Chapter 34 – Jin Wuqi’s Past (Part 4)
Novel Title: 长夏醒迟 (Long Summer, Late Awakening)
Author：麦香鸡呢 (McChicken)
Translator: K (@kin0monogatari)
Protagonists: 余炀 (Yu Yang -MC/Gong), 靳吾栖 (Jin Wuqi -ML/Shou)
*Please read at Novels Space.space, the original site of translation. TQ*
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The retribution was slowly being fulfilled. Jin Wuqi’s cousin, because of reckless driving, killed someone, instantly bringing the public’s attention to the Jin family. At the same time, it was revealed that Jin Wuqi’s uncle and the Wei family’s projects were suspected of money laundering and tax evasion. Jin Wuqi timely threw out various pieces of evidence of his uncle’s family’s behind-the-scenes operations, stating that he only found out about their actions now. Their actions not only caused losses to the company but also affected many projects. As long as the police needed, the company would fully cooperate with the investigation.
His grandfather once advised him to leave room for manoeuvre. Jin Wuqi had always respected his grandfather’s wishes, enduring everything. But now, it seemed that indulging such relatives would only lead him to a dead end. So, this time, Jin Wuqi didn’t show any mercy and sent them all to prison.
Next was the Wei family.
How long does it take to destroy a group?
As long as you have enough evidence, anyone can do it. However, the process of gathering evidence was too difficult. But also thrilling.
When the Wei family realised that Jin Wuqi was investigating them, they began to warn him.
For example, a car suddenly crashing into him on the road, strangers following him, and a late-night fire, as well as frequent problems in projects.
Sometimes, when Jin Wuqi sat in his office looking out the window, he would even suspect that there were guns pointing at him from the building across in the dark. It was as if he was standing exposed in an invisible hail of bullets while dodging instinctively.
Jin Wuqi used all his power and connections, working with lawyers and friends in the police department to gather evidence. He slowly uncovered the core of the Wei family’s dark secrets. Eventually, this alarmed the higher-ups. And when they saw the existing evidence, the special task force began to help them.
At the same time, Jin Wuqi has been donating to the Omega Association, openly supporting the equal rights movement and assisting in the legislation for omegas to legally remove their ‘marks’. He established a foundation to provide legal and financial assistance to omegas who wish to undergo removal surgery.
In the midst of this, nearly four years passed. Jin Wuqi only experienced three heats thus far. The shortest lasting half a day and the longest less than a day.
During the first heat after the removal surgery, because the ‘mark’ had not completely faded, Jin Wuqi was in extra pain. The suppressants had no effect. So he soaked himself in ice water for an hour before being taken to isolation. His hands were bound as he struggled in a haze of consciousness.
He also spent the next two heats in the same manner.
But he still felt lucky. Having heats at least proved that his gland was recovering and his pheromones were slowly becoming stronger.
With twelve treatments, a full two years and more, accompanied by the complete removal of the ‘mark’, Jin Wuqi continuously released evidence, continuously consuming the Wei family. With public opinion, the law, and his network of informants, he used every means possible. He watched as the Wei family went from confidently discussing in the media to arguing based on reason, then to being unable to defend themselves, and finally to silent evasion.
He didn’t have much joy or any sentimentality. The downfall of a large corporation would involve countless aspects. Beneath the prosperous surface lay mud. In reality, everyone was the same.
If he could, Jin Wuqi didn’t want them to go to jail. He wanted to make them die in the most painful way possible, including his uncle’s family members.
But he still wanted to go back to his home country. His gland was already scarred. So his hands could no longer be tainted. He didn’t want to stand in front of Yu Yang with a heart full of inferiority. He didn’t want to become the thing he hated the most. Being the evil one.
But he really couldn’t stay there any longer.
Gradually hollowing out the company, transferring core employees to domestic groups and the new company established two years ago, was what Jin Wuqi did in the last moments. He urgently wanted to return to his home country.
After everything was settled, Jin Wuqi returned to his home country first, while Du Yele stayed behind to help him with some remaining trivial matters.
Jin Wuqi knew that Wei Yi had been released from prison and that he had disappeared. But he didn’t want to pursue the matter. He knew that Wei Yi was not aware of what happened that day. With the lesson of losing his glands and three years in prison, Jin Wuqi wanted to let him go.
But who would have thought that Wei Yi was the one who was unwilling to let go? He went from being a prominent alpha to a nameless fugitive, falling from grace. He hated Jin Wuqi to the core.
He wanted to become a ghost in Jin Wuqi’s life, making him never able to rest peacefully.
When Jin Wuqi saw Wei Yi again, his body instinctively resisted and rejected Wei Yi’s pheromones due to the removal surgery. He couldn’t help but feel nauseous, dizzy, and weak every time.
Jin Wuqi was unwilling to entangle himself further with Wei Yi. If Wei Yi’s conditions were acceptable, Jin Wuqi would agree.
He knew that Wei Yi was also controlled by his family at first. He didn’t want to take a life. He just wanted to separate himself from Wei Yi.
However, Wei Yi repeatedly used the permanent ‘mark’ and the inability to conceive as threats, implying that Jin Wuqi deserved to suffer and he would not let Jin Wuqi off.
So, in the end, when Wei Yi asked to discuss the conditions, Jin Wuqi went to see him.
He wanted to give Wei Yi one last chance. If the discussion was successful, they could both walk away unscathed. If it failed, then when Du Yele arrived, they could open fire directly.
But Jin Wuqi didn’t expect that what Wei Yi wanted was his glands.
A gland full of scars, already unable to be ‘marked’ again. Wei Yi still wanted to completely destroy it.
Jin Wuqi knew that it was right not to personally take the gun. The other party was an alpha. The gap between them, whether in physical strength or pheromones, was too vast, ingrained in their nature. It was unknown who would end up holding the gun in the end. So he could only let Du Yele, a beta, execute the plan.
If Yu Yang had not arrived at the scene, the injuries Jin Wuqi suffered would have been much worse than they were now.
But Jin Wuqi still had no regrets. Even if given another chance, he would still go to the meeting alone. Not for anything else. But because he had always been accustomed to solving everything and bearing everything on his own. This matter started over four years ago and he had spent so long uprooting it. He had endured such difficult days. And now there was only Wei Yi left. What reason did he have to involve Yu Yang at the last moment?
He only wanted Yu Yang to listen to his explanation after everything was over. Other than that, he didn’t need Yu Yang to do anything else.
Fate offered him a glimmer of light in the most wrong and undeserving moment, but Jin Wuqi didn’t have the ability to firmly grasp it. However, he always regarded Yu Yang as the hope and dawn that had helped him bear everything. Perhaps, this was the best meaning of this relationship for Jin Wuqi. It was truly enough for him.
In fact, for Jin Wuqi, that summer was also a rarity.
He had never experienced such good times again. And even the dreams associated with it were a luxury for him.
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From this point on, all those things that Yu Yang didn’t know about came to an end.
There is one more thing that Yu Yang may not be very clear about.
That is, Jin Wuqi loves him. He has loved him since four years ago when he was still in high school.
He is the little sun in Jin Wuqi’s life, the only beautiful fantasy in the dark life, the lemon tree that grows with roses in the wilderness, the carbonic acid that boils in the heart that can never be calmed or forgotten.
Yu Yang has always underestimated himself. He never knew that his existence was Jin Wuqi’s redemption.
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*Author’s Note: I tried to keep the word count down, but ended up writing four chapters. Oh well. – McChicken
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Next update: 2024.06.06
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