Chapter 48 Chapter 48 Breakup Digging Glands
Of course the slap didn't land.
Because the drunkard had been cursing since he crawled in, Xiao Qingyang thought Pei Shuyu and Lu Hean were fighting outside. He chased them outside and saw that it was indeed the case!
The ending was also baffling.
Pei Shuyu was carried back by Xiao Qingyang and Fu Zhouxing, while Lu Hean was taken away by Yu Jingheng.
There were three people in the car, and Fu Zhouxing was driving.
Because his driving skills were very steady, Pei Shuyu wanted to take a nap.
Xiao Qingyang has something to say about someone's speech tonight.
"Tell me what's going on."
Pei Shuyu had been resting his eyes, but when he heard him ask, he opened his eyes and asked, "What did you say?"
Xiao Qingyang sat up and asked, "Speaking of you and Lu He'an, you don't have any thoughts about him falling in love with you at first sight?"
"No." Pei Shuyu was not interested and thought that Xiao Qingyang could spit out ivory from his dog's mouth.
Xiao Qingyang looked at him, blinking. Something was wrong. Judging from Lu Hean's reaction today, he must have truly lost his memory. This kid, even with his memory loss, still harbors lustful desires. He's certainly not a good person. And Pei Shuyu, too. Does he still love her or not? It was so frustrating. He couldn't tell at all.
So, he placed his hopes on Fu Zhouxing for the answer.
Fu Zhouxing sensed a burning gaze and saw Xiao Qingyang staring at him through the rearview mirror.
When talking to Xiao Qingyang, Fu Zhouxing spoke very frankly.
"Guan Zicen was able to get out because Pei Shuyu went to Lu He'an and used this to threaten Qiao Zhishi."
Hearing the answer, Xiao Qingyang leaned back, "Oh, so that's how it is."
There was a rare moment of silence in the car.
Then, like an NPC who had just figured out the relationships between the characters, Xiao Qingyang shouted, "Damn! When did you find it? How come I didn't know?!"
Fu Zhouxing: "You're so stupid that you'd rather die..."
Before they knew it, they had arrived at Pei Shuyu's home and Fu Zhouxing stopped the car.
Pei Shuyu had already gotten off the car, but Xiao Qingyang was still struggling with their current relationship.
"Fu Zhouxing, do you think Pei Shuyu is still in love? Otherwise, things like secretly photographing Lu Hean can be left to others!" At this point, Xiao Qingyang emphasized: "Tsk tsk tsk, I think he is still in love."
Someone was being clever for once. Fu Zhouxing flicked the rearview mirror, not intending to respond. Even someone as stubborn as Xiao Qingyang could sense it, so how could Pei Shuyu, the person involved, really not feel it?
Fu Zhouxing also knew a little about their breakup. After all, their journey together was so tortuous.
The two of them were always flirting with each other, and everyone in Sevan knew about it.
So when he later heard that Pei Shuyu had initiated the breakup, he was quite shocked. Several people had tried to stop them before, but they hadn't broken up yet. He hadn't expected that a marriage alliance would make Pei Shuyu give up Lu Hean. If they had known this would separate the two, why had they gone through so much trouble in the first place?
Fu Zhouxing had also asked about Pei Shuyu's hand injury. Pei Shuyu didn't want to talk about it, but after all, their roommate was Xiao Qingyang. Xiao Qingyang couldn't control his mouth, so he recounted the entire incident in vivid detail in the dormitory that day, giving Fu Zhouxing a general idea.
What a cliché drama: you love me but I don’t love you, and when I love you, you are engaged to someone else.
It's really sad.
Only after seeing the light in Pei Shuyu's room come on did Fu Zhouxing start the car again.
The silver-white car body cast a white afterimage in the thick night. Xiao Qingyang hurriedly fastened his seat belt in the back seat and yelled, "Fu Zhouxing! Drive slower!"
…
Pei Shuyu started taking a shower as soon as he got home. His body was covered with all kinds of smells, all of which he had picked up in the bar.
The one with the strongest presence is Lu Hean's flavor.
The hot water flowed down his hair, onto his neck and onto the floor. He turned off the power and reached for a towel. He caught a glimpse of the scar on his palm, startled.
In fact, Pei Shuyu had suffered many injuries, but only this scar remained.
If I hadn't stopped Lu Hean at that time, Lu Hean would be an ordinary beta now.
Xiao Qingyang also advised Pei Shuyu to undergo scar repair surgery, but he was unwilling.
This is all he has.
During the initial quarrel, the glass dolphin was accidentally broken. Pei Shuyu himself did not expect that he could see the sadness in Lu Hean's eyes that time.
Later, the ceramic doll that the two of them made together was also broken.
During the days when he locked himself up, he was not trying to let go of the fact that Lu Hean had a fiancée with compatible pheromones, but to make himself accept the fact that Lu Hean was finally saved.
When the news reported that the two were a perfect match, his first reaction was happiness.
On the day President Lu asked him to meet, the other document he gave him was Lu Hean's physical examination report.
It clearly says "Pheromone Disorder".
In other words, without the omega's pheromone comfort, Lu Hean might die during his susceptible period.
"Pei Shuyu, do you want to let Lu Hean gamble his life for your own selfish desires?" President Lu said to him while standing in front of the one-way glass.
The defense he had just erected, and the retorts he had thought of before coming here, were all useless. He had originally planned to let President Lu say something to separate them, and then he would just throw it all out. Lu Hean could resist for him, so he should do something too.
But seeing with his own eyes that Lu Hean was in a susceptible period and was in great pain without an omega to comfort him, he looked like he was about to die.
Pei Shuyu couldn't help but waver. In a panic, he grabbed Lu Tingyuan's arm and asked, "Where's the doctor? Where's the doctor? Can't you see how miserable he is?!"
Looking back now, Pei Shuyu found it incredible that he had lost his composure like that.
Later, the medical staff released the omega's pheromones in the room, alleviating Lu Hean's susceptible period.
"Does Lu Hean know about this disease himself?" Pei Shuyu asked blankly.
Lu Tingyuan looked at Pei Shuyu, as if trying to discern what was going on in this young man's mind. But Pei Shuyu remained calm, and even after having experienced so many sinister superiors, he still couldn't immediately see through him. Lu Tingyuan withdrew his gaze, turned to Lu Hean, and replied, "I know."
“…”
Pei Shuyu cursed.
Before leaving, he said, "Let him come to me. I know what to do."
Lu Hean arrived as scheduled, and even dressed up carefully, with his hair combed meticulously. He was wearing the light-colored sweater that Pei Shuyu had said was beautiful. There was obvious excitement and anticipation on his face, and it was completely impossible to tell that he had just experienced the torture of a susceptible period not long ago.
Pei Shuyu was happy for him, but he couldn't help feeling melancholy when he thought about what he was about to say.
"Brother Shuyu! You're finally willing to see me!" His eyes sparkled, as if filled with starlight, and he eagerly stepped into the room, as if all the previous cold wars and arguments had vanished. He subconsciously wanted to hug Pei Shuyu like he had in the past, but was frozen in place by the other's imperceptible step back.
Pei Shuyu stood in the middle of the living room, the light casting a faint shadow on his face, making him look a little distant. He didn't look at Lu Hean, but simply pointed at the sofa and said, "Sit down."
The smile on Lu Hean's face faded a little, and a trace of uneasiness rose in his heart, but he still sat down as he was told, his eyes still following Pei Shuyu closely, with cautious expectation: "Brother Shuyu, if you are willing to see me, are you willing to listen to my explanation? There is really nothing between Qiao Zhishi and me. I admit that it was my fault for hiding it from you before..."
"Lu Hean." Pei Shuyu interrupted him, his voice calm and without a trace of emotion, yet it pierced like an ice spike, "Let's break up."
The air froze instantly.
The color drained from Lu Hean's face at a visible speed, and the starlight in his eyes shattered, transforming into a blank, blank space. He seemed to have not heard clearly, and seemed unable to understand. His lips parted slightly, and after a long while, he finally uttered a dry sound: "...What? Brother Shuyu, you...what did you say?"
"I said, we're over." Pei Shuyu repeated, each word as if he had exhausted all his strength, his nails digging deep into his palms to maintain his composure. "Don't see each other again, we have no relationship anymore."
"Why?!" Lu Hean suddenly stood up from the sofa, his voice suddenly rising, with disbelief and panic, "Is it because of Qiao Zhishi? I can solve it! I'm already thinking of a way to cancel the engagement! I..."
"It's not because of him. He's a very good omega." Pei Shuyu lowered his eyelashes to hide the emotions surging in his eyes. "It's just that I feel tired and don't want to continue. We were never suitable for each other."
"Inappropriate?" Lu Hean's eyes instantly turned red, as if he had heard a huge joke, and his voice was choked with sobs. "We've been together for so long, and you're only telling me now that it's inappropriate? Pei Shuyu! Look at me! Tell me what's inappropriate?! Is it because we're both Alphas? Do you care so much about what others think?!"
Pei Shuyu was furious and stood up to yell at him, "That's right! I just care about what people think of me! You know what they say every time we stand together! You're the eldest young master... You don't need to know anything! No one dares to say anything bad about you! What about me? What about me!"
As the two of them confronted each other, his emotions grew agitated. Suddenly, his gaze fixed on a slightly childish hand-painted ceramic doll on the TV cabinet, with two little people leaning against each other. It was made by Lu Hean, who had dragged him to the workshop to make it after they had a big fight and reconciled.
At that time, Lu He'an held the baked doll with crooked colors, smiled freely, and handed it to him like a treasure: "Brother Shuyu, look, does it look like us? This is our token of love, right?"
Pei Shuyu looked at the ugly but cute doll and couldn't help laughing. He asked him, "A token of love?" He deliberately flicked the doll's head with his fingertips and said, "Who's a good person who uses ceramic as a token of love? It will break if you knock it."
"Pfft! Don't talk nonsense!" Lu Hean hurriedly snatched the doll back and carefully protected it in his arms. "You cursed it right after it came out so it wouldn't break! I will protect it well! You won't secretly drop it behind my back, will you?"
"Hahaha, how could it be..."
Memories came flooding back like a tide, carrying with them sharp pain.
Lu Hean also noticed Pei Shuyu's gaze. He pointed at the doll, as if grasping at a lifeline. His voice was broken: "Do you still remember this? Pei Shuyu... you said... even if we are both alphas, it won't affect..."
"Baby?" A flash of pain flashed across Pei Shuyu's eyes, but it was immediately overshadowed by a deeper emotion. He suddenly interrupted Lu Hean, a mocking smile forming at the corner of his mouth. "Are you talking about that childish, ugly thing?"
He strode over and grabbed the porcelain doll. The cold touch stung his palms and his heart.
Lu Hean looked at his movements in horror, as if he had a premonition of something.
Pei Shuyu turned his back to him and took a deep breath, as if to suppress all the reluctance and pain in his heart. He turned around and looked into Lu Hean's eyes filled with fear and pleading, and his heart felt like it was being tortured.
Thinking of what he had said to President Lu, he still spoke firmly: "Lu Hean, you see clearly."
He held up the porcelain doll that symbolized their clumsy love, met Lu Hean's desperate gaze, and said word by word with incredible clarity: "The relationship between you and me is like this doll."
"Fragile, childish, and easily broken."
"and--"
He exerted force with his arms and threw the porcelain doll hard to the ground.
"I don't give a damn!"
A sharp, crisp sound suddenly exploded in the room! Countless ceramic fragments flew everywhere, and the two tightly cuddled figures were smashed to pieces, just like their relationship at the moment, completely falling apart.
Lu Hean froze in place, staring blankly at the pile of debris on the ground, as if his heart had been shattered along with it. He slowly raised his head and looked at Pei Shuyu, the last bit of light in his eyes extinguished, leaving only utter despair and despair.
"...Okay...Okay..." He murmured, his voice so soft that it was almost inaudible, and tears finally slid down uncontrollably, "You don't care... You don't care at all..."
He became emotional and approached Pei Shuyu step by step, "As long as I'm not an Alpha, we can be together? Right?"
Pei Shuyu was forced to retreat repeatedly, his heart aching as if being stabbed by a knife, and he could hardly maintain his indifferent mask: "Lu Hean! Calm down! This has nothing to do with gender!"
"What does that have to do with anything?!" Lu Hean practically roared, despair and madness intertwined in his eyes. He suddenly turned around, his gaze frantically scanning the living room, finally settling on the porcelain doll that was smashed to pieces on the floor.
The next second, under Pei Shuyu's horrified gaze, he grabbed a piece of debris and slashed it towards the gland on the back of his neck without hesitation!
“What are you doing!!!”
Pei Shuyu was terrified by this scene. All his calmness and pretense were completely shattered at that moment! He burst out with unprecedented speed and rushed over. Almost instinctively, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the ceramic piece tightly.
The sharp edge instantly cut through the flesh of the palm, and warm blood gushed out, dripping along the ceramic fragments and wrist onto the light-colored carpet, spreading a glaring red.
All of Lu Hean's movements froze.
He lowered his head in a daze, looking at Pei Shuyu's bloody hands tightly grasping the ceramic piece, then looked up at Pei Shuyu's face which had instantly turned pale and was filled with fear and pain.
The slight tingling sensation in the glands at the back of his neck was not even one ten-thousandth as shocking as the scene before him.
He seemed to be suddenly scalded, and his hand holding the ceramic piece loosened a little, and his voice trembled: "Shuyu... your hand... hand..." He was completely panicked and even forgot that his glands were bleeding. He instinctively wanted to rush over to check Pei Shuyu's injuries. All he had in his eyes was the glaring blood red and Pei Shuyu's painful expression.
Pei Shuyu took advantage of his relaxation and threw the ceramic piece away.
The fragments fell to the ground with a "smack" sound and flew a long way. Intense pain radiated from his palm, causing his vision to go black and his body to sway.
Just then, the door was opened.
"Pei Shuyu! I bought some midnight snacks..." Xiao Qingyang's carefree voice was accompanied by the sound of the door opening. He rushed in excitedly with a takeaway bag. Before he could finish his words, he was scared to death by the scene in front of him!
The ground was covered in blood! Pei Shuyu covered his hands, his face pale! Lu Hean's neck was bleeding and he looked mad! A pile of ceramic "corpses" lay on the ground.
"Holy crap!!!" Xiao Qingyang dropped the midnight snack in his hand to the ground with a cry of surprise, "What are you guys doing?! Is the play you guys playing a little too exciting this time?!"
He was so frightened that his legs went limp. He frantically pulled out his communicator, his voice distorted: "Hello?! Alliance Emergency Center?! Quick! Someone come quickly! Someone's seriously injured here! The address is..."
“…”
After the call ended, Xiao Qingyang looked at the two of them and didn't dare to step forward.
So scary...
Pei Shuyu tore off a piece of his clothes and pressed it on Lu Hean's gland. The clothes were stained with blood and it was impossible to tell whose blood it was.
Three people and two injured, this weird atmosphere. Xiao Qingyang felt that he had to do something to break it. He picked up the midnight snack on the ground. Fortunately, the boss was kind and sealed it tightly, so the soup didn't spill out.
He held up the midnight snack in front of the two of them and said, "Want to eat something? Otherwise, you won't have the strength to hold on until the ambulance arrives."
“…”
Lu Hean didn't eat, and before the ambulance arrived, he fainted in Pei Shuyu's arms. It was Xiao Qingyang who carried him down because Pei Shuyu had injured his hand and could only stand by and worry.
Xiao Qingyang carried the person on his back as he trudged down the stairs. He looked at Pei Shuyu's troubled hands and asked, "What happened this time? How could you two end up in such a fight?! I said something bad about him before, but you still protected him, didn't you?"
"Watch your step." Pei Shuyu's mind was in a mess, still recovering from the palpitations. He simply protected Lu Hean, afraid that he would fall off Xiao Qingyang's back.
The stairs that usually took one or two minutes to walk up seemed to take half a century in Pei Shuyu's eyes.
The sound of an ambulance approached from afar. Through the haze, Pei Shuyu could see red and blue lights. A group of people came down carrying a stretcher. The sound of running and shouting rushed towards Pei Shuyu like a beast.
He wanted to retreat, but Xiao Qingyang grabbed him and said, "Get in the car too!"
Pei Shuyu: “…”
Lu Hean was injured near the gland and was pushed into the operating room.
Pei Shuyu sat outside in a daze, motionless. Xiao Qingyang had no choice but to call a nurse to sew him up. From beginning to end, Pei Shuyu was like a wooden man, with a blank look in his eyes.
Soon, Yu Jingheng appeared in the hospital corridor.
His clothes were disheveled and he was breathing heavily.
Just when Xiao Qingyang was wondering how this person came so quickly, he suddenly remembered.
Damn! This hospital belongs to the Yu family!
The thought of Lu Hean lying down inside made Yu Jingheng furious. He had told Lu Hean a thousand times before! Stop talking about this! Their family backgrounds don't match, their genders don't match! And then there's the pheromone disorder! Is he going to die?
At this moment, he was filled with rage and had nowhere to vent it. Seeing Pei Shuyu's distracted appearance, he was furious. He rushed over and grabbed Pei Shuyu's collar, saying viciously: "It's all you! It's all because of you!"
Pei Shuyu didn't react at all. Xiao Qingyang hurried over to stop Yu Jingheng, "Let go! Don't blame Pei Shuyu for everything! Lu Hean is a problem! Neither you nor he is a good person! Let go!"
"Lu Hean and I are not good guys! What kind of good guys do you think you are?" Yu Jingheng was completely enraged by Xiao Qingyang's words. He retorted, and the hand holding Pei Shuyu's collar became even stronger due to excitement, and the knuckles turned white. "If you Saifan people hadn't provoked him again and again, would he become like this?! Pei Shuyu! Ask yourself, what is your purpose in approaching him?!"
Xiao Qingyang also got angry and tried to pry Yu Jingheng's hand away: "You're talking nonsense! Who provoked whom? It was Lu Hean who stuck to me like a dog-skin plaster and I can't get rid of him! When something goes wrong, you blame others! What else can you do besides taking your anger out on others!"
The two men pulled and pushed each other, exchanged heated words, and almost wrestled with each other.
After all, Yu Jingheng was also a martial artist, and when he was furious he was incredibly strong, so Xiao Qingyang couldn't stop him for a while.
Pei Shuyu was grabbed by the collar and shaken back and forth by Yu Jingheng, like a puppet without a soul. He stared at the closed door of the emergency room with empty eyes, without any reaction to the chaos and accusations in front of him, as if all his perceptions were isolated along with the door.
Just when the situation was in chaos and almost out of control.
“Click.”
The door of the emergency room was suddenly pushed open from the inside.
A doctor in a white coat and looking tired came out.
The slight sound was like pressing the pause button, instantly freezing all movements and sounds in the corridor.
Yu Jingheng and Xiao Qingyang stopped pulling at the same time, turning their heads to look at the doctor. Pei Shuyu, who had been standing as stiff as a statue, trembled violently, almost imperceptibly! A faint light suddenly flashed in his hollow eyes. Almost instinctively, he jerked away from Yu Jingheng's grip, which had slightly relaxed due to shock, and staggered towards the doctor.
"Doctor! How is he..." Pei Shuyu's voice was dry and hoarse, with panic and anxiety that he himself was not aware of.
However, before he could say anything more, Yu Jingheng next to him reacted. Seeing Pei Shuyu's actions, a trace of extreme disgust and anger flashed in his eyes. He suddenly reached out and ruthlessly pushed Pei Shuyu away!
"Get out of here! You have no right to ask!" Yu Jingheng growled, and the force was so great that Pei Shuyu, who was already in a trance and had weak legs, staggered back several steps. His back hit the cold wall heavily with a muffled sound before he could barely steady himself.
Pei Shuyu groaned, the pain from hitting the wall briefly sobering him up. He raised his head, his pale face expressionless, his eyes fixed stubbornly on the exhausted doctor.
Xiao Qingyang quickly supported Pei Shuyu and glared at Yu Jingheng: "Yu Jingheng, your father is sick!"
The doctor, clearly new to such a scene, dodged to the side in fear. After making sure the three men wouldn't attack again, he adjusted his glasses and announced calmly, "The patient, Mr. Lu Hean, is out of danger. The wound to the gland isn't deep, just a superficial one. It's been cleaned and sutured. With good rest and regular dressing changes, there won't be any major problems. It was primarily a temporary fainting spell caused by excessive excitement. Now, we just have to wait for the patient to wake up."
He paused and added, "The patient needs absolute rest. Family members can go in and check on him, but try not to disturb him. Also, his pheromone levels are still somewhat unstable, so he needs to be observed for a while."
Hearing the words "out of danger", "only skin injuries", and "awake", Yu Jingheng's tense shoulders relaxed instantly. He breathed a long sigh of relief, and the furious expression on his face also eased a lot.
He no longer glanced at Pei Shuyu, as if looking any more would be considered dirty. He simply nodded to the doctor, his tone returning to his usual reserved tone: "Thank you, doctor, for your hard work."
After saying that, he immediately turned around, pushed open the door of the emergency room impatiently, walked in quickly, and completely isolated Pei Shuyu and Xiao Qingyang outside the door.
The door closed again.
Silence returned to the corridor, leaving only the faint ticking of instruments and the cold smell of disinfectant.
Pei Shuyu leaned against the cold wall and slowly slid down to the floor. The doctor's words echoed in his head.
"Out of danger", "skin injuries", "woke up"...
The overwhelming relief and fear were like a belated tide that instantly overwhelmed him and drained his last bit of strength.
He raised his good hand and covered his face with it, his shoulders trembling slightly.
Xiao Qingyang stood beside him, looking at the closed door of the emergency room, then at Pei Shuyu who was sitting dejectedly on the ground. He opened his mouth, but said nothing in the end. He just scratched his hair in annoyance, squatted down, and sighed heavily.
What the hell is going on?
Afterwards, Pei Shuyu returned to the rental house alone, slowly sweeping up the debris on the floor and cleaning up the bloodstains. Finally, he carried the garbage bag and threw it into the trash can.
After taking care of everything, Pei Shuyu packed up and moved back to Saifan. This rental house was filled with memories of the two of them, and he couldn't stay there any longer, nor did he want to see familiar objects.
He stayed there for two years until Sevan ran into financial difficulties and he moved out, no longer enjoying Sevan's free dormitory.
The two of them had such an ugly fight at the time that everyone around them felt that their separation was inevitable.
Pei Shuyu just found it funny. When they were together, they needed everyone's approval, but not when they were apart.
From the beginning to the end, everyone seemed to be hoping that they would separate...
Pei Shuyu finished his shower and walked out of the bathroom, all wet. His bare feet stepped on the cold floor, leaving behind blurry wet footprints.
The rental house was eerily quiet, and the distant sound of traffic outside the window seemed like the background music of another world.
He walked to the window, looked at the empty street scene outlined by the street lights downstairs, and tried to let the cold wind blow away the chaotic images in his mind - the hustle and bustle of the bar, Lu Hean's burning eyes.
There were also quarrels and breakups from even longer ago that he desperately wanted to forget.
A familiar dull pain came from somewhere in my heart.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath of the cool air. He then grabbed a bottle of water from the refrigerator and gulped down a few gulps, finally quelling the suffocating feeling. He wiped his mouth and stared blankly at the refrigerator. After standing for a while, he returned to the bedroom and collapsed on the bed.
Fatigue swept over his body like sticky ink. Pei Shuyu's eyelids drooped, his limbs felt heavy, and he actually fell asleep.
“Ding-ling-ling——”
The phone rang rapidly, and Pei Shuyu groggily opened his eyes. He reached for his phone and opened it. It was a call from his superiors, so he had to answer it...
"Hello?"
"Pei Shuyu, remember to come to the meeting tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock."
Listening to the orders coming from the phone, Pei Shuyu tried hard to keep his eyes open and not fall asleep. He asked, "Meeting? About what?"
"Tsk, so many questions? They'll be mentioned at tomorrow's meeting, just remember to be there on time. Also... why does your voice sound so weak?"
“…”
Pei Shuyu hung up the phone and wanted to continue sleeping.
The next second, a friend request came to his phone, and he picked it up to read it in confusion.
It was not a big deal to watch it, but after watching it, Pei Shuyu couldn't sleep.
In Yu Jingheng's private lounge, the heavy soundproof door completely isolates the noise from the outside world.
Several cigarette butts had been extinguished in the crystal ashtray, and the air was filled with the aftertaste of expensive cigars and a hint of lingering anger.
Lu Hean leaned leisurely on the leather sofa, his fingertips slowly and methodically swirling the amber whiskey in the glass, the ice making a crisp sound. His face was expressionless, and he looked quite happy.
Yu Jingheng felt a little irritated when he thought about how that psychopath Lu He'an had just asked him for Pei Shuyu's contact information. He yanked his tie off in frustration and paced back and forth across from him. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, he stopped in front of him and said in a voice filled with uncontrollable anger, "Lu He'an, what the hell is wrong with you tonight? Love at first sight? Do you believe that nonsense?! Are you that kind of person? What do you want by asking for his contact information?"
Without even raising his eyelids, Lu Hean took a sip of wine and said slowly, "Why don't you believe it?"
"Believe it!" Yu Jingheng almost yelled, "What do you like about him? Huh? A guy from Sevan, whose family background is vastly different from yours, and an Alpha?! Have you forgotten what's going on with your body? Is pheromone disorder a joke? The omega you need! An omega like Qiao Zhishi whose pheromones can soothe you! Not an Alpha who might trigger your illness at any time!"
He took a deep breath, trying to suppress his surging anger, and said with a serious tone: "He An, listen to my advice, don't provoke him again. Wasn't the lesson three years ago enough? You almost killed yourself! Now that things have finally stabilized, the Qiao family also..."
As soon as the words came out, Yu Jingheng suddenly fell silent.
Oops, I spoke too quickly!
His expression changed slightly in an instant, a trace of imperceptible panic flashed in his eyes, and he subconsciously glanced at Lu Hean.
Lu Hean's shaking of the wine glass paused almost imperceptibly for a moment.
"Three years ago?" Lu Hean repeated, his tone calm, yet with a frightening, inquiring tone. "What do you mean three years ago? Yu Jingheng, didn't you say that Pei Shuyu and I had nothing to do with each other?"
He put down his wine glass and leaned forward slightly. An invisible sense of oppression instantly spread. His tone still sounded like pure curiosity, but every word struck Yu Jingheng's tense nerves: "So... I almost got myself killed three years ago? And it was related to Pei Shuyu?"
Yu Jingheng wanted to slap himself. He cursed himself inwardly, forced himself to calm down, and tried to make amends, but his tone was inevitably stiff and made more obvious than it actually was. "...It was just a slip of the tongue! I mean, you've always had such a poor eye for people! Three years ago, you chose an unreliable partner, almost ruined the project, and got yourself hospitalized! What does this have to do with Pei Shuyu? Don't make wild guesses!"
"Yu Jingheng." Lu He'an finally raised his eyes and interrupted him. Those beautiful almond-shaped eyes were devoid of their usual smile or laziness, leaving only a bottomless calmness that inexplicably made Yu Jingheng's subsequent words get stuck in his throat.
"I consider you a good brother." Lu Hean's voice was very soft. "You shouldn't have kept it from me." He put down his wine glass, leaned forward slightly, and looked at Yu Jingheng sharply. "I've already added him as a friend."
Yu Jingheng was so angry at his stubborn attitude that he felt his liver hurt: "You! Who did you ask for it?!"
"Guess." Lu Hean interrupted him again, his lips even raised a very faint, ambiguous arc, "I said we were having an affair... My intuition is really accurate..."
"You're truly hopeless." Seeing him like this, Yu Jingheng's words of advice turned into a feeble sigh. He knew that once Lu He'an had truly made up his mind, nothing could change him. Three years ago, he was like this, and three years later, even after losing his memory, he was still like this!
He rubbed his brows tiredly, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Whatever you want! If you want to die, go ahead! I won't stop you! Get out of my office right away. Don't come looking for me when you die!"
Hearing this, Lu Hean laughed softly, leaned back on the sofa, and resumed his lazy look: "Don't worry, you won't die."
Yu Jingheng glared at him fiercely, slammed the door and left.
Silence returned to the lounge.
The smile on Lu Hean's face slowly faded. He sat alone on the large sofa, his fingertips unconsciously stroking the screen of his phone.
The friend request is still in the list column without any changes.
"Pei Shuyu..."
He chewed on these three words silently, and in his mind emerged Pei Shuyu's eyes in the dim light of the bar, which were alert and distant, but at a certain moment revealed a very slight daze.
The next morning, in the conference room of Sevan headquarters.
Sunlight streamed in through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, illuminating the conference room brightly, but it couldn't dispel the fatigue on some people's faces.
Pei Shuyu walked towards him with a blank expression, his eyes dark and gloomy, his fingers unconsciously twirling an electronic pen. He tried to concentrate, but his eyelids kept drooping. His mind kept flashing back to the abrupt friend request from last night and Lu Hean's ambiguous smile.
"Pei Shuyu."
Fu Zhouxing walked over to him and nudged him gently with his elbow, lowering his voice, "Didn't you sleep last night? The dark circles under your eyes are almost falling to the ground."
Pei Shuyu shuddered and mumbled, "...I slept, but didn't sleep well."
Fu Zhouxing glanced at him with a hint of barely perceptible worry in his eyes, but in the end he didn't ask any more questions and just turned his gaze back to the conference room.
Pei Shuyu looked over and saw some people coming here and there, including a regular customer.
I didn't expect him to come too.
However, when their eyes met, neither of them gave him a good look. Pei Shuyu shrugged, found a seat, and waited for everyone to arrive.
Everyone arrived one after another.
The meeting has begun.
The atmosphere was more solemn and dignified than any other meeting. A huge projection screen displayed a map of the harbor, some blurred photos of the scene that still revealed the brutality, and brief information about several omega victims, all censored.
Pei Shuyu, with two obvious dark circles under his eyes, concentrated his mind and quickly recorded the key points of the case.
Fu Zhouxing sat on his left, his eyes scanning every detail on the screen sharply, while Xiao Qingyang rarely put away his usual lively demeanor, frowned, and looked worried.
The leader detailed the case: the victims were all omegas living alone or in relatively isolated environments, attacked suddenly and without resistance. Their glands were severely traumatized, yet there were virtually no useful clues left at the scene, demonstrating the killer's intimate knowledge of the surveillance blind spot and their clean, precise tactics, resembling meticulous planning.
"The Alliance's previous investigation team failed because they couldn't find a motive or suspects. It was as if they appeared and disappeared out of thin air." The leader knocked on the table. "To save manpower, the Alliance withdrew from the port city. But as soon as they left, the murderer struck again. So the Alliance has handed this responsibility to us. Now, I ask, is there anyone among you willing to investigate this case?"
"I..." Pei Shuyu raised his hand and responded.
The main reason was that he wanted to find something to do so that he wouldn't have to think too much.
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted, "I do."
Pei Shuyu suddenly looked towards the source of the voice, it was Lu Jianchuan.
“…”
The meeting is over.
The task was given to the team leaders Pei Shuyu and Lu Jianchuan, who were told to conduct investigations separately.
Obviously, Pei Shuyu and Lu Jianchuan were not very satisfied with this result.
When the meeting was over, Pei Shuyu took the initiative to walk beside Lu Jianchuan and said, "Why did you take this mission? It's too dangerous. If Yu Wei was still here, she wouldn't want to see you..."
"Shut up!" Lu Jianchuan seemed to have been hit in a sore spot.
"Don't let me hear you mention his name again." After saying this, Lu Jianchuan walked around Pei Shuyu and went out.
Pei Shuyu staggered after being bumped into.
Xiao Qingyang gave him a hand and shouted at Lu Jianchuan's back: "Hey! What's your attitude! This kid always dislikes us no matter what he does."
"It's not us, it's me." Pei Shuyu sighed.
"Also, it's rude to point fingers at people behind their backs, Xiao Qingyang." Pei Shuyu pulled Xiao Qingyang's hand away from the person he was pointing at. "Let's go, let's discuss the case together."
"OK."
A group of people gathered in the lounge, looking at the documents in deep thought.
"Damn, this case is a bit weird." Xiao Qingyang was the first to break the silence, rubbing his arms. "They specifically targeted omegas, and they were so cruel, directly digging out the glands. How big a grudge does this have?"
Fu Zhouxing calmly analyzed, "The murderer possesses strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities and is very familiar with the local environment of Hong Kong City, especially the surveillance layout. He may be a local, or have lived in Hong Kong for a long time. His motive... hatred of omegas? Or is there something more specific?"
Hatred of omegas? There's rarely such a motive. Because omegas don't have a very high status... Who would envy an omega?
He looked through the information and found that one of the victims was so frightened that he was now lying in a vegetative state in the hospital.
Gland damage is irreversible, but fortunately, it was discovered in time and saved a life.
Pei Shuyu pinched his brows. "No matter what the purpose is, we must find him as soon as possible. Fu Zhouxing, you will be responsible for connecting with the technical department and getting all the files and data analysis of the previous investigation team as soon as possible to see if there are any details that have been overlooked. Xiao Qingyang, you prepare the equipment and emergency medicines needed for going out, especially omega-3 stabilizers and potent inhibitors. Bring extra in case of any emergency. Also, we may need to contact the victim's family. As for the rest of you, wait until we get to the port city and ask the neighbors. Try to act more convincingly so as not to alert the enemy."
"Understood!" everyone responded in unison.
"Everyone get ready. We'll set off in the afternoon." Pei Shuyu stood up and tried to devote all his energy to the difficult case in front of him.
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