Pretending to Be an Alpha in an All-Alpha Boy Band - Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Reading Fanfiction
There was a long line at the pharmacy window.
Yuan Shiyuan, wearing a mask and a hat, sat on a chair near the air-conditioning vent. He noticed an Omega sitting alone nearby, carrying many heavy bags, and—being a good person—helped the other bring the items to the door.
Before long, his view was shadowed by a dark silhouette.
“The medicine’s been picked up.” Ying Mingxi held a tightly sealed plastic bag. “What did the doctor say?”
Seeing Yuan Shiyuan’s relaxed expression and that he even had the mood to play games, Ying knew it couldn’t be too serious.
“The doctor said it’s a minor issue and told me to pay attention to my rest,” Yuan Shiyuan replied precisely. “But we still have to wait for all the reports.”
“Mm.” Ying Mingxi glanced at the back of Yuan’s neck, but his view was blocked by pink hair. “Don’t worry too much. Sometimes my glands get very red and hot too.”
He lowered his eyes to look at his wrist—where Yuan Shiyuan had gripped him tightly—but the pain had already completely faded.
Yuan Shiyuan: “I know, it’s a normal physiological reaction, like a morning erection.”
Ying Mingxi: “……”
Ying Mingxi clearly felt that Yuan Shiyuan behaved differently when an Omega was present.
Right now Yuan was casual, speaking without any taboos, like a pair of close buddies. But whenever an Omega was around, he became somewhat more reserved and gentlemanly, even taking the initiative to help Omegas carry things.
Ying Mingxi casually brought up, “That Omega nurse earlier was really gentle.”
The topic jumped too far; Yuan Shiyuan blinked. “Yeah, he was very nice, very careful and gentle.”
“You like that?”
“Huh?”
“You like gentle types?”
Yuan Shiyuan asked curiously, “Which Alpha doesn’t like gentle ones?”
“Mm.” Ying Mingxi said, “But you can’t date him, and you can’t marry him—the contract forbids it.”
“I know that, of course.” Feeling a little warm, Yuan tugged at his mask and turned his head. “Right now I can’t give an Omega happiness.”
Ying Mingxi frowned.
“If I get married, I definitely can’t make someone live a hard life with me. Not to mention anything else, at least the car and the house need to be ready. If there are kids later, diapers, formula, school—all cost money…”
Ying Mingxi tightened the plastic bag. “You plan far ahead.”
He’d even thought as far as having children.
“You really like kids?”
“I do.”
Yuan Shiyuan thought this was just casual chat; he’d talked about this with many good buddies—Alphas talking, it always came back to the same things.
He’d always liked children—so long as they behaved, not little brats. He added earnestly, “But I don’t plan to have kids. Having a child is scary. If I really marry an Omega or a Beta later, it means I must like that person very much. I wouldn’t be willing to take the risk of losing them, even if the chance is small.”
Compared to an unknown child, he cared more about the partner he’d spend his life with.
Ying Mingxi had only started the topic, yet Yuan Shiyuan had already begun imagining the future. He gently cut him off: “That’s all for later.”
“You can’t date an Omega now, nor a Beta,” Ying Mingxi said. “I’ll be keeping an eye on you.”
Ying Mingxi will supervise? Alright, this A really was earnest. Yuan Shiyuan replied casually, “Mm-hmm.”
After all, he had no intention of falling in love.
Ying Mingxi walked Yuan Shiyuan back to the dorm. When he handed the plastic bag with the medicine out, Yuan stopped him: “This is for you.”
“To me?”
“I couldn’t control myself today, sorry. I’m pretty strong; you must be in a lot of pain, right?”
Yuan Shiyuan looked a little embarrassed. “I asked the doctor for an ointment. You should rub it on.”
Only then did Ying Mingxi understand what Yuan Shiyuan meant.
When Yuan Shiyuan had the biopsy, he couldn’t bear the pain and had grabbed Ying’s wrist. But that instant of pain wasn’t perceived by him as pain so much as a kind of pleasure.
What would be no more than a scratch to an Alpha required careful care in Yuan Shiyuan’s eyes.
“I know how strong I am,” Yuan Shiyuan joked. “When I was little, a friend of mine got bullied. I fought for him and never lost. Back then a lot of kids were afraid of me—they said I was some monster with great strength.”
Ying Mingxi choked out a laugh. “What kind of monster is that?”
The real monster would be someone like him—someone whose pain triggers desire.
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Nap time.
Yuan Shiyuan was going through his bedtime phone scroll when he suddenly received a message from Xiao Huang.
Xiao Huang: [shared a link: Twins’ Captive Love]
Xiao Huang: Aaaaaah you have to read this! It’s written by a Yuan fan—this forced-love setup is so thrilling!!!
The message was immediately retracted.
Xiao Huang: I sent it by mistake!!!!!
Xiao Huang: You didn’t see it, right? [kitten-peeking.jpg]
Yuan Shiyuan raised an eyebrow and decided to play dead. Of course he had seen it—not only seen it, he had quickly copied the link.
What could make Xiao Huang this excited?
Was Xiao Huang really that nervous?
Written by a fan?
Then he absolutely had to savor this fan’s masterpiece before bed.
It had to be a beautiful work.
Yuan Shiyuan pasted the link into his browser. Maybe because the network was slow, it took a long time to load. After switching to mobile data, it got a little faster.
Most chapters were still a stream of garbled text, but the synopsis loaded successfully:
*Yuan Shiyuan x twins, 1v2
*OOC warning, heavy AU, chaotic pairings, do not criticize if you dislike!
The chapter titles were still just a string of gibberish.
Yuan Shiyuan casually tapped one chapter.
[On a silent night, Yuan Shiyuan hurriedly left the dance studio, ignoring his teammates’ concerns, and headed straight for the dorm.
As soon as he entered, his legs went weak and he curled up behind the door. Outside were the footsteps of teammates approaching…
An embarrassing itch was spreading; Yuan Shiyuan bit his lower lip and, with the last thread of reason, locked the door.
His whole body burned, breathing became difficult, and a deep, desperate longing welled up inside…
A longing for someone to touch him. Junyang: 六8嗣叭笆妩1碔㈥
To soothe him.
It hurt…
So painful.
Suppressed, pained gasps flowed from wet, reddened lips. Tears fell from the corners of his eyes, warm and wet, splashing onto the floor, dripping uncontrollably like a flood.]
Yuan Shiyuan read in bafflement: “?”
What was happening? Had he contracted a terminal disease?
Curious, he flipped forward.
[Yuan Shiyuan, no matter how much he tried to deny it, had to admit…
He was in heat.]
“……”
Huh?
Yuan Shiyuan: O.o???
He’s an Alpha.
Do Alphas even have heats?
The moment the chapter title loaded, Yuan Shiyuan’s pupils jolted: O identity exposed/deflowered/overcooked/3.p/incontinence.
“……”
No—was this for real?
Yuan Shiyuan stared blankly, baffled, his face empty. The explicit words made him feel a little warm.
Jesus, this is intense.
The fanfiction writers have imagination—turning him into an Omega like this.
Where would a pure, young straight guy like Yuan Shiyuan have seen this stuff? The adult content was assaulting his pristine straight-guy worldview.
A bona fide, red-blooded straight Alpha—when had he ever consumed this kind of nonsense?
Where was the morality? Where was the plot title? And where was the next chapter?
Yuan Shiyuan thought: it’s time for an afternoon nap. Yet his fingers seemed to have a will of their own and kept scrolling.
Suddenly a paywall popped up on the screen: [VIP chapter: Twin Dragons at the Bathroom Mirror]
“Damn!” The crucial part was locked!
Yuan Shiyuan startled and the phone slipped from his hand with a clack as it hit the floor.
Bo Jin opened the door and saw exactly that scene.
The pink-haired Alpha was disheveled, draped over the edge of the bed with his upper body hanging down, reaching desperately for the phone on the bedside. He moved with exaggerated motion; the narrow waist exposed, taut and lean, seeming to radiate warm elasticity. His long, pale legs were pressed together under the sheet like a spill of hot milk steaming the air, making the room humid and hot.
Even the onlooker felt their body heat rise.
“When did you get back to the dorm?” Bo Jin stepped closer.
The sudden voice made Yuan Shiyuan jump. He lifted his head in a daze, still half-hanging off the bed; his face under the pink hair was unusually flushed, expression stunned, the corners of his eyes wet.
Bo Jin’s steps hesitated; he stood frozen for a moment. Yuan Shiyuan was still wearing those thin, translucent white shorts—if the blanket hadn’t just happened to cover the crucial parts, from Bo Jin’s angle he would have seen even the smallest gaps most people wouldn’t notice.
His fingers suddenly grew hot; as if to divert the attention, he reached for the phone on the bedside.
A black sneaker landed in front of the phone.
Yuan Shiyuan felt his heart stop. “No, no, I’ll pick it up myself!”
As expected, Bo Jin stopped and didn’t pick it up. He glanced down out of habit.
The phone screen showed: [Yuan Shiyuan was pinned on Captain’s exclusive practice-room piano, twins one in front and one behind…]
Bo Jin’s sharp eyesight instantly registered the content. The blunt, sexual words seared into his eyes and ignited him.
“You’re reading fanfics about you and Ying Mingche and the others?!” Bo Jin ground his teeth and snatched up the phone, advancing on Yuan Shiyuan step by step.
Yuan Shiyuan lunged to grab the phone but Bo Jin caught his wrist with one hand and pinned it above his head. A dangerous current flashed in the mixed-blood Alpha’s eyes; with his free hand he still had time to swipe the phone screen.
“‘No—can’t take two at once’?” Bo Jin read the line word by word, and with each word his tone dropped another notch. “They went into quite a lot of detail, huh?”
Heat flooded Yuan Shiyuan’s entire face. Being caught reading Xiao Huang’s fanfic on site, and it happened to be about members of the team—he had no defense. Staring at Bo Jin’s anger-filled face, his brain kept flashing warning signs—
Shit, Bo Jin’s really pissed!
Even though he didn’t know what exactly had angered Bo Jin.
Yuan Shiyuan couldn’t remember what Bo Jin was reading—most likely the phone had mis-touched other chapters when it fell.
The new chapter’s content made Yuan Shiyuan feel even more ashamed.
And of course Bo Jin kept reading the phrases aloud by his ear: “‘Don’t squeeze so tight’…”
Yuan Shiyuan bucked his knees and fought free, using a quick twist to flip. The two swapped positions; he straddled Bo Jin with his knees apart, bent over and forcefully covered Bo Jin’s mouth, while Bo Jin’s palm instinctively clamped down on his waist.
A pale, beautiful face flushed a faint red. He lowered his eyes and looked down at Bo Jin. Even with his pink hair tousled, it couldn’t hide that outstanding face.
Bo Jin stopped moving.
The legs pressing against him were straight and snowy, warm and delicate to the touch—like a dollop of melting cream pressed against his waist. When he lifted his head, he could see all the way down through Yuan Shiyuan’s open collar.
Heat spread from his neck up to his ears, then rushed downward. Bo Jin’s body went rigid; his eyes were full of disbelief.
Just like the story described, even here Yuan Shiyuan was pink…
Seeing that Bo Jin had finally calmed, Yuan Shiyuan breathed a sigh of relief. If Bo Jin had kept reading, he really wouldn’t have known what to do with himself.
At that moment, footsteps came from outside the door.
The sound of the doorknob turning felt like a death knell.
Yuan Shiyuan stiffened and turned his head.
Jiang Heng stood in the doorway, seeming to hesitate about coming in, followed by several cameramen carrying filming equipment.
Three pairs of eyes met in the air.
Right now Yuan Shiyuan was straddling Bo Jin; to keep Bo Jin from moving he had his legs clamped tight around Bo Jin’s waist. Their clothes were disheveled, Bo Jin’s large hand dug into his side, and the phone screen on the bed still displayed that indescribable chapter…
Author’s Note:
Thanks to “Moon Deer (Spoiled Right-Side Edition)” baby for the shallow dive, and thanks to everyone for the tip-offs and nutrient boosts! [kisses] [kisses] [rose]
Posting Thursday’s update early—want nutrition boosts! [Let me have a look]