Chapter 90: AE14
A large pile of pet supplies that Gu Xiu had ordered online arrived the next evening.
The high-end residential complex provided a property manager to deliver the packages to the door, but he had to wait until the next morning when the manager was on duty. Gu Xiu didn’t want to wait, so he simply went downstairs to the designated place to pick up the packages.
He couldn’t bring the puppy home for the time being, but that didn’t stop his enthusiasm for raising a pet for the first time. Cages, collars, leashes, and all sorts of toys, all kinds of pet supplies were available, a dozen large and small cardboard boxes and express bags.
His salary as Jin Chenhan’s secretary was generous, so he bought the best of all pet supplies. The seller also packed the packages very tightly, all for private delivery.
He confirmed that the last name and the last four digits of his phone number were correct, borrowed a small trolley from the delivery point, and huffed and puffed as he stacked the packages one by one, sweating a little.
As he was wiping his sweat, he suddenly remembered 007’s previous comment about bodily fluids and seduction. His movements paused. He quickly pulled the trolley, lowered his head to press down on the inhibitor patch on the back of his neck, and quickly returned to the apartment.
The elevator came quickly. He went in and pressed the eighth floor. The elevator door slowly closed, and at the last moment, a voice came from outside, “Wait a moment.”
Then the elevator door opened along the original track. The coincidences in the novel came one after another. The person outside the elevator door was his superior, Jin Chenhan.
“Mr. Jin,” Gu Xiu retreated a little and greeted first. “You went out?”
“Mm, to the hospital to change my dressing,” ever since the accident of the fight, Jin Chenhan was no longer as single-minded about work as before. He chatted with his secretary about family matters. “…I took a taxi back. The driver didn’t know the way and took a big detour. There was a traffic jam all the way.”
Then his tone changed with his gaze and landed on Gu Xiu’s small trolley. “Why did you buy so many things?”
“Ah…” Gu Xiu, to avoid any complications, casually found an excuse. “I’ve accumulated a few days of packages. I’m bringing them all back today.”
Jin Chenhan withdrew his gaze and looked at his face, kindly reminding, “The property manager can help deliver the packages to your door—mm, even if you have an Omega at home, it’s fine. They’re all Betas, so you don’t have to worry.”
Gu Xiu naturally would not follow this topic to talk about Lin Zijun. “Thank you, Mr. Jin. I like to do these trivial things myself. It’s no trouble.”
Jin Chenhan was a mature businessman and of course could hear his perfunctory tone, so he stopped there.
“Are you coming to my place tonight?” After a while, Jin Chenhan suddenly said, and only after Gu Xiu looked over did he add, “Help me reply to a few more emails. It’s not convenient for me to type.”
Gu Xiu did not suspect him. “Okay, I’ll take the packages home, change my clothes, and then go over.”
But he couldn’t help but touch the inhibitor patch on the back of his neck again. He always felt that because he was sweating, the glue was not very sticky, and he didn’t know how much of his pheromones had leaked out.
Fortunately, Jin Chenhan’s expression was unchanged. He was standing at the other end of the elevator, at a certain distance from him.
“Your fiancée shouldn’t mind, right?” Jin Chenhan asked tentatively.
“It’s fine. He’s on a business trip and won’t be home tonight,” Gu Xiu stated the fact, without any hint of a suggestion.
But Jin Chenhan was silent for a while before he said, “Fine, then I’ll wait for you—”
Clang!
The elevator suddenly shook violently.
The mountain of packages that Gu Xiu had stacked high directly collapsed. Large and small boxes rustled and all fell to the ground.
“Don’t worry,” as a moral model protagonist gong, Jin Chenhan quickly went up and comforted, “The property management is probably fixing something again.”
The elevator floor on the electronic screen flickered a few times, and before long, it returned to normal and continued to rise.
Gu Xiu was suddenly startled, and another layer of thin sweat broke out on his back.
Jin Chenhan had seen great storms and was always calm and composed. The elevator returned to normal, and he squatted down again to help Gu Xiu pick up the scattered packages.
“Ah…” Gu Xiu came back to his senses and also quickly bent down. “I can do it myself…”
Jin Chenhan’s movements were always a step ahead of his.
Gu Xiu’s hand was suspended in mid-air. He found that he had nothing to do and could only say thank you, “Thank you, Mr. Jin.”
Jin Chenhan arranged the packages very neatly, like Tetris blocks, tightly and steadily, and uniformly placed the shipping labels facing up.
What Gu Xiu had bought online:
【Dog genuine leather collar, breathable, strong, and anti-escape】
【Dog toy, teething, bite-resistant, squeaky, self-entertaining, latex ball】
【Teasing dog toy, self-entertaining, for small and medium-sized puppies, to relieve boredom and for chewing】
But because of the private delivery, what Jin Chenhan saw was:
【Genuine leather****anti-escape】
【bite-resistantlatex】
【Teasing****self-entertaining***relieve boredom】
No matter how ascetic Gu Xiu’s persona was, he was still a normal adult male.
At this moment, Jin Chenhan was silent for a long time again. Every breath of the stagnant air he took in was filled with a thick awkwardness.
Gu Xiu was in a daze for a moment, as if he had just woken up from a dream.
“Thank you, Mr. Jin. I can do it myself!”
Jin Chenhan stood up, and Gu Xiu just happened to bend down. So he saw Gu Xiu’s exposed back of the neck, fair with a hint of pink, his slightly sweaty black sideburns, and the upturned corner of the inhibitor patch.
Jin Chenhan couldn’t help but hold his breath slightly.
The sweet-scented pheromones that were everywhere in the air were getting stronger and stronger, to the point where he could no longer force himself to ignore them.
Gu Xiu frantically turned over the ambiguous express box.
Jin Chenhan squinted his eyes, and his light gray eyes darkened a few shades.
What a coincidence.
While his fiancée was not at home, Gu Xiu had bought a large pile of small toys home.
The disharmonious relationship between the two seemed to have a more reasonable reason: one pursued stability, and the other pursued excitement.
An Omega’s delicate body might not be able to withstand the stimulation of these toys. Not to mention, from his few impressions of him, Lin Zijun was clearly the kind of conservative and traditional Omega.
In addition, only an Alpha with sharp canines would need teething products.
Who those toys were used on was still unknown.
Jin Chenhan was lost in thought.
And Gu Xiu’s embarrassed expression, his flushed earlobes, all exposed a kind of embarrassment of having his privacy discovered. It would probably be difficult for an ordinary person to understand him. Fortunately, an Alpha who was sexually repressed because of a bad relationship with an Omega was in the same boat as a lonely Enigma.
Jin Chenhan swallowed twice, only feeling that his saliva was full of the sweet taste of Alpha pheromones.
“Your fiancée probably doesn’t understand you very well, does she?”
An unexpected question, Gu Xiu was stunned.
007 made a plan for its host: 【The protagonist gong is probably testing you. The worse your relationship with the protagonist shou is, the less of a moral burden he will have…】
So Gu Xiu let out a vague “mm.”
The next question was even more inexplicable. “Do you also like little dogs very much?”
“Uh… I do like them,” Gu Xiu was a little troubled and answered truthfully. “But I can’t raise one.”
Jin Chenhan was silent for a moment before he said in a hoarse voice, “Mm, the eighth floor is here. You can go back and tidy up. I’ll be waiting for you at home.”
Gu Xiu took a shower and changed into a clean set of clothes before going upstairs.
“Mr. Jin, I’m here.”
Gu Xiu, who appeared at his superior’s door, was clean, and the faint scent of sugar-roasted chestnuts was wrapped in his soft clothes, without a single bit of sweet floral scent.
“Go and sit over there, the old spot.”
Jin Chenhan welcomed him in. As the host, he did not lead the way, but followed closely behind him, taking a few intoxicating sniffs.
“Mr. Jin, what work do you need me to…”
Jin Chenhan came back to his senses, quickly operated the computer, and packed the work that needed to be done, presenting it to Gu Xiu at a glance. “Today, you mainly need to sort out these market research data and make them into clear charts… and then write a few emails for me.”
The two of them cooperated tacitly and completed the work handover in a few sentences.
Jin Chenhan took another laptop and sat down on the other side of the long table.
“There are a few more pictures. I’ll pack them and send them to you.”
“Okay.”
“…”
The two of them were immersed in their work, and for a moment, the spacious house was filled with only the tapping sound of keyboards. Jin Chenhan listened to the regular accompaniment, looked at the contracts and reports on the computer that had made him forget to eat and sleep, but his gaze gradually became unfocused, his mind wandering.
It was all because of that faint sweet scent.
Gu Xiu was clearly not doing anything, just sitting there properly. But his olfactory nerves were becoming more and more sensitive. Every pheromone scent molecule was infinitely amplified, acting on the back of his neck, bringing waves of high temperature.
“…Huh? Mr. Jin?” Gu Xiu heard the noise, looked up, and saw Jin Chenhan buttoning his inhibitor ring. He asked, “Didn’t you say last time that you didn’t want to wear an inhibitor ring at home?”
After saying this, Gu Xiu suddenly reacted. “Uh… could it be because of my pheromones?”
“No,” Jin Chenhan’s voice was slightly hoarse, but his tone was still steady. “My heat period is coming soon, and my pheromones are not very stable.”
Gu Xiu was a little embarrassed. He paused his work and stood up, gesturing at his neck. “Should I wear one too?”
Jin Chenhan’s gaze at him was deep. “I’ve used all of my inhibitor rings. They’re more or less stained with my pheromones… it’s not very good.”
Borrowing someone else’s used inhibitor products was like borrowing used underwear in the ordinary human world.
Gu Xiu scratched his head, and suddenly a flash of inspiration struck him. “By the way, last time I helped you open a package, that new one… it probably hasn’t been used yet, right?”
Jin Chenhan was silent.
Gu Xiu, who had bought a large pile of toys home, was still saying that that kind of sex toy was an inhibitor ring?
He was a little unsure. Was Gu Xiu more innocent than the worldly-wise students on campus, or was he using this innocence as a hint?
Fearing that his superior had forgotten, Gu Xiu continued to describe in detail, “It’s the one with a bow tie and a bell… there’s also an electrode on the back of the neck. It should be a micro-current for massage, right? I remember there’s this kind of project in the hospital’s mental power guidance.”
Jin Chenhan’s throat rolled a few times, and he said vaguely, “It’s a bit similar, but not exactly the same.”
Since Gu Xiu was so insistent, he couldn’t say much more. “I’ll go and get it for you. You can wait here.”
Gu Xiu sat in his chair and waited. He saw Jin Chenhan walk towards the main door, stop by the shoe cabinet, turn to face the white wall on the other side, and then he gently pressed the wall. His figure disappeared, and he entered the hidden space behind the wall.
Gu Xiu’s house downstairs was smaller. He didn’t expect that there was a hidden space on the other side of Jin Chenhan’s entrance. He had been here several times but had never discovered it.
Soon, Jin Chenhan came back with a metal neck ring and took the initiative to suggest, “Let me put it on for you.”
Gu Xiu only had a half-baked understanding of the various common knowledge of the ABO world. He could see an inhibitor ring on Jin Chenhan’s neck every day, but he had never worn one himself. Jin Chenhan’s help came at just the right time, so that he wouldn’t accidentally expose himself.
“Okay, thank you, Mr. Jin.”
Gu Xiu turned to the side and tilted his head, revealing the back of his neck.
Jin Chenhan held his breath and concentrated, like a puppy’s owner, putting on a collar that symbolized ownership on the smooth and fair Alpha’s neck.
The metal neck ring was cool against his warm neck. Gu Xiu was a little uncomfortable, and his back was noticeably stiff, especially when the coldest metal electrode touched the back of his neck.
It wasn’t until Jin Chenhan’s “done” command came that he let out the breath he had been holding.
He lowered his head, fiddled with the bow tie on his Adam’s apple, the small brass bell, and said, trying to make conversation, “This style is a bit too cute. It doesn’t seem very suitable for wearing out.”
“It’s indeed not suitable for wearing out,” Jin Chenhan said and changed the subject. “Is the email written? Let me take a look… you can go and rest. I’ll call you if there’s anything.”
Gu Xiu handed the finished work back to his superior and went to the sofa not far away to sit down and rest.
Jin Chenhan sat down in front of the computer and didn’t forget to greet him. “Gu Xiu, you can go back first if you’re tired. I still have to look at it for a while. If there are any problems, I’ll send you a message, and you can just come over tomorrow.”
“It’s fine,” Gu Xiu said. “Mr. Jin, you can take a look first. I’ll leave when you’ve confirmed there are no problems.”
Although there was an obstructive collar on his neck, Gu Xiu was as dedicated and diligent as ever.
He didn’t know if he was also like this in bed.
His thoughts drifted away.
Jin Chenhan composed himself and quickly checked the email that Gu Xiu had written for him. After confirming that there were no mistakes, he sent it to the overseas client.
He quickly dealt with a pile of trivial work, and when he looked at the time again, half an hour had passed.
It was ten o’clock at night, and it was quiet.
There was no movement from Gu Xiu’s side.
Jin Chenhan looked up, and the mouth that had just opened immediately closed. He held onto the table, stood up lightly, and walked over slowly.
Gu Xiu had gone from a sitting position to a semi-lying position at some point. His upper body was pressed against the surface of the sofa, his eyes were gently closed, and he was asleep.
Jin Chenhan squatted down in front of him and looked at him for a long while without waking him up.
The superior, who worked day and night, couldn’t help but reflect. Had he been making Gu Xiu work too hard during this period, so much so that he would take a nap whenever he could?
The superior, whose conscience had been pricked, reached out a hand and, with just the back of his hand, gently rubbed the Alpha’s cheek.
Perhaps it was itchy. The Alpha’s eyelashes trembled slightly, and he let out two mumbles, but still didn’t wake up.
As an Alpha, Gu Xiu knew that he was at the top of the pyramid in this world, so he was completely unguarded. He would fall asleep on someone else’s sofa, and he would sleep soundly and deeply.
Jin Chenhan’s thoughts fluttered. He couldn’t help but caress the bow tie, and then he hooked the small brass bell and flicked it.
Gu Xiu was still unmoved and was sleeping soundly.
Even if Jin Chenhan wasn’t wearing gloves, his fingertips traveled from the bow tie all the way to the back of his neck and touched the unused electrode.
The remote control was in his pocket. With just a light press, this electrode could release an electric current, causing the Alpha to immediately enter a heat period, and in the numbing electric current, he would experience the climax pleasure of an Omega’s gland being marked, until he was addicted and couldn’t extricate himself.
An evil fire was rampaging in his chest. Jin Chenhan murmured to himself, “If you knew I was an Enigma, could you still sleep so soundly?”
He just sat by Gu Xiu’s side, continuously releasing his pheromones, until his eyes turned scarlet.
Gu Xiu shivered and suddenly woke up.
“Achoo!”
“It’s so cold. Why is it suddenly so cold…”
Jin Chenhan was like he had woken up from a wet dream. He quickly withdrew his wildly spreading pheromones and was about to explain, “I…”
Gu Xiu was half-asleep and still remembered to be concerned about his superior. “Mr. Jin, aren’t you cold? You’re wearing so little.”
Gu Xiu rubbed his hands and stood up, mumbling, “How long have I been asleep? This late spring cold is too ridiculous.”
Jin Chenhan was even wearing just a single layer of clothing and no inhibitor gloves.
Gu Xiu saw that his hands under his cuffs were as pale as paper, like the invisible ice and snow in the air.
“Mr. Jin…”
Gu Xiu was in a daze. He didn’t think much of it and pulled his superior’s hand up to check his body temperature.
“Achoo!”
How did it get even colder!
Gu Xiu quickly let go of his superior’s hand, raised his arm to cover his mouth and nose, and sneezed several more times.
“…Wait a moment,” Jin Chenhan threw out two words, turned, and went back to his room, and decisively gave himself an inhibitor shot.
The overwhelming coldness instantly subsided.
He looked down at his cold, white, and long hands, with distinct knuckles and prominent blue veins on the back.
Just now, Gu Xiu had touched this place. The Alpha’s fingertips were like his chestnut pheromones, sweet and soft.
Jin Chenhan couldn’t help but raise his hand.
By the time he reacted, his tongue had already rolled over the back of his hand, rolling all the slight pheromones into his mouth.
He looked at his wet back of the hand in some disbelief, as if it wasn’t him who had just made that move. The gland that had just calmed down became restless again, and he gave himself another inhibitor shot.
Ten minutes later, he came out of the bedroom.
Gu Xiu had stayed in the living room and was pacing back and forth, wrapped in a blanket from the sofa. When he saw Jin Chenhan come out, he quickly went up and said, “It doesn’t seem so cold anymore… but Mr. Jin, you should still put on some more clothes. Don’t catch a cold.”
Gu Xiu had never shown any resistance to his pheromones, and he hadn’t even been able to distinguish that the biting cold was the effect of the pheromones. As expected, the seeming suitability from before was just because this Alpha was too insensitive to pheromones.
After all, they only had a 50% compatibility.
Jin Chenhan licked his unretractable canines, tried his best to suppress and restrain himself, and said in a hoarse voice, “Gu Xiu, you can go back first.”
Hearing his voice, Gu Xiu didn’t forget to remind him before he left, “Mr. Jin, if you’re not feeling well, take some cold medicine in time. Take it early to reduce the cold symptoms.”
Jin Chenhan saw Gu Xiu to the door with a complicated mood, his gaze roaming back and forth on the collar on Gu Xiu’s neck.
“…By the way, the inhibitor ring,” hearing the crisp sound of the bell, Gu Xiu’s footsteps paused slightly.
Jin Chenhan walked over. “I’ll help you take it off.”
The way the collar opened and closed was rather strange, and it required someone else’s help to put it on and take it off smoothly.
The person wearing the collar was constantly stimulated by the electric current. Let alone accurately finding the hidden switch position, they would be trembling all over, gasping for breath, and it would be extremely difficult to even ask for help.
Jin Chenhan held the warm collar tightly in his hand, struggled for a long time, and suddenly asked, “Gu Xiu, do you want a master?”
Gu Xiu: “What?”
Jin Chenhan: “Just like… a puppy’s master.”
Pheromone compatibility was not the only indicator of a relationship. It was possible to not like someone even if they were compatible, and it was also possible to work hard to get along even if they were not compatible.
Even if Gu Xiu was already in a relationship.
But Gu Xiu was just bending down to put on his shoes and didn’t hear his words clearly. He asked in confusion, “What’s wrong with a puppy’s master? Mr. Jin, don’t you have a dog?”
Mr. Jin was silent for a moment. “Mm… I mean, I want to raise a puppy.”
“I see…” Gu Xiu was lost in thought, tied his shoelaces, and turned around with a light smile. “Then I’ll be leaving now, Mr. Jin.”
“Mm,” Jin Chenhan’s gaze was deep. “I’m looking forward to your answer.”