Chapter 85: AE09
“…”
Touching an AO’s gland was an extremely rude act.
As for an Enigma’s gland… if you had the ability to touch it, it was probably even more rude and extremely dangerous.
If he were to use his own slowness as a reason at this time, it would seem like he was being a rogue, and a rogue who had messed with the toughest of the tough.
Gu Xiu was speechless. He also couldn’t say that he was not used to this world where the second gender’s organ was on the neck.
He could only lower his flushed face. “Sorry.”
“I’m wearing an inhibitor ring and an inhibitor patch. It’s fine,” fortunately, his superior was very magnanimous and even found a way out for him. “The tie is not done yet. Continue.”
Gu Xiu raised his head again, his fingers trembling slightly, but he was still very skilled at tying the tie.
Jin Chenhan praised him, “Your service is indeed very good.”
He was not only a majestic superior, but also a very excellent guide.
The awkwardness from just now was swept away. Gu Xiu quickly relaxed. He looked at the deboned fish in his bowl, also picked up a pair of chopsticks of vegetables, and put them in Jin Chenhan’s bowl.
Jin Chenhan did not hesitate to thank his subordinate. “Thank you.”
Jamie came back and saw the two of them feeding each other. He raised a smile and deliberately teased, “Little Gu, doesn’t your fiancée check on you?”
Gu Xiu finished chewing the food in his mouth and then replied seriously, “I’m having dinner with you now, which is also work. There’s nothing to check.”
Jamie couldn’t help but laugh. “Don’t be so reserved. Just treat it as a gathering of friends—Jin, don’t you think so?”
The topic suddenly turned to Jin Chenhan.
“I’m full,” Jin Chenhan wiped his mouth with a straight face and did not bother with Jamie. But as he had said, he had no superior’s air and was particularly concerned about his subordinate. “Gu Xiu, you can tell me anytime when you’re done eating. I’ll take you back.”
【Gu Xiu seems to be cheating】
Lin Zijun leaned weakly against the wall. In the silent and dead luxurious penthouse, he typed and deleted on the faintly blue phone screen, sighing again and again.
Once the seed of suspicion was planted, it would grow wantonly, and it would be difficult to uproot it. Zhu Enzhuo was a loyal Omega and supported him unconditionally. If he heard the news of Gu Xiu’s suspected cheating, he would probably rush over to confront Gu Xiu.
Then his and Gu Xiu’s already precarious relationship would really be ruined.
Zhu Enzhuo had always been advising him that there was no need to hang himself on one tree just because of the 100% compatibility.
In fact, he had no reason to spend his life with Gu Xiu. Three months ago, he was in urgent need of a sum of money to treat his seriously ill grandmother. It just so happened that Gu Xiu’s parents had descended from the heavens and had taken the opportunity to propose that he and Gu Xiu get married.
Because they knew that their son was stubborn, the Gu family’s parents had only temporarily engaged the two of them, saying that it was for them to cultivate their feelings. From another perspective, it didn’t matter whether they got that certificate or not. What the Gu family’s parents wanted was just a suitable Omega to solve their son’s mental power problems, and it would be best if they could have a grandson.
Gu Xiu was extremely resistant to the weak and ignorant Omega that his parents had arranged for him. Of course, the arrogant parents of the Gu family were also not happy to let such an Omega into their family.
It was the pheromones that had bound them together, leading to this mutually torturous and ill-fated relationship.
He had accidentally run into Gu Xiu and a man in a suit having dinner at a high-end restaurant. He had returned home in a daze and had waited until the next day, but Gu Xiu had not returned.
In the evening, he came back from grocery shopping, walking with his head down. Every few seconds, he would look at his phone to see if Gu Xiu had replied to his message.
Zijun: 【Can you come back for a while? I have some questions I want to ask you in person.】
The constantly fermenting suspicion had to be clarified in person as soon as possible.
If he were to continue to let his imagination run wild, and even run away from this home, wouldn’t he really become a useless good-for-nothing?
Last time, Gu Xiu had told him that the attraction of 100% compatible pheromones was not love. True love could overcome instinct, for example, making the cowardly brave.
He was in a daze for a moment, still a little confused.
The elevator door in front of him slowly closed, like a window in his chaotic mind that had just opened and then closed.
“Wait a moment.”
A low voice came over, and then the elevator door opened the way it came. In the center of the bright light stood a tall and straight man.
He was wearing a high-end suit, and at a glance, he was a resident of this high-end apartment. He was looking down at his phone, replying to a message, and did not notice the person in the elevator.
It wasn’t until the elevator door closed, creating an enclosed space.
The 24-hour ventilation was still working, but Jin Chenhan’s pheromone level was astonishingly high, and his five senses were also far more sensitive than an ordinary AO. Soon, his expression changed slightly. Before he turned his head, he had already judged the identity of the person behind him from the wisp of floral scent.
Isn’t that the Omega pheromone that had been clinging to Gu Xiu before?
This is too much of a coincidence.
Lin Zijun’s surprise was even greater than his.
Lin Zijun was just a C-rank Omega. He had first noticed the inhibitor gloves on the man’s hands and had estimated that the other was a high-rank Alpha. When the elevator went up a few floors, he faintly smelled the powerful pheromones that were hard to suppress. His legs began to go weak and tremble, and the heat period that he had just suppressed seemed to be about to make a comeback.
He had differentiated early and had been influenced by countless Alphas since he was a child. Fortunately, he had been safe every time and had grown up peacefully.
Because of the 100% compatibility, he had never been repulsed by Gu Xiu and firmly believed that his and Gu Xiu’s mutual attraction was a matter of course and natural.
However, now that he was Gu Xiu’s fiancée, he would still lose his composure in front of a powerful Alpha.
The feeling of incompatibility made him retain a sliver of rationality. That sliver of rationality made him sober, but it also made him feel extremely ashamed, resistant, and in pain… yet he couldn’t control it.
This was a pheromone, so unreasonable.
…No wonder Gu Xiu disliked him so much.
The more he thought like this, the more unstable his emotions became, and his breathing also gradually became rapid.
“Hey.”
The man in front of him spoke.
Lin Zijun raised a pair of wet almond eyes. An Omega with soft eyes and eyebrows, when he made such an expression, he was particularly pitiful.
But the man only raised a hand, a black leather glove, a white spray bottle.
Pfft!
Lin Zijun’s face was covered in a mist, and he subconsciously closed his eyes.
“Inhibitor spray,” the man glanced at him faintly. “It’s more advanced than the inhibitor you use.”
Lin Zijun cooled down and looked at the other person again.
Exceptionally three-dimensional brow bones, a high nose and deep-set eyes, with heavy shadows in the eye sockets. Only when the light shone in could one see that it was a pair of extremely rare gray eyes.
Gray was a mixed color, a middle color, ambiguous and unclear, but when it was spread in those eyes, there was only depth and calmness, like a mysterious vortex, or a cold and distant mist in a mountain forest.
This face could be described as unforgettable, and the more Lin Zijun looked, the more familiar it became.
“Hey?” Lin Zijun couldn’t help but say, “Are you…”
But to directly ask the other person if he was the one who had dinner with his fiancé was a little embarrassing.
“I saw you in the lobby of the A79 building,” on the contrary, Jin Chenhan said calmly. “The day it was raining heavily… you were there to pick someone up?”
Lin Zijun found a breakthrough in the topic and quickly asked, “Are you an employee of the A79 Group? My… my fiancé is too.”
“Gu Xiu,” Jin Chenhan was always calm and said in a straightforward manner, “Currently, he is my temporary secretary.”
It took Lin Zijun a while to react before he realized what a ridiculous oolong he had made!
He had actually mistaken Gu Xiu’s direct superior, the CEO of the A79 Group, for the other’s cheating partner…
Fortunately, he hadn’t gone to question the other first. Lin Zijun lowered his head in shame and said in a low voice, “I’m sorry… hello, I’m sorry for my rudeness. I’m Gu Xiu’s fiancée. My name is Lin Zijun.”
But Jin Chenhan did not turn his head and looked straight at the constantly rising elevator floors, and let out an almost inaudible “mm.”
Then he said again, “Do you know what you’re saying? As an Omega, you’re actually inviting an Alpha of unknown origin to your house?”
Lin Zijun’s expression was awkward. “Mmm… you’re Gu Xiu’s superior, and I’m his fiancée. Since we’re neighbors in the same building, it’s only right for me to invite you to our house as a guest.”
Jin Chenhan looked back at him with a half-smile. “Then is Gu Xiu at home?”
Lin Zijun’s face changed slightly. “When you come over for dinner, I’ll tell him not to go out, and we’ll wait for you at home together…”
“Your floor is here.”
Jin Chenhan’s eyes noted the floor, and his mouth only replied with this lukewarm sentence.
Although he had found out that he and Gu Xiu’s superior lived in the same building, Lin Zijun had forgotten to ask the other’s name, and he seemed to have left the impression that his relationship with Gu Xiu was not good.
This made Lin Zijun very dejected. He couldn’t just rashly run to the company to pick up Gu Xiu, or else he would really be a joke.
He hadn’t read many books, but he still knew what was important. Family matters should be resolved at home and should not be brought to Gu Xiu’s company.
He ignored this small interlude of running into Gu Xiu’s superior and, as usual, tirelessly asked, 【Gu Xiu, when are you coming back? Is there anything you want to eat?】
Bzz bzz.
Gu Xiu replied!
He was overjoyed and quickly went to look at the message content.
Gu Xiu: 【I’ll be at your place this weekend.】
His tone seemed a little cold, but he had given a precise time, which seemed a bit perfunctory.
But as long as Gu Xiu was willing to reply to his message, it was already a huge improvement!
Early on Saturday morning, Lin Zijun went out to buy groceries and returned with a full load.
He was carrying a heavy bag in each hand and was walking slowly, so when he found the Omega guarding the entrance of the building, it was too late to run!
Zhu Enzhuo strode over. “Lin Zijun!”
Lin Zijun forced a smile. “Oh my, why are you here?”
Zhu Enzhuo’s face was angry. He first looked at the large and small bags in his hands. A normal Omega would not need to do this kind of hard labor. His anger immediately grew, and he asked directly, “Where’s Gu Xiu? Why are you out buying things alone? Can you carry something so heavy?”
Zhu Enzhuo was also an Omega, but he had differentiated late and had a habit of exercising. His physical fitness was about the same as a Beta’s.
He took half of the pressure off Lin Zijun without a word, which made Lin Zijun even more embarrassed. His heart was also hiding something, and his eyes were constantly flickering.
The more Zhu Enzhuo looked, the angrier he became. “Lin Zijun! Are you still not going to tell me?”
The two were both Omegas, but their quarreling voices were quite loud.
Jin Chenhan, an Enigma with developed five senses, heard it from the other end of the garage.
Today, he had gotten up early for a morning run. He was still fully armed, with an inhibitor ring on his round-necked short-sleeved shirt, and a pair of leather gloves on his fair forearms, which looked a little out of place.
He had also picked up a package on the way. The cardboard box he was holding in his hands had just been half-opened.
He didn’t like to bring the package packaging home and was used to opening it on the way. From the opened cardboard box, a corner of black leather was exposed.
This was the male Omega-specific punishment pants he had just received, front-covered and back-open. He had deliberately bought the largest size, so it would be suitable for an Alpha to wear. Even if it was tight, it could be torn.
He closed the package box with a blank expression and slowly walked towards the main door.
Another sound came, vaguely wrapped with Gu Xiu’s name. His footsteps paused, and he completely restrained his pheromones, and went around behind a high and low-seated off-road vehicle.
Lin Zijun changed the subject. “Oh my… Enzhuo, why did you suddenly come over today? It’s a rare weekend. Why don’t you sleep in?”
“Cut the crap. Of course I’m here to see you…” Zhu Enzhuo’s tone was indignant. “I asked you online, and you only said that you two are fine, very happy… so, where is Gu Xiu now?”
“I…” Lin Zijun was speechless. After a long while, he tried to salvage the situation. “He, he’s very busy with work, working overtime at the company.”
“Working overtime on a weekend? I think he has someone else outside!” Zhu Enzhuo said. “An Alpha from a big city like him, I knew it. None of them are good… on one hand, they need your pheromones, and on the other, they’re thinking about those sexy and beautiful little O’s outside.”
That’s wrong.
Gu Xiu’s looks were indeed attractive, but he was a work machine who was oblivious to the outside world, even more Beta than a Beta.
Lin Zijun also said, “Enzhuo, don’t say that. Gu Xiu is not that kind of person…”
Besides, because he was Jin Chenhan’s secretary, Gu Xiu had been stained with a lot of Enigma pheromones. The Omegas he ran into would all retreat from him. Cheating with a sexy little O? Even if he had the heart, he didn’t have the strength.
Zhu Enzhuo was relentless. “How do you know he doesn’t have two faces, one in front of people and one behind? He works at that kind of big group. How many glamorous upper-class people does he get to interact with every day? Can he really control himself? You also said before that he hopes his other half can be on the same level as him and have common topics. You worked so hard to study and read for him, but in the end, he still thinks you’re a country bumpkin…”
The more he listened, the more suspicious it became.
A question was on the tip of his tongue, seized Jin Chenhan’s full attention: Then why did Gu Xiu get engaged to someone who was not a good match for him and whom he didn’t like?
The two Omegas were excited for a moment. Seeing that there was no one around, they revealed all the inside stories without reservation.
Zhu Enzhuo shouted loudly, “So what if the compatibility is 100%? So what if they’re marked? What era is this? Besides, you two…”
Lin Zijun shook his head repeatedly and interrupted his excited childhood friend. “You don’t know, Enzhuo. Auntie gave me the life-saving money for my grandmother. I can’t be ungrateful… Gu Xiu’s mental power condition is also not good. He needs me very much. Although he doesn’t like me now, our compatibility is perfect. As long as I work hard, we can always cultivate feelings.”
“Free love, free love… you always help him explain like this,” Zhu Enzhuo’s tone was excited. “That’s right, it was the Gu family’s parents who arranged for you two to be together, but they also gave you so much time, didn’t they? What’s there to force? If you don’t like someone, you don’t like them. Everything else is just an excuse!”
So that’s how it is.
100% compatibility, a monetary transaction, and the parents’ order.
And, Gu Xiu, who not only resisted the instinctive attraction of the pheromones, but also the authority of his parents.
This also matched the impression Gu Xiu had given him. Perhaps only he had seen the nimble and cunning, romantic and free soul hidden under the seemingly rigid and ascetic surface.
Jin Chenhan only felt his restless gland throbbing under the tight collar, indicating a strong excitement, a restless evil thought.
He reached his hand into the package box and touched the three-dimensional front end of the leather pants.
If you’re so against the Omega arranged by your family, then what would it be like to submit to an Enigma?