Translator: Deyonna
He Yu took his gaze away from the terminal and landed it on the divorce agreement in the middle of the desk.
The line at the bottom has been signed with the name of the other party, but the other end was still empty.
What did Zhou Mushi want to tell him?
He took a sip of his cold coffee, and raised his hand to close the last file, but suddenly noticed a line of translucent hidden instructions at the bottom.
He Yu clicked on it, and a new file popped up on the terminal display. The format was the same as the rest of the files, but it was encrypted.
He entered the first line of date ××090228 in the password again, and saw an error message as expected, then thought carefully for a while, and put Zhou Mushi’s birthday, his mother’s birthday, and the date of his graduation, etc., but still failed to open it.
He Yu turned on the communicator and connected with his assistant. “Go and make a report for me, I want to apply for the use of the military decoder, with the highest level of authorization.”
Assistant: “???”
He asked with confusion, “For what reason?”
“To decode high-level secrets.”
After speaking, without waiting for further questions from the other party, He Yu directly hung up the communication, opened the program with military instructions and started the simple and rough decryption process.
The result of decoding came out quickly with the blessing of high-level authority. It was indeed a string of numbers in date format. The date was 214, which is February 14, a Valentine’s Day a few months ago.
Why this day?
He Yu didn’t have time to think deeply and quickly opened the unlocked file.
The file is personal data, which is in exactly the same format as the personal data he had read in the folder before, and there are two words written on the line above: Yu Yuan.
He Yu’s eyes froze for a moment, and then slowly moved down.
Date of birth, gender, height, weight, school he graduated…
Like the others, the investigation was conducted with meticulous detail. However, it’s worth noting that the 3D imaging and physical data on the side remained frozen in time, specifically from ten years ago, when he was nineteen years old.
So far, there is nothing too special, except for the column of remarks at the bottom.
In the previous personal files, the information in the column was very brief, with only a few short words such as “resolved” or “pending”, but the remarks belonging to “Yu Yuan” were different.
Arranged from top to bottom in chronological order, the earliest line of remarks was written ten years ago, which is the date He Yu is most familiar with, and the content is neither “resolved” nor “pending”, but a short line of ellipsis.
There’s no text. It was unknown what the owner of the file was thinking when he wrote down such a symbol.
If he remembered correctly, it was their first meeting, in the smoking room of the birthday party.
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The next note is six years apart, and the content is also very short. The words were: marriage partner. Then followed by a question mark.
Three months later, another remark was added, this time, the word was: moron.
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××09-4-2: ……
Ycmf jujlc, atfgf kjr jcbatfg ilcf bo fiilqrlr, yglculcu la yjmx ab atf bglulcji qblca, jr lo gfaegclcu ab atf yfulcclcu.
×× 09-4-3: ……
×× 09-4-4: ……
×× 09-5-5: Fool.
×× 09-5-5: Come find me.
……
He Yu suddenly smelled a faint fragrance of flowers. He turned his head and saw the bright red roses in the vase at the corner of the table.
The alpha paused for a moment then picked up the pen on the table, and slowly signed an unfamiliar name in the blank lower right corner of the divorce agreement.
**
On the day Zhou Mushi arrived on Purang Island, he submitted his resignation from the council to the district government.
Because of the connections he had built beforehand, the resignation procedures were unexpectedly smooth, and soon enough, he was no longer Director Zhou.
The resignation should have been handled more cautiously… But given his understanding of He Yu, the efficiency of the other party’s work couldn’t delay the preparation for too long. Sure enough, less than a week after submitting his resignation letter, the news of the Secretary-General’s impeachment immediately spread.
Cheng Huanqing got into trouble and as the director of the organization council who had cooperated with him before the election, Zhou Mushi would inevitably also experience a series of investigations from the Federal Court. With his abilities, he would surely be able to cleanly extricate himself from the situation. However, his health condition didn’t allow him to continue exhausting himself in the complex political maneuverings.
He is pregnant.
The result of the examination showed that he had been pregnant for nearly two months, and on the day he learned the news, he and He Yu had just been rescued from the ruins of the collapsed corridor.
It is conceivable that although he did not have a miscarriage at that time, his physical condition was extremely unoptimistic. At least during pregnancy, it was very dangerous, and there was a possibility of a miscarriage at any time afterward.
Out of his understanding of him, the doctor tactfully stated that although it is possible to have a termination, the risk of this choice is also not small, and advised Zhou Mushi to think twice.
“Having a child wouldn’t be a bad thing for you, and in any case, it wouldn’t be a burden.”
Zhou Mushi’s first thought at the time was to pick up that damn alpha next door and beat him up. After calming down, he was surprised to find that he didn’t have the intention of getting rid of it (the child).
He listened to the doctor’s complete diagnostic report, then looked at the blurry little dot on the ultrasound imaging. He pondered over it all night and quickly formulated a series of follow-up plans.
Zhou Mushi never hesitated in his actions and was always excessively decisive. In a situation unknown to anyone else, he calmly made arrangements while adjusting his physical condition according to the doctor’s instructions. In front of others, he appeared completely unlike a pregnant omega, rather more like a cold machine.
He had indeed always treated himself like a machine, and the pregnancy was just an unexpected glitch in the program. As long as he carried out the necessary remedial measures, he believed he could handle it.
However, Zhou Mushi was after all just a flesh and blood person, even an omega who is inherently fragile.
He decisively left while leaving behind all the traceable clues for the alpha.
He Yu showed him his ten years of life, and he returned the same thing.
You spent ten years breaking free from your abyss, and I too have my hands stained with blood and mud. No one is cleaner than the other.
Rather than being a good person, Zhou Mushi would rather be a smart person, but he ended up doing the stupidest thing in his life: exposing his dark weakness in front of another person and giving the other party the power to choose.
No one wants to be under someone’s control, so the only option is to control each other, which can be considered fair.
The climate on Purang Island is pleasant, and the scenery is beautiful. The seawater remains turquoise blue throughout the day, without any cold snow, only the radiant sun.
The days without work or political enemies are excessively leisurely. Sometimes, Zhou Mushi can nap under the afternoon sunlight and sleep until the next morning when the dawn’s light creeps through the window blinds. To stay away from radiation, he locks away his communication device and other electronic devices in a cabinet. Every day, he sits on the sofa, holding thick paperback books, and reads, completely indifferent to the ever-changing world outside.
For him, the most difficult thing now, even more so than eliminating enemies, is figuring out how to take another bite of food.
Every time it’s meal time when Zhou Mushi feels the urge to vomit in front of a table full of delicious dishes, he can’t help but wish to drag the alpha, who is far away in the center of the mainland, over and give him a good slap.
In the first few days, he was a little worried that He Yu would immediately chase after him. But afterward, he started to resent why he hadn’t come yet.
This damn efficiency, Zhou Mushi couldn’t help but think of those horrifying files in the data disk and thought with a hint of disdain, perhaps he was scared.
It doesn’t matter, it’s fine if he doesn’t come. After all, he doesn’t really need an alpha anyway.
In the villa lives a foreign elderly lady, a beta housekeeper who was introduced to him by his mother. She has a gentle and sensitive character and is very skilled at taking care of people. When Zhou Mushi is in a daze holding a book, she would always bring him a cup of warm milk and would softly say, “You shouldn’t be too impatient.”
Zhou Mushi turned a page of the book, stared at the page number, and said, “I’m not.”
“Alright then, don’t overthink it too much. It can affect your mood negatively. The flowers you ordered two days ago should have arrived today. Do you want to go to the flower garden and pick a spot to transplant them?”
Zhou Mushi thought for a while, put down the book, got up, and took two steps toward the backyard. Suddenly, he felt a wave of dizziness and stood still, closing his eyes in discomfort.
The housekeeper noticed that his complexion didn’t look good and approached him, offering support. “It’s still early now. How about resting first? We can go out and see later after having dinner.”
Zhou Mushi nodded and pushed away the housekeeper’s hand, walking alone with the support of the railing into the bedroom.
There was a faint scent of cedarwood incense burning in the room. Zhou Mushi lay down for a while under the twilight’s glow, gazing at the calendar with circles drawn on it at the nightstand. And slowly, drowsiness began to settle in.
Zhou Mushi had been sleeping a lot lately and had been having many dreams. In these chaotic dreams, the shadow of the same person would always appear.
Sometimes it was a rainy night, sometimes it was early morning, sometimes in a dark smoking room, sometimes in a dimly lit study. The breath in those dreams felt too real, to the point where he didn’t even want to wake up sometimes.
This time, the dream took place in the dining room.
The alpha hugged him at the dining table, the smell of red wine was very strong, and a veil-like mist surrounded them, then he smelled the familiar woody scent.
“Happy Valentine’s Day.”
Zhou Mushi woke up.
He was awakened by a distant, clamorous gust of wind. With the curtains drawn, only a faint glow from the horizon seeped through. He closed his eyes and listened for a while, feeling as though it was the sound of a helicopter descending.
The sound gradually subsided, suggesting that it could possibly be the delivery of goods, or maybe the flowers he had ordered.
Closing his eyes again, Zhou Mushi dozed off for a quick nap. Unfortunately, the dream he had just experienced couldn’t continue so he woke up soon after.
It was dark around him. He slept past dinner time. The housekeeper probably couldn’t wake him up so she only left some warm congee on the nightstand, exuding a faint aroma of food.
Probably really hungry, Zhou Mushi unexpectedly felt a bit of an appetite. Propping himself up on the bed, he slowly sat up, but his movement abruptly halted for a moment.
Mixed with the fragrance of congee, there was a hint of another scent flowing in the serene air.
Zhou Mushi’s body suddenly tightened, his left hand clenched tightly, and his right hand grasped the handle of the gun under the pillow. “Who’s there?”
A shadow flashed past behind the curtain, exposing half of the tall silhouette. He raised the muzzle of the gun in that direction and, after a moment of silence, his lips moved slightly. “Get in.”
A gust of night wind gently lifted the curtain, and the person behind the window slipped in, draped in the moonlight. He carried the scent of dew and sea breeze as he slowly approached
It feels like an unreal dream.
He Yu’s silhouette looked particularly deep under the backlight, leaving a trail of damp footprints where he walked. It wasn’t until he approached that Zhou Mushi could clearly see his appearance. After a long separation, the alpha’s domineering aura had diminished. His military coat was soaked with water, and his wet hair was stuck to his forehead as if he had just been fished out of the sea. There were even traces of sand on his chin.
He furrowed his brow slightly, for a moment unable to distinguish between reality and dream. Gripping the handle of the gun, he asked, “What are you doing here?”
He walked up to him and knelt beside the bed on one knee. He lifted his hand and pressed it against the barrel of the gun, grasping the left hand that Zhou Mushi had clenched tightly. Slowly, he unfolded the hand and finally, as he had expected, caught sight of the dazzling ring on the index finger and the matching blue sapphire brooch in the palm of the man’s hand.
When the things in his hands were taken away, Zhou Mushi’s fingers curled up hesitantly, but without any resistance, he watched as He Yu put the brooch into his chest, then took out a fresh rose stained with water, and carefully put it in the palm of his hand where he was originally holding the gun.
The alpha’s deep blue eyes were like the sea reflecting the starry sky, he lowered his head and kissed the tiny starlight on Zhou Mushi’s finger and answered the question he had asked just now with a smile.
“Darling, I’ve come to propose to you.”
End of story.
The author:
(This time it’s really the end)
Alright, you can throw confetti now. And then shower me with compliments.
Translator’s Corner: Sorry I’ve been gone for a while got busy navigating my life after graduation. Extras will be updated once a week since it’s hella long. Thank you so much for being patient with me. Lysm!
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