PE Ch49: What suspect? That’s called sweetheart

The thought flashed through Pan Yinchuan’s mind.

He instinctively reached out to support Huai Yu, but Huai Yu evaded him, opening the glove compartment and pulling out something.

“Put this on,” he said hoarsely. With too much force, the thing in his hand cracked.

Alpha’s expression remained blank, muscles tensed, and soon even the veins on his neck started to bulge slightly.

He quickly took out another one and fastened it around Pan Yinchuan’s wrist.

Pan Yinchuan hadn’t seen one of these in a while— it was a buffer.

“I’m going to call Assistant Zhang,” Pan Yinchuan said quickly.

Huai Yu’s pupils darkened almost to cover the whites of his eyes. He leaned over to open the car door for Pan Yinchuan, his voice hoarse, “Get out… wait outside.”

Pan Yinchuan realized it might be a pheromone issue. With Alphas like Huai Yu, once they became violent, he couldn’t handle it.

Without hesitation, he pushed open the car door and jumped out.

With a bang, the door closed tightly behind him.

At the same time, Assistant Zhang’s voice came from the phone, “Mr. Pan?”

Huai Yu didn’t bring bodyguards or a driver, but due to his special status, there were always people waiting to listen to his orders within a hundred meters.

Pan Yinchuan leaned against a pillar, completed the call, and waited for less than a minute. A black convoy came roaring up with its lights on.

Well-trained Alphas quickly got out of the car and escorted him to another vehicle.

Assistant Zhang arrived a few minutes later.

Several military-clad figures around him didn’t look pleased.

This made Pan Yinchuan’s heart race.

Why did he spit blood?

Could it have serious consequences?

He couldn’t answer the first question for now. But he had a vague sense about the last one.

After months of turbulence, the central city had just quelled all the unrest. As one of the most authoritative Alphas in the central city, if something happened to Huai Yu, the lurking demons and monsters would immediately rear their ugly heads again.

“Knock, knock, knock—” The car window was suddenly tapped.

Pan Yinchuan turned to see one of the middle-aged Alphas in military attire outside the window, brow furrowed.

Pan Yinchuan rolled down the window, sensing no threat of pheromones in the air.

“Mr. Huai… How is he?” he started to ask.

But he didn’t finish his sentence; the Alpha in military attire spoke first, “Were you the only one at the scene?”

“General, there’s no need to interrogate him like a criminal,” Assistant Zhang intervened as he approached from behind, looking at Pan Yinchuan. He continued, “Mr. Huai is not seriously hurt.”

“What happened?” Pan Yinchuan asked.

Assistant Zhang hesitated for a moment before replying, “We don’t know yet. We’ll know soon after we get to the hospital.”

As he finished speaking, Pan Yinchuan finally saw the door of the armored vehicle open.

Huai Yu stepped out, unassisted.

His back was straight, stepping steadily with each stride.

It seemed like nothing had happened…

But Pan Yinchuan noticed he had changed his clothes.

There was no reason to change clothes other than getting them dirty. The difference was, Huai Yu’s clothes were stained with blood.

“Is this where you work?” Assistant Zhang seemed interested in idle chat with Pan Yinchuan.

Pan Yinchuan nodded, watching as Huai Yu got into another car and quickly departed amidst the massive crowd.

Assistant Zhang smiled, “Well, I won’t delay you from going to work. Don’t be too scared. Mr. Huai should call you personally in a while.”

Pan Yinchuan pursed his lips and got out of the car.

“Wait,” Assistant Zhang called out, handing him a small packet of wet wipes. “Clean up a bit.”

Once Pan Yinchuan had walked away, the general’s face hardened as he spoke sternly, “Mr. Huai has such a big incident, and you have to come to pacify the suspect?”

Assistant Zhang’s face turned ashen, but he corrected him firmly, “He’s not a suspect.”

He’s the person in his heart.

Pan Yinchuan stood in the bathroom, finally seeing in the mirror spots of blood on his chin, nose, and neck.

The day he was angry with Huai Yu, saying, “I never knew. What Mr. Huai was thinking, planning, avoiding… I didn’t know.”

That statement wasn’t entirely true.

He truly didn’t know before.

But after spending a long time with Huai Yu, he could vaguely grasp Alpha’s ways of thinking and behavioral patterns.

When Huai Yu wanted to scheme against someone, he would willingly reveal his weaknesses.

When there was really something serious, he wouldn’t leave a trace.

—He really did spit blood hard, not showing weakness, not a minor matter, not even able to say a word to him when he came over.

When Pan Yinchuan returned to his office, people were discussing, “The property management said that something happened just now. Suddenly, a convoy rushed through the barrier.”

“Oh? Criminals or something?”

“I don’t know. They even set up a cordon, and state police came, but they quickly withdrew. It seems like nothing happened.”

“A vicious murder case? Afraid of causing public opinion.”

“Must be.”

They speculated animatedly, with no one noticing Pan Yinchuan, who was usually low-key. It was only these past two days that they noticed Yu Tong chasing after him, and other times they occasionally teased him.

But most of the time, Pan Yinchuan appeared cautious, so cautious it was almost boring, and their teasing lost interest and quieted down.

“Did you finish the pineapple?” Yu Tong walked over and asked.

Pan Yinchuan glanced up at him.

In that instant, Yu Tong strangely felt like he was being scrutinized.

With a single glance, Pan Yinchuan confirmed that there shouldn’t be any connection with Yu Tong. Yu Tong couldn’t possibly know that Huai Yu was coming, and he might not even know about Huai Yu’s existence. Otherwise, he wouldn’t still be trying to please him.

“Yeah, finished,” Pan Yinchuan replied, leaning against the table.

Yu Tong pulled out a chair and sat down beside him, smiling, “Why are you so upset after going out for a while?”

Not happy?

Pan Yinchuan raised his hand to touch his own face and asked Yu Tong, “Aren’t you going to work?”

“I’m done with everything. Actually, thanks to you, everything went smoothly. Can we have dinner together tonight?” Yu Tong said, but his gaze subtly paused on the cushioning device on Pan Yinchuan’s wrist.

Did he meet a powerful Alpha?

Pan Yinchuan wasn’t interested. He replied, “I promised my family to have dinner with them. Maybe next time.”

Yu Tong praised him, “Very good, filial. My parents passed away early, so there’s no chance for me to be filial.”

After Yu Tong finished speaking, he intentionally waited for a moment, but Pan Yinchuan showed no sympathy for his parents’ early deaths, nor did he show any interest in probing further.

He really wasn’t interested in him at all.

He told his uncle that he thought Xiao Pan was a good boy, easygoing and cute. But now he felt that Pan Yinchuan was actually somewhat indifferent.

How could he know?

From Yu Jia’an to Jian Yan, Lin Shaoyan, none of them had both parents. Yu Jia’an was taken by his biological father for transformation, Jian Yan grew up in the slums, Lin Shaoyan was trained from a young age for family glory and deprived of his own self…

Even Huai Yu couldn’t manage to have both parents.

If he wanted to appear slightly special among them, he might need to die and get a new identity.

“Don’t be upset,” Yu Tong pushed his chair back and stood up, saying before going downstairs again.

He went downstairs to buy a toy.

The toy looked very funny and sang while twisting its waist.

Anyway, since Xiao Pan wasn’t that old, just treat him like a kid.

But when Yu Tong came back upstairs again, Pan Yinchuan was already gone.

“Xiao Pan and the boss took leave,” a colleague next to him said.

Something must have happened. Related to that man in the escape corridor?

Yu Tong chased downstairs but couldn’t see Pan Yinchuan’s figure. However, as he stood there for a while, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine. He turned around and saw the Omega from that day, Lin Shaoyan?

The Omega stared at him coldly.

Yu Tong felt a shiver down his spine.

As if the talk of twisting someone’s neck at the dinner table that day wasn’t a joke… What kind of lunatics are these who like Xiao Pan? Yu Tong frowned but soon relaxed. Maybe he was the only normal person among these lunatics.

While Yu Tong was out shopping, Pan Yinchuan was taken by another car to the hospital.

The governor stood in the corridor, sweating profusely, looking distraught.

Assistant Zhang remained calm. He said, “There are still some things Mr. Huai hasn’t told you.”

Pan Yinchuan was startled. He was called over so quickly—

Was it his last words?

Assistant Zhang checked the cushioning device on his wrist, replaced it with a new one, and gave him a hat and a coat.

It really looked like he was going into the ICU.

Pan Yinchuan’s heart skipped a beat as he pushed open the door fully equipped.

Huai Yu was leaning against the bedhead, not appearing like someone on the brink of death in the ICU.

His face was pale, dressed neatly in a shirt and trousers. There was a silent sense of oppression.

“Come here,” Huai Yu said softly.

Pan Yinchuan approached and saw beneath Huai Yu’s skin, blood vessels still slightly protruding with a grim bluish hue.

“I haven’t listened to the recording yet,” Huai Yu continued, reaching out to turn on the player at the bedside.

Pan Yinchuan opened his mouth, unsure of what to say. It wasn’t his last words, just what he hadn’t finished saying in the car earlier.

“Your two competitors, neither of them are good guys,”

“Xiao Pan doesn’t like them. Whether they are good guys or not is no longer important.”

……

“You still have this habit? Be careful not to offend people you shouldn’t!” 

“A project worth billions a year, Uncle, don’t you like it? If you do, you should keep it.” 

The recording segment quickly came to an end.

If Yu Tong were here, he’d probably be feeling chills down his spine.

Because his conversation with his uncle at the hotel, word for word, had been recorded and placed on Huai Yu’s desk.

And now it was playing in front of Pan Yinchuan.

After listening, Pan Yinchuan was stunned for a moment. His first words were, “Yu Tong and the boss are uncle and nephew?”

“Yes, it’s in the files.”

“I haven’t looked into it carefully.” Pan Yinchuan licked his lips. “Are you trying to tell me that Yu Tong is actually more interested in the benefits he sees in me?”

“Aren’t you angry?”

“There’s nothing to be angry about. He’s straightforward, doesn’t hide anything. Today he even said to me, thanks to me, everything went smoothly at the company.”

Huai Yu’s face, originally pale, now had a bit more color.

But he looked like he was angry.

Pan Yinchuan glanced at his expression and felt he needed to make things clear: “After suffering like Yu Jia’an did, honesty is better than self-righteous concealment.”

Huai Yu’s expression still didn’t improve much.

His lips twitched slightly.

Pan Yinchuan’s heart skipped a beat. Was he going to spit blood again?

He continued, “But he miscalculated. There are no benefits to gain from me; those are all from you.”

“It’s not from me. The governor’s favor towards you is your own accumulation. With just that path alone, you can profit greatly. This is your own achievement,” Huai Yu said in a deep tone.

Pan Yinchuan’s eyes flickered slightly, about to say something.

But Huai Yu suddenly changed the subject, “Do you want to continue with Yu Tong?”

Pan Yinchuan was taken aback. At this point, did he still have to get rid of Yu Tong first?

“We haven’t even started, how can we call it continuing?” Pan Yinchuan shook his head.

“You’ve accepted him.”

“…Is Mr. Huai planning to remember this for a lifetime?”

“If you don’t like him, I’ll naturally forget it.”

Pan Yinchuan looked at his expression and couldn’t quite figure out if Huai Yu was being good or not. He said, “I’ve listened to the recording, I’ll leave now.”

“There’s something else for you,” Huai Yu stopped him.

Pan Yinchuan looked at him in confusion, “Is there something else related to Yu Tong?”

“It’s mine.”

Pan Yinchuan couldn’t help but think seriously, Am I going to anger Mr. Huai to death here?

Huai Yu was indeed very tolerant, but he then said seriously to him, “Hand.”

Pan Yinchuan reached out his hand blankly, and Huai Yu placed something in his palm. Pan Yinchuan lowered his head to look and saw a badge.

Golden leaves arched over the totem of Ulobolos.

“What is this for?” Pan Yinchuan squeezed it in his hand.

“Keep it as a toy.” Huai Yu paused for a moment, then said seriously, “There may be some turbulence recently.”

So this thing was meant to avoid turbulence?

Pan Yinchuan couldn’t help but ask him, “What’s wrong with you?”

Huai Yu raised his hand and pressed it against Pan Yinchuan’s neck, looking dazed. Pan Yinchuan immediately moved back, but Huai Yu firmly held onto his hand.

“Before, there was one time when I removed your buffer, and you had a nosebleed. How painful was it?” Huai Yu asked softly.

Why bring this up suddenly?

Pan Yinchuan recalled briefly, “I forgot. It was like a sudden shock, buzzing in my head.”

Compared to a clear sense of pain…

“It’s actually more frightening.”

Especially when he was leaving the estate, their last time together. At that moment, Pan Yinchuan truly felt like he was going to die right there.

That kind of anxious pain, tightly gripping his heart, was terrifying.

“I’m sorry.” Huai Yu suddenly let go of his hand. “You should go back.”

Pan Yinchuan hesitated, “So, I should leave?”

“Yes, I won’t be coming here for a while…” Huai Yu paused, seeming to remember something, then added quickly, “My suppressant has been tampered with. I need to go back and handle it.”

After saying that, as if feeling it wasn’t enough, he continued, “The person who tampered with it is named Zhuo Hui. You might have seen him on TV. According to his plan, my illness should have occurred later. By then, he would have completed…”

“Wait a minute.” Pan Yinchuan interrupted.

He wanted to ask, can I hear all of this? Why are you telling me so much?

Then he suddenly realized.

Oh, earlier I mentioned Yu Tong’s honesty, does Mr. Huai think I’m pointing fingers at him?

Thinking Pan Yinchuan was impatient to listen, Huai Yu promptly stopped speaking, saying only, “That’s about it. If you have any questions, you can call Zhang Hang anytime. Don’t worry about this affecting your family’s safety. The state police are already on guard. Anyone who knows about our relationship will die just about the same.”

Huai Yu’s tone was still somewhat stiff, clearly not used to discussing these things in detail with others.

Pan Yinchuan nodded and walked out.

As the door closed, Assistant Zhang immediately came over to help him out of his coat.

Why did Huai Yu say, “According to his plan, my illness should have occurred later”?

Pan Yinchuan turned to Assistant Zhang and asked, “Has Mr. Huai been taking a lot of suppressants recently?”

“Yes.” Assistant Zhang glanced at his expression and continued, “He’s been taking them ever since the day Mr. Pan left.”

“Why?”

Assistant Zhang thought to himself, why am I qualified to answer this? But he still lowered his head and said, “Because of an Alpha’s possessiveness.”

The stronger the Alpha, the stronger their desire for dominance and possession.

This is a common understanding in society.

Pan Yinchuan asked, “How did Mr. Huai used to get through his sensitive periods before?”

Having s*x with a Beta couldn’t resolve this issue; only the comfort of an Omega could help safely get through it, as clearly stated in physiology books.

“It also depends on suppressants, but it’s more regular. One dose per cycle can solve it.”

Pan Yinchuan looked around. The bodyguards had all withdrawn, even the governor didn’t dare to approach.

Lowering his voice, he asked Assistant Zhang, “Did Mr. Huai trigger a pheromone frenzy this time?”

“Worse than that… Actually, the suppressants have always contained a tiny amount of biological radiation, just like some common fruits also have biological radiation that’s hard to detect. Because Mr. Huai used to have long intervals between injections, no one noticed anything unusual.”

“Until recently, frequent use of suppressants caused a large accumulation of biological radiation to a certain level. Alongside the pheromone frenzy, there’s been extensive DNA damage, cells rapidly dying and regenerating within seconds…”

Assistant Zhang abruptly stopped here, glanced at Pan Yinchuan’s expression, and continued, “Actually, it’s a good thing. It erupted early, allowing us to discover the people behind it sooner.”

Hence the need to wear the buffer again and wear specially made clothing upon entry.

Pan Yinchuan had no idea what a pheromone frenzy felt like.

But DNA damage must be very painful, right?

Because it’s very painful.

So when Huai Yu asked him how painful it was when he encountered Alpha pheromones that time…

“Mr. Huai won’t be able to visit you for a while. He can’t take a second injection of suppressants in the short term.”

Pan Yinchuan nodded randomly a few times but couldn’t help asking, “Um… DNA damage is irreversible, right? Will… will I die?”

“No, it won’t.” Assistant Zhang lowered his gaze, saw the corner of the badge in Pan Yinchuan’s hand, and suggested, “You should wear it.”

Okay, it’s also for safety.

Pan Yinchuan casually pinned it to his collar.

“I won’t see you off.” Assistant Zhang seemed very busy.

“Um.” Pan Yinchuan responded and walked out on his own. After a few steps, he suddenly turned his head. How come he’s waiting outside so busy, but explaining all this to him?

Pan Yinchuan took a few more steps out and encountered the general who had intended to interrogate him as a suspect during the day.

The middle-aged Alpha’s expression changed significantly when he saw the badge on Pan Yinchuan’s collar.

He slightly lowered his head and gave a gesture of farewell, seeing Pan Yinchuan off.

Pan Yinchuan touched the badge.

So what?

What is this?

Pan Yinchuan descended the steps while pulling out his phone, searching for what happens after simultaneously triggering a pheromone frenzy and encountering high doses of biological radiation.

Alright, I didn’t find any results.

But the search terms he used automatically generated new questions.

By the time he returned home, there was a reply below.

“OP encountered this? What kind of Satan’s torture is this? It is reasonable to speculate that there will be vomiting with high fever, along with multiple ulcers, easily torn muscles…

In the end, such a situation should have been secretly plotted against, it is recommended to report to the police.”

The text was very infectious. Pan Yinchuan glanced at it hastily and felt chills down his spine.

He recalled Huai Yu’s appearance before leaving.

Pale complexion, but calm and composed.

He should have taken a closer look back then.

Pan Yuexuan did not notice any difference in his son. He walked over and turned on the television. The evening news began to broadcast.

“Huai Yu fell ill,” appeared in the news.

Pan Yuexuan widened his eyes: “How did he get sick so suddenly? Didn’t things just stabilize again?”

Wang Xiuwen heard the sound and glanced at the TV without surprise: “He suffered a lot of injuries when he was young, and almost lost half his life in one year. The chaos in Pingluan these months has been quite turbulent, so it’s not surprising he fell ill. But he shouldn’t be chaotic, he has many people under his command like Yan Xue…”

Pan Yuexuan suddenly remembered: “Then why is Major Yan still hanging around in Jiuhe City?”

Pan Yinchuan also spoke up: “He suffered a lot of injuries when he was young?”

After his mother said this, he felt even more like Huai Yu was about to die at any moment.

Much of it was probably because he angered him.

Wang Xiuwen turned around, didn’t expect Pan Yinchuan to be interested in this, and briefly explained: “He originally studied economics in college. When he became an adult, someone said he should naturally lead a warrior’s life, and then choose the military. Not a serious military school, of course, the road is even more difficult, and he was more injured than others.”

“In a few years, he had the intention of crossing the political and military spheres. As a result, he was involved in the ‘309 case’ in the central city at the time. The case involved so many officials in the central city being taken down, and he was also detained for four months and tortured continuously. Later, some people came out, but it seemed to fall out with the central city? So it led to the Lunan tragedy that almost everyone knows. So some people say that he doesn’t like Omega because he has been seriously injured in recent years and his pheromones are abnormal, and Omegas can’t bear it.”

Pan Yuexuan was surprised: “Did you see it from the news? Why didn’t I notice? When he was in power in the central city, many colleagues still said that there was too little news about him, and everyone didn’t know much about him.”

Wang Xiuwen dismissed it: “Those small forums like to talk about these things. If you don’t pay attention, you won’t know…”

“Oh.”

Pan Yinchuan didn’t say anything more.

He just felt like he had been set on fire.

Burning on his back for a while, burning in his chest for a while, drawing oxygen out of his blood.

Anyway, he felt uneasy.

It made him want to call Huai Yu and ask him, yeah, ask him if his pheromones were really abnormal?

“I’m going downstairs to buy a watermelon.” Pan Yinchuan stood up in annoyance.

Wang Xiuwen, like when he was a child, bent down and pulled out a box from under the coffee table, then took out a hundred yuan from the box and handed it over: “Take this to buy it.”

Pan Yinchuan reached out and took it.

The badge on his collar shimmered under the light.

Wang Xiuwen’s heart clenched instantly.

She had seen this pattern before.

Back then, when the laboratory faced imminent closure, after several negotiations, there was finally a rumor that all experimental personnel might be silenced. Wang Xiuwen secretly returned from Jiuhe City to the central city to save her friends, but on that very day, someone came to collect the experimental data and editor.

Immediately after, the ventilation valve was closed, and they began to feel weak in their limbs.

The rumor turned out to be true.

But the next moment, the door was forcibly blasted open, and a team of people wearing gas masks walked in, guns in hand, and forced them all to the ground.

The terrifying feeling of a gun barrel against the back of her head still haunted Wang Xiuwen.

“Should we kill them?” someone asked.

A young Alpha replied, “Forget it.”

“What about her?”

“Let her go, she’s useless to me.”

After saying this, the Alpha shot several key figures in the laboratory, and Wang Xiuwen was splattered with blood.

Then the remaining people were all blindfolded and taken onto a plane.

Wang Xiuwen even heard that Alpha say, “This one… send her to Jiuhe City. Isn’t her husband and son in Jiuhe City?”

At that moment, Wang Xiuwen’s hair stood on end.

Because that was her biggest secret. No one knew she had settled down in Jiuhe City.

But it seemed like they really found no use for that person, and since then, no one else had come looking for her…

From start to finish, she never saw what the person giving orders looked like. She only saw the cuffs, embroidered with this pattern in silver and gold threads.

“Yinchuan, where did you get this thing?” She pointed and asked.

“Someone gave it to me.”

“Someone? Who?” Wang Xiuwen rarely dug so deeply.

At that moment, Huai Yu had just returned to the central city. He was supported by Assistant Zhang as he walked down the plane stairs, and he spat out a mouthful of blood without saying a word.