Chapter 17

If it wasn’t for the fact that their estrus needed to be adjusted, there was no need for the traffickers to keep them until they were in their twenties to sell them.

And even though those traffickers were now in jail, the things they did continued to affect those omegas.

It affected their livelihood and their entire lives.

“How can there be alpha willing to help us all with temporary markings on a regular basis? They’ll probably leave in the end and then we’ll have to find a new alpha, which is too troublesome.” Yu Yi curled his lips. “But a permanent mark will take care of it once and for all!”

Shao Mingyu never told Yu Lan about this matter.

However, Yu Lan did not doubt Mr Shao’s intention, because permanent marking was a very important thing. Mr Shao could help him with temporary marking, but not with permanent marking.

For Yu Lan himself, he would probably rather use inhibitors than find a random alpha and forge such a deep relationship with each other in order to solve the problems left to him by the human traffickers.

Yu Yi took one look at his expression and knew what he was thinking, speechlessly saying, “You have already encountered this kind of thing and you still have room to think about all that nonsense? Ah-”

He thought of something and enviously said, “Because you are better off now, right? Speaking about it, is the person who’s giving you temporary marks that “good person”? Since he is a good person, why don’t you just beg him to permanently mark you, and he is very rich, right? It’s not a bad idea to be his omega.”

“Don’t just simply do such things that will affect you for the rest of your life.” Yu Lan only said this.

“I’m not afraid, I just want to quickly get rid of this problem.” Yu Yi paused and said, “Or you introduce that alpha of yours to me. I’m willing to let him mark me.”

Yu Lan froze.

Yu Yi looked at him and said, “You said that the one who took you in was a good person. Since it is to let a good person mark me, there is nothing for you to dissuade me on. If you’re my friend, then help me a little? If he does not like me, I can also try to seduce him.”

When the words landed, Yu Lan’s face instantly became stiff.

He just wanted to advise Yu Yi to act cautiously but did not expect the other party would suddenly say such things.

He clenched his fist and stared at Yu Yi for a moment before slowly saying, “Yu Yi, you know, we are not considered friends.”

Yu Yi became stiff.

In fact, this was the first time the two of them have said so much to each other.

When they were still in the cages, the young man in front of him, who seemed to be eloquent, was just shrinking in the corner, playing with the stone in his hand without expression, spending his own time numbly.

They were not friends, they were just both victims.

Between the two of them, there was no friendship.

It suddenly became very quiet between the two of them.

A few seconds later, Yu Yi smiled reluctantly, “Ha, what is this. It seems that after all the talk, you like the guy who took you in. I thought the relationship between you and him was pure.”

Yu Lan also stared.

The corners of Yu Yi’s mouth turned down and he coldly said, “Say it earlier. If you don’t, no one will know!”

With that, he turned and left.

Yu Lan came back to his senses and wanted to go after him to say something, but he took one step and his feet couldn’t go any further.

Did he say something wrong?

He and Yu Yi were not considered friends, and even when he met with Yu Yi just now, the enthusiastic young man almost made him think he had mistaken him for someone else.

Simply as a victim of the same incident, he wanted to advise Yu Yi.

The could finally return to a normal life. They shouldn’t just simply choose the wrong path by themselves because they cannot be rescued every time they get into trouble.

But he didn’t think Yu would want to get to know Mr Shao.

At that moment, Yu Lan had to admit that disbelief, wariness… and even anger all at once came to his mind, so he could not help but say those words.

But it was the truth.

But perhaps it could have been said without being so offensive.

Yu Lan just felt that he was overwhelmed by jealousy at that moment.

He was a little annoyed and hesitant to go after him, then Wen Zicheng called him inside so he could change his clothes.

Yu Lan looked at the flurry of people, took a deep breath, grabbed his hair and walked into the store.

And Yu Yi walked out along the street with a green face. When he passed a black car, the window suddenly dropped, a smell of smoke overflowed, and someone inside stopped him. “Wait.”

A faint alpha pheromone floated up to his nose. Yu Yi stopped in his tracks and turned to look.

Only to see a man who, although looked a little bad, did not hide his handsomeness sitting inside, looking at him with raised eyebrows.

Yu Yi swivelled around on the spot.

It was a luxury car brand.

The clothes on the man’s body should be expensive even though he couldn’t make out the brand.

He also wore a luxury brand ring on his hand.

From his demeanour, he looked very much like a pampered young master.

Yu Yi’s bad mood was swept away as he tried to release a little bit of omega pheromone, and with a bewildered expression on his face, he pointed to himself. “Are you calling me?”

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Because of the matter with Yu Yi, Yu Lan’s mood afterwards wasn’t good either.

He didn’t know if he should apologize to Yu Yi or not.

His tone was a bit aggressive after all. Yu Yi really did not know his feelings for Mr Shao, otherwise, he wouldn’t have said that. But vaguely, Yu Lan felt that now Yu Yi had left the cage… he seemed to be full of aggression.

Thinking back carefully, he always felt as if Yu Yi had been testing him from the very beginning, but Yu Lan was not sure if his feelings were right. In short, he could not let go of his guard against Yu Yi and even felt it was best to keep that sentence so that Yu Yi could distance himself from Mr Shao’s life… maybe that would be for the best.

So he was entangled until he got home from work. When he got back, he found… a fruit bowl on the living room coffee table, piled high with the kind of grape-flavoured candies sold at the amusement park last night!

…Mr Shao must have bought it!

Yu Lan’s heart became super sweet all of a sudden. He sat down on the sofa, unwrapped a candy, stuffed it into his mouth and happily swayed from side to side.

A chuckle came from behind him. “Little kid.”

Yu Lan was startled and looked back to see the man walking down the stairs with his coffee cup.

“Mr Shao!” Yu Lan’s eyes lit up.

Shao Mingyu said, “Would you like some snacks?”

Yu Lan shook his head and meekly said, “I just had a candy.”

Shao Mingyu’s eyes showed a smile and he walked into the kitchen with a smile.

Yu Lan turned around, kneeled on the sofa and looked at his hair in a daze.

When Shao Mingyou walked out again and seeing Yu Lan in this state, he stopped in his steps and asked, “What’s wrong? Did something happen today?”

Yu Lan did not know what he thought, became silent for a few seconds and said, “Mr Shao, if an omega asks you to mark him permanently, would you be willing to do so?”

Yu Lan became nervous after asking this.

He never knew how Mr Shao felt about the matter of permanent marking. It’s just that Mr Shao did not seem like someone who would easily mark an omega.

But an alpha could mark many omegas, unlike omegas, who could only enter into such relationships with one alpha.

So if an omega requests Mr Shao, or even… tempts him, Mr Shao… what would he do?

Shao Mingyu narrowed his eyes slightly.

He slowly walked over and faced Yu Lan, propped one hand on the back of the sofa chair, and asked, “Are you talking about yourself?”

Yu Lan’s heart skipped a beat, his face flushed red and shook his head, immediately saying, “I-It’s… my friend!”

Shao Mingyu teasingly said, “When people say it’s about their “friend”, they often mean themselves.”

“It’s not-” Yu Lan was about to explain when the man interrupted him.

The man lightly ruffled his hair and smile and said, “I don’t know your friend and they have nothing to do with me. If it’s you- you can try.”

Yu Lan was stunned.

You can try?“Mr Shao, if an omega asked you to permanently mark him, would you be willing to do so?”

“If it’s you- you can try.”

The author has something to say:

Yu Lan: I have a friend…

Shao Mingyu (tenderly): Mhm, I know.

Yu Lan: … No, you don’t!