Chapter 4: That Person

This time, his best friend chose a particularly high-end membership-only bar in the Empire. Every week, famous singers from the Empire were invited to perform—not a recording, but a live concert, and there would also be audience interaction— but since the people who could come here were aristocrats, there was no fanaticism about those singers. It was the almost nostalgic, interactive atmosphere they were after.

Shang Yu had a close relationship with this friend of his. Knowing that his friend had always been a playboy, he chose this place and this date because he may have thoughts about the singer this time.

His best friend particularly dressed well. He silently slandered this seemingly dignified look of his but didn’t show any emotion on the surface, and let his friend pull him to the corner.

“What are you doing with such a dead face?” His friend knew what he was thinking at a glance and patted him on the shoulder, pretending to be mad, “This time is different, you probably know him too.”

Shang Yu smoothed his wrinkled sleeves and simply said, “Not interested, I just want to drink something.”

“He pursued you before, he’s an omega…” His friend showed a mischievous smile, “Whether you have any interest in him or not, I also want to see the difference between him who became a big singer and him from the past. In case he looks good, I’d like to pick him up too.”

Shang Yu thought, when he passed by and saw the poster of today’s singer, he didn’t have any impression. His best friend was just looking for an excuse.

The two ordered wine and sat down at the pure marble bar. In addition to the two of them, a few meticulously dressed people sat around chatting and tasting wine quietly. It wasn’t long before the singer came on stage right on time.

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It was today’s singer.

Shang Yu raised his eyebrows and indifferently asked, “Is something wrong?”

The little singer blushed, “…I didn’t expect to see you here.”

Oh, right, his friend said that he also came from Imperial High School before.

He bluntly said, “Sorry, I don’t remember you.” He wanted to end the conversation and go back to the bar — after all, he already experienced this type of interaction too many times.

“Please wait!” The little singer was anxious and actually pulled his sleeve gently, only to see Shang Yu pause and turn away unpleasantly before withdrawing his hand in a cowering manner, “I, I… have something to say.”

He and the little singer walked to a quiet place with no one else around. He just raised his chin to signal him, “Say it.”

“…”

The little singer blushed, not knowing whether he was shy or nervous. He hesitated and refused to make a sound.

Shang Yu once again felt impatient. The little singer seemed to have expected something and finally said softly, “Senior Shang… I’m sorry.”

Seeing that Shang Yu seemed to be waiting, he bit his lip and continued, “I know you don’t remember me… I liked you a lot in high school, to the point where I now realized that what I did was a bit exaggerated and excessive.”

Shang Yu raised an eyebrow, was there such a thing?

The only suitor from high school that he could recall to this day would be… that person.

“Maybe you don’t remember, but I really think I’ve gone too far. My conscience won’t let me be in peace… Unfortunately, I’ve never met you in person. I finally had the chance to run into you today. I hope you can still forgive me… perhaps.”

The little singer’s speech was already all over the place. Shang Yu got impatient listening to him speaking incoherently. Just as he was about to leave, the little singer added, “I, I gave you… drugs when you attended the graduation party. I know that you like omegas, I just didn’t expect… that, that person to steal you, causing you to be forced to be with him now…”

“…”

Shang Yu didn’t expect to receive such grave information and couldn’t help but freeze in place.

Almost everyone knew that Shang Yu only liked soft and beautiful omegas, and the little singer was no exception. He genuinely felt that he and Shang Yu would be the ones happy and peaceful together by now if it weren’t for that person messing with them.

He sincerely felt that it was that person who ruined his dreams with the person he liked.

If he went back to the beginning, he would bravely resist that person’s alpha pheromones and insist on staying with Shang Yu.

After all, it seemed that now, after ten years, Shang Yu could still be with that person due to duty, and he certainly could be with him as well.

Recently, he heard that the two of them were getting farther apart from one another. He felt that with his youthful good looks and fame as a singer, it was time to let Shang Yu know that his original partner should have been an omega.

On another hand, perhaps, just confessing could make Shang Yu have a little impression of him.

Nonetheless, to his surprise, Shang Yu only sneered, sending shivers down his spine.

“So it’s you,” he whispered.

When the little singer was kicked out of the bar, he was still at a loss, unsure of what happened.

Immediately afterwards, an agent informed him that his management company said that it would unilaterally terminate the contract and was even willing to pay compensation. At the same time, his social media exposed his earth-shattering scandals from the past until the present, even evidence of him using his omega identity to seduce a noble alpha during his family’s lowest point so as to gain resources — some things were even unacceptable for people in the Empire who were advocating for equal rights, especially the imperial omega population. The family he saved couldn’t stand such negative rumors and wanted to cut ties with him, and posted this wish on social media as a pledge.

He was dizzy. Everything was clearly supposed to go the way he wanted it to, so why was Shang Yu actually so furious?

Didn’t they all say that Shang Yu wanted to leave that person for a long time? Shouldn’t he have been happier if he had known that he should have been responsible for someone else?

Shang Yu was almost done with everything before returning to the bar.

“…Ha, what did you do?” His friend was surprised. Just half an hour later, the bar owner came out to apologize, saying that the singer had made serious negative news and had been asked to leave the bar, and would be willing to give everyone a free drink as an apology.

Shang Yu was silent for a moment as he sat down and took a slow sip of wine,  suddenly revealing a rare look of bewilderment.

“Do you remember… what was that person’s name again?”

His best friend didn’t know what kind of mystery Shang Yu was playing, but he also knew that the atmosphere was delicate at this moment. He gave it some serious thought and really didn’t have any clue about what he was thinking.

That person, who else but that person?

“What’s his name? I can’t really remember.” After thinking about it, his friend stopped thinking and just laughed it off, “But he has already cut ties with his family, so it doesn’t matter what his name is… I remember you’re going to give that guy a bond removal operation. By then, you’ll have even less to do with each other. Ha, only that person would be so crazy as to give you drugs in the first place.”

Of course.

Shang Yu turned slightly sideways to see the nonchalant look of his best friend. Not only his best friend, but almost everyone around him, including his company employees, family members, that person’s family, and even… the whole Empire.

They had the same attitude towards that person.

Dismissive, disdainful, and even indifferent.

He also realized just now that the cause that first made him mad and disgusted with that person, and made everyone around him influenced by his attitude… was a misunderstanding.