A blatant threat.
Miao Xiuwen’s face flushed red with anger. He pointed at Jiang Yi’s nose, unable to get a single word out.
“What exactly do you want?” In the back seat, Ying Xun’s face was dark, his cold gaze meeting Jiang Yi’s smiling eyes.
“Is Teacher Ying really not sure, or just playing dumb?” Jiang Yi rested his chin on his hand, calmly meeting Ying Xun’s gaze. “Didn’t I already say it? I like Teacher Ying, I want Teacher Ying to be my boyfriend.”
“You’re dreaming!!!” Before Ying Xun could speak, Miao Xiuwen, having recovered himself, snapped viciously.
Ying Xun crossed his legs, sitting in the back seat with an air of noble poise, his gaze on Jiang Yi cold, without a trace of warmth. “I already said I don’t want dirty things. The only thing you can get from me is forty million.”
Jiang Yi smiled back at him. “And I already said, I want the second option. Teacher Ying gave me three days, so I’ll give Teacher Ying three days too. Tomorrow’s the last day. Once tomorrow passes, if Teacher Ying still hasn’t agreed, then I’ll have no choice but to use legal means to protect this weak little omega, and make Teacher Ying my legal alpha.”
“In other words, my husband~”
On the last two words, Jiang Yi deliberately raised his tone, dripping with lingering affection and ambiguity, enough to make anyone’s skin crawl.
The moment he said it, the air around them instantly froze, dead silent.
A few seconds later, Ying Xun’s low, cold voice suddenly broke the silence inside the car. “Fine. Go ahead and sue then. Uncle Liu, drive!”
Having received the order, Uncle Liu turned his head out of habit and glanced at the car window where Jiang Yi was leaning.
Jiang Yi tactfully raised his arm and stepped back, away from the car.
Then he waved at the nanny car as it gradually drove off, before pressing his palm against his lips through his mask and blowing an exaggerated kiss.
As if to say, “Teacher Ying, I’ll be waiting for you.”
In the rearview mirror, the figure shrank to a black dot before disappearing entirely at the corner.
Inside the car, dead silence. The oppressive atmosphere made it hard to breathe.
Miao Xiuwen’s initial fury had faded, and deep down, a thread of real fear had begun to surface.
He didn’t expect that Jiang Yi really did want, just as he’d feared, not the money at all, but his Brother Xun himself!
That greedy lunatic!
If Jiang Yi insisted on this…
Then they truly had no way out.
Grinding his teeth, Miao Xiuwen cursed Jiang Yi viciously in his heart, then cautiously turned to glance at Ying Xun in the back seat, saying quietly, “Xun—Brother Xun…”
Ying Xun had his eyes closed, leaning against the seat as if dozing, and didn’t answer.
Soon, the nanny car pulled up in front of Cishan Villa 231-230, and Miao Xiuwen called out again.
Ying Xun opened his eyes, expressionlessly uncrossed his legs, opened the door, and got out.
Miao Xiuwen followed closely behind. “Brother Xun, Jiang Yi, he…”
Striding forward on his long legs, Ying Xun said without turning back, “Get ready to find a lawyer.”
“?”
Find a lawyer? What lawyer?
Given their current situation, if Jiang Yi insisted on marrying his Brother Xun, even the most famous, most outstanding lawyer wouldn’t be able to stop it.
What lawyer could go up against the law?
And judging by what his brother had just said, he had no intention of agreeing to Jiang Yi’s demand.
That made sense, with his brother’s temper, how could he possibly compromise with someone like Jiang Yi?
His brother had debuted more than a decade ago and had been smooth sailing ever since. Who would have thought that this time he’d stumble, and stumble badly.
Thinking of this, Miao Xiuwen’s disgust and hatred for Jiang Yi grew even stronger.
“Brother Xun, brother… I know you’re angry, that you’re upset. I’m angry too. I’m not trying to talk you into compromising, but, but the law doesn’t favor alphas. If that lunatic Jiang Yi really goes and sues, we’ll only end up losing.”
In the end, his brother would have no choice but to go register the marriage with Jiang Yi. And if it became public knowledge, that would truly be a disaster.
Miao Xiuwen followed behind Ying Xun, hurrying up the steps and stepping into the warm interior, saying anxiously, “Um, Brother Xun, why don’t we agree to Jiang Yi’s demand for now?”
Having said that, he quickly added, “Of course I don’t mean actually letting you become Jiang Yi’s boyfriend. I mean we could sign a contract with him, as a stopgap measure.”
Miao Xiuwen had been with Ying Xun since his debut, starting as his assistant and now serving as both assistant and manager.
In certain respects, he did have his own particular abilities.
It only took him a moment to come up with a solution.
Ying Xun undid his tie with a broad hand, tossed it along with his jacket onto the armchair, and looked at the rambling Miao Xiuwen with a dark expression, saying nothing.
“He knows you could never like him, so naturally he can’t really expect to be tied to you for life either. He has his demands, and we can have ours too.”
“He wants you to be his boyfriend, fine, but only for one year. No, half a year. When the time’s up, he has to go get the marking removal surgery and completely cut ties with you.”
“And while the contract is in effect, he can’t use the title of boyfriend to sexually harass you, including anything you don’t want to do counting as harassment, like holding hands, hugging, kissing, going to, um…”
“Anyway, no physical contact at all, none of the things couples do together.”
“Also, didn’t he say he doesn’t want money? Then after he’s with you, he can’t spend a single cent of yours.”
“And finally, he can’t expose his relationship with you, can’t let outsiders know you two have any connection. How’s that?”
Leaning against the arm of the sofa, Ying Xun quietly watched Miao Xiuwen, still saying nothing.
The air froze once again.
Catching Ying Xun’s gaze, Miao Xiuwen’s surging enthusiasm was doused with a bucket of cold water from head to toe, and he wilted.
The whole room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Miao Xiuwen didn’t dare breathe too loudly.
A few minutes later, just as Miao Xiuwen was about to lose his nerve, Ying Xun finally said coldly, “Do you think he’s a fool? Why would you assume he’d agree to any of this?”
“And even if he really did agree, why would you assume he’d actually keep to these terms? And in the end, if he refuses to get the marking removal surgery and goes back on his word, what then?”
The string of questions left Miao Xiuwen completely stunned.
He really hadn’t thought about any of that.
He’d only been thinking about how to minimize his brother’s losses.
Jiang Yi really wasn’t a fool.
If Jiang Yi were a fool, he wouldn’t have seduced his brother and gotten his brother to mark him in the first place.
Ever since his brother had gone to bed with Jiang Yi and permanently marked him, they were doomed to be led around by the nose by Jiang Yi.
There were only two ways to break out of this: one, Jiang Yi gave up completely on his brother and left on his own, or two, his brother fell for Jiang Yi.
The second one wasn’t even worth considering, there was no way his brother could fall for someone like Jiang Yi.
That left only the first option…
“Forget it, let’s do it your way for now. I’m a little tired, you should head back and rest too.” With that, Ying Xun turned without looking back and shuffled up the stairs in his slippers.
Watching that helpless, dejected back, Miao Xiuwen felt a pang in his chest.
He cursed Jiang Yi viciously in his heart once more.
“Then, Brother Xun… I’ll head back now. Don’t overthink it, what’s done is done, let’s just find a way to deal with it. I’ll go back tonight and draw up the contract, and tomorrow I’ll go find Jiang Yi and get him to sign it no matter what.”
After finishing his reassurance, Miao Xiuwen turned to leave, when a buzzing vibration sounded from the pocket of Ying Xun’s white suit trousers.
The vibration made Ying Xun’s thigh go slightly numb.