't know how to be considerate. As for Alphas, if they really got angry, they could just fight each other and settle things. Alphas were tough and easy to get over.
Thinking of this, Lin Yao's gaze inadvertently fell on Xie Xingchen, who was not far away, and his brow twitched.
Realizing he hadn't answered yet, he mumbled, "Not the pretty type, yes, someone I met at military academy, a classmate."
The more I talked about it, the more guilty I felt. Where could I possibly find someone like that?
Lin Han nudged Pei Yizhong with her elbow, genuinely curious, and tentatively asked, "Why didn't your boyfriend come with you this time?"
"He..." Lin Yao really couldn't keep up the story, and the more he talked, the more outrageous it became, "He was injured in a previous competition and is still in the hospital."
That's reasonable, barely passable.
Pei Yizhong stared at his expression, hesitated, and then reminded him, "You're so naive, don't get fooled."
Lin Yao moved his lips: "No... We have a good relationship, I believe him."
As he talked, he started to believe it himself. His mind was filled with questions about why he hadn't finished asking them yet. He frowned, feeling a little annoyed.
“Okay, my whole family is planning a trip around the planet next month. We’ll be passing through your area. We can meet up again when we have time.” Pei Yizhong brought the topic back to where it started.
Lin Yao:? ? ?
Your travel history over the past ten years shows one instance three years ago, and before that, eight years ago. It's truly bizarre that you'd suddenly decide to travel to a place you'd rather die than set foot in.
"I need to go to the hospital to take care of my boyfriend. He's injured and needs to stay in bed for a hundred days." Lin Yao's refusal was practically written all over his face.
"Then let's go see your boyfriend at the hospital while we're at it." Pei Yizhong glanced at the time. "Alright, I won't keep you any longer. Let's go, have a safe trip."
Lin Yao: ".........."
Forget it, we'll figure something out when that time comes.
He finally gave a natural smile, nodded, and said, "Goodbye then. It was nice to meet your family."
Pei Yizhong was really good at taking advantage of the situation, opening his arms and saying, "Since you're so happy, why don't you give me a hug before you leave?"
Lin Yao stiffened and opened his arms to lean closer.
He's not used to being close to people, and he's only recently started to get to know some of his roommates, experiencing a bit of normal classmate interaction. As for interacting with elders, he has absolutely no experience.
I feel like dying. Why is there such an awkward and ridiculous part? And Xie Xingchen is just standing there watching the show. I'm going to die laughing at him in a minute.
After barely getting through five seconds, Lin Yao sprang back like a spring, raised his hand in salute, and said, "Goodbye, General."
Then he turned around and strode towards the aircraft, not lingering for even a second longer.
Pei Yizhong sighed softly, as if saying to someone, "Never mind, there's always another day."
Seeing them leave, Xie Xingchen nodded slightly to them, then turned and followed them, asking, "Who's your boyfriend?"
Lin Yao pretended not to hear and walked straight towards Duan Zheng's dilapidated aircraft. Its exterior was rickety, giving off a sense of unease that it might fall from the sky at any moment.
"Are you really not coming back with me?" Xie Xingchen asked again.
"I'm not going." Lin Yao replied decisively, opened the sliding door, grabbed the handle, and nimbly jumped up.
Xie Xingchen clicked his tongue, clearly annoyed.
He jumped on after them. None of the three of them were particularly thin, and the space in the small aircraft felt especially cramped.
Duan Zheng turned his head with a puzzled look: "What are you doing here squeezing in?"
"I am here to care for the disabled."
Xie Xingchen said in a calm tone, reaching out to lift the person from the cockpit, "Go to our unit."
Duan Zheng smiled for the first time during this arduous journey, his eyes lighting up: "There's such a good thing?"
Anyone who wants to be a soldier has a fascination with military equipment. This is the latest batch of cutting-edge flight equipment in Chongqing. Warships will not use it easily. This small, high-tech, limited-production equipment is practically a new kind of decoy.
Lin Yao frowned as he looked at him, his gaze drifting over his large, well-defined hands, and refused, "I don't want to be in your group."
Xie Xingchen looked down at him, his eyes lowered, his tone extremely cold: "You've crossed the river and burned the bridge, repaying kindness with enmity, you're heartless..."
Before he could finish saying the last word, Lin Yao kicked him hard.
He speaks without restraint; he deserves a beating.
Xie Xingchen didn't fight back, and even reasoned with him in a calm tone: "I'm better at flying than Duan Zheng, so you're more comfortable sitting here. You kicked me because you're thinking of you. You have no conscience."
Duan Zheng got up from the cockpit and stood by to watch. He felt that the air was filled with the flames of war, and that the two mortal enemies were indeed very angry with each other. He had a feeling that the aircraft would explode at any moment.
"What are you dawdling about?" Hall opened his communicator and called out, "Prepare to set sail."
Hearing the urging, Duan Zheng was too lazy to listen to their arguing. He seized the opportunity to open the sliding door, jumped down, and then locked it with his other hand.
Without giving anyone a chance to back out, they strode towards that dream car.
"Damn, what are you doing here?" Li Mao had originally planned to be in a group with Xie Xingchen and was prepared to not dare to breathe loudly for ten hours. But when he saw a familiar face, he almost burst into tears.
"I beat Xie Xingchen up, and he let me have my way," Duan Zheng boasted expertly. "Let me try out this awesome new product."
Only He Li was very worried: "Who exactly is being punished? How could they make my brother Yao ride in that shabby little thing? When it took off on the way here, I felt like its wings were about to shatter."
Before he could finish speaking, the dilapidated aircraft in front of him suddenly rose from the ground and crashed into the clouds in a very steep trajectory, so smoothly that it was hard to tell that it was an old model from ten years ago.
"Now I think we wronged the aircraft; it was the pilot's fault," He Li said, clicking his tongue in astonishment.
Lin Yao, who had just experienced a meteoric rise from the ground, had a very serious expression: "Are you retaliating?"
"No." Xie Xingchen operated the controls skillfully, his tone quite calm. "If you don't fly quickly, I'm afraid you'll run away."
Lin Yao: "......"
You really don't hide anything at all; you're ridiculously blunt.
I just don't know if it was because the takeoff was too intense, my heart was pounding, and my body temperature, which had finally come down, started to feel hot again.
My gaze inadvertently fell on the hand resting on the control panel.
...This is really going on and on, I really want to put a glove on him to cover it up.
Lin Yao abruptly closed his eyes, no longer looking at him.
I don't know how much time passed, but I felt breath on my face. When I opened my eyes, Xie Xingchen's face was magnified in front of me.
"Are you sick?" Lin Yao glanced at the autopilot light on the control panel, frowned, and pushed him. "Do you have a fetish for watching people sleep?"
Xie Xingchen didn't move, staring at him intently: "I was just thinking about a question when I was bored during the flight."
Lin Yao couldn't stand him being so close; he felt suffocated, and his voice followed suit: "What?"
"You just said you were with your boyfriend..."
"It's made up, just to fool them." Lin Yao thought he was going to make another joke about the hands in the bathroom, so he breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this and answered crisply.
Xie Xingchen hummed in agreement, staring at him intently, observing his subtle expressions, straight lips, and the small mole on the tip of his nose: "I'm just curious, why did you blurt out 'boyfriend' at that time?"
Lin Yao:? ? ?
Why is your focus so peculiar?
Xie Xingchen, with a persistent and inquisitive look, asked, "Why not a girlfriend? There are plenty of Omega girls out there. You used to be an Alpha, shouldn't you have liked that kind of girl?"
Lin Yao thought to himself, "How the hell would I know?"
His palms were already a little sweaty, and his breathing became slightly rapid: "I already said it's made up, why are you taking it so seriously?"
Xie Xingchen, for some reason, was fixated on this topic today, acting as if he were discussing a group project with great seriousness: "You must have thought about it before you blurted it out subconsciously. In psychology, this is called subconscious mapping."
It makes you seem so cultured.
Lin Yao remained silent, yet he could feel Lin Yao staring intently at him, his eyes like a deep sea, churning and swirling.
They were so close that their breaths could mingle.
Behind him stretched the vast and boundless Milky Way.
"Why your boyfriend?" Xie Xingchen asked again.
Lin Yao stared into his dark eyes, momentarily stunned. He wanted to dodge, but found himself strapped to the passenger seat by the seatbelt, kidnapped by him as he soared into the sky and bound to this starry sky, forced to give an answer.
But he himself didn't know the answer.
Lin Yao looked into his eyes, trying to guess what was in his heart: "Maybe, if I have to have a partner, I hope we complement each other yet are similar, fight each other yet love each other."
Xie Xingchen felt a sudden, deafening roar, and his heart collapsed.
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