Chapter 13: Lu Chenzhou Has Principles
Lu Chenzhou’s problem was not something an ordinary Omega could save him from.
Thinking of how this was the first time he had taken the initiative to bring something over for testing, Ji Yanzhi sighed. Even if his heart was moved, the two of them would have no future.
“President Lu, if he’s a Beta, he can’t save you.”
Lu Chenzhou’s expression was unreadable. He took out a cigarette and began smoking, one after another. Suddenly, he laughed.
The smile was sinister and terrifying, startling even Ji Yanzhi.
Then, Lu Chenzhou spoke.
“He already has a boyfriend.”
His tone was calm, without the slightest fluctuation, yet Ji Yanzhi felt a surge of panic. As his private doctor and attending physician, he knew very clearly just how obsessive Lu Chenzhou’s personality was. An S-rank Alpha with pheromone disorder rarely survived into adulthood.
The fact that Lu Chenzhou could work like a normal person, commute to and from the office, and handle interpersonal relationships already seemed unbelievable to Ji Yanzhi.
Now, he was terrified that Lu Chenzhou might do something horrifying that disregarded the law, so he hurriedly advised him, “President Lu, since he already has a partner and is also a Beta, that means he himself is not a suitable match for you. I recently developed a new batch of inhibitors, specifically targeting pheromone disorder. You can try them and see how effective they are.”
Lu Chenzhou did not listen to the rest of his words. Or rather, from beginning to end, he had not heard a single word.
“Am I the kind of person who would steal someone else’s boyfriend?” He seemed to be asking and answering himself. With a sneer, he said, “I’m not so low as to do that.”
Ji Yanzhi let out a breath of relief. What he feared most was that Lu Chenzhou would do something insane. Looking at it now, fortunately, he still had reason.
“By the way, who is that Beta? Do I know him?” Ji Yanzhi was curious. What kind of Beta could make him care this much?
It was a simple question, pure curiosity, yet it caused Lu Chenzhou’s hostility to surge violently. His ferocious pheromones burst uncontrollably from his body like a wild beast.
As an ordinary Alpha, Ji Yanzhi was immediately crushed to his knees by those terrifying pheromones, his face deathly pale.
“Lu Chenzhou, your pheromones… are out of control!” Ji Yanzhi was pressed down by the frightening pheromones until he could barely breathe. Dense cold sweat broke out across his forehead, but he still remembered his duty as a doctor. “Inhibitor!”
When Shen Chi came over to deliver documents, he knocked on the door several times, but no one answered. Thinking of how the department manager had practically cried and wailed, telling him that he must deliver this important document into President Lu’s hands, he took a deep breath. While carefully opening the office door, he said, “President Lu, I’m coming in?”
As he spoke, he first poked his head inside.
With just one glance, Shen Chi was so shocked by the scene inside the office that he nearly dropped the documents.
He saw a tall young man kneeling on both knees, his face full of pain. Cold sweat had already soaked the loose strands of hair on his forehead. Doctor Ji, who had still looked refined and gentlemanly earlier, was now in an extremely miserable state.
When had Shen Chi ever seen such a scene? His first reaction was that Lu Chenzhou, this tyrant, was actually playing this wildly behind closed doors?
His second reaction was that maybe he should leave first.
Although Shen Chi was a Beta, he still sluggishly sensed that something was wrong. He felt a little breathless and did not even want to deliver the documents anymore.
“Sorry for disturbing you.”
At a time like this, forcing himself to deliver documents would truly be courting death.
“No… wait…” Ji Yanzhi had never met Shen Chi before, but he knew that the people around Lu Chenzhou were basically Betas. Betas were ordinary, but pheromones affected them very little. At the very least, they would not be like him, unable to move an inch.
“President Lu… pheromone frenzy… give him… the inhibitor!”
The sentence came out broken and extremely difficult, making Shen Chi even more shocked.
“I don’t know how to inject it!”
Shen Chi truly did not know. “I’ll go find someone else.”
“No!” Ji Yanzhi’s eyes nearly split open. His whole person looked ferocious. “If someone else comes in at this time and enrages him, his condition will only get worse! You do it!”
Once Lu Chenzhou’s pheromones went berserk, Alphas would be strangled by his pheromones, while Omegas would be unable to withstand it and suffer damage to their glands. Only Betas could manage—but not just any Beta would do. He might attack indiscriminately.
Judging from the current situation, he had not attacked further. Shen Chi was very likely one of the few people he could accept.
Ji Yanzhi was like someone clutching a life-saving straw. “It’s very simple. Aim it anywhere on him—his arm or his neck. Press this point, and the medicine will enter his body.”
On only his third day here, Shen Chi was entrusted with such an important task. His legs almost went weak.
He accepted the inhibitor Ji Yanzhi handed over and moved with difficulty. “President Lu, I’m coming over.”
The inhibitor was a single syringe, with blue liquid shaking inside. Shen Chi had not been in this world for long. He only knew that Alphas and Omegas were different from ordinary people. They had pheromones, and everyone’s pheromones were different. After they reached adulthood, every once in a while, there would also be things like susceptible periods.
Shen Chi was only an ordinary person and had average interest in these things, so he had not looked into them further.
This was his first time seeing an Alpha in pheromone frenzy. In one sentence: it was terrifying.
His legs trembled. His state was not much better than Ji Yanzhi’s. Lu Chenzhou, on the other hand, still sat in his office chair. Only his eyes were dark and unreadable, staring fixedly at the little secretary walking toward him.
That terrifying gaze, like that of a predator, almost made Shen Chi, a little herbivorous animal, cry.
“System, he won’t tear me apart, right?”
The system said, [Human! Wealth and honor are found amid danger. After this, you might gain his trust! A domineering CEO gong’s trust is very hard to farm!]
Shen Chi endured the urge to run away. The moment he stepped into Lu Chenzhou’s area, before he could fully approach, a large, well-defined hand reached out. In the next second, it suddenly clamped around his wrist.
The powerful force made it impossible to struggle. Shen Chi’s pupils shrank. He only felt that large hand pull hard, causing him to fall forward uncontrollably.
Then, he crashed into a pair of eyes burning with dark ghostly fire. At this moment, Lu Chenzhou was like a demon.
His usually cold and handsome face was wrapped in a layer of gloomy aura.
Rather than a demon, Shen Chi felt he looked more like a dark, damp male ghost.
“Lu Chenzhou!”
He cried out instinctively. This guy’s gaze was actually fixed on the back of his neck.
Shen Chi suddenly remembered that wild Alpha who had collapsed in the alley. He had also stared at him like this, then pounced on him like a vicious dog.
If not for the system…
Shen Chi’s hands were shaking. The moment Lu Chenzhou went mad and lunged to bite him, Shen Chi gripped the inhibitor, used all his strength, and stabbed it down fiercely.
Time froze. Only heavy breathing remained.
Then, he heard a soft laugh.
Shen Chi: ?
The system said, [My heavens, why did you stab yourself!]
Shen Chi hurriedly looked down, and his pupils trembled.
Lu Chenzhou’s hand was gripping his wrist, so Shen Chi had wanted to follow the motion and stab the inhibitor into Lu Chenzhou’s arm. But in the end…
Shen Chi looked at the inhibitor stuck in his own arm. Fortunately, he had not pressed it down.
“Don’t panic.” With trembling hands, he pulled the inhibitor out. “There’s still…” hope…
The system squeezed its eyes shut, not daring to look any further.
[It’s over. No hope left.]
