HIS PHEROMONE SMELLS LIKE CATNIP chapter 19

Chapter 19

The dreadful estrus period.

Qin Yao originally thought that Bai He was a beta, and would not be affected by his pheromones. Their pheromone match was high, and without harming Bai He’s hormones, he could just stay by Bai He’s side with a little care and get through the estrus period.

But now it seems that staying by Bai He’s side during the estrus period is not a good idea, because he will lose control, just like that night, unconsciously turning back into a human, but unable to retract the cat ears and tail, too absurd. In the past, the estrus period had never occurred in this way, what exactly went wrong?

Apart from that, Qin Yao was actually bothered by another thing in his heart, he was bothered by himself.

Turning back into a cat and returning to Bai He’s side was not something a human should do in the first place. After all, he secretly intervened in the other party’s life while hiding it from Bai He, which was a form of theft of the other’s privacy, very heinous, very inhuman. Qin Yao’s mind had been scrambled by the estrus period these past few days, and he only now realized how irresponsible an act he was doing.

That day, before dawn, he finally turned back into a cat. Who knows, maybe next time he might make a mistake and suddenly turn into a human in front of Bai He, then he would truly be speechless, a complete pervert, and completely hurt Bai He.

The ten-day estrus period finally passed, Qin Yao managed to get Bai He’s internship work schedule, and when Bai He was not at home, he also had to go do his own thing.

The internship work has been going on for more than half a month, Qin Yao worked during the day, and was a cat at night, playing two roles 24 hours a day.

And he still couldn’t figure out how to be honest with Bai He, so he had no choice but to continue playing the role of the Ling Ling.

“You actually enjoy it, don’t you?” Zhou Luoluo took off the needle and used a cotton swab to press Qin Yao’s arm: “Press the cotton swab yourself, and release it when it stops bleeding.”

Qin Yao clicked his tongue, then suddenly laughed, the alpha’s voice sounding quite annoyed: “You say I just tell him, will he be angry?”

“Anyone encountering this situation would be angry.” Zhou Luoluo put Qin Yao’s blood sample aside, indifferently: “Your behavior is just deceiving people, in reality, he is not even your friend yet.”

“Who says he’s not?” Qin Yao threw away the cotton swab and stood up: “I have his contact information.”

“Just that?” Zhou Luoluo turned around, leaning against the table, mercilessly: “Even if he is a friend, when he knows the truth, he will still be very angry.”

“Then…” Qin Yao furrowed his brows: “What to do?”

“It’s rare to see you not knowing what to do.” Zhou Luoluo smiled and shrugged: “But who knows what to do? You have to figure it out yourself.”

After saying that, she was silent for a few seconds, raising her eyebrows: “Or, build a solid relationship with him in reality?”

Qin Yao fell silent, lost in thought.

…

Bai He’s internship work has been going on for half a month, and today the workload is not much. After finishing work at noon, the team leader gave them half a day off, and there was nothing to do in the afternoon. He said goodbye to the department members and took a taxi back to the Bai family.

He needed to deal with some troublesome matters.

Bai He hasn’t been back to the Bai family for a while, he didn’t want to interfere with the main characters’ affairs, and no one at home took care of him either. During this period away from home, Bai Lu has called him a few times asking when he would come back, but Yao Lin and Bai Qiu have never come to ask what he was doing.

This also suits his intentions perfectly, he doesn’t go back, so he won’t get hurt either. It’s just that today there’s a troublesome matter, Bai Qiu has arranged a blind date for him, which is also a certain plot point in the original work.

Bai Qiu’s company has already caused no ripples in the industry, and with so many employees to support, the company’s funds have actually been very difficult to circulate these years. He needs the help of a business partner, so the idea of an alliance marriage came up.

The scion of the Zhou family branch is an alpha, and he has long had a crush on the male protagonist Bai Lu. Bai Lu naturally did not want the alliance marriage, and the male protagonist Guan Jiaoyu in this period has already developed feelings for Bai Lu. As the only son of the Guan family, the rich and powerful Guan Jiaoyu certainly wouldn’t let Bai Lu become a business pawn in an alliance marriage.

So the male protagonist Guan used the Guan family’s influence to help Bai Qiu’s company get through the crisis, and the alliance marriage no longer needed to continue. But Bai Qiu had already made an agreement with the Zhou family, and while the relationship between the two families was not good, there was no need to make it worse over this matter, so he came up with the idea of letting Bai He replace Bai Lu to meet the Zhou young master, just to muddle through it, so that the superficial relationship between the two families could be maintained in the future.

Not letting Bai Lu go, it was obviously that the male protagonist Guan’s side couldn’t be persuaded, so Bai Qiu thought of his other beta son Bai He.

Bai He had clearly refused over the phone, but Bai Qiu called several times without success, and directly turned a cold shoulder.

“If you don’t come back, I’ll arrange the marriage for you.”

Bai He couldn’t argue with him, so he had to go back to the Bai family.

Bai Qiu was not at home, Yao Lin and Bai Lu were also not there, the butler conveyed Bai Qiu’s words to Bai He, asking him to go find the Zhou young master directly.

The heartless fellow, Bai He was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He was not normally an easily angered person, but today’s matter really made him angry.

“Young Master,” the old butler came down from upstairs, handing him a set of clothes: “The President has instructed, you need to change into this outfit.”

Bai He looked at the exquisite clothes, took a deep breath, and accepted them, turning and going to the room.

The clothes Bai Qiu prepared were not too grand, but not lacking in quality, a well-tailored suit, made to Bai He’s size.

He stood in front of the mirror, sighed deeply, and a sense of powerlessness arose. After a moment, Bai He regained his spirits and walked out in the suit.

After all, he was just going to reject the other party, just go through the motions.

Bai He got on the car prepared by the butler, and left after half an hour, he got out of the car, looked down at his phone.

“Café…” Bai He looked up and around, found the target location, and then walked to the left.

He pushed open the door of the café, smelling the fragrance of flowers and coffee, and the slow, soothing piano and cello concerto.

Bai He scanned the room and locked onto the person sitting by the window.

He walked over and stood still, the alpha in the booth raised his head and squinted at Bai He: “Who are you?”

Bai He asked, “Are you Zhou Sheng?”

The alpha furrowed his brows: “It’s me, what’s the matter?”

Bai He sat down across from the alpha, he spoke plainly, not helping Bai Qiu hide anything, directly explained why it was him here today instead of Bai Lu, and then calmly sipped his coffee, put down the cup: “Now you know, so today’s blind date ends here.”

Bai He stood up: “I’ve already paid the bill, goodbye.”

The alpha’s brows were furrowed tightly enough to crush a mosquito, seeing Bai He getting up to leave, he suddenly reached out and grabbed Bai He’s wrist: “Who said it’s over? Isn’t it just starting?”

Bai He: ?

He looked at the alpha, then at his own wrist being gripped, pulling hard, but couldn’t shake it off.

Zhou Sheng observed Bai He’s micro-expressions, suddenly finding it quite interesting, he raised his eyebrows: “I quite like you, so why don’t we give it a try?”

Bai He frowned: “I’m not Bai Lu.”

“That doesn’t mean I have to hang myself on just one tree, right?” Zhou Sheng smiled at him.

Bai He: “…” This is not how he imagined it to be.

He thought about it for a moment, then said: “I’m not an omega.”

“You discriminate against betas?” Zhou Sheng was surprised, clicking his tongue and shaking his head: “That won’t do, little student, ABO equality, right? And besides…” The alpha squinted his eyes: “Who I like has nothing to do with gender, does it?”

He’s quite righteous, Bai He’s little tricks didn’t work on him, he had only meant to persuade the alpha to withdraw, but this alpha turned out to be quite upright.

Bai He sighed and shook his head: “I don’t like you, how long have we known each other?”

“You think it’s too fast?” Zhou Sheng smiled: “No problem, I can slow down the pace, we have all the time~”

Bai He: “…” How did he just automatically skip over my previous sentence?

Bai He was speechless, he tried to pull his hand again, and this time the alpha let go.

“Bai He?” Zhou Sheng leaned back in the booth: “I remember you, Bai Qiu’s eldest son, he didn’t let Bai Lu come but sent you to deal with me, hmph…”

Bai He didn’t speak, he rubbed his wrist and turned to leave: “I’m leaving.”

The alpha supported his head with one hand, his voice neither loud nor small: “We’ll see each other again~”

Bai He heard it, but he didn’t want to acknowledge it.

He left the café and went home, opened the door, the house was empty.

That’s right, today Dr. Zhou came to the house to take Lingdang for a checkup, and he won’t be back until tomorrow.

The pet hospital has opened a boarding service, Bai He has been too busy these days, and this is a good time for him to ask Dr. Zhou to take care of Lingdang when he can’t.

He went in, thinking he hadn’t eaten yet, the house hadn’t bought any groceries lately, and the noodles were also finished, so he had to go out again.

Bai He just had to put on his shoes and go out, he didn’t even have time to change his clothes, just took off the suit jacket, wearing a white shirt.

As soon as he opened the door, the neighbor’s door also opened, and the casual Qin Yao looked up from the phone screen, seeing Bai He, he only paused for a moment, then smiled and asked, “Going out?”

Bai He nodded: “Yeah, to eat.”

“What a coincidence?” Qin Yao turned off his phone and waved it: “I’m also going to eat, together?”

Bai He was about to refuse, but the alpha spoke first again: “Just as a thank you for sheltering me that night.”

Bai He didn’t refuse again, nodded and said okay.

The two went downstairs together, the alpha asked Bai He to wait here, Bai He nodded, and in a moment, Qin Yao came with his SUV, the window slid down, Qin Yao called out to Bai He: “Get in the car.”

After the car had driven a distance, Bai He finally asked, “Where are we going?”

“I’ll take you to eat something delicious.” Qin Yao smiled, that smile on his face looked a little mischievous, very handsome, he asked Bai He: “Do you like spicy food?”

Bai He hasn’t eaten spicy food for a long time, but he likes spicy food, his body has been recuperating all this time, and has gradually improved, so a little spicy is also fine, so he nodded: “Okay.”

“That’s good.” Qin Yao then looked ahead, the wind blew his hair a little messy, from Bai He’s angle, the alpha’s side profile looked upright and standard, like a beautiful and standard plaster statue, illuminated by the afterglow.

Bai He blinked his slightly dry eyes, realizing that he seemed to have been staring at the other person for a long time.

The SUV drove straight into the city center, Bai He saw the café he had been to today, and then the car drove straight past it, continuing forward.

They stopped in front of an old-fashioned hot pot restaurant, Bai He got out of the car first, and Qin Yao soon came over after parking.

The two went in together.

“Choose what you like.” Qin Yao handed Bai He three different menus: “Spicy hot pot or Mandarin duck hot pot?”

Bai He took the three menus, thought about it: “Mandarin duck hot pot.”

He looked at the three different ABO menus in his hand, then glanced at Qin Yao’s empty hands: “Aren’t you ordering?”

Qin Yao smiled: “Whatever you order, I’ll eat too.”

He said, getting up: “What do you want to drink? I’ll go get it.”

Bai He thought for a moment: “Coconut milk.”

“Okay.”

Qin Yao left the private room, Bai He went through the three different menus and selected items on each one, by the time Qin Yao came back, the server had already taken the menus to prepare the hot pot base and dishes.

Qin Yao put the whole bottle of coconut milk in front of Bai He, then said, “This restaurant is owned by a friend of mine, I came today to boost his business, do you mind if he comes over later?”

Bai He shook his head: “No, he’s your friend.”

Qin Yao smiled, propping his head up to look at Bai He: “We’re friends too.”

Bai He’s eyelashes trembled slightly, and he nodded: “Mm.”

Qin Yao really likes to observe Bai He’s face, that face is so good-looking, although the expression is always faintly calm, like a lotus flower emerging from the water, but occasionally it will also be tinged with some emotions. Bai He’s micro-expressions always make people feel a subtle mood, like now, a slightly dazed expression, with the mouth slightly open, looking a little confused, but this face is still so calm, as if it’s a pretense, yet not completely, a bit cute.

The two chatted casually, mostly Qin Yao initiating the topics, until the steaming hot pot base was served, and the dishes gradually filled up, Qin Yao noticed that there were many nourishing alpha ingredients, he glanced at Bai He: “Don’t order more for yourself?”

Bai He didn’t feel anything special about it: “It’s all the same.”

That’s right, alphas can eat it, betas and omegas can actually eat it too, the practice of dividing the menu by ABO classifications is actually something worth criticizing. Qin Yao hooked his lips, sometimes he really feels that he and Bai He are quite suitable to be friends.

The dishes were soon cooked, the door of the private room was pushed open, a familiar voice.

“Qin Yao, you didn’t even wait for me?” Zhou Sheng brought a bottle of liquor and sat down, just glancing at the other side and seeing Bai He, he was surprised for a moment, then suddenly smiled, lowering his voice a little: “What a coincidence, didn’t expect to see you again so soon.”

Bai He also didn’t expect that Qin Yao’s friend was Zhou Sheng, he didn’t say anything, nor did he really want to greet him.

Qin Yao looked between the two: “You know each other?”

Zhou Sheng narrowed his eyes, his voice very pleasant: “We met on a blind date this afternoon.”

Qin Yao heard this, his brows furrowed slightly without revealing his expression.

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