After Setting Me Up With My Ex, The Aloof Alpha Regrets It - Chapter 46

Chapter 46: How Can an Alpha’s Lips Be So Soft?

Zhu Yunqi’s head was about to explode.

Shi Li really was disgusted with her. She hid so far away after just being licked…

But she still didn’t want Shi Li to leave. Wuuu.

Zhu Yunqi’s head was facing the bedroom door. She was sprawled out on the bed, and in her panic, she blurted out, “Don’t—”

Because she was sprawled out, she choked on her own saliva.

After coughing twice, she finished the rest of her sentence. “…marry Wen Yue.”

Shi Li returned to the bedroom.

Seeing Zhu Yunqi sprawled out in an undignified heap on the bed, and seeming to have choked, and still saying “Bu,” she suppressed the urge to run away. She took a decorative handkerchief from the table and placed it in front of Zhu Yunqi.

“Here, bu.”

She had heard the rest of the sentence as well.

Zhu Yunqi wanted her to marry Wen Yue.

That would be the safest way to go, right?

Zhu Yunqi must have had this thought in her heart. Before, she might have been worried that she would be retaliated against by Major General Wen, which was why she said to be cautious about marrying Wen Yue. Now that she was drunk, she said what was buried in her heart.

Shi Li was sure that she no longer loved Wen Yue. She couldn’t even imagine what it would be like to live with Wen Yue for the rest of her life.

It was even possible that this lifetime would be very short.

But if it was Zhu Yunqi’s request, she couldn’t say no.

So she lowered her eyes and said with a sigh, “Zhu Yunqi, I will marry Wen Yue.”

When Zhu Yunqi heard that, she almost had a heart attack.

She had made it so clear, yet Shi Li was still stubbornly going to marry Wen Yue?

She asked with a trembling voice, “Do you love Wen Yue that much?”

Shi Li was worried that if she told the truth and said “I don’t love her,” Zhu Yunqi would be too embarrassed to ask her to marry Wen Yue again. So she went against her conscience and said, “Yes, I do.”

A long silence followed.

A deep sigh echoed in the bedroom.

Zhu Yunqi wanted to fight a little more. “Wen Yue is not as good as you think…”

Shi Li pursed her lips. “Thank you for the reminder. I know.”

Zhu Yunqi couldn’t fight anymore.

She wanted to say something else, but her thoughts were like a small sailboat swaying in the center of a storm, rising and falling, unable to reach the shore.

She was completely powerless.

All the fuss she had just made was a complete joke.

Zhu Yunqi buried her face in the blanket, not wanting Shi Li to see the dejection in her eyes.

“You should go home. I’m going to sleep.”

Shi Li’s response was to cover her with the blanket.

“Good night.”

…

Zhu Yunqi’s sleep was very restless.

She had a series of strange dreams. She dreamed that Shi Li and Wen Yue got married, but everyone at the wedding was crying as if it were a funeral. She descended from the sky, smiling like she had lost her mind. The scene changed, and it was Shi Li and Wen Yue having a lawn wedding. She rushed over, pushed Shi Li aside, turned, held Wen Yue’s hand, and looked at her affectionately…

Zhu Yunqi opened her eyes with a messy head. It was almost noon.

She hadn’t blacked out. Everything that happened last night was imprinted in her mind, and she remembered every single detail clearly.

She had warned herself countless times to be restrained and not impulsive. Yet, last night, she indulged herself with the help of alcohol.

Not only did she act like a obedient wooden puppet in front of Shi Li, she even licked her fingers… At the time, she was sad about Shi Li’s big reaction, but now that she was sober, she wanted to go back in time and slap herself twice. Shi Li was too gentle. If she were Shi Li, she would have punched her.

The most upsetting part was hearing Shi Li say she loved Wen Yue with her own ears. Alcohol really does ruin things. She had become less and less like herself recently. She even found many of her own actions incomprehensible.

Zhu Yunqi went to the bathroom to take a shower and had the hotel send a new set of clothes. She had slept in her old clothes for a night, and they were wrinkled. She threw them away as if she could also throw away everything that happened last night.

She didn’t feel like eating, so she just opened a bag of nutrient solution. She wanted to explain herself to Shi Li and salvage her image. The content she typed changed again and again, and she couldn’t organize her words properly.

Anything she said would sound like she was trying to hide something.

After hesitating over and over, Shi Li was the one who sent her several pictures of the little cloud and the little plant.

And she said: The little plant is now 13.6 centimeters tall.

Zhu Yunqi felt a huge relief and finally found an opportunity to talk.

She decided to pretend she had blacked out.

“Sorry… I didn’t do anything yesterday, did I? I don’t remember anything. I tend to do some outrageous things when I’m drunk, like imagining myself as a dog and biting and gnawing on things everywhere…”

“Please don’t mind it, okay?”

After sending the message, Zhu Yunqi anxiously waited for Shi Li’s reply.

The moment her optical computer vibrated with a new message, she immediately opened it.

Shi Li: It’s okay. You were very well-behaved last night. You went to the hotel and fell asleep right away. You didn’t do anything.

Shi Li: You didn’t bite or gnaw on anything.

After reading the messages, Zhu Yunqi didn’t know whether to be happy or to cry.

Shi Li and her were in agreement to pretend that nothing had happened last night.

If we pretend it didn’t happen, will it really be like it never happened?

Zhu Yunqi casually replied, “That’s good.”

Then she lay back down on the bed, her heart cold, staring at the ceiling.

After a while, she turned her head and caught a glimpse of the handkerchief crumpled on the bedside table.

Wait a minute.

Zhu Yunqi frowned and tried to remember.

Why did Shi Li give her a handkerchief?

When she gave it to her, she seemed to have said…

“Here, bu.”

Did I ask Shi Li for “bu”?

Her gaze lingered on the handkerchief. Zhu Yunqi tried her best to recall every detail of last night.

A flash of inspiration came to her.

Could it be that Shi Li misunderstood one of my sentences as two?

She wanted to say “Don’t marry Wen Yue,” but because she choked on some water in the middle, Shi Li heard “Bu, marry Wen Yue”?

Zhu Yunqi gasped.

That’s not what she meant!

She had gone from the person who most wanted Shi Li and Wen Yue to get married to the person who most didn’t want them to get married.

Zhu Yunqi quickly called Shi Li on her optical computer.

“Where are you? There’s something I want to tell you.”

It was a bit noisy on Shi Li’s side. There was a faint sound of an electronic female voice calling out numbers.

“I’m at the hospital. It’s been a month. I’m here for a follow-up check.” She was referring to the gland injection of Alpha repressor for her treatment.

Zhu Yunqi said, “Can you wait for me? I’ll come find you.”

Shi Li hesitated. “If it’s not super important, you can just say it now on the call.”

Zhu Yunqi felt that she had to explain it in person.

“It’s very important. It will only take a little bit of your time.”

Shi Li agreed.

The car had been driven away by Hai Yao, and it would take some time to remotely control it to come over. Zhu Yunqi was afraid that Shi Li would wait for her at the hospital, so she hailed a car to the Star Capital General Hospital and also had her car drive there on its own.

When she arrived at the hospital, it was just before one o’clock.

Shi Li was surprised at how fast she got there. Dr. Ji started work at one thirty in the afternoon, and she was the first one in the afternoon. She had originally taken a short leave from work and left her office half an hour early, thinking she could get the last appointment of the morning with Dr. Ji. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden emergency, so she couldn’t make it and was automatically moved to the first appointment in the afternoon.

It was not easy to take leave from work now, and Dr. Ji would also be off after work in the afternoon, so she could only leave a little early and come for a check-up during lunchtime.

In the waiting room, they sat side by side.

After last night, there was a subtle change in the atmosphere between the two of them.

Shi Li awkwardly curled her fingers.

She was wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses today, which blurred the slight panic in her eyes.

“What’s so important that you have to say it in person?”

Shi Li spoke first. She didn’t smile at Zhu Yunqi as gracefully as usual. Instead, she looked down at the bow tie decoration on her jeans.

“I didn’t mean ‘bu’,” Zhu Yunqi took a deep breath and said with determination. “I meant, ‘Don’t marry Wen Yue.'”

Shi Li was stunned for a moment, and then immediately remembered which event she was talking about.

Shi Li’s eyes widened slightly.

“Didn’t you say you didn’t remember anything?”

Zhu Yunqi clenched her fists, her teeth biting the flesh of her lips.

She had forgotten about that.

She quickly tried to salvage it. “I still remembered a little bit. But, I don’t remember anything before I bit you.”

Shi Li: …

Zhu Yunqi: …

Why does this feel like I’m just making things worse?

Zhu Yunqi: “I’m sorry about last night.”

Shi Li finally showed a faint smile. “It’s okay. It’s just…”

“Just what?”

“When you’re drunk, do you do that to other people, too?”

Zhu Yunqi said, “No. Uh, I mean, I haven’t done that to anyone else before. No, I didn’t mean to do that to you.”

Shi Li turned her face, and the light projected beautiful shadows on her cheeks.

Zhu Yunqi’s lips were opening and closing, very close. Her fingertips seemed to feel that overly soft touch again.

Shi Li’s mind briefly wandered for a second: How can an Alpha’s lips be so soft?

She gently rubbed her fingers under her jacket sleeve. The image of Zhu Yunqi kneeling on the bed last night and looking up at her appeared in her mind… She didn’t seem to be against it…

What nonsense am I thinking?

Shi Li came back to her senses. “I just wanted to say that you shouldn’t do that to others so easily… it’s easy for people to misunderstand.”

“Misunderstand what?”

“Misunderstand that you’re in love.” Shi Li puffed out her cheeks and let out a sigh, her eyebrows also lifting a little. “Of course, don’t worry. I didn’t misunderstand. I know you wouldn’t.”

You wouldn’t be in love with me. She didn’t have the courage to say the second half of the sentence.

Shi Li felt strange about her own awkwardness. They shared the same secret, yet in front of Zhu Yunqi, she couldn’t be as uninhibited as she was with Tang Yingchi.

Maybe it was because Zhu Yunqi was an Alpha. An Omega would always be more reserved in front of an Alpha than a Beta.

Zhu Yunqi’s gaze was a little bitter.

“It’s good that you didn’t misunderstand.”

She didn’t know what kind of mood she was in when she said that.

She got back to the main topic.

“I’m worried you misunderstood what I meant. I absolutely do not want you to marry Wen Yue. I did say something like that to you before, but I’m taking it back now. I’m definitely, completely, taking it back.”

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