Chapter 49: The Mistress
Gu Huaiye returned to the dorm.
He wasn’t sure if the pheromones lingering on him had dissipated, but it was finals week, and he had to be there for the exams.
Chen Zirui was in a different major and had finished his exams two days ago, staying in the dorm to play games.
Seeing Gu Huaiye return, he hurriedly took off his headphones.
“Where have you been these past few days? Haven’t seen you around. Don’t tell me something happened at home.”
Gu Huaiye was physically and mentally exhausted, lying down on his bed.
“No, just in a bad mood, went out to relax,” Gu Huaiye answered half-truthfully.
“Why didn’t you let me accompany you?” Chen Zirui spoke with jealousy. “Don’t tell me you made a new friend and are ignoring me, your childhood friend.”
Gu Huaiye didn’t make a sound. He walked over to check and found the person was already asleep.
Chen Zirui pouted and covered him with the quilt.
Suddenly, he thought of something and leaned down to sniff.
The smell of that Alpha pheromone was gone.
Chen Zirui felt very uneasy, worried if Gu Huaiye was being bullied, as he looked a bit off.
That day he was too sleepy and didn’t get up to ask until the end.
Chen Zirui leaned closer, wanting to see the back of Gu Huaiye’s neck, but the next second, Gu Huaiye turned over, pressing on the back of his neck.
He had to give up, thinking of asking when Gu Huaiye woke up.
Gu Huaiye slept until evening. There was already a warm dinner on the table, bought by Chen Zirui for him.
“Thanks.”
Gu Huaiye pulled out the chair and sat down, preparing to eat the dinner Chen Zirui bought.
Chen Zirui stared at Gu Huaiye intently.
“If you have something to say, say it.” Gu Huaiye was stared at so much he couldn’t eat. “Want me to transfer the meal money to you?”
Chen Zirui felt it wasn’t appropriate to joke in this situation, so his face remained serious.
“Brother Gu, we’ve known each other for a long time, and soon we’ll be family. Tell me honestly, where did you go these past few days? What’s with the pheromones that day? Was it really accidentally stained?”
Gu Huaiye pursed his lips, put down his chopsticks, and looked at Chen Zirui seriously.
Chen Zirui’s heart sank.
Finished, big trouble.
“Sorry, I probably have to cancel the engagement with your brother.” Gu Huaiye said, “I had a one-night stand with someone else.”
Chen Zirui stood up with a “swish”.
“Is it that Alpha?”
Gu Huaiye nodded. “Yes.”
Chen Zirui’s face looked unpleasant, puzzled. “How could you find an Alpha? You know perfectly well you can’t have…”
Gu Huaiye interrupted him. “So it’s a one-night stand.”
This choked Chen Zirui.
“Wait, let me process this.”
Chen Zirui sat down, picked up a cigarette, lit it, and took a puff.
Gu Huaiye waited quietly for him until he finished smoking.
“So you won’t have a result with him; you’re just playing with him?”
Gu Huaiye nodded. “Yes, I never thought about marrying him.”
In his previous life, he had already been married and didn’t end up well; in this life, he definitely wouldn’t marry again.
“So this is also the important matter you mentioned to me before that you wanted to discuss?”
“Yes.”
Chen Zirui ruffled his hair irritably and couldn’t help but smoke another one.
“Were you rushing to see him at that time?”
“Yes.”
Gu Huaiye was like a prisoner; whatever Chen Zirui asked, he answered.
In his previous life, he also talked about this with Chen Zirui, but Chen Zirui’s reaction wasn’t as intense as now.
Probably because he slept with Xie Miaohan without discussing it first.
“You really make me angry, but I can understand you very well.” The ashtray on Chen Zirui’s right hand already had several cigarette butts, and his voice was hoarse. “Your engagement was decided by the elders. You have no feelings for my brother; I can understand you, but you shouldn’t get entangled with an Alpha either.”
“My situation with him is complicated; it can’t be explained in a few words.”
“How complicated can it be? Surely you haven’t known him longer than my brother.”
Gu Huaiye fell silent.
In his previous life, from meeting Xie Miaohan to getting married, adding it all up was nearly more than ten years.
Not shorter than the time he knew Chen Xialin.
Moreover, so many things happened between him and Xie Miaohan; it wasn’t something that could be cut off casually.
“Forget it, no need to cancel the engagement.” Chen Zirui said almost the same words as in the previous life. “Playing is fine, don’t really lose your heart. You and my brother went to the hospital to test pheromone compatibility; he is your best destination. Forget about Alphas; there’s no future.”
Gu Huaiye frowned. “You know I slept with someone, yet you continue to push your brother into the fire pit?”
Chen Zirui didn’t agree with what he said.
“You and my brother weren’t officially together, so it doesn’t count as betrayal. Who hasn’t dated before marriage? This isn’t dating either, just playing. As long as it’s cut clean, it doesn’t matter. Besides, my brother likes you so much. Even if I convey your words, he won’t agree to cancel the engagement. At most, he’ll cry a bit, then forgive you.”
Indeed.
In his previous life, he got married, and Chen Xialin still refused to give up on him, bitterly waiting for the day he would divorce.
Seeing Gu Huaiye silent, Chen Zirui hurriedly asked, “Don’t tell me you’re still in contact with that person?”
“You don’t need to ask this.”
Chen Zirui became more certain they were in contact. “Who is it exactly? Do I know him?”
Gu Huaiye didn’t want to complicate things further and didn’t intend to reveal Xie Miaohan’s name.
“Don’t know him.”
Chen Zirui didn’t believe it at all.
That pheromone was too familiar; he always felt he had smelled it somewhere.
Since Gu Huaiye wouldn’t say, he would investigate himself.
Chen Zirui went to the training ground.
He stayed up all night thinking about the source of the pheromone. Finally, after filtering, he felt he should have smelled it at the training ground.
Only in this place could Alphas release their pheromones unscrupulously without fear of affecting Omegas.
Chen Zirui walked around like a weirdo, smelling the pheromones emitted by students.
Walking past the shooting training room, that familiar pheromone became stronger and stronger.
His eyes lit up, and he hurried over, stopping behind a person, staring at him in disbelief.
It was… actually Xie Miaohan!
The person he thought about last night but felt was impossible!
Xie Miaohan was an SSS-level Alpha, with stronger vigilance than ordinary Alphas. He turned around immediately, staring at Chen Zirui with cold and stern eyes.
Discovering it was Gu Huaiye’s childhood friend, he immediately put away the coldness, like putting on a mask, revealing a gentle and jade-like smile.
“It’s you. Why standing behind me? It’s dangerous.”
Chen Zirui suppressed the shock in his heart, staring at Xie Miaohan with complex eyes.
“Senior Xie, it’s too noisy here. Free to chat outside?”
Xie Miaohan nodded, put down the gun, and followed Chen Zirui out of the training ground.
” did you sleep with Gu Huaiye?”
Xie Miaohan slightly raised the corners of his mouth. “Yes.”
Chen Zirui’s pupils constricted. “It really is you! Do you know Brother Gu has an engagement with my brother? How can you be the mistress (the other man/homewrecker)?”
Xie Miaohan raised an eyebrow.
He didn’t need Chen Zirui as a springboard to approach Gu Huaiye anymore.
So he shed the disguise, revealing a cold and arrogant face.
“Has an engagement…” Xie Miaohan chuckled lightly. “I really didn’t know. But so what if there’s an engagement? The one not loved is the mistress. Looks like your brother isn’t that great; knowing Gu Huaiye for so many years, yet not even getting a proper look from him.”
Chen Zirui couldn’t believe such words would come from the mouth of the Senior Xie he admired.
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