Translator: Deyonna
When the hole card was flipped up, Liu Zhen whistled.
All the chips were pushed in one direction. A beta official on the opposite side rubbed his fingers and said unwillingly, “Old Yu is too merciless. But still even saying this is his first time winning three rounds consecutively.”
He Yu smiled lightly, glanced sideways, and said, “Someone is watching, I don’t dare to lose face.”
Several people present laughed when they heard his words, and joked, “All right, we’ll let you win to your heart’s content today, but you have to buy us drinks later.”
While He Yu was fiddling with the cards in his hand, he lowered his head and ordered the waitress next to him to get the wine. The latter rose from her seat, walking on with her small high heel, swaying her hips, and left.
“How can red wine be enough? If you want to drink, we should also drink champagne, ah.” Someone was unreconciled with it. “The wine here is boring, why don’t we go upstairs after we finish the wine?”
The casino is underground, and above it is the connected hotel and high-end club, which is naturally another money-squandering establishment.
Liu Zhen is quite addicted to gambling. He watched the poker game on the table eager to join in, however, he heard a cold snort beside him, and his arm was swatted away.
Zhou Mushi brushed off the nonexistent dust on his shoulders, and said, “I’m leaving.”
“Ah? Not playing for a moment? Your husba… Mr. Yu is still here…”
Zhou Mushi nodded casually at everyone, without looking behind him. He really left as he said.
When he stepped out of the gambling hall, the waitress who had just left happened to come back with the freshly poured wine, holding the tray and directly knocking into the oncoming person. Zhou Mushi raised his hands in time to stop the tray, preventing the glasses from turning upside down. Only a little splash of wine was spilled but it dampened his sleeves.
“So… sorry Mister!”
The waitress knew very well that the person in front of her could not be offended, so she bent down in panic, her hands shaking so much that she could hardly hold the tray.
Zhou Mushi smelled the strong artificial fragrance on the other’s body. His brows wrinkled uncomfortably and stuffed the tray containing the wine glasses into Liu Zhen’s hand, and walked out of the gambling hall taking a detour to avoid the person in front of him.
Liu Zhen cleaned up the mess in a flurry, they stared at each other for a while, unsure of what to do. After coming back to his senses, he was about to catch up, but someone grabbed his shoulder from behind.
“Mr. Liu, stay here.”
The alpha behind walked passed him, bent the corner of his lips politely, and placed the card between his fingers before leaving it on the tray that Liu Zhen held.
The card is facing up, it is the Ace of Spades.
Zhou Mushi seemed to be walking at a leisurely pace, but in fact, he was walking in a hurry. After leaving the gambling hall, he walked past the corridors, opened the door, and strode into the corner of the lavatory.
He took off the gloves that were wet with wine, threw them into the trash can, then turned on the water and slowly washed his cuffs.
There was a sound of the door opening behind him, then someone walked in. Zhou Mushi thought it was Liu Zhen, so he said, “Remember to keep our conversation today confidential. Don’t let anyone know why I looked for you.”
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The sound of footsteps was getting closer and closer, but the person who came did not answer.
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He Yu was silent for a while, and asked, “Are you unhappy?”
Zhou Mushi didn’t answer, but said, “It seems that there is no record of coming to a casino at night in the schedule I received.”
“I’m really sorry, I acted on my own. I was dragged here temporarily. I thought it wouldn’t take too long.”
“What about your assistant?”
“It’s very late. I let him go back first.”
“Oh? You’re actually very sympathetic to your subordinates.”
He Yu remained rooted and said lightly, “You are angry.”
It was a statement, not a question.
Zhou Mushi didn’t give the expected reaction to what he said, instead he curled his lips and showed a dull sneer, “I said last time that there’s no next time. Won an inch and now you’ll want a mile?”
He Yu stared deeply at his face, as if he had never seen him smile before, walked behind him step by step, lowered his head, and looked at him.
“If I don’t obey, will you punish me?”
Before Zhou Mushi could speak, he asked again, “Will you kick me away and find another one?”
“Or directly divorce?”
“What are you talking about?” Zhou Mushi turned around and took half a step back but was obstructed by the sink behind him. He lifted his hand against the alpha’s shoulder to make him back away, but the man held his hand.
The palm holding the back of his hand was very hot, and he subconsciously wanted to pull it back, but he frowned because of the pain caused by the friction.
He Yu slightly loosen his grip, and looked down at Zhou Mushi’s hand, only to see a long and thin red mark from his wrist to the back of his hand.
It was scratched by Yu Min’s nails not long ago at their encounter at the bottom of the apartment building. It was a small injury, and it only broke the skin. Zhou Mushi only changed his coat and rushed over, nothing bothering to deal with it. The injury was inside the glove for a long time, so it was slightly swollen.
He Yu relaxed his strength and asked, “What happened?”
“It’s nothing,” Zhou Mushi tried his best to pull away, but he was still not letting it go, so he had to explain perfunctorily, “Your “cousin” came to me this evening, because of Yu Chengshan’s matter.”
He Yu’s eyes showed a look of rummaging through his memories and as if he had found this character from the information in his head, his tone turned slightly cold. “I will let her know how to be sensible.”
Zhou Mushi only thought he was joking using Yu Yuan’s identity, and was about to try to pull his hand back, but He Yu’s eyes stopped on his fingers.
It was as if there was an entity gliding over his bare fingers along with his line of sight. The other man’s deep voice then echoed. “What about the thing here?”
His words were unclear, but Zhou Mushi knew what he was asking.
For some reason, the pheromones in the air seemed to become a little thicker, making it hard to breathe. The expression of the alpha in front of him remained unchanged, and there was still a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth, but his temperament for a moment brought a strange sense of oppression.
Probably because he couldn’t wait for an answer, He Yu stared at him and asked again, his tone even sounding overly gentle.
“Don’t like it? So you threw it away?”
Zhou Mushi raised his head and met those bottomless dark blue eyes. Behind his calmness, something that had been suppressed for a long time seemed to be on the verge of coming out. In a trance, he seemed to have returned to the night before, when he was pressed down by the alpha, wantonly possessed and invaded by him but he was unable to resist at that moment.
After a while, his expression sank, and he replied coldly, “Whether I wear it or not, and whether I throw it, does it have anything to do with you?”
The strength of the grip in his hand instantly became stronger, almost snapping his bones. Zhou Mushi pressed his lips tightly to resist the pain from the squeezed wound, and his eyes looked back without temperature.
“Let go,” he ordered.
After two seconds of silence, He Yu lowered his eyes and slowly let go of his hand.
Zhou Mushi turned his wrist. He walked past him, their shoulders rubbing. He opened the door and turned his head sideways, saying, “Don’t make your own decisions, never again will there be next time.”
The corner of He Yu’s mouth curled, his expression unclear. “I understand.”
**
After that night in the casino, the two of them went back to their respective jobs. He Yu was very obedient and never went to places other than his workplace without authorization again. The complicated schedule during the election period made it difficult for the two of them to have free time. They often stayed out, both staggering around, and rarely met at home.
The round of elections was drawing to a close, and the radical factions represented by Yu Chengshan had weakened and lost a lot of competitiveness. The result of the election was as expected. The conservative factions initially gained control of the House of Representatives with a 7% advantage.
The day the approval rating came out happened to be the opening of the case in the Federal Court. The verdict of the first instance was life imprisonment. If he gave up his appeal, Yu Chengshan would spend the rest of his life in prison.
This sudden bribery incident during the election period has attracted great attention from the entire political circle. Countless people secretly tried to get news from Zhou Mushi. Even the wording of the letter sent by his father was visibly fearful.
Zhou Mushi remained motionless like a mountain, always responding vaguely, but his private contacts with the Joint Association Committee became more and more frequent, and Liu Zhen, who was tasked to keep an eye on the news for him, was miserable.
That afternoon, Zhou Mushi received two special guests in the reception room.
Yu Min and Yu Yuan’s cousin from his great aunt.
Since the fall of Yu Chengshan, the old man has been old and weak, so Yu Chengfeng, the oldest among the children, was temporarily in charge of the Yu family. Now he finally couldn’t sit still and brought his niece to visit.
Yu Min looked more wan and sallow than that evening, sitting on the sofa with her head down. After being patted on the shoulder by her cousin on the side a few times, she opened her mouth to apologize to Zhou Mushi.
Yu Chengfeng greeted Zhou Mushi earnestly and sincerely, then reprimanded the younger niece for her lack of manners. He talked nonsense for a while, before finally wiping the sweat from his forehead after seeing Zhou Mushi’s calm smile, going back to his actual purpose. “Elder brother’s verdict…is really not optimistic.”
Zhou Mushi took a sip of his tea. “My condolences.”
These two perfunctory words stuffed all of Yu Chengfeng’s mental outline back into his stomach. He opened his mouth and wiped his sweat again. He could only politely say, “I don’t know how Xiao Yuan is doing recently?”
“He also feels very sorry, but he has been very busy recently.”
“Ai, so busy that even his family’s gone… Mr. Zhou, you…”
Zhou Mushi raised his eyebrow. “This is his business, it’s useless to ask me.”
It’s not difficult to anger people with his mindless indifference. With Yu Chengfeng’s age, he managed to bear it, but not necessarily Yu Min. She raised her head and lifted her very red eyes. “If you don’t want to help, then don’t help, what are you pretending for? If you didn’t force my brother…”
“Xiao Min!”
Zhou Mushi put down the teacup. “Who am I forcing?”
“Don’t play dumb! How could my brother not care about my father’s mishap! You must have threatened him! Seeing that our family is in trouble, you watch with folded arms throwing stones at somebody who is down. You surnamed Zhou, you care about nothing!”
Yu Chengfeng hurriedly stopped the rambling Yu Min, wishing he could cover her mouth. He regretted bringing this ignorant niece here to ruin things, but Zhou Mushi’s face remained unchanged and waited for Yu Min to be tired of scolding him. After she stopped, he said unhurriedly, “I never do unnecessary things. Yu Yuan is my person. Why should I threaten him?”
“Besides, if I really have bad intentions, do you think you two uncle and niece can still stand here today?”
“This…Xiao Zhou, ah. Don’t stoop down to her level…”
“Uncle Yu’s joking. I’m merely saying what’s the truth, that’s all. Sorry for being rude. Please go back.”
Having said that, he ignored the pale faces of the two of them and rang the bell to let the security guard send the two out.
The reception room fell silent. Zhou Mushi sat on the sofa and finished drinking the tea in the cup before getting up and opening the door to go out.
The bitter tea temporarily calmed the restlessness in his mind, but he began to miss the taste of coffee again.
What he said in the reception room just now was played back in his head, Zhou Mushi touched his index finger through the glove and realized that he had said the wrong word, to be precise, it was a name.
Yu Yuan is not his person, but a marriage partner bound by a document.
There’s no substantial connection and can be replaced at any time.
But not He Yu.
If possible, Zhou Mushi is willing to put his brand on him, and even try to build a relationship of trust.
The premise is that this alpha can be securely held in the palm of his hand.
And anything that is beyond his control, he will give it up.
The Author: Control Freak A vs Control Freak O
Possessive husbands
He really want whole mile ><
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