[ABO] The Little Mute Had His Thoughts Heard by the Villain’s Whole Family – CH24

Chapter 24: Will He Kiss Him?

Even after they finished choosing all the collars and came out, Shi Sheng was still thinking about that Alpha from earlier.

He kept feeling that Hovis gave him a sense of familiarity. But that familiarity did not seem to come from what he knew about the Huo family.

It should be from somewhere else. He had seen Hovis before.

Shi Sheng thought for a long time but could not remember. Then, when the car passed by a famous ice cream shop in the capital, his attention was instantly drawn away.

Elaine noticed his gaze. “Do you want some?”

Shi Sheng wanted to nod, but then looked at the long line in front of the shop and regretfully pressed his voice device. “Forget, it. So, many, people.”

Elaine operated something and made the self-driving car stop. “It’s fine. We have plenty of time today.”

He re-fastened the seat belt Shi Sheng had unbuckled. “It’s windy. Wait here.”

By the time Shi Sheng reacted, Elaine had already crossed the road and joined the end of the line.

—Elaine was lining up to buy him ice cream!

This realization made Shi Sheng’s face gradually turn red.

If he were not restrained by the seat belt, he even wanted to roll around.

Goddess of Love above, if this was not a date, then what was? If this was not a date, then what was?

Shi Sheng laughed hehe and lowered the car window, wanting to take a closer look at Elaine’s back as he waited in line.

Who knew that with this glance, he would see an unlucky face passing by outside the window.

“Oh, isn’t this our Xiao Yi?”

Shi Sheng’s smile instantly disappeared.

Ji Sui walked over with his arm linked through Lowell’s. “Out alone? How rare.”

He smiled and said to Lowell, “It’s been so many years since I last saw him appear under the sunlight.”

Shi Sheng expressionlessly raised the car window, but Lowell reached out and held it down. The window sensed a person and automatically stopped rising.

“Xiao Sui is talking to you.” Lowell still wore an arrogant expression, looking at Shi Sheng in dissatisfaction. “Why are you still so rude?”

Shi Sheng was too lazy to deal with them. He opened his empty hand, meaning that he had not brought his voice device.

“Ah, how can this go on?” Ji Sui sighed. “The military academy starts in two days. You can’t keep being mute like this forever, can you?”

As he spoke, he bent down closer to Shi Sheng as if very concerned. “Have you had any news from your older brother recently? Everything else can be managed, but if he isn’t around, what will you do about the mecha operating program due at the start of school?”

Only then did Shi Sheng remember that Ji Sui was in the same major as Shi Yi.

His brother Shi Yi had always been ranked first in the major, so Ji Sui must have been holding in anger for a long time.

Yet Ji Sui still looked worried about Shi Sheng. “Faces and names can be impersonated, but ability is a bit harder. Little brother, when you get to school, if you have any difficulties, remember to tell your cousin.”

Shi Sheng rolled his eyes and pressed the window button again.

At that moment, Ji Sui’s hand happened to be resting on the window, and he instantly cried out in pain.

“What are you doing!” Lowell immediately felt distressed and snapped sharply at Shi Sheng. “Shi Yi, get out and apologize!”

Shi Sheng looked inexplicably at Ji Sui’s pained expression.

Just now, the window had clearly sensed Lowell’s hand and stopped automatically. How could it possibly pinch Ji Sui?

Seeing that he remained unmoved, Lowell was so angry that he kicked the car door. “Didn’t you hear me telling you to get out!”

“Shi Yi, you—”

Ji Sui suddenly screamed, and both his voice and anger abruptly stopped.

Shi Sheng did not know what had happened. He only felt that Ji Sui had nearly deafened him, and he raised his head speechlessly.

Only to see a curved blade, small in size yet clearly very sharp, hovering in midair beside Lowell’s neck.

If he moved even slightly, his throat would immediately be cut open.

“Who are you shouting at?”

A cold male voice gradually approached. Shi Sheng instantly lowered the car window and poked his head out.

Elaine slowly walked over. The golden eyes exposed beneath his bite suppressor were very cold, but in his hand, he held an ice cream.

He handed the ice cream to Shi Sheng, his tone gentle. “Chocolate and strawberry. Is that all right?”

Shi Sheng smiled and gestured thank you, took the ice cream, then looked at Lowell and Ji Sui, whose faces had gone pale from fright.

That small curved blade still seemed to be controlled by an invisible hand. Wherever Lowell moved, it followed.

Ji Sui gritted his teeth. “Marshal…”

Elaine did not see him at all. He only looked coldly at Lowell. “The cabinet nags all day, yet it failed to teach its own son basic manners.”

Sweat had already begun to run down Lowell’s forehead.

Shi Sheng noticed that passersby around them were watching, and some were recording with their bracelets.

He did not want Elaine to be discussed again, so he leaned out with the voice device and tugged Elaine.

“Hungry. Let’s, go, eat.”

Elaine’s right hand moved slightly, and the curved blade instantly flew back into his hand, sliding into his sleeve.

He paid no attention to those two people and opened the car door, sitting beside Shi Sheng.

He even leaned over and used a handkerchief to wipe a bit of cream from the corner of Shi Sheng’s lips.

Shi Sheng froze for a moment, then thanked Elaine with smiling, curved eyes.

The car window rose. The final image captured by the onlookers outside was his smiling face.

Elaine waited until Shi Sheng finished the ice cream before asking, “That cousin of yours. Is your relationship with him very bad?”

Shi Sheng nodded solemnly. “He, is, jealous, of, me.”

After pressing these words, he quickly lifted his eyes and looked at Elaine, like a sly little animal.

Elaine laughed softly. “Is that so? Why?”

Shi Sheng had not forgotten his current identity. “My, grades, are, better, than, his. I, am, a, genius.”

“I remember that the opening assignment for the military academy’s Information Technology major is a mecha autopilot program.” Elaine used this to bring up something else. “Although you can take leave, the assignment must still be submitted within the school year.”

He did not say anything more, only reminding Shi Sheng indirectly.

Shi Sheng acted very much like Shi Yi. He confidently patted himself. “At, home, I, can, write, it. I, will, submit, it, on, time.”

Elaine was a little surprised, only assuming that before Shi Yi left, he might have left something for Shi Sheng.

What he had originally wanted to say changed direction. “Mm. If you need anything, you can come to me anytime.”

Shi Sheng smiled in satisfaction again.

Looking at the Omega’s curved smiling eyes, Elaine still had a question he had not asked.

If that foolish cousin was jealous of Shi Yi because of military academy grades, then what about Shi Sheng?

What was the reason that made them treat Shi Sheng that way?

Elaine’s expression turned cold. But when Shi Sheng turned his head and called him, his golden eyes once again became warm like sunlight.

They kept shopping until they had dinner at a restaurant outside before returning to the Carlos residence. Shi Sheng showered first, then opened his bracelet and pulled up a program that was nearly finished.

His brother really was unreliable. He had not even told him about such an important assignment.

Fortunately, Shi Sheng had long prepared for this.

When Elaine came out after showering, he saw Shi Sheng sitting cross-legged on the bed, looking at the virtual panel in front of him with a serious expression.

Elaine glanced at it while drying his hair and was a little surprised. “Autopilot program?”

Shi Sheng nodded, then looked at the towel in Elaine’s hand and volunteered by stretching out his hands.

Ever since Shi Sheng had been injured, he had not dried Elaine’s hair again.

Elaine paused, but still sat beside Shi Sheng and lowered his head. “Thank you.”

Shi Sheng carefully and secretly touched Elaine’s long hair, sighing inwardly that it was like silk.

Elaine’s gaze, however, fell on the panel that Shi Sheng had not yet closed.

“There’s a small problem here.”

Shi Sheng was happily touching Elaine’s hair, so when he suddenly heard the voice, he froze.

Elaine patiently signaled for him to look at the panel. “The value here is a little too small. In actual combat, the power needed for a single wing is usually 1.2 times the panel value.”

Shi Sheng reacted and quickly made a series of changes.

In the end, he was not like his brother, who had studied systematically at the military academy. His current abilities had all been self-taught over many years.

Elaine watched Shi Sheng’s practiced movements and remembered some things he had found before, along with other questions he had not found answers to.

That cold heart, tempered over years on the battlefield, rarely felt a pang of distress.

Shi Sheng turned back to him at this moment, looking at him with an eager-to-learn expression.

Elaine said gently, “There are no problems now. You’re very impressive. This program is perfect.”

Having been praised, Shi Sheng’s face turned rosy again.

He closed the panel and dried Elaine’s hair even more diligently.

Elaine lowered his head. When he turned slightly, he could see Shi Sheng’s neck.

Around the Omega’s slender neck was the black beast-bone collar he had given him.

Near the collarbone, there was still gauze. That was the wound he had received in the accident.

Shi Sheng’s movements gradually slowed.

Because he realized that Elaine seemed to be getting closer and closer to him.

The atmosphere at this moment felt rather good to Shi Sheng.

His heart began pounding wildly. He even felt that Elaine might want to kiss him.

Would he kiss him? Did Elaine like him?

These days, Elaine had cared for him in every possible way. They clearly got along like a real, legal couple.

When his wound had not fully healed, Elaine would even soothe him with pheromones.

Except he had never marked him and never said he liked him.

Shi Sheng was nervous and confused at the same time.

But all of Elaine’s kindness to him might also simply come from the other party’s sense of responsibility.

If the one who had married in were his older brother, Elaine might also have done the same out of responsibility.

Unless, at this very moment, Elaine really wanted to kiss him. Then perhaps…

Shi Sheng suddenly realized that he was waiting for an answer, so he became especially nervous.

Elaine’s breath brushed over Shi Sheng’s skin, and the Omega could not help trembling.

But Elaine only checked his wound and quickly withdrew his hand.

“It’s about to scab over.” Elaine’s voice was somewhat low. “Let the doctor take another look tomorrow.”

Shi Sheng’s heart fell back down. He nodded a little disappointedly.

Elaine gently held down Shi Sheng’s hand. “All right. Leave it to the robot. You need more rest.”

And so Shi Sheng could only reluctantly let go of the Alpha’s hair.

Even after he lay side by side on the bed with Elaine as usual, each under their own blanket, Shi Sheng’s mood was still somewhat low.

There was a faint, familiar pheromone scent in the air.

These days, because Elaine was afraid Shi Sheng would not sleep well due to the wound, he had already gotten used to soothing him.

Shi Sheng buried his face in the blanket and quietly sniffed.

Elaine’s unintentional gesture just now made Shi Sheng realize that he had been getting a little too carried away recently.

He had forgotten that he was an impostor. Forgotten that all this time was stolen by him.

No matter how much he acted like his brother, even if the program he wrote was more perfect than his brother’s, sooner or later, there would come a day when he would have to leave Elaine.

Ever since losing face on the street that day, Ji Sui did not see Lowell again until the military academy started.

But he did not dare give Lowell attitude either. He could only brush him off on the Star Network.

Compared with Lowell, what Ji Sui cared about more was Elaine and the other Carlos family members’ attitudes toward Shi Sheng.

It was clearly far better than he had expected!

Shi Sheng was actually living perfectly well in that family? Impossible!

Ji Sui’s already unhappy mood hit rock bottom when he saw Shi Sheng’s assignment.

How was that possible? Shi Yi had clearly disappeared. How could Shi Sheng possibly submit the assignment?

Looking at the name ranked first, the name he hated so much his teeth itched, Ji Sui clenched both hands.

He would not let Shi Sheng have an easy time.

He had worked so hard for so long. On what grounds were these two brothers still haunting him like lingering ghosts and pressing down on his head?

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