Chapter 15 Cannon Fodder Ex-Boyfriend 15 Let Me Help You, Okay?
Li Qingran straightened up, widened the crack in the door a little more, rested his head against the door frame, and calmly looked at the Omega in the doorway without saying a word.
Qi Ziyan tightened his grip on the briefcase. Perhaps realizing that his sudden arrival in the middle of the night was somewhat abrupt and strange, he looked a little embarrassed. But that embarrassment quickly disappeared, and he transformed back into the aloof and proud Omega young master, raising his chin slightly to meet Li Qingran's gaze.
"I have something to discuss with you!"
Li Qingran raised an eyebrow. "What do you want to negotiate with me about?"
"Actually, there's not much to talk about!" Qi Ziyan raised his chin even higher, the white feathers on his coat fluttering up and down, making him look even more like a proud peacock.
A white paw gripped the suitcase and pushed it forward. Qi Ziyan coughed twice before continuing:
"There's five million here. I hope you'll take this money and leave Xiao Jiu!"
"So, your help is..." Li Qingran's gaze slid from Qi Ziyan's face to the suitcase, paused for two seconds, and then slid back.
"Okay, I understand."
He reached out to Qi Ziyan, intending to take the suitcase, but the latter not only didn't let go, but clenched his fist even tighter, his slender fingers completely drained of color, revealing a sickly pale complexion.
"I know this might not be fair to you, but you really can't keep getting entangled with Xiao Jiu. I really can't just stand by and watch my best friend be with a jerk!"
He spoke more rapidly, as if he were persuading Li Qingran, or as if he were convincing himself that his decision tonight was not wrong.
"Besides, neither the Gu family nor the Su family are people an ordinary Alpha like you can afford to offend. I know you might be considering that Xiao Jiu is currently the highest level of society you can reach, but this high level is really full of danger and uncertainty right now. So even for your own sake, you shouldn't cling to a relationship that is destined to have no future..."
Hmm... So after all that, are we going to give them the money or not?
Li Qingran rubbed his throbbing temples, really not wanting to stand at the door listening to an Omega's so-called declaration of love while he was in his most vulnerable period. He withdrew his hand, bent down to pick up a small bag from the corner of the wall by the door, then looked up and smiled at Qi Ziyan.
"Okay, I understand what you mean, I will think about it carefully."
Qi Ziyan bit her lip, then nodded, "That's good..."
The topic should end here, since the Omega suddenly rushed to his doorstep to persuade him to leave Su Jingyi.
After a few seconds of silence in the corridor, Omega still showed no intention of leaving.
Li Qingran asked in confusion, "Is there anything else?"
He was just asking a normal question, but for some reason, the Omega at the door turned pale instantly. His light brown eyes, illuminated by the overhead light, seemed to be filled with water. His eyelashes fluttered, and the water droplets trembled slightly, as if they were about to fall from their sockets at any moment.
Li Qingran blinked and waited for another two seconds, but still received no response.
He didn't insist, and smiled at Qi Ziyan, whose lips were tightly pressed into a straight line.
"Then I'll head back first. On your way back, also—"
"You didn't intend for—"
Before Li Qingran could finish saying goodbye, Qi Ziyan interrupted him.
But he stopped halfway through his sentence, his clenched lips becoming redder and more swollen than before, trembling like a flower waiting to be picked.
But the only Alpha whom the flower longed for, wanting him to pluck the nectar, did not pay attention to him; the other party even stopped looking at him.
With the door only half open, Alpha pulled out his phone the moment it vibrated. He looked down, the faint white light from the phone screen shining on his face, making the smile on his lips even more pronounced.
Whose messages is he looking at?
Who is he messaging now?!
Qi Ziyan didn't want to know, but the Alpha's slightly curved eyebrows and the obvious doting smile on his lips made it hard for him not to guess that the message that made the Alpha quickly take out his phone was sent by an Omega.
Moreover, he was an Omega who had just been talking about him and emphasizing his good friend countless times.
This is actually quite normal. After all, from Su Jingyi's perspective, he and Li Qingran are still deeply in love, so sending a message at this time is reasonable and he is the most qualified to do so.
Yet, a sense of betrayal still rose uncontrollably in Qi Ziyan's heart, especially when the Alpha was carrying the money box he had just handed over while looking down and replying to messages without paying attention to him. A scorching flame spread rapidly from his heart to his whole body, burning his mind blank and blurring his vision as if covered by a layer of fog.
With a snap, a string broke, and Qi Ziyan took a big step forward.
Li Qingran is replying to Gu Shiyu's message.
This man is quite funny; he actually complained about Su Jingyi to him.
"We're almost at your place," Su Jingyi said, making it clear that I wasn't allowed to come upstairs with him.
What should we do then?
He went to criticize Su Jingyi, asking why he couldn't let the protagonist, who was his perfect match, go up to the cannon fodder's building.
Is this really true?
Li Qingran chuckled and pinched the bridge of her nose. She then sent a message to Gu Shiyu saying that she had already bought the inhibitors and that they didn't need to come over.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be a good thing if Su Jingyi and Qi Ziyan ran into each other.
The fact that the two of them had a disagreement was a minor matter; the most important thing was not to let Su Jingyi misunderstand that he was forced to leave her.
After typing the message, Li Qingran clicked send. Then, staring at her phone screen, she wondered if she should be extra careful and send a message to Su Jingyi telling him not to come over.
Before he could even open his chat with Su Jingyi, a sweet, honey-like scent wafted towards him. He instinctively looked up, but before he could even see what was in front of him, a hand reached out from the side and forcefully pushed him into the room.
The box in her hand, along with the bag of inhibitors, unexpectedly fell to the ground. The test tubes containing the icy blue liquid rolled out of the bag, bumped against the steps, and began to roll in the opposite direction until they reached the feet of the figure at the door before gradually coming to a stop.
Li Qingran subconsciously reached out to grab it, but someone picked up the bottle of medicine before he could.
"This is..." Qi Ziyan, who had finally managed to enter, blinked. After seeing the label on the test tube, she felt no fear whatsoever; instead, she felt the fire in her brain burn even more fiercely.
Are you in your most vulnerable period right now?
Li Qingran grabbed at empty air, feeling genuinely annoyed. "No, you—"
"Why?"
His words were interrupted by Qi Ziyan once again. This time, the Omega didn't stop halfway through his sentence; he just kept repeating those three words.
"Why?"
Why did she happily text Su Jingyi after agreeing to his request? Didn't they agree to leave?
Why didn't you even consider inviting him in for a cup of tea? Shouldn't you have said they were friends during the day?
Why were you so cold to him? Why were you looking down at your phone and replying to other people's messages while we were talking?
Why was I unwilling to mark him even when he was in so much pain during the heat of intimacy, and now that he's in his fertile period, I still can't muster any interest in him... Aren't Alphas supposed to be completely irrational during their fertile period, unable to resist biting any Omega's glands? Is he really that unattractive?
He became like this because of Su Jingyi, so how come the other party wasn't affected at all? Even the Alpha in front of him no longer looked the same to him.
Didn't he tell me to learn to make amends? Didn't he gently tell me that I could let go and do it?
So why is he ignoring the other party now that he's here?
Alpha's polite manner towards him made it seem as if nothing had changed, as if everyone else had forgotten what happened in that private room, and they continued their normal lives, leaving him alone to slowly decay on that damp, rainy day...
But why? Why is he the only one who broke down?
Qi Ziyan approached Li Qingran step by step, large tears welling up in his eyes and wetting his flushed cheeks.
The rich aroma of honey seemed to fill every corner of the entryway in the blink of an eye.
Qi Ziyan drifted down to Li Qingran like a withered leaf, his head bowed, revealing his fair and delicate neck. He longed for the other to pick him up like the leaf that had been picked up from his head during the day, to hold him in his palm, and to slowly transfer the warmth and scent that belonged exclusively to an Alpha to him...
He felt as if he were back on that rainy day, sitting in that damp embrace, but he would no longer allow the Alpha in front of him to remain indifferent to him.
Qi Ziyan knelt before Li Qingran, gripping the Alpha's shoulders, tilting his head back to get closer to the aura of ice and snow emanating from her. His swollen lips parted slightly, like a rose exuding an alluring fragrance.
"I really can help you, you have to believe me, please let me help you..."
The humid heat rose continuously in the narrow entryway, and amidst the intertwined shadows, the red roses on the shoe cabinet swayed gently in the dim light.
It unfolds each of its petals, revealing a touch of pale pink amidst the fiery red, with water droplets that were recently sprayed on it. It trembles and sways precariously as the shoe cabinet shakes, soaking the stamens and wetting the petals.
The phone buried under the box seemed to vibrate again; the cracked screen briefly lit up before going dark again, leaving only a single, unnoticed sentence.
[We couldn't stop him; he'd already gone up.]
A note from the author:
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Mini-theater:
Salt: Five million to buy you away from Su Jingyi... and to be with me!
Author (in a sunflower seed-eating mode): But with inflation these days, five million isn't worth much in a novel!
Salt hesitated: "Then should I buy half?"
Author (the shrewd businessman version): At most a quarter, half leaving SuSu, half staying with you [heart emoji]
Salt: ...Then...no! What the hell is the difference between this and not leaving?! [Angry][Angry][Angry]
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