WHV | Chapter 7

So many things had happened that Yu Wei was exhausted after a whole day. Right now, he only wanted to get home early and sleep properly. He did not want to keep arguing with Yu Song. “Get in the car, I’ll take you home.”

Yu Song puffed out his cheeks and glanced at the two people standing beside the car. “We can get back ourselves. No need for you to send us.”

The other two quickly chimed in.

Yu Wei missed his soft big bed too much to insist on seeing them home, so he called a taxi. After saying goodbye at the hospital entrance, he drove home.

Maybe he was too tired today. He kept feeling like something was off, but he could not pinpoint where. That faint, lingering weakness left him a little uncomfortable.

As soon as he got home, he changed into pajamas and flung himself onto the bed. The moment his head hit the pillow, his mind scattered, and his consciousness faded away.

The next morning, a servant at home woke him up.

A dignified CEO like him had to get up at eight to go to the company for a meeting.

How was that any different from having an early class at university!

Ah, no, there was a difference. He counted as the teacher, and the employees were the students.

It was only when the servant came to remind him for the third time that Yu Wei reluctantly crawled out of bed. With his eyes closed, he stumbled into the bathroom, washed up, and only then could he barely open his eyes.

Breakfast was already prepared downstairs. Yu Father and Yu Mother were not at home, probably out for a stroll after eating.

Yu Wei ate a few bites and left. He got into the back seat, muttered a morning greeting, and closed his eyes to doze.

Ever since he had entered the book, the thing he did most often was attend meetings.

After he sat through several meetings that morning, he finally had a chance to catch his breath at noon. In the afternoon, he still had another meeting about the newly developed medication. After lunch, he reviewed the materials on the client he was about to meet in his office.

Health Pharmacy, the largest pharmacy in the city. Yu Medicine Group had worked with them many times before, and they were one of their major clients.

This person could not be offended.

But the client’s surname was Lin, Lin Hao. Yu Wei immediately thought of Lin Yuchi.

Yu Wei checked online but did not find any useful clues. After thinking for a moment, he called his secretary and told him to come in.

As a CEO, he had nine secretaries.

When the secretary came in, Yu Wei copied the cold, ruthless CEO style from dramas and issued the order, “Go check Lin Hao’s family members.”

“Okay.”

The secretary did not raise any objections. In an instant, Yu Wei felt brimming with confidence and deliberately put on a stern face. “As fast as possible.”

Ordering people around really felt amazing. After seeing the secretary off, Yu Wei pressed a hand over his excited little heart and could not help sighing, “The dramas really did not lie to me.”

He had only been here for a short time and still had not adjusted to his identity. These past few days, he had been extra careful. Even when he was thirsty, he did not dare pour tea by himself. He had not yet experienced what it felt like to be a rich young master.

Today, he finally got a taste of it.

It felt pretty good.

At 3:30 in the afternoon, Lin Hao arrived at the meeting room on time. Lin Hao was 48 this year, and in person he still looked relatively young. There was no sign at all that he was nearly fifty. The moment he came in, he warmly pulled Yu Wei into a chat for more than ten minutes about ordinary family matters. He was so overly enthusiastic that Yu Wei was scared into only nodding, shaking his head, and forcing out polite smiles to go along with him.

It looked like their relationship was not ordinary. At the very least, the original host and the “Ruize” Lin Hao kept mentioning had a relationship that was not ordinary.

Based on what the other man said about how you two had not seen each other in a long time, and that they should meet up when he was free on the weekend, Yu Wei guessed they were friends.

Yu Wei smiled and responded to him, then smoothly shifted the topic to work.

The negotiation went exceptionally smoothly, and Lin Hao’s satisfaction with the new medication was obvious at a glance. After the two-hour meeting ended, Yu Wei personally escorted him downstairs.

Lin Hao patted his shoulder, smiling so broadly that fine wrinkles gathered on his face. “Let’s pick an auspicious day and sign the contract.”

“I’ll have someone draft the contract right away and send it over in person on another day.”

Yu Wei smiled as he watched the car leave. Only when it had fully disappeared from view did the smile on his face fade.

He had smiled all afternoon, and his face felt stiff.

He rubbed his face hard and called Wang Youguang.

Wang Youguang quickly drove to the company entrance. Yu Wei took the keys from him. “I’m going out by myself.”

It still was not time to get off work, so this was the first time Yu Wei had ever left early, and he felt inexplicably guilty. He quickly sat into the driver’s seat, started the car, and vanished from below the company building in a flash.

Work was done, so it was time to go check on the hospitalized thigh.

Yu Wei parked the car and went into the hospital, heading straight for the third floor. Last night the doctor said that Shi Ciyan needed to be isolated for a few days, and today he only needed to take a look at him through the door.

The third floor was crowded with people coming and going, and the wards were all full. Only the isolation room where Shi Ciyan was staying was empty.

Had he been moved to a regular ward?

Yu Wei did not linger. He went downstairs to the front desk and asked the nurse, “Excuse me, which ward is Shi Ciyan in?”

The nurse did not even look up. “What is your relationship with the patient?”

What did that have to do with visiting someone?

Yu Wei was puzzled, but he still answered, “I’m the older brother of his roommate. I came to visit him.”

“We can’t disclose that. If you want to visit, you can contact the patient directly.”

Yu Wei said, “You really can’t tell me?”

That was not how dramas were supposed to go. Weren’t they supposed to tell you right away once you asked?

The nurse coldly refused, “No. We suggest you call or message him on WeChat.”

Yu Wei gave a bitter smile. Right now he only knew Shi Ciyan’s name and gender. How was he supposed to know his contact information?

Suddenly, inspiration struck. He pulled out his phone and sent Qiu Lei a message. If he asked Yu Song for Shi Ciyan’s contact information, Yu Song would probably explode again, and he would still have to spend time coaxing him. It was better to ask Qiu Lei.

He waited in the car for a bit before receiving Qiu Lei’s reply. Qiu Lei also did not know Shi Ciyan’s contact information. On the first day of school, so many things had happened, who had time to add each other’s contacts?

Yu Wei had no choice but to let it go. It looked like he would have to wait for Shi Ciyan to be discharged before finding him to apologize. But he had not expected that this wait would last a full week.

On Friday, just after Yu Wei finished lunch, Qiu Lei sent him a message asking whether he still needed Shi Ciyan’s contact information.

Qiu Lei: The counselor compiled the student roster and sent a shared spreadsheet for everyone to confirm their information. We couldn’t find Shi Ciyan on WeChat in the group, but the shared spreadsheet has his phone number.

Yu Wei: Yes, yes, send it to me.

Shi Ciyan had disappeared for a week. He had not gone to school, and the hospital would not tell him anything. If the hospital had been even a little smaller, he would have gone door to door knocking on each ward.

The moment Yu Wei got the number, he immediately called it. No one answered. He copied the number, searched for it on WeChat, and sent a friend request.

The whole afternoon, the phone remained quiet. It was not until nine at night that he finally received a notification saying the friend request had been accepted.

…

“Arrange a regular ward for me first thing tomorrow morning.”

Shi Ciyan was sitting on the sofa, operating his phone with one hand, and glanced at Chen Lu, who was drawing blood, as he said this.

“Didn’t your susceptible period end? Why are you acting up again?”

Shi Ciyan did not care. He said to himself, “He’s going to the hospital to find me tomorrow.”

Chen Lu rolled his eyes. He did not even need Shi Ciyan to say who this “he” was. Of course he knew it referred to Yu Wei. After all, not even two hours after Shi Ciyan’s susceptible period ended, he had heard Yu Wei’s name more than a dozen times from Shi Ciyan’s mouth.

Shi Ciyan’s susceptible period lasted seven days. Sedatives and suppressants were not very effective either, so getting through it was truly not easy.

Two hours ago, Shi Ciyan had regained consciousness, and Chen Lu had been called over by one phone call just to ask what Yu Wei’s pheromones smelled like.

When he heard it was osmanthus, Shi Ciyan looked disappointed. “I thought he’d be fruit-flavored like me.”

“Is your condition getting better or worse?” As a doctor, Chen Lu still cared more about his illness. Sex as the first gender was present from birth, and only after entering puberty did the second gender gradually differentiate. Omegas and Alphas developed glands that released pheromones.

“Do you think he’d like the smell of my pheromones?” Shi Ciyan asked lazily as he scrolled on his phone.

“What are you planning to do? Releasing pheromones in front of the opposite sex is immoral. We absolutely can’t do that.”

Releasing pheromones in front of the opposite sex was no different from stripping naked to seduce them, provided the pheromone compatibility was high. If compatibility was low, then regardless of whether one was Omega or Alpha, they would feel more disgust than anything toward low-compatibility pheromones.

No matter which it was, releasing pheromones in front of the opposite sex was an immoral act.

Even so, Chen Lu was still confused. “What exactly did he feed you, to make you this spellbound?”

The pheromone compatibility between Shi Ciyan and Yu Wei was 56%, which should not have been attractive.

But looking at the current situation, Chen Lu had a headache.

After Shi Ciyan differentiated, his glands released too little pheromone. Usually, even without wearing a pheromone-blocking patch, other people could hardly smell it. His susceptible periods were also very calm, and the amount of pheromones he released was not even one-fifth of what a normal Alpha would release. As a result, his sex hormones became disordered, and it could even affect his sex function.

So he had always wanted Shi Ciyan to find an Omega with a high pheromone compatibility. An Omega with high compatibility would more easily induce Shi Ciyan into his susceptible period and trigger pheromone release.

But this time, his susceptible period had come on fiercely. A normal Alpha could end a susceptible period in three days, yet Shi Ciyan had gone crazy for a full seven days.

No one knew whether there had been some trigger, or whether Shi Ciyan had held it in for too long and finally burst all at once. Chen Lu asked Shi Ciyan, but he kept his mouth shut and just chatted leisurely with someone on WeChat.

An Omega with 56% compatibility was of no benefit to him.

Even if he could accept an Omega with low-compatibility pheromones, it did not mean Yu Wei would necessarily like his pheromones.

Besides, if the two of them got together, low compatibility would make things discordant in every way, and even the fertility rate would be extremely low.

“It’s not a spell.”

Thinking of Yu Wei’s image in his memory, Shi Ciyan seemed to savor it a little. “He makes me feel very good.”

He would make the dreams from those seven days come true, one by one.