Chapter 39: Why Need an Inhibitor?
Every word Lu Chenzhou said exploded inside Shen Chi’s mind.
The atmosphere was stretched to its limit. Shen Chi’s lips had almost lost all color. He did not dare meet Lu Chenzhou’s dark, terrifying gaze. Guilt made him turn his eyes aside, trying to seek help from the only other person present.
“President Lu, what are you talking about? I don’t quite understand.”
The butler held the inhibitor, powerless to help. He could only place the inhibitor on the sofa not far from them. As for whether Shen Chi could get it, that would depend on his luck.
After putting down the inhibitor, the butler silently left. Very quickly, only the two of them remained in the huge living room.
At a time like this, Shen Chi still dared to look at someone else. To Lu Chenzhou, this was undoubtedly provocation.
The pressure surged wildly again. Lu Chenzhou lowered his head a little and moved closer to Shen Chi. They were so close that if he leaned in one more centimeter, he could kiss him. Yet his bottomless black pupils burned with ghostly fire, making one shudder.
“Shen Chi, I’m standing right in front of you. Who are you looking at?”
Shen Chi was frightened.
This was not ambiguous. This was complete killing intent!
He would kill him, right?
Shen Chi did not dare gamble. In the face of death, even after lying, he still had to gently coax the criminal.
“No, I wasn’t looking at anyone. President Lu, your susceptible period is acting up. I’ll help you get the inhibitor, okay?”
Lu Chenzhou stared at him fixedly and saw the fear in his eyes. That made him even angrier.
Why was he afraid of him?
He was his wife!
“What kind of thing is an inhibitor?” He revealed a terrifying smile. His features were already deep and sharp, and with this smile, he looked like a malicious ghost. “You’re already here. Why would I still need an inhibitor?”
Even now, Shen Chi still had not realized that an Alpha in his susceptible period could not be reasoned with.
He naively thought that as long as he showed weakness, as long as he went along with him, he could get through this safely.
“President Lu, did you forget? I’m a Beta. Betas can’t soothe Alphas in susceptible periods. The only thing that can save you right now is the inhibitor.” As he spoke, he licked his dry, pale lips. There was a pitiful plea in his voice. “President Lu, let me get the inhibitor, okay?”
The inhibitor was right in front of him, yet also so far away. Shen Chi’s chin was still being held by the other man. It hurt so much that tears sprang to his eyes, but in the next second, Lu Chenzhou suddenly stretched out his tongue and licked away that tear.
“Bitter.”
Shen Chi was horrified.
An Alpha’s body temperature rose during the susceptible period. Shen Chi only felt his eyelid burn, as if it had been scalded.
Terrifying.
Too terrifying!
Shen Chi was about to cry out loud. He felt as if the other man were a ferocious beast, currently sizing him up and considering how to tear him apart and swallow him whole. Especially now, his gaze had suddenly locked onto his mouth.
“President Lu, I don’t taste good.”
This “don’t taste good” applied in every sense.
He was a Beta. He was incompatible with an Alpha.
But Lu Chenzhou curved his lips. “I’ll give you two choices. Either release your pheromones, or I’ll take them myself.”
This time, Shen Chi really cried.
He was a Beta. Where would he get pheromones from?
“I don’t have any… I don’t have pheromones…”
In Lu Chenzhou’s eyes, these words meant that Shen Chi was rejecting him. He did not understand why his wife would not even give him a little pheromone. Did he not like him?
But he liked his wife so much.
Still, it did not matter. As a magnanimous Alpha, he could tolerate his wife’s little temper, as long as he obediently stayed by his side.
Even someone as slow as Shen Chi noticed Lu Chenzhou’s terrifying gaze.
He did not dare think any further. With his mind completely blank, he suddenly thought of a method.
Even the strongest Alpha had a weak point, as long as… he could strike it in one hit.
His gaze slowly moved downward. Shen Chi could not see clearly, but the two of them were too close. He could vaguely sense the existence that made his scalp go numb.
At the critical moment, just as Lu Chenzhou moved closer again, shortening the final centimeter between them, Shen Chi bent his knee and used every bit of strength in his body.
“Lu Chenzhou, fucking calm down!”
Along with this curse, Lu Chenzhou was caught off guard and immediately bent over in pain.
After a brief few seconds, he coldly raised his face and looked at Shen Chi, who wore such a cool little face yet had just cursed so crudely.
This contrast was really fucking exciting.
Like a dormant beast, Lu Chenzhou quietly watched Shen Chi escape from his hands, throw himself onto the sofa not far away, and grab the inhibitor. Watching Shen Chi reveal an expression as if he had been saved, he abruptly laughed.
After being struck, aside from a brief pain, what followed was storm-like fury.
As a man, Shen Chi naturally knew what kind of revenge his desperate attack would bring.
He was only betting his hope on the inhibitor. However, reality told him that gamblers never had good endings.
Lu Chenzhou recovered at an astonishing speed. Shen Chi had only just grabbed the inhibitor and had not yet retreated to a safe distance when, in the next second, his ankle was locked by a scalding hand.
His mind went blank for a moment. Then a terrifying force ignored his will and easily dragged him back.
Shen Chi’s pupils shrank. He did not dare look at what kind of expression Lu Chenzhou had behind him.
He only knew—he was finished.
Punching and kicking would only provoke the other man again. Amid his chaotic thoughts, Shen Chi was suddenly caught off guard and met a pair of scarlet eyes.
That cold, terrifying gaze even made the system cry out loudly.
[Oh, shit!]
[Careful with the inhibitor!]
Lu Chenzhou’s target had never been Shen Chi, but the inhibitor was another matter.
Shen Chi realized it too.
Once the inhibitor was broken, then today, he would be completely done for.
A ruined mission, a ruined life, a ruined Shen Chi!
Shen Chi absolutely would not allow such an accident to happen. The hand that had been gripping his ankle had moved to his waist at some point. Lu Chenzhou’s large hand was like an iron clamp, leaving him unable to move.
At the brink of life and death, seeing the other man getting closer and closer, Shen Chi’s hands went weak, but his gaze suddenly became exceptionally firm.
Come on, didn’t he go crazy wanting his pheromones?
Then Shen Chi would give them to him. Let’s see if he had the ability to successfully get anything from him!
Shen Chi gave up completely. He suddenly reached out as if asking for a hug. Under Lu Chenzhou’s stunned gaze, both hands fiercely grabbed the hair on either side of his head and then pulled hard.
Caught off guard, Lu Chenzhou fell forward. In the next second, something soft pressed against his mouth.
That was…
Something exploded in his mind. The crazed beast was finally soothed at this moment. He stared wide-eyed, his whole body stiff.
But very quickly, he turned from guest into host.
His breath was continuously squeezed out. Shen Chi did not struggle either and let him gnaw and bite, while his hands also released the other man’s hair.
The pain of his scalp being yanked tight suddenly disappeared. Lu Chenzhou narrowed his eyes in satisfaction.
In the next instant, a sharp needle stabbed fiercely into the gland at the back of his neck…
