Pay Attention To Me

Chapter 65

"......if you already did that kind of thing with her, why do you even still want to be with me?"

"Because I really like you." Jiang Yao raised his head, his eyes red-rimmed, "I don't actually want to part with you."

"You like me, and that's why you did that kind of thing with someone else? In order to compel me?"

"No...... I just suppressed myself for too long and made a mistake due to my impulses. I was afraid that I couldn't keep controlling my alpha instincts. That's why I wanted to make you adapt to my touch quickly, to accompany you to cure your illness, and then after, be with you to our hearts' content......"

Yin Che couldn't help but laugh. "So turns out it's my fault...... I have an illness, so I couldn't meet your needs. That's why you couldn't bear it anymore and went looking for someone else."

He hit Jiang Yao hard with the flowers.

A few of the roses' stems broke, the flower heads tumbling down, as if they had been beheaded, once again with no chance of rescue.

"I don't want to treat my illness at all." Yin Che's empty hands trembled. "Thank you for telling me this. I finally don't have to treat my illness now."

He opened his backpack and threw both the lighter and the box of cigarettes he'd bought so long ago on the ground. All of a sudden, his heart lightened and his whole body relaxed.

"Throw these away for me. Goodbye."

Jiang Yao grabbed his hand and begged, "Can't you give me another chance?"

Yin Che turned his head and saw that the eyes of the guy behind him had gone very red.

He didn't understand why, even though he wasn't crying, Jiang Yao was the one who looked like he was about to cry.

"I said, if I break up with you, you aren't allowed to chase after me."

"But you didn't say......"

"We're breaking up," Yin Che said to meet his requirements. He even smiled at him. "Actually, I might transfer to another school next semester and go abroad, so we probably would've broken up sooner or later anyway.

"You like omegas and want children, I really can't satisfy you, so we weren't suitable in the first place.

"I'm quite content with this brief relationship. So let's end it like this."

Jiang Yao clenched his fists. "You won't ever forgive me?"

"What you mentioned earlier tonight, about the excessive thing you did, it was this?"

Jiang Yao nodded.

"I forgive you." We're all people who will die someday, so why take it to heart. It was just lying and concealing it, that's all, who hasn't done that before.

"I said previously that you might still like omegas better in the future, that we're better suited to being xiongdi, you didn't believe me." Yin Che shook his hand free and waved goodbye to him. "Fortunately, it's not too late to wake up to reality. Nothing actually happened in these past few months.

"If you don't have a best man in the future, remember to reach out to me......Yao Ge."

If you can get in touch with me.

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An empty taxi passed by the road. Yin Che waved it down, then got in the passenger seat and gave his home address. The driver sets up the navigation system and started forward quickly according to the first prompt.

He propped his elbow up on the window frame and, through the rearview mirror, watched the figure growing smaller and smaller in the distance.

With flowers scattered all around him, a lonely, desolate young man.

Jiang Yao didn't chase after him. With his eyes closed, he slowly crouched down. His figure trembled violently and the pedestrians passing by on the street looked at him sympathetically, as if he was the one who'd been abandoned.

In fact, this was good, they'd broken up at the most suitable time.

Jiang Yao wouldn't need to watch his life gradually fade from organ failure, nor would Yin Che need to re-experience everything from the past.

He'd been worried before, thinking, what if I die, what will happen with Jiang Yao and Bai YuWei, but now he didn't have to worry anymore.

Jiang Yao would marry a beautiful, gentle omega and have one or maybe many lovely children, and then, one day perhaps, he'd hear the news of his death from their classmates and remember that they'd a brief relationship in high school and feel some regret over those difficult short days, and then continue to smoothly live his happy life.

This was real life's happy ending, not the cliché plot from a fairy tale where the protagonist never dies and grows old together with the person they love forever.

"Aiya, seems like it's going to rain today." The driver closed the window on his side and asked the passenger beside him, "That window is closed, right? Do you want the A/C on?"

"Sure."

Apparently it had been raining for a long time already. Yin Che lifted his hand and wiped at the window, but he couldn't wipe it clean. He gave up and dropped his hand, turning on his phone instead.

The screen of his phone also seemed to be covered in a layer of fog, not clear at all. Going off memory, he found a recording he'd edited so long ago.

The recording was very short, only about one second in total, and he'd listened to it on loop so many times.

In the end, the heavens had taken back the miracle that had begun in late summer and ended in early summer.

The first day of his eighteenth year hadn't even begun, but it seemed like all the tomorrows he'd looked forward to were already over.

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The author has something to say:
The break up, the most abusive part, is over
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Footnotes:
1. Shifu (师傅): respectful form of address towards older men ↩

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The translator has something to say:
Press X to Doubt on the author's note 😂