CH 23

“Teacher Bai, are you there?”

A sudden knock on the door disrupted the silence.

Bai Yuji, the manager, frowned and glanced at Bai Huaiyu.

Bai Huaiyu’s face darkened, not only because he was afraid his earlier words had been overheard, but also because he could never forget that delicate female voice!

Bai Huaiyu gritted his teeth and muttered darkly, “It’s nothing. It must be that female Alpha from the crew who injured me, coming to find me.”

Bai Yuji recalled the name of the Alpha who had injured Bai Huaiyu, someone called Ying Yao. He had conducted a preliminary investigation into the backgrounds of the crew members.

Ying Yao was the daughter of a nouveau riche family who casually purchased a planet, claiming to engage in farming and rural tourism. However, it turned out to be an advanced resource planet with rare energy stones, instantly making her family the most envied nouveau riche in the empire. The profits from the energy stone mine of the nouveau riche in a single month could possibly surpass the annual profits of the Bai family.

As the only daughter of the nouveau riche, Ying Yao was greatly spoiled. This time, she wished to visit the crew to pursue her idols. Her nouveau riche father lavishly invested millions of interstellar credits into the crew, without even considering making a return on the investment.

Although the Bai family looked down on the background of the nouveau riche, having such an obvious “fool with money” sign on their forehead meant that establishing a good relationship would be advantageous and harmless.

Bai Yuji glanced at Bai Huaiyu with a suggestive look and said, “If you want to leave this crew, you can still keep in touch with this Alpha named Ying Yao. After all, she’s still your little fan, right?”

Hearing Bai Yuji utter the words ‘fan’ from his mouth, Bai Huaiyu felt a surge of annoyance, his eyes coldly mocking as he said, “How many Alphas does the Bai family need to satisfy their appetite?”

Bai Yuji’s face instantly flushed red, struck by Bai Huaiyu’s pointed remark, and he retorted angrily, “Isn’t that what you want too?! To cozy up to higher-ranking Alphas, marry into a noble and wealthy family, and become an esteemed person.”

Bai Huaiyu, with his exquisite features, concealed a trace of charm behind his sweet smile, and with a hint of darkness in his eyes, he said, “Indeed, that’s what I want.”

“Well then, get out! Don’t stand in the way of me seducing Alphas!”

At the moment, Bai Yuji couldn’t provoke Bai Huaiyu, so he had no choice but to leave the lounge with a dark expression.

Ying Yao stood at the door, holding her apology gift, her face filled with melancholy as she waited. She could faintly hear a muffled argument from inside, causing her to feel even more anxious and disappointed, lowering her head and staring at her toes.

She was afraid that her idol would be angry, that they wouldn’t even open the door, and that they wouldn’t forgive her.

*Crack.*

The sound of the door opening caught Ying Yao’s attention, and her eyes brightened. She was about to speak, but she ran into Bai Yuji’s dark, brooding face. She instantly shrunk her head back.

Fortunately, the seemingly bad-tempered manager left without saying a word. Ying Yao breathed a sigh of relief, put on a smile, and walked into the lounge, saying, “Teacher Bai, I’ve come to apologize to you.”

As soon as Ying Yao entered the room, she sensed that something was amiss. Bai Huaiyu had always been hailed as a graceful and elegant noble Omega, and his clear almond eyes had charmed not only the rough hearts of many Alphas but also herself.

When she accidentally stumbled upon a Bai Huaiyu advertisement, she couldn’t help but be captivated by his jade-like skin and sparkling almond eyes. What a cute and delicate Omega he was!

Yao’s Alpha heart was immediately struck, transforming her into a die-hard fan of Bai Huaiyu. She watched all of his movies and speeches, becoming completely infatuated.

However, the present Bai Huaiyu looked nothing like the person on the screen. Yao’s bewildered eyes paused for a moment, and then she squinted, carefully examining him.

At this moment, Bai Huaiyu appeared as desolate as a black lotus growing in the mud. He casually rested his hand on his chin, his pale lips tinged with a blood-like hue. His almond eyes were filled with malicious contempt as he coldly sneered, “What’s wrong? Can’t my little fan recognize me?”

Ying Yao: “!!!!” His appearance hadn’t changed, but he didn’t resemble her idol at all!

The pure and cool little white lotus had transformed into a malevolent and soaked black lotus, emanating an enigmatic and completely different aura that was impossible to comprehend.

Shaking her head, Yao forced a silly smile and approached with a gift in her hand. “Teacher Bai, this is a gift I specially prepared for you. I spent several days on it, but now it has become a way to apologize…”

Yao felt disheartened for half a second but quickly regained her spirit. “But it’s okay. I will prepare more gifts for Teacher Bai in the future!”

Without even glancing at the so-called gift, Bai Huaiyu fixed his gaze on Yao, smirking maliciously. “Come closer. You wanted to make amends, right? Do you think a mere gift is enough to make up for it? I’ve lost so much face on set.”

Yao nervously and guiltily approached, resembling a child who had done something wrong. Her watery eyes held a touch of pity.

“Teacher Bai, what do you want me to do? As long as you calm down, I’ll do anything.”

Bai Huaiyu’s cold smile remained unchanged. As Yao drew near, he lightly tugged at the corner of the pheromone-masking patch, releasing a rich, alluring fragrance of white roses mixed with another peculiar and mysterious scent. It captures one’s consciousness, trapping them in a hedonistic illusion from which they couldn’t escape, step by step succumbing to becoming a captive manipulated by Bai Huaiyu at his whims.

Yao’s watery eyes seemed to be veiled in a mist, hazy like the misty rain in the south.

With a victorious smile, Bai Huaiyu licked his lips and teased, “I heard that the sound of an Alpha’s forehead being knocked is quite loud. You caused me to bump my head, so why don’t you let me hear the sound of your forehead?”

“…O-Okay.”

Trembling, Yao’s coquettish voice agreed, and Bai Huaiyu thought that this was how Yao normally spoke. He found it amusing as he watched Yao comply.

“Smack—”

“Smack—”

Ying Yao obediently slapped his forehead, again and again, producing a crisp sound that seemed to resonate with pain.

The clear sound of her tapping forehead filled Bai Huaiyu’s heart with an extraordinary sense of satisfaction. He enjoyed seeing these haughty Alphas willingly lowering themselves for him, their eyes crazily infatuated!

The crisp sound of his forehead brought a particularly delightful mood to Bai Huaiyu. He enjoyed watching these high and mighty Alphas willingly lower themselves and become infatuated with him!

“Smack— sob, sob…”

Before long, the crisp slapping sound was accompanied by the sound of crying, the delicate and timid sob sounding especially pitiful.

Bai Huaiyu sensed that something was wrong when he noticed tears streaming down Ying Yao’s bright watery eyes. Unlike the other Alphas he had previously enchanted with his pheromones, their eyes filled with insane desire and repulsive obsession, Ying Yao’s gaze remained clear and sober.

This realization startled Bai Huaiyu, his eyes filled with astonishment as he looked at the still tearful Ying Yao. Trembling, he asked with trembling lips, “Are you conscious?”

This question seemed somewhat unnecessary.

With red-rimmed eyes and teardrops clinging to his eyelashes, Ying Yao muttered in a mournful and aggrieved tone, “Of course, I’m conscious.”

Bai Huaiyu couldn’t believe it. He grabbed Ying Yao’s wrist to make her stop, his heart in turmoil as he urgently asked, “Then why are you willing to listen to me?”

Blushing and shy, Ying Yao said, “Isn’t it because I want Teacher Bai to forgive me? I don’t want to make you angry…”

Bai Huaiyu’s eyes went blank, like he was lost in another world. He thought his heart, once tainted and frozen, had completely turned cold. But suddenly, a strange warmth surged through him, as if a frozen snake had been dipped into warm water. The venomous serpent, cautious and alert, felt incredibly out of place in the harmless warmth.

As he glanced at Ying Yao once more, Bai Huaiyu’s gaze turned intense and peculiar.

— So, it wasn’t that Ying Yao’s eyes were truly enchanted by his pheromones; rather, this little crybaby was so upset that her eyes seemed misted with tears.

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