Chapter 51: Lu Chenzhou: Then What Am I?
Shen Chi was stunned by Lu Chenzhou’s tone.
Had he also been possessed by something dirty?
When people were embarrassed, they tended to keep busy. One moment, he straightened his clothes; the next, he tidied the bed he had slept in and messed up. When he turned back and saw Lu Chenzhou’s loungewear all wrinkled, he furrowed his brows, his fingers itching.
What should he do? It seemed he really had broken.
Not only did he want to stick close to Lu Chenzhou, he even wanted to tidy his clothes for him!
Shen Chi stared straight at him, his gaze completely undisguised.
Seeing this, Lu Chenzhou raised his brows. “Secretary Shen, what’s wrong? Is there something dirty on my face?”
Shen Chi took a deep breath and found it useless. He took another deep breath and found it was still useless. Suddenly, he strode forward. Under Lu Chenzhou’s stunned gaze, he said with a righteous face, “There’s nothing dirty on your face, but on your clothes.” He told a lie and quickly smoothed out the wrinkled area. “Done. I brushed it off for you.”
Shen Chi thought he had hidden his little movement very well, but every bit of it fell into Lu Chenzhou’s eyes.
He was an Alpha, so compared with Shen Chi, this Beta, he naturally understood the basic knowledge of AOs better. After being marked, an Omega would cling to the Alpha. This kind of physiological trait could not be resisted. He just had not expected that Shen Chi would be like this too.
This pseudo-heat really was such a pleasant surprise.
Lu Chenzhou suddenly leaned down. Under Shen Chi’s stunned gaze, he curved his lips. “Then I really have to thank Secretary Shen.”
He was too close, so close that his breath brushed against Shen Chi’s face.
The warm breath made Shen Chi’s mouth dry. He should have stepped back, just like before, but this time, he could not move his hands or feet. Instead, under Lu Chenzhou’s gaze, his face slowly turned red.
“N-no need to thank me. I’m President Lu’s… no, no, I’m your secretary. It’s what I should do.” After Shen Chi finished speaking, he almost wanted to die.
Damn mouth, why did it get tangled!
The smile on Lu Chenzhou’s face deepened. Such an adorable Shen Chi was truly too rare. If not for the pseudo-heat, he might never have seen this side of him in his lifetime.
“Secretary Shen, are you hungry? I saw you were unconscious for quite a while. Shall we eat together?”
Shen Chi really was hungry. He did not put on airs. After nodding, he followed Lu Chenzhou out with his arms and legs moving stiffly on the same side.
Lu Chenzhou walked in front of him. Noticing the movement behind him from the corner of his eye, he nearly wanted to pull the man into his arms.
How could his Secretary Shen be this cute?
He really wanted to…
The dining table had already been prepared with dishes. There was also a rich spread of fruit on the side. At a glance, they were all things Shen Chi liked to eat.
However, Shen Chi was so restless now that he did not notice these details. He only buried his head and ate.
Lu Chenzhou, on the other hand, was unhurried. Seeing that Shen Chi only shoveled rice into his mouth without picking up any dishes, he put down his chopsticks. “Secretary Shen, do the chef’s dishes not suit your taste?”
Shen Chi paused.
Lu Chenzhou said again, “Are you still feeling uncomfortable somewhere?”
Shen Chi tightened his grip on his chopsticks. If one asked whether he felt uncomfortable, actually, he did not. On the contrary, Lu Chenzhou treated him very well, taking care of every detail thoroughly. The problem was purely with himself.
After being marked, he felt like he was no longer himself.
“System, is my mission complete?”
The system hesitated. After a long while, it nodded. [After you fainted, the system already notified that the mission was complete.]
As if resisting this strange feeling that made him inexplicably panic, Shen Chi raised his eyes. “President Lu, can I go home today?”
As he spoke, Lu Chenzhou happened to use serving chopsticks to place a piece of beef brisket into his bowl.
The soft, tender beef brisket landed accurately in his bowl, and Lu Chenzhou also happened to hear his words clearly.
The atmosphere at the dining table began to freeze. The butler gave the servants beside him a look, and they quietly left.
Soon, only the two of them remained.
Shen Chi did not dare raise his head at all. He was afraid that the moment he looked up and saw Lu Chenzhou’s handsome face, he would waver and become reluctant to leave.
He hated this kind of loss of control!
Lu Chenzhou was very angry. His gaze swept over the back of Shen Chi’s neck. Looking at the red, swollen bite mark there, his eyes darkened slightly.
The moment he woke up, his wife wanted to leave. No one could still smile after that.
Oh, to be precise, his wife was not even his wife. He was someone else’s boyfriend.
Then what did that make him?
The wild man outside?
Lu Chenzhou’s expression was gloomy, and his whole person looked somewhat frightening.
Shen Chi did not know what he had said wrong or done wrong. The sudden low pressure from the other man made him unable to stop feeling hurt.
He held the bowl in his hands, his reddened eyes uncontrollably filling with mist. But he did not want Lu Chenzhou to see his weakness, so he lowered his head.
What Lu Chenzhou saw was his fluffy hair, as well as the faintly visible wound at the back of his neck.
Yesterday, when Shen Chi had been held in his arms and begged him to mark him, he had not been like this.
For the first time, Lu Chenzhou realized that all his painstaking attempts to please him were, in Shen Chi’s eyes, nothing more than a tool—one that was thrown away after being used!
“Secretary Shen wants to go back. Can I stop you?”
His indifferent tone was completely different from the smiling, concerned voice from earlier.
Shen Chi was very sensitive right now. It was only a slight difference in tone, yet it made him feel unbearably awful.
But the worse he felt, the more he wanted to stay away.
He did not know what the beef brisket in his bowl tasted like. Shen Chi mechanically finished eating it, then stood up.
This time, Lu Chenzhou did not even stand. He only said coldly, “Secretary Shen, take care.”
Shen Chi did not know how he took the first step. When he left, he looked at the beautiful lights in the villa courtyard and felt that his entire world had gone gray.
It was not that he hated Lu Chenzhou’s coldness, nor did he hate that Lu Chenzhou did not ask him to stay.
He… hated himself.
The dispirited emotion was something even the system sensed. [Human, what’s wrong? The mission is complete, but you don’t seem happy.]
Shen Chi sniffed. When a person was sad, the thing they feared most was someone else’s concern. Even the simplest question could make them burst into tears.
The tears gathered in his eyes rushed to fall, but Shen Chi did not stop walking. On the contrary, he walked faster, as if he wanted to flee this place.
Inside the dining room, in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, Lu Chenzhou quietly watched Shen Chi walk faster and faster.
Not only did he not stop, he even started running!
Lu Chenzhou’s face instantly darkened.
Did he hate him that much?
At the side, the butler silently walked forward again.
“President Lu, should I have the driver send Secretary Shen back?”
Lu Chenzhou sneered coldly. “Did he ask you to send him?”
The butler said, “No.”
Lu Chenzhou said, “Then why are you sending him?”
The butler looked deeply at his boss. Thinking of the leftovers from several days ago that still had not been thrown out of the refrigerator, he asked, “President Lu, should the leftover hotpot ingredients Secretary Shen cooked before be thrown away? It has already been several days.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Chenzhou snapped in frustration, “Did I tell you to throw them away?”
The butler said, “Alright, I understand.”
Seeing that he was about to leave, Lu Chenzhou felt an unnamed rage rise inside him. “What the hell do you understand? Where are you going?”
The butler smiled. “I’m going to see Secretary Shen off.”
Lu Chenzhou: …
