Chapter 107
"Comrade Song, that wasn't very decent of you. You knew who the omega with His Majesty was all along, yet you never told us."
With a cigarette between two fingers and both hands resting casually on the railing by the sea, Ji Yunqi slowly exhaled a plume of white smoke.
Wisps of smoke spread before his eyes, veiling his vision in white gauze and making the handsome alpha standing beside him look hazy and dreamlike.
Ji Yunqi narrowed his eyes, his gaze sweeping over Song Ren's side profile. He brought the cigarette to his lips and gave it a light bite, teasing with a smile, "Fine, you didn't tell Zhu Yucheng. But what's our relationship? You didn't even tell me."
"What's our relationship?" Song Ren gazed into the distance and asked leisurely.
"What relationship?" Ji Yunqi flicked off some ash, raised his chin slightly, and hooked an arm around Song Ren's shoulders. "We're lifelong best brothers, of course, Comrade Song."
Lifelong best brothers...
Song Ren continued looking into the distance, at the thin line where the blue sky and sea met.
He spoke in an even tone, but his lips trembled slightly.
Ji Yunqi heard Song Ren's voice first, then understood what he had said.
Without almost any hesitation, Ji Yunqi burst out laughing. Raising his brows, he said, "Comrade Song, you like me? You're getting better and better at jokes. You don't think you can scare me, do you?"
Ji Yunqi laughed loudly several times.
What Song Ren had just said was: Ji Yunqi, I like you. How can we be lifelong brothers?
It was a short sentence, fewer than twenty characters.
It had been hidden in his heart, rolling over the tip of his tongue, nearly spoken again and again, for almost twenty years.
He had