Chapter 57: President Lu Is Jealous!
The butler had not only brought clothes over, but also quite a lot of food.
Shen Chi was sick, so the food he brought was all patient-friendly meals.
Easy to digest and nutritious, but the taste was slightly bland.
This little shabby room was far too run-down. It did not even have a dining table, only an old coffee table. The butler arranged the food one dish at a time. When he turned back, he saw Lu Chenzhou carrying the clothes into the bedroom.
The moment Lu Chenzhou entered, Shen Chi became like a startled bird.
He did not know how Lu Chenzhou had helped him change the first two times. In any case, the third time… his scalp went numb.
“President Lu, give me the clothes. I can put them on myself.” He lowered his eyes and added softly, “Um, could I trouble President Lu to step out first?”
Lu Chenzhou raised his brows. His voice was cold, revealing nothing unusual. But if Shen Chi had lifted his eyes, he would have seen the dark possessiveness in a certain person’s gaze almost overflowing, seeping straight toward him.
“Secretary Shen is truly heartless. Using me and throwing me away.”
Shen Chi’s fingertips began to tremble.
No, was that phrase supposed to be used like this?
Please switch back to the normal boss-and-subordinate channel!
“President Lu, I’m awake now. It wouldn’t be right to trouble you too much.” Shen Chi tried his best to steady his emotions, but his words were still somewhat stumbling. “Before this, thank you, President Lu.”
Lu Chenzhou clicked his tongue, his expression a little impatient. “It’s not the first time I’ve helped you change clothes. Secretary Shen, you didn’t think the person who helped you change earlier was a maid, did you?”
For some reason, Shen Chi thought of the last time he had stayed at Lu Chenzhou’s villa. That time, Lu Chenzhou had said a maid helped him change.
Lu Chenzhou said, “Secretary Shen, are you coming out yourself, or do I have to do it for you?”
Hearing this, Shen Chi’s mind went completely blank. He hurriedly sat up from the bed. His hands were still clutching the blanket, but his whole body looked as if it had ripened thoroughly, his face red enough to drip blood.
Lu Chenzhou expressionlessly took out the clothes. Just as he put the shirt over him, he lowered his voice and said, “Raise your arms.”
“Oh, okay.” Hearing this, Shen Chi hurriedly raised his arms obediently.
The heat on his face had not faded. His cheeks were flushed, utterly different from the usual cold, clever Secretary Shen.
Lu Chenzhou took a deep breath, trying to suppress a certain restless impulse inside him. But then he smelled a faint, nearly imperceptible fresh grapefruit scent. His breathing paused. He, who had never been particularly fond of fruit before, suddenly felt his throat tighten.
He took another deep breath, and greed appeared in his eyes. But this time, what he smelled was the scent of grapefruit peel. Compared with grapefruit flesh, grapefruit peel had a trace of sour bitterness within its fresh fragrance.
Lu Chenzhou felt as if he had bitten into it. The sour bitterness bursting in his mouth made him freeze on the spot.
Shen Chi had no idea what had happened. After putting on the top, he saw Lu Chenzhou suddenly freeze like a fool, so he hurriedly grabbed the pants and put them on. Once he was properly dressed, he waved his hand in front of Lu Chenzhou’s eyes.
“President Lu?”
The fresh grapefruit scent drifted past Lu Chenzhou’s nose again. He suddenly grabbed Shen Chi’s wrist.
Shen Chi’s wrist hurt, but he endured it. “President Lu, we should eat something.”
Lu Chenzhou’s gaze suddenly became sharp. This feeling seemed to return him to that night in the alley. The only difference was that last time, it had been strawberry pheromones. This time, it was grapefruit.
But no matter which one it was, both could instantly stir his emotions.
A sudden impulse surged in Lu Chenzhou’s heart. He remembered Ji Yanzhi once saying that with certain high-grade disguise drugs, even a temporary mark would not expose anything unless…
His eyes narrowed instantly. “Secretary Shen, I remember your previous physical examination report said you were a Beta, right?”
The person in front of him suddenly became dangerous. Shen Chi’s alarm bells rang loudly. “Yes.”
Lu Chenzhou said, “Test it again.”
Shen Chi did not understand, but his instincts sensed something was wrong.
“System, could he be suspecting me?”
The system said, [Don’t panic. Even if he tests us a hundred times, we’re still a Beta! And I reasonably suspect that he’s now suffering from the aftereffects of marking you and has started treating you as an O.]
Shen Chi knew very little about this world’s ABO settings. Hearing this, he asked, “What aftereffects?”
The system said, [I checked. After being marked, both sides will develop dependence on each other.]
Case solved!
Shen Chi thought of the nearly unfamiliar version of himself from yesterday. So that was it!
Once again, he was thankful that he was only a Beta and would not be troubled by pheromones.
But Lu Chenzhou clearly did not think so. He held Shen Chi’s wrist and did not let go. Not only that, he took a step forward. His gaze locked tightly onto Shen Chi, as if staring at his prey.
“This time, I’ll go with you for the test.”
Shen Chi did not refuse. He had already returned to the state of the former Secretary Shen. Seeing this, he neither got angry nor explained. He only nodded politely. “Alright, President Lu.”
Polite. Distant. Particularly irritating.
Shen Chi said, “President Lu, the food is getting cold. My suggestion is that we eat first and talk after the meal.”
Lu Chenzhou’s mood worsened. His pheromones began to float in the air. The bitter gunpowder-smoke pheromones domineeringly wrapped around Shen Chi. He asked, “Secretary Shen, do you smell anything?”
Shen Chi tilted his head. “Grapefruit? If it’s grapefruit, then that’s because I put a grapefruit-scented incense diffuser at home.”
Lu Chenzhou paused.
There was a fire burning in his heart. S-rank Alphas were different from ordinary Alphas. Even a temporary mark could last for a very long time, not to mention that he had pheromone disorder.
If Shen Chi had not appeared, he would most likely have dug three feet into the ground by now to find that inferior Omega.
But precisely because of Shen Chi, aside from spending a little effort at the beginning, he had barely searched afterward.
Now, he was like an irritable lion unable to find his wife, full of aggression. He nearly questioned Shen Chi about why there had to be that damned grapefruit-scented diffuser at home, and why he was not the little O from that night.
But then, facing Shen Chi’s indifferent gaze, he became fully awake again.
“It’s nothing.”
Shen Chi hummed, then moved his wrist. “If it’s nothing, can you let go?”
Lu Chenzhou once again clearly sensed his rejection. He pressed his tongue against his teeth and let out a careless laugh.
To say he did not care would be false, but—so what?
“Eat.”
The meal was very quiet. However, Shen Chi’s temperature had only just gone down, and his body had not yet recovered in all aspects. His appetite was average. After eating a few bites, he no longer wanted to eat. Coincidentally, at that moment, his cheap younger brother called him.
The instant he answered the call, he smiled apologetically at Lu Chenzhou, then walked to the balcony.
“Hello?”
On the other end of the call, the voice of his cheap younger brother, Shen Che, came through.
“Brother? Why was your phone always on a call today? Did something happen?”
Although Shen Chi was indifferent toward most people, when he met someone who truly cared about him, he was still very happy. Just like this younger brother. So, without even noticing it himself, he smiled happily.
“I’m fine. Don’t worry.”
In the living room, Lu Chenzhou had originally been eating elegantly with his head lowered. But because of Shen Chi’s soft laugh and that sentence, “Don’t worry,” he snapped the chopsticks in his hand on the spot.
After all this time, he finally saw what Shen Chi looked like when talking to his partner on the phone.
It was truly…
Incredibly glaring.
