Chapter 14

Chu Yue stood up and walked around the desk, her fingers slowly gliding across the smooth, mirror-like surface. She said, "Last time you said you liked the tranquility of small cities, which is why you left headquarters. Now that you've achieved your wish and even bought a house with a loan, why are you applying for a transfer? Do you think Shantou isn't remote enough and want to go to the more remote Northwest or Southeast Asia?"

Ji Mingfei took a step back, holding onto the table.

"Are these the only two places we can go to?" she asked.

Chu Yue was speechless. This woman's focus was never on what she meant!

"Yes, are you still going?" Chu Yue asked her with a displeased expression.

Not only are the conditions harsh in both places, but daily communication with the locals is also a problem. If it's an engineering project, they'll have to live in mobile prefabricated houses that are freezing in winter and sweltering in summer.

Ji Mingfei looked down at her stomach and shook her head in resistance.

Seeing her reaction, Chu Yue's lips curled slightly. Manipulating a naive omega was much easier than negotiating a multi-million dollar project. She walked up to Ji Mingfei, leaned down, and whispered in her ear in a suggestive tone, "Why did you run away just now?"

Ji Mingfei was forced to lean back, almost sitting on the desk, and said with her arms tightly crossed over her chest, "I... I never thought about finding a stepmother for my child!"

Just when she was about to give up, Chu Yue suddenly grabbed her waist from behind and pulled her up, saying, "Start thinking about it now."

"This... I can't even imagine it." The most successful alpha that Ji Mingfei had ever talked to was only a team leader. The level of general manager was too science fiction for her.

A relationship between people from unequal social classes is destined to fail. She has already failed many times and must not fall in the same place a eighth time.

"Why wouldn't you dare? Have I done anything to make you feel insecure?" Chu Yue was genuinely asking the question seriously. However, she had an overly flamboyant face, and at such a young age, she held a high position. Just standing there, she exuded "unrestrained and freedom-loving" from head to toe.

"You're threatening me with this recording," Ji Mingfei said softly, her voice filled with grievance, stubbornness, and defiance of authority.

Lost in her own world, Chu Yue was taken aback by Ji Mingfei's straightforward answer. After a brief silence, she retorted, "If I said I did this to make you admit you don't have an alpha at all, would you believe me?"

Ji Mingfei shook his head repeatedly, speaking in the most cowardly tone but with the most merciless words, "You said 'just in case,' you're afraid I'll do something bad to you."

"..."

Chu Yue did indeed have this in mind when she initially asked her assistant to investigate Ji Mingfei.

But now—

She loved the honey-like scent of Ji Mingfei's pheromones on her neck, loved how she would burrow into her arms when she had nowhere to escape, and loved how she would plead with her to be gentler when her eyes were red.

She wanted all of her, not just a one-night stand.

Unfortunately, the little omega who had deliberately walked into her shooting range and caused such a stir left without looking back after having his fun.

"I helped you this time, how do you plan to repay me?"

Alpha's pride would not allow her to sit idly by and wait for her doom!

Ji Mingfei didn't understand Chu Yue's words and cautiously asked, "What do you mean?"

Chu Yue reminded her, "You asked me for a temporary tag during your heat."

"..."

Is this a help?!

Caught in a dilemma, Ji Mingfei asked timidly, "What do you want...?"

Chu Yue deliberately made an unreasonable request to test Ji Mingfei, "Next time, you help me."

Ji Mingfei blinked her innocent big eyes at her, "Help you with what?"

"..."

For the first time, Chu Yue found the taciturn omega really difficult to deal with. She licked her sexy red lips, awkwardly shifting her gaze away from Ji Mingfei's face, and said with difficulty, "On my sensitive period, I also want you to be with me."

"Wait a moment." Ji Mingfei took out his phone, opened Baidu in front of Chu Yue, and typed in "vulnerable period". A lot of detailed information popped up on the page.

Chu Yue glanced at Ji Mingfei, then at the contents of her phone, "..."

"Oh...so alphas can go into heat too!" Ji Mingfei exclaimed repeatedly, as if he had opened the door to a new world.

Standing in front of her, Chu Yue was both amused and exasperated, and asked, "What did you do during high school physiology class?"

“I didn’t hear anything about the alpha,” Ji Mingfei, a pragmatist, said matter-of-factly.

"Didn't your former alpha teach you anything?" Chu Yue blurted out, inadvertently crossing the line. She then added, "Sorry, I take that back."

Ji Mingfei didn't mind talking about her ex. She smiled and avoided Chu Yue's gaze, saying, "Apart from this child, nothing else progressed to that point before we broke up."

Chu Yue, who knew the whole story better than her, echoed with "I see," and then fell silent.

"I agree to your conditions." Ji Mingfei suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. Compared to the on-again, off-again nature of love, an AO relationship where both parties get what they want is much more reliable. Moreover, her current physical condition clearly requires the soothing effects of pheromones more than Chu Yue's.

"Do we need to draft a contract?" Chu Yue asked, surprised but out of professional habit.

“If you feel it’s necessary, I don’t mind.” Ji Mingfei was also an easy-going person.

Chu Yue opened her phone's notes app and continued, "What requests can I make?"

"After giving birth, I want to go back to the marketing department." Ji Mingfei was afraid that having a child would affect her future career, as the salary in the general affairs department was simply not enough to provide her child with the best life.

Chu Yue nodded and noted it down, but said, "The company won't use having a baby to hold you back, but you must pass the marketing department's assessment."

“I know.” Ji Mingfei’s eyes shone.

Chu Yue looked up and asked, "Aside from work, what other requirements do you have?"

Ji Mingfei shook his head, satisfied. "That's all."

Chu Yue paused briefly, put down her phone, extended her hand to Ji Mingfei, and said, "It's a pleasure working with you."

Ji Mingfei nervously grasped the other person's hand. At this moment, she was unaware that her life choice, which went against the grain of worldly conventions, was quietly unfolding in a way that led to the same goal.

"When is your next vulnerable period?" Ji Mingfei finally remembered to ask this question.

Chu Yue looked up and recalled, "Soon."

"Then let me know in advance when the day arrives," Ji Mingfei said innocently.

Chu Yue watched her quietly, gradually suppressing the desire in her eyes. Her fertile period? Before Ji Mingfei entered her life, she had never known she had that kind of thing; work was her whole life.

"Would you like to come to my house for dinner tonight?" Chu Yue suddenly invited Ji Mingfei.

Ji Mingfei hesitated for a moment, then said, "Okay."

Chu Yue closed her eyes briefly, her long eyelashes revealing unfathomable depths. Things were progressing faster than expected, smoothly without any challenges.