ATAVID CH120 [ABO]

These past days, Jiang Qunyu had been contemplating the likelihood of divorcing Wei Xun.

He and Wei Xun had met through a blind date, and to this day, Jiang Qunyu still remembered the scene of their very first meeting.

Wei Xun sat beneath the soft lighting of the restaurant wearing an impeccably tailored dark suit, his hair combed meticulously back. The neat, slicked-back hairstyle accentuated his sharp, deeply defined features even further. His narrow phoenix eyes were cold and distant, the bridge of his nose high, his thin lips pale. The aura surrounding him was frigid and detached, practically radiating an air of ‘keep away’ from head to toe.

At the time, Jiang Qunyu thought they were merely going through the motions. They would just exchange a few pleasantries to deal with the situation, then go home and report back to their respective families.

After all, he was merely a Beta.

Of course, Jiang Qunyu didn’t think there was anything wrong with being a Beta. On the contrary, in a world where pheromone compatibility dictated spouses, Jiang Qunyu was quite pleased that he didn’t have to be controlled by so-called pheromones or endure those seemingly miserable heat cycles.

It was just that for an Alpha from a prominent family like Wei Xun, people in their circle were far more accustomed to prioritizing Omegas with extremely high pheromone compatibility. Ideally, their family backgrounds would be equally matched, a marriage of equal standing, in order to breed offspring that inherited the excellent genes of both sides.

Evidently, Jiang Qunyu did not fit this criterion.

When he was two or three years old, his mother had divorced his cheap excuse for a father.

Fortunately, custody had been awarded to his mother, who had an exceptional head for business. Before the divorce, more than half of his cheap father’s business success had relied on her planning.

Precisely because of this, when she decisively pulled out of the company, many old subordinates from the original company were willing to leave along with her.

Over all these years, his mother had immersed herself entirely in building her career, and thanks to her, Jiang Qunyu had lived a very comfortable life.

The only thing that caused him quite a headache was that ever since he turned twenty-four, urging him to get married had become his mother’s top daily nag.

Jiang Qunyu had never been in a relationship. In high school, he was busy skipping class to play video games; in college, he was busy traveling all over to compete in esports tournaments. Later, after retiring, he went to work at his mother’s company, ready to settle into his life as a wealthy second-generation heir.

It seemed that after passing a certain age, his desires toward romantic relationships diminished even further.

Unable to withstand his mother’s daily nagging, he could only compromise, taking the stack of blind date business cards compiled by her assistant and attending them one by one whenever he had free time.

Upon seeing Wei Xun’s business card, Jiang Qunyu was utterly shocked: “Mom, you didn’t make a mistake, did you? Isn’t this the son of the head of the Wei Group? He needs to go on blind dates too?”

His mother was watching a drama with a face mask on, merely replying casually upon hearing this: “…Ah? What did you say? I don’t know, those cards were gathered for me by Assistant Lin. Just go.”

Jiang Qunyu expressionlessly: “…”

Fine, he’d bet a dime his mother hadn’t listened to a single word he said.

Regardless, it was truly miraculous. Jiang Qunyu had originally assumed that someone like him and a favored son of heaven standing at the top of the pyramid like Wei Xun would never have any intersection in this lifetime.

He had simply been curious back then; given Wei Xun’s family background, he didn’t need blind dates at all. Driven by a bit of novelty-seeking curiosity, he ended up attending the meeting right on time.

He and Wei Xun hadn’t chatted much.

Jiang Qunyu actually felt the two of them wouldn’t work out, unable to hold back his curiosity before leaving: “What made you think of coming on a blind date with a Beta?”

It was truly far too abnormal.

Alphas already had fixed rut cycles, and lacking the soothing effect of an Omega’s pheromones made it exceptionally difficult to endure. Not to mention Wei Xun was a rare S-rank Alpha, whose craving for pheromones would only be stronger than ordinary people.

Wei Xun’s expression was cold as he finally said: “I don’t want offspring.”

Jiang Qunyu: “Oh, okay.”

Well, whether he wanted them or not had nothing to do with him anyway.

That was what Jiang Qunyu had originally thought. So, when Wei Xun sent him a message asking if he wanted to marry him, Jiang Qunyu’s mind went completely blank.

Marry his foot.

An intricate, deeply rooted wealthy family like the Wei family was clearly a dragon’s den where every step would be restricted. Why should he give up his leisure and comfort to actively look for trouble?

Attending the date back then had purely been out of curiosity.

Jiang Qunyu rejected him without a second thought.

Wei Xun’s upbringing and manners were exceptionally good. Being rejected, he didn’t pester him in the slightest, merely sending him a message.

-xun: If you regret it, you can come back to find me anytime.

Jiang Qunyu: “?”

Did this guy only have him as a blind date candidate or something? What was he blabbering about?

Jiang Qunyu couldn’t quite understand it, and after reading the message, he forgot about the matter entirely.

He continued meeting the “sea of people” among his blind date options.

Yet, as if bad luck had latched onto him, from then on, regardless of whether the person he met was an Alpha, Beta, or Omega, all sorts of absurd accidents would pop up every single time to ruin the date.

Sometimes, the other person’s car got rear-ended on the road. Sometimes, the other person suddenly felt a spontaneous urge to go to the Antarctic to see penguins. Or their ex-boyfriend came knocking on the door, and the two decided on the spot to get back together.

Jiang Qunyu nearly fainted from anger.

With great difficulty, he finally had a pretty decent conversation with a refined-looking Beta.

Although Jiang Qunyu didn’t feel romantic love for him either, at most, their family backgrounds were similar, and that Beta also loved playing video games. Jiang Qunyu felt that if they could make it work, maybe they could even play games together in the future.

In the end, before a week of chatting had even passed, that Beta said his father’s company was on the brink of bankruptcy, so they could only say goodbye to each other.

Jiang Qunyu expressionlessly deleted that Beta’s contact info.

After suffering silent losses too many times, he had gotten used to it. Right now, he only wanted to know which temple was the most efficacious.

He wanted to go pray and clear away the bad luck on his body.

After lying around at home like a corpse for a week, he inadvertently saw that the Beta’s father’s company had secured a massive project; the talk of bankruptcy had all been fake, and rapid prosperity was the truth.

Jiang Qunyu let out a dry laugh, getting his two terrible advisors—namely Tao Mingxiao and Wen Xingyao—to look into this Beta’s affairs for him.

Unaware until investigated, he was startled by what they found.

Because of that project, the stock price of the Beta’s father’s company surged all the way up, catapulting them into the upper-crust circle of Wuchen’s prominent families, whereupon he immediately became engaged to another Omega.

Fuck his ancestors.

Jiang Qunyu was so furious he saw stars.

This failure brought a tremendous blow to his fragile heart. Coupled with the fact that Jiang Qunyu was an ultimate homebody in the first place, he didn’t want to move anymore, lying at home every day playing video games.

It was just that after a few days of peaceful living, his mother urged him to continue going on blind dates.

At that time, Jiang Qunyu was lying flat on the sofa.

By some strange trick of the mind, he quietly backed out of the game interface, opened WeChat, scrolled all the way to the bottom, and found Wei Xun.

-qun: Do the words you said last time still count?

After sending the message, Jiang Qunyu felt inexplicably nervous. He had originally wanted to go back to playing games, but he was no longer in the mood, staring anxiously at his phone as if he wished he could bore a few holes through it.

If Wei Xun didn’t agree, then he would search around again to see if there was someone like him who needed a flash marriage just to get it over with.

Fortunately, his anxious mood didn’t last long. Perhaps Wei Xun happened to be looking at his phone, as his response came very quickly.

-xun: They count.

Only then did Jiang Qunyu breathe a sigh of relief.

Before he could even send a couple of silly stickers to express his relatively pleasant mood, Wei Xun’s messages popped up continuously.

-xun: When do you want to get the marriage certificate?

-xun: Are you free this week?

-xun: Or do you want to meet the parents first?

-xun: Anything works on my end, it depends on you.

…

Messages popped up one after another. Jiang Qunyu froze for a second, a sense of indescribable weirdness flashing through his heart.

However, this peculiar mood quickly vanished, and he didn’t look into it further.

After thinking about it, he lowered his eyes and replied:

-qun: I should… be fine with anything too?

-xun: Okay.

Seeing that he sent an ‘okay’ and then went silent again, Jiang Qunyu assumed he had gone back to work. Since the two had made a verbal agreement anyway, he didn’t bother to care further and continued playing games.

At two o’clock in the morning, Jiang Qunyu almost pulled an all-nighter to death and decided to sleep.

Suddenly, his phone vibrated.

Jiang Qunyu glanced at it casually, and that single glance startled him completely awake.

Fuck!

Wei Xun was calling him in the middle of the night?

The string in Jiang Qunyu’s brain snapped violently, and he answered the call in a daze.

Neither of them spoke, with only the sound of each other’s steady breathing filling the line.

Finally, after a long silence, Wei Xun spoke: “Jiang Qunyu.”

Jiang Qunyu: “…Ah?”

“Come down.”

Jiang Qunyu was completely bewildered: “Down where?”

The other end of the phone fell silent for a moment before slowly opening his mouth, his tone betraying no emotion: “If I didn’t find the wrong place, I am currently downstairs at your house.”

Jiang Qunyu was utterly shocked. In disbelief, he scrambled up from the bed, pulled back the curtains, and actually saw Wei Xun downstairs.

The streetlight downstairs cast a warm yellow glow. He was casually leaning against the side of the car, still wearing his sharply tailored suit, clearly having rushed over straight from a business engagement.

As if perceiving Jiang Qunyu’s gaze, he raised his head, looking straight in Jiang Qunyu’s direction.

“What are you here for?” Jiang Qunyu asked.

Whether it was his illusion or not, he felt a faint trace of laughter seep into Wei Xun’s tone, and even his breathing was somewhat rushed.

He said: “We’re going to get the marriage certificate.”

Looking back, Jiang Qunyu still felt that he must have been quite sick that night.

That was why, like a madman, he had been strangely infected by Wei Xun, his mood soaring as he dug out the household register and walked downstairs.

His mother was still staying up late watching dramas at the time. Seeing him go downstairs, she even asked where he was going.

Jiang Qunyu said: “Getting the marriage certificate.”

“Oh, okay.” After listening, his mother turned her head back to continue watching her drama.

Jiang Qunyu: “…”

In short, everything that day had been utterly bewildering.

The sleek body of the Maybach grew blurred in the dark night, and the national highway in Wuchen at two-thirty in the morning was exceptionally quiet.

The car window was opened slightly, letting the summer night breeze pour in through the gap, while the whistling sound of the leaves planted along the road slapping together rolled in with the wind.

Jiang Qunyu finally recalled something and asked: “But at this hour, is the Civil Affairs Bureau even open?”

Wei Xun froze for a moment as well, finally pursing his lips: “No.”

The two of them waited outside the Civil Affairs Bureau for several hours like a pair of fools before finally completing the registration.

The flash marriage happened so fast that when Tao Mingxiao and Wen Xingyao heard about it, they thought he was talking nonsense.

It wasn’t until the day they received the invitations that the two realized Jiang Qunyu really hadn’t lied.

He had truly entered a flash marriage with Wei Xun just because he wanted to lie flat at home playing games and didn’t want to go on blind dates anymore.

Tao Mingxiao said he would definitely regret it in the future.

To this, Jiang Qunyu only wanted to say—

Married life was way too awesome! The so-called dragon’s den didn’t exist at all; he and Wei Xun lived outside on their own.

Furthermore, after getting married, his mother stopped nagging him too, aside from packaging him off to Wei Xun’s company to act as Wei Xun’s assistant.

All under the noble excuse of fostering husband-and-husband affection.

Jiang Qunyu had never felt there was any so-called affection between him and Wei Xun that needed fostering.

He and Wei Xun hadn’t met many times to begin with. Moreover, this marriage had been shrouded in heavy colors of mutual benefit from the start, nothing more than a contractual relationship used to brush off the elders in their respective families.

The matters in bed were the same; on their first night, both had been raw and clumsy, devoid of technique. Afterward, Jiang Qunyu had even privately pondered whether he should lay things out clearly with Wei Xun, saying there was no need to force themselves to fulfill intimate marital duties in the future.

However, after gradually adjusting to each other, the physical experience turned out quite comfortable, so Jiang Qunyu let nature take its course, no longer deliberately resisting.

Fortunately, Wei Xun’s desires in that area were not as insatiable as Jiang Qunyu had imagined.

On the contrary, he was very adept at restraining his desires.

Every time Jiang Qunyu was tired and said he didn’t want another round, Wei Xun would kiss his face, pull out, and finish things off quickly by himself.

Sometimes when Jiang Qunyu couldn’t bear to watch and had a moment of goodwill, he would reluctantly raise his hand to help him finish up.

The two of them were surprisingly compatible in this aspect, and Jiang Qunyu was very satisfied.

Everything should have continued proceeding in an orderly fashion like this.

Except—

“Jiang Qunyu,” Wei Xun gathered him into his arms from behind, his canine teeth gently nibbling at that small patch of skin on the back of Jiang Qunyu’s neck.

If Jiang Qunyu were an Alpha or an Omega, this patch of skin would be where the most sensitive and fragile gland was located.

Unfortunately, Jiang Qunyu was merely a Beta.

There was no gland there, let alone the ability to be marked.

Wei Xun could only nip at that soft flesh, sucking and biting, wishing he could thoroughly stain Jiang Qunyu’s body with his pheromones.

A subtle sting spread along his skin. Jiang Qunyu’s spine stiffened slightly, and he couldn’t help letting out a soft, muffled groan.

Unable to endure it, he reached up to tug at Wei Xun’s jet-black hair to stop him, saying angrily: “Didn’t I say you’re not allowed to bite there?”

Upon hearing this, Wei Xun’s movements came to a sudden halt. Far from letting go, the tips of his teeth exerted a bit of force instead, biting down several degrees harder.

Before Jiang Qunyu could blow his top, he felt Wei Xun leave the back of his neck. Before he could catch his breath—

In the next moment, a cold, heavy voice sounded right beside his ear.

A fake, cold smile tugged at the corners of Wei Xun’s lips, his tone carrying a few hints of deliberate mockery: “What? Did you remember your husband? Afraid your husband will find out the two of us are messing around?”

Jiang Qunyu’s mouth twitched slightly, utterly choked.

Yes, the main reason he had firmly decided to bring up divorce with Wei Xun stemmed mostly from the lost memories caused by an unexpected car accident Wei Xun had last month.

Calling it amnesia wasn’t entirely accurate; more precisely, Wei Xun’s memories were completely disordered and misplaced.

He stubbornly believed that Jiang Qunyu was already married, while he himself was the third party intruding upon Jiang Qunyu’s marriage.

It would have been fine if things could be explained clearly, but no matter how many times the people around Wei Xun explained it to him, he stubbornly clung to his belief.

It was also during this month that Jiang Qunyu discovered a secret.

His husband in name only seemed to be a total lunatic.