Chapter 111 You Dare to Say You Don't Know Mu Yan
Xie Chengjun had so many children and made them all live together, it was like raising poisonous insects. No one could do that, and He Fan was an even more disgusting madman.
Although he thought this to himself, Lu Chong didn't show it on his face. He opened the door to the VIP lounge, stepped aside to let Xie Chen in, and asked him what kind of tea he would like.
"It will be all right."
Lu Chong didn't bother trying to guess what kind of tea Lu Zhi usually drank, so he just grabbed the Pu'er tea that Lu Zhi drank and brewed it for him.
"We didn't talk in detail last time. I just noticed today that Mr. Lu is wearing a wedding ring. Is he already married?" Xie Chen asked.
Xie Chen's tone was casual and ordinary, and Lu Chong couldn't tell whether he was unaware of the social etiquette in China about not prying into other people's privacy, or if he was simply overly curious.
Lu Chong glanced down at the plain ring on his left ring finger. He didn't know the meaning of wearing a ring like that, but it was a way to keep out many omegas who tried to pick him up in public social situations.
He didn't want to waste time rejecting these people. If he were to spend the rest of his life with anyone, it would only be Mu Yan.
“Mr. Xie, you’re here to discuss cooperation with me, right?” Lu Chongwen smiled gently and handed Xie Chen the brewed Pu’er tea. “This is a personal matter for me, and I don’t really want to answer it if it doesn’t affect our cooperation.”
“I’m not here to discuss cooperation,” Xie Chen said calmly. “I’m here to ask Mr. Lu some personal questions.”
"Mr. Lu, does your wife know that you've had someone else fake a pregnancy?"
Lu Chong was completely stunned. Seeing his expression, Xie Chen felt even more disgusted.
This rich kid probably has a very messy private life. He doesn't even have a sexual partner with whom he has a stable relationship for several months, so much so that when I told him, he couldn't even remember who it was.
“Let me remind Mr. Lu again,” Xie Chen’s tone began to sound impatient, “It happened three months ago.”
There were three rhythmic knocks on the door, and a woman's gentle voice came from outside: "Mr. Xie, Xiao Chong, are you inside? My partner asked me to deliver some food."
This title likely refers to Lu Chong's older sister, Lu Zhi.
Xie Chen deeply despised people like Lu Chong and wished he could find someone more reasonable to obtain his pheromones.
He had already given Lu Chong a chance. Since Lu Chong didn't care about his dignity, he couldn't blame Lu Chong for making a scene in front of Lu Chong's family.
Xie Chen stepped forward and opened the door, his expression turning sour as he said, "Miss Lu, Mr. Fu is here too."
“Mr. Xie,” Lu Zhi smiled politely, “I received the brooch from you, and I like it very much.”
Lu Zhi opened this gallery purely because she had an artistic dream when she was studying in Florence. She didn't expect to make much money; she just wanted to get to know some people in the art circle so that it would be easier to give away her paintings in the future.
She had been busy backstage for half a day, and when her assistant gave her the brooch, she was a little stunned. She couldn't figure out why Xie Chen, a person from country A, would come here. She didn't know if Xie Chen had originally come to see Lu Chong, or if he had tried to see her but failed and was now talking to Lu Chong alone. So she took some food and went in to ask.
"Miss Lu, Mr. Fu, we were just waiting for you. Please come in."
Xie Chen's host-like demeanor left Lu Zhi even more bewildered. Despite her confusion, Lu Zhi still sat down with Fu Jiayan on the three-seater sofa where Lu Chong was sitting.
“Mr. Lu Chong,” Xie Chen said bluntly, “I know that in the circle you grew up in, a chaotic private life is not a shameful thing, but I think that mutual consent and respect for sexual partners should be the most basic principles. People who disregard even this basic principle are simply too shameless.”
“What exactly is Mr. Xie talking about?” Lu Chong wasn’t one to back down. He was finally getting angry at Xie Chen for continuing to spout nonsense in front of his sister and brother-in-law. “If someone has hysteria, they should get treatment. Even if a hereditary mental illness has little chance of being cured, they still can’t just run away from a mental hospital and spout nonsense like that.”
"Nonsense?" Xie Chen said coldly, "Do you dare say you don't know Mu Yan?"
Upon hearing the name Mu Yan, Lu Chong was completely stunned, like a boss NPC whose shield had been broken in a game.
"You think you can just play around with a commoner beta and not take responsibility?" Xie Chen sneered. "It's really unfortunate that he is my adoptive mother's long-lost child. To me, he is no different from my own brother. I will definitely take care of his affairs. I don't need you to take responsibility for him. The threshold of the Lu family is too high. Our Mu Yan can't afford to be associated with them. Let's just extract his pheromones."
“I believe Miss Lu is a reasonable person,” Xie Chen said, looking at Lu Zhi beside him. “You shouldn’t object to my request, right?”
Before he could finish speaking, a slap landed on Lu Chong's face. Lu Chong didn't react for a long time before he looked up and glanced at Lu Zhi, who had slapped him.
"Is this how your family raised you? Isn't Mu Yan the beta you dated when you ran away from home? He was there for you through two years of hardship, and you said you wanted to marry him. Is this how you treat him?"
The conditions for a false pregnancy are very strict. Generally, a false pregnancy will occur when the alpha is in the fertile period, injects pheromones into the partner to mark them for life and forms a knot in the reproductive cavity, and the partner happens to be an omega or beta whose reproductive cavity is not fully developed.
For omegas, the injection of pheromones can drive them to ecstasy and bring them to the peak of sexual pleasure. However, for betas who cannot receive alpha pheromones and are born with narrow and degenerated reproductive cavities, it is almost nothing short of sadomasochism.
Lu Zhi was genuinely furious. She always had consensual relationships with her bed partners, and even if they were just ordinary bed partners with no real feelings for each other, they shouldn't be treated like this.
She was about to slap him a second time when Fu Jiayan stopped her. Fu Jiayan hesitated for a moment before saying, "Lu Zhi, why don't you listen to Lu Chong's explanation first? Maybe... it's a misunderstanding."
Lu Zhi gave him a cold look: "You have these kinds of misunderstandings outside too?"
Fu Jiayan dared not speak; the clear finger marks on Lu Chong's pale face were particularly noticeable.
Lu Chong slightly raised his head and glanced at Xie Chen, his voice trembling slightly: "You just mentioned Mu Yan..."
"Yes, it's a false pregnancy, and it's already past ten weeks. There's no way to control it with medication. He'll feel even worse after twelve weeks. I don't expect Mr. Lu to repent or feel guilty. I'll just extract his pheromones directly."
Lu Chong stood there, speechless for a long time.
His face was almost deathly pale. After a long while, he lowered his head and took a sip of the now-cold Pu'er tea.
When he looked up again, his expression had calmed down.
“Let me talk to Mr. Xie alone. Sister and brother-in-law, you can go out first. Mr. Xie just wants my pheromones, right? I will give you a satisfactory answer.”
Lu Zhi was furious and seemed about to say something, but Xie Chen remained silent, seemingly acquiescing to the suggestion.
“Lu Chong said he would take responsibility, so let him handle it himself,” Fu Jiayan advised gently. “He’s twenty-four, he should know what he’s doing. You don’t need to keep an eye on everything. Vincent is leaving soon, we should go see him off.”
Fu Jiayan coaxed and pulled Lu Zhi, whose face had turned blue with anger, away from the room. Only Lu Chong and Xie Chen remained in the room. Xie Chen stared at the person opposite him with a sullen face, wanting to see what this beast had to say next.
“I didn’t make him fake a pregnancy,” Lu Chong said, taking a deep breath.
“I roughly know who did it. You don’t need to look at me like that. Mr. Xie has connections everywhere. He can find out about my relationship with Mu Yan even from a foreign country. If you investigate a little deeper, you can find out who really made him fake a pregnancy. There’s an even faster way. You can call He Fan now. He should be able to verify whether what I’m saying is true.”
"But I don't recommend you do that, because it's not very meaningful."
Judging from Lu Zhi and Fu Jiayan's departure, every word Lu Chong said showed no sign of lying, even based on his micro-expressions.
Xie Chen stared at him silently, as if a storm was brewing.
Deep down, he actually tended to believe that what Lu Chong was saying was true, because if someone had such outstanding micro-expression management skills, Lu Chong could have kept it from him discovering that he was lying when he first said that he had undergone minor surgery.
"Why?" Xie Chen asked.
Lu Chong pondered for a moment, then gently shook his head, without directly answering Xie Chen's question.
"Didn't you come to ask me for pheromones? I can give them to you. My pheromone is vetiver. When I was with Mu Yan before... I wanted him to smell my pheromones, so I always sprayed vetiver perfume on myself. Mu Yan... he always liked it."
"Although there's no way to measure the compatibility between alpha and beta, since Mu Yan likes my pheromones, my pheromones should also be somewhat compatible with him."
"You said yourself that you bought perfume," Xie Chen laughed angrily, "Perfume isn't going to smell bad, is it?"
Now it was Lu Chong's turn to be speechless. The amount of information Xie Chen had told him today was too much, and he had indeed made a stupid mistake in this matter.
Even if the perfume didn't smell that good, Mu Yan would still bury his face in his neck, gently nuzzle his neck, and breathe softly on his neck, then say in a gentle voice that he liked it very much.
"Give me that alpha's name and contact information. I'll go talk to him." Xie Chen didn't want to waste any more time on Lu Chong and made the request directly.
Judging from Lu Chong's words, he knew very well who the other party was. Xie Chen was a pragmatist, and he didn't want to waste any more time investigating if he could find the answer directly.
"I'm very sorry for misunderstanding you today. I will come to apologize in person another day and make some substantial compensation." Realizing that his words had been a bit harsh and that he had indeed misunderstood Lu Chong at the beginning, Xie Chen adjusted his tone and apologized sincerely.
Lu Chong looked up at him, a rare hint of hesitation appearing in his eyes.
"It's alright. I understand that you're concerned about Mu Yan, but it might not be a good idea for you to go find that person."
[Author's Note]
Fu Jiayan: If you hit him, you can't hit me! [Pleading]
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