MRFD Chapter 21

Rong Yi felt that his embarrassment had been completely overdrawn.

The atmosphere at the dinner table that evening was simply suffocating.

People who are usually very outgoing become particularly awkward when they try to deliberately conceal their emotions. It was obvious that Liu Yuan wanted to appear more natural in front of them, but he tried too hard, and it backfired.

Watching this stiff, shifty-eyed guy once again place a piece of food on the table, still oblivious, and shovel white rice into his mouth, Rong Yi finally couldn’t help but kick Chen Ke Yao under the table.

Chen Ke Yao glanced at him, hesitant to speak.

Taking advantage of Liu Yuan’s momentary lapse, Rong Yi mouthed fiercely at him.

“Didn’t you say you were going to explain?”

After the two of them stood facing each other in the kitchen for a while, Chen Ke Yao said he was going to explain to Liu Yuan, and then followed him out.

But by the time Rong Yi had served all the cooked food onto the table, an awkward atmosphere still permeated between the two men in the living room.

Now, with more than half of the meal eaten, Rong Yi could confirm that Chen Ke Yao’s so-called explanation had not been properly implemented at all. He glared at Chen Ke Yao with a complex expression, and decided to take matters into his own hands.

The more one equivocates, hides, and tries to conceal such topics, the more deliberate it seems. On the contrary, being open and aboveboard and frank makes one seem more magnanimous and natural, and is more convincing.

Rong Yi felt that explaining directly at the dining table in front of everyone was the best approach.

“Ahem,” he cleared his throat very deliberately, and then took the initiative to speak, “Liu Yuan, just now when you came to the kitchen…”

Before he could finish, Liu Yuan, who was drinking soup, “pfft” spat all the liquid in his mouth out.

Chen Ke Yao, sitting across from him, instantly adopted a defensive posture, but he was a step too late and was splattered all over his head and face. Chen Ke Yao immediately jumped up: “Damn, you’re too disgusting…”

After saying that, he stood up and went to the bathroom, leaving Liu Yuan, who was wiping his mouth and looking very bewildered, and Rong Yi, who was interrupted and looked a little stiff, facing each other.

“I… I didn’t see anything,” Liu Yuan suddenly said, “I suddenly went blind at that moment.”

“No, I wanted to say…”

“Don’t worry, my ears went deaf too,” Liu Yuan quickly added.

“…” Rong Yi said helplessly, “Some things, even if you see them and hear them, aren’t actually true.”

Liu Yuan hesitated: “Ah, I know. Ke Yao told me, you’re not that kind of relationship. I… I don’t disbelieve it, and I don’t doubt it either.”

“…”

Just then, Chen Ke Yao washed his face and came back to the table.

Seeing that the atmosphere was still delicate, he tentatively asked Rong Yi, “Have you told him everything?”

Not yet! He clearly wanted to be open and aboveboard and explain properly, but the topic just wouldn’t progress.

“Alright, I don’t care how this guy explained it to you,” he slapped the table, “Actually, just now it was because…”

Rong Yi’s momentum was overwhelming when he started to speak, but he suddenly stalled.

Actually, it’s because I got drunk yesterday and bought a box of condoms and ate them like candy.

…How could he say that? And it didn’t sound very credible.

No wonder Chen Ke Yao hadn’t explained it clearly; he probably thought the truth would ruin Rong Yi’s image and wanted to save him some face.

Rong Yi swallowed and glanced at Chen Ke Yao again. The other man blinked twice and silently turned his head away. Judging from the trembling of his shoulders, this guy had obviously remembered the scene from last night and couldn’t help but laugh.

“Anyway, if you say you’re not, then you’re not,” Liu Yuan said, “Please spare me, stop flirting with your eyes.”

Although the two of us were holding a box of condoms and flirting in the kitchen, we really don’t have any unspeakable relationship. The reason I can’t explain is because the truth is too embarrassing to tell you.

Even Rong Yi himself thought it sounded more suspicious.

So, until Liu Yuan went home, he couldn’t explain this misunderstanding clearly.

Liu Yuan hesitated several times before leaving, but in the end, he said nothing.

After only he and Chen Ke Yao were left at home, Rong Yi immediately returned to his room and closed the door.

But before long, Chen Ke Yao came knocking on the door again, carrying a stool.

“I think you should still explain it,” he said very seriously to Rong Yi after sitting down, “Liu Yuan is a bit slow-witted and has a big mouth. He probably thinks you’re two-timing now. If he accidentally leaks it and it gets to your boyfriend’s ears, it won’t be good.”

While he was speaking, Rong Yi’s gaze remained fixed on his left hand.

“What are you doing with that thing?”

An Alpha, brazenly holding a box of condoms and walking into an Omega’s room late at night. If he hadn’t seen him throw up last night, Rong Yi would definitely have overthought it again.

Chen Ke Yao lowered his head and looked at the box of condoms in his hand, then handed it over: “Here, I’m returning it to you.”

Rong Yi was stunned and didn’t take it.

“I can’t use it either,” Chen Ke Yao said, “Since you already bought it, don’t waste it.”

“…”

Seeing that he still didn’t take it, Chen Ke Yao simply placed the box on the desk next to him.

As he got up, carrying the stool and walking out, Rong Yi suddenly spoke: “Wait a minute!”

Chen Ke Yao turned his head back: “What?”

Rong Yi looked at him, wanting to laugh a little: “…You can’t use it at all?”

“…”

In fact, Rong Yi himself couldn’t use it either. But at this moment, he finally understood the benefit of having a fake lover. After being laughed at all day for eating condoms, he could finally stand on the high ground and look down on this Alpha.

“Mr. Chen, are you a bit pessimistic?” Rong Yi looked at him, “You can’t use it now, but there’s always the future. Are you so sure, could it be…”

Chen Ke Yao looked at him: “My function isn’t the problem, it’s just not convenient to show it to you.”

“…”

What Rong Yi originally wanted to say was, “Have you never successfully had even one relationship?”

Being blocked by him like this, his face subconsciously flushed.

At critical moments, he could never find the best response to show his intelligence. Rong Yi glared at him, pursed his lips, and tried hard to hold back his words, but before he could finish organizing them, the other man had already turned his gaze away again and was walking towards the door.

“I can’t use it because your size isn’t suitable for me,” Chen Ke Yao said as he walked, “You should keep this box and eat it slowly.”

Rong Yi was instantly speechless.

That night, Rong Yi thought of at least a hundred counter-attack plans while lying in bed, but since he had missed the opportunity, he could only wrap himself in the blanket and beat his chest in frustration.

But at the same time, he couldn’t help but become a little curious.

Those words that Zhou Li casually said while waiting for the elevator, on careful thought, were indeed puzzling. Chen Ke Yao also seemed to have said similar words when he mistakenly thought he was an Alpha, saying he was worried that his Pheromones smell would make Rong Yi uncomfortable.

Recalling his experiences from childhood, Rong Yi had seen many Betas who were attracted to each other, and he had also seen a pair of Omegas in love. The former were not sensitive to Pheromones themselves, and the latter would not be repulsed by each other’s scent.

In that case, Alphas who only liked the same sex were simply the most tragic sexual orientation in the world?

The more Rong Yi thought about it, the more curious he became, and he couldn’t help but pick up his phone and search in the covers. Soon, he opened the door to a new world.

Any minority group can always find a large number of similar people online. Rong Yi easily found a related forum, and after clicking into the emotional area, the forum was filled with large numbers of venting posts.

Although the specific details were different, they were basically all complaining about the disharmony caused by Pheromones.

There was a particularly miserable wailing post that made Rong Yi laugh.

The poster said that he and his Alpha lover had been together for two years and had never successfully completed the harmony of life. As a gender born with a desire for control and domination, neither of them was willing to lie flat obediently. When they got into bed, they either fiercely fought each other and ended up failing, or the atmosphere was just right, and they couldn’t control the leakage of Pheromones, becoming irritable. The worst time, the two of them even had a fight in bed and almost broke up.

At the end of the post, the poster asked if any friends who had undergone gland surgery could share their experiences. He and his partner were thinking of trying it.

Rong Yi also became curious about this so-called surgery. Scrolling down through the replies, he saw someone give a link, saying it was a surgery repo post that he had posted before, hoping to provide help to the poster.

Rong Yi clicked in and read for a while and was shocked.

He realized for the first time that there was such a thing as Alpha gland removal surgery. The process was not painful, but it was irreversible and would leave a large number of sequelae. The only benefit was that it could reduce the outflow of Pheromones by 90%.

Almost everyone who had done it said that there would be many side effects, but still, many people chose to try it. After all, this seemed to be the only way for two Alphas to be together smoothly at this stage.

Although the post said that there were still very few Alphas who would not have resistance to same-sex Pheromones, the proportion was too low. Some people retreated to the second best and chose Beta as partners, but it was not the same thing after all.

This was really too tragic. Rong Yi felt strong sympathy for this group, and even felt that Chen Ke Yao had become less annoying.

Hiding in the covers and browsing for a long time, Rong Yi yawned repeatedly, but he was absorbed in reading and was a little reluctant to sleep.

Thinking of reading one last post and then putting down his phone, he swiped his thumb up and suddenly saw a very subtle title.

[Tree Hole] I thought this time I could finally successfully Defeat group, but I didn’t expect the other person to be an Omega?????????

Rong Yi was stunned and frowned as he clicked in.

The process was not written in detail in that post, but Rong Yi felt that the sense of déjà vu was overwhelming.

The poster said that he had coincidentally met someone he found extremely pleasing to the eye some time ago, and after falling in love with them, he actively pursued them and quickly established a relationship. During the intimate process, he was secretly pleased that they both had good acceptance of each other’s Pheromones, but in the end, he found out that the other person was an Omega.

The process was skipped over in particular ambiguity, but the main post was quite long. Because the poster used at least five hundred words to describe the appearance of that Omega who looked like an Alpha, praising them to the skies.

Someone quickly expressed doubts in the replies, saying that since they looked no different from an Alpha and you didn’t dislike Omega Pheromones, then you could actually try dating them. Are you the extreme type who “can’t accept that someone would automatically get wet”?

The poster replied that it wasn’t that, but because of some growth experiences or childhood shadows, he couldn’t accept himself having desires for Omegas. Once he realized that he had those kinds of thoughts about Omegas, he would have a stress response.

The author has something to say:

This forum also has a friend-making area, and below the friend-making area is the water area.

Everyone makes friends in the friend-making area, and after meeting, they tear each other apart. After tearing each other apart, they go down to hang people, all in one go.