Title: 顶级掠食者 (Alpha Predator)

Author：水千丞 (ShuiQianCheng)

Translator: K (@kin0monogatari)

Protagonists ：沈岱 (Shen Dai -MC), 瞿末予 (Qu Moyu -ML)

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Liang Rui advised Shen Dai not to rush to move out or make any decisions, but to think about what is most important for him right now.

The most important thing was always Qiuqiu. Shen Dai looked at the child and forced himself to cool down his emotional thoughts. The fact that Qu Shen forced him to transfer custody made him experience a huge panic. In order to confront it, the most primitive instinct forced him to think of escape at first thought. But he has no qualifications to lose control. He has no way of retreating or backing away. He can only rely on himself. It’s not that he can’t experience panic. But he has to fight. He just calms down and realises that running away can’t help himself.

He seems to be thrown into one battlefield after another. Some disputes are related to him and some are implicated on him. He has tried to detour, avoid peaks, escape, surrender, and pretend to be dead. He knows his own insignificance and weakness. He never dares to be reckless. But when all the means of self-rescue could not prevent the attack of the sword, the only option left for him was to fight head on.

Shen Dai was sitting in a room with no lights turned on. He was engulfed in silence for an unknown amount of time. Only Qiuqiu’s shallow breathing accompanied him in the room, which seemed to be the only signal he heard from this world. It proved that he had not detached himself from the mundane world.

At this time, there were a few knocks on the door. It was very slight and very cautious.

Shen Dai knew that it was Qu Moyu standing outside the door.

“Ah Dai, I know you haven’t slept.” Qu Moyu’s voice was full of tiredness, “I’m sorry. I just got confused again. I won’t ‘mark’ you unless you want to one day.”

“I can seem to smell your scent. It smells like you, but I feel like your scent is too far away from me.”

“My mother told me that when you wash off the ‘mark’..” Qu Moyu took a deep breath and said hard, “You must have been in so much pain at that time. You must have hated me very much.”

Shen Dai raised his head and looked at a yellow light leaking in from the crack of the door. He saw the figure wandering over it. For a few years back then, he looked forward to meeting Qu Moyu in Xingzhou’s building. Even if he just saw his back figure walking by. At this time, the two of them were separated by only a door. But he didn’t even care even when he was looking at Qu Moyu’s shadow. How could there be such a big difference between them? Back then, he secretly admired Qu Moyu for several years because of a temporary ‘mark’, but now he shuns the things he could not have asked for before.

Qu Moyu leaned back against the door panel and slid to the ground. His messy hair and gloomy eyes made him look very depressed: “I have never been able to face the past. I never really looked back to ‘see’ how much I love you. It was bad of me. Because I don’t want to believe that you really hate me. I would have.. I would have wanted to give you the best life, protect you, take care of you, and make you happy.” He closed his eyes in pain, ” But all your misfortune seems to be caused by me.”

Shen Dai took a deep breath, still unable to resist the pain in his chest. He stretched out his hand and gently held the small fist that belonged to Qiuqiu which was clenched in his sleep. From the warm touch of the skin, he drew in strength.

“I really only knew of Qiuqiu’s pheromone level that very day. I really love you and I definitely don’t want to be with you just for the sake of an S-class heir. Otherwise, why would I lay down my high ego? Why would I make it difficult for you and for both of us? I’m just..” Qu Moyu frowned deeply, feeling heartbroken, “I can’t let go of you. No matter what happens, I can’t let you go.”

If he were to watch Shen Dai withdraw from his life step by step or one day if Shen Dai may become someone else’s wife, becoming someone else’s omega, he can’t do it. He would rather die. Just thinking about it is enough to smash his heart.

Qu Moyu wiped his face and tried to cheer him up: “Don’t go now, okay? Just think of Qiuqiu. I will solve the matter of You Xinghai. Trust in me again.” He didn’t expect to be able to receive Shen Dai’s response, but he knew that Shen Dai must be listening. He stood up. His forehead was against the door panel. Before leaving, he left an infinitely sad “I’m sorry.”

Shen Dai still sat in the dark. He just sat there for a long time.

***

Early the next morning, Shen Dai waited outside the door before going to settle his matters at the bank. He stepped into the bank immediately to get a number to que up. He wanted to withdraw all of his money. He also thought of a solution. But he might not have enough time to execute it. But there is still the possibility of saving his money.

The two bank cards totaled more than 160,000 yuan and he took them all out. The expenses he spent in Lancheng for the year and the money he spent during his grandmother’s illness made his savings become less than the 200,000 yuan from when he set them. This is the emergency reserve fund. But this is the only thing he has left. Once he is prosecuted, his salary card will also be out of his control. This is the only money he can rely on.

After withdrawing the money, he took all the real estate information to do the second thing. He wanted to ‘sell’ his house to Cheng Zimei. As long as the house was not in his name, it could not be used to pay off the debt.

On the way to the tax office, he received a call from Attorney Chen.

Attorney Chen spoke very fast: “Mr. Shen, where are you? Let’s make an appointment. We need you to sign some contracts to prove your debt to a third party. The relationship has been established and we need to hurry up. Seal up your house before You Xinghai got them.”

Shen Dai said: “I’m about to arrive at the tax bureau and I want to sell the house to my friend.”

“This plan is not good enough. First of all, is there any transaction restriction on your house? Many properties have them. If there is a three-year or five-year transaction restriction, can your friend transfer millions of dollars for the sale of the house at once? If you buy and sell at a low price, the intention to transfer the assets is too obvious. If You Xinghai sues you, it is likely for him to win the favour. In the end, even if the above conditions are met, the transfer taxes and fees will be hundreds of thousands and these procedures may not be completed in only one day.”

Shen Dai sighed. He originally just wanted to struggle by himself and he didn’t care about putting too much hope on the house.

Attorney Chen slowed down his speech: “Mr. Shen, You Xinghai doesn’t really care about a multi-million-dollar house and it’s not enough to pay him the interest. But he knows that Mr. Qu cares about you and he will definitely pinch on Mr. Qu’s weakness. In the same way, Mr. Qu didn’t take this house in his eyes. He can give you more. He can give you more expensive and better ones. He did so just because he didn’t want to make you sad, so you can completely trust me. Let’s get this done quickly.”

“Okay.”

The two of them made an appointment at a compromise meeting point. Shen Dai looked at the contract that Attorney Chen pushed over. His face became paler and paler and his palms began to sweat. Most of the contracts he has signed in his life did not end up well. The crisis at this time is due to the various contracts he signed out of desperation. Just a few days ago, he was suppressed by Qu Shen with pheromones and lost custody of his own child. Now that he sees a contract, he is filled with sincere disgust and fear.

Attorney Chen fully knew what Shen Dai was thinking now. He smiled bitterly: “Mr Shen, this contract looks scary, but it is the lowest cost way to protect your property. We will seal it up first. If You Xinghai will deal with you later, it was already seized and we claimed our rights first. So that the house would be absolutely safe.”

Shen Dai really believed that Qu Moyu would not take this house seriously and if he wanted to leave him with nothing but rely on the Qu family, there are many ways to do it without having to use these lowly ways. So he didn’t hesitate for too long. He picked up the pen and signed.

Lawyer Chen breathed a sigh of relief: “Next, you will receive a call from the court. It doesn’t matter what they say, you don’t have to be nervous. Now you can go to the bank to withdraw all the money.”

“It has been withdrawn.”

Attorney Chen smiled: “That’s great. Now Mr. Qu can be relieved.”

Shen Dai paused and asked, “How serious are the contracts I signed at the time?”

“The official seal, accounts and contracts are all in the hands of You Xinghai. Here, as long as he can simply forge your signature, he can push all the large debts on you. We also have some contracts. After all, many transactions were conducted with Xingzhou at that time. In short, we need to collect more evidence to respond to him.” Lawyer Chen said helplessly, “You Xinghai is really not a big problem. He will either dump some of the debt to you, or let Mr. Qu bleed to help him repay the debt. Anyway, he is barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes that are not his.”

Shen Dai slowly clenched his fists: “What can I do?”

“You don’t need to worry about it. Your life will not be affected. If you wish to reserve a hotel, you can let others reserve it for you. If you travel by car, or take Mr. Qu’s plane for long-distance travel, Mr. Qu will definitely take care of you.”

Shen Dai said blankly: “It’s me who will be bankrupt. I can’t ignore it. I will receive a rating in my professional title. Sending papers, books, looking for a job and doing a project, as long as there is a little credit reference, I will be affected. And my child may also be affected in the future. It is not just restricting my life consumption.” He will not just wait to be taken care of by the Qu family. He even doubted whether Qu Moyu would really take this lawsuit seriously. As long as all his assets were frozen, he would not be able to support himself and his child. So he could only depend on him. Isn’t that what Qu Moyu wanted? If he doesn’t believe in Qu Moyu, he can’t sit still.

“Uh..” Attorney Chen said embarrassedly, “But there is really nothing you can do right now. When it comes to the law, leave it to us.”

After Attorney Chen left, Shen Dai held the phone and swiped open his address book. When he turned to You Xinghai’s phone number, his thumb hovered over the dial button. After a few thoughts, he finally made the call.

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Next update: 2022.09.07

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