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Shang Yu was back to being the cold working machine he used to be.
The only difference from before was that he went to the Imperial Marriage Registry to write Shi Wen as his spouse, a move that made headlines in every major newspaper and stirred up the entire Empire without the person in question caring.
He buried himself in the deep pile of work, using busyness to numb his growing despair and pain.
Time ended up being a meaningless and lifeless medium.
Twenty years later, he became ill from overwork. In the end, he still lay on the bed he used to keep warm, pretending he could still breathe in the scent that had long since dissipated into the air.
This huge house had memories.
Even if the scent of Shi Wen was gone, the soft bed, the warm-colored decoration, and the small furniture and decorations that Shi Wen carefully picked up from the old market in the past— could all hit Shang Yu’s heart in an instant and overwhelm him, causing him to be vulnerable.
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However, this time, Shi Wen didn’t reach out to hold his hand.
The illusion completely disappeared in the next instant, and he fell into another abyss.
This time, he never woke up.
3
When Shang Yu opened his eyes again, everything changed.
He was standing still in the vast crowd of people, surrounded by a lot of traffic and voices, but only his corner of the world was particularly quiet, out of place, as if he was surrounded by a film that had been speeded up in color while he was a monochrome photograph left behind in the old days.
Where was he?
He noticed that… his heart and lungs, which had since been constantly ailing, had completely returned to normal.
…Where was he?
He lifted his hand and tried to pat the passerby on the shoulder.
His fingers… actually passed through the body of the passerby.
Stunned, Shang Yu tried several times to make sure he couldn’t touch any oncoming pedestrians.
Yet, he stood solidly on the earth.
The entity that actually exists, was him? …Or this world?
He suddenly thought of something.
Wait, wasn’t he supposed to be dead?
If he was currently a lonely soul, where would he be?
…Also, that person.
Was that person here…
Would he still be alive?
Would he still have a chance to meet… him?
His heart, which had long been silent and frozen for years, was suddenly wrapped in hope from nowhere. He was uncontrollably excited, searching for any visible landmarks.
Empire Fifth Avenue.
…
If he remembered correctly, Imperial High School… where he and Shi Wen first met, was near here.
4
“Do you know who… that C-class alpha is chasing these days?”
“It’s him again, huh? Such a lowly person was only squeezed in by his family…”
“Really chasing the male god?… Doesn’t he know that he only likes omegas? What is he thinking…”
“…”
Shang Yu’s eyes abruptly widened. His ears only caught a few keywords, but those keywords also made his heart beat faster — he couldn’t wait to head in that direction and saw a few alpha students wearing Imperial High School uniforms coming out from the direction of Imperial High School.
He suppressed his highly excited nerves, and at the same time, had the illusion that his heart would jump out in the next second.
He followed in silence.
As he got closer, the derisive discussions of those students became more pronounced.
“I saw that person handing over a love letter today, and the male god didn’t even look at it.”
“Ha, that’s to be expected.”
“No one cares about him now… He’s still cheekily chasing after him. A beta who previously had a good relationship with him also said a few days ago that he wants to draw a line with him…”
“That’s awesome, ah. I want to see when he can catch up. The school is really boring.”
…
The content of the conversation was too familiar, and almost everyone in his former life — even in front of him— had discussed the shocking behavior of “that person.” In the past, he had been indifferent, allowing others to add fuel to the fire until that person was completely isolated.
Shang Yu’s body slightly swayed, once again facing that kind of history made him unable to stand firmly for a while.
Suddenly, as if something had occurred to him, he forced himself to cheer up.
If anything, he went back in time.
Then… Shi Wen was still there.
…Right?
5
Shang Yu slowly walked to Imperial High School.
Due to the doorman being unable to see him—or maybe the world was another fantasy of his, in any case, he got into Imperial High School without any obstacles.
He walked especially slowly, knowing that the young students who were coming and going couldn’t see him, but he was worried that the sound of his footsteps might accidentally… scare that person.
At the same time, he found that the students around him, who were in groups of three or five, were basically talking about “him.”
“…He has something again today, ah.”
“I don’t even know how he got in. Even if he’s an alpha, he’s only a C-class. Even if I’m the male god, I also wouldn’t bother to spare him a glance.”
“He didn’t study well before and even chased after several omegas. Although he looks fine, unfortunately, omegas don’t like his rank and background. Hehe.”
“…”
The students of Imperial High School were basically from the noble families of the Empire. The quality rank was generally above B. An alpha like “him” who had just been graded as a C-level seemed to be a joke to the aristocratic children.
Shang Yu closed his eyes, a wave of nausea and pain flooding his heart as he forced himself to move on, to move forward. He mustn’t stop, he couldn’t stop.
…
“I just saw him in the library, Shang… was studying, but he still insisted on sitting next to him.”
“What happened next?”
“What to say… Shang Yu just changed seats straight away. Haha.”
Library.
Shi Wen… was in the library.
…”He” was also there.
Shang Yu deeply exhaled and clenched his fists.
He was suddenly unsure whether it was necessary to once again witness… a history full of gloom and pain.
6
Maybe it was because he couldn’t hold back the heavy feelings in his heart. When he came back to his senses, he was already standing in the library.
He hadn’t even stepped into the reading room before he felt a strong gust of wind pass by — a tall alpha passed through his body, and because the man moved so fast, he didn’t even see the other man’s face, only catching a glimpse of the nameplate on his school uniform.
“Shang Yu.”
He was startled, and the next second he heard another person’s voice.
Or rather, he was finally able to truly, finally hear that person’s voice.
“Huh… Wait for me!”
…
Shang Yu froze in place, helplessly watching… that person trotting past him with books in his arms and catching up with “him.”
It was the initial Shi Wen.
His hair was soft yet stubbornly c*cked upwards. His white uniform shirt was not properly worn, loosely exposing a small section of his white collarbone. Although he was an alpha, his eyes were full of unreserved longing and love for another alpha… “him.”
With a moist face, Shang Yu realized that he burst into tears at some point.
Is it his fate to see the scene of coldly leaving him behind but never being able to change it?