Strawberry Pop Pop Pop chapter 71

“No! Give me back the pants!” Gu Nuan exclaimed, hastily trying to snatch the sweatpants that Han Yang had pulled down. “These were given to me by you, and now you want to take them back?”

To prove that he was not shy around Gu Nuan, Han Yang had no intention of giving the pants back. He regretted ever choosing the pants in the first place.

Gu Nuan’s words, once spoken, were like water spilled, impossible to take back. He regretfully turned red in Han Yang’s arms and pretended to be pitiful. “Brother, I was wrong, I really was!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the pitiful sweatpants were wrinkled in Han Yang’s grasp, and he tossed them aside.

Gu Nuan quickly got off the bed to pick them up. As he bent over, his strawberry-patterned underwear was revealed. He picked up the pants with one hand and covered his butt with the other, tears welling up as he complained, “You just confessed your love so passionately, and now you’re bullying me! You change your attitude as quickly as flipping a book!”

“Hmm,” Han Yang admitted openly.

Gu Nuan: “…”

Gu Nuan: “You’ve changed.”

Han Yang had no intention of denying it; he was in a good mood. “Indeed, I’ve gone from being your brother to being your boyfriend, and soon I’ll be your Alpha.” He emphasized the significance of their upcoming bond.

Normally, Gu Nuan wouldn’t have made a fuss about taking off his sweatpants. But today was different; he was wearing childish strawberry-patterned underwear. Who could tolerate that? He didn’t like how Han Yang treated him like a child. He needed to remind him that soon they would have a marked relationship, and wearing such cute underwear was simply unreasonable!

Muttering under his breath, Gu Nuan put on his pants. “I’ll throw it away when I get back; I never want to see these kinds of underwear again! Grandpa, shouldn’t ever try to give me things like this, that are wrong; it’s too unfair…”

“I think it looks good.”

“It doesn’t!”

“It looks good; I really like it.”

Gu Nuan gave up, feeling awkward.

Unable to contain his amusement, Han Yang said, “Let’s not argue about it. Come to bed; you have an exam tomorrow.”

“It doesn’t matter; I always do well on exams anyway…”

Gu Nuan sniffled and seemed to have been charmed by Han Yang’s handsomeness. He stood in place and, in front of Han Yang, tied a knot on the waistband of his pants and then comfortably settled into Han Yang’s arms.

Han Yang kissed his forehead and said, “No need to rush.”

“?”

“We’ll take it one step at a time. When the time comes for marking, neither of us will be shy.” Today, they could start by just sleeping together.

Han Yang held him, his nose touching Gu Nuan’s nose. “Go to sleep.”

Inwardly, Gu Nuan was screaming for help. 

If he were still keeping a diary like he did in elementary school, one of his diary entries would definitely be titled: “My brother used to be a gentleman, but now he’s a pervert.”

Note: He really acted like a pervert!!!

Three exclamation marks to express his anger.

The next morning, Han Yang woke up early and prepared breakfast for Gu Nuan. After half-feeding half-guiding a drowsy Gu Nuan to eat, he carefully untied the knot in his sportswear with scissors before successfully getting him into a taxi and sending him off to school.

Gu Nuan was in the middle of his final exams, with one in the morning and another in the afternoon.

After handling some business at the company, Han Yang arrived at C University around 3 pm and waited for Gu Nuan in a café on campus.

During this time, many students tried to strike up a conversation with him, but Han Yang remained expressionless and politely declined each one.

His refusal was simple: “I’m sorry, I already have an Omega.” If he could, he would’ve added, “My Omega is Gu Nuan, the school’s high-profile beauty.”

Fortunately, Han Yang had enough self-restraint not to boast so blatantly.

Yu Yi, who had recently started working at the café, brought him a latte with a serious expression.

Han Yang pretended not to recognize him. “Thank you.”

Yu Yi didn’t say anything either. He walked back to the kitchen but returned shortly after. “I didn’t expect to run into you at school again.”

Han Yang ignored him.

Yu Yi, looking uncomfortable, sat across from him and said awkwardly, “I saw your movie the other day. It’s not that I deliberately watched it; my classmates were talking about it… The gossip said that you were having an affair with another actor from the same drama.”

As he spoke, Yu Yi became more and more confused, not knowing how to continue.

But to be honest, Han Yang knew about that gossip, and so did Gu Nuan. The source of that gossip was a candid photo.

In the photo, He Yunchu was leaning close to a supporting actor in black, laughing and talking. The actor had his back to the camera, so his face was not visible, but his figure was slender and unmistakably Han Yang’s.

However, only Han Yang could hear what He Yunchu had said at that moment.

He had said, “If you mess up the emotional scene later like you did last time, I might actually kill you. It’s just a pitiful hug scene, but if you mess it up, I might just stab you and call it a day! For now, can you pretend I’m Gu Nuan??”

He Yunchu was a professional actor, and in order to avoid being accused by the media of bullying rookie actors again, he had to use the gentlest expression and the softest tone to say the most threatening words.

Han Yang: “Senior, don’t worry, I’ll pass it in one go.”

…

Seeing Han Yang’s furrowed brows, Yu Yi mistakenly thought it was true. He was unaware of the various aspects of the entertainment industry and got annoyed, “Since you’ve known Gu Nuan for so long, you should know how popular he is in our school and what a good person he is! If you’re dating Gu Nuan, you should treat him well! There are many temptations in the entertainment industry, and you shouldn’t waver. Is He Yunchu even a little bit better than Gu Nuan?! Since Gu Nuan chose you, I definitely won’t continue pursuing him. But if you make him cry, betray him! I absolutely won’t…”

Before he could finish, Han Yang abruptly placed his coffee on the table, making a heavy clinking sound. He hurriedly interrupted Yu Yi, using only a brief second to silence him.

“My relationship with Gu Nuan is none of your concern.”

Han Yang found Yu Yi’s excessive concern irritating.

The fact that Yu Yi had once pursued Gu Nuan was already enough to irk Han Yang.

Han Yang looked at Yu Yi coldly, his eyes filled with deep displeasure. He could understand Yu Yi’s concern for Gu Nuan, but he couldn’t comprehend the word “betrayal” that slipped from Yu Yi’s lips.

“A single photo can’t determine anything. You don’t know anything.” Han Yang didn’t want to hear another word from Yu Yi.

In this world, anyone could potentially betray Gu Nuan in matters of love, except for him.

Yu Yi’s uninformed words irritated Han Yang.

“It’s working hours; you should focus on your job.” He stood up and left the café, having taken only a small sip of his coffee.

July’s weather had already become hot and humid. Han Yang waited in the lobby of Gu Nuan’s teaching building. Half an hour later, Gu Nuan rushed to him with the speed of a sprinter.

Sweat glistened on his forehead. “Brother, didn’t you say you’d wait for me at the café? Why are you here?”

“The coffee there doesn’t taste good. I wanted to see you sooner, so I waited here. Is that okay?” Han Yang wiped Gu Nuan’s forehead and smiled.

“Of course, it’s okay!”

Gu Nuan held Han Yang’s hand, not minding the heat at all, and walked intimately with him. “I haven’t had time to buy coffee lately. Summer vacation is just around the corner. But why did their coffee suddenly become bad?”

It was precisely because it was good that Gu Nuan recommended Han Yang to wait for him there.

Han Yang didn’t say much and just replied, “Yes, it’s gotten worse.”

“In that case, let’s not go there.” Gu Nuan didn’t think too much of it; it was just a coffee shop. He held Han Yang’s hand and happily said, “Let’s go home now. Both Dad and Father took the day off today, so let’s go back and have dinner with them.”

Gu Nuan had told Ji Mu this morning about Han Yang’s plans to accompany him for his treatment. Ji Mu was both delighted and guilty upon hearing this, and he couldn’t find the right words to say. In the end, he asked Gu Nuan to thank Han Yang properly and asked him to promise not to let Han Yang’s acting career go to waste.

Gu Nuan thought Ji Mu was being too formal. “Dad, there’s no need for a family to thank each other. Brother is my Alpha now, and what he’s doing for me is only natural! Actors, as my brother said, can delay their careers by a year or so, but we have money in our family. Who can’t make it big with that?”

Ji Mu finally realized and chuckled, “You’re right, my son.”

For the Gu family’s conglomerate, the entertainment industry was about to become their playground.

Meanwhile, at a cinema.

Su Li sat in a dimly lit area, holding a movie ticket.

He rubbed his eyes, his nose tingling, and tears uncontrollably fell from his eyes.