CH 24

After watching the exhibition, the group had a dinner party until after eleven o’clock in the evening and chatted happily.

Only Zhou Lan was worried that he had made Shen Dai unhappy and felt a little constrained all night.

When an alpha and omega talk about each other’s pheromones, unless they are acquaintances joking with one another, the situation is somewhat ambiguous and provocative. If the statuses of Shen Dai and Zhou Lan are exchanged today, if it is an alpha superior who said this to an omega subordinate, it could be filed as sexual harassment. Zhou Lan was tempted for a moment back then and wanted so much to break through the relationship. In short, he was being a bit rash. What’s even more embarrassing is that he couldn’t help releasing a little pheromone at the time. When he noticed it, he immediately controlled it, but he didn’t know if Shen Dai had already noticed it.

Anyway, Shen Dai made an excuse to go to the bathroom. But when he came back, he obviously had been avoiding him, which made Zhou Lan feel very frustrated.

After the group broke up, Shen Dai saw that it was too late and it was too far to go back to his grandmother’s place, so he planned to go back to Qu’s house first.

Zhou Lan hesitated again and again but he still got close to Shen Dai, and asked cautiously, “Senior Brother Shen, can I take you home?”

“No need. I’ve already called a taxi.” Seeing his uneasy look, Shen Dai couldn’t bear it anymore and said, “Thank you.”

“Then be careful on your way home.”

“Okay, so are you.”

Shen Dai got into the car and felt a little more relaxed. He regrets today’s itinerary a little bit. Although the team needs group activities and the exhibition was a good event, it is not as easy for him to go through the materials at home.

On the way home, he received a WeChat message from Zhou Lan. He asked him if he was angry. He thought for a moment and replied: No. Don’t think too much.

‘Don’t think too much’. He hopes that Zhou Lan can understand what he really means by this word and really stop thinking further about him.

When he reached Qu’s house, the lights in the living room were still on. He entered through the door. It turned out that Qu Moyu had also just returned. He was probably hungry. Aunt Lan had cooked a bowl of noodles for him and was watching him eat.

Shen Dai didn’t expect to bump into Qu Moyu. He subconsciously looked at his neckline. Of course he had changed a tie today, but the haze in his heart could not be eliminated for a while.

Qu Moyu was also surprised to see Shen Dai: “Didn’t you go see your grandma today?”

“I went to see an exhibition, then had dinner with my colleagues, and it was already too late to go back there.”

“Come and sit.” Qu Moyu asked casually, “What exhibition did you go and see?”

Shen Dai came over: “It’s an astronomical and geological exhibition organised by the Ministry of Space and the University of Geosciences.”

Aunt Lan asked Shen Dai with a smile: “Ah Dai, are you hungry? I’ll cook you a bowl of noodles too. The beef bone soup that has been boiled for a day is delicious.”

“Aunt Lan, no need. I’m already very full.”

As soon as Shen Dai sat down, Qu Moyu wrinkled his nose. He put down his chopsticks and leaned in the direction of Shen Dai inadvertently: “Does the exhibition look good?”

“It certainly won’t be as interesting as a commercial show. People who aren’t interested will just see a pile of dirt and rocks.”

Qu Moyu smelled other alpha pheromones on Shen Dai and he asked calmly, “Really? Who did you go with?”

“Colleague.”

The smell of a single alpha pheromone on an omega coming back from a public place is something suspicious enough. When everyone is wearing pheromone stickers, as long as they don’t have very close contact, or deliberately releasing pheromones, it is difficult for the smell to stay on another for too long.

As an S-class alpha, Qu Moyu’s ability to perceive pheromones is very strong. Usually, everyone will have a little messy pheromone smell after a day, such as crowding the subway, taking the elevator, and such. It may leave some ambient odour. However, now there is a single, prominent, and obvious alpha pheromone on him which means that Shen Dai has been in contact with a certain alpha for a long enough time and a close enough contact today. And also, that certain alpha even has released a purposeful pheromone towards Shen Dai.

Meanwhile, Shen Dai himself has his own pheromone that smells very light, so his perception ability is not that strong. He didn’t notice the pheromone released by Zhou Lan.

Qu Moyu is unhappy. It is very common to accidentally get a little bit of other people’s pheromones in social interactions for various reasons. He commanded: “Go take a bath.”

For Shen Dai, the words ‘go to take a bath’ are the prompt words for sex. He wants to go home early tomorrow morning. If Qu Moyu fucked him all night, how could he get up in the morning?

Moreover, when he looks at Qu Moyu, he is reminded of You Baiyue’s delicate and beautiful face, and the superior life that normal mortals could not achieve. He did not want to simply call the blockage in his heart as ‘inferiority’. But he still couldn’t control himself to think that Qu Moyu couldn’t eat the high-end dish he ‘liked’, so he could just take a bite of a lighter meal. Just like this bowl of noodles on the table. It’s impossible to eat a big meal so late, and it’s simple and convenient to get something nearby to pad his stomach.

That’s what he is to Qu Moyu. A convenient meal.

He should be able to calmly accept this deal. After all, 10 million is very expensive and worth it. But he is restless, he is also tempted, and he brought it to himself.

Shen Dai’s brief hesitation was seen by Qu Moyu, his pupils became darker. It added more to his displeasure: “What?” Hesitation can be interpreted as resistance by him, whether Shen Dai did it intentionally or unintentionally. Shen Dai probably didn’t want to have sex with him. He is also covered in the smell of other alphas. This is making Qu Moyu really angry.

Emotional management is a required course for S-class alphas because their emotional problems can lead to serious personal injury so the sword must be sheathed. So he rarely gets really angry and will only release coercion purposefully depending on the situation. But at this moment, he is really angry because his omega is rejecting him.

This makes the dignity of the S-class alpha intolerable.

Shen Dai lowered his head: “I’m going to take a bath.” He got up and went upstairs.

When Qu Moyu came to Shen Dai’s room, his emotions had completely calmed down, especially when he saw Shen Dai obediently lying under the quilt waiting for him, and a trace of tension flashed in his eyes when he met the other’s eyes.

He got into the quilt, Shen Dai hesitated for a moment, and took the initiative to hug him – just as he had asked.

Qu Moyu lowered his head and quietly sniffed Shen Dai as if he was patrolling his territory. From the fluffy hair, rosy cheeks to the back of the fair neck, he confirmed that Shen Dai had completely washed off all the messy odours. There was only the fragrance of shampoo on his body and the smell of the faint pheromone. He showed a satisfied expression. He put Shen Dai in his arms and wrapped his arms around him firmly. He is not in a hurry to take possession, but he still dropped a few small kisses on him.

Shen Dai put himself close to Qu Moyu’s generous and warm chest, the powerful sense of power from the S-class alpha made his emotions of being attached unstoppable, he whispered: “Moyu, I want to get up early tomorrow. I want to go back to Grandma’s house early.”

“Hmm, okay.”

“So, can you…”

“Can I… what?”

Shen Dai said embarrassedly, “Can you only do it once?” Omegas only have strong sexual desire and abundant physical strength when they are in estrus. Without such abnormal hormones, he would not be able to completely satisfy Qu Moyu.

Qu Moyu chuckled twice: “Who said that I wanted to have sex? Do you want to?”

Shen Dai froze awkwardly.

“Do you really want to do it?” Qu Moyu hit Shen Dai’s nose with the tip of his nose, “Did you wash yourself clean and wait for me?”

Only then did Shen Dai realise that Qu Moyu was teasing him. In response, he is embarrassed: “I didn’t.” He struggled to get away from Qu Moyu’s arms, but was held firmly to death by Qu Moyu.

Qu Moyu looked at him, his brows were curved, his eyes were smiling, so beautiful that he almost forgot to catch his own heartbeat. The pheromone entangled into an ambiguous atmosphere lingering between the two of them.

Shen Dai sighed in his heart, such a person, such a person full of halo, full of charm, so powerful that he seems to be omnipotent, someone who has saved himself time and time again, how can he not fall for him?

“Okay.” Qu Moyu’s big hand stroked Shen Dai’s hair. They then moved down slightly, and his warm palm was pressed to Shen Dai’s glands. “I won’t do it tonight. I’ll let you go to bed and get up early, okay?” He didn’t think that way before walking into this room. Of course, he came to Shen Dai just to solve his physiological needs. But when they were curled up in a warm bed, their bodies were against one another, their eyes collided inadvertently, and the pheromones of ebony wood and epiphyllum were intertwined, he suddenly felt that it didn’t matter whether he had sex or not. Having sex is nothing more than seeking for comfort. He already feels very comfortable now. The kind of comfort in which his body and mind are completely relaxed, roaming in warmth and peace.

It was an experience he had never had before. The person in his arms is very strange. He can arouse his most violent desire and it can also make him return to peace like an ancient well.

Shen Dai has no power to resist the tenderness released by Qu Moyu at this moment, and his whole heart is ecstatic. Although his reason reminds him not to be self-motivated, in this brief moment, he imagines that Qu Moyu might have a little affection for him. People have feelings after all. After the spirit and the flesh have communicated well, they will definitely leave a mark on the mind.

It would be great if Qu Moyu could also have feelings for him.

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Next update: 2022.04.15

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*Translator’s Note: I personally think that Qu Moyu has already liked Shen Dai but that stupid scum doesn’t realise it yet. Ugh. Oh. By the way, I’m using British English since it is already set like that in my word doc for school-K