CH 40

Title: 顶级掠食者 (Alpha Predator)

Author：水千丞 (ShuiQianCheng)

Translator: K (@kin0monogatari)

Protagonists ：沈岱 (Shen Dai -MC), 瞿末予 (Qu Moyu -ML)

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Qu Moyu slept very deeply and for a long time. He had a dream that he had walked for a long time in a field covered by white ice and snow. There was no direction or guidance there. There’s only nothingness with no end in sight. He didn’t know where he came from or where he was going. He was so cold and frozen. All his sensory nerves lost consciousness. Suddenly, a fire appeared in front of him, glowing and burning hot. He hugged the fire desperately and immediately his whole body wandered in the warmth. Every inch of his frozen limb which was originally heavy, began to recover. His body became incredibly relaxed. It seemed to be the best and safest place in the world for him.

Qu Moyu woke up naturally in such comfort, opened his eyes, and saw a head with soft black hair, looking at his phone with his back facing him. He briefly recalled and found that he had been drunk since the second half of the meal. The previous sleep had helped with his sleep deprivation and had made him feel better. He yawned and saw that Shen Dai didn’t respond. He noticed the black Bluetooth headset on his head.

He smiled mischievously, hugged Shen Dai, and quickly pulled the person into his arms.

Shen Dai was startled and turned back to look immediately. He woke up very early, but he didn’t dare to get up and didn’t dare to make a sound, for fear of waking Qu Moyu up: “You. You are awake.”

Qu Moyu bit his headset and threw it aside: “Why are you so focused?” He glanced lazily at the screen, which was showing a video of panda cubs playing around.

Shen Dai was a little embarrassed: “My grandma likes to watch pandas and I normally save some to send to her.”

“It turns out that Shen Gong likes pandas.” Qu Moyu used his nose to cup Shen Dai’s glands, sniffed carefully, and sighed contentedly.

“Don’t everyone like them?” Shen Dai put down the phone, turned around, took a closer look at Qu Moyu’s face, and smiled, “It looks like you’ve slept enough. Your face looks better.”

It seemed to be a smile that had finally let go of some weight in him, which made Qu Moyu’s heart palpitate slightly. There was a person who even cared about whether he was getting enough sleep. This feeling is really good. He kissed Shen Dai: “I had dinner with a few shareholders last night and I drank too much. It’s been a long time since I stopped drinking that much.”

“You don’t remember anything that happened last night?”

“Anyway, I don’t even remember how I got in the car or how I got home.”

Shen Dai teased him: “Then you don’t remember singing and dancing in the living room and taking off your clothes?”

Qu Moyu was stunned for a moment but immediately saw the sly smile in Shen Dai’s eyes, so he rolled over and pressed down on him to scratch his itch: “Dare to bluff me? Huh? Your courage is not small.”

Shen Dai laughed and begged for mercy and the two of them almost rolled off the bed.

After enough teasing, Qu Moyu was lying beside Shen Dai with his naked chest muscles rising and falling with his breathing. His messy hair fell on his cheeks, his eyes were lazy and sloppy, and he was such a sexy mess. Shen Dai dodges his eyes and he doesn’t dare to talk to him or look at him. But he couldn’t help putting his hand on his waist, resting his head on his arm, feeling the heat from his skin and the happiness surrounded by the ebony pheromones.

This is my alpha, a voice in Shen Dai’s heart spoke.

Seeing Shen Dai obediently lying on his arm, his narrow jaw slightly raised, and his clear eyes constantly peeking and blinking, Qu Moyu felt an itch in his heart. He wanted to go down on him, but he is not in a hurry to do anything. He enjoys this quiet and beautiful morning.

The two sat next to each other in a tacit understanding and no one spoke for a few minutes. There was no awkwardness at all. It was as if their relationship was so comfortable and natural.

After a long time, Qu Moyu said, “I haven’t slept until late for a long time. It’s almost noon.” He didn’t want to look at his phone. Once he knew the time, it seemed that he should get up, but he didn’t want to break the tenderness of the moment.

“Well, it was just to make up for yesterday’s lack of sleep.”

“Did you go home yesterday?”

“I went back, but I came back here right after dinner.”

There was joy in Qu Moyu’s heart: “You’re so obedient.” He stroked Shen Dai’s cheek – it was smooth and warm and it felt very good.

“Did everything … go well yesterday?” Although Shen Dai paid attention to the news and some media, he still asked. He could clearly feel that there were long and short positions in the public opinion. He doesn’t know whether Xingzhou’s public relations managed to stabilise the scene?

“It’s almost as I expected. I will try to eliminate negative voices in the past few days. There will be a three-day buffer. It shouldn’t be too ugly on the opening day. A drop of less than 5% is an ideal result.”

“Then what is your uncle’s reaction?”

Qu Moyu sneered: “He’s still pretending to be a dutiful son.”

Shen Dai was silent for a moment: “I’m very worried about you, Qu Chengchen… has always been malicious.”

“Grandpa is dead, and our contest has officially started. I have always been careful, and I didn’t let them get any clues. The only mistake was that he took away my…” Qu Moyu suddenly felt a little awkward and didn’t want to say ‘fiancee’ or ‘You Baiyue’ in front of Shen Dai.

Shen Dai lowered his eyes.

“No matter what he wants to do, I won’t let any of his plots succeed again.”

Shen Dai whispered, “Everyone has weaknesses.”

“Of course, but how could I let my weakness be exposed to the enemy?”

“I thought of one thing.” Shen Dai said hesitantly, “Spring is here and the weather is getting warmer.”

Qu Moyu looked at Shen Dai quizzically, not knowing what he wanted to say.

“Is your… susceptible period in spring?”

Qu Moyu’s eyes darkened prominently. His eyebrows frowned and he instinctively erected a defensive wall in his heart. After all, the susceptible period is the most fatal weakness of alpha: “Why are you asking this?”

“I mentioned the weakness just now. I thought of it.” Shen Dai also knew that this explanation was a bit lame. He always wanted to find a suitable time, in a suitable context and chat content, without deliberately reminding Qu Moyu to be careful. Unfortunately, the right time has come, but it is not suitable to bring up this sensitive topic.

Qu Moyu looked at Shen Dai silently.

“I heard that the top alpha will spend it in an absolutely safe place during the susceptible period.” Shen Dai felt a little nervous, but he behaved very frankly, “I can only think of your weakness is this. Your enemy can also think of it, I just want to remind you.”

“I have my own safe house.” Qu Moyu didn’t want to continue this topic at all, he got up and sat, “Let’s get up.”

Shen Dai sighed in his heart.

In the last two days of the annual leave, although Qu Moyu was busy outside during the day, Shen Dai would wait for him to come home every night, and naturally stayed in Qu Moyu’s bedroom. The two of them now look like a real couple. They eat, sleep, and work together. After a busy day, they lie in bed or have sex, or hug and chat, and sleep peacefully after saying good night to each other. Humans are gregarious animals. No one can resist the temptation of intimacy. The sense of security and satisfaction of being cared for, warmed, accepted, and seen is really great.

Shen Dai did his best to give Qu Mo his attentiveness, tenderness, understanding, and tolerance. As a mature adult with the ability to love, he used the way he imagined he wanted to be loved, without reservation. He loves Qu Moyu. He believes that all people have feelings and he believes that Qu Moyu at this time must already have his own place in his heart.

But this annual vacation, which was as happy as a dream for Shen Dai, was already over.

On the first day of working again, Shen Dai was sitting in the laboratory preparing to start the day’s work. But he, who didn’t even open a stock account, opened the stock market at 9:30 in the morning on time to see the market of Xingzhou.

The green line is going the way down. Shen Dai stared at it for a few minutes and found that it was useless to look at it like this since it would affect his motivation at work.

“What are you looking at? You looked so focused.” Cheng Zimei asked curiously.

“Looking at our company’s stock.”

“If it goes well, we can get stock rewards this year or next year. It’s been five years since we had one.”

“Yeah, but it’s still falling down now.” Shen Dai couldn’t help but glance at it again. It seems that not much has changed.

“No way, the whole industry is in a downturn right now. The founder passed away a few days ago and many financial bloggers are talking bad about our company.” Cheng Zimei whispered, “You really should pay attention to the stock price, maybe you will have a big share in the future. Since you’re the crown princess.”

“You call me that again, I will…” Shen Dai couldn’t think of anything to threaten Cheng Zimei with for a while.

At this time, Zhou Lan came over with a box of samples: “Senior brother, sister. This was just sent from Gansu. Where do I put it?”

Although Zhou Lan was talking to them, he always avoided contact with Shen Dai in his eyes. Since the incident in the office last time, Zhou Lan has avoided him whenever he can. Young boys are not very good at hiding their emotions. The consensus in the laboratory was that ‘Zhou Lan had no choice but to give up chasing after Shen Dai’. It made Shen Dai feel very embarrassed.

“Let’s put it here.” Fortunately, Cheng Zimei came out of the siege. She also joked, “Wow Xiao Zhou. You dyed your hair. You look very handsome.”

“Thank you, Senior Sister Cheng.” Zhou Lan glanced at Shen Dai hurriedly, touched his own hair, and left with a dry smile.

“What a handsome little guy.” Cheng Zimei said with emotion, “However, if you have slept with the crown prince, how could you possibly see ordinary people and feel for them?”

“It’s not like that. He just wasn’t my type.”

“What type do you like…? Oh, you like Senior Brother Bai’s type, it looks more…” Cheng Zimei laughed wickedly, “It’s a bit pretentious, which is really similar to the crown prince.”

The name Senior Brother Bai is both familiar and distant to Shen Dai. He was an alpha senior he liked very much in college, a student of the teacher, and a top talent of Xingzhou. Now, he is leading a team to do a project in the Gansu mining area all by himself. He is the teacher’s most successful student.

Shen Dai remembered some things from his student days, and he had some nostalgic feelings for youth in his heart. He said helplessly: “That is a self-discipline attitude. How can it be pretentious from your mouth?” After he finished speaking, he also endured it. Unable to slander, Qu Moyu is indeed a bit… pretentious. At least, the Qu Moyu seen by outsiders is completely different from the real Qu Moyu he has come into contact with.

“Yeah, the crown prince must be perfect in your eyes.” Cheng Zimei teased, “Hey, the two of you have warmed up so much in the past year. You have to strike while the iron is still hot.”

A smile appeared on Shen Dai’s face: “I think it’s good now. We are getting to know each other and enhancing our feelings for each other.”

“So let you strike while the iron is hot. You must know that you only have the right time and place, but your trump card is not enough. The crown prince must have feelings for you now, but it’s hard to say how much this relationship has to further develop. To consolidate this relationship, you have to have more advantages.”

Shen Dai felt a little confused.

Cheng Zimei winked at Shen Dai: “Although I don’t know how to deal with a creature like an S-class alpha, human nature is common. You’d better get pregnant with his child while you are in heat and have this lifelong bond-… “

“-Impossible.” Shen Dai’s face changed. It could be said that he looked fierce. The most taboo thing in his life is to do something as greedy, selfish and stupid as what Shen Qin had done. And then let an innocent child bear the consequences. His future child must have a complete family and a generous love from the parents.

Cheng Zimei was stunned for a moment. She quickly realised why Shen Dai was angry, and hurriedly pulled Shen Dai’s arm to act like a coquettish: “I’m sorry Dai Dai. I’m talking nonsense. I was just joking. It was not on purpose.”

Shen Dai took a deep breath: “It’s alright. But don’t say such things again in the future.”​​​​

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Next update: 2022.05.12

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*Translator’s note: Hey, 2nd Male lead was finally mentioned. It’s Senior Brother Bai (Bai Xiangwan). He will appear in later chapters. My heart is already starting to break. The current raw chapters, however, it’s getting exciting for me. I have read until Chapter 89. There have been mixed opinions about this chapter but I personally think it’s exciting and have been waiting for that moment where I know our cuttlefish will hurt a lot hahahahaha! But no spoiler here and I hope no spoiler in the comment section as well ya…Thanks! Lol! It’s very contradicting for me because the part where I’m translating, QMY was still the big ego asshole whereby in the part of the ongoing raw chapters, QMY is still an asshole but with not that big of an ego anymore and he is making an effort to win SD over (kinda miserable in the effort as well because he is not experienced in love I think?). But Shao Qun is still my most hated ML so nevermind… Let’s see where this is going. -K