WMSR — QT Chapter 173

 

Chapter 173

No alpha would ever feel this kind of intense, sour, and agonizingly painful grief in his heart just because another alpha—because his own best brother—had gotten married.

So the feelings he held for Bai were never simply pure friendship between alphas, but rather...

Aaron covered his face in agony.

At that very moment, on the planet Aaron was heading toward, Bai Yichen stared at the message he had just received on his terminal, completely dazed. He repeatedly verified the authenticity of that message, while the mix of pleasant surprise, unexpected shock, astonishment, disbelief, and a lingering sense of surviving a catastrophe made Bai Yichen experience a true emotional ups and down of life.

Bai Yichen's emotional fluctuations were so obvious that even Colin noticed it, prompting him to ask, "What's wrong?"

Bai Yichen raised his head, doing his utmost to suppress the expression on his face: "After we get married, do we get a marriage leave?"

Colin hadn't expected Bai Yichen to ask this question, and without even thinking, he replied, "Yeah. After an alpha and an omega get married, regardless of their profession, they get a very long marriage leave. The military department alphas should have the longest marriage leave among them. Is your marriage leave out yet?"

Facing Colin's curious gaze, Bai Yichen displayed his message page to him.

"One year." Looking at this duration, Colin felt a pleasant surprise as well. This meant his beloved alpha could accompany him for an entire year. As for a year later—thinking that Bai Yichen would leave him after a year to return to the military department—Colin frowned slightly, but immediately relaxed again. A year later would be fine too; if he became pregnant a year later, or used the excuse of physical discomfort, he should still be able to help Bai extend his leave.

At this moment, for the first time since coming to this world, Bai Yichen felt a rare trace of relaxation in his mood. Ever since arriving in this world, he had been trapped in troubles and kept his nerves constantly on edge. The impending expiration of his military leave and the requirement to report back to the military department had been the matters that troubled him the most during this period. Yet he never could have imagined that this marriage—which had given him such a headache—actually helped him solve the most thorny and urgent problem. Could this be considered solving one trouble by running into another?

However...

Bai Yichen glanced at the omega sitting beside him and smiling at him, though the thought of making the other party voluntarily propose a divorce never wavered in his mind.

Putting aside the fact that he had no feelings whatsoever for this omega and that this was not the marriage he wanted, purely due to his physical condition, he shouldn't have married this omega either. Having undergone detailed physical examinations, he knew that his current physique was no longer that of a pure alpha; at the very least, he had lost the ability to make an omega pregnant. For an omega, he could not provide true happiness.

Therefore, divorce was the best ending, both for himself and for this omega.

Taking a deep breath, because of this thought, the aura of Bai Yichen—which had just relaxed toward Colin upon seeing the marriage leave information—grew distant and alienated once again.

Still, are all omegas this clingy?

In just this brief moment, the omega who had just been sitting upright at a distance from Bai Yichen had already moved next to Bai Yichen at some unknown point, close enough that Bai Yichen could feel the warm body heat radiating from him.

Bai Yichen turned his head to look at the other person, his eyes revealing a faint trace of inquiry.

Meeting Bai Yichen's gaze, Colin blinked his dark, beautiful eyes, a soft and harmless smile blooming across his face: "You look really tired. Let me give you a head massage."

Hearing Colin's words, Bai Yichen immediately sat up straight and edged away again: "No need."

Receiving this direct rejection, a look of despondency flashed across Colin's face, but he quickly perked back up: "Then I'll squeeze a glass of fruit juice for you. Freshly squeezed juice is very delicious."

Bai Yichen paused, and said once more, "No need." Then he stood up and walked toward the upstairs.

Seeing Bai Yichen leave, Colin instinctively asked, "Where are you going?" Then, seemingly thinking of something, his eyes lit up as he said, "Are you going to take a bath? I'll go get your clothes for you."

Bai Yichen's footsteps nearly stumbled, and his pace going upstairs seemed to grow even faster, only tossing back a single sentence from afar: "To the study." That served as his answer to Colin's question.

In the blink of an eye, two days passed. Over these two days, the popularity of a certain topic on the star network did not drop in the slightest, but continued to ferment instead. After learning about the jaw-dropping details leaked by members of the Omega Protection Association, the one thing everyone desperately wanted to know now was: Who were that alpha and omega?

Nothing could be concealed from the broad masses of star network netizens. Even though those people from the Omega Protection Association hadn't disclosed any extra information, the netizens still managed to single out the most likely pair among the more than two hundred pairs of alpha and omega partners matched this year.

And when some people who hadn't paid attention to this pair beforehand saw those blinding, eye-piercing dating videos, they suffered a massive critical blow.

They expressed that they were still far too naive. Originally, they had come aggressively to see what that alpha looked like and why he deserved to have an omega protect him so fiercely during marriage guidance, only to find out that the man had enjoyed special treatment right from their dates. Have you ever had an omega personally shell seafood for you?

While a crowd of people on the star network were sighing over why people could differ so drastically from one another, a person Colin would never have expected was also paying close attention to this matter—that person was Muir, who had always regarded Colin as his greatest competitor.

Watching the wailing and howling on the star network, Muir treated it with utter disdain. At the same time, he held absolute contempt for Colin's fawning behavior toward that alpha. He couldn't understand which nerve in Colin's brain had broken; wasn't he always the one who knew how to put on airs and never paid attention to alphas? How could he have done so many shameless things ever since meeting that alpha, practically dragging the dignity of omegas through the dirt? With so many omegas in the empire, who knew how many years it had been since anyone last saw an omega fawn over an alpha like Colin did.

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