After Crossing Over, I Marked the Empress

When knocking on the door, Gu Junwan initially felt a trace of inexplicable nervousness.

But upon seeing Shen Han’s adorable appearance, that insignificant bit of unease quickly dissipated.

“I’ve eaten,” she said while changing into the new slippers that the other had just unpacked.

Then, under Shen Han’s expectant gaze, she added: “But I can join you for a little more.”

Shen Han immediately happily rushed to the kitchen.

When she reappeared, the little bear apron was nowhere to be seen.

She held two bowls of noodles, one large and one small, and said in a tone seeking praise: “It’s been a while since I’ve cooked. Try it quickly, see if it suits your taste?”

Gu Junwan, however, stared at the plain noodles and asked: “Did you miss the cafeteria dinner?”

Hearing this, Shen Han was stunned.

“I can go eat at the cafeteria? Special Assistant Xu didn’t tell me.”

Gu Junwan’s eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she silently accepted the small bowl from the other’s hand without saying more.

At the same moment.

Xu Zhao, standing at the entrance of the 52nd floor apartment corridor, suddenly sneezed.

The seemingly ordinary spring noodles had a delicious broth and fresh green onions.

The taste was surprisingly good!

But Omegas generally don’t have large appetites, and Gu Junwan had already eaten dinner before coming, so she put down her chopsticks after eating only half of the small bowl of noodles.

In contrast, Shen Han was already hungry, and inhaling the cold plum fragrance permeating the room, she was further influenced by an atmosphere that could be described as “feast for the eyes.”

She looked at the bowl cradled in the other’s slender jade hands and tentatively said: “I’m not full yet.”

Gu Junwan didn’t react immediately, pondering whether to call Xu Zhao to order some food, when the porcelain bowl in her hand was gently taken by the other.

Shen Han’s fingertips were slightly cool, but as they brushed across Gu Junwan’s hand, they brought a hint of heat.

She consumed the food left by the Omega empress.

The taste buds burst with the elegant and subtle fragrance of cold plum.

The scent of snow cedar gently invaded across the dining table, and Gu Junwan’s ear tips flushed red. She dared not stay any longer.

She originally had many things she wanted to say to Shen Han, and some questions she wanted to ask.

Now it seemed there was no longer any need.

What did the other do before? How did she acquire those skills to kill enemies?

None of these questions mattered anymore.

As long as the other was willing to stay by her side.

That was enough.

Shen Han reluctantly escorted her to the private elevator, watching as she left with her assistant.

Only when the closing elevator doors cut off her view and the scent of cold plum did she turn back to her dormitory.

…

In just three days, Shen Han had roughly familiarized herself with the compound area.

To her surprise, the level of authority on the ID card Gu Junwan had prepared for her exceeded her imagination.

Not only could she freely enter and exit most places.

Even the compound’s only detention center was accessible at will.

When she learned that Ma Haoyu had been kept in the detention center all along, she immediately swiped her card and rushed over.

Ma Haoyu was confined alone in a detention room.

The conditions weren’t bad, just his freedom was restricted.

Seeing Shen Han appear unscathed outside the metal bars, Ma Haoyu sprang up from the alloy bed.

“Boss! How did you come?”

“I heard you were severely injured that night, with all your bones broken. Her Majesty the Empress urgently deployed the Federation’s best medical resources to snatch you back from the King of Hell’s hands!”

“…”

The small special agent spoke with full vigor, questioning non-stop like a machine gun, making Shen Han’s head spin.

She leaned against the metal bars and raised her chin at the person inside: “It wasn’t that dramatic, just seven or eight broken bones, that’s all.”

Ma Haoyu: “???” Are you being sarcastic with me?

As the two were talking across the detention bars.

Xu Zhao knocked and entered the empress’s office, reporting to her about Shen Han’s “prison visit.”

It wasn’t that Xu Zhao was constantly watching Shen Han.

It was because she knew the empress had originally intended, when the time was right, to let her personally go and release that special agent.

Then naturally assign the small special agent to Shen Han’s side.

Unexpectedly, she had gone to the detention room to visit in advance.

Xu Zhao was worried this would disrupt the empress’s original plan, so she had no choice but to report immediately.

Gu Junwan put down her pen, closed the file, thought for a moment, then said to her assistant: “Connect me to the detention room’s camera.”

She wasn’t going to monitor their actions.

She was just curious about how the meeting between those two alphas would look.

Would there be a sense of camaraderie after their life-and-death experience?

Xu Zhao quickly opened the tablet in her hand and placed the screen on the empress’s desk.

At the same time, she also craned her neck curiously to look.

On the screen, Shen Han skillfully took out a pack of cigarettes from her pocket.

She first put one in her mouth, lit it barehanded, casually took a couple of puffs, then passed it to Ma Haoyu across the bars.

The small special agent, abandoning his usual hangdog look, happily accepted Shen Han’s cigarette and directly put it in his mouth to smoke.

Gu Junwan: “…”

Xu Zhao’s eyes widened to saucers, secretly glancing at her empress’s expression, then silently mourned for Shen Han in her heart.

“Do you think it would be inappropriate to connect the audio signal?”

Hearing the empress say this, Xu Zhao immediately understood and pressed the audio signal button.

She calmly replied: “It wouldn’t be.”

On the screen, Ma Haoyu’s voice came through first.

“Boss, why don’t you go and talk to the empress, get me released?”

Shen Han’s expression froze, and she asked back: “I can even make such requests to her?”

Ma Haoyu sneakily elbowed her: “Of course, boss. You don’t need to hide it from me, aren’t you the empress’s consort?”

Hearing this, Shen Han immediately raised an eyebrow and said sternly: “Who told you such nonsense!”

Ma Haoyu looked at the full smile on her face and felt somewhat dazed.

‘No! That smile clearly means you’re very happy, why are you shouting?’

Before he could come to his senses, Shen Han coughed lightly and said: “Don’t spread such things carelessly outside.”

Ma Haoyu nodded like a pecking chicken.

In the empress’s office at the compound.

Gu Junwan: “…”

Xu Zhao: “…”

After chatting idly for a while longer, Shen Han left at an appropriate time.

Before leaving, she tossed the box of cigarettes from her pocket to him: “Here, your favorite ‘Corridor’.”

Ma Haoyu hugged the cigarette box, overjoyed.

In the office.

Xu Zhao softly asked: “Your Majesty, should we go confiscate that pack of cigarettes?”

After all, the detention room was a place to hold people, allowing smoking there was really improper.

Gu Junwan moved her gaze from the screen and shook her head: “No need, Shen Han didn’t leave him any fire.”

Only then did Xu Zhao belatedly realize.

When Shen Han lit the cigarette earlier, she hadn’t used any lighting device, but her movements were so skillful that she had overlooked this point.

This empress’s assistant, who usually rarely showed emotion, once again had an expressive face.

She clapped her hands, her voice tinged with excitement: “This means Shen Han is not only a skilled S-rank alpha, but also an awakened fire element ability user!”

Gu Junwan’s red lips curved into an enchanting arc as she smiled at her assistant: “Mm, don’t spread this information for now.”

…

A few more days passed.

On this day at noon, Shen Han was queuing in the cafeteria to get food.

As she moved forward with the queue, a cool voice with a hint of solemnity suddenly sounded behind her left.

“Shen Han, come with me to the administrative office for a moment.”

Suddenly hearing Xu Zhao’s voice, Shen Han was first startled, but it quickly turned to joy.

She knew this meant Gu Junwan was looking for her.

She stepped out of the line with her empty tray, smiling at the other: “Have you all eaten yet?”

Xu Zhao never chatted idly about anything related to the empress in public places.

She took the tray from Shen Han’s hand and casually passed it to her assistant behind her, continuing to speak: “Let’s go first, urgent matters take priority.”

While they were talking, the entire cafeteria was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

In fact, from the moment Xu Zhao stepped into the cafeteria, waves of people immediately stopped talking.

Special Assistant Xu by the empress’s side was known to everyone in the compound.

So when everyone saw Special Assistant Xu reach out to take Shen Han’s tray, they all felt incredibly shocked.

This state of complete silence continued until Xu Zhao left with the person.

Only then did the cafeteria erupt in a wave of discussion.

“Who was that person just now? She could even make Special Assistant Xu come here personally to fetch her!”

“How would I know? There have been new faces coming to the compound recently.”

“Do you think, Special Assistant Xu coming to find someone, could it be to take her to see Her Majesty the Empress?”

“Hah! How could that be possible! That guess is really far-fetched.”

“…”

About 15 minutes later, Shen Han was brought to Gu Junwan’s office.

Xu Zhao knowingly withdrew, not forgetting to remind the empress of a meeting in half an hour before leaving.

“Sit down and wait for me a moment,” Gu Junwan’s voice drifted out, sounding somewhat tired.

After she spoke, the only sound in the entire office was the “scratch scratch” of a pen moving across paper.

Shen Han didn’t sit down as told.

She walked to the desk, looking at the woman reviewing documents, and noticed that in the few days they hadn’t seen each other, she seemed to have subtly lost weight.

She felt a bit heartache.

Gu Junwan seemed not to notice that the other had come to her front, still working with her head down.

The collar of the empress’s white shirt was slightly open, and from Shen Han’s angle, she could just see a small section of collarbone hidden inside.

That fair and elegant curve was as noble as a swan’s.

Some say the collarbone best embodies a woman’s beauty.

Shen Han felt that Gu Junwan at this moment was truly exquisitely beautiful.

The empress, fully absorbed in the last bit of finishing work, was suddenly enveloped by a wafting scent of snow cedar.

The taut heartstrings of recent days were greatly relaxed at this moment.

She gradually stopped her pen, looked up slightly, and met a gaze full of affection.

The alpha with her tall and straight posture was like the sun breaking through at dawn, warm and passionate!