Chapter 77: AE01
“Chenhan, are you free this Saturday?” On the phone was his mother’s gentle and soft voice, and upon closer listening, it seemed to carry a hint of caution. “This time it’s a male Omega, with A-rank mental power and B+ physical fitness, stronger than some Alphas. Your mental power damage… can’t be delayed any longer.”
Jin Chenhan pushed the messy documents on the table to the side, rubbed his sore brow, and listened to the woman’s admonition on the phone.
“Mom.”
The woman immediately fell silent.
He then asked point-blank, “Then did you tell the other party about my situation? You know what I’m talking about.”
There were a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone. The woman stammered and beat around the bush, “Why don’t you two meet first and see? As long as you like each other enough, whether it’s the matching degree or something else…”
Jin Chenhan said in one breath, “Mom, I’m fine now. I’m alive, I can work, and there’s no mental power riot—besides, you know, I don’t like Omegas. Even if there’s an Omega who can withstand my mental power, I don’t like their pretty faces and soft bodies.”
As the head of a large group, he was best at persuasion that was both soft and hard. He added, “Mom, if you keep hiding my situation and looking for blind dates for me everywhere, it might cause me to be targeted by the relevant departments.”
The woman sighed helplessly. “Are you really going to find an Alpha… oh well, it’s not impossible. Anyway, you’re rich. There will always be someone who’s willing to bow down for money.”
But Jin Chenhan was impervious to reason. “There are no suitable Alphas at the moment either. They’re too arrogant and aggressive. I don’t like to force things either.”
The woman finally gave up. “Oh well, fine. Mom is too lazy to care about you. Remember to go for mental power guidance…”
In this world, mental power guidance was a medical treatment.
The 5% of the population who were Alphas and Omegas had mental power and pheromones. Under normal circumstances, the most critical situation was just the heat period. As long as they took medicine and injected inhibitors in real time, they could be controlled immediately.
The ones who needed mental power guidance were the top 0.01% of the 5%. They had A+ rank mental power strength, which was even difficult for a human body to bear. Their pheromones were also particularly strong, so it was difficult to find a suitable partner.
Alphas were naturally aggressive. As for A+ rank Alphas, in a lighthearted joke, they were called “A among A’s.” But if they did not undergo regular mental power guidance, they would eventually have a mental power riot, until their life force was exhausted.
Jin Chenhan was not even in the top 0.01% of the 5%. He was a one-in-ten-million extremely rare case.
Currently, there were only three second genders publicly recognized by society: Alpha, Beta, and Omega. But in biological research, there were also a few gene mutations that were almost impossible to occur.
For example, the one that could mark both Omegas and the Alphas at the top of the pyramid—
Enigma.
Jin Chenhan picked up a water glass and took a sip of water.
Black gloves tightly wrapped his fingers, with a delicate leather luster.
There were all sorts of products to suppress pheromones, the most common being inhibitor patches.
One inhibitor patch was enough to solve most problems, but when they encountered a period of particularly strong pheromone fluctuations and were extremely prone to leakage—for example, when a highly compatible AO couple was forced to be separated for a long time, they would also wear inhibitor gloves like Jin Chenhan.
Above the leather gloves was his well-tailored suit, which was complemented by his model-like figure. His handsome and extraordinary features, and every strand of his hair seemed to be perfect.
In this world, the strength of one’s genes could be judged quite intuitively from one’s appearance.
His eyes were a light gray, aloof and indifferent. The collar of his white shirt was stiff, but the chest where a tie should have been was empty. Instead, a line of black was exposed from inside the shirt collar.
It was a leather inhibitor ring.
Upon closer inspection, there was actually a large patch of inconspicuous inhibitor patches under the inhibitor ring.
He had just dealt with his mother, and now there was a problem at work.
His handsome and gloomy brow furrowed slightly. He looked up and called his secretary, “Luo Wei!”
A deathly silence.
When his nerves were stretched to the limit, with a click, they snapped. Jin Chenhan’s chaotic thoughts were cleared up. He finally remembered that his secretary, Luo Wei, had been gone for more than a week.
Luo Wei was a male Beta, but he had unexpectedly gotten pregnant and had taken a two-year leave of absence for annual leave and marriage and maternity leave. It happened so suddenly that HR had organized several interviews, but they still couldn’t find a candidate who met Jin Chenhan’s requirements.
The main trouble was that Jin Chenhan needed a secretary with outstanding work ability, but he had also shut the door on the gifted Alphas and Omegas. Finding a second Beta who was that outstanding was as difficult as climbing to the sky.
In this world, a person’s work and study ability was directly related to their second gender: the powerful and brave Alphas were the rulers of this world. Not only were they physically superior, but their intelligence was also far above average. Next were the Omegas. Their performance in most aspects was not inferior to Alphas, and they were even more meticulous and gentle than Alphas, and were good at controlling their own and guiding others’ emotions. They were natural supporters.
And the Betas, who made up 95% of the population, had no power or influence, and even lacked the talent to change their fate. The script of their lives was decided the moment their gender was differentiated: graduating from school, entering the workplace, ordinary, loyal, and serving as a screw in society for their entire lives.
Jin Chenhan insisted on picking an exceptionally outstanding one from these inconspicuous screws to be his secretary.
He especially needed a Beta’s dull sense of smell.
The office was a private space. Even with the double insurance of an inhibitor ring and inhibitor gloves, his pheromone concentration was still on the high side.
His previous Beta secretary, Luo Wei, had been carefully selected by him. He had been with him for three years, handling all sorts of company affairs, and had long since transformed from a screw into an indispensable key gear.
Luo Wei had both credit and hard work. He had vaguely revealed his intention to take a long leave of absence long before he got pregnant. Each time, he had been lightly resolved with a salary increase, and it had come to nothing.
Now that he was pregnant, Luo Wei’s heart to return to his family was finally firm. To be honest, Jin Chenhan had not expected it. He had never thought that such an outstanding male Beta would be willing to be the receiving party and bear a child for another ordinary Beta. That was a world he did not understand.
And in the world he was in, where pheromones were the first priority, the instinctive submission of Omegas also had a strict hierarchy.
The competitive Alphas were the most handsome and powerful humans, and also the most primitive beasts. Even the most inferior Alpha had an innate pride of a superior. Being bitten on the back of the neck was a recognized act that could insult an Alpha the most.
Even if the other party was an existence that only existed in textbooks, a higher level than an Alpha, an Enigma.
Jin Chenhan fiddled with his fingers, and the leather gloves made a creaking sound.
Luo Wei’s decision to leave was firm. He could only nod gracefully and let him go. As a steady, reliable, and considerate superior, he had even edited a text message with a red envelope, wishing the other a smooth delivery.
If it wasn’t necessary, he generally didn’t force things.
As for a necessary situation, he had not yet encountered one.
In the office area, some were peeking and gossiping, and some were chatting idly.
Gu Xiu had just finished his work. He stretched and saw a slender boy sneaking around, heading towards the CEO’s office. He then heard his colleagues discussing that in the few days that the CEO’s secretary position had been vacant, there were many who had ulterior motives and wanted to climb to the top in one step, to be seen more often and even become the CEO’s wife, thus saving thirty years of struggle.
Someone also asked in confusion, “Hey, who was that who went to the CEO’s office just now? He’s quite pretty. Could he be an Omega?”
“I don’t know which department he’s from. He’s definitely not from the top floor… I heard that the few Omegas downstairs are about to fight, scrambling to be Mr. Jin’s secretary.”
“What are you thinking? Mr. Jin only wants Betas. Let alone the secretary who’s with him all the time, there isn’t even a single Omega on the entire top floor. Mr. Jin is most wary of mixing public and private affairs, directly eliminating the possibility of being tempted by pheromones from the source.”
Gu Xiu couldn’t see the situation over there, so he simply stood up and walked over. Sure enough, he found an inhibitor patch on the back of the boy’s neck and asked directly, “What are you doing?”
The boy was startled. “I, I’m here to deliver a document…”
The boy, still in a state of shock, saw the appearance of the person who had come, and was once again stunned. As a man, the other was more than half a head taller than him, over 185cm tall, with a more superior figure than most Betas.
This was an extremely high-quality Alpha!
He was handsome and tall, but he was not overly aggressive. He even had a bit of an Omega’s exquisite beauty, combining the advantages of both AO.
But the young man seemed to be completely unaware of his superior appearance. He was just wearing the most common black suit and white shirt, with a black tie tied stereotypically, and a pair of silver-rimmed glasses. His pupils were black and bright, and his eye shape was round. Only upon closer inspection did one find that he had monolids. No wonder, when he looked at people, he had a refreshing and distant coldness.
The work badge on his chest, the boy looked closely and got his name:
Gu Xiu.
They were already very close, but the boy did not smell a single bit of an Alpha’s pheromone from him. Could this person be a… Beta who had won the genetic lottery?
While the boy was lost in thought, Gu Xiu’s slender fingers reached out.
His fingertips pointed to an inconspicuous corner under the “CEO’s Office” sign, on which was written “Omegas are not allowed.”
Gu Xiu thought for a moment and deliberately exaggerated, “Omegas and dogs are not allowed.”
The boy: “…”
Gu Xiu’s face was blank. He raised his hand and made a “please” gesture. “For your own safety, please leave.”
The person inside is short of a secretary, that’s right, but he’s not some golden bachelor Alpha.
