Chapter 89
Still no news from the general.
Ever since she saw the news that day, Shi Yu had been anxiously awaiting the developments. She figured the general would be very busy recently, and not wanting to bother him, she hadn't contacted him. She would only occasionally anxiously ask Rein about the situation, and she would punctually check in on the news at the website every day.
However, a few days ago there was a notice regarding the military's secret recommendation incident, but in recent days there has been no such notice at all.
Shi Yu originally thought that the matter was resolved this time, but when she asked Mr. Rain, the answer she got was still very conservative.
"The general still needs time."
Shi Yu believed in the general unconditionally, and no matter how much he worried, it would be useless at this moment, so he could only wait with a vague sense of uneasiness.
When she spoke to Noah again, Shi Yu was still sitting on the sofa watching the news. It seemed that a family had recently held a large-scale parade to preach. She listened to some of the news reports, but really didn't understand, so she changed the channel helplessly.
"Hmm? I remember this voice..."
Noah stopped flipping pages and spoke thoughtfully.
Shi Yu: “Huh?”
Puzzled, she scrolled back to the page and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, it's just that this voice reminded me of someone." Noah smiled, not wanting to expand on the topic. "Okay, I'll continue reading."
Shi Yu didn't suspect anything, but she didn't listen to Noah's story very attentively. She scrolled up and down the page, hoping to find some information about the general, but it was useless. She gave up the search in exhaustion, and finally the page automatically stopped at the previous headline.
Shi Yu lowered his head and took a look with a lack of interest, and it happened that the protagonist in the video had silver hair.
...silver hair?
"Noah," Shigure enlarged the image in surprise, then returned to the page to carefully examine the title. Suddenly, a sense of disbelief emerged in his heart that a celebrity actually existed next to him. "Were these recent speeches promoting the protection of natural and cultural heritage organized by your family?"
Moreover, the female Alpha in the white suit in the video looks so familiar... She has sharp brow bones, deep facial features, but her eyes are beautiful and charming peach blossom eyes. Have I seen her somewhere before?
"Yes, that's right."
Noah responded.
"That's amazing!" Shi Yu asked excitedly, "Is the female Alpha speaker in the headline video also from your family? What's your relationship with her?"
"I haven't watched the news yet," Noah thought for a moment, then said, "but I think the person you're referring to is my aunt."
"aunt?"
Shi Yu was stunned for a moment, a sense of disobedience filling her heart. She didn't realize what was wrong for a moment, and reflexively asked, "Is this your second aunt?"
"Um?"
Shi Yu tried to sort out the chaotic thoughts in his mind and asked again: "I mean, do you have two aunts?"
After a long pause, Noah sighed slightly and told her.
“I only have one aunt, Shigure.”
Noah's tone was a little serious, as if he was telling her to listen carefully. Perhaps it was because he was busy with too many family affairs, but the boy's voice seemed full of fatigue and helplessness that Shi Yu couldn't understand.
Shi Yu didn't say anything else.
After the stipulated time was up, she hung up the phone before Noah.
Rona had changed her work number a long time ago, and she hadn't contacted Rona for a long time. Fortunately, Mr. Rain had a backup. Shi Yu didn't tell him the real reason, but just stammered and found an excuse to ask him, and then successfully got Rona's current number.
She was a little nervous before making the call. After the phone rang several times, she finally heard a familiar voice coming from the receiver.
"Officer Rain, what's going on? Is there something wrong with Shigure?"
"Mr. Rona," Shi Yu said muffledly, "It's me, Shi Yu."
"...Ah, Shigure." Rona breathed a sigh of relief and turned to ask the girl over there with concern, "It's been a while. How have you been recently? Are you okay now?"
Hearing Rona's worried inquiry, Shi Yu somehow remembered the many troubles she had caused him. The general and Lei Yin were still busy with their work and sometimes couldn't take care of her, but Rona had accompanied her all the way from the nursing home to now. It was not an exaggeration to say that he was her second parent.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a little depressed. After a moment's pause, she said, "I'm fine... But Mr. Rona, I want to ask, Miss Monica, who is responsible for following up on my life, is one of her parents a noble?"
"Why are you asking that all of a sudden?... Let me think about it. Based on my understanding, there shouldn't be any." Rona thought for a moment before giving a definitive answer and smiling, "My colleagues' situations are basically the same as mine. Some have slightly better family backgrounds, but they're far from being nobles."
"Is she silver-haired?"
"She has short brown hair, right? You'll know after you video chat with her once."
"...Thank you, Mr. Rona." Upon hearing this news, Shi Yu suppressed his emotions, took a deep breath, and then asked: "I want to ask one more question. Can I still exchange you for my contact?"
"What's wrong?" Rona was startled by the girl's sudden response. "Is Monica not caring enough about you? You can explain the reason to me and I'll give you feedback."
"No," she shook her head repeatedly. She was a little upset, but being treated with such concern and concern only deepened the feeling of blockage in her heart. "It's just that, sir, my contact person is not Miss Monica at all. I have never spoken to her."
"Did you know about this?"
Hearing Shi Yu's words, Rona's tone became serious. "Hasn't anyone contacted you this week? Wait a minute, I'll contact Monica to ask about the situation."
"Someone contacted me..." Shigure read out the name, "It's Noah Sturga."
On the other side of the receiver, Rona's voice suddenly fell silent.
"Noah told me that Monica is his aunt's child, and because she couldn't get a visa, she asked him to contact me."
——But Noah’s aunt is an Alpha, how could she have a child with a different last name?
When she said that name, Shi Yu could no longer suppress her anger and grievance at being deceived. She was so angry that she choked up slightly, like a child who had been bullied outside and couldn't help but go home to tell her parents the whole sad story: "He lied to me, I kept saying I hated him, I hated him. He called me every day, and I knew I shouldn't have trusted him. I shouldn't have communicated with him so much from the beginning..."
The comfort and companionship on her birthday, the stories he told her to sleep several times, his intimacy during their first phone call and his subsequent coldness.
Shi Yu has always been wary and suspicious of Noah, but when she finally let down her guard and suddenly realized that everything was a lie made up by the other party, she felt great grievance and fear.
If it wasn't a request from a family member, then why had Noah approached her? What was his purpose? Would he bully her like he had during training?
"Shi Yu... listen to me first." Rona spoke dryly. Shi Yu sobbed and said "hmm", trying her best to calm her inner emotions.
"Did the man named Noah say anything to you?" Rona asked.
He tried to get close to me and told me a lot of stories!
Shi Yu replied angrily, "I did, but I didn't say anything useful!"
"...Shigure, there's something I must tell you."
Rona took off his glasses and ruffled his hair tiredly. The documents in front of him piled up like a mountain. He had been in this state ever since he rejected the suggestion of the head of the Sturga family on his behalf. His work location was transferred to a remote star field, with a lot of miscellaneous tasks, which had little to do with his previous work content. He often fell into the dilemma of being unable to display his experience and talents.
But he still had the belief and responsibility to care for Omegas, and never vented his resentment for falling into such a situation on Shi Yu. It was just at this moment that he hesitated whether to tell her the truth.
Rona knew what the general meant. As long as they could endure this period of time, Sturga would not be able to continue to be so arrogant, and he would return to his original position. But if they kept it a secret like this, Shi Yu would not be mentally prepared at all. If that family planned to take other actions in the future, she might be hurt again.
"You talk, I'm listening." Shi Yu said.
Rona hesitated for a moment, then made up his mind: "Noah contacted you this way because of the physical examinations you had before your birthday. You are now an adult, and your physical data will be automatically entered into the matching database."
When Shi Yu heard this, he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
"And your compatibility with Noah Sturga is a whopping 99.8 percent," Ronawei paused, adding helplessly, "According to federal marriage law, you and Noah are obligated to enter a two-month trial marriage period."
Shi Yu's breath was slightly choked, and she said hurriedly: "But I don't want to..."
"You don't want to. Officer Rein and I both know that, and so does the General."
Rona's voice was slightly hoarse, and he smiled and comforted her, "The General will take care of this matter. I just want you not to trust that Sturga Alpha too much, and don't panic too much."
"So... is this his purpose?" Shi Yu was incredulous, her heart sinking slightly. "Is it because she wants to try marriage with me?"
Even Shi Yu himself found it ridiculous.
He had only met her a few times and treated her like that in the beginning. How did he get the confidence to make her agree to enter a trial marriage period after just a few phone calls?
"He replaced Miss Monica just to get in touch with me. You and I are very familiar with each other... He won't start with you." Shi Yu muttered, his thoughts in disarray. Then he suddenly asked, "Mr. Rona, was he the one who got you transferred?"
"This..." Rona was speechless.
"Is it him?!"
"Shi Yu, calm down." Rona tried to calm her down. "It's okay. I'll be back soon. Then..."
The fog that had been shrouding my heart finally dissipated.
Rona's resignation gave Noah the opportunity to replace him. Mr. Rona had always been in contact with the general. The reason why he suddenly resigned without making any mistakes was because something happened to the general and he could no longer take care of Rona and find room for him to turn around.
The clues in her mind gradually became clearer, and all the abnormalities had reasonable explanations. Shi Yu was almost on the verge of crying. Rona was still here to comfort her, but she had already switched pages, found the news she had saved about the general, and searched for the name "Leon Sheffield".
This was the congressman who was reported in the news and was said to have colluded with the general to falsify the military recruitment list. She had always been worried about the general, but had never paid any attention to this name.
When Shi Yu clicked on the information displayed on the search page and saw the entry related to "Stuerga" in the relationship chain, his heart skipped a beat.
Mr. Rain wasn't here, so she couldn't confirm it with him, but his busyness over the past two weeks, and his late return home on his birthday... were they all because of Noah?
Shi Yu felt like a prey stuck in a spider web, suddenly sinking into a hopeless whirlpool, with a feeling of suffocation filling his chest.
The small affection she had for Noah a few days ago disappeared completely. When she recalled the week she had spoken to him, Shi Yu was left with only fear and terror. Even that time's companionship in the dark seemed to have ulterior motives.
But at eight o'clock in the evening, she still answered Noah's call on time.
She wanted to find an answer and wonder if it was because of her that everyone around her was implicated.
Still want to know...
When the call was answered, the girl was silent for a long time, but Noah did not show any surprise. He was calm and greeted her as usual.
"Is this our last call, Shigure?"
He seemed to have realized something and asked with a hint of regret.
"Is it you...?" Shi Yu suppressed the trembling in his voice and accused him, "You have been lying to me all this time and causing trouble for the people around me, right?"
"Do you think so?"
"What else? I already know everything. You just want to enter with me..."
Shi Yu stuttered, the words "trial marriage period" stuck in her throat. She was a little embarrassed and couldn't say it, so she said, "I will never trust you again, and I will not agree to any of your applications!"
Noah was puzzled. "Are you saying that the reason I'm doing all this is to enter a trial marriage with you? That's certainly my family's expectation of me, but is that also my personal wish? Are you clear?"
Shi Yu: "...Are you still lying to me?"
Noah chuckled helplessly.
"I never lied to you, Shigure." The boy's voice was gentle and patient. He was like a teacher troubled by a problem student, breaking down the information that the other person was unwilling to accept and passing it on to her.
"Did I ever tell you that being constantly alert is a good thing?"
"I could have had a better, more covert way to approach you, but my approach was full of loopholes. A simple check with the staff at the Protection Center would have revealed the problem. And wasn't the key to your discovery precisely because I admitted that [I only have one aunt]?"
He knows everything—
Shi Yu pursed his lips and looked at the terminal in his hand warily, as if there was a demon king living in it who could control people's hearts.
"So," Noah hesitated for a moment and sighed, "Would you like to hear my advice, Shigure?"
"If you can accept that, I think it will be good for both of us."
The author has something to say:
Start cheating on your wife!
Noah prioritizes efficiency and plans to trick the girl into a trial marriage period first. He is confident that he can make the girl fall in love with him in two months.
But I won’t tell you who finally fell.
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