NOVEL NEXT c27 - An Induced Heat
With the He family’s decisive action, the Guo family’s empire quickly crumbled.
The initiative returned to the Empress’s hands.
After working overtime for nearly a month, Xu Zhao had visibly lost weight.
Now, looking at Gu Junwan’s equally tired face, she asked softly, “Your Majesty, there’s one thing I don’t understand.”
“Since you knew the He family had so much dirt on the Guo family, why didn’t you make a deal with He Zheng from the beginning?”
Gu Junwan leaned back slightly in her chair, smiling as she explained to her assistant.
“If I had approached him from the start, the price we’d have had to pay would have been far more than just a few access permissions.”
“It’s likely that all the poisonous branches we worked so hard to cut off would have secretly grown onto the He family’s tree instead.”
“Only by first demonstrating our strength and determination, then approaching He Zheng, could we achieve this outcome. In fact, the reason he agreed so readily this time is that he was also afraid.”
Xu Zhao blurted out, “What was he afraid of?”
Gu Junwan’s phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, her golden pupils flashing with a hint of cunning: “He feared that if he refused me, the opportunity for cooperation would fall into the hands of the Li family.”
The Li family was also one of the three major conglomerates in the Fourth District of the Federation.
With this hint, Special Assistant Xu immediately understood.
They discussed work for a while longer.
Then the Empress Omega asked casually, “How did you handle the mobile phone matter?”
Xu Zhao mentally calculated the time, knowing that in two days the trainee guard team would return.
It seemed her Empress was already eager to see a certain Alpha.
Though she thought this, she didn’t dare tease out loud.
She took out a brand new phone from her briefcase and respectfully handed it over: “It’s all set up. All information links will be encrypted, and this phone can only communicate with your personal phone.”
Gu Junwan held the phone in her hand, gently stroking its small frame, her affection evident.
Xu Zhao, who had observed all these small signs of excitement from her Empress, was imagining the scene of her handing the phone to that Alpha when Gu Junwan suddenly asked about another matter.
“On the night of the conflict at the Azure Blue Bar, they met that student in a private room, right?”
Hearing the Empress suddenly bring this up, Xu Zhao immediately felt nervous on behalf of a certain Alpha.
Sure enough, Gu Junwan’s next question was: What were they playing in the private room before the incident occurred?
Xu Zhao silently opened her tablet, pulled up the case files, and presented the statements of several service staff to the Empress.
The people appearing on the screen were precisely the Omegas that Ning Xi had selected that night.
There weren’t many statements from these individuals, but the Empress read them very carefully.
After quite a while, Gu Junwan handed the tablet back to her assistant.
“Although that night’s events were counted as part of an investigation, the Omegas did sing many songs for her. We can’t let them work for nothing.”
“Ah?” Xu Zhao’s eyelid twitched under her glasses as she tentatively asked, “Then what do you mean, Your Majesty?”
“Dock their pay.”
Xu Zhao withdrew silently.
It wasn’t until she was in the break room making coffee that she couldn’t help but cover her mouth and laugh.
She never imagined that the Empress, who cared so deeply for the country and its people, could be so petty in certain aspects!
It was now approaching November.
The sun was no longer as intense.
Shen Han, returning from training, was no longer tanned as she had been before.
However, her brow was furrowed, making her complexion appear somewhat dark.
That morning, she had suddenly received a debit notification on her phone.
[Dear Ms. Shen, your account was debited on October 24th at 09:00 for account changes…]
Staring at the several thousand yuan deduction, Shen Han was momentarily confused.
She thought for a long time but couldn’t figure out where she had spent this money.
The only time she had gone out was last month.
And that night, setting aside the special circumstances, she remembered that Ning Xi had treated them.
“Never mind, this card was set up with Special Assistant Xu’s help. I’ll ask her about it later.”
She made her way back to her apartment.
Shen Han first tidied up the house, then freshened herself up.
Sitting on the sofa and turning on the TV, she eagerly anticipated the knock of a certain Omega.
Around 10 PM.
The door was finally knocked.
When Shen Han saw Gu Junwan appearing at her doorstep in a khaki trench coat, she wanted to embrace her and bring her inside immediately.
Perhaps due to a formal meeting in the evening, today the Omega wore a white suit under her trench coat, exuding an elegant, ascetic aura.
Slender high heels accentuated the Empress Omega’s slender and upright figure.
The long-missed cold plum fragrance entered the Alpha’s nose, causing her blood to flow faster.
Though the weather had already turned cool, Shen Han’s palms were slightly damp.
Xu Zhao hadn’t come along, and the two walked side by side to sit on the living room sofa.
Seeing that Shen Han was only wearing a long-sleeved t-shirt, Gu Junwan couldn’t help but raise her hand to touch the back of the other’s hand.
“Aren’t you cold? Why are you wearing so little?”
As soon as she finished speaking, her hand touched a warm, smooth skin.
The crisp scent of snow cedar seemed to have taken on a layer of warmth, comforting the Omega’s cool fingertips.
“Well, I’ve been training all this time and haven’t had a chance to go shopping for autumn and winter clothes. I don’t really feel cold, but why are your hands so cool?”
Saying this, Shen Han wiped her palm on her clothes, then gently held the Omega’s delicate hand before her.
The sudden warmth enveloping her made Gu Junwan’s heart beat a little faster.
The reassuring snow cedar scent wafted over like swirling mist, teasing the Omega’s pheromones.
Gu Junwan’s heat was expected in these couple of days, and now with the Alpha’s touch, her exposed porcelain skin quickly flushed red.
“Oh, right, I brought you a phone.”
Gu Junwan knew it wasn’t appropriate to have too much skin contact with the other at this moment.
She discreetly withdrew her hand, actively escaping that warm cedar scent.
But as the warmth on the back of her hand gradually dissipated, the Omega felt a sudden emptiness in her heart.
Shen Han didn’t notice these subtle changes in the other.
Hearing that Gu Junwan had specially brought her a phone, she immediately asked happily, “Does this mean I can text and call you from now on?”
The warm breath came close.
Gu Junwan clearly felt the changes in her body.
She didn’t know if it was because the two had been separated for a month or if the Alpha’s pheromones were too stimulating for her.
She felt that her heat might have been induced early by the other.
She couldn’t stay here long.
“Yes, the phone has been encrypted. You can contact me anytime, but there’s one thing – this phone can’t reach anyone else, and no one else can call your phone.”
“I- I have to go!”
By the time she said the last sentence, Gu Junwan’s breath had already become unstable.
Shen Han now noticed something was off with the Omega.
She stared at the other’s slightly reddened eyes and asked nervously, “Junwan, what’s wrong?”
Gu Junwan bit her lip, shook her head slightly, then tried to stand up using the sofa cushion for support.
Shen Han saw that her whole body seemed to be going weak and quickly stood up to support her.
The rich plum fragrance dispersed slightly, and the Alpha’s breathing suddenly became heavier.
Canine teeth peeked out, her tongue tasting a hint of cold plum.
“Is your heat starting?!”
Shen Han had intended to ask this calmly, but unexpectedly, when she spoke, her voice carried an excitement that even she could hear.
Gu Junwan was being supported face-to-face, and the surge of attachment and desire in her heart made her want to hug the Alpha before her.
She wanted to draw warmth and comfort from the other.
Seeing no response, Shen Han became very anxious.
She was also desperately suppressing herself, not daring to let her pheromones disperse too much, lest it make the Omega in heat before her even more uncomfortable.
“How about, like the first time in the cave?”
Hearing the Alpha’s very serious inquiry, Gu Junwan shook her head, pulled the other’s hand, and used the support to sit back down on the sofa.
“Xu Zhao is outside the door. She has suppressants.”
She no longer dared to lick the other’s glands as she had the first time.
Last time, her heart had been filled with determination.
But now it was different.
The hand that Shen Han was holding had veins pulsing on its back.
She knew the other wanted her to go to the door and call Xu Zhao.
But she didn’t want to break the Omega’s initiative of seeking comfort from her.
Gritting her teeth, she immediately bent down, and under Gu Junwan’s slightly surprised gaze, picked her up on her back.
Then she ran to the door to call Xu Zhao.
At that moment, Xu Zhao was standing at the end of the hallway talking on the phone.
Suddenly seeing the two in such a state, her first reaction was to think her Empress had fainted!
After all, in the past month, she herself had been so tired she could barely cope.
Let alone the Empress Omega, who had been even busier and more mentally taxed than herself.
She quickly ran towards the two, not having time to ask questions.
Shen Han urgently said, “Quick, quick, quickly go inside and give her a suppressor injection!”
Xu Zhao was immediately stunned.
She looked at her Empress, who had buried her head in the Alpha’s neck, then turned her gaze to Shen Han, who had run out barefoot, and curiously asked, “Then why did you carry Her Majesty out here?”
Shen Han didn’t know how to respond, so she simply carried the person back into the room.
Xu Zhao efficiently took out the suppressor and syringe from her bag, saying as she drew the medication, “Don’t move around. Let Her Majesty lie on the sofa, I’ll give her the injection.”
“Lying on the sofa would be uncomfortable.” Shen Han said, gently putting down the soft Omega, then lightly hugging her, letting her rest on her shoulder.
Seeing the two suddenly in a face-to-face embrace, Xu Zhao’s eyelid twitched: “Hey! Don’t take advantage of Her Majesty!”
Although she knew about the relationship between the two.
Seeing that Alpha carrying the Empress in heat around with her own eyes was still quite shocking.
Shen Han lowered her gaze guiltily, not looking at the assistant who was glaring and scolding her.
She rubbed the Omega’s back soothingly, mumbling, “Hey! Stop talking about other things, she’s very uncomfortable right now.”
Xu Zhao: “…” Who caused this in the first place?
Gu Junwan, quietly held in the Alpha’s arms, feeling the other’s heart about to burst out of her chest, secretly curled her lips and silently laughed into the other’s neck.