CH 26

Shen Dai buttoned up his shirt, tied a tie, and put on a brand new white coat. He tugged at the end of his hair. His hair was a little longer and he didn’t have time to cut it recently. He dipped it in water, and pulled the bangs behind his head as much as possible. The person in the mirror looked straight and capable, and he was quite satisfied.

They waited until they were about to get off work before Qu Moyu brought some executives to the laboratory.

“Hello, Mr. Qu and all leaders.” Shen Dai said respectfully, “We welcome you to inspect.”

An executive pointed at Shen Dai and said with a smile: “You are Shen Gong who gave the speech that day. I am very impressed with you. You spoke very well.”

“Thank you.”

“The most profound thing is that you are actually an omega. I really didn’t expect an omega to do this kind of research. It’s amazing.”

“I remember on that day, Mr. Qu deliberately defended you.” Another older director said, “Mr. Qu, this man is such a young and promising researcher, it’s no wonder you would cherish his talents.”

Shen Dai smiled implicitly and at the same time secretly glanced at Qu Moyu.

With a faint smile on his face, Qu Moyu nodded and said yes. But when he looked at Shen Dai, it was like he was looking at a stranger.

Cheng Zimei said: “Leaders, please come in. Let’s go to the conference room to see the latest project information.”

A group of people took their seats in the conference room. Shen Dai opened the prepared information sheet on the projector and explained to them. Qu Moyu put his arms around his chest and leaned back in the chair, seemingly looking at the projection wall, but in fact the focus of his vision was on Shen Dai. The pure white lab coat on Shen Dai’s body made his face look even more fair and handsome. But the wide and shapeless design of the lab coat seemed to cast a mysterious sense of wrapping. It made people feel like they wanted to use their hands to unwrap the clothes in order to measure how thin his waist is and to see how his backside looks like.

Qu Moyu couldn’t help but to imagine Shen Dai being naked, wearing only a lab coat. His hands could directly touch the warm and smooth skin through. It should be very interesting.

At this time, two interns came in to help pour tea and water.

Zhou Lan was the first to walk to Qu Moyu’s side. In order not to disturb the leader’s thoughts, he hunched over to minimise his presence. He quietly placed the freshly brewed tea in front of Qu Moyu.

Qu Moyu’s fantasy came to an abrupt end the moment Zhou Lan approached. His sensitive sense of smell caught a familiar alpha pheromone. It is the smell that once lingered on Shen Dai. Qu Moyu turned his face and saw a tall and heroic young alpha with a good body, hairstyle, and pheromone smell. He was certain that this alpha was the one who watched the exhibition closely with Shen Dai that day and left his pheromones on his body. .

Zhou Lan was startled by Qu Moyu’s sudden sharp turn. When his eyes collided, he sensed the chill that made his heart tremble in the eyes of this S-class alpha and even felt a little bit of hostility coming from him.

Zhou Lan quickly apologised in a low voice, although he didn’t know what he had done wrong.

Qu Moyu turned his face away without saying a word. He suddenly decided to investigate what happened during the exhibition, just to see if the ‘colleague’ Shen Dai said was really just a colleague. At this moment, he should be glad that Shen Dai didn’t lie to him. But he is also annoyed that Shen Dai was alone with an alpha for so long that they were even infected with each other’s pheromones.

Zhou Lan put down the teacup in front of the executives in turn, but when he walked around the round table to Shen Dai, he suddenly took out a black thermos cup from the big pocket of his lab coat. It was Shen Dai’s thermos cup. Zhou Lan put it down and smiled at Shen Dai, who also nodded at him.

Qu Moyu narrowed his eyes. He can now be sure that this alpha is interested in Shen Dai. And for sure, that day,he deliberately released his pheromones to Shen Dai. Shen Dai is supposed to be so smart, did he even notice it? If so, why not avoid any suspicion? He even dared to return to his home with the smell of other alphas on him?!

Qu Moyu picked up the phone with a sullen face and asked his assistant to send him information regarding the personnels in the institute.

After demonstrating the project information, Shen Dai asked everyone if they had any questions as usual. Next, it was time to take them to the laboratory for a tour. This process has been done many times recently.

Qu Moyu pointed at the table with his finger, and everyone looked at him sideways. He said indifferently, “Shen Gong, when was this presentation made?”

“About half a year ago.”

“Six months ago, it was equal to what you showed customers and management, and many of the contents were not updated.”

Shen Dai was stunned for a moment: “This is an introduction, I will go into more details when we visit the laboratory…”

“Do you still remember your own speech?” Qu Moyu interrupted him unceremoniously, with a grim expression, “You were asked by Qu Chengchen several questions and you almost couldn’t get off the stage. Although the speech was mainly just a form of formality, you should not take it easy. This year’s budget may not affect many shareholders and investors. But next year, and in the future, will Qu Chengchen’s question become their question instead? Have you considered these questions? Some of the content in this expansion happened to be the ones that Qu Chengchen found fault with, why not deal with it?”

All eyes fell on Shen Dai, and Shen Dai felt that he had been put on a high platform again – by the person who had slept with him a few days ago and said good morning and night to each other.

The atmosphere in the conference room became a little tense. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Qu Moyu’s behaviour is intentionally nit-picking. A profile video for laymen is simply not worth investing too much time in updating constantly.

Shen Dai clenched the laser pointer, and Qu Moyu, who was sitting across from the long round table, was restrained and coercive. The dark three-piece suit was his armour, his emotionless eyes and words were his swords, and he was a fully armed man. He looks superior, and also unfamiliar to Shen Dai.

How can someone be sometimes tender and sweet? But also sometimes cold and indifferent? Shen Dai guessed that Qu Moyu did this in order to place a distance between them. Through harsh and ruthless treatment, the scandal raised by the surveillance video would be turned to dust. After all, which S-class alpha would be willing to be rumoured with an ordinary omega?

In this way, it can explain why Qu Moyu made this extra trip today. Shen Dai thinks that it’s ridiculous of himself to be full of expectations and wants to show off in front of his sweetheart.

It is simply embarrassing.

Shen Dai’s self-confidence withered instantly. He endured the sadness and forced a smile: “Mr. Qu, you are right. We will rectify it immediately.”

For the next visit, Shen Dai intentionally made an international long-distance appointment with the teacher and asked Cheng Zimei to explain the rest on his behalf. He went back to his office alone to sort out his own emotions.

About half an hour later, there was a knock on the door. Shen Dai recovered from his daze: “Please come in.”

When he saw that the person pushing the door was Qu Moyu, Shen Dai immediately stood up from his chair.

Qu Moyu brought himself to the door and quickly swiped a look at Shen Dai’s office, which was full of books, materials and specimens, as well as rows of awards and trophies.

Shen Dai silently stood aside, waiting for Qu Moyu to say something.

Qu Moyu walked up to him, raised his hand to lift his chin, and smiled casually: “Why? Are you upset?”

“No.” Shen Dai took a step back subconsciously.

Qu Moyu followed and still took a step forward. He suddenly clasped Shen Dai’s shoulders against the wall. He then kissed him forcefully, blocking Shen Dai’s protest in his mouth. He rudely crushed his lips, teasing him with his tongue, almost causing him to run out of breath.

Shen Dai felt Qu Moyu’s anger. He didn’t know where the anger came from. He was kissed until he couldn’t breathe, but he still didn’t forget that this was the office. So he kept pushing Qu Moyu’s chest off of him. Qu Moyu’s big hands took and clamped both of his wrists and pressed them against his chest. His knees got stuck between Shen Dai’s legs, making his limbs unable to move.

The ebony pheromone escaped and surrounded Shen Dai layer by layer. Once Shen Dai’s body received such a powerful alpha pheromone, he would no longer have the ability to resist. As long as the S-class alpha willed him, he could be in heat on the spot, kneeling on the ground begging to be fucked. This is the sad case with omega’s gene.

The replaceable air became thinner and thinner. Shen Dai’s brain lacked oxygen. He had to rely on Qu Moyu’s breath to maintain his basic life energy. He fell softly into Qu Moyu’s arms until the S-class predator stopped his plundering.

Qu Moyu hugged him, sat on the sofa beside him, fondled his swollen lips with pity, and said frivolously: “Have you ever imagined being fucked in the office, ‘Shen Gong’?”

“Don’t…” Shen Dai had tears in his eyes and his voice trembled, “Please.”

This is his office. His laboratory. It is where he works and studies. It witnesses and carries his career, his achievements and his dreams. This is where he is a capable, learned, and respected man. Here, he is the researcher, not a toy or a slut.

It was only at this moment that he realised that he was too naive. No matter the time or place, there will always be a gap between him and Qu Moyu. He was worthless in his eyes. Qu Moyu’s uncertain, occasional tenderness was just a means of flirting. It doesn’t mean anything. Only he himself wanted to be extravagant. But his identity and status remained the same – he is just a convenient bed partner.

At this moment, there’s a knock at the door. Shen Dai was so shocked that he wanted to get off of Qu Moyu, but Qu Moyu grabbed hold of his waist tightly and simply responded, “Come in.”

Qu Moyu grasped the timing very cleverly. At the same time that Zhou Lan pushed the door and entered, he let go of his hand, letting Shen Dai get up in a daze, and staggered two steps because of the unstable landing.

Zhou Lan’s eyes happened to capture this scene. Even if he didn’t see the whole thing, Shen Dai’s loose clothes, messy hair, wet eye end and red swollen lips were not enough to explain everything. What’s more, Shen Dai’s whole body is covered in Qu Moyu’s alpha pheromone.

The tea in Zhou Lan’s hand almost fell to the ground. He was stunned at the door, his mind blank.

“Put it here.” Qu Moyu tapped the coffee table in front of him with his fingers and ordered, “Close the door.”

Zhou Lan came back to his senses, closed the door mechanically, and put the tray on the coffee table.

Qu Moyu smiled at Zhou Lan, “Are you a new intern? What’s your name?”

“Yes, Mr. Qu. My name is Zhou Lan.” Zhou Lan’s voice was trembling.

“When will the internship end?”

“Soon.”

“Will you continue?”

“…If it is possible.” Zhou Lan vaguely guessed the reason for the seemingly non-existent hostility that Qu Moyu released before. His chest was so suffocated that it was hard to breathe, and Qu Moyu didn’t even need to release pheromone to suppress him. The poor status is itself a form of repression.

“Those who can get an internship at the institute should be very good. Generally, they can continue without making any mistakes.” Qu Moyu accentuated the pronunciation of the word ‘mistake’. He took a sip of tea and smiled as he said, “I believe that under the leadership of Shen Gong, you will also create more value for the company.”

“I will work hard.”

“Well, what happened just now, I won’t add it to your confidentiality contract. But you know what happened, right?”

“Yes.” Zhou Lan lowered his head, not daring to breathe.

“Okay, thanks for the tea. You can go out.”

Zhou Lan lowered his head and walked out quickly. When he passed by Shen Dai, he left a sideways look displaying complicated emotions.

Shen Dai stood aside, feeling as if someone had stripped his clothes off in the street. Anger, humiliation, sadness… he feels them all. He couldn’t imagine that this was given by the person he likes. He couldn’t imagine that the person who was perfect in his eyes would be such a scum.

His restraint, his prudence, and his degree of advance and retreat are all to preserve a little dignity in this extremely unequal relationship, but Qu Moyu can easily and carelessly crush it.

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Next update: 2022.04.19

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*Translator’s Rant: One word, Qu Moyu. ‘Respect’. Ugh. Where are my sandals when I need them? I wanna smack his head! -K