Chapter: 25 Three in One His possessiveness toward Shen Shuyi grew stronger and stronger. …

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The next day, Shen Shuyi and Xie Chen Zhou returned together to the Shen residence.

This was the second time Xie Chen Zhou came to the Shen residence, and also the first time Shen Shuyi came back after moving into the Xie residence.

It felt somewhat like a different lifetime.

For the first time, Shen Shuyi realized that he seemed to have no sense of belonging to the Shen family at all, as if this place was not his home.

When Shen Shuyi and Xie Chen Zhou arrived, the Shen family butler warmly came out to welcome them.

Even Father Shen, after learning the news, came out together with the stepmother to greet them.

Shen Xingyao was not there. Perhaps because of what Xie Chen Zhou said to him at the last wedding, a child of Shen Xingyao’s age held grudges and was clear about恩怨. He would rather be impolite and ignore others just to let out that breath, and probably would not take the initiative to appear before Xie Chen Zhou again.

Sure enough, in a short while, Shen Shuyi saw him in the garden not far away, being surrounded by a group of peers, proudly performing flower arranging.

Xie Chen Zhou was directly welcomed inside by Father Shen and the stepmother, invited to take a seat on the only sofa in the reception hall reserved for honored guests.

The last time Xie Chen Zhou came, he sat in this very spot.

Shen Shuyi consciously did not follow.

He stood to the side for a moment, and was just about to go upstairs to his attic to see whether anything he might need had been left there, when suddenly he heard Xie Chen Zhou calling his name, “Shuyi.”

“Ah?” Shen Shuyi answered instinctively.

He turned back and saw that Xie Chen Zhou, Father Shen, and the stepmother were all looking at him in unison.

“Sit,” Xie Chen Zhou said, “standing is tiring.”

After he spoke, he shifted aside a little.

He completely disregarded the fact that for his sake Father Shen and the stepmother were even sitting at the side seats.

The corners of Father Shen’s eyes twitched slightly.

“No… you talk,” Shen Shuyi hurried to say, “I will go upstairs to my room to see whether anything was left there.”

“Chen Zhou, mainly I wanted to talk with you about something…” Father Shen wanted to use the opportunity to discuss a business cooperation with Xie Chen Zhou.

“Sorry,” Xie Chen Zhou apologized as he stood up, “today is your daughter’s birthday. I think it is not too suitable to talk business. If father needs my help with anything, you can have your secretary contact my secretary directly to avoid weariness. Shuyi said he would go back to his room. I want to accompany him to have a look. Excuse me.”

After speaking, he took several steps to Shen Shuyi’s side. “Let us go.”

“Uh…” Shen Shuyi looked at Father Shen, then at the stepmother. “Then… Dad, I will take him up?”

Father Shen’s expression shifted several times, and in the end he waved his hand with some embarrassment. “Go on, treat the guest well.”

When he said this, he might have for a moment forgotten that now, in the Shen residence, Shen Shuyi already counted as a guest.

Rather, he and Xie Chen Zhou counted as a family in the household registration sense.

Shen Shuyi led Xie Chen Zhou into the lift and went upstairs.

In the narrow lift, Shen Shuyi said to Xie Chen Zhou, “My room is in the attic on the top floor. In this weather it should be very hot. Usually it is used for storage, and there is rarely anyone who goes up, so when I am not here the air conditioning is not turned on.”

Xie Chen Zhou nodded. “Will you feel hot?”

Shen Shuyi realized the other was asking whether he would feel hot staying in his room in weather like this. “It is fine, I am used to it. Once we go in and turn on the air conditioner it will be fine.”

When they reached the attic, a wave of scorching air rushed toward them, carrying the dust smell unique to storage rooms. It could be seen that few people came up to clean here ordinarily, and it was very likely that since Shen Shuyi left, almost no one had come up again.

“The Shen family servants are incompetent,” Xie Chen Zhou commented.

Even in the Xie residence basement, he would regularly hire hourly workers to go down to clean and tidy. This had nothing to do with other matters, it was a matter of living habits. Who would be willing to let himself live in a pile of dust.

All the more since the Shen residence had so many servants, they were practically decoration.

Xie Chen Zhou was very dissatisfied, and because of it even lightly furrowed his handsome brows.

If this were in a work setting, or if Father Shen and the stepmother were present at this moment, they would certainly feel restless over such a micro expression. Poor workers like Secretary Zhao might already start wiping sweat.

But Shen Shuyi found it very interesting.

This was the first time someone, on his behalf, felt dissatisfaction at his living environment in the Shen residence.

Shen Shuyi let Xie Chen Zhou wait for a moment in the relatively cool corridor, went into the room to turn on the air conditioner, then came out and said to him, “Come in, Mr Xie.”

Xie Chen Zhou followed behind him and stepped into the room.

Shen Shuyi thought that once he came in, he would dislike it and frown like before, but he did not.

From the first step across the threshold, Xie Chen Zhou fully displayed curiosity toward everything in the room.

He slowly looked around, and the furrow between his brows gradually relaxed after coming in.

Even though Shen Shuyi no longer lived here, many of the items he had no need to use were still left here.

Xie Chen Zhou looked over them bit by bit.

In the small space stood a single bed, and beside it a standing bookshelf that could hold many ornaments.

On the bookshelf were several photos of Shen Shuyi taken in the past, and some unimportant certificates obtained at school for good performance.

Xie Chen Zhou stopped before the bookshelf.

He looked very carefully, and even reached out, to stroke the face of the much younger Shen Shuyi in the photo frame.

Just now, Shen Shuyi was rummaging in his cabinet and did not notice what Xie Chen Zhou was doing. When he saw from the corner of his eye what Xie Chen Zhou was doing, he was startled. His whole face flushed red, and he hurried over to take the photo away from his hand.

“You… that…” Shen Shuyi held the photo in both hands and stammered, “there is nothing to look at. This is my old photo…”

Xie Chen Zhou thought that he had already seen him wearing only underwear through the surveillance, so what was this compared to that, but aloud he asked very ordinarily, “How old?”

“Teenage? That time it was summer break, I went out with Sheng Heng Ye… this is a photo taken when I was learning to ride… I could not ride very well, not that good.”

Xie Chen Zhou looked at the riding outfit worn by the teenage Shen Shuyi in the photo, the pants were very tight, the waistcoat set off the waist… only a teenager and already so seductive…

His Adam’s apple rolled imperceptibly.

This was not a photo he had seen on that social site where Shen Shuyi used to update frequently.

In the self made albums on that site, those photos were almost worn out by him flipping them.

He could not help thinking that if he brought back the photos placed here… then every night late at night, at times when Shen Shuyi could not notice, he would have entertainment again…

He even thought of immediately making a copy… no, several copies. At that time, each one would have its use.

When he relieved his desire, he would certainly soil these photos, so he had to keep more. At least there had to be one intact and clean, to keep and treasure.

But for the time being he did not know how to open his mouth to ask.

His gaze slid to another one.

Shen Shuyi then introduced, “This was taken when I was eight… my father had the secretary take me and third brother to the amusement park. This is… this seems to be last year or the year before.”

Xie Chen Zhou’s gaze completely stayed on that photo taken most recently.

Then he compared it with the one taken when Shen Shuyi was in his teens.

Sure enough, a beautiful flower could make the heart move and feel parched even in the bud stage.

Perhaps because Xie Chen Zhou’s gaze was too bare and direct, it already aroused a trace of suspicion and embarrassment in Shen Shuyi. “Mr Xie, is there any problem?”

Of course there was a problem. He wanted to take these photos as his own and soil them all.

But no. He had to be a gentleman. He had to endure.

Yet after enduring, he still did not entirely endure. “I do not seem to have seen you place any photos in your room at the Xie residence.”

“Ah…” Shen Shuyi scratched his face. “Mainly I do not have that habit. These few photos were placed because others helped me print them. Like this one taken when I was eight, third brother helped me print it. This one taken in my teens… Heng Ye helped me print it. This one… was also printed extra by classmates for the class photo wall and one was given to me…”

Xie Chen Zhou’s eyes sank. “That Sheng also has them?”

“Do you dislike Heng Ye, Mr Xie?” Shen Shuyi asked, puzzled.

He seemed never to have heard Xie Chen Zhou call someone with the form of address of surname so and so when his emotions were normal, but that was not important. “Perhaps he has it on his phone. I do not know. But he changes his phone every year. The negatives may already be deleted.”

Xie Chen Zhou calmed himself a little, and quietly took a deep breath. “Some people do not know I am married. I want to place a photo of you on my office desk.”

“Ah… you mean at the company?” Shen Shuyi felt a little ashamed. “Most colleagues know. Is it to show visiting clients?”

“Mm,” Xie Chen Zhou looked at him. “Some people, for some reason, are born fond of matchmaking. Annoying.”

Shen Shuyi laughed. It seemed there were indeed such people.

“Then how about I print another one for you?” If it were his teenage photo, that seemed even more embarrassing than displaying a recent one…

Xie Chen Zhou regretfully looked at the beautiful to the extreme photo of the teenager in riding clothes in Shen Shuyi’s hands. It seemed he could not obtain it through normal means. Could it be he had to take it secretly when others were not paying attention?

Would that be too immoral?

Countless ways to keep this photo by means flashed through his mind, but he then heard Shen Shuyi hesitate, and say, “Then let it be this one. Actually I do not like taking photos very much. In the past two years I really have very few photos… letting me pick my own photo feels quite embarrassing. Since Mr Xie likes this one, then I will give it to you…”

The unexpected surprise came too suddenly. Xie Chen Zhou was extremely delighted, and he wished he could reach out at once to take it and let this photo be covered with his own scent and body fluid.

But no.

He had to copy it first.

“Take it back and give it to Secretary Zhao,” Xie Chen Zhou said with some reluctance and with a little regret. “I will have him help replace the frame.” And at the same time make several more copies.

“Oh…” Shen Shuyi responded.

Indeed, the frame he himself was using was overly shabby.

After he got the photo, only then was Xie Chen Zhou slightly satisfied, and he accompanied Shen Shuyi to linger a while longer in this tiny space, maliciously letting everything Shen Shuyi had left here be stained with his own pheromone, and only then went downstairs together with him.

Downstairs, the birthday banquet had already begun, and Shen Shuhan also arrived belatedly after putting down work.

Shen Shuhan’s relationship with the second sister was not good, but he could manage to keep it as if even if the relationship with someone was not good, as long as it had not been torn apart, then nothing had happened. Today he was the same as on the day of Shen Shuyi and Xie Chen Zhou’s wedding banquet, responsible for helping the second sister entertain the guests who came to celebrate her birthday, talking and laughing.

The guests attending the second sister’s birthday banquet, apart from some regular guests of the Shen family, were colleagues who had worked with the second sister and elites from the academic world.

Because of the arrival of these people, the entire Shen residence was shrouded in an academic atmosphere.

The second sister’s main area for receiving these guests was the small courtyard behind the villa. There was a spacious swimming pool there, as well as an observatory deck that the second sister had spent a great deal of money to have someone build, with a very expensive telescope set up in the transparent glass conservatory.

That was the most expensive item on display in the entire Shen residence.

It was said that when the second sister wanted to install it, Father Shen did not agree and flew into a great rage. It was the eldest brother who took out his own private money to make it possible for the small courtyard to have such an observatory deck and let the second sister get her wish.

For so many years, because of work the second sister hardly returned home. Merely hiring people to maintain that telescope every year cost quite a lot of money.

In the observatory deck, the second sister was chatting with her guests and looking at the stars, while Shen Shuyi, like the Shen family’s familiar guests, was in the indoor living room.

However, on the side of the living room facing the small courtyard there was a huge floor to ceiling window, through which all the scenery of the small courtyard and observatory deck could be seen from the reception room.

In the end, Xie Chen Zhou was called away by Father and Mother to talk. On such occasions he would certainly become the honored guest and could not refuse.

Standing by the floor to ceiling window, Shen Shuyi saw Shen Shuhan, who was busy halfway through, put down what he was doing and walk over to him.

“Did you see it?” Shen Shuhan held a glass of champagne in his own hand and handed a glass of cola to Shen Shuyi.

“What?” Shen Shuyi asked.

“The Omega that Aunt Ye picked out for second sister also came today,” Shen Shuhan looked toward the center of the living room, very gossiping in manner. “It is that one.”

Shen Shuyi followed his gaze.

A very pretty Omega girl.

She stood timidly behind the people who looked like her parents, looking very nervous, her hands constantly twisting the decorative ribbon on her skirt.

“If you ask me, Aunt Ye is really black. It is said that this girl has a gland defect. Aunt Ye originally planned to introduce her to eldest brother. Eldest brother… you know, he looks like he does not talk much, but actually he is very shrewd. He probably saw through Aunt Ye’s intention, and once he heard some small signs he immediately went to reject Aunt Ye. Second sister is in the institute all day, so she certainly does not know about this… are you listening, Shen Shuyi? I say… do not even talk about others, how are you and Xie Chen Zhou now?”

“What kind of gland defect?” Shen Shuyi frowned and asked Shen Shuhan.

“Ah? What do you mean?” Shen Shuhan was stunned.

“What are the specific symptoms of her gland defect?” Shen Shuyi could tell that the Omega girl had something slightly off.

The repeated stereotyped movements made Shen Shuyi think of Liang Xiaxia, who suffered from pheromone dependence.

This girl must also be troubled by some mental illness related to pheromones.

“I am not too sure about the specifics… I only know she cannot release pheromones on her own or something like that. Anyway it is very troublesome and requires taking a kind of medicine every day that assists in slowly releasing pheromones. If there is a day she does not take it, she will fall into heat… this kind of illness is quite rare. Do not talk about this… I am asking about you and Xie Chen Zhou…”

“Medicine that assists the release of pheromones? Pheromone slow release agent?” Shen Shuyi asked.

“It seems to be called that… no, Shen Shuyi, are you listening to me?”

For some reason, Shen Shuyi suddenly thought of that kind of vitamin nutrition drink that Xie Chen Zhou often drank.

But the one that Xie Chen Zhou drank should just be vitamins, right?

It should be.

For reasons he did not know, Shen Shuyi silently repeated it several times in his heart and persuaded himself.

“Why does Aunt Ye want to introduce this girl to second sister?” Shen Shuyi asked again.

“Her surname is Tang. You know the Tang family, right? They are family friends with the Ye family. To put it plainly, it is to stuff her own family in, to lay a path for herself and fifth younger brother. Who told her she cannot give birth to an Alpha and only gave birth to an Omega like fifth younger brother…” Shen Shuhan’s face was full of disdain. He completely forgot that he himself was also an Omega as he said this.

“Do not value Alphas over Omegas,” Shen Shuyi said. “I think that Omega has a problem. If she stays any longer something will happen. Third brother, you have to come with me to take a look.”

As he spoke slowly, he reached out and grabbed Shen Shuhan’s arm with one hand.

“No, Shen Shuyi, what are you doing?” Shen Shuhan was startled. “Wake up. What does it have to do with you? Will anyone be grateful if you meddle?”

“I am not meddling. Third brother, I just think that Omega’s state is not right. Her emotions are already unstable. She looks very nervous. Under heavy pressure it is very likely she will do something extreme.”

This was a bit of experience that Shen Shuyi had accumulated during his internship at the affiliated mental health center of Hua University during this period. His professional knowledge told him that now he had to take the Omega girl away from here.

Otherwise she might have an emotional breakdown.

Seeing that Shen Shuyi did not agree with him and clearly did not want to get involved, he took the lead and walked past the rippling swimming pool in the back courtyard, stopping at a place not far from the stepmother and that Omega girl’s family.

After a moment, the second sister was called out of the glass house by the stepmother.

Today she wore a red black gradient formal gown, and the high heels of the same color under her feet made her already tall figure even such that others had to look up to meet her eyes.

The earrings on both sides of her ears swayed lightly. She walked out of the glass house with an impatient face, crossed her arms, raised her chin, and raised her brows to ask the stepmother, “What is it?”

The stepmother smiled and said, “Jinzhi, this is the Omega of the Tang family. Today I want to introduce her to you.”

The second sister was not the same as eldest brother. Her temper was more outward than eldest brother’s. Because she was a favored child since childhood and also a high level pheromone Alpha, countless people pursued her. Toward those she did not like she did not speak very politely, whether peers, elders, or those younger than herself. She was not like Shen Shuhan, who since childhood had trained the ability to speak to people one way and to ghosts another.

Sure enough, the second sister only looked the Omega up and down, then said in a very sharp tone, “Ye Mingxi, are you crazy? You dare to introduce an Omega with a gland defect to me? I am not those two soft persimmons Shen Shuyi and Shen Shuhan. Do you really think I am as easy to handle as they are?”

“Ahem…” At this time Shen Shuhan had just walked to stand behind Shen Shuyi. Hearing the second sister say this, he completely did not want to get involved anymore and retreated with some schadenfreude.

Shen Shuyi, “…”

As expected, that Omega seemed to be provoked by the second sister’s biting words, and cried out sharply, “I am not a gland defective. I am not a disabled Omega.”

After speaking, she shook off her mother’s hand and panicked, running in the direction of Shen Shuyi.

Her mother had not reacted yet. Afraid that she would run around causing trouble, she hurried to catch up. “Yining. Yining, calm down. Did we not agree beforehand?”

The girl did not listen at all, and took something out of a small pocket on her skirt.

Shen Shuyi saw clearly that it was a small bottle.

Its packaging looked very similar to that vitamin nutrition drink that Xie Chen Zhou drank.

Was it a pheromone slow release agent?

This was the first thought that flashed through Shen Shuyi’s mind.

Why did she want to drink a pheromone slow release agent?

What would happen if she drank too much?

What side effects would there be?

He searched frantically in his brain for his stored knowledge, but found nothing.

He only knew that medicine could not be taken in excess.

If this kind of medicine was taken too much, it would also damage the gland, right?

Her gland was already defective. Would drinking so much slow release agent ruin the gland?

That would be fatal.

Shen Shuyi hurried to go around from the other side of the pool, trying to stop her. “Tang Yining.”

He heard the Omega girl’s name from her mother’s mouth.

The Omega girl heard a stranger calling her and dazedly looked up.

“Put down the bottle in your hand,” Shen Shuyi said. “Do not do anything foolish. If there is anything, we can discuss it.”

The girl’s eyes were red. “You do not understand anything. Many people look down on me. They all say I am a monster…”

“You are not a monster,” Shen Shuyi raised his hand and used his unique voice to speak slowly. “You are just a little different from others…”

“You are sick, I know…” As he spoke, some scenes that seemed not to have existed in his memory surfaced in his mind for some reason.

When he was very very small, there was a person who held a skinned knee and also said to him, “I am a monster…”

“You are not a monster.” At that time Shen Shuyi told him in a voice even more firm than now, “You are just different from others.”

In an instant, a pheromone storm like a sudden downpour swept through the entire small courtyard.

The courtyard was full of the rich fragrance of white magnolia.

The pheromone concentration index exploded.

Tang Yining felt a sharp stinging pain from the gland at the back of her neck.

Was it pheromone rejection?

Tang Yining was taken aback.

Was someone using pheromones to attack her?

But she had a gland defect. Should she not be unable to feel it?

Some of the other guests in the small courtyard could not tolerate it and had already run off.

Some guests hid in the glass house together with the second sister.

Tang Yining turned around and saw Xie Chen Zhou standing at the end of the walkway, looking at her without expression.

That thick and sharp pheromone, filled with rejection and killing intent toward her, came from him.

The expression on his face was filled with warning and disgust, as well as possessiveness toward the young Beta beside him.

Frightened, Tang Yining stumbled back and fell to the ground.

Completely unaware of what strange thing was happening around him now, Shen Shuyi was about to go forward to help her up, but his hand was slapped away by Tang Yining in fear.

Shen Shuyi was flung back a few steps by her.

He wanted to control himself, and he thought that withdrawing a few steps he could stand firm, but he did not expect that just a few steps behind him was the swimming pool.

There was nothing at hand he could use to keep his balance.

Splash

Shen Shuyi fell into the pool.

Shen Shuyi could not swim. Xie Chen Zhou knew this.

Since the weather turned hot, the swimming pool at the Xie residence had already begun to be cleaned and maintained and the water circulation and self cleaning system had been turned on.

Sometimes at night, Shen Shuyi would see Xie Chen Zhou soaking in the pool, like a nimble fish, but when Xie Chen Zhou invited him into the water, he always refused.

He had not learned systematically and was still at the level of being completely unable to float once he left the swim ring and other floating devices.

The pool at the Xie residence was not for him to use. It was normal that he had hardly swum.

But Xie Chen Zhou felt a little grateful.

He was grateful that Shen Shuyi fell into the pool and did not need to keep speaking with that Omega he loathed.

Not only that Omega, but also Shen Shuyi’s third brother whom he loathed, the sharp tongued and unreasonable stepmother, the second sister with her haughty eyes, and all the guests present.

In Xie Chen Zhou’s eyes, these people were all blind to the situation and all loathsome.

As long as Shen Shuyi was not talking with him, everything around him, including a bird passing by, would vex him.

He knew he was becoming more and more abnormal.

His possessiveness toward Shen Shuyi was growing stronger and stronger.

At first he thought that it would be enough to simply get close to Shen Shuyi.

Now he discovered that he was no longer satisfied with that at all.

He wanted to lock Shen Shuyi away, so that he had no social life and had no one else in his eyes.

He increasingly disliked those people talking to Shen Shuyi.

How exactly could he stop them?

In the water, Shen Shuyi struggled.

He struggled continuously.

The water was very deep, but given his height, he could stand up in the water.

But for some reason he just could not stand up.

Was he too flustered?

Was his formal wear too heavy?

He could not float.

He was very scared.

He regretted a little. He should have listened to third brother before and learned to swim properly, at least to have learned how to float in the water.

A few days ago when Xie Chen Zhou invited him to swim, he should have agreed.

Xie Chen Zhou swam so well. He could have learned by following him.

At least it would not have let him fall into the pool now and be at a loss.

Xie Chen Zhou?

Yes, Xie Chen Zhou.

Just before he fell into the pool, he seemed to have seen Xie Chen Zhou.

For some reason, in this moment in the small courtyard, apart from Xie Chen Zhou, there seemed to be no one else.

Many people seemed only to be watching the commotion outside the small courtyard and by the floor to ceiling window of the living room.

Was there no one to save him?

A nameless loneliness welled up in Shen Shuyi’s heart.

It was just like that time when he was very small and got separated from his family.

He remembered that he walked alone in the dark for a very long time.

He kept crying, but no one paid attention to him.

It was not until he was found by the police. Because no one claimed him for a long time and he could not for the moment say where he lived, at that time he was too young and not yet good at remembering.

So the police had no way. After caring for him for a few days, they temporarily sent him to a nearby welfare home, saying that after they found his parents they would take him back.

Then he remembered that from that day on, his hand was held by a pair of warm hands.

Who would that have been?

Shen Shuyi could not remember.

A huge sense of suffocation enveloped him.

He seemed to be about to die.

He kept stretching his hands toward the surface of the pool.

With longing eyes he looked at Xie Chen Zhou who was standing at the poolside.

The gaze cast over carried unconsciously a trace of despair and entreaty.

He hoped that Xie Chen Zhou would save him.

Even he himself could not detect what expression he had now.

At this moment there was only Xie Chen Zhou in his eyes.

In endless despair he wholeheartedly believed in and relied on Xie Chen Zhou.

With eyes red, after precise calculation and a brief wait, after he had finished appreciating Shen Shuyi’s helpless and dependent expression pleading with him, satisfied and aching all over, Xie Chen Zhou jumped into the water.

In the water he felt for Shen Shuyi and supported his waist.

As soon as Shen Shuyi sensed him approaching, he instinctively clung to him like an octopus.

Xie Chen Zhou actually felt a morbid sense of comfort all over his body.

He even had a crazy idea, to drown himself and Shen Shuyi here.

Two people dying together was the method he could think of that best suppressed the crazy thoughts in his mind.

But no.

He had to save Shuyi.

Shen Shuyi reached out and wrapped his arms around his neck, his whole body sticking very close to him.

Sticking to him, clinging to him, his face flushed bright red. He was telling Xie Chen Zhou that he was running out of oxygen.

He was about to die.

Xie Chen Zhou’s hands roamed continually over various parts of Shen Shuyi’s body. He held Shen Shuyi, and below he was painfully swollen and uncomfortable.

He wanted to kiss Shen Shuyi, wanted to bite through his lips here.

Wanted to do him to death here.

But in the end, Xie Chen Zhou merely threaded his hands through under Shen Shuyi’s armpits and lifted him up from the bottom of the water.

As soon as his head broke the surface, Shen Shuyi breathed in great gulps as if reborn.

Reluctantly, Xie Chen Zhou first sent Shen Shuyi up onto shore and then climbed out of the pool himself.

His entire nasal cavity along with his lungs felt as if they had been cut by a knife with stabbing pain. Lying on the grass of the small courtyard, Shen Shuyi kept coughing.

Xie Chen Zhou leaned over, knelt on one knee, and kept smoothing and patting his back with his palm to help him cough up the water he had choked on.

Shen Shuyi coughed until his heart felt torn apart, and in the end he could not bear it, falling into Xie Chen Zhou’s arms, one hand still pulling at his collar.

With a dark expression, seeing that he still found it hard to breathe, Xie Chen Zhou simply stood up and lifted him horizontally into his arms.

After a plunge into the water, his pheromones had already drawn back, and the pheromone particles in the air had already begun to sink and dissipate.

A servant brought dispersal spray and helped to spray it in the small courtyard, and there were also servants together with a deeply worried Shen Shuhan who came up to meet them.

“Shuyi, how are you?” Shen Shuhan called his name softly.

Xie Chen Zhou shot him a glance with cold and merciless eyes.

At that look, Shen Shuhan instinctively retreated a step.

“Find a room,” Xie Chen Zhou said to the servant who came up. After a pause, he emphasized, “Find a guest room that is spacious, bright, ventilated, and comfortable.”

The two words guest room were stressed by Xie Chen Zhou.

The servant’s face flickered.

She knew that Xie Chen Zhou was implying that the Shen family had arranged an attic as a bedroom for Shen Shuyi. After hesitating for a moment, she quickly turned and sped up her steps, planning first to pass on Xie Chen Zhou’s words to Father Shen and the stepmother Ye Mingxi.

The servant’s movements were fairly quick. Although she went back to make a report, it did not delay matters. By the time Xie Chen Zhou went upstairs, they had already quickly chosen a spacious and comfortable guest room for Shen Shuyi.

It could be seen that the Shen family did not lack spare rooms. It was only that they did not care about Shen Shuyi.

With a gloomy expression, Xie Chen Zhou put Shen Shuyi on the bed.

His formal wear, of a style similar to Shen Shuyi’s, was also soaked through.

After choking on water, Shen Shuyi only had his breathing slightly labored. He would probably be fine after a short rest.

After the servants finished, they were preparing to go out again to find a change of clothes for Shen Shuyi and Xie Chen Zhou.

After lying for a while, feeling much more comfortable, Shen Shuyi got up from the bed and asked Xie Chen Zhou, “How is that Omega just now? Is she all right?”

The hand with which Xie Chen Zhou was holding a towel paused.

His expression was calm, and he tried his best not to reveal anything as he asked, “You care a lot about that Omega? She is fine.”

“She is very pitiful…” Shen Shuyi said. “I do not know what caused the gland defect. In fact this is very normal. It is only being ill, but she is treated as a monster.”

Bending down, Xie Chen Zhou grabbed Shen Shuyi’s wrist.

He gripped his hand tighter and tighter, almost to the point of breaking it.

Shen Shuyi let out a low pain. “Mr Xie, what are you doing…?”

“Call me Chen Zhou,” with dark eyes, Xie Chen Zhou said, “I just now saved you. Should you not first thank me?”

Only then did Shen Shuyi sense that Xie Chen Zhou did not seem to be in a good mood, perhaps because he had ignored him just now and had not first asked how he was, and instead asked after an unrelated person.

He hurried to say, “Sorry, Mr Xie… sorry, Chen Zhou… I should first thank you for saving me. If you had not saved me, I might have drowned in the pool just now.”

In fact, no.

In fact, the person who had almost caused him to drown in the pool just now was Xie Chen Zhou himself.

Xie Chen Zhou closed his eyes.

He calmed himself, unwilling to admit how vile what he had just done was, and shamelessly claimed credit. “As long as you know. If you know, why did you not thank me the first moment.”

“Thank you, thank you.” Shen Shuyi hurried to act cute, and seeing that Xie Chen Zhou gradually relaxed his grip on his wrist, he quickly withdrew it, put his palms together, “Truly thank you, Chen Zhou.”

Xie Chen Zhou’s Adam’s apple rolled. He really could not endure Shen Shuyi speaking to him like this, and took a step back.

Very soon the servants found clean clothes for Xie Chen Zhou and Shen Shuyi. “Fourth young master, Mr Xie, the master had eldest young master find a set of clean clothes for each of you.”

Xie Chen Zhou went out to take the clothes.

In order to leave the more spacious room for Shen Shuyi, he went to the bathroom himself.

He knew that his current thoughts were very abnormal and very dangerous, and that he needed to calm down as soon as possible.

Before long, Shen Shuyi dried himself and changed into clean clothes.

Someone knocked on the door outside.

His voice was still a little hoarse, but he tried to raise it and asked, “Who is it?”

No one answered.

Shen Shuyi had to open the door himself.

As soon as he opened it, his hand was seized by Shen Shuhan outside the door and he was quickly pulled out.

“What are you doing, that hurts.”

Shen Shuyi hissed in pain. Shen Shuhan had not noticed the red marks on his wrist from where Xie Chen Zhou had just lost control and squeezed too hard. After turning back and making sure that they could speak here without being heard by Xie Chen Zhou, he finally spoke. “Shen Shuyi, you must immediately think of a way to divorce Xie Chen Zhou. He is very dangerous.”

Letting go of the hand rubbing the red marks on his wrist, Shen Shuyi was taken aback for a moment and asked blankly, “What did you say?”

After crawling and rolling in the entertainment circle for many years and being knowledgeable, Shen Shuhan naturally knew a little about the characteristics of high level Alphas.

But he felt that Xie Chen Zhou was simply not a normal Alpha.

He cared too much about Shen Shuyi, and his desire to control Shen Shuyi was too strong.

What was even more frightening was that Shen Shuyi himself knew nothing about it.

This Xie Chen Zhou had impure motives from the start.

It was as if he had long ago woven a net for Shen Shuyi. Coming to the Shen family, proposing a marriage alliance, choosing Shen Shuyi, were all part of his plan. The more he thought about it, the more chilled Shen Shuhan felt along his back.

But he suffered from having no evidence.

He did not know how to tell Shen Shuyi what he had discovered.

Until he smelled a thick white magnolia fragrance.

Sharp pheromone particles wrapped in a cold wind stabbed straight toward the back neck gland.

Kill this loathsome third brother of Shen Shuyi.

So thought Xie Chen Zhou.

Simply perish together.

Everyone who advised Shen Shuyi to leave him was an enemy.

With such difficulty he had gotten to this step, and after arranging so much he had gotten to Shen Shuyi’s side.

Why?

Why exactly?

Until he and the pale faced Shen Shuhan together heard Shen Shuyi say, “Impossible, third brother. I am doing well with him. Why would I divorce him?”

“Have you thought about it? If I asked for a divorce, would Dad agree?”

“Also, I do not think he has any problem. I think he has always been very good to me. He is a very good person, very measured, very gentlemanly.”

“I do not know how many misunderstandings outsiders have about him, but I will use my eyes to see.”

“Before he finds another person he truly likes, I will not ask him for a divorce.” Shen Shuyi said in a low voice.

Drenched in sweat, Shen Shuhan did not even dare to think what he had just experienced.

Fortunately, after this heartfelt confession by Shen Shuyi, the pheromone threat from Xie Chen Zhou toward him finally gradually withdrew.

What a madman.

So thought Shen Shuhan.

But he actually could not produce a shred of evidence to prove to his foolish younger brother what kind of madman Xie Chen Zhou really was.

It was too frightening.

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