Chapter 40 Are you alright?
Ren Chengzhou is sometimes quite busy on weekends. Shang Qiyue called him to say that he was bringing people over for dinner tonight and asked him to reserve a private room.
"Is it the beta you brought last time?" Ren Chengzhou asked gossipy. "My dad called me to the company these past two days, so I haven't had time to ask you. They told me you hired a beta, but I didn't believe them. I didn't expect the girl at the restaurant reception to say you actually brought a beta to eat."
Shang Qiyue rolled his eyes inwardly: "Just tell me if there are any seats available?"
"Yes, yes, yes, it's an honor to have you here. How could there be no room? I'm not going on any of the blind dates they've arranged for me tonight. I need to see what that beta looks like so you can find someone you like."
Shang Qiyue couldn't help but glance at Mu Yan again. Mu Yan was quietly curled up on the sofa with her eyes closed, but her eyelashes were trembling slightly. He didn't know if she was asleep or not. Shang Qiyue simply walked out of the office and continued making phone calls.
"If you don't want to go on blind dates, then you don't want to. Don't use me as an excuse. What's so interesting about it? What kind of omega haven't you been with? You've also been with plenty of alphas and betas, haven't you?"
Ren Chengzhou sighed on the other end: "You won't be able to live like this for many more years. Once you're married, you won't have this kind of good life anymore. You'll have to settle down for at least three or four years, have a child first, and only if your wife agrees can you each do your own thing... You know what, I've never actually played with a beta before. The artist I hired in R country was actually an omega, I think. He did some kind of performance art or something and removed his glands."
"I don't play those games, so don't try anything with my people," Shang Qiyue warned.
Ren Chengzhou and his friends were quite adventurous; it was common for them to switch partners when they got tired of one. Shang Qiyue didn't approve of this, and he even complained to Fu Jiayan in private that they all had a cuckold fetish.
Besides, Mu Yan is so wonderful, he wouldn't bear to give her to someone else.
He went back and quickly finished his work, then woke up Mu Yan from the sofa and took him out to eat.
"Are your eyes so red and uncomfortable?"
Mu Yan, of course, had no idea how pitiful his eyes looked. He nodded subconsciously, then quickly shook his head: "It'll be fine in a bit."
"It will be fine in a moment, which means you feel uncomfortable now."
Shang Qiyue rubbed his head and texted his assistant to bring up a bottle of eye drops.
"Are you still angry with me?" Shang Qiyue asked him.
Mu Yan quickly shook his head: "I wasn't angry with you at all."
His eyes were red, and now he looked more like a little rabbit.
Shang Qiyue put in some eye drops for him and took him to the Huaiyang cuisine restaurant he liked last time. The restaurant owner came by once and gave them a free dish.
Shang Qiyue told him to get lost in a bad mood. Mu Yan raised his face and thanked the boss politely but somewhat awkwardly.
The boss, a young alpha, smiled and told him that Shang Qiyue usually spoke to them like this, not gentle at all, and asked Mu Yan if he treated him the same way. No wonder no one wanted someone like that.
Mu Yan was not good at handling this kind of situation, and answered haltingly: "Sir... very good... perhaps he has high standards."
The boss smiled and said, "You have such a good impression of him."
Shang Qiyue didn't even look at him, but put some food in Mu Yan's bowl: "Why are you ignoring him? Eat your food."
Ren Chengzhou, who was looking for some fun, was disappointed and sent someone to deliver a fruit platter before leaving.
Mu Yan knew that this restaurant was owned by Shang Qiyue's friend. He knew that many rich kids would open a nice restaurant, hire good chefs, and use it for gatherings or entertaining guests. Senior Jiang had run a coffee shop when he was in college, but he rarely went there himself.
He said he didn't expect to run into Shang Qiyue's friend when he came here.
Mu Yan knew he wasn't particularly good-looking to begin with, and today his eyes were all swollen from crying. When Shang Qiyue's friend asked him a question, he couldn't answer it very well.
The Chamber of Commerce must feel very ashamed.
"What's wrong?" Shang Qiyue asked him.
"I'm sorry, sir, have I... embarrassed you?"
Shang Qiyue was taken aback: "How could that be? Don't mind Ren Chengzhou, he's always the same. He might be joking with you."
The dishes on the table were almost all eaten, leaving only the fruit platter that Ren Chengzhou brought later. Shang Qiyue felt it was bad luck, so he asked the waiter to bring another plate of crab meat lion's head meatballs, which fit perfectly into the lunchbox that Mu Yan had brought. He then simply pulled Mu Yan away.
As night fell, City A seemed to have just woken up. Mu Yan saw the neon lights come on, reflecting on the Xiangqu River, dazzling and eye-catching.
The Xiangqu River runs through City A, flowing eastward from the most prosperous CBD to the economic development zone where Mu Yan used to live.
The same river, but different sections, are two completely different worlds.
"Would you like to take a walk along the river?" Shang Qiyue asked considerately.
Mu Yan looked at Shang Qiyue's expression and thought for a moment, and felt that Shang Qiyue probably wanted to go.
They've already done it today, and it's still early to go home.
"I want to go," Mu Yan nodded.
Along this stretch of the Xiangqu River, at this time of day, there were many locals taking a stroll and tourists sightseeing. Mu Yan had a gentle and kind face, and soon two female college students approached them with cameras, asking if he could take a picture for them.
Mu Yan subconsciously wanted to ask Shang Qiyue for his opinion, but Shang Qiyue put his arm around his waist and naturally said yes first, and asked if the girl could also take a picture for them later.
Mu Yan was slightly taken aback, wondering why Shang Qiyue suddenly wanted to take a picture with her.
"Of course! You two are such a perfect match, if I were a professional photographer I would definitely grab you two to be my models." The girl handed over the camera and quickly posed.
Mu Yan quickly took several photos of them, and Shang Qiyue handed over his phone to ask the other person to take a picture of him as well.
Mu Yan smiled shyly, and Shang Qiyue gently put his arm around his waist. The girl taking the picture was still looking for the right angle.
"Turn your head a little," Shang Qiyue said softly. As if by reflex, Mu Yan immediately did as he was told.
As he pressed the shutter, Mu Yan vaguely felt that the gesture was somewhat familiar. It wasn't until the two girls had walked away that he remembered that he had used the same gesture when taking photos with Lu Chong before, and he had even used that photo as his lock screen image for a long time.
Do alphas like this action?
Shang Qiyue sent him the photo, took his phone, and quickly set it as the lock screen.
Mu Yan was slightly taken aback. Shang Qiyue was somewhat displeased by his reaction: "You don't like using my picture as your lock screen? Am I that ugly?"
"No, no..." Mu Yan quickly explained, "I was thinking about what the master just said to those two people."
"Are you jealous?" Shang Qiyue asked him.
Mu Yan lowered her head, avoiding his gaze, and softly hummed in agreement.
“They’re both alphas, what are you jealous of?” Shang Qiyue smiled, lowered his voice, and kissed Mu Yan’s forehead. “But baby is cute like this too.”
"They just told me that my pheromones smell a bit strong, and I might be approaching my fertile period, so they gave me a box of suppression patches." Shang Qiyue showed him the items in her hand.
Mu Yan couldn't smell pheromones, but he had basic common sense: the scent of pheromones would become particularly strong one or two days before the fertile period, and Shang Qiyue's fertile period should be in the next two days.
"So now... do you want to go home now? Or would you like to come to my place?"
Mu Yan didn't expect Shang Qiyue's susceptible period to come so quickly, but he always knew what an alpha's susceptible period was like, so he prepared nutritional fluids and instant food in advance, as well as painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs for himself.
Shang Qiyue is no ordinary person; he couldn't possibly bargain with Shang Qiyue to ask him to take suppressants a few days ago or to be gentler or less gentle.
While in the car, Mu Yan sensed that Shang Qiyue seemed to be showing signs of entering a sensitive period. He probably felt hot and wanted to open the sunroof a bit, but considering his own health, he only opened the driver's side window a crack.
Mu Yan mustered her courage: "Are you starting to feel unwell? Would you like to sit in the back seat and I'll drive?"
Shang Qiyue hesitated for a moment, clearly somewhat tempted by the suggestion: "Do you have a driver's license?"
Mu Yan had a driver's license. Back in college, Lu Chong heard that he hadn't learned to drive and thought that a driver's license would be quite necessary after entering the workforce, so he paid for him to take the driving test and get his license.
"Yes, but..."
Mu Yan hadn't driven for a while, but he was always cautious, so he figured nothing bad should happen. However, by sheer coincidence, Shang Qiyue was driving a G-Class today. The car had a very high chassis, and Mu Yan was a little hesitant to drive it.
"Never mind," Shang Qiyue said, seeing that he was still a little hesitant to drive. "I'll hold on for a while. I'm not feeling too bad yet. If it really gets too bad, I'll call my assistant. This car is really too big and not easy to drive. Oh, you have a driver's license. I saw you taking the subway or a taxi every day. I thought you hadn't passed the test. I should have given you a car. You have a driver's license but you didn't ask me for a car. How could you be so stupid?"
Mu Yan was stunned. He didn't know what other canaries were like. To him, the 300,000 yuan that Shang Qiyue gave him every month was already a lot.
“I…it’s easy for me to take a taxi, you’ve already given me so much.”
Shang Qiyue frowned, but did not answer immediately.
Mu Yan looked at his somewhat unwell expression and said, "Are you feeling very unwell? Why don't you stop for now?"
When Shang Qiyue was in his most vulnerable period, he seemed to be different from Lu Chong. His face turned pale, as if he were sick.
Shang Qiyue was probably feeling really unwell, so he found a place nearby to park his car and then called his assistant.
Mu Yan saw him take out some medicine and mineral water from beside the driver's seat, and his face regained a little color after taking it.
Are you alright?
"I'm fine, nothing's wrong." Shang Qiyue forced a smile at him, then remembered that he should have given up the driver's seat earlier, so he and Mu Yan sat in the back.
"I'll take you to pick out a car in a few days. If you like any of the ones in the garage, just drive them away. I remember there's a 911 that looks really nice and suits you. But it depends on you. If you think it's too flashy, I'll take you to buy an Audi or something after my heat cycle is over. Audis don't consume that much gas, so you won't be reluctant to drive it."
As Shang Qiyue spoke, he seemed not to want any answer from Mu Yan. Before Mu Yan could say anything, he picked up his phone and called his assistant, urging him to hurry up.
Shang Qiyue's assistant arrived shortly afterward and skillfully drove the car back to Mu Yan's residence.
Shang Qiyue picked up his phone, transferred some overtime pay to him, and told him to take a taxi home himself.
Back home, Mu Yan took out the nutritional fluids and painkillers he had prepared in advance from the medicine box. During the alpha's sensitive period, except for rest time, he was almost constantly having sex and getting pregnant. If he didn't prepare in advance, it would almost kill him.
Shang Qiyue slumped listlessly on the sofa, and when he saw Mu Yan find the lubricant, he finally couldn't bear to watch any longer.
"Stop looking."
"My fertile period is... not quite the same as other alphas' fertile periods. I don't need to prepare those things."
[Author's Note]
Shang Qiyue: I've wanted to replace this crappy lock screen for a long time.
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