Chapter 33: The Exposed Secret

“Chairman Chen, is this about your family?”

At the round table, someone picked up their phone, glanced at it, and looked at Chen Qiming inside with surprise.

Chen Qiming and Zhu Wanqing’s smiles vanished the moment they saw the news.

After Lu Shi was brought back, they hadn’t had time to run a new pheromone level test on him, nor had they asked much about his past situation.

Chen Qiming frowned and said in a low voice, “These media outlets love to talk nonsense. This is obviously not credible. Even if Xiao Shi’s level isn’t high, there’s no way it’s F-rank.”

He and Zhu Wanqing were one B-rank and one A-rank. How could they have an F-rank child?

And if Lu Shi really was F-rank, a defective Omega… the Shen family would certainly look down on him. The path to building a connection with the Shen family through him would be blocked.

This news was clearly pushed across the entire network. The Shen family would definitely see it too.

The more Chen Qiming thought, the graver his expression became.

Others clicked on the news and started whispering among themselves, occasionally glancing at Chen Qiming and Zhu Wanqing.

Zhu Wanqing’s face couldn’t hold up. Under the table, her hands clenched tightly.

“It’s just a rumor. When we have time, we’ll take Xiao Shi to the hospital for a test and get a certificate, won’t that solve it?”

Zhu Wanqing forced a stiff smile on her lips, breaking the silence.

These words reminded Chen Qiming. He looked toward the door: “Where is he? How can pushing a cake be so slow?”

He was about to send someone to urge him.

Chen Youxuan’s brows suddenly lifted, the corners of his mouth uncontrollably twitching upward as he concealed the glee and scheming in his eyes. “Maybe the cake is big, so Brother has to be careful, pushing it slower. Let’s wait a bit longer.”

Wait a bit longer. In that lounge was a gift he had carefully prepared. Lu Shi had to unwrap it properly before they went to find him.

In the darkness.

Lu Shi finished reading the full report.

It clearly stated his birth date, gender, pheromone scent, and pheromone level, even attached a photo from his school days in Ning County.

His limbs felt frozen. He stood there, unmoving for a long time.

AO pheromone levels are personal privacy. Although many high-level AOs flaunt their levels like medals to show off their social status.

Conversely, the lower the level, the less they want others to know.

Defective Omegas are different from regular Omegas. Because they can’t control their pheromones well, they are easily affected by others’ pheromones, lose reason, and have difficulty conceiving. Once their personal information is exposed, they are likely to be targeted by criminals, becoming playthings for others to vent their desires.

To protect defective Omegas, all AO identification cards have encrypted pheromone levels. Only internal personnel of hospitals and the Pheromone Administration Bureau have the authority to check them.

The lounge door stood before him, but Lu Shi no longer wanted to go out.

Who leaked his information, who schemed against him, he probably guessed.

Chen Qiming and Zhu Wanqing would be very disappointed knowing this, because the boat to the Gather Trade Company was gone. But so what? Lu Shi didn’t plan to satisfy them in this life anyway.

Thinking they could crush him and embarrass him like this was far too naive.

Having his clothes stripped off and hung online for everyone to discuss and mock, the old Lu Shi might have felt hurt, his pride wounded, swallowing his shattered teeth.

But now Lu Shi simply accepted it calmly, then his mind began racing wildly, plotting how to settle the score after he got out.

However, there was one thing Lu Shi couldn’t figure out.

If it was just to expose his real level, wouldn’t it have been better to let him stay in the banquet hall and endure the scornful, amused gazes during the exposure? Why go through all the trouble of having him draw the lot and lock him in this lounge?

Lu Shi remembered the moment he unfolded the paper slip. When Chen Youxuan saw the circle drawn on it, there was no jealousy or surprise on his face. Instead, he congratulated him.

A string in his mind suddenly tightened.

Lu Shi turned around and looked at the lounge, dark as an abyssal maw.

The air was thick with cake and cream, cloyingly sweet.

From behind the distant sofa came a faint rustling sound.

A hint of danger, mixed with the sweetness of cream, silently descended.

Lu Shi instantly realized that someone else was in the lounge.

But before he could react, the Alpha pheromone hidden in the cake scent suddenly exploded, like a giant hand pressing down from the air, heavily squeezing every inch of air.

A dark figure staggered up from behind the sofa, panting heavily, radiating an overwhelming sense of oppression and restlessness.

Lu Shi held his breath in time, but his legs still went weak uncontrollably.

The other party’s level wasn’t very high, but it was enough to suppress him, immobilizing him.

Lu Shi covered his stinging nape, his face dark as gloom.

There was actually an Alpha in heat in here.

He was locked in with an Alpha who had lost his mind during his heat.

The Alpha, wearing a restaurant server uniform, followed the scent and approached the door.

His restless pheromones surged like waves. After a brief suppression, confirming that the other wasn’t an intruder competing for territory, he began to grab hold of Lu Shi with extreme possessiveness, like vines growing from the ground, entangling him in place, not letting him escape.

“Bang!”

Lu Shi, weak and limp, was slammed into the wall. His shoulder let out a crisp crack under the impact.

Lu Shi winced, frowning deeply.

An Alpha in heat was strong. This blow made his phone fly out of his hand and nearly dislocated his internal organs. There would definitely be bruises on his shoulder.

But the sharp pain also cleared Lu Shi’s mind, breaking free from the shackles of pheromones.

The Alpha grabbed his shoulder hard, baring his fangs, attempting to mark him.

Lu Shi gritted his teeth and kicked him away.

But the other was too excited, as if pumped with some stimulant. He only stepped back two paces, didn’t pause, and reached for Lu Shi’s neck again.

Lu Shi reversed his grip, twisted the opponent’s wrist with force, then pulled back and punched him straight in the face.

“Shen Zheming, where are you going? Your heat isn’t fully over yet!”

Shen Luo, who was coming home for dinner, saw Shen Zheming grabbing his car keys before she even entered the door.

She grabbed Shen Zheming and shouted, “Driving during your heat? Are you crazy?!”

Shen Zheming tossed her the keys and said coldly, “Then you drive.”

It was only then that Shen Luo noticed Shen Zheming was acting very strange.

On the way back, Shen Luo had also received the news push about Lu Shi’s pheromone level. She read it over and over, incredulous, swearing she didn’t leak it.

Shen Zheming, who had been idle at home during his heat, must have seen the news immediately. Instinct told Shen Luo he was going to find Lu Shi.

Shen Zheming opened navigation and held his phone up to Shen Luo.

On the screen was the address of Bihai Chenwan.

Although Lu Shi didn’t reply to every message instantly, he had been chatting happily just now, even joking with him, but now he wasn’t responding at all.

Shen Zheming’s face was cold and indifferent, his whole demeanor chilling. Beneath his calm exterior was a fierce, icy pheromone that could go berserk at any moment.

Shen Zheming: “Go to this place.”

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