Chapter 107 Love and Hate

Even though he had already had a deep understanding of Shen Ziqing's selfishness and indifference in his early years, Shen Qi still couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

He certainly knew that cooperating with Shen Ziqing was tantamount to seeking the skin of a tiger...but, although it was a risky move, if it could succeed, he would be willing to pay a higher price.

He originally thought that after escaping from the Shen family manor, he would be free as he pleased. However, countless times in his dreams at midnight, he would wake up with Shen Ranxin's smiling expression with curved eyes, which made his heart suffocate.

He did not react at that time, thinking it was just the discomfort caused by the sudden separation. When he reacted, he realized that what trapped him was never the tall iron gate of the Shen's manor that he could not escape from when he was a child, but the body warmth that he snuggled up to and fell asleep with when he was young.

But he could no longer keep the person in his arms.

"Don't worry." Shen Ziqing's voice slowly sounded from the communicator: "I said I would give you a Shen Ranxin that satisfies you, and I will definitely do it... There are hundreds of 'Shen Ranxin' in my laboratory. As long as his memory is extracted, he can have countless opportunities to 'resurrect', just like me, right?"

Shen Qi's breathing became heavy.

"Good boy, do as I say, okay?" Shen Ziqing said the cruelest words in the most gentle tone as he did in previous years: "Except for obeying me, you have no chance to snatch Xiao Ranxin from Lu Zhi again..."

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Shen Ranxin sat on the balcony and listened to Lu Zhi talking about those four years.

"One time you damaged your teeth by eating candy, but you hid from me and didn't let me know. Later, the pain was so severe that you couldn't even chew soft noodles, so you just stopped." Lu Zhi hugged Shen Ranxin, his fingers trembling his hair a little bit, and said softly, "When you had your teeth pulled, you cried more sadly than when your father died."

Shen Ranxin was silent for a moment.

Lu Zhi continued, "Oh, but if your father died, you would probably laugh out loud."

Shen Ranxin sat up and turned to look at Lu Zhi: "When you tell stories, you rarely mention my mother. Have you ever met my mother when you were at the Shen Family Manor?"

Lu Zhi paused, squinted his eyes and thought for a while: "I have seen it."

"Can you tell me a story about her?"

"She is a very contradictory person." Lu Zhi pinched Shen Ranxin's fingers: "It's hard to say what I think of her... In fact, I don't really want you to think about her."

Shen Ranxin glanced at Mr. Lu, and slid his fingertips from the gland on the back of his neck to the back of his ear, and said with a raised corner of his mouth: "Oh?"

“…”

Mr. Lu has never had clean thoughts about Teacher Shen, so he could not withstand Shen Ranxin's teasing. The gland that was said to never have a susceptible period quickly began to emit a rich aroma of wine.

Shen Ranxin frowned.

Lu Zhi quickly put away the pheromones, stood up, went to the room to find a suppression patch and slapped it on the back of his neck.

"You always feel uncomfortable." Lu Zhi's beautiful eyes were filled with grievances, and he looked extremely pitiful: "It wasn't like that before, it's all because of that damn Cheng Cheng, your glands haven't been exposed to my pheromones for too long, and they've started to reject it."

When Shen Ranxin was an omega before, she had no resistance to Lu Zhi's pheromones.

Even after the gland was replaced, because it was induced by Lu Zhi, he became particularly dependent on his intoxicating aroma of wine.

But in the four years since they separated, Shen Ranxin's glands had never been exposed to Lu Zhi's pheromones, and she had long forgotten the smell. The Alpha's glands began to function autonomously, rejecting the scent of all outsiders.

This resulted in Shen Ranxin feeling extremely painful from the pheromones whenever he was fooling around with Lu Zhi a few times before, and this pain would be reflected at the tips of his teeth.

Sometimes when the pain was too severe, he would raise his head and bite Lu Zhi's shoulder. Lu Zhi would then slow down, carefully retract his pheromones, and then begin to torture him gently.

Sometimes Shen Ranxin would rather let Lu Zhi go faster, at least to make his waist numb, which is better than this kind of whipping torture.

"So annoying." Lu Zhi hugged Shen Ranxin's waist, with an inhibitor on his neck. He rubbed Shen Ranxin through his clothes with unsatisfied desire: "Broken gland, just dig it out, damn it."

In the previous few times, Lu Zhi thought that Shen Ranxin was weak, so she always fainted after finishing.

Later, he discovered that Shen Ranxin only bit his shoulder while trembling all over, with sweat mixed with tears falling down, when his pheromones were spreading wildly. Only then did he suddenly realize that this was no longer four years ago, and Shen Ranxin could not adapt to his pheromones.

From then on, Lu Zhi carefully collected pheromones and wore a barrier patch at all times. However, because the concentration of pheromones was too high, even the highest-specification barrier patch could not completely block it.

Shen Ranxin laid on his chest: "I didn't expect that our President Lu would not dare to release pheromones one day? I thought you only knew how to suppress pheromones?"

Lu Zhi's eyes were red, but he had no choice but to turn his head away: "...I'm sorry."

During the time when he and Shen Ranxin suddenly met again, he always thought that Shen Ranxin's glands could accept his pheromones just like four years ago.

Shen Ranxin raised her eyebrows and got up from him: "It's boring, I'm going back."

Lu Zhi grabbed his hand, rubbed it on his face twice, and said, "I'm sorry, I know I was wrong, please don't abandon me, I will change."

Shen Ranxin looked at him calmly: "How do I change this?"

"Just dig it out." Lu Zhi tilted his head: "Just like Shen Qi, if you become a beta, you won't feel bad."

Shen Ranxin had known that Lu Zhi was a lunatic for a long time, but when she heard Lu Zhi say that digging out the glands was as easy as going to the street to buy cabbage, she was still speechless.

"Will the people at the Alien Tube Center agree to let you remove this gland?"

After all, everyone can see how much they value Lu Zhi.

"No." Lu Zhi shook his head. "So I need time. If it's just the Alien Management Center, it's not that difficult to deal with. The difficult part is that I found that there is a problem with the core data of the Alien Management Center. Some data that should have been destroyed have traces of being copied. So, there may be a traitor in the Alien Management Center. Before finding this traitor, I am the most tempting bait."

Lu Zhi had never told him these things before, but now Shen Ranxin could surprisingly understand what Lu Zhi meant.

He had looked up information and found out that Shen Ziqing's mysterious research at that time was gland transplantation. This technology was originally created to treat some rare gland diseases.

But later, the development of things gradually deviated from the original intention of this research.

If glands could be transplanted at will, then gland trading would become a natural thing.

Too many people want to change from beta to alpha or omega.

These two groups of people, one enjoys the world's best resources, and the other enjoys the most thorough care of the federation.

Betas are often the people at the bottom of an empire and have the hardest life.