Title: 顶级掠食者 (Alpha Predator)
Author：水千丞 (ShuiQianCheng)
Translator: 月野 見事 (TsukinoMigoto @ kin0monogatari)
Protagonists ：沈岱 (Shen Dai -MC), 瞿末予 (Qu Moyu -ML)
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Today, the laboratory’s network is faulty, and it is rare for Shen Dai to get off work ahead of time. Because he became familiar with Aunt Lan, he occasionally mentioned a few of his favourite dishes, and even ate takeout for several days. Now he wants to taste the good craftsmanship of the chef of the Qu family.
Just as soon as he stepped into the door of Qu’s house, he felt an unusual atmosphere.
Sitting in the living room was a very beautiful lady with an elegant and refined temperament. She was wearing a black dress with a shiny pearl necklace. Her hair was meticulously tucked behind her head. She looks like a stencil-style lady coming out of an oil painting.
Shen Dai guessed at a glance that this was Qu Moyu’s mother.
As soon as he entered the room, everyone looked at him with an indescribably weird look, as if he had accidentally broken into an interracial scene, and he appeared inexplicably.
Although he knew many people here, when this woman appeared as a master, the magnetic field of the whole room revolved around her instead.
“Shen Dai, right?” She smiled lightly.
“Hello.” Shen Dai bowed slightly, “Madam Qu.”
“Come and have a sit.”
Shen Dai rarely sits on the sofa in the living room. The rare cream-colored cowhide can’t help but get easily dirty no matter how he looks at it. The backpack on him has been carried with him since his college years. Although it is strong and easy to use, it is a little dirty. When he sat down, he put the backpack by his feet.
He noticed that Uncle Heng and Aunt Lan had a subtle worry in their expressions.
Madam Qu’s bright eyes swept him up and down, and quickly looked at him for a round: “You are 27? You look very young, like a college student.”
Shen Dai smiled.
“You work in the research institute? Xingzhou’s research institute is very difficult to get into. Is your qualification a master or doctoral?”
“Master. I’ve been studying for my doctorate since the past two years.”
“It’s amazing that an omega can do this. Who else are there in your family?”
“Only my grandma.” In his heart, he had already designated his father, the missing person, as dead.
“Oh.” Mrs. Qu took a sip of tea slowly, “What about your pheromone level?”
“B-class.”
“It’s not high.” Mrs. Qu’s voice was always gentle and soft, “It’s almost impossible to give birth to an S-class alpha.”
“Yes.” Shen Dai is disdainful of omega’s pheromone rating, because omega’s rating is different from alpha’s, and reproductive ability occupies a very large proportion. Instead, physical fitness, intelligence, talent, and genetic diseases are important to every human being. Things that are very important have actually become a non-essential condition. Unfortunately, linking the value of omega to fertility has been a tradition throughout human history. He considers himself to be smarter, healthier, and more diligent than most people. Although the instability of his glands might lead to low fertility, he doesn’t care at all, and he doesn’t agree with this grading method. Naturally, he doesn’t feel inferior about it.
Mrs. Qu looked at Shen Dai’s indifferent appearance and was a little surprised: “Don’t you care?”
“I don’t really care.” Shen Dai thought to himself, my low pheromone level has nothing to do with your Qu family.
Mrs. Qu smiled: “I know that you and Mo Yu are not in a normal marriage relationship, but after all, you two live together now. You young people, looking up and seeing each other often, inevitably have some thoughts, and Mo Yu has always been very…” She used an understatement, “attractive.”
Unsurprisingly, another one came to beat him. Did they think that the S-class alpha was something he could seduce or force? This thief-proof posture made Shen Dai’s sense of humiliation and discomfort almost at its peak. During the three months of marriage with Qu Moyu, he did nothing, but was warned by lawyer Chen, Qu Moyu himself, You Baiyue, Uncle Heng, and Mrs. Qu, respectively, to warn him not to covet him. He is far from a delusional kind of person.
He wasn’t worthy, but he wasn’t delusional either.
Whenever his self-esteem is violated, he can only appease himself, make money, and not feel ashamed about it.
Uncle Heng and Aunt Lan gave Shen Dai a comforting look on the side, Shen Dai nodded incomprehensibly, he looked Mrs. Qu in the eyes and said, “I respect Mr. Qu very much, whether we are in the company or at home. It’s just an employment service relationship. Just this kind of relationship.”
There was some blank sadness in Mrs. Qu’s eyes: “I have no ill intentions, but this is really not a world that ordinary omegas can integrate into.”
At this time, Qu Moyu came back. He was in a hurry as he stepped on the floor tiles. He wouldn’t usually be in such a hurry when he came home, unless there was something wrong at home.
“Mother.” The moment Qu Moyu saw Mrs. Qu, he clearly adjusted his breathing, “Why are you here?”
Mrs. Qu deftly tucked her drooping hair behind her ears: “My son got married, and no one told me. Can’t I come back to see my daughter-in-law?”
Qu Moyu glanced at Shen Dai: “Go back to your room first.”
Shen Dai was about to get up, but was stopped by Mrs. Qu: “It’s okay, let’s just sit and talk.”
Whoever pays is the boss. Of course Shen Dai listened to Qu Moyu. He stood up, bowed, turned around and left.
Mrs. Qu was not annoyed. She just shook her head gently: “I thought you would marry Xiao Yue.”
“Xiao Yue has always liked Chengchen, you know it too.”
“Oh? Did you ever care if he likes him or not?” There was a certain sarcasm in that tone.
This was the last conversation Shen Dai heard before walking down the stairs. He couldn’t help but be surprised. You Baiyue has always liked Qu Chengchen? Although the marking can be an indicator of him liking Qu Chengchen, but Qu Moyu seems to express another meaning. The more secular and literal meaning of ‘like’. And Mrs. Qu’s rhetorical question is also very intriguing.
When Shen Dai returned to his room and closed the door, he felt safe. He is not only unable to integrate into the world of the S-class alpha, even his room seems to be in two dimensions with the entire villa, although he has to open the gap between time and space every night and take a peek at Qu Moyu.
Shen Dai worked until late at night, but was still not sleepy. And the irritability in his heart could not be dissipated because of Mrs. Qu’s appearance. After hesitating for a while, he decided to go for a swim in the heated swimming pool.
He usually doesn’t dare to use the swimming pool, because Uncle Heng expressed his request to avoid being in the same space as Qu Moyu before he moved in, but at this point, Qu Moyu must have fallen asleep.
Shen Dai wrapped a bathrobe around his body and went downstairs, estimating that he would swim at least for two kilometres. If he was tired enough, he would definitely fall asleep easily.
He put the phone on the coffee table, took off the bathrobe and started to warm up, just after doing a set of stretches, the elevator door opened. He was startled and saw that Qu Moyu came out wearing only his swimming trunks.
Qu Moyu was also stunned.
Qu Moyu’s figure is slender and sturdy like a sculpture, his muscles are much thicker than what people can see when he is covered with clothes, and his lines are frugal and appropriate. The important parts are especially protruding in the elastic fabric, and his body is worthy to be called perfect.
Shen Dai’s brain instantly became hot, and he hurriedly picked up his bathrobe to put it on his body, but the solid-colored bathrobe made him unable to find how to wear it for a while.
Qu Moyu couldn’t hold back, and burst out laughing.
Shen Dai’s face was as red as it was cooked, he finally found the direction of the collar, quickly put it on, and tightened the belt with a force that seemed to punish himself for being stupid.
“Are you going to swim in a bathrobe?” Qu Moyu teased, “Towel cloth is very absorbent.”
“Mr. Qu, you can use the pool. I’m going back to my room.”
Qu Moyu tilted his head and looked at him: “Are you afraid of me?”
Shen Dai didn’t dare to look at Qu Moyu: “Uncle Heng said you don’t like to be disturbed.”
“Yeah.” Qu Moyu walked towards the swimming pool, and when he passed by Shen Dai, he smelled the faint fragrance of a short-lived flower again. The fragrance of Epiphyllum is so erratic and hasty when it blooms. Unlike roses or lavender, it can form a complete memory point in the hearts of the world. Everyone can smell the fragrance and know that it belongs to the flowers, and everyone can almost visualise the flowers. The name forms a fixed smell in the mind, but Epiphyllum is too rare and too short-lived, many people can’t tell the difference, but as long as you smell it once, the fragrance will become more and more fragrant in the process from its budding to complete bloom. From elegant to strong, From restraint to debauchery. It seems to be doing everything just to bloom, and that time, all living beings must stop to appreciate it.
With the corner of his eye, he glanced at Shen Dai’s slick neck, which was thin and fair, creating a desire for destruction.
When Shen Dai walked towards the elevator, Qu Moyu stopped him. As soon as Shen Dai turned around, Qu Moyu jumped into the water with a plop. He was stunned in place, neither walking nor staying.
After a long while, Qu Moyu got out of the water. He wiped his wet hair with one hand, lay on the shore, and said, “You can watch now, don’t be nervous.”
“…”
“What my mother said to you, don’t take it to heart.”
“None taken.” Shen Dai said solemnly.
“Go back to sleep.”
Shen Dai turned around and took two steps, but stopped. He put his hand in the pocket of the bathrobe and turned around: “Mr. Qu.”
“Yes?”
“Towards you…” Shen Dai forced himself to look directly at Qu Moyu, “I don’t have any ideas beyond the scope of the contract, you can rest assured.” No need to let anyone embarrass me, whether you intentionally or not, was what he meant.
Qu Moyu stared at Shen Dai, the water ripples reflected into the bottom of his eyes, making his eyes extraordinarily bright and transparent, as if two pupil crystals were enough to see through everything in the world, he smiled lightly: “Okay.”
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Next Update: today
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*Translator’s Note: Madam Qu has her reasons for saying such things to Shen Dai. She will play an important role in later, later chapters and I can’t help but to look up to her. -K
