Chapter 29

Chapter 30 – Jian Songyi Wants To Do Something

Bai Huai was stunned upon receiving the hug.

This is not the first time Jian Songyi hugged him. 

The first ones were when they were still children. Jian Songyi is not that sensible yet and he always stuck himself with him every day. And then when they encountered Jian Songyi’s differentiation and heat, he also hugged and clung to him.

But they all felt different from this time. At that time, they were soft, unconscious, and a little naughty.

Although the hug was stiff, it was sober and active, with some awkward comfort.

Bai Huai never thought that Jian Songyi would really hug him.

He was just a little annoyed about the “brother” and wanted to tease him, but he suddenly gave him such a big surprise.

Bai Huai, who has always been calm and easy, went so far as to be at a loss for a moment. He stood stiffly in the same place, being held by the same stiff Jian Songyi. 

Originally, in Bai Huai’s head, he would be able to smoothly play it out. He will hug Jian Songyi back and tease him about it. But now that it is being unfolded before them, he could only feel the sweat on the palm of his hands out of nervousness.

Bai Huai could not help but laugh at himself. He is really useless.

On the other hand, Jian Songyi promised himself that he would quickly let go after the hug, but somehow he couldn’t let himself do so. In fact, he stayed within the embrace for too long that he noticed a glimpse of Bai Huai’s scar on the back of his neck.

It is very light and not embossed, but the patch of skin is still lightly dimmer in complexion compared to his whitish skin tone. If one won’t look closely, it won’t be noticed at all. 

“Do you have a scar?” Jian Songyi questioned.

Bai Huai smiles gently: “You still don’t want to let go that you’re observing me so carefully?” 

Jian Songyi suddenly realized that they were still tangled together. With that, he quickly withdrew himself and rubbed his pants twice awkwardly in disgust. “What do you mean? I can’t bear it. It’s hard and awkward to hold you. No wonder everyone likes to hold an Omega. They’re soft and lovely.” 

Bai Huai narrowed his eyes at Jian Songyi once again since he is good at grasping the main point. Have you ever held an Omega?”

Did he ever? Jian Songyi only heard it from Lu Qi Feng.

But Jian Songyi would not let himself lose face, so he hardened his gut before replying. “Don’t you think it’s abnormal for an Alpha like me to not hug anyone before?”

Mrs. Tang is an Omega. He also hugged Zhuo Luo when he was 11 years. These barely counted, but he didn’t lie. 

Jian Songyi looked at Bai Huai with his head held high, but his eyes couldn’t help but glance away from him guiltily.

Instead of correcting his misuse of words or debunking his guilt, Bai Huai nodded approvingly: “I can see that our Brother Song is quite the flirtatious. No wonder he is so enthusiastic even after becoming an Omega. He is still young, but he has that vital force of a normal teenager.”

“…..”

With a little emphasis on the word ‘vital force’, Jian Songyi suddenly remembered the morning when he reacted to Bai Huai on the training ground. 

All of a sudden, he could not stop himself from blushing.

As if on cue, a taxi came just in time. He directly opened the door to the passenger’s seat and sat there. He holds his school bag against him as he leaned on the car window. He pretended to fall asleep by closing his eyes. 

Meanwhile, Bai Huai sat in the back seat. He looked through the mirror and noticed Jian Songyi’s flushed cheeks. He continued to watch him while tapping his fingers lightly. 

Bitterness.

They have had closer contact with each other several times already these past few days, and on those occasions, Jian Songyi was the one who initiated those. Jian Songyi would even react to him, indicating that he is not rejecting his intimate behavior. 

It’s just that Jian Songyi is so dense…

It’s just as they say, no one is perfect.

Bai Huai believes that Jian Songyi could not tell whether he is an Alpha or an Omega anymore. He could also not identify anymore if he likes an Omega, an Alpha, or an ordinary Beta girl.

If Jian Songyi could not see it clearly then how can Bai Huai be sure that he could see his intentions clearly as well? He can’t expect Jian Songyi to be just like himself. That he could love like him regardless of gender. Such a chance is too small for him to dream about.

It’s just that Bai Huai could not abruptly tell Jian Songyi directly and abruptly what was on his mind. He is afraid that if he is not careful enough, he would end up provoking Jian Songyi and he’d eventually lose his temper. He is afraid that he won’t accept it at all and that they will eventually drift further apart from each other.

Bai Huai could not bear to lose Jian Songyi, so he could only try to tempt him and provoke him carefully, hoping that would do the trick to give Jian Songyi hints about what he really feels and make Jian Songyi think about how he really feels about him himself.

And that’s the end of it. Bai Huai does not dare take another step further before getting a clear response from Jian Songyi.

A hug, a scolding, and a little care from Jian Songyi are enough to make his heart go dancing. Those simple things can fill a thick needle of joy in his heart. He would carefully hide it underneath it and wait until he would feel bitter. Bai Huai would then secretly take it out to taste the bliss of sweetness again, but the aftertaste is just as bitter.

Even so, he repeatedly does this, indulging in every phase.

He wants to have him, but Bai Huai is also afraid of losing him. He wants him to be his life. If only it wasn’t for his cowardice.

Bai Huai leaned his head against the car’s window. He slowly closed his eyes in despair and listened to the sycamore leaves of autumn in Nancheng fall on the window.

He imagined the feeling of Jian Songyi’s arms back and wrapped around his torso again. He imagined the way it was encircled on him, feeling his warmth all over him. 

There’s still a sweet sensation lingering.

This simple hug is flattering enough for him. Bai Huai can like Jian Songyi for a long time even if he is such a fool at times.

Bai Huai continued trailing on his thoughts that he didn’t realize that the taxi had already parked in front of two European-style buildings. After he did, he got out of the car and went back to his own house. He didn’t even bother to say goodbye. 

On the other hand, as soon as Jian Songyi opened the door, he saw a woman in a suit waiting on his couch.

She is wearing a well-tailored hauteur couture suit with her meticulous combed hair. She looks elegant and upright with her sitting posture as well.

From beginning to end, it reveals the general rational self-support of the Bai family, which is in sharp contrast to the delicate and naive Mrs. Tang next to her.

But she happens to be Mrs. Jian Tang’s bestfriend. 

Jian Songyi left the door open. “Aunt Yun, when did you get back? Do you want me to get Bai Huai?”

Bai Yun smiles softly at him. “No. Come and sit down. Aunt Yun wants to talk to you.” She said.

Jian Songyi sat down slowly as she said.

Bai Yun is a female Alpha and is still unmarried. Thus when they were still children and their grandfathers can’t even control them, disciplining him and Bai Huai severely fell to Bai Yun. Jian Songyi’s parents support free-range parenting while Bai Huai’s father was too busy at work to be home.

Because of that, both Jian Songyi and Bai Huai respect her very much.

She is an Alpha that can hold up half of the sky in Nancheng’s business world. She must not be underestimated at all. She is gentle but strong, elegant but stubborn, and no one can shake what she believes in so easily. Small Bai Huai grows up around her. She greatly influenced him that even if he calls her aunt, he thinks of her somewhat like his mother as well.

Jian Songyi is almost certain that what they are going to talk about has something to do with Bai Huai. 

Sure enough, Bai Yun reached out and gently set up Jian Songyi’s forehead hair, which became messy because he slept against the car window. “Did you just return with Little Huai?”

 “After our military training, we went out to have dinner with some of our friends.”

Bai Yun nodded with satisfaction: “ To be honest, I was worried that he would not get used to it after he returned. If he had no friends, it will surely affect his grades, but, I heard that he had passed the examination twice. But still, it’s good to hear that he has friends to have dinner together. I am relieved. Otherwise, I wouldn’t know how to explain it to his father.”

Jian Songyi quickly grasped the point. “Then…”

“That’s right. His father is still inspecting the northwest and doesn’t know anything about it.” Bai Yun replied before sipping his tea calmly as if what she just said is something to take lightly.

“…..”

The three members of Jian Songyi’s family froze.

It was strange that Mr. Bai who is shrewd could agree to Bai Huai’s coquettish operation? It turns out that people are really kept in the dark and didn’t know anything. 

Then after they find out, the other side of the family will just be overwhelmed?

When Mrs. Tang thought of the way the two siblings would have a dead face battle between each other, her hands holding the teacup began to tremble: “How did the two of you come up with this together?” 

“Well, it’s not like Little Huai wanted to study theory in the first place. It is only because my brother wanted him to enter politics. He was the one who filled the application for him, but Little Huai wanted to be a doctor so he came to me for help. You are aware of how determined Little Huai is and yet he could not bring up what he thinks so easily. Thus he began to study Science by himself in his second year of high school. He then secretly signed up for cram school and trained during his summer vacation. I also knew that he wanted to inherit his father’s last wish, and it was really because my brother was sorry to his father, so I agreed. ” Bai Yun said calmly.

Jian Songyi was relieved and asked, “Why did you have to return to Nancheng? Although the national examination papers are now unified, Beicheng’s resources are still much better.” 

Bai Yun drooped her eyes down with a faint smile forming upon her lips. “Who knows. He said that he is worried about something on Nancheng and wanted to come back to have a look. It just so happened that his grandfather was in poor health for two years and missed him, so we conspired to take Bai Huai back here. There are only four people in our family, and he is the only one to oppose the idea. Can he really turn the tide now?”

With Granpa Bai and Aunt Yun, it would be impossible to turn it over, but what is Bai Huai’s concern here in Nancheng?

Jian Songyi feels like he is having trouble with his brain recently, and he can’t understand things all the time. 

Without waiting for him to calm down and sort it out, Bai Yun continued speaking in her warm voice: “It’s already autumn. The anniversary of Little Huai’s father’s death is coming soon. His 18th birthday is also around the corner too. His grandfather is not in the country, his father is in the northwest, and I am returning to Beicheng right away. He is the only one that is going to be left here, so I am here to ask if you can take care of Little Huai and accompany him so that he won’t be too sad as he becomes 18.”

Mrs. Tang could not help but speak her mind, “I just don’t understand what’s a big thing that can hinder a family to not be there and celebrate a child’s birthday with him. The people in your family are too ruthless. If you are an adult, you should go to the sky and pick the stars for him.”

Bai Yun was not angry with her remark. She replied with her calm and gentle voice still: “There is no way. Not all children are as blessed as Little Songyi. And besides, Little Huai may not want to live with us, let alone celebrate with us. I think Little Huai is happier when he is Little Songyi. It has been that way since they were little. That is why I am asking Little Songyi to spend more time with Little Huai. I just don’t know if Little Songyi is willing to do it or not.”

Jian Songyi doesn’t know how it happened, but the young man of a powerful and rich family suddenly became a miserable child as their conversation went on.

It was so pitiful that even if Jian Songyi is unwilling and hard-hearted, he could only say yes, Good thing he is not unwilling to do it.

As early as during the military training, he had thought the autumn approaching them and that it was the time to buy a bunch of Platycodon grandiflorum.

But before he could even open his mouth, Mrs. Tang already made the promise on his behalf. “Songyi will surely accompany Bai Huai. If accompany is all you are asking then he will accompany him for a whole day if he must. As you know, we were careless and Little Huai has now a very good relationship with Songyi. They are just inseparable just like glue!”

Jian Songyi: “…..”

What the heck?

He wanted to remind his mother that the idiom is not used like that, but he doesn’t have the right to have a say between two forty-year-old women, so he did not say a word. The matter was immediately settled anyway.

After Mrs. Tang merrily sent Bai Yun away, she took out a shiny black card from her wallet and gave it to Jian Songyi. “Son, buy Bai Huai a bouquet. Spend freely and buy whatever you want, eat whatever you want. Don’t get anything wrong for Little Huai!”

With a black card with a monthly quota of 8 million, does his mother want him to buy a Ferrari for Bai Huai as a gift?

It’s not necessary. It’s really not necessary.

“Mom, you are exaggerating. You can just put 10,000 or 20,000 on my card.” Jian Songyi stated.

Mrs. Tang refused: “How can ten or twenty thousand be enough? Are you trying to buy more than 10,000 or 20,000 pairs of printed sneakers? Why are you so heartless? What if Little Huai feels that our family is treating him badly?”

Jian Songyi: “?”

“Take it! Just take it! It’s not about you alone. This is for the heart of our whole family. Do you understand?” Mrs. Tang is so adamant about this.

Mr. Jian’s purpose in life is whatever Mrs. Tang says it will, so he helped and advised Jian Songyi: “If your mother is giving it then you should just take it. You don’t have to use it. Little Huai, this child looks glamorous. Everything in his life seems to be great, but his own family deserted him when he was a child. If our family doesn’t treat him any better then is it worthy of all the pain and suffering he carried just for you? Don’t you feel bad about it?”

“…..”

Jian Songyi has nothing better to say, so he takes the card.

For some reason, he always thought that his parents’ attitudes are very strange. They act like those typical rich couples that has a silly son who only wants nothing but to please his wife for fear that she might run away with someone else.

Maybe people are stupid and have a lot of money.

Jian Songyi continues to complain about his parents mentally until he gets back to his room. 

He threw his backpack on the bed and immediately pulled out his phone. He then marked two important dates on the calendar.

September 13th, the anniversary of the death of Bai Huai’s Omega father.

September 15th, Bai Huai’s birthday.

He still remembers that autumn 12 years ago when he accompanied Bai Huai to call his Omega father in the Middle East.

Bai Huai, who was clearly still small and supposed to be immature, had to pretend to be a small adult and solemnly told his father that if his father was busy, it didn’t matter if he didn’t come back. Little Huai could eat cake alone.

When the other end of the phone gently said that he would fly back tomorrow, the little ‘adult’ Bai Huai did not hold back his child’s nature in the end. He happily holds Little Songyi as he bounces around and twirls into triumphant circles.

However, it ended up that he shouldn’t wait until his father came back.

His father left Little Bai Huai to protect other children.

From then on, no one can spend the spring, summer, autumn, and winter with him gently, year after year.

To comfort Bai Huai, Jian Songyi told Bai Huai: “Don’t be sad, since you don’t have a father anymore. I will be your father from now on. Feel free to call me that whenever.”

Although it sounds like taking advantage of it now, Little Jian Songyi, who was more than five years old at that time, was just clumsily telling Little Bai Huai that he would accompany him in the future.

‘In the following spring, summer, autumn, and winter, year after year, I will accompany you.’

Eighteen years old.

It has been twelve years already.

Jian Songyi got up to pull out a big storage box in the corner of his locker. He then sat by the bed to stare at the bits and the pieces within the box.

For some reason, he suddenly felt his heart ache a little bit. He thought that Bai Huai was really unlucky. He has to memorize what he wants to do, and change his luck so that he can be lucky and happy in this life of his after the age of 18.

Jian Songyi scratched the back of his head.

He took out his cellphone and choose only a few people that he has the best ties with before sending the message to them as a group.

[What will be the best gift that would make you the happiest upon receiving on your 18th birthday? Regardless of manpower, time, and cost.]