Chapter 41: Lu Chenzhou’s Suspicion
Shen Chi did not stop walking.
If he listened to everything Lu Chenzhou said, he would probably already be dead by now.
This man was far too dangerous. Those seemingly vicious thugs in the alley could be dealt with using a few tricks, but Lu Chenzhou was different. Once Shen Chi was exposed, he did not even dare imagine what kind of consequences he would face.
Right now, his mind was full of only one thought: stay away from him.
Lu Chenzhou stared at his thin back. Shen Chi was not in good condition. His steps were unsteady, as if he would collapse to the ground in the next second.
Even like this, he still wanted to go back to that shabby little room of his. Just who was in that broken place!
Lu Chenzhou was furious. His susceptible period had not yet settled. The inhibitor could only temporarily suppress it. The pheromones in the living room were still thick and overflowing. Seeing Shen Chi walk away so firmly, the pheromones he had barely suppressed erupted again.
Ji Yanzhi was no longer just kneeling before them. He wanted to kowtow to them.
Could you two crazy people please leave this twenty-something old man a way to live!
“Mr. Shen…” He was pressed down by the pheromones until he could barely breathe. He could only weakly stretch out a hand. “You can’t leave!”
If Shen Chi left, Ji Yanzhi did not dare take responsibility for this bomb called Lu Chenzhou.
Ji Yanzhi weakly reached out. His original intention was to stop Shen Chi, but he had not expected that before his hand even touched him, Shen Chi’s body would suddenly go soft.
Ji Yanzhi: ?
Ji Yanzhi sucked in a cold breath.
Ji Yanzhi shouted in panic, “It wasn’t me!”
Lu Chenzhou appeared beside Shen Chi like a ghost. The moment Shen Chi fell, he reached out first and locked him firmly into his arms. He picked Shen Chi up, and when he passed Ji Yanzhi, his condescending gaze was so cold it was like he was looking at a stranger.
Ji Yanzhi, a proper Alpha, cried on the spot. “It really wasn’t me! I didn’t touch him! I just wanted him to stay, but your condition is clearly not right right now!”
Lu Chenzhou was like an evil dragon guarding his treasure. When Shen Chi was held in his arms, Ji Yanzhi could only see a fluffy head. Everything else was completely hidden away by him.
“If it were you, do you think you would still be able to say so much to me right now?”
Ji Yanzhi was convinced. He simply sat on the floor. “President Lu, as a professional doctor, my advice is that you need to go to the hospital now. Mr. Shen is ultimately a Beta. He can’t soothe you. I’m not even sure whether the inhibitor is useful for you right now.”
If it was useful, why were the pheromones increasing instead of fading? But if it was useless, why did this guy still have reason?
This was too strange. It was a condition that had never appeared before.
But Lu Chenzhou refused coldly. “I know my own condition very well.”
Know, my ass!
Ji Yanzhi almost cursed on the spot. The little secretary had already been driven so frantic by you that he tried to escape.
“Settle him down first. Let’s talk.”
It was just a casual suggestion from Ji Yanzhi, but in the next second, overwhelming pheromones once again pressed down on him until he almost coughed blood.
He widened his eyes in disbelief.
No, which sentence had provoked this ancestor? He could get angry over this too?
Lu Chenzhou’s eyes were like thick, endless night, bottomless and dark. “He is mine.”
Ji Yanzhi: …
Fine. Diagnosis confirmed. The susceptible period had not completely passed.
“Alright, then hold him while we talk. Is that okay?”
Lu Chenzhou’s sinister gaze stared fixedly at him, full of hostility. Ji Yanzhi was genuinely frightened by it. Afraid that he would go crazy again, he hurriedly explained, “Lu Chenzhou, I’m a doctor.”
The hostile gaze faded by one point, but only one point.
Ji Yanzhi took a deep breath. “The butler told me that Mr. Shen was attacked earlier?”
Lu Chenzhou’s eyes moved slightly.
Ji Yanzhi’s eyes lit up, feeling there was hope. He knew very clearly how possessive this man was. Precisely because he knew, he found it strange. How could Lu Chenzhou allow someone to hurt Shen Chi right under his nose?
“Can we talk about it?”
“How was Mr. Shen injured? Were you there at the time?”
When an Alpha was in his susceptible period, he would reject all Alphas. The reason Ji Yanzhi could sit on the ground unharmed was first because he was within Lu Chenzhou’s range of trust, so as long as he did not court death, he would not be attacked. Second, because he had applied an inhibitor patch, making him seem like a harmless Beta.
Ji Yanzhi knew that his current questioning was extremely bold, no different from plucking fur from a tiger’s head. But as a professional doctor, this opportunity was also once in a lifetime.
Under tremendous pressure, he also left himself an escape route. Once Lu Chenzhou refused to communicate, he would immediately roll away without stopping.
Fortunately, the Alpha in his susceptible period merely looked him up and down with an unreadable expression before finally speaking coldly.
“Turn around.”
Ji Yanzhi did not understand.
Lu Chenzhou said unhappily, “Turn around. Face the other way.”
Ji Yanzhi understood!
That damned Alpha possessiveness had flared up. Lu Chenzhou could not bear to let go of Shen Chi, but he was also unhappy that Shen Chi was being seen by an outsider like him. So each side could only take a step back.
He turned around swiftly and faced Lu Chenzhou with his back. “Can we talk now?”
Lu Chenzhou carried Shen Chi back to the sofa. He buried his head against Shen Chi’s neck, like a greedy big cat, sniffing the scent that belonged only to Shen Chi.
Earlier, when he said Shen Chi smelled like durian, he had not been trying to anger him. It was true.
Lu Chenzhou hated durian. He hated all strongly flavored foods. But now, holding Shen Chi, he was unwilling to let go no matter what. Not only that, for the first time, he even felt that the smell of durian was so sweet.
His teeth itched.
He really wanted to bite something…
Ji Yanzhi had his back to him and did not know that Shen Chi was once again in danger. He only continued, “So President Lu watched Secretary Shen get bullied by others?”
Those words instantly pulled Lu Chenzhou’s reason back.
“No.”
“I was only making a guess.”
“Last time, in the alley, I bit a very special Omega. I suspect it was Shen Chi.”
During the susceptible period, his mind would become slightly confused. In addition, there were no streetlights in the alley, and the night was pitch-black, so he could not distinguish who the other person was. But he still remembered that little Omega’s wild and violent methods.
In the alley, when Shen Chi dealt with those pieces of trash, it was too similar.
It was practically identical.
Ji Yanzhi thought of that Omega’s clothes Lu Chenzhou had sent over. “Wasn’t it that strawberry-scented Omega? The one with 88% compatibility with you? How did it become Secretary Shen again?”
Lu Chenzhou stared at Shen Chi, who was sleeping quietly in his arms. He could not resist reaching out and touching his face. The delicate sensation made every pore on his body relax. “Tell me, can an Omega pretend to be a Beta?”
Ji Yanzhi froze.
The two of them had discussed this question before.
“It’s possible to pretend, but the more perfect the disguise drug, the more expensive it is. I believe President Lu is very clear about Secretary Shen’s financial situation.”
Lu Chenzhou knew, but deliberately avoided this issue. He said, “Then how can the disguise be broken? By marking him?”
The more Ji Yanzhi listened, the more he felt this man had gone insane. Shen Chi’s entry medical examination, as well as the testing of his clothes—no matter which one, they all proved that he was merely a Beta with no pheromones.
Since Lu Chenzhou was this obsessed, Ji Yanzhi could only say, “With high-grade disguise drugs, even if you bite through his gland and perform a temporary mark, it still can’t be cracked. Unless…”
Lu Chenzhou said, “Unless what?”
Ji Yanzhi said, “The reproductive cavity. A lifelong mark.”
