PART 2
On the way back from the Central Hotel last night, he had already cursed them out in his heart.
He couldn’t endure what the original owner had endured. For his own physical and mental health, he had to avoid ending up like the original owner.
“You?” Shen Ti pinched his face, exasperated. “Wasn’t your husband also chosen by your family? And you agreed! If I hadn’t been on my honeymoon, I would have definitely stopped you.”
Shu Ci lowered his eyes.
He knew this was the author’s will, the plot’s design, a fact he couldn’t change before he came here.
And now, the original plot has changed.
Since he hadn’t succumbed to Gu Lan Zhu last night as in the original plot, maybe his destiny wouldn’t follow the original owner’s path to a disastrous ending.
However, his silence while contemplating countermeasures was interpreted as guilt by Shen Ti.
Shen Ti stared intently at Shu Ci. He was the most delicate, fragile, and sweetest among his friends, easily arousing everyone’s protective instincts. He thought Shu Ci probably only dared to talk big and wouldn’t dare to actually resist.
That’s how omegas are.
Independent and strong omegas aren’t nonexistent, but succumbing to their families and becoming the property of alphas was the life of most omegas—a life they couldn’t choose.
Just like he had entered into an arranged marriage for his family.
Shen Ti sighed, only able to vent his anger verbally on behalf of Shu Ci.
“If they really cared about their family, they wouldn’t have chosen a 1% partner to humiliate you! Patients are to be taken care of, not bullied!”
Shu Ci knew about the original owner’s illness.
The book said it was pheromone dysregulation. Others had a fixed pheromone type from birth to death, but his pheromones had been changing for twenty years. Therefore, his compatibility with all alphas was no more than 30%.
However, later in the plot, his glands were destroyed by Gu Lan Zhu, and after being disabled for a while, he got an artificial gland. Shu Ci didn’t know the cause of the disease, and didn’t understand why the original owner had such a high compatibility with Gu Lan Zhu.
It was probably just a setting, the unique destined match favored by the author.
To hell with the destined match.
Shu Ci lightly rolled his eyes: “1% is pretty good, it’s not humiliation.”
At least a 1% husband wouldn’t be overwhelmed by pheromones, wouldn’t take advantage of him in the middle of the night, and would send him to Shen Ti without a word.
Shen Ti’s eyes widened: “How can you say that? After marriage, most omegas rely on alphas to live. If the compatibility is too low, and the intimacy is painful, it’s really suffering!”
“It seems like you and your arranged marriage partner are very compatible.” He casually quipped.
“Of course, it’s 95%.” Shen Ti raised an eyebrow, then his expression changed. “No, don’t interrupt me! You haven’t been marked yet, you haven’t experienced what 1% means.”
Have you experienced 95%?
Shu Ci thought to himself, but on the surface he appeased Shen Ti: “Okay, okay, you say, you say.”
“I told you the day you were forced into marriage, but you obviously didn’t listen!”
Shen Ti was exasperated, stood up, and violently shook Shu Ci’s shoulders across the table.
“A 1% compatibility means your pheromones are extremely repulsive to each other, even more painful than the instinctive repulsion between two alphas! I won’t talk about how painful it is in bed, but the risk of birth defects for your children is doubled!”
Shu Ci felt like his brain was about to be shaken out.
“…So that’s it.”
After Shen Ti finally calmed down, Shu Ci put down his spoon and slowly twirled his fingers.
Wasn’t this just the concept of a sexless marriage in his world?
He thought it was pretty good; whoever wants to have kids can have them, he’s not going to.
It would be best if the cheap husband thought the same way.
“Ah! I know why they signed you up for Gu Lan Zhu’s omega selection!” Shen Ti suddenly slapped his forehead. “If you can’t stand a 1% partner and go out to have fun and get caught by your alpha husband, he will definitely retaliate!”
“Retaliate? Meaning I’m being unfaithful?”
“No alpha is magnanimous enough to tolerate his wife going out to find other alphas! If he sees you eagerly going to have children with someone else, he definitely won’t be able to tolerate being cuckolded and might abuse you, might even torture you.”
Shu Ci was stunned; this was something he hadn’t considered.
Yes, he was just an ordinary reader from another world, and he didn’t understand the reality of this world.
Perhaps only a native omega like Shen Ti could empathize with him and consider the terrifying and dark possibilities behind this matter.
Shen Ti took a deep breath: “Your family really planned this out for you. If your husband has already marked you, and discovers you’ve gone to bed with Gu Lan Zhu, he will definitely mentally control and abuse you, and as an omega you won’t even have the ability to escape.”
“Call the police?”
“It’s considered a family matter, they won’t get involved.” Shen Ti rolled her eyes. “It’s almost impossible to get a divorce after a complete marking. Even if you take a step back, you two haven’t reached that stage yet, divorce is difficult for omegas in the marriage market. If you date again after divorce, others will suspect you have some kind of illness, why your ex-A didn’t mark you.”
“Wow!” Shu Ci was truly shocked this time.
He really wanted to know which relative had so meticulously buried him in the pit of fire.
Looking at Shen Ti’s worried expression, he suddenly understood something.
No matter how much suffering and abuse the original owner endured with Gu Lan Zhu, once the plot entered the latter half and Shu Ci’s heart began to waver, Shen Ti supported and encouraged him to divorce and be with Gu Lan Zhu.
…It turns out she was worried about his sex life and married life.
His best friend was probably a pheromone compatibility supremacist.
“I feel like I’m talking to a wall.”
Seeing his indifferent expression, Shen Ti rolled her eyes in exasperation and put down her chopsticks, getting up and walking towards the living room. Halfway there, she couldn’t help but turn back to look at him.
“I say, why don’t you stay here for a few days, my husband at least has a title and rank, Gu Lan Zhu won’t dare to come here to snatch you away… huh?”
Shu Ci slowly warmed his stomach with the porridge, recalling Shen Ti’s husband.
Coincidentally, he didn’t have any impression of him either.
In the original book, Gu Lan Zhu was the top alpha. For the sake of the male lead’s halo, almost everyone in the world with a higher status than him was only mentioned briefly.
He also mentioned this in his rejection comments for the investor: the background setting should not be made extremely unreasonable in order to strengthen the protagonist. Of course, he also understood that if he didn’t tilt all the favorable resources to Gu Lan Zhu, how could he make Shu Ci “unable to escape”?
He couldn’t help but think of the gold license plate he saw last night.
Who exactly was his cheap husband?
“Ci’er, come quickly!” Shen Ti stood at the living room window and waved frantically at him. “Your husband seems to have been outside all night without leaving?”
“???”
Shu Ci put down his bowl and quickly walked to the window. Through the lush foliage of the villa’s garden, he saw the black SUV parked on the empty space in front of the villa.
A small yellow flower blocked his view of the license plate.
The driver’s side window was half-rolled down, and the man wearing sunglasses was leaning back in his seat, seemingly asleep.
The sunlight fell on his hair, creating spots of light. The air was still, like a beautiful poster that could be made with a blink of an eye.
He still couldn’t see the face that had never been described in the original text.
However, there was an inexplicable urge, an urge to approach him, rising from within him.
Before he could think, his feet had already moved.
Passing through the lush garden path and opening the metal gate, Shu Ci quickly walked towards the SUV.
The man’s face was hidden behind sunglasses, his nose was high and straight, his thin lips were pressed into a line, and his sharp jawline outlined his exquisite bone structure.
Shu Ci’s heart skipped a beat.
He had directed countless films and seen countless handsome men and women before he came here, but he had never seen such a perfectly sculpted face.
He forgot what he wanted to ask, and unconsciously wanted to see this face. His hand unconsciously reached out to the man, almost touching the legs of the sunglasses.
At that moment, a strong force clamped down on his wrist!
The man didn’t know when he had moved, grabbing his wrist and pulling him in, Shu Ci fell forward against the car door.
His nose was close to the man’s hand.
Shu Ci subconsciously held his breath, widening his eyes, motionless, staring at the man’s slightly sharp thin lips.
He heard the man’s calm voice say, “Where’s your necklace?”
Author’s Note:
Ci: Husband? Are you there? Let me see your face 🙂