After Setting Me Up With My Ex, The Aloof Alpha Regrets It - Chapter 32

Chapter 32: Why Should She Care About Wen Yue’s Ticket?

After picking up Lan Yang, Lan Yang was incredibly aggrieved.

“You’re a cold-hearted and cruel Alpha, leaving me all alone in a place I’m unfamiliar with, Z3291. What if I get scammed by someone else? Can you be responsible for me? You can’t! Because—A and A have no future!”

Lan Yang was clearly so angry that she was talking nonsense.

“I just went to handle an emergency. Besides, you looked like you were having a great time,” Zhu Yunqi said, giving her a sideways glance. “Was the bartender’s chin fun?”

Lan Yang thought for a few seconds. Then she got even angrier.

“I treated you like my captain, my only support, and you stereotype me. I was being a good Samaritan, okay?”

As soon as she entered the bar, she saw a burly male Alpha harassing the bartender. The bartender was a Beta, who was thin and delicate, looking like a pitiful victim who was about to cry. Although Lan Yang wasn’t attracted to Betas, she couldn’t stand seeing others get bullied. So, she immediately pretended that the bartender Beta was her client and ordered an expensive drink. Only then did the ugly male Alpha leave, looking disgruntled.

Lan Yang declared that she had suffered emotional damage and needed compensation.

Zhu Yunqi saw through her. So all the long-winded setup was for this.

“Spit it out.”

“The Federal Goddess, Liu Yisha, is holding a concert in Z3291 next week, and I couldn’t get tickets.”

Liu Yisha, with her extremely aggressive beauty and a voice kissed by God, had become one of the most famous Omegas in the entire Federation.

Zhu Yunqi didn’t know much about her, but she had heard a few of her songs. Liu Yisha’s songs were so popular that it was difficult not to have heard them.

“I’ll ask my sister.”

Lan Yang’s expression immediately changed, and she gave a fawning smile. “Captain Zhu, you are simply the most perfect Alpha in the entire Federation. If I were an Omega, I would fight tooth and nail to be your wife! Then baby Shi Li will regret it. Humph!”

Zhu Yunqi was drinking water and almost choked when she heard this.

“What does this have to do with Shi Li? I’m warning you, don’t say I like her again.”

Lan Yang looked confused. “I didn’t say you liked her. It was just a joke. Why are you so worked up?”

Zhu Yunqi said coldly, “Don’t make jokes about her and me again.”

Lan Yang blinked and then understood.

“Captain Zhu, you’re like a thief who puts a sign in front of his house saying ‘There are no three hundred silver taels buried here.’ Oh, right, you can ask Shi Li if she likes Liu Yisha. She’s helping me find a girlfriend, so I’ll treat her to the concert.”

“You’ll treat her?”

“Yes, I’ll treat her. You just have to be responsible for getting me the tickets.”

Zhu Yunqi: “…”

Sometimes, she also wished she could live as shamelessly as Lan Yang.

Lan Yang added with a grin, “I want front-row seats. The best kind, where you can have a separate Q&A session after the concert and get an autograph.”

After dropping Lan Yang off at her hotel, Zhu Yunqi thought that constantly driving her around was not a good solution. Anyway, she had more than one car at home, so she would lend Lan Yang another one another day.

When she got home, Zhu Jingxian happened to be there, and Zhu Yunqi mentioned the Liu Yisha concert to her.

Zhu Jingxian agreed without hesitation. “No problem. How many tickets do you need?”

Zhu Yunqi thought for a moment and carefully held up four fingers. One for Lan Yang. If Shi Li was going, she couldn’t let Lan Yang and Shi Li go alone together. She had to go and watch over them herself.

But the three of them going together seemed strange. Shi Li would probably invite Wen Yue, right? Then she had to get a ticket for Wen Yue, too.

Why should she care about Wen Yue’s ticket?

Zhu Yunqi thought with indignation.

Given Liu Yisha’s popularity, Zhu Yunqi asked with uncertainty, “Sister, is it easy to get four front-row tickets?”

“Of course it is,” Zhu Jingxian stopped her beauty device and glanced at Zhu Yunqi. “Yunqi, you should have a general idea of our family’s assets sometimes. The venue where she’s holding the concert is under our family’s name.”

“Besides,” Zhu Jingxian added nonchalantly, “Liu Yisha is my ex-girlfriend. It’s not because we’re both Omegas; it’s because our personalities didn’t match, so we broke up.”

Zhu Yunqi: “…”

The information she had received tonight was a mess. She needed a moment to herself.

…

The next day, Zhu Jingxian got four first-row SVIP tickets.

Lan Yang also arranged a meeting with Shi Li. Shi Li gave Lan Yang the contact information of the Omega junior. The junior was a little reserved, but after learning that Lan Yang was a hot and gorgeous beauty, she readily agreed.

Shi Li immediately sent a message to Zhu Yunqi, saying that if Wen Yue knew she was going to the Liu Yisha concert, she would definitely want to go too.

One of the four tickets was already for Wen Yue.

Zhu Yunqi: You and Wen Yue can go together.

She had a plan. They could switch with someone in the back rows. Two people could sit in the front, and two people could sit in the back. There would be plenty of people who wanted to switch to the first-row SVIP section.

Liu Yisha’s concert was next Saturday, July 13th.

There were almost two more weeks in between. After the concert, she would only have half a month of vacation left. At the end of July, she would return to the Black Star Belt on time to continue her work at Silver Serpent.

The Zhu family was wealthy. There was no place in the upper, middle, and lower star regions that Zhu Shengxi’s hand couldn’t reach. But she had no say in the Black Star Belt. Once she returned to the Black Star Belt and finished the remaining time, her engagement to Wen Yue would be put on hold.

That was why her parents were so eager for the marriage alliance to be finalized before her vacation ended.

And it was precisely because they were afraid she would avoid the engagement and cancel her vacation that Zhu Yunqi had no idea she had already been engaged before she received her vacation approval and returned to Z3291. Zhu Jingxian had been sharp enough to guess something from the actions of Zhu Shengxi and Shen Qinghe, but she couldn’t be sure. So she could only secretly prepare a backup bank card for her sister as soon as she returned to the capital and the marriage was confirmed.

After the dinner between the two families last time, the engagement with Wen Yue had been postponed to July 18th.

After receiving the tickets, Zhu Yunqi forwarded them all to Lan Yang.

Lan Yang: Long live Captain Zhu, long, long, long live! Please accept my prostration!

Zhu Yunqi: …Rise.

Lan Yang: Thank you, Your Majesty! Oh, right, Captain Zhu, did you receive the invitation to the military academy joint event?

What invitation?

Zhu Yunqi opened her infrequently used inbox. It was full of unimportant spam, mostly advertisements.

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Z3291 Security Department: Lawbreakers are frequently using online shopping deliveries to commit fraud. All federal citizens, please do not scan the QR codes on delivery packages at will.

…

In yesterday’s emails, Zhu Yunqi indeed found an email from the Federal Deep Space Strategic Command University. Her alma mater.

Federal Deep Space Strategic Command University: Dear outstanding graduates, when you receive this email, your alma mater is proud of you. Your alma mater, along with ten other military academies, including the Federal Interstellar Defense Military Academy and the Interstellar War Technology University, will jointly hold a promotional event on July 5th and 6th at Planet Z3291 in the Upper Star Region. Please take some time out of your busy work to come and add luster to your alma mater!

Following were the specific event times and detailed addresses, as well as the list of the ten military academies.

She switched back to her light brain communication.

Lan Yang: I’m so bored. I’m going. Want to come?

Zhu Yunqi had no interest in this kind of recruitment event.

Zhu Yunqi: No.

A few minutes later, Shi Li also sent her a message.

Shi Li: Zhu Yunqi, Wen Yue is going to the joint military academy promotional event this weekend, and I’m going with her.

Now Shi Li was accustomed to reporting her whereabouts with Wen Yue to her.

Wen Yue was going too? Zhu Yunqi’s fingertips tapped the hovering screen, and she typed a few spaces in the chat box.

She had forgotten that Wen Yue also graduated from a military academy, and her alma mater was one of the ten military academies.

And it was also normal for Wen Yue to ask Shi Li to go with her. Wen Yue now seemed to be in a state where she needed Shi Li’s constant companionship to be able to go anywhere alone.

What a coincidence. She was going too. After realizing she had strange feelings for Shi Li, Zhu Yunqi had a restless night. She wanted Shi Li to be within her sight, even if there was someone else beside her.

Zhu Yunqi: I’m going too.

Zhu Yunqi: Wen Yue and I didn’t go to the same university. We won’t run into each other.

Shi Li replied with “Received.”

It was a cold reply, like a message to a boss.

Shi Li herself was much warmer and more vivid than her text messages. Zhu Yunqi was a little regretful that she had deleted all the photos Shi Li had sent her last night. To defend her conscience and morality, she had insisted on a “see no evil” principle and hadn’t even dared to look closely, using a voice command to have her light brain delete the chat history by itself.

It wasn’t just the photos that were deleted. It was the other side of Shi Li, a side that had a lower chance of being seen than winning the lottery.

A side she would never see again in her life.

When she was deleting the history, her light brain’s health manager had cheekily reminded her: “Master, a test has detected that your brain’s oxygen content is 10% lower than normal. Please maintain normal breathing to avoid dizziness~”

Zhu Yunqi sent another message to Lan Yang, telling her that she had changed her mind and would go with her. She and Lan Yang were from the same school but from different years. Lan Yang was her senior.

Lan Yang said she had a woman’s heart, as deep as the sea.

A few minutes later, she started wailing again, exclaiming that one of the two tickets given to Shi Li had been given to Wen Yue. She had thought Shi Li had asked for two tickets to invite her best friend, Tang Yingchi, and was shocked that she had given it to the Wen Yue she hated. She immediately said that she was only treating Shi Li to the concert and would charge Wen Yue the market price for the ticket.

Zhu Yunqi couldn’t help but ask Lan Yang why she hated Wen Yue. She remembered that Lan Yang and Wen Yue didn’t seem to have any grudge against each other.

Lan Yang: You don’t understand. I have a grudge against her not only emotionally but also personally.

If she hated her, then she hated her. Zhu Yunqi was too lazy to care about the feud between Lan Yang and Wen Yue.

Because Shi Li was going to a training program for an exchange and cooperation on the weekend, and the military academy’s joint promotional event was on Friday and Saturday, Shi Li had to ask for half a day off from work to accompany Wen Yue on Friday afternoon.

Fortunately, the design department was always in a relaxed state on Friday afternoons, so it was easy to get time off.

This week, Zhu Yunqi, as usual, followed the route of Shi Li’s dates with Wen Yue and decorated the places they might pass by with passionate Rhodes roses.

She found that Shi Li would always smile happily whenever she saw these roses. Although this would invisibly deepen Shi Li’s relationship with Wen Yue, Zhu Yunqi, who was secretly observing from a distance, would then feel a contradictory sense of unease: a feeling of relief that her engagement with Wen Yue was gradually falling apart, and a feeling of loss that the person by Shi Li’s side was Wen Yue.

Every rose was a grain of sand that would crush her and Wen Yue’s engagement, and at the same time, it was also a witness to Shi Li’s happiness with someone else.

Leading her away from the pain also seemed to lead to the loss of happiness.

She felt like she was slowly becoming a rat in the gutter, secretly and masochistically peeping at other people’s love and then wickedly adding fuel to the fire.

She must be going crazy. Zhu Yunqi concluded.

But she couldn’t help but let herself sink into it. Zhu Yunqi had never thought that her tracking and stealth skills would be used to secretly watch other people’s dates.

She was getting more and more twisted.

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