Chapter 76 Chapter 76 Being pressed on the bed and punished
On the way back, Pei Shuyu was still driving.
Because he didn't want to pay attention to Lu Hean.
You can have a reason to drive: Don’t disturb me, don’t chat with me, I want to concentrate on driving.
The car was moving smoothly, but the interior was far from peaceful. Ever since Lu Hean learned that his pheromone disorder could be cured by practicing enough, he'd gone completely berserk.
Pei Shuyu gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands and concentrated on driving.
But the alpha sitting next to him in the passenger seat was very dishonest. He first carefully curled up a strand of Pei Shuyu's hair with his fingers and played with it. Seeing that he did not strongly object, he became more aggressive and slid his fingers to his cheek, touched it twice and then gently pinched his earlobe.
Pei Shuyu couldn't stand it any longer, so he turned his head and glared at him, warning him with his eyes to behave himself.
No matter how Lu Hean struggled, Pei Shuyu just refused to talk to him.
Lu Hean withdrew his hand awkwardly, and after being quiet for less than two minutes, he began to pull the hem of Pei Shuyu's jacket back and forth.
"Shuyu! Shuyu... Pei Shuyu~Please pay attention to me~"
Pei Shuyu looked straight ahead, indifferent, and decided to ignore him.
Pei Shuyu frowned and decided not to respond.
Lu Hean's eyes rolled, and he suddenly covered his chest with his hands, frowning slightly, and his tone became weak: "Hmm... I feel... my pheromone disorder seems to have started again..."
"Tsk." Pei Shuyu finally lost his composure and found a roadside stop. He scolded with a mixture of laughter and tears: "Lu He'an! You're not done yet, are you?!"
Having achieved his goal, Lu Hean instantly "healed" and approached with a smile: "You finally want to talk to me?"
Pei Shuyu was completely helpless, but the corners of his mouth lifted slightly uncontrollably. "Hey, do you know what you look like?"
"Like what?" Lu Hean asked casually.
"Just one of those poor stray dogs that was abandoned by its owner."
"..." Lu Hean didn't respond. He looked towards the window, opened it and let the wind blow for a while. He said as if nothing had happened, "Yes, you abandoned me. Of course I am pitiful."
"I'm not abandoning you." Pei Shuyu realized that he seemed to have said something wrong and quickly refuted it.
He understood Lu Hean's thoughts too well.
Although this person didn't say it, Pei Shuyu would definitely feel it in the end.
What you give him must be unique.
Even if others have it, he must be the first. But Pei Shuyu rarely does this. If he gives it to Lu Hean and then gives it to others, he will inevitably hear Lu Hean nagging about it every day afterwards.
He wasn't the unreasonable and overbearing type who would say, "You actually gave it to him too?! I won't allow it! You have to give it to me!" Instead, he was the pitiful Daiyu type who would say, "Is this something unique to me? Or does everyone have it? If I had known he had it, I wouldn't have asked for it."
Lu Hean is like this, he knows how to make use of his advantages.
These are the conclusions Pei Shuyu drew from practice.
The gifts were just for various anniversaries. But they had been on and off, so Pei Shuyu couldn't remember them, and Lu Hean also deliberately didn't mention them.
Is a one-night stand glorious? So let’s pass on this anniversary.
As a result, during the period of love, the birthday gift that comes once a year becomes particularly precious. Pei Shuyu racked his brains to choose a gift for him and was completely confused.
Ever since he learned that Lu Hean was President Lu’s eldest son, he gained both fame and fortune.
For a man who has everything he needs, any gift he gives would seem ridiculous.
Emptying your family's savings is not as valuable as an ashtray in someone else's home.
But at that time, Lu Hean was quite considerate and always asked Pei Shuyu to take a day off to accompany him. He always said that this was his best birthday gift.
At that time, Pei Shuyu still couldn't understand.
Who would think that having someone by their side is the best birthday gift?
Even Pei Shuyu looked forward to his birthday when he was a child.
Maybe Lu He'an was just giving him a way out.
Pei Shuyu felt that comforting him was not enough, so he continued, "Besides, even if you are a stray dog, you are still the best fighter in the pack. You must be the king of the pack."
The king of the dog pack...
Perhaps it had been so long since he'd seen Pei Shuyu's lively side, Lu Hean didn't respond immediately. They'd been separated for three years, and when they first met again, Pei Shuyu said he hoped they wouldn't see each other again.
Lu Hean reacted, scratched Pei Shuyu's waist lightly, and laughed: "You've learned bad habits now, and you've started to give me nicknames."
Pei Shuyu kept dodging to the side, saying harshly, "It's like keeping company with bad people."
A quick joke resulted in Lu He'an pressing her down on the bed and punishing her.
The next day, Pei Shuyu gritted his teeth and sent Saifan another leave request message.
When he finally appeared in Saifan, Xiao Qingyang was just coming out of the tea room, carrying a cup of coffee, looking quite relaxed. When he saw him, his eyes widened instantly, as if he had seen some rare species.
He walked around Pei Shuyu exaggeratedly, exclaiming in amazement, "Wow! Pei Shuyu! This vacation you've taken is really... prolonged! Eight days! Eight whole days! Are you directly using up all your annual leave for the next few years in advance?"
Xiao Qingyang had a very loud voice, and people around looked over here when they heard him shout "Ba Tian".
Originally, the other person was simply attracted by the loud voice and reacted subconsciously, but Pei Shuyu had other thoughts in mind. His ears were slightly hot, but his face remained calm. He didn't bother to pay attention to Xiao Qingyang's teasing and walked straight to his office.
Xiao Qingyang followed behind him eagerly, still muttering, "You're finally back! If you don't come back, the backlog of documents in the team will bury me!"
Pei Shuyu pulled out a chair and asked, "Isn't it buried?"
Xiao Qingyang slammed his hands on the table and shouted angrily, "It's almost time! You don't know! Fu Zhouxing actually resigned! My world is falling! Seriously! I will never say bad things about him behind his back again!" He raised his hand and held up four fingers, "I'm giving you four!"
Pei Shuyu glanced at him indifferently and poured cold water on him mercilessly: "It's useless even if you gossip. Go and organize the documents and send them over now."
Lu Hean's situation is similar to his.
After telling Pei Shuyu everything, he no longer needed to pretend to be someone with amnesia.
The news that Colonel Lu had recovered his memory and returned to Keynes soon spread to everyone.
At this moment, he remembered something: he had hung up on his father a few days ago. Now that he suddenly remembered it, he chose video.
The screen showed that the call was connecting... and then it hung up after a few seconds.
Several messages popped up one after another. Lu Hean looked at the terminal and read out the messages: "Hean... I'm busy now. I'll call you later."
"Your father who doesn't...hold grudges?"
…
In October, the verdict of the Union Supreme Court fell as coldly as autumn frost.
Qiao Songyan was sentenced to death and executed immediately for multiple serious violations of alliance regulations, including illegal human experiments, murder, and endangering public safety. The circumstances were extremely serious.
The Qiao family's already precarious business empire collapsed, its stock price plummeted to the bottom, and was eventually forced to delist.
All assets under his name, including real estate, corporate shares, working capital, etc., were seized and confiscated by the alliance to compensate the families of the victims and bear the huge social costs caused by the case.
Because Qiao's father knew about the crime for a long time and kept it a secret, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and will spend the rest of his life in prison.
The once-prominent Qiao family vanished in the blink of an eye, leaving only endless infamy and devastation.
As a person of interest in the case, Qiao Zhishi underwent several rounds of detailed questioning by the Alliance's investigation team. Given his unawareness of Qiao Songyan's core crimes and his attempts to prevent them at the last minute, the Alliance ultimately determined he was not criminally responsible. After completing and signing his final statement, he was released.
As for what will happen to Qiao Zhishi next, no one cares.
Life goes on as usual.
Lu Hean finally got his wish and was granted free access to Saifan. Under the pretext of friendly communication, he frequently visited Pei Shuyu's office. Xiao Ji felt that his colonel was eager to move his official duties to Saifan.
Although the two did not say it explicitly, there is no need to guess, the magnetic fields between them are completely different.
For example, their Captain Pei only displays a variety of emotions and facial expressions when Colonel Lu comes. Specifically, every time Colonel Lu comes, their Captain Pei will just come out to get water. When he sees Colonel Lu, he'll be stunned for a moment and say, "Why are you here again?"
He looks very impatient...
Anyway, Colonel Lu didn't care and always had a smile on his face.
Xiao Qingyang would roll his eyes at this time.
For example, when their staff were having a dinner together, Colonel Lu would appear halfway through the meal and say, "What a coincidence, you guys are eating here too."
They looked at Pei Shuyu in tacit understanding, and found that Pei Shuyu had replaced his wine glass with tea. He was drinking tea at the moment and shook his head: "The tea is a little cold, I'm full."
"Really? Let me take you there. I just happened to drive here." Lu Hean said with a smile.
Pei Shuyu settled the bill.
In full view of the crowd, the two left side by side.
Xiao Qingyang was drinking when he noticed everyone was staring at him, "What for?"
Several people said in unison: "You must know something, right? Tell me!"
Xiao Qingyang was completely confused. What the hell did he know?!
Two more months passed in the midst of noise and the alliance entered winter.
It snowed for the first time this year, and the roads were covered in white. Everyone wore three or four layers of clothing, looking very plump. Xiao Qingyang rubbed his hands by the roadside, breathing on his red, frozen fingertips. "I can't believe Fu Zhouxing has been gone for two months."
"It's quitting." Pei Shuyu put one hand in his pocket and corrected him expressionlessly, his eyes fixed on the white street scene in the distance. "Isn't it weird to say 'quit'?"
"What's the difference..." Xiao Qingyang curled his lips, looking distressed. "Besides, it's been really hard to go on missions lately! The weather is cold! And that damn traitor 'V'! I really envy Fu Zhouxing. He quit his job and went back to be the young master of the Fu family. Finally, he doesn't have to be a slave anymore."
Pei Shuyu was speechless at this.
Because he is the one who is enslaved.
But it was strange. Pei Shuyu had asked Fu Zhouxing before why he didn't go back, and he said he wasn't interested in the Fu family's business. Why was he going back now? Was he suddenly interested again?
Pei Shuyu suddenly thought of Fu Zhouxing's brother, the beta who had been lying in bed for several years.
Fu Zhouxing never mentioned it on his own initiative, and even the news didn't take a photo of his face.
I don’t know whether to say mysterious… or whether it’s better to be protected.
The coldness penetrated through the thin windbreaker. Pei Shuyu subconsciously wanted to put his cold hands into his pockets, but he felt nothing. It seemed that the pockets were not deep enough.
He took a deep breath, sucking the icy wind into his lungs. This was Pei Shuyu's quirk, he always felt that the cold air in winter was different from the usual air.
At this moment, a pure black umbrella moved silently over his head, just enough to block out the falling snowflakes.
Pei Shuyu was slightly stunned and turned his head.
Lu Hean had arrived at some point and was standing beside him, a few grains of snow falling on his shoulders that he hadn't brushed off yet. He didn't look at Xiao Qingyang, who was stunned beside him, but instead focused on Pei Shuyu's hands, which were red from the cold.
"I told you it's going to get colder today, why don't you dress a little bit more?" Lu Hean's tone was filled with a hint of helpless reproach, but his voice was very soft. He reached out his hand very naturally, directly grasped Pei Shuyu's cold wrist, and then stuffed the frozen hand into his coat pocket.
Because Xiao Qingyang was still beside him, Pei Shuyu subconsciously curled his fingertips and wanted to pull them back: "I'm really not cold..." but was held tightly by Lu Hean.
"Ah, it's getting late! I'm going back too! Goodbye!" Xiao Qingyang was very good at reading people's expressions and ran away in a flash.
"Let's go home." Lu He'an said, holding the umbrella steadily in one hand, completely covering the two of them in the space under the umbrella, and the other hand wrapped Pei Shuyu's hand inside his coat.
Two lines of footprints, one large and one small, deep and shallow, were left on the snow, winding their way into the distance. The space under the umbrella was small, shielding it from the wind, snow, and noise, leaving only the warmth of their bodies pressed against each other and the sound of their soft breathing falling on their ears.
Pei Shuyu's hands gradually warmed in Lu Hean's warm pocket, even a light sweat seeping out of his fingertips. The two of them walked on the snow, their pace neither hurried nor slow, appearing particularly leisurely among the hurried pedestrians.
Even the children walked faster than them.
"Qiao Zhishi..." Pei Shuyu suddenly asked, "Where did you go later?"
Lu Hean held an umbrella, his eyes fixed on the snow-covered road ahead. He said calmly, "He found a job at a cake shop in the west of the city. I heard the business is pretty good."
Pei Shuyu was a little surprised and looked at him sideways: "Working? Are you sure?"
"Um."
Pei Shuyu was silent for a moment. He could imagine Qiao Zhishi's pampered hands picking up the rag; it must have been a struggle. He still felt that Qiao Zhishi wasn't a bad person.
It was just that he was influenced by the people around him, and even though he was a little spoiled and naughty, he didn't do anything extreme like Qiao Songyan. It was just that he was a little hostile to him before. Love makes people blind and can make people become different from themselves. Pei Shuyu also understood.
"Why did you suddenly think of asking him?" Lu Hean pinched Pei Shuyu's fingers, a hint of subtle sourness in his tone, "You care about him so much?"
"Just asking." Pei Shuyu looked at the warm outline of the apartment building getting closer and closer in front of him and said softly, "What do you think... I should buy some cake for a midnight snack?"
"Okay." Lu Hean was not surprised that Pei Shuyu would do this.
But he had no idea that Pei Shuyu had cleared out the cake... Under Qiao Zhishi's grateful gaze, Pei Shuyu paid generously.
"Shuyu, we can't finish it." Lu Hean was carrying two large bags, with several large bags at his feet. "It will go bad."
"I know we can't finish it. So..." Pei Shuyu helped him share a bag, "Give it away..."
On that day, homeless people on the street, workers sweeping snow, and children in orphanages all received a piece of cake.
…
It snowed all the time.
But the atmosphere inside Sevan is colder than winter.
In recent months, several important arrest operations against the "rebel party" have failed, and the other party always manages to evacuate in advance as if they had predicted the future.
The higher-ups received news that there was a traitor in their group codenamed "V". Like a poisonous thorn, it pierced deep into Sevan's heart. Every time he tipped off the rebels, their efforts went to waste and the rebels became more rampant.
The pressure is increasing day by day.
Finally, a key piece of information came.
Someone discovered the exact traces of Huos's activities in the border town. Huos was the key figure connecting to the core of the rebels. Catching him might help them find the rebels' lair and even uncover the damned "V".
The matter was of great importance, and the mission level was raised to the highest level. Pei Shuyu was designated as the person in charge of the operation. Because many elite troops were sent out on missions at the same time, there was a shortage of manpower.
Two-thirds of Pei Shuyu's team are newcomers.
This turned out to be their first practical mission.
Xiao Qingyang complained about this for a long time.
Before leaving, Lu Hean found him in the corner of the corridor where no one was paying attention. He held his hand tightly and said a thousand words in one sentence: "Be safe."
Pei Shuyu shook hands back, nodded, turned around and joined the team ready to go.
In the border town, the wind and snow are even stronger.
After careful deployment, the action team, led by Pei Shuyu himself, finally locked onto an abandoned warehouse.
"Hey! Pei Shuyu, we have been squatting here for a few days. When can we carry out the arrest?" Xiao Qingyang had been bored for several days and could not hold it in any longer.
The newcomers were also very bored. They thought they were coming out with Pei Shuyu to show off their skills, but why did they just stay here every day?
They are about to squat like a mushroom, it’s unbearable!
Xiao Qingyang acted as a messenger for him and conveyed these objections to Pei Shuyu.
Pei Shuyu was still looking at the map, his brows furrowed, "Almost..."
"What are you hesitating about?" Xiao Qingyang followed his hand and looked at the map, not taking it seriously. "It's just a guy named Huo! Let's just charge in! Bang, bang, bang! Pin him down! And finally arrest him! OK! Let's go back and celebrate the New Year! Perfect!"
Pei Shuyu drew a circle on the warehouse and suddenly laughed: "You're right."
Xiao Qingyang always felt that Pei Shuyu's smile was weird. It might be because the weather was too cold, which made him scared.
However, when they broke in, things were not as smooth as Xiao Qingyang had expected.
What was waiting for them was a carefully laid trap.
Smoke, strong light, intensive fire suppression... everything happened too fast. They were like birds that had voluntarily entered a cage. They were caught off guard and completely wiped out.
Before his consciousness fell into darkness, Xiao Qingyang only remembered the shocked and angry roars of his teammates and the cold smiling faces of the rebel members.
When they regained consciousness, they had been moved to a more secluded location, their hands tied behind their backs, and thrown onto the cold concrete floor.
A few of the hot-tempered new recruits struggled, cursing at the rebels guarding them: "You rats from the gutter! You rebels will die a horrible death!"
Xiao Qingyang was stunned. Are these people looking for death?! Now I am the fish on the chopping board! The higher-ups must have deliberately arranged these newcomers to trick them!
A man who looked like the leader walked out and listened to their curses. Instead of getting angry, he laughed, his laughter echoing in the empty space. "Well done! But, in your eyes, we are unforgivable. What about your Captain Pei Shuyu? What kind of person is he?"
"Bah! Are you worthy enough to compete with our Captain Pei?!" A young team member stiffened his neck, his face filled with indignation. "Of course Captain Pei is a good man! He's ten thousand times better than you bastards who only know how to play dirty tricks!"
"A good guy? You think he's a good guy?" The leader laughed as if he had heard a huge joke. He turned behind the newcomers and said jokingly, "Captain Pei, did you hear that? Your team members are praising you to the sky. How do you feel about that?"
Under the incredulous gazes of the team members, Pei Shuyu, who should have been tightly bound as well, actually stood up slowly, his wrists having unknowingly broken free from the ropes.
Pei Shuyu turned his wrist, his face expressionless as he calmly walked to the leader. His voice was calm, yet it was like a sharp sword, piercing the hearts of all the team members: "I think it's ridiculous."
The leader laughed triumphantly and put his arm around Pei Shuyu's shoulders, as if displaying a precious trophy. He spoke clearly, word for word, to the stunned, ashen-faced young men below, "I forgot to introduce you again. This is our new member from a while ago. He's been providing us with information, making your efforts in vain time and time again. Codename: 'V'."
The air was dead silent.
The young team member who had just fiercely defended Pei Shuyu opened his mouth wide, his eyes filled with completely destroyed faith and incomprehensible shock.
Xiao Qingyang's worldview also collapsed.
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Author's words: Xiao Qingyang: Brother, don't do it. [Kneel]
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