[BL] Between an Alpha and Omega

U: Warning Signs*

AN: No Edit cause me is tired//

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Over the next few days, Jun Yibai hung out with Jia Li.

As he suspected, they were impatient when he told them he wasn't seeing anyone and tried setting him up with her. He was young, sure, but who wanted to wait until their son was in their 30s to start a family?

Still, Jun Yibai didn't mind. Neither he nor Jia Li were all that interested in each other.

She was pretty and fun to talk to but a bit too shy for his taste. He preferred a partner who was brash or forceful since he was the quiet type.

Jia Li and he had found themself unsure of what to do next quite a few times while hanging out.

More important, however, was the fact that she had a boyfriend with whom she was deeply in love with.

"Yet you are here? With me?" Jun Yibai couldn't help but question when he heard the news. While he didn't mind hanging out with her, her having a boyfriend while doing so made him feel gross.

"It was my friend's idea." She mumbled back, looking suitably guilty. "He seems to be mad at me for some reason so my friend told me to make him jealous by pretending to go out with someone else."

That sounds like really shitty advice. He thought, wondering how good a friend this person was.

"Wouldn't that just make him more pissed?" He countered, wondering about the poor guy who had dealt with this lady. She was sweet but very naive.

Her silence spoke volumes.

Jun Yibai sighed. He'd come back home to relax and get away from relationship drama but somehow got dragged into someone else's.

He could just ignore it but knowing his luck, if he did that, he'd be dragged into something even more troublesome. Like getting kidnapped alongside her as a scheme to get money from her probably super-rich elite boyfriend.

Jia Li was a small-town college girl but fuck he'd somehow bumped into the heir of a major conglomerate at a local gym. Who knows what kind of shit she got into?

"Did you ask why he was mad?"

"He told me I should know what I did since I 'did it with no remorse'." She mumbled, sadly sipping her soda. The cafe wasn't crowded so it was easy to hear her.

So it was something she did that he thought was bad but she didn't?

"What happened before that?"

Jia Li then decided to tell Jun Yibai their whole love story, completely unprompted. It was a wild ride filled with conspiracy and misunderstandings. Honestly, the fact neither ever seemed willing to be upfront about their feelings made him feel frustrated just listening to it.

When she finally got to the present, she mentioned some other guy she was hanging out with often.

"He's a friend?"

"Yeah, but our parents are friends so he's like a brother to me." She explained casually, not seeing the red flag. "He's even the one who suggested I make Yan Ju jealous."

Of course, the friend is the guy friend. Who else could it possibly be!? He was probably hoping to be the one you chose to use.

Jun Yibai lit a candle in his heart for Jia Li's boyfriend. The man must have the patience of a saint.

"Did you tell him this?"

"He never asked me about it."

"Really?"