Chapter 79: AE03
“Mm, you’re here? Give me five minutes.”
Jin Chenhan was so busy he didn’t even have time to look up.
Seeing the protagonist gong engrossed in his work, Gu Xiu let go of his inexplicably anxious heart and sat down on the guest sofa in the CEO’s office to wait. But he still kept his legs together, his hands clenched into fists, his posture a little awkward.
He restrained himself and lowered his eyes, only observing the area near the sofa.
A round glass coffee table was between the two single sofas. In the corner was a pot of green plants, but it wasn’t the common monstera in offices. Its height was only slightly level with the sofa, its branches were thin and soft, and its leaves looked a bit like four-leaf clovers.
Compared to a decorative potted plant, it was actually more like a vegetable.
Gu Xiu’s thoughts ran wild. After a long while, he looked up in the faint, cold woody scent and met a pair of deep gray eyes.
Jin Chenhan’s face, which would not change even if Mount Tai collapsed in front of him, actually showed a slight daze because of this unexpected eye contact. A ripple appeared on the calm surface of the lake in his eyes.
After a few seconds, Jin Chenhan moved his gaze and, rarely, started a casual chat in his busy schedule. “That’s a peanut. It’s almost ripe. When it’s ripe, you can pull it up by the roots. Its rhizome is the kind of peanut you usually eat.”
Uh, it really is a kind of vegetable…
Before Gu Xiu could think about the strong sense of incongruity of a domineering CEO growing peanuts in his office, Jin Chenhan returned to the main topic and asked again, “Did you smell my pheromones?”
There was still some distance between the two. Jin Chenhan’s movements were silent, so he inferred that Gu Xiu had looked up because of his pheromones.
Gu Xiu was not sure if the scent was perfume or something else, but as an Alpha, he did not feel uncomfortable because of it. And his body’s pheromone sensors were already riddled with holes. His own pheromones were extremely faint, and his five senses were also very dull.
To avoid the influence of his 100% compatible fiancée and to avoid doing something irreversible in a moment of impulse, the original owner had drunk inhibitors like water, and had forcefully turned his A+ mental power into a C-rank.
He was ruthless to his fiancée and even more ruthless to himself, which showed how determined he was to have a free love.
It was only after his love was stolen that he regretted it and started the crematorium. However, even if his and the Omega’s compatibility was perfect, he could not cover the mark on the other’s body, because that strong mark came from a higher-level Enigma, which could even break through the limits of compatibility!
After the novel world was generated into a small world, the side effects of the original owner’s long-term use of inhibitors were reflected in Gu Xiu.
Besides these, Gu Xiu was a body transmigrator. Even if his body’s various data were adjusted to perfectly match the original owner’s settings, he had no experience of living in an ABO world, had never experienced a heat period, and couldn’t even tell the difference between pheromones and perfume.
The protagonist gong’s question came so suddenly that 007 timely provided Gu Xiu with a cheat: 【In the novel, the protagonist gong’s pheromone scent is ‘snow,’ and the protagonist shou’s pheromone is ‘clivia’.】
Gu Xiu was silent for a moment: 【May I ask, what does snow smell like? I don’t think clivia has a smell either.】
There were just too many things to complain about.
007’s work attitude was even more worrying: 【Oh, oh, that’s not the point. It’s just a casual chat now, not a key plot. You can just be casual.】
Gu Xiu was silent for a moment and replied to Jin Chenhan flawlessly, “You’re an A+ rank Alpha. I can feel it a little.”
Jin Chenhan took another step closer. “Do you feel any discomfort?”
If an Alpha and an Alpha met during their heat period, or if they were too close, they would both feel a strong discomfort, and their competitiveness and aggression would be aroused.
Not to mention an Enigma.
Hearing this, Gu Xiu took another two whiffs of the forest scent and thought that he seemed to have smelled a similar aromatherapy somewhere… He composed himself and said, “I’m a C-rank Alpha. I’m not very sensitive to pheromones.”
“Ok,” Jin Chenhan was relieved and, without any delay, proceeded to the next arrangement. “For the next period of time, you’ll be my temporary secretary. I’ll send all the precautions to your computer. The secretary’s office is right next door. You can familiarize yourself with the office and the work today, and you can start working officially when you’re ready.”
Gu Xiu temporarily took on the mountain of CEO’s secretary work, and his original work also needed to be handed over to a newcomer.
He did not complain or get tired, nor did he take the opportunity to climb up and make demands on Jin Chenhan, or treat his former colleagues arrogantly.
But his colleagues’ attitude towards him had changed significantly.
He had gone from an arrogant and difficult to get along with Alpha to a star Alpha in the center of the large office area.
“I think I know why Mr. Jin took a fancy to Gu Xiu. Look at how focused he is on his work… he’s exactly like Mr. Jin.”
“Luo Wei is also like that. A hardworking king is still a hardworking king. I can’t be envious. I don’t dare to be envious…”
Gu Xiu was engrossed in his work and didn’t even look up while they were chatting animatedly.
Everyone was chatting while passing the hard overtime work. “Hey, if I keep working overtime like this every day, my girlfriend will break up with me.”
“Is dating as good as working? Fifty cents a line.”
“Hahaha, hey, by the way, does Gu Xiu have a girlfriend? Being Mr. Jin’s secretary is not an easy job. Did you know? When you become his secretary, you’ll lose everything but money.”
“Mr. Jin is good enough to Luo Wei. He dragged it out until he was pregnant before he would let him take a long leave. Gu Xiu is an Alpha and can’t take maternity leave. That’ll be difficult in the future. Even if he gets married and goes on a honeymoon, he’ll have to bring his computer to work.”
“Oh, right—I heard from the HR department that Gu Xiu, you seem to have a fiancée, right?”
Gu Xiu, who was buried in typing on his keyboard, paused.
Jin Chenhan, who had come out of the CEO’s office to get coffee and was preparing to work overtime until the evening, also paused.
The gossiping crowd were all Betas and did not sense their eavesdropping superior. They were chatting animatedly on their own.
“What? Gu Xiu has a fiancée? I can’t tell.”
“Mm,” the colleagues were overly concerned. Gu Xiu answered the question noncommittally. “It was arranged by my family. His compatibility with me is very high. He’s a male Omega.”
With that, he rarely said another word to 007: 【If I spread this news earlier and let the protagonist gong know about my fiancée earlier, will it speed up the plot progress?】
Before coming to this world, Gu Xiu’s memory had been cleared and the “mission first” command had been implanted. The mission of advancing the plot was the first priority, his true love of work. A little more work was harmless, but as the work piled up, Gu Xiu’s lazy little thoughts returned.
007: 【…Jiujiu, as expected of you. Your habit of rushing the plot is really consistent from beginning to end!】
【I’m just being efficient,】 Gu Xiu said in a rigid manner. 【And, don’t call me Jiujiu. That doesn’t fit my ‘pride of heaven, ascetic elite Alpha’ persona.】
The small silver ball of light flew back and forth in front of him. 【Jiujiu is so cute. That’s a contrast moe～ just like how work needs a balance of work and rest…】
Speaking of a balance of work and rest.
Gu Xiu was indeed a little tired, and his colleagues were still gossiping excitedly.
“Gu Xiu, if you’re so engrossed in your work and neglect your fiancée, he’ll have a problem with it, right?”
“You’re just a C-rank Alpha. How did you find an Omega? Omegas are not easy to please.”
Gu Xiu began to get annoyed. Both he and the current original owner just wanted to get rid of that Omega as soon as possible, so he said coldly, “If he’s not easy to please, then so be it. I wish he would.”
“Hey, you can’t do that…”
“Enough,” a low and cold voice came over, interrupting the chattering. “Those who should get off work, get off work. Those who don’t want to get off work can stay and work overtime. What are you talking about? Too idle?”
It was the displeased Jin Chenhan.
He was holding a cup of coffee, and his cold gray eyes swept over the crowd, finally landing on Gu Xiu. “You, come with me.”
He glanced at Gu Xiu’s computer again. “You don’t have to do these things in the future—Amanda, you can find someone to replace him.”
Then the two of them turned and went to the CEO’s office.
007 was excited and cheerful: 【Wow, wow, wow, as expected of a novel world. The protagonist gong overheard it so coincidentally. He knows you have a fiancée so quickly!】
A small part of the burden on Gu Xiu was lifted, and he couldn’t help but show a hint of a smile. 【Not only that, but he also knows that I don’t care about the other. This is killing two birds with one stone, one arrow…】
Then he paused and blinked in confusion. 【Huh? Have I said something similar before?】
007 quickly and sycophantically said, 【Jiujiu, you’ve always been an outstanding employee of the Quick Transmigration Bureau with super high efficiency!】
Gu Xiu curled his lips and didn’t bother to correct 007’s address.
“Gu Xiu, sit down.”
Jin Chenhan’s low voice carried a faint helplessness and sigh, and his brow was also slightly furrowed.
He had actually forgotten to confirm the most important thing in advance, Gu Xiu’s private life.
He didn’t want his pheromones to affect Gu Xiu, and of course, he didn’t want Gu Xiu to be tainted with the messy Omega scents from outside, which would in turn affect him.
But Gu Xiu didn’t sit down. He respectfully presented a stack of documents with both hands. “By the way, Mr. Jin, this is your schedule. I’ve already sorted it out. Please take a look.”
“Bring it over. Put it here,” Jin Chenhan pointed to a corner of the desk and said again, “You can help me sort this pile of things.”
Gu Xiu walked over, his eyes lowered.
“Mr. Jin… this document on establishing a subsidiary, I’ve heard Amanda and the others mention it many times. Have you seen it? I see it hasn’t been signed yet.”
“Mm, give it to me. I’ll sign it now,” Jin Chenhan looked up, reached out his hand, and was stunned when he received the document from Gu Xiu.
The paper that had been flipped through and touched by Gu Xiu, every sheet carried an extremely faint pheromone, a fresh pheromone that had just been left, not yet blown away by the wind. An Enigma could extremely keenly capture and distinguish it.
A milky and crispy nutty taste, mixed with the fresh scent of grass, sweet but not cloying.
Such a fresh and sweet pheromone probably belonged to Gu Xiu’s Omega fiancée.
Unlike the strong and domineering Alpha pheromones, this scent was very soft and gentle. His perennially restless mental power was actually soothed for a short but extremely pleasant moment by this second-hand pheromone.
Unfortunately, that was someone else’s fiancée, and a delicate Omega at that.
If a powerful Alpha had this sweet-scented pheromone, he didn’t know how wonderful it would be, even if it was almost impossible.
He looked at Gu Xiu’s cold and handsome side profile and couldn’t help but fantasize.
He was suddenly a little curious about the scent of this Alpha’s own pheromones.
Jin Chenhan’s thoughts were running wild. After a long while, he forced himself to compose himself and said with restraint, “Don’t bring an Omega’s pheromones to the office in the future.”
Gu Xiu’s refreshing monolids behind his silver-rimmed glasses were lowered, and he replied respectfully, “Yes, Mr. Jin.”
“Mm, you’ve worked hard today,” Jin Chenhan’s requirements were both high and numerous, but he was also considerate of his subordinates and knew the principle of using both soft and hard tactics. “There’s nothing else… then, Gu Xiu, you can go home early. Come directly to the secretary’s office tomorrow morning.”
Gu Xiu left first, and not long after, Jin Chenhan also got off work.
During this period, he had been dealing with all the trivial work and all the important decisions by himself. His nerves were stretched to the limit, and he was so tired that he couldn’t even feel it himself. It wasn’t until that faint sweet scent came over that he was like a person who had been in a drought in the desert and had encountered a timely rain. Besides seizing more thirst-quenching water, he no longer wanted to bother with anything else.
He might as well get off work early.
In just one day, the news of Gu Xiu’s promotion to CEO’s secretary had spread throughout the company. As Jin Chenhan went downstairs, he heard gossip all the way.
It was well-known that Jin Chenhan was a nitpicker at work, and he only wanted a mediocre Beta for a secretary. A bunch of Betas had come for an interview, but he didn’t like any of them. This time, he had actually made an exception and had chosen an Alpha. Such an exception directly indicated that Gu Xiu’s future career path was smooth.
As for what was so special about Gu Xiu, this little piece of gossip also quickly spread throughout the company—his serious and focused look when he was working, and his extremely cold attitude in interpersonal relationships, were exactly the same as Mr. Jin’s.
It was night.
Jin Chenhan returned to his top-floor penthouse, where he lived alone. As he walked through the empty entrance, he was still savoring the youth with a temperament as cold as snow.
Gentle silver-rimmed glasses, calm and composed in his work, not in a hurry. As an Alpha, he gave people a sense of asceticism that would never be controlled by pheromones.
As he thought about it, he entered the password to unlock the security door and entered the dark, solitary apartment.
Click. He turned on a dim wall lamp. The high-end apartment had a hidden wall for the storage room at the entrance, which was perfectly integrated into the white wall.
The hand wearing a black glove found the exact position on the wall, pressed it lightly, and a different world was revealed.
Today’s gossip in the company, putting aside Gu Xiu’s fiancée, everyone thought that Gu Xiu and he were the same kind of people, cold and ascetic.
The layout of the apartment was in a black, white, and gray color scheme that matched his temperament. But behind that hidden door was a different world. A floor-to-ceiling pegboard was for hanging things, and on both sides were storage cabinets and shelves, which stored all sorts of props waiting to be used in practice.
Waiting for a person who was strong enough and willing to submit to his pheromones.
A metal muzzle, a metal collar, a leather belt, a leather whip, a metal clip. Vibration, electric current.
Some had a slight pheromone-inhibiting effect, while others could, on the contrary, induce an early heat period, and even prolong the heat period.
And some were just purely… physical and visual stimulation.
He stroked the fingers that were wrapped in his leather gloves with a blank expression.
Everyone thought that Gu Xiu and he were the same kind of people.
Only he knew that they were not.
