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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Shen Dai cooked a table of good dishes and chatted with Liu Xi while eating. He deliberately avoids talking about the hardships of the year. Even if Liu Xi asked, it was useless for him to complain to anyone. Why should he let his teacher worry so much about him? He directed the topic to his thesis and asked a lot of questions while the teacher was there with him.

After the meal, Shen Dai woke Qiuqiu up. Liu Xi made a video call to Cheng Zimei and the three people teased the child together. For a while, they seemed to be transported back in the past.

After Liu Xi left, Shen Dai put Qiuqiu on the bed to play by himself and he went to clean up the dishes.

Just as soon as he finished with the cleaning, his doorbell rang. Shen Dai thought that Liu Xi had forgotten something so he washed his hands and went to open the door.

The moment the door opened, both the person inside and outside frozen in their spot.

The heir of the Xingzhou Group, whom he had casually glanced at in the news video, suddenly stood in front of him. He had lost a little weight and he has eyebags under his eyes. The former bright eyes were a little gloomy, but they were still looking so dazzling, extravagant, and straightforward. The corridor of the commercial building cannot be a background that is fitted for such a person. He looked out of place.

Shen Dai looked at this man whom he had done all kinds of intimate things with and he felt extremely strange. He imagined seeing Qu Moyu again but he couldn’t figure out how to face him. So he decided that it’s better not to see him at all.

Qu Moyu also looked at Shen Dai. Shen Dai’s hair has grown a little longer and it hangs loose without trimming. His skin is getting paler and his eyes are gloomy, as if covered with a layer of fog that cannot be dissolved. With a calm bearing, the figure of the lower limbs of the clothing has just the right sense of strength, like a steep green bamboo. But now, Shen Dai’s face looked like he was unwell and Shen Dai’s eyes portrayed tiredness. It was as if he would shatter completely if he was lightly bumped into.

Qu Moyu’s heart was congested with the anger that had never really subsided in the past year. It began clamouring all over his body again. He really wanted to ask Shen Dai why he wanted to live like this without him but he restrained himself. So, his face looked calm as he asked: “Aren’t you going to invite me in?”

Shen Dai felt that his whole chest was shaking with panic, resistance and anxiety. These are all the negative emotions that Qu Moyu had given him before. They were awakened again from the depths of his memory. He thought that one day he would be able to face the bleakest part of his life. But now he is not ready. His hand gripped the doorframe as if it were his wall.

In order to see the teacher today, he had asked Xiao Die to go back to the school tonight. It was only him and Qiuqiu at home. How could he let Qu Moyu come in?

Seeing Shen Dai’s hesitation, Qu Moyu knew that he couldn’t wait for the invitation. He didn’t need it either. So he walked in.

As Qu Moyu approached, the tall and sturdy body fell down on Shen Dai like a mountain. Shen Dai took a few steps back. His door closed in front of him. It was as if his city wall collapsed in front of him.

Qu Moyu looked around: “This is the company’s welfare room. Did Professor Liu arrange for you to live here?”

“No.”

“Whose shoes and stuff are these?” Qu Moyu glanced at the daily necessities that were obviously women’s. Judging from the size of the shoes, they didn’t look like female alphas. Omegas hardly had any relationship with women other than female alphas.

“A nanny.” Shen Dai replied casually. His nerves were tense. Qiuqiu was in the bedroom. It was best if the child had fallen asleep at the moment, “Mr. Qu, what brings you here?”

Hearing this, Qu Moyu turned around, narrowed his eyes slightly, and anger flashed in his eyes. He spent half a year, while dealing with the work that made him devastated, while hesitating in the resentment that Shen Dai dared to leave without saying goodbye, and in the end, he decided to look for Shen Dai. A month ago, he found out the whereabouts of Shen Dai, arranged the company’s affairs properly, and planned out his decision. This time, Lancheng and his party were here for the new project and he was also here for Shen Dai.

“Didn’t you want to be transferred? You’re still on sick leave. So you would just walk away? What’s so good about this place? Why do you have to come here with the good treatment I can give you in the capital?!”

The more Qu Moyu said, the louder he became. Shen Dai took a deep breath, fearing that it would attract Qiuqiu’s attention. He whispered, “Then, can I be transferred?”

“You can’t.”

“I....”

Qu Moyu walked in front of Shen Dai in a few steps. It forced Shen Dai to the wall. He looked down at Shen Dai condescendingly. He then said word by word, “Follow me back.” His tone was that of an uncompromising command.

Shen Dai has not experienced the pressure of an alpha for a long time, especially this alpha who used pheromone suppression on him. The fear is still imprinted in his memory. His head feels too heavy to be lifted up. He can only say in a low voice: “If I can’t be transferred, I’ll resign.”

Qu Moyu supported the wall with one hand, bent down slightly, shrouded Shen Dai in his shadow, and said coldly, “You say that again.”

Shen Dai started to tremble to even breathe.

Seeing Shen Dai’s shrinking appearance, Qu Moyu felt a little distressed. Although his anger remained, he didn’t mean to scare Shen Dai. So he gently stroked his soft hair and softened his voice: “Ah Dai, follow me. Let’s go back together and we’ll talk. I’ve told you that I’ll give you a good life and my words still count now.”

When Shen Dai thinks of himself in the past, he will always get lost in Qu Moyu’s hypocritical tenderness. But now, he only feels that his hair is standing on end. A baby’s cry suddenly came from the house.

Qu Moyu turned his head in astonishment. Shen Dai pinched his thighs and forced himself to calm down. The best way to get rid of fear is to face it.

Qu Moyu glanced at Shen Dai, turned and walked to the bedroom. He pushed open the hidden door and saw a small alpha lying in the crib next to the big bed, staring at the other alpha with his big eyes looking at him curiously. At the same time, he smelled the familiar scent of pheromones in the bedroom. In addition to Shen Dai’s elegant ephemeral fragrance, there was also another alpha’s scent.

This is obviously Shen Dai’s bedroom and there is another alpha pheromone in the room, and even the child on the bed is covered in that smell! Qu Moyu suddenly felt like his heart and lungs had exploded. He glared at Shen Dai fiercely, his bloodshot eyes and wolf-like expression instantly made Shen Dai’s legs go soft.

The soaring jealousy instantly overwhelmed Qu Moyu’s sanity. The emotions that had been suppressed during the year broke out. The dull pain in his chest made him look like a beast that was attacked. He always used counterattacks as defences. He grabbed Shen Dai’s collar and pushed him to the closet door. With a loud bang, Qiuqiu burst into tears.

“Be with someone else so soon? Even having a child with him?” Qu Moyu bared his fangs, wishing he could bite Shen Dai’s neck and let this person who dared to give him pain and humiliation taste the price of betraying him.

Shen Dai was overwhelmed by the pheromone released by Qu Moyu. But he was more worried about Qiuqiu than himself. He held onto Qu Moyu’s iron-like arm and tremblingly begged: “You don’t do this. The child can’t take it.”

Shen Dai couldn’t imagine how much pressure the S-class alpha pheromone would put on a baby.

Qu Moyu turned a deaf ear, held Shen Dai’s neck, and tore off the thin pheromone sticker. He didn’t smell any ‘mark’ on Shen Dai, but he wanted to confirm. The glands, where his teeth marks had been cut after him cleaning off the ‘mark’, were now only ugly white scars.

Shen Dai felt as if someone had uncovered his long-standing wound on the spot. The pain of the flesh had gone, but the torture on the soul never went away. All the memories of pain and humiliation came pouring out so he roared: “Let go of me!”

Facing Shen Dai’s struggle, Qu Moyu used two strong thighs to sandwich Shen Dai’s legs, sniffed hard on Shen Dai’s glands, and finally determined that his omega hadn’t been marked by others. He opened his mouth. His itchy canine teeth rubbed hard on the glands, wanting to bite down hard. His things that were touched by others, he wanted to get them back!

After Shen Dai struggled a few times, he lost his strength. Qu Moyu’s questioning and Qiuqiu’s sharp cry made his brain buzz. He was really worried about Qiuqiu. Qiuqiu didn’t have an alpha father during the pregnancy and growth stages. He lacked this companionship and security so it was easy for him to be stressed. Shen Dai cried and begged: “President Qu, please.”

Qu Moyu glanced at Qiuqiu who was crying with a livid face. He dragged Shen Dai out of the bedroom and slammed the door shut.

Shen Dai tried to break free from Qu Moyu’s control again. He wanted to go to appease Qiuqiu, but Qu Moyu threw him on the sofa, his eyes looked scary.

Shen Dai gritted her teeth and looked back at Qu Moyu. His eyes were bursting with hatred that could not be concealed.

Qu Moyu’s every nerve was pierced by the look of those eyes. It caused him to be stunned. He couldn’t believe that one day Shen Dai would look at him like this. He desperately controlled his irritable emotions and sat down next to Shen Dai. He lowered his head, pondered for a moment, waiting for his reason to gradually return, and his brain began to think.

In the bedroom, Qiuqiu was still crying non-stop. The door had decreased the sound insulation for a bit, but it still grabbed the hearts of the two adults.

Shen Dai really wanted to go see his child, but he didn’t dare to move.

After a long time, Qu Moyu raised his head. His eyes were full of bloodshot eyes and the blue veins on his forehead bulged. It was as if he had endured his emotions to the limit: “I have smelled that pheromone before. It’s Bai Xiangwan’s, right?”

Shen Dai looked at Qu Moyu defensively.

“The child. Is it his?” Qu Moyu’s voice trembled uncontrollably, “Or is it mine?” He didn’t expect that one day he would ask this question with a faint expectation. The child that he didn’t want and shouldn’t want at all, Shen Dai had aborted a year ago, and the doctor had told him with great certainty that if the mark was washed off, the child would not be left, but in terms of time, perhaps, perhaps..

“It’s not yours.” Shen Dai said firmly without hesitation.

Qiuqiu is only his child.

Qu Moyu’s heart hurt as if a piece of it had been gouged out. He looked at Shen Dai sideways, his eyes seemed to be fierce: “You and Bai Xiangwan are both students of Liu Xi. You must have known each other since college. Maybe there was something between you two before. So that’s why you asked to be transferred to Lancheng. When you and I were together, you already wanted to go to him.”

Shen Dai said solemnly, “Mr. Qu, I have done whatever you wanted me to do. What else do you want?”

Qu Moyu intertwined his fingers and slowly tightened his grip. He gave a cruel smile: “What do I want? What do you think? Do I still want an omega that others have played with?”

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Next update: 2022.06.24

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*Translator’s note: I’m mad that QMY still dare to think of SD as ‘his omega’! Fucking delusional! -K