Chapter 20 – New Marks And Old Moments
Kong Zhao’s face turned from cloudy to torrential rain.
Qi Chaiyuan came over in a good mood, her meticulous silver hair was a little messy, the corners of her mouth had been skimmed down, and she patted Qi Yuan’s shoulder vigorously, “Very good, I can feel that you are stronger than before.”
“Thank you for the compliment,” Qi Yuan said, “You’re not bad.”
“You actually brought Ye Zhan back, I told you a long time ago that for this kind of traitor, you either kill him or subdue him.” Qi Chaiyuan’s eyes turned around to Ye Zhan, “He is a strong Omega, he will definitely be able to give birth to a strong heir for the Qi family, when do you plan to give birth to the first one?”
Although she was portraying kindness, Ye Zhan still heard a series of unpleasant words, Qi Chaiyuan was a typical Alpha, in her eyes, an Omega was a baby-making tool, and she looked at him as if she was selecting a good breeding cow for the pasture.
“We’ll have to get married first.” Qi Yuan said softly.
“Haha, you’re still the same as before,” Qi Chaiyuan sneered, and then put on her helmet, and her voice was cold, “Watch over him properly. I don’t like touching other people’s beloved things, but if something like that happened again, I wouldn’t hesitate to kill him.”
Before Qi Yuan could speak, Ye Zhan preemptively said, “Don’t worry, sister, I really won’t run anymore this time.”
Your family is not a good thing, there is a wolf in front and a tiger in the middle of a fight, if I don’t run then should I just offer myself on a silver platter?!
“That’s good.” Dropping a fluttering sentence, Qi Chaiyuan stepped on the motorcycle with her long legs and drove away with the rocket launchers.
Thanks to her interference, Kong Zhao no longer turned his head to settle accounts with Qi Yuan and dispatched a tow truck to come over and drag the corpse of his beloved pet away from the other direction.
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The other members of Zhu Huang all went to the hotel to check in, only Peacock and Feng Rao, who had a house in Xuancheng, followed them and went to the Qi family’s old house.
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The law is clear. Usually at the age of fourteen or fifteen, the children will be divided into the three sexes of Alpha, Beta, and Omega. The Alphas will be forced to join the Dragon Scale Legion, receive military education, and will generally become a non-commissioned officer in the future unless they can contribute in other fields. The Betas will enter a vocational school under the jurisdiction of the City Council and will be assigned to study different majors according to their talents and personality: biotechnology, mining and metallurgy, agricultural planting, weapons research, and development. The Omegas generally enter the education system and are responsible for raising children. In short, fifteen years old in Long Ye means adulthood, and you have to be a pinion in the vast system.
After Ye Zhan was differentiated into an Alpha, and in order to stay by Qi Yuan’s side, he had to disguise himself as an Omega. He didn’t expect that after five years of pretending, there was no other gain, but the technology of pretending to be an Omega had been perfected by him and he was even getting better and better.
Qi Yuan pulled him back from his distant thoughts, “The City Federal Autonomous Committee plays the function of the government, and all the facilities in the city, such as hospitals, schools, banks, public security bureaus, tax bureaus, grain storage bureaus, planting bases, etc., are under their jurisdiction. Kong Zhao has climbed to the position of vice chairman of the city committee, he has all the duties of the interim president. When our father dies, he will become the president.”
Regarding Kong Zhao, Ye Zhan was not impressed. As a sexually mature Omega, Kong Zhao has long been married, and he would return to the Qi family for an average of one month a year to accompany his parents but just that month was enough to leave a deep childhood shadow on Qi Yuan.
“I remember that he seems to have married to the beach area,” Ye Zhan said, “and the guards around him just now were not wearing the uniforms of the Dragon Scale Legion.”
“Yes, they wore the insignia of a yellow-blue-feathered bird, this is the guard sent by his husband’s family, the Elite Guard.” Qi Yuan explained, “He is married to the eldest young master of the Yu family, and the Red Coral District ruled by their family is next to Long Ye, adjacent to the sea, although the place is not big, it has a lot of resources that are not available in the inland. The Red Coral family is his powerful reserve force, and they will do their best to help Kong Zhao take the position of city lord. If Kong Zhao becomes the ruler in the future, then the territory of Long Ye will be further expanded – not only in the Red Coral District but also in the places where the ships can travel, the sea will belong to them.”
“It’s a temptation that no one can refuse, and any sane person would choose a ruler who brings prosperity over a reckless tyrant.” Ye Zhan nodded, “It’s a pity, Kong Zhao has a huge disadvantage. It’s a a pity he’s an Omega.”
No Alpha would willingly surrender to an Omega, any more than a lion would bow down to a sheep.
“Yes, the Dragon Scale Legion can’t stand to be ruled by an Omega, and they are ingrained in the belief that once the Omega climbs to the top, the Dragon Scale Legion will rebel against such a ruler.” Qi Yuan said, “The last force is the Long Ye Biotechnology Research Institute. The dean is Mrs. Kong Jia, my nominal mother, who is currently the acting lord of the city. The research institute is the lifeblood of the Qi family, and they have always maintained neutrality, but such neutrality will not be maintained forever. ”
These three forces are intertwined and maintain a delicate balance, as long as Qi Zhen does not die for a day, they will fear each other and contain each other.
“That’s roughly the case,” Qi Yuan paused, then looked at Ye Zhan, “If it’s you, which one would you choose?”
This is like making him choose if he would either cut his wrists or hang himself, whether it is Qi Chaiyuan’s Dragon Scale Legion or Kong Zhao’s City Committee, there is no hope.
Ye Zhan looked at Qi Yuan and said sincerely, “Of course, I chose you, Third Young Master.”
Qi Yuan didn’t say anything, but Feng Rao, who was following behind, couldn’t help but laugh.
Although his laugh was not malicious, Ye Zhan could also hear how outrageous his words were. It is a fantasy for an illegitimate child to want to become an heir. Everyone recognized that Qi Yuan’s ability to grow up to the age of twenty-two was already a miracle.
When the old city lord was still sober, he criticized his children more than once, the eldest daughter was too violent and cold-blooded, the eldest son was gloomy and cruel, and the second son was cowardly and mediocre. The only one he liked was Qi Yuan, in fact, he liked him very much and had said more than once that he wanted him to be the heir, at that time, everyone would compliment the old city lord, after all, everyone can see that the third young master is just an overprotected and spoiled child.
However, when Qi Yuan came back five years later, he returned with the gradually growing forces under his command so everyone had to re-examine this spoiled third young master. Even if he doesn’t become the head of the family, he must be a heavyweight wherein the scales can be tilted because of him.
Feng Rao’s home is in the central part of the city, and he said goodbye to them after crossing a junction. After walking for another five minutes, he could see the high walls of the Qi family’s compound from a distance, and soldiers were patrolling and guarding the door, saluting Qi Yuan from a distance.
The solemn and magnificent main entrance was still tightly sealed, and a small side door fit for more than one person high was opened next to it, and the old housekeeper was already waiting at the door, and bowed to him, “Third young master, you are back.”
The guards here are much stricter than they used to be. Ye Zhan stepped through the gate and saw a bunker-like circular building, the outer wall was a gloomy black, topped by the family’s dragon insignia, and heavy weapons were proudly armed on the roof and outer walls, even if the city was broken into, the fortress could provide shelter for at least 1,000 people for three months. Next to the fort are two watchtowers like obelisks, and a modest road connects the main house to the gate, and is lined with wheat.
It was May, and the wheat had already bloomed, and the golden waves of wheat swayed in the wind, adding a rustic atmosphere of a great harvest to this fort.
“I remember that there used to be flowers in this field.” Ye Zhan said. Because the city lord’s wife liked tulips, he arranged for different varieties of flowers to be planted, and butterflies could even be seen every spring. It’s a pity that this useless beauty, which can’t satisfy hunger, was naturally replaced with more strategic wheat after the old man fell into a coma.
“If you like them, I can plant flowers for you,” Qi Yuan said casually, “When I become the head of the family.”
“Eh?” Ye Zhan almost choked on his own saliva- you can’t talk nonsense, brother, if you want to be the city head then I don’t want to be a casualty!
“Just kidding.” Qi Yuan blinked.
Qi Yuan’s room is in the shade of the north of the main house, and as his “fiancée”, Ye Zhan will, of course, live in it with him. The door is guarded, each door has a facial recognition lock, fingerprints are required to enter the room, surveillance is densely packed with every dead corner, and the walls are full of mechanisms and secret passages.
Qi Yuan’s room was relatively remote, in the most shady and damp corner of the fortress, just like his position in the family. Walking to the door, Ye Zhan suddenly saw scratches on the side of the door frame, and couldn’t help but stop as a heart-piercing feeling arose.
Qi Yuan naturally noticed those scratches as well, and his hand naturally crossed his shoulder and stroked it gently, “It’s very nostalgic, isn’t it?”
These were the notches that recorded their height.
Ye Zhan’s is on the right side of the door frame, and Qi Yuan’s is on the left side of the door frame. The lowest one was carved from when he was 14 years old, when Qi Yuan was still a lot shorter than him, and the next year, the gap narrowed. In the third year, the notch was flat (Ye Zhan also secretly tiptoed), Qi Yuan sprung up like bamboo shoots after the rain, and by the time the last notch was recorded, Qi Yuan was already a fist taller than himself.
And that was five years ago. Now Qi Yuan stood behind him without any sense of distance, and as long as he leaned forward slightly, he could kiss the hair whirls on the top of his head. As an atypical Alpha, Ye Zhan still felt a slight tingling in his self-esteem- since he was taller than himself at the beginning, it was uncomfortable to be overtaken halfway.
Ye Zhan suddenly felt a weight on his head, it turned out that Qi Yuan’s hands were on his head, and then moved forward in parallel, leaning against the door frame on the right. He easily slipped through the wooden door frame with his fingernails, leaving a fresh notch.
The new marks and old moments, the plump five years and the lost five years, have been connected again into a linear trajectory.
Ye Zhan was so good at pretending to be omega it became for real~LOL