Lu Zhengen was quickly driven out of the Snake Den in a not too ‘polite’ way.
Watching the figure of the fat man disappear into the night in embarrassment, Lu Taipan frowned slightly, tapping his fingers on the seat’s armrest.
“Look up what Lu Zhengen has done lately.”
He said.
Steward’s electronic voice quickly responded to the Snake Den’s master. “We have been collecting information about Lu Zhengen. As of this morning, we have not found anything unusual about him…”
“Check again. Adjust information gathering level from ‘routine’ to ‘deep’.”
Lu Taipan spoke calmly.
The AI’s red light flickered slightly.
“Alright, master.”
“If it was just an ordinary parliamentary election, Lu Zhengen wouldn’t be so impatient.” Lu Taipan added softly and thoughtfully, his gaze pausing for a moment at the place where Lu Zhengen stood before. All the words and actions of the man that stood there just now were clearly outlined in his mind. “His panic and worry are not entirely false. In fact, he has been trying to restrain his emotions in front of me. He’s so panicked that he’s still trying to convince me to give a campaign speech, despite knowing the odds are against him..”
Lu Taipan sneered. “Was it because his allies betrayed him, or was it the uneven distribution of benefits that led to his ‘partner’s conflict?”
A few minutes later, Steward who looked through the database proved Lu Taipan’s conjecture.
You are right. The Lu family’s network has indeed undergone considerable fluctuations recently. The Lu family and the Ning family are currently having considerable conflicts.”
The Ning family?
This answer even surprised Lu Taipan. For a long while, the Ning family should be regarded as one of the Lu family’s. To be precise, they were the closest allies of Lu Zhengen’s family.
“Your S-level Alpha nephew, Lu Zhizhao, forcibly marked Ning Jiayi, the young master of the Ning family, during the routine medical assistance a few days ago.”
“Forcibly marked?”
Hearing these words, even a person as indifferent as Lu Taipan couldn’t help showing a look of disgust on his face.
He didn’t like everyone in the Ning family, including the high-leveled omega Ning Jiayi who claimed to be a 90% match for Lu Zhizhao.
But in any case, Alphas forcibly marking Omegas was an extremely vicious and despicable behaviour – moreso, Ning Jiayi was still an undifferentiated Omega.
If Lu Taipan was still in charge of the Lu family, the only fate for this kind of alpha was to remove all of their rights and finances, and then be thrown into outer space as living bait against the Canaanites.
“Let me see, um, of course, it was okay if it was just a forced mark,” Steward continued,”After all, the marriage between the Lu and Ning family has long been accepted by everyone. The problem was that Lu Zhizhao doesn’t seem to want responsibility for the marking – after being forcefully separated by the medical officer, he seems to have always insisted that the mark was unexpected and that he was controlled by drugs. Which he believed to have made him lose his rationality, and his physical arousal was also very abnormal.”
“Of course, the Lu family did a drug test on Lu Zhizhao afterwards, and all the test results showed that his various physiological functions are very normal.”
Lu Taipan: “….”
“You seem to be interested in this matter, do you want to intervene?”
Steward observed Lu Taipan, and then asked.
Hearing this sentence, Lu Taipan raised his eyebrows, and he quickly recovered his original indifferent expression. “No Need.”
Lu Taipan knew very well what his blood brother would do.
The marriage between the Ning and the Lu family was imperative for the current head of the family, Lu Zhengen, especially after his failure to win Lu Taipan’s support from the Snake Den. He will thus use all means to force Lu Zhizhao to fulfill his engagement with Ning Jiayi.
And Lu Zhizhao…
Recalling the information he had read these past few days, a faint sneer flashed on Lu Taipan’s face.
That man will succumb in the end, there’s no question about that.
However, after a moment of silence, another pitiful, innocent-looking face appeared in Lu Taipan’s mind.
After a long time, an extremely concise order sounded in the room. “Do not let those from the Lu family get involved with Su Liang.”
After all, that beta seemed to be very close to Lu Zhizhao, and it was this closeness that almost brought him to his death.
Lu Taipan did not intend to let the little fool he was protecting continue swimming in these muddled waters.
Su Liang..
When that person was mentioned, Lu Taipan’s nape suddenly started to feel slightly warm.
Damn.
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He sighed internally; his body actually reacted again.
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Steward: “As a competent AI, I don’t agree with your decision. This excessive use of compulsory inhibitors will not do you any good. Even if you have regained self-control for a short period of time, you should take heed of the report regarding your worsening drug resistance. After that, once the inhibitor loses its hold on you, your rut will come back in full. According to the pre-existing data, it can be speculated that by then you will completely lose your rationality and turn into a feral beast….”
“You speak too much nonsense.”
Lu Taipan rubbed his forehead, speaking coldly.
“I’m just concerned about you. After all, if you really went berserk, all of the Snake Den’s staff would have to pay a very heavy price before they could kill you.” Steward spoke quietly, sounding a little wronged. “Besides, in my opinion, your mental stability right now is good, and you do not need to pay such a big risk for excessive inhibitor injections, your physical condition is also normal–”
“There is something wrong with my body.”
The Snake Den’s master couldn’t take it and interrupted his noisy AI. In his hoarse voice, there was a very subtle hint of embarrassment.
“Until now, my body has been responding to the inducer in Su Liang’s body.”
Steward: “Ah…”
Lu Taipan’s expression was dark.
This was a very rare situation. The long-term intake of inhibitors and pheromone blockers has essentially made Lu Taipan’s physiological responses to be ‘dead’. He rarely has the impulsiveness that normal alphas would have, because even the most normal physical excitement may have an impact on his mental sea, thus aggravating his pheromone disorder.
Yet, from a time even unknown to him, Lu Taipan’s body began to gradually lose control.
“I think you are just about to enter your rut period. This may feel strange to you, but it’s actually a very normal physiological phenomenon.”
Steward tried hard to appease his slightly irritated master.
“After all, alphas are mammals too. When in their rut period, they can have strong associations and needs even when just looking at a chair that an omega has sat on. Young master Su Liang is now in his differentiation period, and his pheromones are quite unstable. You’ve given him pheromones before, and the culmination of these events may have confused you. By the way, this is why I do not recommend you to use such a large dose of inhibitors. Excessive inhibition will only make your senses extremely sensitive and aroused. All of this has precedents that are worthy of vigilance. Do you know why the Central Star District has now banned all Alpha Private Male Academies? At that time, these kinds of academies would simply and barbarically inject all the students with inhibitors to get through their rut period, and they thought that this would avoid trouble. However, they did not expect that it-”
“Shut up.”
Lu Taipan spoke coldly.
Steward obediently fell silent.
But this silence did not last long. “Actually, there are other ways to replace inhibitors, which are safe, harmless, and effective. Thanks to young master Su Liang, at least now we have the Leiya blossoms. These blossoms has a very powerful soothing effect on the mental power of high-level alphas, and it has also been verified by experiments.”
Lu Taipan stayed silent.
Steward repeated once more. “Young master Su Liang has been taking care of these Leiya blossoms very carefully. He also expressed his hope that the Leiya blossoms can play their due role for the Snake Den’s Master…”
Lu Taipan interrupted Steward impatiently. “Then put these flowers near my sleeping cabin.”
Steward: “Okay!”
The scent of these Leiya blossoms were very faint.
It was a very light, subtle fragrance.
Surrounded by the aroma of flowers, Lu Taipan, who was supposed to sleep peacefully under the Leiya blossoms’ soothing effect, started dreaming once more.
He dreamed of Su Liang…. and Lu Zhizhao.
It was just the investigated information that he had casually glanced at in the report. Those simple and concise words were compiled into extremely vivid and realistic scenes in his dream.
In his dreams, Lu Taipan was only a bystander who could only watch the young and bright boys approaching each other slowly.
Was it just an accidental acquaintanceship at the banquet, was it a deliberately planned encounter, was it an ambiguous relationship born intentionally or unintentionally, or perhaps….
[No—]
Lu Taipan frowned.
He could hardly tolerate Su Liang in his dream getting closer to the young man beside him.
Such a despicable, cowardly, and irresponsible boy should not be with Su Liang.
There was no way that person could protect Su Liang.
If he has something to say…
[He is mine.]
An unusually strong feeling seemed to tear open his body and burst out from his chest.
The man with a cold aura let out an extremely fierce murmur.
He couldn’t help but took a step forward, and forcefully pushed away the illusory shadow beside Su Liang.
Then, the scene suddenly changed.
[“Mr Si, what happened?”]
Lu Taipan appeared on the comfortable and spacious sofa in the afternoon, while the young man in front of him raised his head slightly, leaning towards him unsuspectingly.
This familiar scene.
These familiar words.
Lu Taipan also stretched out his hand towards Su Liang again, but this time, he did not restrain himself like what happened in the real world.
In this charming dream filled with the fragrance of delicate flowers, Lu Taipan followed his own nature and released the most savage desire in his body.
Whimpering, crying, struggling, and begging for mercy.
Of course, there was also the sweet, intoxicating scent.
It was Su Liang’s scent.
In the early morning of the next day, Lu Taipan opened his eyes expressionlessly in the sleeping cabin.
However, he did not get up, but stayed in the sleeping cabin for a rare moment. A daze flashed in his sleepless eyes, as well as deep thought.
He rarely dreams.
Naturally, if he were to dream, the first and only thing he would dream of is a sea of blood and slaughter.
As the only double S rank, he could only watch the Vipers around him fall under the Canaanites’ weapons over and over again, reliving the anguish and hatred, as well as nerve-tearing pain endlessly within his dreams.
He would rush at the Canaanites in his dreams, repeating the futile massacre in vain.
This was not a big deal.
This is the case of the S-ranked mental sea that was about to collapse. His subconscious mind would always show him the remaining rage in his body in the form of dreams.
However, yesterday’s dream was different from any previous ones.
That couldn’t even be called a nightmare.
However…
Lu Taipan sat up from the sleeping cabin, looking at his pale hands.
In the dream, he could completely hold down the boy’s waist with one hand.
He could also easily support the boy’s ups and downs…
Lu Taipan’s Adam’s apples rolled.
Very thirsty, he thought.
The slaughter-filled and bloody dreams would make him feel tired and numb after waking up the next day, but everything in the dream last night did not make him feel even the slightest discomfort.
What remained in his body was an almost overflowing happiness.
“Steward, check my mental stability.”
The Snake Lord gave instructions to the AI.
“Very ordinary,” Steward dutifully reported, a hint of joy within his tone. “I said that the Leiya blossoms were useful.”
Lu Taipan did not pay much attention to Steward’s chatter.
Thinking of the young man’s incomparably clear gaze and longing, as well as his age, which was almost the same age as his nephew, the taciturn Snake Lord couldn’t help but frown slightly.
This subtle, inexplicable mood persisted until he received a message from Su Liang.
Lu Taipan looked at the flashing “Su Liang” notification on his personal terminal, and hesitated for an unprecedented moment.
But in the end, he connected the call with a blank face.
“Mister Si, I’m sorry to bother you.”
The beta on the screen had slightly dark circles under his eyes, and he didn’t seem to have slept well.
“I’ve encountered some minor problems, it’s still about the mecha operation, if you have the time, can you help – “
“I have time now.”
Lu Taipan answered.
“Ah?”
Su Liang was a little stunned.
On the other side, Steward manipulated its bionic body and looked at Lu Taipan in confusion.
Lu Taipan looked down at Su Liang, speaking calmly. “I’ll send someone to pick you up, and then we’ll go to the mecha training ground together, where there are already prepared mechas…”
While talking, the man raised his hand and canceled all the schedules for that morning on the virtual screen.
After the call was hung up, Lu Taipan raised his head and met Steward’s slightly flickering electronic eyes. “The medical officers advised you to not get on the mech casually.”
Lu Taipan watched it silently.
Under the extremely oppressive gaze, the weak android changed his words very quickly. “Of course, your mental stability is well controlled now. It’s not bad to operate the mecha occasionally to release pressure.”
Lu Taipan then withdrew his gaze.
Steward: “…………”
Seeing that Lu Taipan had turned around and began to put on his light exoskeleton for the mecha, it still did not give up and added. “However, I think you should at least take the Leiya blossom with you. It can really soothe your mental sea.”
Lu Taipan paused slightly imperceptibly.
When it mentioned the Leiya blossoms, the vague fragrance of the flower brought back the memory of that charming dream.
Lu Taipan couldn’t help but check his mental stability value once more, and that reassuring value made his slightly constricted heart relax. Regardless of the dream, at least his current mental state was stable.
“I will.”
He said so to Steward.
Then, after putting on all the equipment, Lu Taipan solemnly put the Leiya blossom, which was said to be able to stabilize his mental power, on his chest.
Even after entering the mech, he never took off the flower.
The fragrance of the flower was dense, but its presence was not too strong. Soon, Lu Taipan forgot about its existence.
The author has something to say:
Today’s Da Pan: Although he looks down on his eldest nephew, but when he thinks that his eldest nephew is about the same age as Xiao Liang, this old man is still a bit jealous.
Of course, this old man didn’t know about that.
He just felt that there must be something wrong with him.
Thank u soo much for the chapter, translator samaa 🥰
Did Lu Taipan remember to change his pants after a dream like that?
*Ehem.. * ⁄(⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄
Hahahahah! 🤣🤣
Lu Taipan is so funny hahahaha
Lu Taipan: I must be seriously ill
Lu Taipan: check again
+1 literally the manifestation of trust issues
So cuteee aishaiajoa And also Su Liang is gonna find out about his real identity 🤭
Oh accidentally replied your comment
Thank you for this chapter! That was a nice dream. o(///v///)o
Hopefully they will start to understand one another better now, ah!
Thanks for the dreamy update, woo! 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣❤️
Thanks for the chapter. I was starving to read the continuation
Yay! Thanks for the chapter!
Thank You for the new chapter (ฅ^ω^ฅ)♥
Thanks for the chapter!
It’s like they all know Lu Zhizhao is being wronged and he’s telling the truth about the drug, just nobody cares on either side 😄.
LMAO I WANT TO SAY “POOR HIM” BUT ENDED UP SAYING “WELL DESERVED😜”. I’M SO EVIL🙌
I already forgot the story tbh, until they began talking about that Lu and Ning boys… My hatred forced the whole plot into the forefront of my mind.
Help, most of the novels I’m currently reading is all about men wet dreaming about their lovers. What the heck. This kind of dog food chokes me, too much! Too much!
How old is Lu Taipan?
I Wonder About this too..
Buena pregunta, teniendo en cuenta que luchó en una guerra por mucho tiempo, no debe de tener 20 años escasos. Pero tampoco creo que Su Liang sea tan joven (?), aunque la verdad no estoy segura, me gusta pesar que Su Liang tiene 18. Creo que ue entre ellos hay una diferencia de edad notable pero no demasiado, como 18 y 27? O algo así.
AHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE CHAPTER
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
I reeaaaaallllyyyyy dislike Ning Jiayi and Lu Zhizhao 😥
I love this novel so much I get so happy when the translator updates! Thank you so much for the translations!
chanting bring the ro-mance bring the ro-mance brING THE ROMANCEEEEE
+1 RRRRAAAHHHH💪🏻🔥
Wanting to use everything to be close to the person in your heart, even illogical, unchangeable things like age… God, Lu Taipan is really cute.
Kkkkk hope dreams come true!