[ABO] The Little Mute Had His Thoughts Heard by the Villain’s Whole Family – CH23

Chapter 23: Does This Count as… a Date?

The first step in Shi Sheng’s “doing something” was to invite Yu Mian for afternoon tea.

Yu Mian had already been holding in anger all night, so he could not help rattling off the whole thing to Shi Sheng, adding plenty of extra color to the story.

Of course, he hid the important information about the curse.

“I just don’t understand. What’s wrong with the crown prince?” Yu Mian took a big bite of cake. “Isn’t he better than randomly marrying some Alpha?”

[Looks like Yu Mian really is very fixated on the crown prince.]

[No wonder he became a vicious villain.]

[Looks like he really likes him.]

Yu Mian: “…”

That was not exactly the reason.

Shi Sheng put on the posture of having a heart-to-heart with Yu Mian and placed his voice device on the table.

“If, you, really, like, him, very, much, then, talk, properly, with, Elaine.”

Yu Mian was silent for a moment. “No. I don’t like him.”

Shi Sheng’s eyes widened a little, unable to understand. “Then, why, must, you, marry, him?”

Seeing that Yu Mian did not speak for a long time, Shi Sheng could only press his voice device again.

“Yumi, don’t, want, to, marry, someone, you, like?”

He had originally thought Yu Mian would say he did not have anyone he liked.

But after a long silence, the beautiful young master suddenly changed his sitting posture.

He elegantly picked up a sugar cube from the plate and dropped it into his teacup.

With a soft sound, Yu Mian’s faint voice followed. “I can’t marry the person I like.”

“Then I might as well marry someone useful, right?”

Shi Sheng was also silent for a while. He hesitated, his fingers hovering over the keys for a moment before finally pressing them.

“Elaine, hopes, you, will, be, happy.”

Yu Mian froze, then smiled faintly. “You know that too?”

“I, just, know.” Shi Sheng looked at Yu Mian seriously.

[Being the crown princess consort isn’t that easy!]

Just as Yu Mian was about to speak, he heard Shi Sheng’s inner voice again.

[This little idiot, insisting on charging straight into the imperial family. Isn’t that just making himself Noah’s number one thorn in the eye?!]

[The crown prince’s birthday banquet is coming soon. This is probably the banquet where Yu Mian drugs Noah but gets countered instead.]

[No, I have to go with him. I can’t let our Yumi get involved with some lousy old man!]

“…” Yu Mian could not respond to the contents of Shi Sheng’s inner voice, so he could only cough pretentiously.

Shi Sheng returned from his inner world. He felt that Yu Mian might have been possessed, insisting on marrying the crown prince no matter what. After thinking it over, he decided to take a more indirect approach.

He pulled up a gossip forum on the Star Network that he had browsed before, clicked on the hottest post, and pushed it in front of Yu Mian.

Yu Mian looked closely and frowned.

“Beautiful Beta Accompanies Him Day and Night; Crown Prince’s Good News May Be Near.”

“Popular Dance Partner Candidates Revealed; Commoner Beta Rises Overnight Like a Phoenix…”

“What kind of messy nonsense is this?” Yu Mian leaned back in disgust.

Shi Sheng showed him the photos in the post of Noah accompanying the crown prince. Recently, Noah’s figure had appeared at every public occasion where Ning Zhao showed up.

Yu Mian narrowed his eyes and looked for a while. Suddenly, he gave a cold laugh, drank all his tea in one gulp, and set the cup down on the table with a click.

“You should worry about yourself first.” Yu Mian stood up. “The military academy has opening assignments. Even if you take leave, you still have to submit them.”

After saying that, he left Shi Sheng behind, stunned like a wooden chicken.

He wanted to see what would happen at the birthday banquet.

Drugging someone? He would never do something as low as Lanris.

As for being forced to marry some old man, impossible!

Since the strategy with Yu Mian had failed, Shi Sheng decided to turn toward Elaine.

But Elaine was clearly not someone who could be conquered through chatting. Shi Sheng’s little brain spun, and he came up with an idea.

When Elaine returned, he saw Shi Sheng sitting on the carpet with his back facing the door, doing something unknown.

He walked over, bent down, and placed a sunflower on the low table Shi Sheng was leaning over.

Shi Sheng raised his head in surprise.

Elaine explained, “The flower shop owner said today’s sunflowers bloomed very well.”

His gaze fell on the low table, and he paused. “What is this?”

Shi Sheng somewhat embarrassedly lifted the drawing in his hand and handed it to Elaine.

If he had not personally seen Shi Sheng drawing and coloring, Elaine would have thought it was some kindergarten assignment.

But Shi Sheng seriously pointed at the tallest stick figure in the drawing, then pointed at Elaine.

Elaine could not help laughing. “Me?”

Shi Sheng nodded, then pointed at the red stick figure beside it.

“Mm, this is you,” Elaine cooperated.

Shi Sheng showed an expression of “the child is teachable,” then pointed at the yellow stick figure beside him, the same height as himself, and looked at Elaine expectantly.

Elaine lowered his eyes and looked. “Yu Mian?”

Without waiting for Shi Sheng to speak, his slender finger pointed at the remaining two stick figures beside them, drawing conclusions from one example. “Izel. Lindsay.”

Shi Sheng turned the drawing around in satisfaction and handed it to Elaine.

Elaine reached out and accepted it. “For me?”

Although his original intention was to give Elaine a drawing to hint at him a little, now that it had turned out like this, Shi Sheng really did feel a little embarrassed.

Elaine’s gaze, however, was gentle. He accepted it solemnly. “Thank you. I’ll treasure it properly.”

Shi Sheng stared in shock as Elaine opened the safe and placed his kindergarten-level simple drawing inside. Before he could react, he heard Elaine ask,

“There’s nothing at the military headquarters tomorrow. Would you like me to accompany you out for a walk?”

Shi Sheng forgot everything else. Only wild joy remained in his heart—

[Something this good exists?!]

The next day, Shi Sheng got up very early and prepared to call Yu Mian to go out with them, taking the opportunity to save the crumbling brotherhood between Yu Mian and Elaine.

Who knew Yu Mian did not come to the dining room at all.

Half regretful and half secretly delighted, Shi Sheng began his first date with Elaine—what he personally considered a date.

The weather was a little cold that day. Shi Sheng wore a hat in the same color scheme as the sweater on his body, and this entire outfit had been chosen by Elaine from the dressing room.

Shi Sheng expressed a tiny bit of shock that Elaine actually knew how to match clothes.

Then came blind worship—Elaine really knew how to do everything!

Their main purpose for going out that day was to buy some clothes for Shi Sheng and, along the way, choose jewelry for the crown prince’s birthday banquet.

But Shi Sheng had not expected their first stop to be a store that sold anti-bite collars.

“I said before that I would take you to choose a new one, but I only had time today.” Elaine paused here. “I had one custom-made before, but that isn’t important. My taste has never been popular with Omegas… Let’s first see if there’s anything you like here.”

The moment Shi Sheng heard that Elaine had custom-made a collar for him, where would he still have the mood to look at anything else? He pressed his voice device very quickly.

“Want, to, see. See, that, first.”

Elaine was rarely hesitant, but under Shi Sheng’s expectant gaze, he still asked the clerk to bring the item over.

An exquisite and expensive box was solemnly placed on the table. The clerk carefully opened the lid.

A collar carved from black beast bone appeared before Shi Sheng.

The originally rough beast bone had been polished until it was fine and soft, each piece winding together into a strict and complicated shape.

At the very center of the beast bone was a clear piece of amber.

Shi Sheng was struck in an instant. He carefully touched it, then turned to look at Elaine.

An expression Shi Sheng had never seen before appeared on the cold, stern Alpha’s face. “It’s fine if you don’t like it. It isn’t anything important.”

Shi Sheng quickly shook his head hard.

The clerk mustered up courage and smiled. “Madam seems to like it very much.”

Shi Sheng nodded with a face full of agreement.

The clerk helped him take out the collar. Shi Sheng carefully accepted it, then suddenly stood on tiptoe and held the collar up in front of Elaine.

Elaine paused slightly, then saw Shi Sheng smiling as he pointed at the bite suppressor Elaine was wearing today, then at the collar in his hands.

Even though they had not been custom-made at the same time, the same black beast bone would make anyone think they were a pair.

Elaine’s eyes softened. He took the collar from Shi Sheng’s hands, bent down, and helped him put it on.

When he drew close, Shi Sheng, as if possessed, reached out and touched the metal chain on the bite suppressor.

Elaine’s movement paused. With only a slight tilt of his head, he met Shi Sheng’s eyes, curved like crescent moons from smiling.

Just as he finished fastening the lock for the Omega, both of them heard a familiar name come from another corner of the store.

“Sorry, this was reserved by Young Master Carlos.”

Immediately after came a male voice with indistinguishable emotion.

“Which Carlos? Thanatos, or—”

In front of a counter not far away leaned a tall Alpha. He did not look very young, but his brows and eyes were handsome and dangerous. Over his black shirt, he wore a jacket thrown on carelessly, with a badge belonging to the Security Department on it.

An unopened electronic cigarette was clipped between his fingers. As he spoke, he spun it once and tossed it back into his jacket pocket.

“—Yu Mian?”

When he said Yu Mian’s name, his tone was lazy.

Shi Sheng looked over curiously.

The clerk over there was still explaining, “Yes, Young Master Yu Mian. These earrings were custom-made by him. He should be coming to pick them up soon. Would you like to look at something else?”

The Alpha only glanced casually. “Fine. Things belonging to that young master really can’t be snatched by force.”

His gaze swept over casually. When he saw Elaine, he raised his brows very slightly and walked toward the two of them.

“Marshal.” The Alpha held his hat in one hand and extended his other hand. “What a coincidence.”

Elaine shielded Shi Sheng behind him and extended one hand to briefly shake the Alpha’s. “Chief Hovis.”

Seeing that Shi Sheng was truly curious, he lowered his head and introduced him. “Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, Hovis.”

The Alpha called Hovis seemed to only then notice Shi Sheng. “This must be your Omega. A pleasure.”

His speech was still polite, but Shi Sheng noticed that he had a typical heavy-browed, sharp-eyed look, making his entire person carry the aura of a desperado.

Shi Sheng knew about the capital’s Metropolitan Police Department. It was responsible for the public security of the entire capital.

Aside from that, Hovis was also the person in power of the Huo family.

The Huo family’s reputation was not much better than the Carlos family’s. They were the kind of existence that could move smoothly in both lawful society and the underworld.

Shi Sheng quickly greeted him, then shrank back beside Elaine.

“Rare indeed, to run into the Marshal accompanying Madam while shopping.” Hovis’s voice was a little rough, sounding lazy, yet different from Izel’s noble scumbag tone. “Then I won’t disturb you. Until next time.”

Elaine gave a slight nod. Hovis placed the police hat in his hand onto his head and left just like that.

Shi Sheng looked at his back, then at the pair of gemstone earrings displayed there.

They were indeed Yu Mian’s style.

At the same time, they were also a very “Omega” style that most Alphas would not like.

So Hovis’s taste was actually this type?

[ABO] The Little Mute Had His Thoughts Heard by the Villain’s Whole Family