When Yue Fei woke up again, it was the next day.
The curtains in the room were drawn, but the sunlight still slipped in through the cracks.
He opened his eyes, his mind was still a mess, and it took him a few minutes to be fully awake, but he felt that something was not right.
As if a piece of tree log was pressed on his waist, he lifted the quilt and found that where the tree log was, it was clearly a man's hand.
After Yue Fei realized that he turned his head and saw Gu Wei's handsome face magnified up close at a glance.
What happened? Why was Gu Wei sleeping here?
Finally, the memory of last night slowly returned, Yue Fei looked at the ceiling and blinked, the fever subsided? Is he alive?
Perceiving the movement of the person in his arms, Gu Wei frowned and his arms tightened naturally. Yue Fei noticed, he turned his head and was met with Gu Wei's opened eyes.
"Woke up?"
Maybe he just woke up, Gu Wei's voice was still low and hoarse.
Yue Fei felt as if his face was about to get hot again, so he turned his face to look at the ceiling and nodded stiffly: "You took care of me last night? Fortunately, I don't know why I suddenly got a fever."
Gu Wei: "Don't you know why you were being like that?"
Yue Fei was not understanding the situation yet: "What could be the emergency? I thought I could not see the sun today."
The two were very close, and the voices of unconsciously speaking were slightly lower than usual, as if they were whispering.
Yue Fei felt that Gu Wei's movement of putting his hand on him was a bit too intimate, but Gu Wei's calm and natural appearance made him wonder if he was being too awkward, so he endured it and did not move.
"What do you remember?" Gu Wei asked him.
Yue Fei recalled: "I remember it was very hot, and I felt like I was going to burn until losing my senses, and then you were not in a hurry, and you didn't take me to the doctor."
The last sentence of Yue Fei's tone was extremely light, with unassuming accusations.
Gu Wei raised his eyebrows: "You are not sick, there is no point in seeing a doctor."
"Huh?" Yue Fei turned his head back to look at him, "I was not sick?"
"You are in heat." When he said this, Gu Wei stared at Yue Fei with deep eyes, observing the other's reaction.
Yue Fei's expression went blank for a moment, and after realizing that he had heard it right, he straightened up from the bed.
"In heat?"
His movements were too sudden. Gu Wei's arm was originally resting on his soft stomach, due his sudden movement, the arm slipped...
The air solidified for a moment.
Gu Wei retracted his hand casually and sat up.
"I'm a beta, how could it be possible to be in heat?" Suddenly being told to be in heat, Yue Fei's attention was all on estrus, so after only a pause, he anxiously asked.
Gu Wei got out of the bed from the other side and explained while taking off his clothes: "Beta may also be in heat under certain conditions, but it is called pseudo-estrus academically, and it is temporary."
Seeing that the man was about to change his clothes, Yue Fei turned his head away, but remembering that they both are men, there is nothing to evade. He has everything the other party has, so he turned his head back.
"Other betas too?" Yue Fei asked him.
Gu Wei: "Theoretically, this is the case."
After changing his shirt, Gu Wei rested his hand on his waist, paused, and looked up at Yue Fei, who was staring straight at him.
Yue Fei blinked, seemingly not conscious of his action being uncalled for.
With a chuckle, Gu Wei continued his hand movements.
After finished changing, he looked at the person on the bed and found that the boy had turned his head away for some time.
The fact of having an estrus is a bit superb for Yue Fei. During breakfast, he asked Gu Wei: "Then did I disseminate pheromones yesterday?"
Gu Wei nodded.
"Does my pheromone count as O or A? Or not? What kind of flavor?" Yue Fei was curious.
Remembering Gu Wei's rude attitude of pressing him against the wall yesterday, Yue Fei almost had a hunch in his heart, Gu Wei's expression of wanting to fight him yesterday said it all. He was quite sure that it must be an alpha pheromone, but he could not rule out the reason for Gu Wei's rudeness is because he hates omega pheromones.
Putting down the chopsticks in his hand, Gu Wei leaned back in the chair and locked his eyes: "Have you ever studied the physiology class of beta?"
Yue Fei: "I have but...forget." He didn't know whether he had learned it before.
Gu Wei: "Beta's not fully developed glands will secrete omega pheromones in pseudo estrus. Alpha does not have glands."
Yue Fei did not dare to ask how the alpha pheromone was produced; otherwise, he seemed to have no common sense of ABO.
"Oh." Yue Fei pretended to understand, that means his pheromone is an omega pheromone?
"It must have been hard on you yesterday." He remembered Gu Wei saying that he didn't like omega pheromones.
Gu Wei took the chopsticks in his hand and replied: "Not quite."
After breakfast, Yue Fei received a call from He Yinyin asking them to come over.
When leaving the yard to go to the main hall, Yue Fei noticed that there were two more security guards at the door. He felt a little strange. He remembered that there were no guards here at the door yesterday.
"Why did you arrange people to stand guard suddenly?" Yue Fei asked Gu Wei.
Gu Wei: "There are too many mosquitoes here."
Yue Fei: "?"...
When they arrived at the main hall, Gu Weii and Lin Qi were already making tea with He Yinyin, and Yue Fei was greeted and sat beside He Yinyin.
"Mom, big brother, Brother Lin, morning." Yue Fei greeted very politely.
Gu Wei sat down beside Yue Fei and naturally took the tea cup that Gu Weii handed over and placed it in front of Yue Fei.
Suddenly, Gu Weii sniffed his nose twice: "What's this smell? Xiao Fei, have you sprayed on some perfume?"
Yue Fei lowered his head and smelled himself: "No?"
Gu Weii frowned, thinking about getting up and getting closer to Yue Fei to check again, but Gu Wei stretched out his hand and pushed him back to his seat.
"Go sniff your husband." Gu Wei put his hand on the chair where Yue Fei was sitting, showing extreme possessiveness.
Yue Fei glanced at him, knowing that he was in business mode, and a shy expression appeared on his face.
Upon seeing this, Gu Weii smiled crookedly in Lin Qi's arms: "Third brother, you are too exaggerated. Fending off an omega like myself as if you're fending off an alpha. Am I that scary? Mom, look at him."
With Gu Weii's dissatisfied gaze, Lin Qi stroked his omega's hair with a headache: "Be good, why are you teasing him? Be careful, I will also get jealous."
Gu Weii knew that Lin Qi was not really jealous, but he also sat up straight along with him: "Okay, stop playing. He has always been like this since childhood. No one can take away what our Gu Wei wants."
With that, Gu Weii turned to Yue Fei and winked.
He Yinyin: "Gu Weii, your brother and his partner are still newly wedded. Pay attention to your words and actions. Don't scare Xiao Fei off with your usual silly ideas."
Yue Fei waved his hand awkwardly: "No, no, first brother is very nice, I like first brother very much."
Gu Weii lifted his chin proudly, and narrowed his eyes, a beauty inherited from He Yinyin: "Have you all heard it? Xiao Fei likes me, big brother."
Gu Wei ignored him and put the empty tea cup in front of Gu Weii: "My tea."
Gu Weii poured him a glass: "Drink some, drink some, it's good to put out the heat in your lungs."
They were chatting happily among each other when an energetic voice came from outside the door.
"It's rare that there are so many people."
Yue Fei looked back and saw that the person who came in was Gu Tiansheng who he had met once. He remembered that the relationship between Gu Tiansheng and Gu Wei was not very good, so he subconsciously looked at Gu Wei.
Gu Wei didn't look at the man, just nonchalantly drinking the tea that Gu Weii poured.
He Yinyin also sat still, her smile unchanged: "You're back."
"Dad." Lin Qi got up and gave up his seat, waiting for the servant to get a new chair before taking another seat next to Gu Weii.
Gu Weii poured him a cup of tea: "Dad, I thought you would come back tomorrow."
Yue Fei looked at it, and noticed that it was insightful of him for not taking the initiative to give up his seat, but Gu Wei's attitude made him afraid to be courteous.
Sure enough, Gu Tiansheng's gaze fell on Gu Wei and Yue Fei, his eyes picking: "We haven't met for several weeks, how come you forget to give respect to your elder? Are betas so rude?"
He seemed to have completely forgotten that he still has a beta son.
Yue Fei's body became stiff, and he was about to open his mouth to show his weakness, but Gu Wei held his hand under the table.
Gu Wei: "At least he is way more polite than someone who dared to put an omega in estrus into his married son's room."
As soon as these words came out, the hall was so quiet that it was almost inaudible.
He Yinyin looked at Gu Wei and frowned slightly: "Gu Wei, do you know what you are talking about?"
Gu Wei smiled indifferently: "It's nothing, but I suddenly remembered that Xiao Fei and I haven't had our honeymoon yet. I think next month will be a good time. I just need my father to return to the company to operate it in my absence. After all, my father is the one in power at the Gu Family."
Hearing this, Gu Tiansheng was unabashedly happy, but He Yinyin and Gu Weii changed their expressions.
"It's simple, I will return to the company next week."
Upon seeing this, Gu Weii lowered his head to play with the phone, and after typing two lines, he stuffed the phone into Lin Qi's hand.
"When we get back, hold off on projects that we planned to invest with the Gu Group, let's wait until my brother gets back from his vacation or until he is in power during the shareholder meeting at the end of the year."
He Yinyin: "Honeymoon does not take up too much time. There are still other people in the group. There's no need to make such a hasty decision. Everyone in the company can wait for you until you get back. Your dad finally let go of the company's burdens. Let him have his rest."
Gu Weii's heartbeat was tense when he listened to it. He Yinyin had spent so much energy to make Gu Tiansheng retire. Now with one sentence, Gu Wei had turned everything she did into vain, she couldn't just ignore it.
Gu Tiansheng: "It's only a month, not a big deal."
He Yinyin pursed her lips to look at Gu Wei.
Gu Wei: "I have to trouble you, dad."
A family tea party ended in a bad mood.
Leaving the main hall, Gu Weii caught up with Gu Wei and persuaded him: "Gu Wei, are you really going to let go of the company for a month? Aren't you afraid that dad is going to mess things up, you will have to clean up his mess when that happens."
Gu Wei walked forward: "Some people will never understand their own incompetent unless they are proved wrong. Grandpa, mom, and you are all too dotted on him. All these years, every decision-making business is made by me, right? Have you ever thought that I'm also getting tired? But he only thinks that I'm robbing him of his authority. He never treats me as his son, and I don't need to throw my filial piety on the ground."
Gu Weii slowed down.
"If he throws an unfamiliar alpha into your room when you are in heat, how would you feel?" Gu Wei said mockingly.
Lin Qi, who had been silent, changed his face when he heard the words, and finally couldn't help but speak, with a warning: "Gu Wei."
Gu Wei left the last sentence out: "I'm tired of his despicable tricks, even if he is my father."
When this sentence was spoken, Gu Weii completely gave up on persuading his brother.
Yue Fei followed him from behind, watching the man's expression secretly along the way.
He has never seen Gu Wei look so angry, furious...and sad.
He thought that Gu Wei was always strong and mature.
But it turns out that he also quarrels with his family and can't control his emotions.
...
Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows are flowers and running water. Gu Wei sat on the sofa with his eyes on the resting butterfly, seeming to admire the scenery, as if simply wandering.
Yue Fei sat beside the water fountain inside, looking at Gu Wei quietly.
After coming back, Gu Wei had been sitting still in that same spot without speaking.
Biting his lip, Yue Fei felt that he could not let the man go on like this, so he poured a glass of water and walked to Gu Wei.
"Drink some."
Gu Wei retracted his gaze from the window, looked to Yue Fei, and asked him: "Do you think I was wrong in doing this?"
Yue Fei was stunned for a moment, and shook his head quickly to show his position: "I'm on your side!"
Seeing him almost wanting to swear his loyalty with his hand, Gu Wei suddenly raised the corners of his mouth and chuckled lightly.
Yue Fei: "?"
"Are you scared by me?" Gu Wei picked up the water glass, took a sip, and then continued to ask, "Thinking that I'm pitiful, angry, and going to break anytime?"
Yue Fei slowly widened his eyes, "...an act?"
Gu Wei looked outside the door, and the figure who had just arranged the garden outside had disappeared.
"If one day you are no longer the president of a company, you can join the entertainment industry to become an actor." Yue Fei reacted and gave him the highest praise with thumbs up with both hands.
Gu Wei: "Only in this way will my mother stop trying to persuade me. If my dad does not realize how incompetent he is, he will always feel that I owe him."
Yue Fei was not worried that Gu Wei would fight a losing battle: "I trust your decision."
Seeing the person in front of him standing, the boy didn't doubt his decision at all, as if the boy really believed that he could win as long as he wanted to. Gu Wei felt somewhat touched and stretched out his hand towards Yue Fei: "Come here."
Yue Fei took two steps forward suspiciously: "What are you doing?"
Unprepared, Yue Fei was pulled to sit down on the sofa, with the armrests against his back.
Gu Wei leaned forward and put his left hand on the armrest, trapping Yue Fei: "Don't you want to know what your pheromone tastes like?"
"Huh?" Although he thought their position was a little weird, Yue Fei immediately pricked his ears when he heard what Gu Wei said.
Gu Wei looked at him and gently pinched his ear: "It's pure sweetness."