Chapter 96: AE20
“Huh?” Gu Xiu was rubbing medicine on his superior when he suddenly shivered. “It’s a little cold…”
Jin Chenhan said in one breath, “My mental power is a little unstable—but I’m not in heat. Don’t be nervous. Just stay away from me. You don’t need to give me an inhibitor.”
He couldn’t help but worry that Gu Xiu was too quick with his eyes and hands and would catch him off guard again.
Gu Xiu was reminded of the chaotic night and couldn’t help but feel embarrassed. He replied with some guilt, “Okay, Mr. Jin.”
Jin Chenhan closed his eyes and focused all his attention on his mind, trying to calm it down and prevent more pheromones from leaking out.
Gu Xiu held his breath and concentrated, also fully focused. He squeezed out the ointment and applied it to the bruise on Jin Chenhan’s forehead.
His fingertips were very soft, and the ointment was evenly spread with the right body temperature. Jin Chenhan only felt that his brain under his frontal bone was also being massaged, like an impassioned orchestra playing, which gradually became gentle and soft under the Alpha’s command.
Jin Chenhan closed his eyes and greedily took in the pheromones on the Alpha.
Until Gu Xiu exclaimed, “Mr. Jin!”
Jin Chenhan came to his senses. He opened his eyes and first saw his black hands, holding Gu Xiu’s waist, and had wrinkled the secretary’s perfectly good suit.
Then was Gu Xiu’s black sideburns, his fair neck, in a place he could reach with just a stretch of his mouth. To absorb more pheromones, he had actually rested his chin on Gu Xiu’s shoulder, rubbing it gently.
And Gu Xiu, restricted by the difference in rank, plus a little guilt towards him, was motionless and did not dare to resist at all.
After he had had his fill, Gu Xiu called out to him.
He pretended not to hear.
“Mr. Jin,” Gu Xiu hesitated for a few seconds and spoke again, tactfully reminding this moral model, “Be careful not to rub off the medicine on your forehead…”
Jin Chenhan was unmoved. He turned his face, and his lips were almost touching his ear. He exhaled a hot and humid breath. “Shh.”
Gu Xiu’s breathing was stagnant.
“Although you’re an Alpha, your pheromones make me very relaxed,” after raising his tension to the extreme, Jin Chenhan finally gave a reasonable explanation.
Gu Xiu let out a soft “ah…” Even though his body was still tense, he could no longer say a word of refusal.
Jin Chenhan took a deep breath and said again, “You don’t have to wear an inhibitor patch when you come to work next time. I won’t let any other Alphas or Omegas appear on this floor. Your pheromones are very faint. As long as you don’t let a second person hold you like I am, an ordinary AO won’t be able to smell it.”
Speaking of which, even Gu Xiu himself was not clear about his own pheromones. A scum gong’s pheromones were insignificant. Logically, they were randomly generated by the system when it was creating his image. He didn’t know where he got the ability to relax the protagonist gong.
Gu Xiu had been being sniffed, and the other’s breath was all over his neck. He couldn’t help but feel his cheeks grow hot, and he subconsciously said, “But without an inhibitor patch…”
His superior was an Enigma! To be without an inhibitor patch in front of the other was like going out without underwear, a strange feeling.
Jin Chenhan directly interrupted, “Obey me, can you?”
His voice was warm, slow, and steady. Gu Xiu did not immediately react and only frowned. “I’m your secretary. I should have…”
Knock, knock, knock!
“Mr. Jin! Someone’s knocking!”
Gu Xiu finally found a savior. He quickly broke free from Jin Chenhan’s embrace and went to open the door as if he had been pardoned.
And the gray gaze that fell behind him became even more gloomy, like a bottomless and dangerous vortex.
When Gu Xiu opened the door to welcome the guest, Jin Chenhan also got up from the ground and sat on the sofa, slowly and deliberately tidying up the wrinkles on his shirt.
He had let go now.
But sooner or later, he would completely and utterly possess this Alpha.
…
That evening, Jin Chenhan had work to finish. He took a moment to go to the secretary’s office next door and told Gu Xiu that he didn’t have to stay and accompany him. He could leave whenever he was done.
If the two of them got off work together, Jin Chenhan would offer to drive him, and Gu Xiu would not be able to refuse, and his whereabouts would also be exposed because of this kindness.
Tonight, Jin Chenhan took the initiative to suggest that they go their separate ways. Gu Xiu couldn’t have been happier. Before he left, he went to the CEO’s office again and said considerately, “Mr. Jin, if you’re not feeling well, please tell me in time.”
“What,” Jin Chenhan stopped writing and looked up. “Are you going to help me get through my heat period?”
Gu Xiu was caught off guard and almost bit his tongue. After a long while, he said, “No… I’m also an Alpha.”
He paused, pointed to his forehead, and the red and swollen area that the other had knocked out at noon today had completely healed. He was still worried and reminded again, “If your mental power or anything is not right, please tell me, or contact a doctor directly…”
Jin Chenhan looked at him for a while before he said, “Okay, I’ll tell you—then now, please come here.”
Gu Xiu was stunned for a moment and walked over, confused.
“Turn around, lower your head,” Jin Chenhan’s command was short and efficient, but it was confusing.
Gu Xiu had been his secretary for no more than a month, but it had already become a natural habit. His body moved before his consciousness, and he followed the command.
Then, in front of an Enigma, he unguardedly exposed the back of his Alpha’s neck.
Jin Chenhan swallowed with restraint and quietly stood up.
With a screech.
Gu Xiu’s back of the neck felt cold. He covered the back of his neck and quickly turned around. His black eyes were rippling with water, full of confusion.
“Your inhibitor patch, I’ll take it,” Jin Chenhan’s palm was clenched, and he sat back down with a straight face. He then took out a box of inhibitor patches from the drawer and handed it to Gu Xiu. “This is a new one. Put it on. Be careful on your way back.”
Although, he would have preferred Gu Xiu not to go home.
The two of them had finished talking, but the topic seemed not to be over. They looked at each other, and the office was quiet for a few seconds.
“Mmm…” Gu Xiu thought for a moment and, trying to make conversation, he asked again, “Mr. Jin, then you can get busy. Do you need me to walk Xiao Huang for you?”
He had kindly suggested it, but Jin Chenhan’s brow furrowed. “Are you going home tonight?”
It was as if going home were a rare thing.
Gu Xiu nodded.
Jin Chenhan’s eyes dimmed, and in the end, he only agreed.
Gu Xiu’s unusual return home was for no other reason than to follow the plot.
After jumping through the ‘Key Plot Point 8’ last time, 007’s ridiculous work was still progressing steadily: 【Jiujiu, today is ‘Key Plot Point 9’!】
Gu Xiu held back and did not complain to interrupt him.
According to the plot, the protagonist shou’s childhood friend would angrily find his way to the residential complex, wait for Gu Xiu downstairs, and wait to demand an explanation from him.
Gu Xiu had gotten off work early today. By the time he got home, it was not yet dark. He was not sure when Zhu Enzhuo would come, and he was not just waiting. He took Xiao Huang from Jin Chenhan’s house and wandered around the residential complex, leisurely and carefree.
The plot of the novel was irresistible. Zhu Enzhuo had indeed come to this vicinity under the drive of a mysterious force, but he had not rushed over from outside, but had come out of the large penthouse on the eighth floor.
He was hugging his long-time crush, Lin Zijun, reluctantly.
Lin Zijun was timid and pushed him. “You should go. What if Gu Xiu comes back…”
“He won’t come back,” Zhu Enzhuo said with certainty. “He doesn’t like you at all.”
As soon as these words were spoken, Lin Zijun’s eyes immediately turned red.
Zhu Enzhuo was at a loss and could only sigh and stand up.
What he didn’t expect was that Gu Xiu had really come back.
He had just left the apartment building when he saw Gu Xiu. Gu Xiu had definitely not gone home, but he didn’t know why he was holding a dog on a leash.
Zhu Enzhuo stood there in a daze for a long while and rubbed his eyes a few times.
It was indeed Gu Xiu…
Seeing that Gu Xiu was about to take the dog home, he no longer hesitated and rushed forward!
Gu Xiu had been waiting for a long time.
Zhu Enzhuo was coming to settle the score with him, and his words were quite fierce, each sentence a provocation to an Alpha’s dignity.
The noise of their quarrel attracted the nearby residents, and it got louder and louder. In the end, Lin Zijun also came over. Seeing the scrapes on his childhood friend’s body from a fall, his heart ached, and in the end, he shot Gu Xiu a disappointed glare and left with his childhood friend.
Gu Xiu reviewed the plot and made sufficient preparations to welcome the aggressive Zhu Enzhuo.
“Gu Xiu!”
Gu Xiu frowned and said in a cold tone, “Zhu Enzhuo? Why are you here?”
“Instead of asking me why I’m here…” Zhu Enzhuo’s eyes flickered, and he quickly regained his momentum and continued to press, “you should be asking yourself why you’re never at home!”
“Mmm…” Gu Xiu blinked in a daze. “I’m back now, but I haven’t gone upstairs yet.”
Zhu Enzhuo was speechless and was quiet for a few seconds. He suddenly remembered the gray-eyed Alpha who had appeared at the door with Gu Xiu last time. According to the information he had gathered from Lin Zijun, that person was Gu Xiu’s direct superior, an extremely mysterious and powerful A+ rank Alpha.
Thinking of this, Zhu Enzhuo stepped forward and unobtrusively sniffed the scent on Gu Xiu.
Then his face changed drastically.
Gu Xiu had barely been home recently and had not seen Lin Zijun. There was not a trace of Lin Zijun’s floral scent on him. But his own pheromones were also barely audible, and instead, he was enveloped in a more powerful scent of a forest and snowfield.
That scent made Zhu Enzhuo feel an instinctive fear. He took a few steps back, composed himself, and spoke again, “Who have you been with recently? Your superior? Or… other Alphas?”
Gu Xiu rolled his eyes and said speechlessly, “Did Lin Zijun ask you to ask me? But you should be clear. You and I have no relationship. I have no obligation to answer these questions.”
But Zhu Enzhuo was not deterred. He seemed not to have heard his words and was lost in his own thoughts. He suddenly asked again, “Are you gay?”
Before he could answer, Zhu Enzhuo had already come to a conclusion. “I see… so you don’t like Zijun, but you can’t break up with him. You need him to be your cover. Your parents are the most traditional. They engaged you two because of the 100% compatibility. They definitely can’t accept that you like an Alpha…”
Gu Xiu was so dumbfounded by him that for a moment, he didn’t think that this Omega might be judging others by his own standards. Because he also liked the same sex, he was so sure of this ridiculous guess.
Gu Xiu opened his mouth and then closed it, feeling that he was speechless. After Zhu Enzhuo had finished his reasoning, he showed an expression of both anger and grief, and his attitude softened. “Just let Zijun go… okay?”
Gu Xiu had expected these words. He walked forward and said sternly, “I’m not letting him go? You should be clear. It’s clearly him who’s not letting me go… he’s always crying in front of me, releasing his pheromones and begging me to mark him.”
“…You!” The person Zhu Enzhuo held in his heart was actually described as so disgraceful. He was instantly furious, his neck flushed red, and his fierce look did not look like an Omega at all.
And Gu Xiu, as a genuine Alpha, was of course not afraid at all.
Zhu Enzhuo, on the other hand, was afraid of the pheromones on him. His face gradually became distorted, but he still held on and cursed, “You… Gu Xiu, you selfish and despicable scum A!”
Gu Xiu had 007 as a cheat and skillfully used the personal attack language of the ABO world. He sneered, “Heh, ridiculous. No matter what, I’m still an Alpha, unlike you.”
Zhu Enzhuo was hit where it hurt, and his face was extremely ugly.
Gu Xiu changed his usual cold and aloof demeanor and continued to rant, “Even if my compatibility with Lin Zijun is not 100%, I’m an Alpha. I was born to mark Omegas. And you—Zhu Enzhuo, what are you? Don’t tell me, you’ve been pretending to be a B for so long that you don’t know your place…”
“Fuck you, you feudalistic, terminal cancer A!” Zhu Enzhuo was angry and embarrassed and rushed up recklessly, grabbing Gu Xiu’s collar. “I… I can also let him mark me. This kind of thing is not important at all… you don’t know anything! Who’s like you…”
He was so angry he couldn’t think rationally, and his tongue was not straight.
“Stop!” a familiar shout came from a distance.
Gu Xiu was stunned for a moment. He looked up and saw Lin Zijun running over quickly, his face full of anxiety.
Lin Zijun first asked him, “Gu Xiu… are you okay?”
Zhu Enzhuo saw his childhood friend instinctively protecting his fiancé and was so sad he couldn’t control himself.
“Woof, woof, woof!” the obedient Xiao Huang suddenly barked loudly.
Gu Xiu bent down and rubbed the scared little dog’s head to comfort it.
“Enzhuo, calm down. Gu Xiu, let’s go home first. We’ll talk at home…” Lin Zijun was in a dilemma and could only separate the two first.
Zhu Enzhuo quickly said, “Zijun, he’s a homosexual who likes Alphas. Can’t you smell it? The pheromones on him… they might have even slept together!”
“What’s so lively?”
Jin Chenhan’s skill in eavesdropping was masterful. With a calm face, he squeezed into the messy group of three.
【On the left is the fiancé, on the right is the childhood friend, and in front is a protagonist gong…】 Another 007 came, excited on its own. 【The protagonist shou’s love triangle is so exciting!】
Gu Xiu was confused. 【…It’s clearly his love triangle. Why am I so tired?】
Zhu Enzhuo looked at the suddenly arrived Jin Chenhan, his pupils trembling. “That’s right, it’s this scent… it’s his pheromones!”
Zhu Enzhuo’s finger moved, from Jin Chenhan to Gu Xiu, and then to Jin Chenhan.
Gu Xiu was at a loss. Jin Chenhan took another step forward and stood shoulder to shoulder with him, calmly dealing with Zhu Enzhuo. “The scent of you two Omegas is mixed together, like a spilled bottle of cheap perfume. It’s almost choking me.”
Zhu Enzhuo’s face was ugly, and he said without choosing his words, “You’re slandering… it’s clearly you two… a pair of adulterous A’s!”
Gu Xiu and Jin Chenhan were both stunned for a moment, and then they showed a similar but not entirely the same strange expression.
Gu Xiu came back to his senses and countered, “Zhu Enzhuo… you’re talking nonsense!”
Jin Chenhan said calmly, “Nonsense. We’re open and honest.”
Gu Xiu: “…?”
Is that how you use the word “open and honest”?
Jin Chenhan didn’t say much to Zhu Enzhuo. He turned and grabbed Gu Xiu’s wrist, and ordered in the gentlest tone, “Come on, to my house—give me Xiao Huang.”
“Oh… okay,” Gu Xiu handed over the dog leash.
Jin Chenhan skillfully took Xiao Huang, and his other hand was still holding Gu Xiu. He turned and walked into the apartment building. The two of them and a dog, like a warm family of three, left all the noise and farce behind.