IM Chapter 34
by VolareShen ChiTai spent a great deal of effort getting Shang Jue back to his room. The alpha was terribly drunk and fell onto the bed without any reaction.
The omega bent down to take off his shoes, moved his legs onto the bed, and carefully covered him with the quilt.
It had been a long time since he’d seen Shang Jue this drunk. Even though he, as the older brother, might bicker with him on a regular basis, seeing him like this still made his heart ache. It’s just that some people say they’re going to work, but they secretly drink behind his back and don’t even say a word beforehand.
Shen ChiTai pulled the quilt over his chest, leaned closer, and carefully tucked him in.
The person on the bed suddenly opened his eyes, and the omega’s pupils jolted. The alpha grabbed his arm and, with a forceful pull, the view changed, and the two of them had switched positions.
Shen ChiTai stared at him with wide, shocked eyes, “A Jue, you’re not drunk?”
The alpha’s eyes were clear, not at all like someone who had been drinking, “When did I say I was drunk?”
Realizing he’d been tricked, Shen ChiTai was both angry and helpless, “You… you teamed up with him to trick me.”
“Is gege angry?” Shang Jue said with a smile, whispering in his ear.
“You bastard, you made me worry for nothing.” If his hand wouldn’t hurt from slapping, he would have liked to teach this brat a lesson.
“…Gege.” The alpha gently rested his chin on his shoulder, calling out in a spoiled tone.
A soft feeling stirred in Shen ChiTai’s chest, and he said in a slightly reproachful voice, “Liar.”
The alpha pursed his lips and chuckled softly.
“I didn’t expect that gege would worry about me so much. I’m so happy.” Shang Jue kissed his neck with rapid breaths, his lips moving upwards, touching his warm cheeks, his trembling eyelashes, and kissing his eyes, “Ge, shall we take a bath together tonight?”
Shen ChiTai closed his eyes and gently pushed his shoulders.
“No way.”
He knew what the alpha was planning with just a wiggle of his toes, and he refused outright. Remembering how someone had wanted to devour him on the bed, he still felt lingering fear, and everything hurt all over.
“Ge,” the alpha was still unwilling to give up, with a smile on his lips, he said the most embarrassing words in the most pitiful tone, “This time, I’ll only use my hands.”
Shen ChiTai supported himself with his arms and sat up a little, retreating backwards. Seeing this, the alpha followed and leaned in again. The omega quickly stretched out his foot to hold him back by the chest, preventing him from getting close, “No matter what you use, it’s still a no.”
If he gave in, he would definitely be led by the nose again.
Shang Jue looked down at the foot in front of his chest, the straight and slender white legs, even the toes were very beautiful.
He laughed a couple of times and directly reached out to grab the omega’s ankle. By the time Shen ChiTai realized that this position was disadvantageous to him, it was too late to pull back.
The alpha pressed his leg back, and his body followed the motion, drawing close to Shen ChiTai, his eyes full of mischief, “The more gege is like this, the more I want to get in. I don’t like gege rejecting me, so gege’s rejection is invalid to me.”
“Shang Jue, you’re just a rogue…” The omega’s eyelashes trembled twice in the air, a little angry, wanting to say a few harsh words to Shang Jue, but unfortunately, when it came to the crucial moment, he couldn’t think of a single word.
He despised himself for being this way.
In the end, Shang Jue’s current state was inseparable from him. He hated himself for being useless, except for being annoyed he couldn’t do anything to the alpha.
Shen ChiTai sighed softly, the lines of his brow soft and unusual, “Get up first, Dad will be back soon, I have to cook.”
The alpha ignored his words and lightly bit the omega’s slightly protruding collarbone, leaving a mark, but it didn’t hurt too much, “Cooking every day is so tiring. We can go out to eat later. While Dad isn’t home, let’s be intimate for a bit.”
He was simply acting unreasonably.
“Shang Jue!” Shen ChiTai shouted in a low voice, his tone a little fierce, his face falling, “Don’t make me say it a second time, get off.”
The omega rarely spoke so fiercely to him, let alone showed him a bad face. Shang Jue’s eyes paused slightly, he didn’t say anything, and then he let go of him and got up unsteadily.
Only then did Shen ChiTai barely gain his freedom and sit up, using his hand to tidy up his clothes that had been messed up.
He glanced faintly at the silent alpha, Shang Jue withering his mouth, drooping his head. The most men are good at is deliberately pretending to be pitiful to gain sympathy.
The omega didn’t fall for it now, and in order to punish him and give him a warning, Shen ChiTai deliberately pretended not to see him and didn’t coax him, letting him sulk on his own.
Someone had left him out to dry all day when he went out to play today, and thinking of this, he also felt a little unhappy.
When Shen ChiTai was in the kitchen, he heard someone open the door in the living room, followed by a clear sound of closing the door. After that, there was no movement outside. Shang Jue had gone out.
The kitchen knife in Shen ChiTai’s hand only paused slightly and imperceptibly for half a second, and then it fell again with a crisp sound. The kitchen had a fume purifier, but he was still choked by the faint fumes floating in the air, feeling nauseous.
After a while, he heard the phone ringing in the living room. No one answered. The omega walked out of the kitchen, wiping his hands, picked up the phone, and glanced at the caller ID. It was Shang Lü. He answered the phone, just listened to the other side say a few words, nodded and replied “Okay” before hanging up.
The alpha happened to open the door and come back from outside. Shen ChiTai saw that he was holding an unopened express box, but only glanced at it faintly, and then turned around and went into the kitchen without saying a word.
Behind him, where he couldn’t see, Shang Jue’s face suddenly darkened.
There were only two people for dinner. Shang Jue looked at the place where Shang Lü usually sat, and he probably had an idea in his mind.
“Is Dad not coming back tonight?” Someone poked the chopsticks in the rice bowl repeatedly, with a hesitant expression.
“Yeah, he just called me and said that the company has some urgent matters that need to be dealt with, so he’ll sleep at the company tonight.” Shen ChiTai lifted his eyelids and glanced at him, but only for a moment. He was afraid that he would accidentally meet his eyes and reveal the softness covered in his eyes.
Ever since he had been tough and fierce with him in the afternoon, the alpha had been dejected and didn’t take the initiative to speak. His movements were also much restrained. Even when he drank water in the living room, he picked it up and put it down gently, being careful.
Shen ChiTai knew he was pretending, but he still admired that this person could really endure it.
He slowly swallowed the food in his mouth before asking the alpha, “What did you buy online?”
Shang Jue was immediately interested, “Does gege want to know?”
Shen ChiTai stared at him with dark eyes, seeing that someone looked mysterious and didn’t intend to say it directly. He could guess that it probably wasn’t a good thing, so he couldn’t be bothered to keep asking.
“If it’s inconvenient to say, then forget it.” He quietly ate the rice in his bowl.
“Gege will know tonight.” Shang Jue smiled slyly. To be honest, Shen ChiTai didn’t like the night at all.
That bad feeling he had before was now getting stronger and stronger.
Hopefully, he was just overthinking it. Shen ChiTai could only pray silently, after all, he was still angry, and he bet that Shang Jue wouldn’t dare to mess around.
After eating, Shang Jue took the initiative to take on the work of washing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen, doing everything Snatchdoing and behaving very diligently. Seeing that he was rarely proactive, Shen ChiTai didn’t compete with him.
The smell of oily smoke on his body was very strong. He used to not be very sensitive to the greasy smell in the air. Now, his extremely sensitive reaction was like the state of a carsick person, just a slight smell of oily smoke made his whole person feel uncomfortable from the inside out.
After sitting on the sofa for a few minutes, he couldn’t bear it anymore. Seeing that Shang Jue hadn’t come out yet, he got up and went back to his room to get a clean set of pajamas and went to the bathroom. He wanted to take a shower and then check on the recent operating status of the cat cafe. Business at the store had been good these past two days, and although he was a little tired, he could still handle it.
He had been in the bathroom for about seven or eight minutes, and the water had not stopped flowing. By the time the omega changed into a bathrobe and casually threw the dirty clothes into the automatic washing machine next to him, he was just about to open the door and come out when he ran into Shang Jue, who was waiting by the door at some point, leaning against the wall with his legs crossed.
Shen ChiTai’s eyes suddenly changed, and he tried his best to control his momentarily out-of-control, strange expression, so as not to show too much panic in front of the alpha.
“What are you doing standing here?”
“I want to be with gege.” Shang Jue leaned over, sticking to him.
“…” Shen ChiTai said helplessly, “I’m just taking a shower, what are you doing following me? You’re not a dog, following me every step of the way.” His voice became lighter and lighter as he spoke.
“Who knows if gege will secretly sneak back to his room and lock the door on me.” Shang Jue said with a complaining tone.
Shen ChiTai thought his idea was very good. To avoid unnecessary trouble, he really needed to lock the door when he went to bed later, and it would be best to move a table to block someone’s retreat.
Shang Jue’s eyes were fixed tightly on him, his chin rubbing against the omega’s neck, “I’ve been having nightmares lately when I sleep alone. I want to be closer to gege, otherwise I’ll have insomnia.”
“Too much pressure?” Shen ChiTai turned his head and asked.
“I don’t know, I just can’t sleep. I’ve been feeling dazed these past two days.”
Shen ChiTai hesitated indeed, and in those two seconds of hesitation, he was wondering if what this person was saying was true or false.
Seeing this, Shang Jue said again, “It’s good to continue like this. When the time comes, gege won’t have to feel embarrassed for me anymore. I’ll just go crazy and stay far away from gege, and I’ll never bother gege again.”
Shen ChiTai looked at the man’s head, which was getting lower and lower, full of guilt. Anyone who didn’t know would think that he had suffered some great grievance here. He finally knew how stupid he used to be to fall for this person’s tricks, which he could easily see through at a glance.
“You come to my room tonight.” The omega said slowly, word by word.
Shang Jue’s eyes suddenly lit up, “Really?”
Shen ChiTai was ashamed to say it. Just saying these words once had already made him feel very tormented.
“If you ask again, then no.”
“I’ll go get the pillow now.” Shang Jue turned around and ran so fast that he almost left an afterimage.
Shen ChiTai always felt like he had been tricked, and it was the kind he was willing to do.
The two of them were lying in bed, Shen ChiTai was sitting at the head of the bed, looking down at Shang Jue, who was lying quietly and obediently on his side next to him. He was a very suitable big cutie for warming the bed, the omega’s mind flashed with this thought for a moment.