TSBSPAAM Chapter 68

Chapter 68: Deliberately Making Things Difficult

When Shen Bumian woke up the next day, he could clearly feel that he was in a very bad state.

Zhou Yizhou opened the door and almost bumped into him, getting quite a scare. “Holy crap, Mianmian, did you not sleep all night? Why do you look so terrible?”

Shen Bumian weakly pushed away Zhou Yizhou’s hand, which was trying to pry open his eyelid. “Yeah, didn’t sleep well.”

After lying down last night, he had tossed and turned, unable to sleep for a long time. He finally fell asleep when the sky was just turning light, only to be woken up by his alarm. He didn’t even know how long he had slept.

“It’s okay. Let’s go have breakfast.”

Zhou Yizhou pulled out a chair and looked up happily. “No need. Qin Luzhi had breakfast delivered to us. It’s right here, ready to eat.”

Shen Bumian paused mid-yawn. Qin Luzhi had already been here this early?

“Where is he?”

“Oh, he left after dropping it off. I think he went to class.”

Shen Bumian nodded indifferently and sat down to eat breakfast. Zhou Yizhou suddenly slammed the table. “Mianmian!”

Shen Bumian didn’t understand what was going on and looked at the person who had suddenly stood up, bent over, and grabbed his shoulders. “What’s wrong?”

“I know what’s off! Qin Luzhi’s behavior is just like when Chen Hebin was pursuing me. Do you think he…”

Shen Bumian drew out a long “ah.” “Well, he…”

It was fishy, very fishy. Zhou Yizhou narrowed his eyes, scrutinizing his childhood friend who clearly hadn’t slept well, and voiced his guess with a trembling voice, “Is Qin Luzhi pursuing you?!”

Shen Bumian knew that if he didn’t clarify, Zhou Yizhou would run off to ask Qin Luzhi himself, which was definitely something he would do. He had to compromise. “Yeah, last night he said he likes me…”

“Ah—”

“Zhouzhou, calm down first.”

How could Zhou Yizhou not be excited? That was Qin Luzhi! The empire’s genius, Qin Luzhi! As expected, he had fallen into Mianmian’s hands. It was what he deserved!

“Quick, quick, tell me the details. Let me analyze it for you.”

Shen Bumian couldn’t help but recall Qin Luzhi’s words from last night again. His ears heated up once more, and his words became a bit vague. “What details could there be? He just said he likes me, and then I came back to sleep.”

Zhou Yizhou was itching with curiosity. If it were just that, Shen Bumian wouldn’t have been tossing and turning all night. “Then what do you think? Or rather, do you like him?”

Shen Bumian was stumped by the question. Did he like Qin Luzhi? He didn’t know; he was a little confused. So he told Zhou Yizhou the truth.

Zhou Yizhou let out a long sigh. Sigh, he says my brain doesn’t work, but isn’t he just as dense?

“Alright then, let’s observe some more and see how sincere he is. All Alphas are big pigs’ trotters!”

Zhou Yizhou said indignantly, hoping Mianmian would take it to heart.

Shen Bumian smiled after hearing this. “Oh? Then what about Chen Hebin? Is he also a big pig’s trotter?”

Thinking of Chen Hebin’s smiling face, Zhou Yizhou blushed slightly. “That’s different. He’s different from others.”

“How is he different?”

“He’s just different. He…”

Seeing that Zhou Yizhou’s attention had been diverted and he was starting to chatter about Chen Hebin’s good points, Shen Bumian finally breathed a sigh of relief. For some reason, he subconsciously wanted to escape, not wanting to dissect his own inner feelings.

He didn’t see Qin Luzhi all morning; he guessed they had class. At noon, Qin Luzhi ate with him again. Qin Luzhi naturally got his food, bought him a drink, and returned his tray for him.

It was Shen Bumian who felt uncomfortable, feeling like he was taking advantage of Qin Luzhi.

Qin Luzhi smiled casually at the time. “What’s wrong with this? Isn’t this what a suitor should do?”

Shen Bumian’s eyes widened. They were still in the cafeteria; how could Qin Luzhi just say that out loud? But Qin Luzhi felt that he should openly admit his affection. Ideally, the whole school would know he was pursuing Shen Bumian.

Qin Luzhi even went off-campus to buy a box of strawberries for Shen Bumian. Unexpectedly, Shen Bumian didn’t even look at him. He raised his chin proudly, his tone extremely arrogant. “I don’t eat strawberries with seeds. It doesn’t befit my status.”

Shen Bumian’s appearance was very much like the rumored spoiled and unreasonable brat. He thought to himself, Qin Luzhi should be angry now, right? After all, everyone knew Qin Luzhi hated spoiled, high-maintenance omegas.

But Shen Bumian didn’t see the expected angry face. Instead, Qin Luzhi just said faintly, “Okay, I know,” and left.

Shen Bumian soon found out what Qin Luzhi meant, because Qin Luzhi came back with another box of strawberries.

This time, they were completely seedless. Perhaps someone had picked them clean one by one. Each one perfectly met Shen Bumian’s requirements; he couldn’t find any fault with them.

The original box had been given to He Jing and Mu Yi.

Shen Bumian was speechless. He truly hadn’t expected Qin Luzhi to go to such lengths. Everyone could see that as a top-tier Alpha, Qin Luzhi’s arrogance was etched into his bones.

It had always been others throwing themselves at Qin Luzhi. This was the first time he had lowered his head to clumsily express his love. For a moment, Shen Bumian actually felt he couldn’t bear it.

Qin Luzhi shouldn’t be like this.

Seeing that Qin Luzhi was about to feed him by hand since he wasn’t eating, Shen Bumian panicked and quickly took the box of exquisite strawberries, stuffing one directly into his mouth. Hmm, very fresh and very sweet. Shen Bumian actually liked them quite a bit.

Seeing him eating happily, Qin Luzhi didn’t speak, just stood by and watched him tenderly, as if he couldn’t get enough of looking at him.

Shen Bumian belatedly felt self-conscious. He turned away sullenly. “Stop looking at me.”

Every day, Qin Luzhi would bring Shen Bumian many things to make him happy, sometimes milk, sometimes late-night snacks.

“I only drink warm milk. It has to be the same temperature every time.”

Qin Luzhi warmed the milk and brought it to him. Shen Bumian gently pushed his hand away. “I don’t want warm milk anymore. It’s cold out; I want hot milk.”

“Okay.” Qin Luzhi continued to indulge him.

Shen Bumian then complained that the hot milk burned his mouth and he didn’t want to drink it anymore. Qin Luzhi said nothing and drank it himself.

For late-night snacks, Shen Bumian specified the shop furthest from the military academy. Qin Luzhi rushed over without a word. When he came back late, the snack was already cold.

Qin Luzhi tightened his grip on the plastic bag. “I’m sorry. I’ll go buy it for you again.”

Shen Bumian’s eyes felt a little dry. He grabbed Qin Luzhi’s wrist. “Qin Luzhi, can’t you tell I’m deliberately making things difficult for you?”

Qin Luzhi had realized it long ago. These past few days, Shen Bumian had been acting like a delicate, wealthy young master, making extremely harsh demands.

But looking at the bright-eyed omega, Qin Luzhi felt that he should be like this. Everyone should give him the best.

So he said, “I know.”

Shen Bumian tightened his grip. “Is it really worth it to go this far?”

“Because I’m pursuing you now. There’s no question of worth it or not. I want to show you my actions, not just words.”

Shen Bumian seemed to want to say something but was choked up, so he could only repeat dully, “I’m deliberately making things difficult for you!”

This time, there was a hint of gritted teeth in his tone. Yet Qin Luzhi still just nodded. “I know, but I’m willing.”

Qin Luzhi sighed helplessly, stepped forward, and used his thumb to wipe away a tear from the corner of Shen Bumian’s eye. It wasn’t very obvious, but he had indeed seen the glistening tear.

“Mianmian, don’t cry. If I’m causing you trouble, give me half a year, okay? If you haven’t fallen in love with me in half a year, we’ll break the engagement.”

The year would end soon. There was still half a year left until the time limit agreed upon by the two families. He gave them both a deadline. If Shen Bumian still didn’t accept him by then, he would just love him silently.

Feeling the slightly rough touch on his face, Shen Bumian realized he had shed a tear unconsciously. How strange; he had just been feeling heartache for Qin Luzhi.

He was still being half-held in Qin Luzhi’s arms. After a long while, he gave a low “mm,” agreeing to Qin Luzhi’s proposal.