After Setting Me Up With My Ex, The Aloof Alpha Regrets It - Chapter 14

Chapter 14: The Light of Love Shines Evenly on Everyone’s Night.

“I love them.” Shi Li’s smile was even more beautiful than the roses.

Wen Yue stepped forward and hugged Shi Li. In a place where Shi Li couldn’t see, she tossed the single Rhodes rose she was holding onto the bench, where it blended in with the hundreds of others.

Wen Yue’s heart was pounding. Was it a coincidence? Who would send hundreds of expensive roses to their date location? She looked around, but there was no one in sight. Then she thought, she couldn’t take all these roses with her anyway, so it wouldn’t hurt to claim them as her own. Shi Li was so happy, so there was no point in letting her excitement be in vain.

Shi Li hugged Wen Yue back. However, she looked up and into Wen Yue’s eyes. “Ah Yue, where did you get so much money? Isn’t your father always very strict with you?”

So many roses would cost at least tens of thousands of star coins. For Shi Li, who had lived like a pauper for more than twenty years, it was a little too extravagant.

Wen Yue guiltily looked away. “I saved up my salary. As long as you like them, that’s all that matters.”

“You came out secretly. Did your father not find out?”

Shi Li wasn’t worried about what Wen Lirong would do to Wen Yue if he found out she was feigning illness; they were father and daughter and would always be on the same side. She was worried that Wen Yue’s actions would arouse Wen Lirong’s suspicion. If Wen Lirong found out that Wen Yue was secretly dating her, he would probably think that she was the one hindering Wen Yue’s engagement with Zhu Yunqi. She couldn’t handle Wen Lirong.

“No. He just told me to go to the hospital and didn’t ask anything else.”

When she mentioned Wen Lirong’s attitude, Wen Yue’s eyes became vacant. She had injected herself with a body temperature stabilizer used during an Alpha’s estrus. For Betas without pheromones, this injection is metabolized quickly, and the side effects are minimal, but it can raise a Beta’s body temperature for a short time and cause dizziness and sweating, creating the illusion of a fever.

Wen Yue had prepared herself mentally for a long time, even coming up with a bunch of excuses for when her lie would be exposed. When she finally had the courage to go and explain the situation to Wen Lirong, he just glanced at her indifferently and told her to remember to go to the hospital. He didn’t even ask for the family doctor’s diagnosis. He probably assumed Wen Yue didn’t have the guts to lie.

Wen Yue seemed to think she should be sad, but after living this life for more than twenty years, she had long become indifferent.

In the end, because there were too many flowers, Shi Li only took a few branches, regretfully leaving the rest on the bench.

According to their pre-arranged itinerary, they went for beauty treatments, had a meal, watched a movie, and walked around the university campus.

Wen Yue attended a military academy with a strict military management system. Shi Li’s university was a top-tier comprehensive university in the Federation, which was open to the public. The two schools weren’t far from each other, and they often met up when they were students.

As night fell, they were tired from walking. The lights on the school lawn were dim, and couples were snuggling together in twos and threes. A wind carrying the scent of grass blew by, as if time had suddenly gone back a few years, to when they had just started dating, when they were young and naive, and would blush just from holding hands.

Wen Yue’s heart was filled with a bittersweet love. She looked at her beautiful girlfriend and suddenly remembered that seven years ago, because of her outstanding looks and winning the Federation’s highest scholarship in her first semester, Shi Li was voted the most “beautiful and intelligent” campus belle on the school’s community network. Many Alphas and Betas pursued her, and even students from the military academy next door would often hang around Shi Li’s school gate, trying to run into her by chance.

But Shi Li only liked her. Students from the same school didn’t know Wen Yue’s father was a Federation general and had even stopped her on campus, telling her to break up with Shi Li quickly. The feeling of being threatened was still fresh in Wen Yue’s memory. It was exhilarating, proud, and satisfying, a sense of pleasure like being slapped and then slapping back, and the fear was only a little bit.

That was the first time Wen Yue experienced how liberating it was to be threatened. Because she had a treasure that made everyone jealous.

…

“Ah Yue, I love you,” Shi Li said, using the exact same words she had used seven years ago.

Wen Yue, with her thoughts blown back to the past by the night wind, felt her mind become chaotic in time and space.

Shi Li looked into her hazy eyes, and her heart gave a sharp pang. She recited the lines she had prepared, as if she were a robot. “Ah Yue, can you only be with me?” “Can you tell your dad not to marry Zhu Yunqi, please?”

Wen Yue opened her mouth, subconsciously wanting to agree. But the three words “Zhu Yunqi” suddenly pulled her back to reality. On one side was the girlfriend she couldn’t let go of, and on the other were her strict father and the proud daughter of a noble family, Zhu Yunqi.

Being with Shi Li would make the whole school jealous, while being with Zhu Yunqi could make the entire Federation jealous. But her value shouldn’t be defined by “being envied”…

Just as the answer was on the tip of her tongue, the couples behind them suddenly shouted at the sky, “Look, fireworks and drone show! Someone is confessing their love!”

Brilliant fireworks exploded in the night sky. Thousands of drones, with their bright lights, skillfully weaved among the fireworks, forming patterns of love: roses, holding hands, a wedding, a ring… Finally, they spelled out three words: “Marry me.”

It was a cheesy yet romantic performance. The campus couples erupted in cheers, with “I love you” echoing everywhere. No one knew who had planned this event for a confession, but at this moment, the light of love shone evenly on everyone’s night.

Wen Yue was no exception. She felt an indescribable tremor in her heart, as if a voice was telling her, “You should be selfless for Shi Li, just this once.” She turned around and tightly hugged the person next to her.

“I promise. Shi Li, I will only be with you.”

Behind the rock garden on a distant lawn, Zhu Yunqi pressed the lever of the drone control stick.

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