NOVEL NEXT c44 - Passionate Heat
Fourth District, Base Apartment.
Learning that Gu Junwan would visit her in the evening, a certain Alpha could hardly sit still all afternoon.
The cleaning robot had scrubbed the floor spotless, tea sets and fruit were prepared, she’d taken a bath, and changed into the outfit her girlfriend seemed to prefer.
What else hadn’t she done properly?
Shen Han pondered seriously, her gaze inadvertently falling on the neatly arranged pile of boxes on the coffee table.
Those were the Huangluozhi gifted by the Qubi tribe.
“Gifts from Alphas and Betas should be fine.”
After sorting out this last detail, Shen Han relaxed once more.
She curled up on the sofa playing with her phone, eagerly awaiting her Omega girlfriend’s arrival.
At 9 PM, Gu Junwan arrived at the apartment with Xu Zhao.
She had many tasks today and could only stay for a short while. Considering that Xu Zhao already knew about her relationship with Shen Han, she didn’t leave her assistant outside.
Special Assistant Xu had always been perceptive.
After greeting Shen Han upon entering, she pretended to make a phone call and went to the balcony of her own accord.
After more than three months apart, Shen Han’s body reacted strongly to the faint cold plum fragrance wafting in the air.
Blood in her gland vessels flowed rapidly like a surging river.
Her heart pounded uncontrollably against her chest, making her feel as if it might leap out of her throat at any moment.
The back of her hand, hidden in her sweater sleeve, was covered with blue veins.
Shen Han originally had many things she wanted to tell Gu Junwan, but now she had inexplicably become like this, leaving her thoughts in disarray.
This was their first meeting since their New Year’s kiss.
Gu Junwan was already feeling somewhat shy, and seeing Shen Han’s reaction of trying hard to control herself yet failing to conceal it, she also became flustered and her heart began to race.
Though the weather in late March hadn’t turned warm yet, the Omega’s porcelain-white skin had already flushed an alluring red.
The Alpha sitting beside her was even more dramatic, her forehead on the verge of breaking out in sweat.
Gu Junwan coughed lightly and hurriedly reached for a bag on the other side of the sofa.
“I made this myself, but as the temperature is gradually rising, you might only be able to use it for the next few days.”
With her attention diverted, Shen Han finally felt slightly better.
She curiously took the bag and looked inside, finding a soft, beige scarf.
Realizing this was hand-knitted by the Omega before her, Shen Han felt as if she might float away.
Not minding that she was still sweating, she immediately wrapped the scarf around her neck in several loops.
However, before she could rejoice for too long, Gu Junwan’s unique cold plum scent had enveloped her entire neck and shoulders.
The fragrance that haunted her dreams constantly teased her glands.
The Alpha’s innate possessiveness made her want to release her pheromones into the Omega before her.
Shen Han gripped the edge of her clothes tightly with one hand, her entire face flushed red from holding back.
The intimate contact on New Year’s Eve had made her acutely aware of how soft Gu Junwan’s body was.
If she couldn’t control her desires well, she could easily hurt the other.
Thinking of this, Shen Han dared not move at all, her breathing heavy and her thick eyelashes trembling uncontrollably.
Seeing the fine sweat rolling down the Alpha’s temples, Gu Junwan felt that if she didn’t help, the other might suffocate from the scarf.
So, she gently placed her palm on Shen Han’s cheek.
Her cool fingertips brushed against the Alpha’s burning ear.
A wisp of uncontrolled snow cedar scent suddenly erupted lightly in the small space between them.
“Don’t remove it!” Shen Han quickly grasped the Omega’s delicate hand at her ear.
Then she whimpered to the other, “Junwan, do you have any suppressant patches?”
Only then did Gu Junwan realize what state her Alpha was in.
She felt both embarrassed and somewhat amused.
The other clearly wasn’t in her sensitive period, yet her condition was almost the same.
Feeling more and more snow cedar scent emanating from the gaps in the scarf, she didn’t dare stay in front of the Alpha any longer, lest she trigger more passionate heat.
The room’s ventilation system was adjusted to its strongest setting, and Special Assistant Xu, who had been pretending to make a phone call on the balcony, was called in.
Gu Junwan wasn’t carrying suppressant patches, but her assistant always had these things on hand.
As a Beta, Xu Zhao couldn’t smell any pheromones.
But when she entered the living room and heard the exaggerated intensity of the ventilation system’s operation, she was somewhat stunned.
She had only been on the balcony for 5 minutes, what on earth had happened in here?
Looking at the Alpha sitting on the sofa, she was wearing what looked like an Elizabethan collar for pets around her neck!
Oh, she had misread – it was the scarf the Empress had knitted for her.
After helping Shen Han apply a suppressant patch, Gu Junwan had to leave.
She planned to use this successful Mount Zhixing mission as a benchmark.
To let other regions see the changes in the Mount Zhixing tribes, and then extend favorable policies to more places.
After all, there were still many backward and impoverished areas within the entire Free Federation. She couldn’t have her Alpha go into each tribe’s fire pit, could she?
Seeing that Gu Junwan was leaving after sitting for just a moment, Shen Han felt both reluctant and somewhat frustrated at how she had just been in such an awkward situation.
Those 10 minutes could have been used to say so many things, and they could have hugged and kissed.
But instead, all their meeting time was spent on alleviating her passionate heat!
“Junwan, Special Assistant Xu,” Shen Han urgently pointed at the neatly arranged pile of boxes on the coffee table.
“These are gifts from the Qubi tribe, the finest Huangluozhi. I don’t know what to do with them, please take some.”
After saying this, she very meticulously added, “These are all from Alphas and Betas.”
Without waiting for Gu Junwan and Xu Zhao to respond, Shen Han quickly found two bags, one large and one small, stuffed them full, and thrust them into Xu Zhao’s hands.
After leaving the apartment building,
Gu Junwan and Xu Zhao returned directly to the office.
Special Assistant Xu stared at the large and small bags she had placed on the desk, looking hesitantly at her Empress: “Your Majesty, this…?”
Although Shen Han had said earlier that the small bag was for her, given the other’s status, she naturally still had to seek her Empress’s opinion.
Gu Junwan smiled gently: “It’s alright, you can keep it.”
As she spoke, she curiously took out a box and opened it.
Upon looking, even with Gu Junwan’s composure, she couldn’t help but be stunned.
Inside this randomly opened box was a beautifully shaped, well-preserved Huangluozhi.
The cap was golden yellow, the rarest kind of Huangluozhi.
Gu Junwan vaguely remembered that one of this quality would probably fetch over a million at auction.
This amount of money was certainly nothing to the Empress.
But the question was, how could the Qubi tribe be so generous as to give these gifts to Shen Han?
Could it be that their High Priest really had taken fake medicine this time?
“Open all these boxes and take a look.”
Hearing the Empress’s words, Xu Zhao immediately complied.
Then she began to estimate that the bag Shen Han had given her was worth about 2 million in cash.
And the Empress’s bag was likely worth over 20 million!
This time, even Xu Zhao’s gaze became strange.
She suddenly recalled a sentence Shen Han had mentioned earlier: “These are all from Alphas and Betas.”
It hadn’t seemed like anything at the time, but now, why did it vaguely feel like protesting too much?
The issue Xu Zhao could think of, Gu Junwan naturally wouldn’t miss, but she didn’t say much about it.
She had Xu Zhao tidy up all the opened boxes on the desk, then started working as if nothing had happened.
Until more than half an hour later.
Gu Junwan paused her pen slightly, her golden phoenix eyes looking towards her assistant: “We should still call Instructor Liu.”
Xu Zhao, who was organizing documents, felt her heart suddenly skip a beat.
She thought to herself: Shen Han is in for it!
The very next afternoon, a video was sent to Xu Zhao’s work tablet.
The scene in the video was clean and majestic, with distant snow-capped mountains, a nearby military camp, and an Alpha on the grassland being handed a large cloth bundle by a tribal woman.
A high and far-reaching song began to play, and even through the screen, Xu Zhao could feel her heart stirring.
When the tribal woman’s song started, lyrics subtitles appeared on the screen.
Xu Zhao, in the midst of receiving a soul-cleansing experience, saw the meaning of those subtitles and suddenly jolted.
‘O one I admire, you are like the eagle soaring over the grasslands!
One day you will tear through the sky, while I silently wait on this land, blessing you, proud of you.’
Damn! That Beta woman from the tribe was singing a love song to Shen Han!
Thinking of this, Xu Zhao couldn’t help but secretly observe her Empress’s expression.
Gu Junwan’s expression remained unchanged. After closing the video screen, she only casually asked, “How much money does Shen Han have in her salary card?”
Xu Zhao immediately began calculating: “We don’t know her personal expenses, so let’s not count those. The salary actually paid these past few months, minus the 8,000 deducted for the bar expense last time, should be around 400,000.”
After calculating, Xu Zhao began to feel sorry for that Alpha.
She thought, if her salary was to be deducted again this time, that Alpha would immediately be tens of millions in debt!
Gu Junwan sighed softly: “Forget it, this time the situation is special. We won’t deduct her salary.”
After saying this, the Empress instructed her assistant: “Convert all her gifts into equivalent gold bars, have someone deliver them to that tribe, and also convey a few words from me.”
After a moment’s thought, she added: “Use my personal account for the transaction.”
Xu Zhao immediately began arranging this matter.
She couldn’t help but think secretly that in matters of the heart, her Empress had quite a strong possessive streak.
But then again, that silly Alpha Shen Han had unknowingly accepted such a weighty sentiment from others.
What else could her Empress do?
She could only dig into her own pocket to return this sentiment to the other party in another way.