Chapter 24 Part 3

Zhuo Xiang Ming had anticipated it a bit, so he wasn’t shocked, butthere was still some unavoidable nervousness.

TongYan didn’t evade anymore, opening his eyes to look directly at Zhuo Xiang Ming:“Don’t be so quick to divorce, okay?”

ZhuoXiang Ming maintained his pose leaning over Tong Yan: “Why not?”

TongYan took a few deep breaths, his pheromones spilling out again, but this time itwasn’t intentional, and Zhuo Xiang Ming also didn’t remind him.

“Because it seems that I kind of like you… but you don’t seem tolike me.”

TongYan started feeling dejected, he silently removed the second “seem”in his heart, because Zhuo Xiang Ming’s expression appeared unmoved, merelyasking calmly, “What? I don’t like you?”

TongYan’s courage stopped there. Letting him maintain his position of being presseddown by Zhuo Xiang Ming while he confessed his feelings, looking like they wereabout to kiss, but in fact, the other person was very calm, was too much. He triedto push away the arm beside his face, the one Zhuo Xiang Ming was using toblock him in: “Let me up first.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming’s heart was in high suspense, which allowed him to askso much and say so much. But in the end, he didn’t bully Tong Yan too much, sittingup and pulling Tong Yan into a sitting position.

The two sat face to face, and Tong Yan fiddled with a few strands of hishair before continuing, “I said like, um, not like how an older brother likesa younger brother, nor how an elder likes a junior, but one person towards another.W-wanting to date each other, that kind of like.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “But last time I asked you what dating involved, and yousaid studying together. Can you date this way?”

“I said that on purpose!” Tong Yan saidanxiously, “How does that count? What would you say if your elder askedyou that?”

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “Oh, now I’m your elder again.”

TongYan was speechless. He didn’t know how Zhuo Xiang Ming suddenly became so wicked.

Whenhe didn’t want Zhuo Xiang Ming to see through him, Zhuo Xiang Ming always exposedhim as easily as a searchlight, but now that he was hoping that Zhuo Xiang Mingcould understand his meaning, Zhuo Xiang Ming became a blockhead.

Zhuo Xiang Ming was quickly melted by Tong Yan’s cuteness.

Theomega with somewhat long and messy hair was sitting in front him, the fatigue obviouson his face, blushing slightly because of confusion and annoyance. His soft redlips wanted to pout but held back, and his round eyes were lowered, covertlyglancing up at him from time to time.

Zhuo Xiang Ming touched the back of Tong Yan’s hand with the back of hishand, and Tong Yan subconsciously dodged him. Zhuo Xiang Ming said: “When you’redating someone, you should at the very least expect to hold hands. Can you handlethis?”

TongYan said, “Of course I can, I just wasn’t prepared, that’s all. Didn’t I alreadytake the initiative to hold you just now?”

He looked at Zhuo Xiang Ming, his slightly timid and uncertain appearancemade Zhuo Xiang Ming not have the heart to tease him again.

TongYan was still too young. He was eighteen years old, he’d seen and heard a lotof things, maybe he even understood something about romantic relationships. ButZhuo Xiang Ming couldn’t be certain what percentage of the “understanding”in his early confession was stimulated by Zhuo Jia Shuo.

Couldhe distinguish between true affection and possessiveness? Becoming real lovers wasnot as simple as Zhuo Xiang Ming picking him up from school and sending him toschool, at least not everything. Has he thought about those types of things?

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “You’ve misunderstood. My affection towards you isnot that of an older brother to a younger brother, nor an elder to ajunior.”

TongYan stared blankly, and Zhuo Xiang Ming said: “Since the beginning, I’ve treatedyou like how a man treats another man, or how an alpha treats an omega.”

WhenTong Yan first moved in, he instinctively avoided Zhuo Xiang Ming, and Zhuo XiangMing also only got close to him when it was necessary. He just thought that hewas an adult, since he’d promised to do it, he’d find a way to do it.

Maybe when he was just starting to get to know Tong Yan, he viewedhimself as somewhat of an elder, but if he thought about it clearly, hisfeelings for Tong Yan were actually very simple. Tong Yan wasn’t blood-relatedto him, when they were together, the atmosphere was not the same as with hisown parents and younger sibling. For almost three months, his meticulous carefor Tong Yan was an alpha’s care for an omega, and their closeness was theattraction of one personality to another.

It’s just that, Tong Yan was still young. He was afraid of stepping outof line, and he was even more afraid of scaring Tong Yan.

TongYan: “T-then?”

Zhuo Xiang Ming said gently: “I think that, between the two of us, it’snot just me who might confuse other feelings for love.”

“You know that I care about you, and take care of you, then, addingin the pheromones, it’s normal for you to feel safe and dependent when I’m nearyou. Can you be certain that what you call ‘like’, is not the like of a youngerbrother towards an older brother, nor the admiration of a junior towards anelder?”

TongYan had fallen under an immense wave of joy.

Zhuo Xiang Ming said that he treated him like a how a man treatedanother man, or an alpha treated an omega. Zhuo Xiang Ming asked him if hecould differentiate his feelings.

TongYan nodded repeatedly: “Of course, I’m certain!”

His face was completely red from excitement, he even forgot about thediscomfort in his legs and feet. He knelt excitedly, grabbing the hand Zhuo XiangMing had just stretched out to touch him: “I’m certain it’s not a like foran older brother! I mean, I think you’re especially handsome …”

TongYan’s eyes shined: “Y-you’re very handsome, and very nice.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming smiled, at least, he thought that he was smiling, but thenTong Yan asked: “Why are you so calm?”

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “I’m calm?”

TongYan: “You’re very solemn, and also very calm. If you didn’t say that justnow, I’d think that you didn’t like me.”

He asked hesitatingly: “Do you like me?”

DidZhuo Xiang Ming like Tong Yan? He certainly liked him. He hated seeing Tong Yanfrustrated, and he couldn’t bear seeing Tong Yan troubled. His desire topossess him budded a long time ago, and it steadily grew bigger and bigger everydaythey stayed together. The mutual attraction between AO had only ever been sovivid with Tong Yan, how could he not like Tong Yan?

TongYan didn’t wait for an answer, taking it upon himself to say in a low voice,“I know you’re celibate, so I just want us to try. Anyway, we’re alreadymarried, and m-my illness is still not completely healed. Can we try? If I dowell, you, um, can you give me a try?”

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “Dating a guardian, that doesn’t seem very normal.”

TongYan countered: “What about it, legally speaking, you’re my husband.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “…”

TongYan: “Your expression is getting more and more serious. Is what I’m suggesting sooutrageous?”

TongYan stared at Zhuo Xiang Ming doubtfully, finally concluding: “You’re shy! Right?”

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “No.”

TongYan: “You’re definitely shy.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “I like you too. I agree, let’s give it a try.”

TongYan: *Blush* …

Zhuo Xiang Ming asked: “Are you shy?”

TongYan: “Yeah…”

Zhuo Xiang Ming agreed so easily, but, contrarily, Tong Yan couldn’t acceptreality.

He laid flat on the bed, hugging Zhuo Xiang Ming’s pillow as he asked:“Is this real? Obviously, when I woke up this morning, you were still mybrother.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “Of course it’s real. You can also call me brothernow.”

TongYan blushed beet red, it felt like his face hadn’t been any other color today:“Brother.”

Thistime, Zhuo Xiang Ming successfully revealed a clear smile: “Yeah.”

TongYan rolled around on the bed, Zhuo Xiang Ming was afraid that he wouldn’t beable to sleep tonight, and started massaging his legs again.

Healternated between the left leg and the right leg, after a complete round ofmassages, Tong Yan wouldn’t let him continue: “Your hands will gettired.”

He curled up, covering half of his face with a pillow, only exposing hiseyes to look at Zhuo Xiang Ming: “Later, I’ll tell Zhuo Jia Shuo that we don’tneed to divorce.”

After he said that, he corrected himself: “Don’t need to divorce… forthe time being. I’ll perform well.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming grunted noncommittedly, and Tong Yan hugged the pillowand started rolling around again. The bed was only big enough for a couple ofrolls, he would fall out of bed if he pushed it a bit more … Tong Yan felloff.

He’d rolled to the other side of Zhuo Xiang Ming and had fallen off. Nomatter how fast the alpha’s reflexes were, it was no use.

Fromthen until the call for dinner came from downstairs, Tong Yan banned Zhuo XiangMing from talking to him.

Toohumiliating. The most humiliating moment in history actually happened less thanten minutes after his successful confession.

Theywaited for Zhuo ZhengDe to return home, he was already on his way, so theydidn’t start dinner first, chatting in the living room instead.

Zhuo Jia Shuo had gone out in the afternoon, coming back a little beforeLin Yue Hua. After taking a drink of water, he stayed watching TV in the livingroom.

TongYan originally planned to ignore him, but because he had good news to announce,he reluctantly approached him.

“Did you have a fight with my brother?” Zhuo Jia Shuo asked.

TongYan looked at him challengingly: “Never.”

“Then what’s up?” Zhuo Jia Shuo asked nonchalantly whilechanging the station, “I almost expected him to carry you downstairs too.”

Tong Yan blinked a few times before reacting:“You peeked at us!”

Zhuo Jia Shuo helplessly said: “I’m in my own house, just lookingup can be called peeking?”

TongYan: “There was definitely no one in the living room!”

Zhuo Jia Shuo: “Then you’re blaming me for being unlucky? Walking outof the kitchen just to be stuffed with unsolicited PDA from you guys? Eh, speakingof that, my brother’s so good to you that he even carries you upstairs? Do youneed to walk by yourself when you guys are at your own house?”

Tong Yan: “None of your business.”

Zhuo Jia Shuo: “Such a combative tone, yet he still says he didn’t arguewith my brother.”

TongYan: “Don’t talk nonsense, we’re dating now.”

“?” Zhuo Jia Shuo was shocked, “Really?”

TongYan felt a little guilty, after all, he was still wooing Zhuo Xiang Ming,“Of course it’s true, why would I lie to you?”

Thatafternoon, Zhuo Xiang Ming obviously still carried an awkward, constipatedexpression of “Although I really like him, he’s so cute, I can’t letanyone bully him, but he’s really too young, I can’t be such a beast” and “ZhuoJia Shuo this shit-stirrer, although his unfriendly pheromones made Tong Yan abit uncomfortable, it also unintentionally made Tong Yan cling to me like anoctopus, now I smell like my sweet wife, I’m so proud”, yet by night theywere already dating?

What kind of inhuman progress was this?

TongYan saw that he wasn’t speaking, and thought that he didn’t believe it, so herepeated, “We’re really dating, and we also won’t divorce.”

Zhuo Jia Shuo nodded: “Uh-huh.”

TongYan: “Then what are you and my brother going to do?”

Zhuo Jia Shuo: “What’s that got to do with me? The law only prohibits marriagesbetween close relatives. Tong Yang’s your brother, not mine.”

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T/N:

Melted- ortransformed

what percentage of …-他的“懂”究竟在卓嘉烁刺激下提前的告白里占了多少比例, unsure oftranslation

That was easy lol