Chapter 27: Heaven, Judge Loyalty and Treachery!
When Lu Chenzhou stepped into the restaurant in his leather shoes, Shen Chi felt as if the entire world had frozen over.
His whole body went stiff, his face full of collapse.
The others, however, all smiled and greeted Lu Chenzhou after he came in.
“Brother Lu!”
“Brother Lu, I just happened to pass by and thought he looked like your little secretary. I came in to check, and sure enough, I wasn’t wrong.”
Just now, Shen Chi had thought it did not matter whether they called Lu Chenzhou or not. Now, he even wanted to kill someone.
He was only a secretary, not Lu Chenzhou’s private property. If they saw him outside, then they saw him. Damn it, why call him!
Lu Chenzhou expressionlessly swept his gaze over Ye Suxi, then fixed it on the bouquet of sunflowers. Those golden petals were truly dazzling to the extreme.
Shen Chi was still standing, but there was an empty seat beside him.
The seat by the window was a table for four.
Shen Chi and Ye Suxi sat on opposite sides.
Seeing this, Lu Chenzhou walked straight to Shen Chi’s side and sat down.
“Why is everyone standing? Sit.”
Ye Suxi’s face was cold, while the others found a nearby table and sat down.
The atmosphere was tense. Shen Chi even felt as if he could smell a faint, bitter scent of gunpowder smoke.
He took a breath, then finally sat down as if giving up.
Whatever. Things were already like this. Avoiding it was useless. Besides, he could still explain!
So he sat down too.
He had barely sat down, the chair not even warmed yet, when he heard Lu Chenzhou speak coolly.
“I remember Secretary Shen has a partner.”
Shen Chi: …
Fine, fine. So this was an interrogation.
“I do have a partner.” Shen Chi took a sip of the water on the table and said calmly, “But she doesn’t mind me making friends. Besides, Mr. Ye is very cute.”
The words “I have a partner” made both Lu Chenzhou and Ye Suxi’s faces darken. But very quickly, Shen Chi’s praise made a smile rise again on Ye Suxi’s face.
“Mr. Shen is good too!” Ye Suxi smiled sweetly. “Mr. Shen is so kind. I think Mr. Shen’s partner must be a very good person too.”
Shen Chi had lived two lives and had never even held hands with anyone, yet now a partner had fallen from the sky.
Because he was lying, he felt a little uncomfortable. Only after coughing lightly did he begin to speak. “She is indeed very cute.”
He looked as if he were shy. He did not even dare look at anyone, and the slight curve of his lips clearly showed he was immersed in the joy of thinking about his partner.
Ye Suxi’s smile faded slightly, though he still managed to maintain it. As for Lu Chenzhou beside him, his cold face was full of chill.
He did not like listening, yet he was unwilling to leave.
Ye Suxi sneered. “Mr. Shen, I still don’t know whether your partner is male or female. Alpha, Beta, or Omega?”
Shen Chi said, “She’s a very cute Beta girl. You know, I’m a Beta. Whether Alpha or Omega, neither is suitable for me.”
One sentence heavily wounded both of them.
Perhaps because of that Beta partner, Ye Suxi and Lu Chenzhou rarely stopped going against each other.
They even spoke at the same time.
Ye Suxi said, “How is an Omega unsuitable?”
Lu Chenzhou said, “Secretary Shen doesn’t like Alphas?”
Shen Chi did not understand why they were so interested in his other half, but he still braced himself and said, “Whether Alpha or Omega, they both need pheromone comfort, and I don’t have any pheromones. Alphas and Omegas are the most compatible.”
So hurry up and get together, you two. Stop tormenting him!
The restaurant was very quiet. Shen Chi’s statement that he had a partner caused the people at the neighboring table to look over in surprise too.
Zhuang Zhe’an, the guy who had been clinging to the window just now, looked shocked. “Secretary Shen, you actually have a partner?”
He admitted that when he called Lu Chenzhou earlier, it had been to catch someone cheating.
Yesterday, Lu Chenzhou’s terrifying possessiveness toward him—everyone there was an Alpha, so how could they not understand what it meant?
He just had not expected Shen Chi to actually have a partner.
Then what was this now?
Was Brother Lu the mistress, and that Omega the fourth party?
Amazing. The little secretary looked so cold and aloof, but secretly, he played this wildly?
Zhuang Zhe’an stared at Shen Chi, and something suddenly itched in his heart. Thinking of the scene yesterday when Shen Chi had been pressed against the wall, his Adam’s apple could not help moving.
At first, he had thought Shen Chi was just a Beta and was not worthy of Brother Lu.
Now, Beta was great. Beta was wonderful. Betas could not be marked, so he could belong to anyone.
As if possessed, he said to Shen Chi, “Then do you want a number five?”
It was such a baffling sentence that Shen Chi had no way of understanding it. He looked at Zhuang Zhe’an in confusion, and in that moment, Zhuang Zhe’an nearly spread his feathers like a peacock. The reason he failed was because Lu Chenzhou suddenly attacked him with pheromones.
The moment the terrifying S-rank pheromones appeared, Zhuang Zhe’an’s mind instantly cleared.
“Brother Lu, I suddenly remembered I have something else to do. I’ll leave first.”
He abruptly stood up. But before leaving, he suddenly looked at Ye Suxi with an unfriendly gaze.
He did not dare have any dissatisfaction toward Lu Chenzhou, but what the hell did this Omega count for? Dressed so poorly, yet he dared compete with Brother Lu for someone.
“Hey, you. Yes, you.”
“Our Brother Lu’s secretary—you can’t even afford his clothes. Who gave you the courage to invite him to eat at a place like this?”
Shen Chi remembered the system saying that when the male lead shou got together with the male lead gong, he was often mocked and ridiculed by Lu Chenzhou’s friends. He had not expected that before they were even together, the ridicule had already begun.
He frowned and was just about to say something when Ye Suxi lowered his head.
His hands twisted together, and the once sunny and cheerful person became self-conscious. Anyone who saw it would feel pity.
“Mr. Shen, I’m sorry. I thought we were friends, and that you wouldn’t mind…”
Ye Suxi spoke as if trying to stay strong, but his voice betrayed him. That weak voice carried a hint of sobbing, and Shen Chi’s expression changed.
Not only him, Lu Chenzhou’s expression also changed.
What a good move, retreating in order to advance.
Lu Chenzhou’s face turned cold. “Zhuang Zhe’an, you can get lost.”
This was how misunderstandings were born.
In Shen Chi’s ears, Lu Chenzhou’s words meant something entirely different. He even said to the system in relief, “Although today has been full of situations and accidents, I didn’t expect Lu Chenzhou to actually protect him.”
The system also sighed with emotion. [What a beautiful beginning. Don’t just sit there either. Why be a third wheel? Let’s find an excuse and leave for a while first.]
Shen Chi said, “Good idea!”
“President Lu, Mr. Ye, I’ll go to the restroom first.” A perfect excuse. However, because Shen Chi was sitting on the inside, he had to pass by Lu Chenzhou to get out.
He looked at Lu Chenzhou awkwardly and wanted to ask him to stand up. But before he could speak, Lu Chenzhou leaned back slightly.
“Go,” he said.
Lu Chenzhou made a path, but it was too narrow. If Shen Chi really walked through, he would inevitably brush against him.
“Secretary Shen isn’t in a hurry?” Seeing him hesitate, Lu Chenzhou said expressionlessly, “If you’re not in a hurry, then sit down. The dishes are about to be served anyway.”
Shen Chi was so angry he gritted his teeth.
He was doing this on purpose!
He was making things difficult for him!
