In the dining room, the air was strangely quiet.
Aunt Chen, who happened to come out of the kitchen with the soup, stood at the door, neither entering or retreating.
After eating two more bites, Gu Wei frowned slightly, put the bowl down, and said, "Clean up."
After saying that, he also got up to the second floor.
Aunt Chen quickly put away the unfinished food, and brought the soup back to the kitchen.
Regarding the wealthy, as an outsider, she certainly does not know anything about their thoughts, so she dares not to say anything, and dares not to ask anything.
On the other side, Yue Fei returned to his room, feeling strangely depressed, a feeling he had not felt for a long time.
Gu Wei treated the arrangement for him just like his other work at the company, a calm and efficient arrangement.
Standing on the small balcony in the room, Yue Fei looked at the lights on the road like a silver dragon spreading its body in a daze.
The night's low temperature and fainting cool breeze helped to sooth away Yue Fei's irritability.
Why did he get upset? The relationship between them was originally like a subordinate and a boss, then it was more like two compliance parties on a project; switching to a different secretary is not that big of a deal. Gu Wei really did not need to ask him for his opinion.
Gu Wei did not do anything wrong, it was his own thinking that was wrong.
He actually lost his temper to Gu Wei just now, but it is actually unnecessary.
"What are you doing?" Being here for such a long time, being treated nicely by some people and living a comfortable life, do you really think of yourself as the Yue Fei in the book?
Getting back into the room, Yue Fei sent a message to Gu Wei admitting his mistake.
Yue Fei: I'm sorry, but I'm not in a good mood today.
Gu Wei may be busy and did not reply to him immediately.
Although the two of them lived under the same roof, Yue Fei did not want to go upstairs to find Gu Wei at all.
At this moment, Gu Wei was in the study room on the second floor, looking at the message sent by Yue Fei, frowned for a moment and thought about it. He then flipped through his chat groups, and clicked on the one with his elder brother, Gu Weii [1].
Gu Weii is an omega, and has been married, living overseas with his alpha for quite some time now.
Gu Wei: If Wesley loses temper with you because of other omegas, what do you do?
Gu Weii: Wesley is cheating on me?
Gu Wei: No.
Gu Weii: Oh, he's not. Why do you ask this suddenly? Xiao Fei lost his temper at you?
Gu Wei: No, it's my friend.
Gu Weii: Tell me in detail what's going on.
Gu Wei: The friend switched his partner's secretary without the consent of his partner.
Gu Weii: Oh, although it is not a big deal, it should be discussed between the two of them. However, there is no need to be angry about it, unless your friend's partner and the secretary...
Gu Wei: ...
Gu Weii: It's no necessarily true. It also depends on the relationship between the two and how they treat each other on a daily basis. They might not get angry because of unimportant matters. Each conflict between the partners is usually the accumulation of countless previous dissatisfactions.
Gu Wei: My friend is very good, his partner cannot be dissatisfied with him.
Gu Weii: Your excellent friend is really not yourself?
Gu Wei: No, it's late, gotta sleep early.
...
Gu Wei replied to the message late at night, before Yue Fei fell asleep.
Gu Wei: I was busy, if you are hungry, you can eat in the kitchen.
As soon as this topic was being discussed, Yue Fei felt that his stomach began to growl.
He got up from the bed and dragged his feet to open the door and went to the kitchen.
Once he took out the soup that had not been touched since dinner from the refrigerator, Yue Fei heard footsteps coming down the stairs.
Soon, the person who had just sent a message to him appeared at the kitchen door.
"Are you getting hungry too?" Yue Fei turned his back to the door and broke the silence with a loud voice.
Gu Wei's voice was a little low: "Uh, if there's some."
"I'll heat up the soup, have some," Yue Fei said while warming the soup.
He did not hear a response from the person behind him for a long time, Yue Fei turned around and saw Gu Wei wearing the familiar gold-rimmed glasses, looking at him intently.
Seeing Yue Fei turning around, Gu Wei said, "Is it ready?"
Yue Fei paused, then turned around with his back facing the person: "soon."
When the soup was ready, the two sat on the dining table again.
Yue Fei watched Gu Wei taking off his glasses, and after a sip of the soup, he seemed to ask unconsciously, "Are you nearsighted?"
Gu Wei: "No."
With alpha physical condition, the possibility of nearsightedness is extremely small.
"Then why do you wear glasses?" Yue Fei was puzzled.
Choosing between preventing the UV reflection from the computer screen and knowing that you like it when I wear them, Gu Wei chose the first one.
When he wore the glasses in front of Yue Fei for the first time, Yue Fei's absentminded state was too obvious when he saw him. Gu Wei wanted to pretend that he did not know what the boy thought of him.
This beta really has everything on his mind written out on his face.
Yue Fei, who did not know that he was being tricked by the beauty, was a little surprised when he heard the answer: "I see."
Just like that, the unhappiness during dinner was gently lifted away by the two of them tacitly.
Yue Fei adjusted his tone and asked him again: "Can I ask you why you replace Tang Yue? The real reason."
Gu Wei stopped drinking the soup and met the boy's gaze.
"Of course, you don't have to answer." Yue Fei lowered his eyes, and his tone was flat.
"Because he is an alpha." Gu Wei said.
Yue Fei: "Huh?"
Gu Wei said half the truth: "Although we are just agreement partners, you know that Alpha's nature cannot bear the slightest provocation. He is by your side, and my pheromone may attack him out of control. For his safety, I can only arrange for him to do other tasks."
As for the physiological knowledge of ABO, Yue Fei actually knows very little. Listening to Gu Wei at this moment, he thought it was the alpha's desire for victory and defeating others, so he nodded and said: "If so, I understand."
Gu Wei was not sure and asked him: "Do you really understand?"
Yue Fei: "The pheromone is the problem, I get it," it should be the same as endocrine disorders.
Gu Wei was still not sure whether the boy really understands it or not, so he could only nod his head: "It's good that you understand."
After finishing the soup, Yue Fei consciously took the bowls and chopsticks back into the kitchen, but suddenly a pair of well-knotted hands stretched out in front of him and took away his empty bowl.
"I'll be fine," Yue Fei got up.
Gu Wei ignored him, brought the dishes and chopsticks into the kitchen, put them in the dishwasher, and then walked out again.
Yue Fei touched the back of his neck with some embarrassment.
"Do you have any other dissatisfaction with me?" Gu Wei said suddenly.
Yue Fei raised his eyes: "Huh?"
Gu Wei: "Have something to say to me?" If the boy did not say it, he would not know.
"There is no dissatisfaction," Yue Fei was surprised, wondering why he thought so.
Gu Wei pursed his lower lip, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "I think so too."
Yue Fei: "?"
...
Next week, it would be exam week.
Yue Fei was tortured to death by various topics for five days.
In order to save time, he told Gu Wei in advance that he would not go back to the off-campus house this week, instead he would stay at the dorm.
Gu Wei replied to him with an [OK] emoji, and the two of them did not contact each other for five days.
Yue Fei really had no time, even if it was Gu Wei, he had no time for him.
On the way back to Nanwan Xiang District, Yue Fei sent a message to Gu Wei, saying that he had finally finished the exams and would return to Nanwan Xiang District on the weekend.
Gu Wei might be busy and had not replied to him.
Yue Fei thought for a while and sent a message to Qiao Si.
Yue Fei: Secretary Qiao, are you busy lately?
It was not until Yue Fei returned to Nanwan Xiang District that he received Qiao Si's reply.
Qiao Si: Is there something urgent for Mr. Yue to call Mr. Gu? Mr. Gu was invited to take part in a three-day-and-two-night cruise. He is quite busy as we speak, he will not be free until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.
Yue Fei: No, nothing, no urgent matter.
Qiao Si: [smile]
So he went on a vacation. Yue Fei scratched his hair and turned off the phone.
After returning to Nanwan Xiang District, Yue Fei lay on the sofa in the living room after dinner to watch a movie.
With him being in the house alone at night, it felt so empty.
In fact, at the beginning, he was the only one to stay here, Gu Wei often came back late.
Lately, he did not know when Gu Wei, who has never eaten at home, started eating at the same table with him in the morning and evening. Although Gu Wei would be busy in the study room on the second floor every night until late, and occasionally Yue Fei would hear the chair being moved upstairs while he was deep in sleep. The feeling of knowing there is another person in the house somehow gave him an inexplicable peace of mind.
Because of this, Yue Fei felt that he had some trouble getting some sleep tonight.
If he had known that Gu Wei would not return, he would have just stayed in the dorm this weekend.
The movie that Yue Fei chose at random was called Cohabitation and Love. When he saw the plot of the protagonist seeking a new house to move out after the expiry of the co-rental period, Yue Fei suddenly remembered that he and Gu Wei had lived together for two months since they received their marriage certificate. The time was now up.
He had no idea what Gu Wei was planning to do from here on.
Thinking of this, Yue Fei suddenly felt that the movie was a bit unbearable to watch.
He turned on the phone wanting to talk to his roommate about the exams, but at a glance he saw an entertainment news pop up on the screen that looked like breaking news.
[Today, on the Bowan Shenyang Cruise, the star Chu Ran unexpectedly came into his estrus cycle and was being marked by the President of the Gu Group.]
At the beginning, Yue Fei did not know who the news was about, he just casually clicked on the news. It wasn't until he saw the picture of Gu Wei occupying half of the front page that he realized he might have been cheated on.
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[1] The main male lead is named 顾巍[Gù Wēi] - an alpha; his elder brother is named 顾惟[Gù Wéi] - an omega. Since we don't have accent marks in English, it's hard to tell the differences when you take away all the accent marks. So I decided to add an extra "i" into the elder brother's name, to show the differences.
So Main Male Lead - Gu Wei
His elder brother - Gu Weii
Hope this makes sense to all.