CH 125

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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Shen Dai pushed the stroller and walked quickly across the corridor of the hospital. Qu Moyu followed him within a few steps, wanting to take the handle of the stroller: “Come on.The driver is waiting at the entrance.”

“No. I’m going to the garden of the hospital. It is very beautiful. I’ll take Qiuqiu for a walk.”

“Then I’ll accompany you.”

“Aren’t you going to a meeting?” Qu Moyu had just answered Cheng Ruoze’s call before. But he decided to also go for a walk since Shen Dai just said he didn’t want to take his car.

“The meeting is not as important as taking a walk with my family.” Qu Moyu sent Cheng Ruoze a WeChat message – Postpone the meeting.

Shen Dai said helplessly: “Okay.”

At this time, the sun was about to go down. It was not very sunny and hot. The garden in the rehabilitation area of ​​the hospital was very cool. The landscape was created by a first-class team of gardeners in China. People like to come here to get some fresh air. In the past, there were young girls who came here to take pictures, but later they closed it from outsiders for fear of them disturbing the patient.

Shen Dai recalled pushing his grandmother on the wheelchair as he took her out for a walk before. They would find a shady bench and would sit there to get some fresh air and bask in the sun. They would chat a few words from time to time. More than once, his grandmother could feel the vitality of nature.

Accompanied by the breeze of the fragrance of flowers and plants, Shen Dai seemed to see his grandmother’s loving appearance again.

“Ah Dai?” Qu Moyu called out to him twice and discovered that Shen Dai was in a daze.

Shen Dai came back to his senses: “What’s the matter?”

“Do you want to sit here?” Qu Moyu pointed to the bench beside him.

“Okay.” Shen Dai walked over and sat down. “Every time I push my grandma out, I always sit here.”

Qu Moyu also sat down. He turned the stroller around and let Qiuqiu face them. Qiuqiu looked at the two of them and grinned.

Qu Moyu skillfully took out the small feeding bottle from the babysitter’s bag, opened the lid and fed Qiuqiu some water. Meanwhile, Shen Dai prepared a saliva towel in advance and wiped his mouth after he finished drinking.

When Shen Dai realized how tacit the understanding between the two of them, he was slightly startled. He looked at Qu Moyu’s hand that was playing with the bottle. They were slender, powerful, and capable hands. These hands often wore  expensive watches, they would extend the cuffs of suits, or hold a pen to sign gracefully. They would also hold electronic equipment while working or flipping through pages of documents. Hands are the most flexible and widely used parts of the human body. At this time, they are separated from all work scenes and are holding a small baby bottle. Just this partial picture can make people feel countless warm reveries.

This S-class alpha was using the hand that signed a billion-dollar contract to hold a bottle for his child. Shen Dai suddenly received an indescribable shock deep inside him.

“He’s drinking so much.” Qu Moyu shook the small bottle, “He can really eat, drink and pull. Just like a pig.”

“Otherwise, how would he grow up?” Shen Dai wiped Qiuqiu’s mouth, “You… must have been like this when you were a child.”

Qu Moyu smiled and said, “That’s true. If he is an omega, it would be easier to raise him just like when you were a child.”

“Maybe.”

“I don’t know. I have never raised an omega.” Qu Moyu quietly leaned next to Shen Dai’s shoulder as he teased, “You give birth to one and we will raise one together.”

Shen Dai sat up straight and ignored him.

“Ah Dai, are you angry?” Qu Moyu observed Shen Dai’s expression without hesitation, “You don’t like what the doctor said?”

“No.” Shen Dai folded the saliva towel and put it in his bag. He then turned to look directly into Qu Moyu’s eyes, “I’ve been thinking about how we should get along with each other for a while now.”

This time it was Qu Moyu’s turn to sit up straight. He was nervous.

“From the time I came back up to now… For a long time, I wanted to distance myself from you and prevent Qiuqiu from getting closer to you. It is because I couldn’t get rid of the things that had happened in the past. And I didn’t dare to think about it. What kind of harm will it bring us?”

Qu Moyu hurriedly defended: “Ah Dai…”

“Listen to me.” Shen Dai interrupted him, “But now, as you said, Qiuqiu is already relying on you. And his custody rights are also in your Qu family’s hands. He will need a lot of education funds in the future. With the superior environment, resources, and opportunities. I once thought of taking him away and running away, but now it seems unrealistic. I can’t deprive him of everything he could have had. So, the relationship between us that I can think of is… …simply Qiuqiu’s AO parents.”

Qu Moyu was silent for a few seconds. He then calmly said, “I don’t understand these words at all. You are talking about the relationship between the two of us, but you kept mentioning Qiuqiu in every sentence. It was as if… if there is no Qiuqiu, there will be nothing between us.”

“The truth is…”

“The truth is that with or without Qiuqiu, I will still look for you. I will still keep you by my side and I will still promise you a lifetime together.” Qu Moyu stared at Shen Dai, “But you don’t believe me. I love our child because I love you. It was not because you gave birth to the perfect heir.”

“If there is no Qiuqiu, you will find an S-class omega to give birth to a child for you. This is what you said yourself.”

“I said a lot of stupid things. Some are even stupider than this.” Qu Moyu smiled bitterly, “You don’t believe me now because of that and I really asked for it myself.”

“That was not stupid. That was just you weighing for the best choice.”

“Ah Dai.” Qu Moyu adjusted his breathing and clasped his fingers. His eyes looked deep in thought. “Let’s have a conversation as smart and mature adults. I will be 100% honest. So are you. Okay?”

“Okay.”

“Humans are made up of sensibility and rationality. The education I received since I was a child is to let rationality dominate over feelings. I will try to reduce or even kill the influence of sensibility on judgment. Therefore, in the initial relationship between us, although I like you, I didn’t think that the feelings were important. The consequence of ignoring the power of emotion is that I have suffered a huge backlash from it. The more suppressed I am, the stronger the outburst will be. I have to accept that I am also a human being and I am just like every ordinary person. I want to be with the person I love.” Qu Moyu paused for a while. When he analyzed himself, it was like reading a book. He was both engaged and withdrawn, “At that time, my reason and emotions were at a war. It was like what you said… I was weighing. I raised the stake a little bit, testing your bottom line. I wanted to spend the least sum for what I wanted. This is human nature. So at first I thought I wanted to keep the two of you. So I wanted you to compromise and bring Qiuqiu back to me so that you would be my mistress and he would be my illegitimate child.”

Shen Dai’s face did not show much expression, but he listened to every word carefully.

“But I soon found out that the compromise was not enough. So I broke off the engagements. Then I took you home and I wanted to marry you. And then I wanted to ‘mark’ you. But in the end, I wanted to just give you whatever you want.” Qu Moyu smiled, “It’s such a game between people. I’ve never discussed such a ‘powerless and humiliating’ contract before. You are the toughest opponent I’ve ever encountered. And you’ve won all my chips.”

“I didn’t want to win anything.”

“That’s the crux of the problem. You don’t want to win. You also don’t care about losing. On the battlefield, it’s probably… the one who is least afraid of death would be the most likely to win.” Qu Moyu looked into Shen Dai’s eyes with a kind of look that showed his… amazement, “Most omegas will just accept my preconditions. It was good enough for them. But you didn’t compromise even one bit. You persisted to the end, so I’m a little bit at a loss. I lost all my chips. You defeated me. You defeated the S-class alpha. And as the only opponent who has beaten me, you have won my love and respect.”

Shen Dai shook his head and sighed. He was just about to refute these messy theories when he suddenly recalled what You Baiyue had once said to himself. He said that the real top predator is the one who can tame the S-class alpha.

“I know what you are thinking. You think these words sound absurd. You are just afraid of being used and hurt by me again. So you instinctively reject me. But in my opinion, you have never stopped playing with me. You are also weighing and betting, including what you said about our ‘getting along’ just now.” Qu Moyu’s body leaned forward. His bottomless pupils only reflected Shen Dai’s face, “You like me but you are also afraid of me. You couldn’t put your trust in me but you also couldn’t get rid of me. So you are repeatedly pulling and verifying whether I am sincere or not.”

Shen Dai was silent. Perhaps in his subconscious, he was just as what Qu Moyu had said – playing a game. His resentment and fear of Qu Moyu… And also his love and admiration for Qu Moyu exist side by side. But he must suppress all his feelings in exchange for safety and dignity. In the game with an S-class alpha, if he took a wrong step, the price to pay is beyond redemption.

“Do you know how humans domesticated wolves in ancient times?” Qu Moyu smiled lightly, “They killed the wild and hard to tame ones. And then they left those who were willing to cooperate to live. As for you, if I didn’t hand over all the chips, If I hadn’t been completely tamed by you, you would rather ‘kill’ me.”

Shen Dai took a deep breath: “I just know that I don’t want anything from you.”

“The most important thing is to know yourself and the enemy. So you have won.” Qu Moyu said. His eyes were looking gentle and firm, “Ah Dai, I’m asking you again. What do I have to do for you to forgive me? You are the only one who tames me. I will keep expressing my loyalty and surrender to you. And what I want is just for you to be my omega and my wife. It doesn’t matter if you can’t accept this for a while. We’ll let it get there little by little. I will definitely achieve my goal.”

Shen Dai was stunned. Now he can’t tell who is the hunter and who is the prey. He only knows that he and Qu Moyu are destined to be entangled for a lifetime.

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Next update: 2022.09.28