Chapter 19
Shi Yu glanced at his phone. Yun Lin'ai sent him a message telling him that the auction had just ended and it was dinner time. He asked someone to order some food and asked him to finish a bowl of tonic soup before he came up to check.
Because Shi Yu had a nosebleed while eating in the manor some time ago, Yun Zhi saw it and various health-preserving dishes appeared on the table the next day. Not only did he watch Shi Yu eat, he also often asked Yun Lin'ai to supervise him.
The doorbell rang softly. Shi Yu thought the meal had been delivered, and ran to open the door in a daze.
"Hello, the meal is delivered--"
Shi Yu stopped talking completely. When he saw the person coming, his pupils shrank slightly, and uncontrollable fear and panic appeared in his eyes. His tone was no longer calm.
"Mother?"
"Why are you here?"
Ye Zhihua looked at his son in front of him with a complicated expression. He never expected Shi Yu to appear here. "I also want to ask you why you are here."
This is a hotel under the name of Golden Bay. As the marketing director, she is the person in charge of this event, so it is normal for her to appear here. However, her eldest son was originally staying safely in the Omega prison until half a month ago when Shi Yeheng told her that Shi Yu was missing.
Ye Zhihua couldn't sleep at night after knowing this. He could never have guessed that his son would escape from prison, and he never guessed that Shi Yu would stand with the grandson of the chairman of Jinhaiwan.
A few hours ago, she was still working on a project in the lobby, and then she saw the side door of the hotel being surrounded by several bodyguards. Several wealthy businessmen came to participate in charity activities during this period. Ye Zhihua was already accustomed to it and could immediately say their names in her mind, but this time she only raised her eyes.
I saw the Alliance's high-ranking lieutenant, with an Omega standing next to him.
At first, Ye Zhihua couldn't see the Omega's face clearly, but he was still curious about who the Omega who rarely appeared next to Yun Linai was.
As soon as she saw it, she recognized Shi Yu's face.
At first she thought she was dazzled and couldn't believe that her son, whom she had been looking for for half a month, would suddenly appear in front of her. Curiosity and the longing for her son after not seeing him for a long time finally occupied Ye Zhihua's heart. As the person in charge, it was easy for her to find the corresponding room number on the list, so while Yun Lin'ai was downstairs, she sneaked up and knocked on the door.
Sure enough, the person inside opened the door, and the face was exposed in front of her without any cover.
Ye Zhihua's eyes were filled with ambiguity. She grabbed Shi Yu's arm and pulled him to the end of the corridor.
"Xiao Yu, where have you been these past few months?"
When Ye Zhihua saw Shi Yu, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, his eyes actually turned red.
This made Shi Yu a little at a loss. He didn't know what to say, but he always remembered how his biological mother betrayed him.
"Where can I go, that prison?"
"Or your family?"
Ever since he took the blame for his younger brother, the place where he had lived for more than twenty years was no longer his home.
Ye Zhihua seemed to have never understood his son's heart. He grabbed Shi Yu's shoulders in panic, digging his nails into them with great force.
"What a good place you think you are in now. You ran to Yun Lin'ai, are you trying to kill yourself?"
Shi Yu didn't understand what his mother was saying, he just felt sad and powerless.
He couldn't help but chuckle, and his words were tinged with sarcasm: "So you think I'm safe in a place like prison, right?"
Ye Zhihua was trembling all over. She began to regret the decision she had made. As if she had just realized that she was wrong, she begged, "Mom was wrong. Let's not go to that place anymore. Let's go home, okay?"
"The chairman of the alliance is not a good person at all, and how good can his son be? I only found out what that place was doing later..."
Ye Zhihua was a little incoherent. She hugged Shi Yu in fear, and realized later that this was also her own son.
"I'm glad you're okay, I'm glad you're okay..."
Shi Yu was tightly imprisoned, with no chance to breathe. He could not feel the warmth of his mother, only endless suffocation and inexplicable sadness in his heart.
Shi Yu couldn't understand a lot of what the other party said, so he could only ask Ye Zhihua to calm down.
"That's the man next to you!" Ye Zhihua was extremely anxious, not daring to make a loud noise in the corridor. "Yun Lin'ai, he is the chairman's biological son. The prison was built by the chairman himself. Before you were sent there, I didn't know that prison was also conducting illegal research activities..."
Ye Zhihua shed tears as he spoke: "I almost thought you were dead, you know?"
Shi Yu's brain seemed to have stopped functioning, his eyes were filled with a complex expression as if covered by a layer of fog, and his voice was tightly strangled: "He is the chairman's son..."
Ye Zhihua used up all her strength to get Shi Yu to go back with her. She placed her hands on Shi Yu's shoulders, like two heavy stones falling on his shoulders.
"His grandfather is the chairman of Golden Bay. Why do you think he has to go to the Alliance and suffer? I can't think of any reason other than to help his father!"
Shi Yu opened his mouth, wanting to say that Yun Lin'ai was not such a person, but then he changed his mind and realized that Ye Zhihua would not listen to him now, so he only uttered the last syllable and swallowed it into his stomach.
Shi Yu remained silent. Ye Zhihua thought he was going to follow others. Just as she was about to persuade him, she saw someone standing not far behind Shi Yu. Almost instantly, her throat seemed to be suddenly strangled by someone, and she stared at the person with horror.
Shi Yu noticed her gaze and turned around as if he had realized something.
Yun Lin'ai stood quietly behind him, and no one knew how long he had been there.
Their eyes met unexpectedly. There were not many rooms on the top floor of the hotel, and there was no one walking around to disturb the delicate atmosphere. No one spoke, as if they were waiting for the other to speak.
Time passed frame by frame, second by second. Yun Linai had nothing to explain in the end. He had listened to almost half of it and implicitly agreed to Shi Yu.
Under the dim light, Shi Yu noticed the unclear look in Yun Lin'ai's eyes. Although there was no expression, he could see a slight helplessness in it, which accompanied his already calm and cold expression.
In the end, Shi Yu was defeated, lowered his head and looked away.
He did not see the bitter eyes flashing in Yun Lin'ai's eyes, nor the hand holding a box behind his back.
Yun Linai seemed to want to explain something, but the words came out of his mouth: "I won't stop you if you want to leave."
Although the tone was still that cold and arrogant, Shi Yu caught a hint of hoarseness and a slight tremor that no one else present could hear.
Perhaps Shi Yu himself was not even aware of the pain in his eyes, but if Yun Lin'ai saw it, things might not be so complicated.
From the initial shame to the unacceptable living under someone else's roof, Shi Yu's state of mind became distorted into such a state, and he had given up on himself.
He didn't want to be tied down, he wanted to quietly be the wanderer he used to be.
But at some point, a small feeling emerged in his heart, perhaps one that could be described as contentment with the status quo. As for why he had such a thought, he himself couldn't explain it.
At the same time as the silence, a burst of hurried footsteps came from the corridor at the corner in the distance. The leather boots made a dull sound on the wool carpet. The person who came seemed to be in a hurry. Shi Yu clearly saw Lu Yichuang coming out from the corner, his face covered in sweat, his expression serious and nervous.
He didn't know what happened to the three people in the corridor, but he couldn't afford to speculate. Instead, he leaned over Yun Lin'ai and said quickly, "A source of infection has also appeared in the northern region."
Yun Lin'ai turned sideways without looking at Shi Yu. Instead, he raised his left wrist to check the time on his watch. His voice was calm and composed: "What time do we leave?"
Lu Yichuan glanced at him unexpectedly: "The instructions from above are tonight at midnight."
Yun Lin'ai paused for a moment, then nodded to indicate that he understood. When his gaze turned to that person again, Ye Zhihua had already stared at him closely and pulled her son back to her side.
The protective gesture seemed particularly ironic to Yun Lin'ai. Shi Yu also felt it, but Ye Zhihua held him very tightly, and he could not breathe at all.
Yun Lin'ai turned around and left in front of him.
He didn't even stop when he turned the corner, leaving Shi Yu standing there alone and leaving without mercy. He only left a word and left Shi Yu alone to face Ye Zhihua.
Without asking Shi Yu what he thought, he self-righteously gave him the right to choose, but made Shi Yu feel like a hot potato, being tossed around at will by Yun Lin'ai.
Alpha is a rude monster.
Tears fell from his eyes as if he was irritated, and Shi Yu suddenly broke free from Ye Zhihua's restraints. He was pale, and his body, which had not yet fully recovered, was shaky. Because he had not eaten at night, his stomach was not feeling well, and he even felt like vomiting.
Facing Ye Zhihua's disbelief, Shi Yu tried to steady his voice: "I'm sorry, I can't go back with you."
Just as she was about to grab him, Shi Yu suddenly took a step back, his tone seeming to collapse on the edge of intensity: "I escaped from prison, and their people have been waiting near your house for a long time!"
"If you don't want to see me tortured to death by those people, don't see me again recently."
Shi Yu seemed to be somewhat rational, but Yun Lin'ai's resolute figure was still lingering in his mind. He lowered his eyelids and before leaving, he did not forget to tell Ye Zhihua: "Be careful."
Yun Lin'ai's room was on the same floor as Shi Yu's, but his room was in another corridor and there was only one room, so Shi Yu found it easily.
He noticed the time on his phone. There were still two hours until midnight as Lu Yichuang had said. People were probably packing up their things in the room. Shi Yu stood at the door, raised his arm, and mustered up a lot of courage to knock on the door.
But the sound of the door lock opening and closing inside made him startled——
Yun Lin'ai also opened the door at the same time, so Shi Yu raised his hand but it was neither up nor down. When the two looked at each other, they both saw astonishment in each other's eyes.
Shi Yu was the first to have his eyes reddened. His strange emotions towards Yun Lin'ai were extremely strong at this moment. He once thought that the other party really would not want him anymore. He was inexplicably filled with panic. All this was not what he wanted to see.
But if he hadn't also noticed the hesitation in Yun Lin'ai's eyes...
Yun Lin'ai, who was standing in the room, felt his palm tremble. Shi Yu kicked the door frame with great force. He suppressed his fear and pretended to be indifferent to the Alpha in front of him. With a trembling voice and a string of tears flowing from his left eye, he glared at Yun Lin'ai and said hatefully, "I hate you."
Without caring what Yun Lin'ai was about to say, Shi Yu didn't want him to see his ugly and miserable appearance, so he raised his left hand and pushed the door hard. The door lock closed automatically, and Yun Lin'ai was completely locked inside.
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I'm sorry everyone, I'm updating now. I've been working overtime until now, and the updates will be very slow in the next few days before the holidays. I'm too tired from working overtime and there's really no way I can write too many words. If you think the serialization is too slow, you can save a few chapters before reading. But please collect, please collect [poor thing]
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