Chapter 30

[Young Uncle: Did you know your Omega took Shang Shang out to have fun?]

Of course Gu Lin knew. Su Yu had taken Yun Shang away without even eating dinner, presumably because he did not want to eat with him. He could eat more freely outside.

Before Gu Lin could reply, another line popped up in the chat window.

[Young Uncle: Send him some money to spend.]

[Gu Lin: ?]

[Young Uncle: No way, your wife took someone out to have fun and you didn't even think to give him some money? Are you always this stingy with your wife?]

Gu Lin pointed out the key detail: He took your son out to have fun.

The implication was that Young Uncle should be the one sending the money.

[Young Uncle: Of course I know. Your Young Aunt sent him some, but he didn't accept it. I think he felt awkward taking money from an elder. Try transferring some to him.]

[Gu Lin: You think he'll accept mine?]

[Young Uncle: How will you know if you don't try? Transfer one hundred thousand and see.]

Gu Lin thought that made sense, so he found Su Yu on WeChat and transferred one hundred thousand. The other party accepted it immediately.

This Omega sure accepted his money without hesitation.

[Young Uncle: How was it? Did he take it?]

Gu Lin replied expressionlessly: Yeah. Tested it. One hundred thousand is gone.

[Young Uncle: Fine, tell him it's money for going out to have fun.]

Judging by how readily Su Yu had accepted the money, there was no need for him to say anything. Su Yu would only think he was supposed to take it.

[Gu Lin: Pay me back.]

[Young Uncle: You spend money on your own wife and still want me to pay you back?]

[Gu Lin: Pay me back the money Young Aunt transferred to you.]

Gu Lin understood perfectly. He could naturally guess that Young Aunt had asked Young Uncle to give it to Su Yu because Su Yu refused to accept her money. Having been exposed, Young Uncle did not feel the slightest guilt. He continued playing dumb and kept lecturing Gu Lin for being inconsiderate and not thinking about his Omega.

In the end, he threw Gu Lin a link and said: Take a good look. You'll need it someday.

Gu Lin looked at the glaring words in the title and found it absurd. How could he possibly need something like that?

[Gu Lin: If you don't pay me back, I'll tell Young Aunt.]

[Young Uncle: You know your aunt keeps a tight leash on me too. I usually don't have much spending money on me. Just let me keep this one hundred thousand. I'll give it back to your wife in a red envelope during the New Year.]

Gu Lin snorted, disgusted by his behavior, and mocked, "Young Uncle really is something, embezzling money from the younger generation."

[Young Uncle: Don't worry, I'll definitely return double during the New Year. I have something to do here, so I'm going to get busy. Don't tell your Young Aunt.]

After sending that message, Young Uncle went silent. Gu Lin could not be bothered to argue with him further. If he did not return double at the New Year, Gu Lin would settle the score then. He set his phone aside and picked up his documents again, only to pick up his phone again moments later. For once, he took it off silent mode before setting it back down.

A few minutes later, Gu Lin checked his phone. There was no sound, the notification light was not blinking, and no one had messaged him.

This Omega accepted money with such peace of mind?

Gu Lin slowly picked up his phone again and opened his chat with Su Yu. The latest chat record was still Su Yu's receipt notification.

Could he be out shopping and not looking at his phone?

Gu Lin transferred another sum. The other party accepted it instantly again, without any reply.

"..."

As for the fact that his impulsive test transfer had cost him a total of one hundred and fifty thousand.

At that moment, Su Yu was still in the restaurant and playing on his phone. He had indeed accepted Gu Lin's money with a clear conscience.

It was rare for an Alpha to act like a decent person and realize he needed funds to take his little cousin out for fun. Of course, he could not refuse.

Receiving two huge transfers in one day made him happy just thinking about it. He had not expected his ex-husband to be so generous sometimes, though his temper was a little bad.

If Gu Lin were willing to transfer money to him like this every day, even his volatile moods would not be unacceptable.

After the waiter brought the steak to the table, Su Yu put down his phone and focused on eating. But Yun Shang, sitting across from him, had not moved at all. Su Yu looked at him in confusion and instinctively wanted to ask him why, but he could not make a sound. He had no choice but to pick up his phone again and message him: You don't like it?

Yun Shang glanced at WeChat and said, "Can't."

Can't?

Can't what?

He said those two words quite smoothly.

The next second, Su Yu understood what Yun Shang meant by "can't." His movements with the knife and fork were extremely uncoordinated. Su Yu noticed that he gripped them in his fists, and his posture looked strange. Su Yu had Yun Shang imitate him, but Yun Shang quickly switched back to his own grip.

At that moment, a burst of laughter suddenly came from behind Su Yu. He turned around and saw a table of young people sitting behind them, around Yun Shang's age, both boys and girls. The boy in the middle was filming them with his phone, his face full of malice, while the laughter was thick with mockery.

Su Yu frowned and turned back to Yun Shang. Yun Shang's expression looked unpleasant. He stared at that group, gripping the knife and fork tightly in his hands.

"If you really can't do it, just use chopsticks, Yun Shang. No one will laugh at you."

"Using your hands is fine too. Let us see how a top student eats steak."

The boy holding the phone shouted.

Another wave of laughter followed.

Rather than filming both of them, he was really only filming Yun Shang. When Yun Shang first came in, he had not been sure whether the person sitting opposite was Yun Shang, so he had used his phone camera to zoom in. Then he recorded Yun Shang's clumsy use of the knife and fork and showed it to the classmates beside him.

What?

These little brats were Yun Shang's classmates?

"Doesn't even know how to use a knife and fork. Don't tell me he's never had steak before? What a country bumpkin."

Yun Shang attended a private school. Those students had always felt vastly superior to him because they found that, aside from studying, Yun Shang could not do anything. They all assumed he had entered the school solely because of his grades, and the clothes he wore every day did not show any recognizable brands.

Su Yu's fists clenched at those words. Those little brats kept fanning the flames, their laughter so loud that the entire restaurant could hear it. Quite a few people turned to look at them. Yet the waiter standing nearby did not step forward to stop them.

"Keep eating, keep eating. Show us how you use a knife and fork. My treat."

Yun Shang put down his fork, stood up, and walked toward the exit without looking back. Su Yu wanted to call after him, but he could not make a sound. He stood up to chase Yun Shang, but he could not swallow his anger. He turned back, grabbed a fork, and stalked toward those students with murderous intent.

"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? Don't think that just because you're an Omega, I'll—"

The Omega drove the knife and fork viciously into his plate. Su Yu did not know how much force he used, but the plate in front of the boy cracked at a visible speed.

The Omega raised his eyes slightly. His green eyes were so clean and clear that they appeared sharp. He said, "Little brat, if you have the guts, look into my eyes and say that again."

They were students who had not seen much of the world after all. It was their first time encountering such a fierce Omega, and they instantly lost their nerve. The boy could barely speak, much less dare to look Su Yu in the eye. Hearing the commotion, the waiter hurried over and urged, "Sir, please calm down. You'll disturb the other guests while they're dining."

Su Yu sneered, his words dripping with sarcasm. "Their laughter was so loud just now. Why didn't anyone from your restaurant come over and stop them? What? Are these young masters and misses too important to offend?"

The waiter said, "Please don't make things difficult for us..."

It was indeed because those young masters and misses came often that the staff recognized them. Besides, the student sitting among them was the restaurant owner's young son.

Su Yu glanced at the boy who had been holding up the phone. "What's your name?"

The boy inexplicably became nervous, but his pride would not let him give up his name so easily. "I-I, why should I tell you?"

"Even if you don't, I have ways to find out."

This person was very likely Yun Shang's classmate. As long as Su Yu asked around at the school, he would know. They must have done even worse things than this before.

Su Yu copied him, taking out his phone and recording them. Every face was captured clearly. "Today's matter won't end here. When I personally take Yun Shang to school another day, I'll come find you all."

Finding Yun Shang was more important right now. Su Yu was afraid that if he delayed here any longer, Yun Shang would disappear.

Su Wang, who had been watching the show from a distance, was utterly dumbfounded. He only came back to his senses after Su Yu left the restaurant. "Big Brother, did you see that? Was that Su Yu? Why does he seem like a completely different person?"

In his impression, Su Yu had always been timid and submissive, not even daring to speak loudly. When had he become so forceful?

Su Tinghuai frowned. "I don't know."

Compared with the last time they met, he really had changed a great deal.

But perhaps it was because they had never seen Su Yu get serious and angry. After all, in front of them, Su Yu had always seemed mild-tempered and preferred to smooth things over no matter what happened.

"I told you he was always pretending to be pitiful. Now that he's outside, his true nature has come out, and he isn't pretending anymore." After saying that, Su Wang reached over and rubbed the head of Su Hui, who was sitting quietly beside him and eating. A pleased expression hung on his face as he praised, "Our Huihui is still the best, gentle and considerate."

Su Hui pursed his lips and smiled faintly.

Su Tinghuai had rarely had time off today. To celebrate Su Hui winning an award in his last competition, the three of them had come out to eat together. They had not expected to run into this scene.

"Here, Huihui, eat more."

As Su Wang handed Su Hui the dessert the waiter had brought, he said to Su Tinghuai, "Still, that move just now looked a little like when he lost his temper at Mom."

"Hm?"

Su Wang picked up his knife and fork and demonstrated. "That move right there. It was exactly the same. I even think he was imitating Mom."

Back then, Father Su had admitted at the dinner table that he had an illegitimate son. Mother Su's movement had been exactly the same as Su Yu's today: she had stabbed Father Su's plate with her knife and fork in fury. Only Su Wang and Su Tinghuai had been there at the time.

Later, later they got divorced. But at first, Su Wang and Su Tinghuai did not know about it. Su Wang only learned after high school that they had already divorced long ago.

So Su Wang truly hated Su Yu, as well as that mistress and his father. To him, there was no difference between those three. There was no most hated, only more hated.

Su Tinghuai's memories blurred slightly. Thinking carefully, it really was exactly as Su Wang said.

However, neither of them noticed that Su Hui's expression beside them had become somewhat unnatural.

Fortunately, Yun Shang had not gone far. He was sitting on a sofa in the mall's rest area, waiting for him. Su Yu patted his shoulder, sat beside him, and gestured for him to look at his phone.

[Su Yu: Have they always bullied you like this?]

Yun Shang was silent for a few seconds, then murmured, "Mm."

[Su Yu: Does your mother know?]

Yun Shang shook his head.

Su Yu had thought as much. If Young Aunt knew, she would be heartbroken.

[Su Yu: Don't worry. Next time you go to school, I'll go with you. I'll deal with them myself.]

He refused to believe he could not handle a bunch of little brats.

But... if he really could not handle them, then pretend he never said that.

[Su Yu: Let's go. We'll eat somewhere else.]

Yun Shang had not taken a single bite of dinner because of those students, so this time Su Yu chose a Chinese restaurant. Only after asking Yun Shang did he learn that Yun Shang had always held knives and forks that way since childhood. No one in his family had ever thought his way of holding a fork was wrong. It was only after he went to school and his classmates laughed at his strange grip that he came to believe he could not use a knife and fork.

But Yun Shang struggled to explain that, speaking in fits and starts. Su Yu only barely pieced together what he meant from scattered fragments of his words.

Su Yu was practically impressed by his own comprehension skills. He even wondered why he had not gotten a perfect score of one hundred and thirty in Chinese back then.

[Su Yu: Your expressive ability is lacking. Talk more in the future.]

[Su Yu: Don't worry. Whoever laughs at you, I'll beat them up.]

Yun Shang nodded.

Su Yu was quite satisfied with Yun Shang's reaction. At least Yun Shang responded to every sentence he said. He had improved greatly. Young Aunt would probably be relieved to see him like this.