PE Ch11: Too Much To Ask

Mr. Huai listened to this conversation without any change in expression. He patted Pan Yinchuan on the butt and said, “Move in a bit.”

Pan Yinchuan blushed and quickly shifted his position.

Only then did Huai Yu sit inside as well.

“About Secretary Wu…” Pan Yinchuan began.

Huai Yu said, “Arranged by Shen Yuanhui to be by my side.”

Pan Yinchuan nodded, “So Mr. Huai knew all along.” No wonder Mr. Huai had also drawn his gun at the time.

Recalling what Huai Yu had said when mocking them earlier.

Pan Yinchuan cautiously asked, “Were both he and I bait?”

Leaving Secretary Wu there to reassure the Yan Xue Society, letting him be taken away by Xiu Liang and his father, was to encourage the Yan Xue Society to “gather the courage” to make a move, making it easier for Huai Yu to wipe them out in one go.

The atmosphere seemed to freeze for a moment.

Before Huai Yu could say anything, Assistant Zhang spoke first, “How could Pan Xiao think that way? Of course, you weren’t…”

Huai Yu interrupted with a flat tone, “Yes.”

Huai Yu turned to look at him, “Add more money.”

It wasn’t a question of “can we add more money,” but an imperative “add more money,” indeed as domineering as the people of the Yan Xue Society said.

Assistant Zhang stood by the car door, his throat tight.

Although he didn’t date, he knew that such a cold and forceful tone would pierce the heart of the person it was directed at.

Pan Yinchuan, this Beta, was quite rare, and the boss really liked him. If he got too upset and decided to leave…

Uh, Assistant Zhang thought, maybe that would be just what the boss wanted? Kidnap him, lock him up, and… on second thought, it was indeed more stimulating.

Before Pan Yinchuan could react, Huai Yu asked, “Any other demands?”

Only then did he show a bit of tenderness.

Pan Yinchuan wanted to say it was fine without more money.

From the moment he got off the plane and was detained in Nantasha, the bit of naivety he had nurtured in his ivory tower was gradually washed away.

He understood clearly what “circumstances” meant.

After all, it was only for a year… maybe not even a year, before the high-ranking Alpha would tire of him.

“Is it difficult? You can make any request,” Huai Yu’s voice rang out again.

Pan Yinchuan thought for a moment and said, “…Can you not do this next time?”

Huai Yu’s eyes flashed with a bit of surprise, he repeated, “Don’t do this?”

“Yes, being bait is very dangerous. I don’t want to be bait again,” Pan Yinchuan said very frankly.

“That’s all?”

“Mhm.”

“There won’t be another time,” Huai Yu said in a deep voice.

Assistant Zhang, standing at the door, was stunned. Did it just end like this? No crying, no fussing, no threatening to hang himself?

At least he should be heartbroken, pale-faced, and faint on the spot, right?

“Sir, Xiu Ling has been brought over,” a bodyguard approached and said.

Xiu Ling wasn’t dead yet, just covered in blood and sweat. Two bodyguards dragged him over, and he fell uncontrollably when they let go.

“Mr. Huai,” he squeezed out from between his teeth, “Mr. Huai! Mr. Huai!”

He called out again and again, like he was venting his frustration and despair.

Eventually, it all turned into a mutter, “Are you going to kill both me and my father here?”

Huai Yu answered his question, “That depends on how important you are to your father.”

That sounded familiar!

Pan Yinchuan suddenly recalled Xiu Liang’s bet with him, to see how much Huai Yu loved him.

Well, the situation had turned around now.

Xiu Ling stopped speaking.

He’d rather his father come back to save him, and die together as father and son, than have his father escape first.

He couldn’t accept not being loved by someone.

That was also why he had raged and stomped at Pan Yinchuan.

The gunfire gradually ceased, and leaders from various factions arrived one after another to stop the conflict from escalating.

But Xiu Liang hadn’t shown up yet.

He seemed to have really taken advantage of the chaos to escape.

Pan Yinchuan sat in the armored vehicle, feeling increasingly sleepy.

“Didn’t sleep well?” Huai Yu asked.

Pan Yinchuan was startled awake, not expecting Mr. Huai to be concerned about his sleep at this moment.

“Hmm.” As Wednesday approached, his anxiety grew.

Huai Yu assumed that Pan Yinchuan hadn’t rested well since being captured, so he repeated, “There won’t be any more incidents like this.”

Pan Yinchuan: ?

Pan Yinchuan: “Oh, okay.” It’s always best to agree first.

The atmosphere here was so calm it even had a touch of warmth, which Xiu Ling couldn’t stand. He suddenly raised his head and said, “Mr. Huai, aren’t you curious why Pan Yinchuan has a new buffer around his neck?”

Huai Yu looked down at him without a trace of emotion and didn’t respond.

Xiu Ling let out a low laugh, “The reason you put a buffer on him is the same reason I did.” He paused and then said lightly, “Afraid he’d die in bed.”

Pan Yinchuan’s eyelid twitched, and he looked at Xiu Ling in shock.

That’s slander!

Pan Yinchuan opened his mouth to say something, at least to prevent Xiu Ling from distorting the facts.

But Huai Yu placed a hand on his shoulder, a gesture to stop him.

Then Huai Yu’s voice sounded, even more dismissive, “Are you that useless?”

Xiu Ling’s expression froze, “What do you mean?”

Huai Yu’s finger hooked, pressing precisely on Pan Yinchuan’s neck. The pulse there throbbed against the man’s fingertips. For a moment, Pan Yinchuan felt like he could easily be killed.

But Huai Yu only rubbed his exposed skin.

Pan Yinchuan suddenly realized – ever since he reappeared in front of Huai Yu, Mr. Huai had been particularly attentive to his neck. His gaze lingered, and his fingers caressed… Even in such a setting, it carried a hint of ambiguity.

Pan Yinchuan’s thoughts were scattered.

While lost in thought, he heard Huai Yu speak again, “Can’t leave a single mark on him? Are you that useless?”

Xiu Ling’s throat choked, his face turning extremely ugly.

Pan Yinchuan, on the other hand, let out a long breath.

Mr. Huai had reached this point for a reason. He was clear-headed and not swayed by such crude provocations.

“Yes, I don’t have Mr. Huai’s abilities. But I’ve done what needed to be done…” Xiu Ling stubbornly retorted, but before he could finish, it turned into a short scream.

Huai Yu had stepped on his hand.

Then he looked down at him, “Done what? He’s not an Omega; you can’t even mark him.”

Pan Yinchuan couldn’t help but crane his neck, glancing through a gap to see Xiu Ling’s twisted expression, hearing him curse hoarsely, “Then you can’t mark him either, can you?”

Pan Yinchuan: …

Assistant Zhang beside them couldn’t help but press his temples hard.

What kind of situation was this?

Listening to this pervert Xiu Ling and his crush discuss his crush’s new lover?

“Everyone knows he’s mine. Why bother marking him like a brainless primitive animal?” Huai Yu’s words were almost a shot at all Alphas.

But neither Assistant Zhang nor the Alpha bodyguards around him showed any reaction.

Xiu Ling was instantly seething with anger, not expecting Huai Yu to have the last word on both serious and sarcastic comments.

Now he truly regretted that his father had stopped him earlier. Otherwise, he would have left more than just a mark on this Beta’s body!

A gunshot rang out.

It was Huai Yu opening the safety of his gun with one hand.

“Seems your father won’t be showing up,” Huai Yu said coldly.

“Wait!” Xiu Ling shouted, “I can tell you where he’s hiding.”

Pan Yinchuan was stunned.

This father-son relationship was so plastic?

“In exchange…” Xiu Ling struggled to raise his head, staring at Huai Yu, his eyes full of madness.

Assistant Zhang’s heart skipped a beat, gripping his gun tighter.

Xiu Ling didn’t want Mr. Huai to kiss him, did he?

Would he have time to shoot him before he finished saying it?

“I want to sleep with Pan Yinchuan,” Xiu Ling smiled, “A last request before death isn’t too much, right?”

Pan Yinchuan: ???

What does this have to do with him?

“Mr. Huai, you wouldn’t want my father to stay hidden, plotting to kill you anytime, anywhere, would you?” Xiu Ling sneered.

Huai Yu sighed, “That’s why 90% of Alphas are idiots.”

Pan Yinchuan couldn’t help but glance at the other Alphas’ expressions. They were still unchanged. Maybe they belonged to the 10%?

Huai Yu said two words to Pan Yinchuan, “Bear it.”

Bear what? Pan Yinchuan was puzzled. The next moment, Huai Yu reached out and removed the buffer from his neck.

Pan Yinchuan’s nose instantly started bleeding.

So much, so many powerful Alpha pheromones. If not for the armored car’s barrier, he would have gone crazy with discomfort.

Pan Yinchuan shook his head, vaguely seeing Huai Yu put the buffer around Xiu Ling’s neck.

…Huh? Why?

This was the first time Xiu Ling had been this close to Huai Yu.

But the voice Huai Yu spoke with was ruthless, “Take him away, shoot the button on the collar with a bullet.”

Xiu Ling was drenched in sweat, shouting anxiously, “What are you doing? Huai Yu! What are you doing? Have you gone mad with jealousy, don’t you want to know where my father is?”

A bullet hitting the collar could slightly miss and blow off his jaw, or make a hole in his neck…

“Didn’t your father tell you? He probably installed a micro-bomb in it, wanting to trigger it through me.” Huai Yu said calmly, “If the bomb explodes now, he’ll think he’s achieved his goal and will naturally reappear. Why would he need you to provide his hiding place?”

Pan Yinchuan was shocked, “There’s a micro-bomb in there?”

He had thought Xiu Ling was just trying to spite Mr. Huai by pretending that wearing it could save his life, preventing him from removing it himself.

“Mm.” Huai Yu responded to Pan Yinchuan’s call, then continued, “If I were your father, I would have installed a level inside. As soon as it goes off balance, the explosives will detonate. What’s the point of just killing me? The entire research society should be blown up together. Otherwise… look, I easily took it off and put it around your neck. In a while, it’ll be just you going to heaven.”

Xiu Ling’s face turned pale and green, thoroughly confirming that Huai Yu truly had no sentiment at all.

Sweat slid down his temples as he murmured, “You can’t, you can’t…”

The bodyguards dragged him away.

Xiu Ling couldn’t hold it in anymore and shouted, “He has arranged for an insider at the Yanshan Lake Hotel, and will leave through the tunnels under the lake at the back. The one who will meet him should be my father’s old subordinate. If he escapes to another city, he’ll use your private route, arranged by Secretary Wu. Using your route, he won’t be discovered…”

After saying a long string of words, Xiu Ling couldn’t stop shaking.

His last bit of dignity kept him from saying something as spineless as “Spare me.”

Assistant Zhang touched his nose and said, “You’ve known our boss for a while, you should have known that no one can threaten him.”

Xiu Ling swallowed hard and forced a smile that looked worse than crying, “If… if we don’t let Pan Yinchuan go? If we put a gun to his head? Can’t we threaten you? Who can threaten you? Even if Pan Yinchuan is about to die, you would watch him die without expression, right?”

Assistant Zhang’s face darkened, “Young Master Xiu, even now, you’re still trying to sow discord?”

Xiu Ling laughed miserably, “I can’t sleep with Pan Yinchuan, but he wouldn’t dare share a bed with you again, right? Would he be afraid of you?”

“Mr. Huai thought I betrayed my father for what? Of course, I wanted my father to die with me. Kill me, kill me!”

“Oh, my gun is with Pan Yinchuan. Didn’t Mr. Huai suspect? So you better kill Pan Yinchuan too; come to hell with me.”

Pan Yinchuan: “…”

What a disaster out of nowhere!

The bodyguards quickly dragged Xiu Ling away.

A loud “bang” followed, sounding like an explosion. Pan Yinchuan turned his head to see the water of Yanshan Lake blasting up as high as four or five floors.

Xiu Ling… died?

The atmosphere inside the armored vehicle became extremely quiet.

The only sound was Assistant Zhang closing the door from outside.

Pan Yinchuan’s breath hitched, thinking this was very dangerous. He quickly said, “I stole the gun.”

“Mm.” Huai Yu responded.

“What do you mean sleeping with him or not? He didn’t have time.” Pan Yinchuan added.

“Didn’t have time?” Huai Yu sharply caught that phrase, meaning… Xiu Ling really wanted to, but was probably stopped by Xiu Liang.

Pan Yinchuan: “…”

Did he say something wrong?

But this person didn’t seem like the jealous type.

Oh right, he almost forgot, he isn’t jealous, but his Alpha possessiveness is magnified many times.

So, what to do?

Pan Yinchuan felt like he was really unlucky.

“How about…” Pan Yinchuan started with difficulty, “You consider canceling the contract?”

If you’re not satisfied with a contract worker, just fire him? What’s with all the fighting… Before Pan Yinchuan could finish his thought, he was pinned down on the cold, hard seat of the armored vehicle by a powerful force.

Pan Yinchuan’s blood surged all over, rushing to his head.

He opened his mouth with difficulty but could only make a gasping sound.

In the cramped space, the dominant Alpha pressed down on him entirely, one hand lifting his shirt and pressing against his back.

He vaguely knew what Huai Yu wanted to do, but… there’s no buffer now.

Huai Yu leaned in and bit his lip.

Pan Yinchuan’s eyes widened in shock.

Although he had been intimate with Huai Yu several times, Huai Yu had never kissed him. Their interactions were always rough and cold.

His mind became even more muddled, thinking with difficulty… Does he look good with his face covered in blood?

Huai Yu tightened his grip on his hand, breaking Pan Yinchuan’s train of thought, feeling like his soul was being grasped, leaving him limp and forcing him to open his mouth, trying to breathe more deeply…

The Alpha took the opportunity to pry his lips and teeth open further, licking away the blood in his mouth bit by bit.

Author’s Note:

Huai Yu: Barbaric marking behavior, unnecessary. Dismissive.jpg

Huai Yu: Just a little barbaric.