Just like this, another half month passed.
The pure and sweet cohabitation life like honey water made Sheng Shaoyou radiant. Although the gene scissors project had not made any progress and there was no news about Shen Wenlang's rectification list, Sheng Shaoyou rarely got angry these days.
On the other hand, Chen Pinming's eavesdropping plan went smoothly. Although there was a false alarm at the beginning when he was caught by the real owner, there were generally no setbacks.
It's a pity that although Hua Yong accompanied Shen Wenlang to participate in many high-level meetings, the content of the meetings did not involve core secrets.
They were mainly some internal discussions at the administrative level and had little to do with scientific research projects.
Chen Pinming was disappointed but also anxious. It had been more than twenty days since Sheng Shaoyou assigned him the task. If this continued, he would probably return empty-handed.
May 24th was the first day of summer that year, and also the day when Chen Pinming had placed the bug in Hua Yong's bag for a month.
It was a sunny day, but it was a disastrous day for Sheng Shaoyou.
In the morning, Hua Yong made Chinese breakfasts such as soybean milk and steamed dumplings, which he didn't like very much but had gotten used to. Before leaving, Sheng Shaoyou hugged him and gave him a long, hot kiss, and then they were careful on the road.
Hua Yong was still panting after the kiss, blushing as she held onto the door and asked him, "What would you like to eat tonight, Mr. Sheng?"
A few days ago, there was a heavy rain in Jianghu. Hua Yong didn't bring an umbrella and got caught in the rain.
He had a low fever when he came back. Sheng Shaoyou coaxed him to take antipyretics, but it didn't get better.
The weak little orchid couldn't control the release of pheromones. These days, the flower fragrance at home was particularly strong. Sheng Shaoyou could smell the refreshing fragrance every day when he returned home.
"Aren't you feeling unwell? Why are you still cooking? I'll have someone pack it up and bring it back for you to eat, okay?"
"No." Lanhua, who was usually so soft, became stubborn when she was sick: "I want to do it."
Sheng Shaoyou had no choice but to nod, thought for a moment and said, "Fish soup, the one you made last week, it's delicious." He paused and said, "But I'll wash the dishes today." Hua Yong smiled immediately and said softly, "Okay." Then he turned and walked into the elevator, waving at Sheng Shaoyou, "See you tonight then."
Sheng Shaoyou happened to receive a phone call, so he didn't answer it, but just nodded slightly at him.
Maybe it shouldn't be like this. If Sheng Shaoyou had known that Hua Yong would never come home again, he would have solemnly held him back and told him "see you in the evening", or simply not let him go out.
But Sheng Shaoyou did not have the ability to predict the future, so he lowered his eyes and stared at the screen of his mobile phone, letting the elevator door slowly close. In his peripheral vision, the little orchid pressed the down button of the elevator, left home, and never came back.
At 11:20 pm, Chen Pinming received a call from his employer. Sheng Shaoyou asked him to find someone to check Hua Yong's whereabouts immediately.
"He hasn't replied to any messages since this afternoon.
I called him at six but his phone was turned off. The call has been unresolved until now and he hasn't come back yet." Sheng Shaoyou's voice was steady, but Chen Pinming had followed him for so many years and could still hear the anxiety in his tone. "He usually gets home at 5:30, and even if he has to work overtime, he will tell you in advance. I just called Shen Wenlang, but his phone was turned off. Chen Pinming, what's going on with HS recently? Did Shen Wenlang commit any crime and get taken down by someone?" Judging from the tone of his voice, if Shen Wenlang was really taken down by someone, Sheng Shaoyou would immediately arrange bail for Hua Yong who was implicated, and help him resign from his job.
However, HS Group is developing well, and its chairman, Shen Wenlang, has a noble character. He was ranked first among the top ten young entrepreneur leaders in Jianghu last year. Naturally, there is no chance that he will be caught for committing crimes.
But listening to Sheng Shaoyou's increasingly anxious speculation, Chen Pinming suddenly had a thought that made him numb all over, and blurted out: "Mr. Sheng, Secretary Hua might have been in trouble."
Sheng Shaoyou's heart was pounding as if it had been scalded by boiling water. He managed to stay calm and asked with a serious face, "What could possibly happen to him?"
Chen Pinming tremblingly told the whole story about the bug that day.
Sheng Shaoyou's phone creaked in his hand, and he gritted his teeth in silence for a while before saying, "Go check."
The two words sounded as cold as chewing ice chips, but they made Chen Pinming break into a sweat. After hanging up the phone, he immediately hired a private detective and called a police officer he was familiar with.
But somehow, Hua Yong, a living person, disappeared out of thin air.
The surveillance camera at the main entrance of HS Group clearly captured him getting off work on time at 5 o'clock, and then getting on an online-hailing car at the entrance. However, the online-hailing car did not follow the regular route, but made many detours along the way, and has not been seen since it went into a small alley without surveillance.
The police found out that the car was a stolen car with a fake license plate. The original owner had reported it to the police a year ago, and the report is still on file.
More than eight million people go missing every year around the world. But Jianghu City has good public security, and Sheng Shaoyou never dreamed that disappearances would have anything to do with him.
At the entrance of the house, there was a package that Hua Yong had bought but had not yet opened. In the kitchen, there were hanging his usual kitchen utensils and aprons. The apartment was full of traces of his past, and the whole house was filled with the faint scent of orchids. When Sheng Shaoyou thought that the young man who was as soft, pure and beautiful as an orchid might never come back, his heart was broken and he felt an unprecedented pain.
He hated Chen Pinming's self-willed decision-making, but Chen Pinming was indeed doing it for the development of the company. Sheng Shaoyou couldn't blame him too much, so he could only deduct his bonus for half a year on the grounds of acting without prior approval.
In order to find Hua Yong, Sheng Shaoyou invested a lot of manpower and resources. He hired ten private detectives alone. Each of them swore to find the person, but in the end, all of them returned empty-handed.
Sheng Shaoyou felt that Hua Yong's disappearance was closely related to Shen Wenlang.
This sinister wolf likes to do things behind people's backs and stab people in the heart. This has been going on for a long time. Besides, Shen Wenlang's behavior is too suspicious.
The day after Hua Yong disappeared, Shen Wenlang's phone was turned on as usual, but he refused to answer any calls from Sheng Shaoyou.
Sheng Shaoyou gritted his teeth and called him again and again, but the other end of the phone was always busy.
Unable to control his overwhelming anger, Sheng Shaoyou couldn't help but punch the desk.
The concentration of the S-class Alpha's oppressive pheromone suddenly became terribly high. The hard rosewood desk cracked, and a long crack appeared on the tabletop.
The top Alpha who lost his beloved Omega gasped and buried his face in his hands, his elbows helplessly supported on the brightly colored and beautifully patterned wooden table in front of him. The valuable old rosewood was cracked in the middle, like the owner's cracked heart.
Sheng Shaoyou's call finally reached the landline in Shen Wenlang's office, and this time someone finally answered the call.
The person who answered the phone was a man with a deep, flat voice.
"Hello, this is Chairman HS's office. I'm Gao Tu, Mr.
Shen's secretary. What can I do for you?"
High way?
Sheng Shaoyou pressed his forehead which was aching due to long-term lack of sleep, and thought hard, and finally remembered that it seemed to be the most capable Beta secretary beside Shen Wenlang.
"Sheng Fang Biology, where is Mr. Shen?"
Gao Tu was stunned. He didn't expect Sheng Shaoyou to call the office landline.
He was deeply impressed by this second-generation who took over early. He knew that he was an S-class Alpha who was arrogant and so proud that he even had to have his secretary take his business cards.
Why would he call in person? And from a landline?
Gao Tu: "Hello, Mr. Sheng. Mr. Shen is meeting a guest and cannot answer the call for the time being."
"When is Shen Wenlang free?" Sheng Shaoyou finally got through on the phone, frowning and saying bluntly:
"Why don't you ask him when he's free?" After thinking for a while, his attitude softened a little, and he said in a compromise: "I can ask him about his time. Tell me when you've found out, and I'll call back anytime."
Gao Tu was a little confused by his changing attitude, but as a secretary, facing Sheng Shaoyou who was also well-known in the biological field, he couldn't ask too much, so he could only agree: "Okay, then I'll ask Mr.
Shen later and write back to you."
Shen Wenlang and Chang Yu were chatting in the reception room. They were old acquaintances. But when it comes to their close relationship, few people know about it, not only in Jianghu City, but also in the whole country.
Gao Tu waited for nearly two hours before Shen Wenlang came out of the conference room. Ever since the fever, Shen Wenlang had deliberately distanced himself from him. Although an old colleague joked during the last dinner party that Gao Tu was the top leader of the secretariat, only Gao Tu himself knew that Shen Wenlang no longer relied on him as much as before.
Everything may have changed slightly since Hua Yong joined the company. In the past, Shen Wenlang always brought Gao Tu to banquets, but since Hua Yong came, Gao Tu would be idle during Shen Wenlang's banquets.
With Hua Yong, Shen Wenlang never brought him to any private events, which made Gao Tu feel bored.
That young and beautiful Omega was the only Omega Gao Tu knew who could get close to Shen Wenlang openly. After getting to know him, Hua Yong was extremely efficient at work. Unlike his soft and gentle personality, he was resolute and decisive in doing things, with the demeanor of a student from a prestigious school. With the blessing of beauty, Hua Yong's talent was not submerged, but rather particularly shining.
Shen Wenlang worked very fast, and Gao Tu spent ten years chasing him before gradually catching up with him.
But Hua Yong was different. Gao Tu observed that although the secretarial team, who judged people by appearance, only assigned Hua Yong some light work, in fact, Hua Yong and Shen Wenlang had very similar working styles and a high degree of tacit understanding.
This was probably what was called destiny, right?
Whenever Gao Tu thought of this, he could only smile bitterly and self-deprecatingly. After all, that was the only Omega that Shen Wenlang could tolerate. It was destiny, and Gao Tu, who had spent all his energy to barely stay, would never be able to learn it no matter how hard he tried.
However, Hua Yong, who was highly valued, had not come to work for more than half a month. Colleagues in the HR department said that it was Mr. Shen who personally asked Secretary Hua for a long vacation. Gao Tu was a little worried about Hua Yong, but when he saw the ambiguous smile on his colleague's face, his heart ached and he immediately understood. If a delicate Omega enters a particularly severe fever period, it is okay to rest for a month or two.
Not everyone is like Gao Tu, who loves to torture himself. Even when he encountered the most severe fever period, he was sweating profusely while taking inhibitors, but he just wanted to get back to work quickly, because only when he went to work could he have the opportunity to see Shen Wenlang.
At around 4pm, Shen Wenlang and Chang Yu came out of the conference room one after the other. Chang Yu patted Shen Wenlang on the shoulder, with a look of sympathy on his face, and said, "May the best be to you."
Shen Wenlang glanced at him and nodded expressionlessly. He turned around and saw Gao Tu standing in the corridor not far from the meeting room, his brows slightly frowned.
Shen Wenlang actually couldn't remember when this Beta started to appear by his side.
Looking back, it was too long ago. When Shen Wenlang was still in school, one day, he turned around and suddenly found that this ordinary Beta had been following him for a long time. At first, he only appeared in Shen Wenlang's sight occasionally, and then he didn't know how to start a conversation.
Shen Wenlang was not a talkative or outgoing person, but this Beta from the same grade but different class was smooth-tempered and not annoying. So Shen Wenlang did not chase him away, but allowed him to follow him.
They got along like this, and so many years passed in the blink of an eye.
When Gao Tu joined the HS secretary team, they had been out of touch for nearly a year.
Suddenly seeing a familiar photo on the wall of outstanding employees in the Human Resources Department, Shen Wenlang got excited for some reason and asked Gao Tu, who originally worked in the Planning Department, to join the secretarial team which was closer to him.
From Shen Wenlang's perspective, this man was too indifferent and dull. Although he worked hard and made progress, he always lacked the spirit of flexibility.
However, Gao Tu's steadiness, stability and inflexibility are exactly the precious things that are most lacking in this materialistic and ever-changing world.
Over the years, this Beta always stood behind Shen Wenlang, not far from him. Whether Shen Wenlang could see him or not, he seemed to always be there, following him not far away, and would never leave.
Although Shen Wenlang never admitted it, the existence of this Beta did make the insecure Shen Wenlang feel extremely reassured.
But this peace of mind began to change a few months ago. After learning that Gao Tu had occasionally taken leave to accompany his Omega partner who was in a fever, Shen Wenlang was irritable for several days. Not only did he never treat this former classmate well again, but he also reduced his private contact with him. When he thought of such a slow-witted and slow-witted man, who had an Omega in a fever lying in his broad arms, and how he clumsily but tried hard to comfort the Omega, Shen Wenlang's disgust for Omega reached an unprecedented peak.
To be fair, when Gao Tu gave the U-Shield to Hua Yong that day, the Omega smell on his body was not unpleasant. But when Shen Wenlang saw Gao Tu's red face and weak steps due to his immersion in lust, he felt inexplicably angry, and the unreasonable accusation came out of his mouth before it even had time to pass through his brain.
Gao Tu's face turned pale in an instant, but he still apologized immediately with a good temper. However, this only made Shen Wenlang, who had scolded him, feel a little more uncomfortable.
After returning to work, Shen Wenlang began to distance himself from Gaotu.
He hated that whenever he saw his face, he would think of him hugging the Omega and then feel uncontrollably irritated.
Shen Wenlang felt a little regretful, regretting that he had unknowingly become too dependent on Gaotu.
He treated this hateful, kind-hearted Beta youth who made his heart ache and feel uncomfortable, and who would rather take leave and leave Shen Wenlang in order to go back and comfort his Omega partner, as his own property.
"What's up?" As soon as he saw Gao Tu, Shen Wenlang frowned and said unhappily, "Don't stand here like a human sign if you have nothing to do. I didn't invite you here to decorate the office. Besides, you're not pretty enough to be a decoration, right, Secretary Gao?"
Gao Tu knew that she was not pretty enough, but her heart still tightened when Shen Wenlang said it so bluntly.
"I'm sorry." But he didn't have the talent for eloquent debate, and he was speechless in front of Shen Wenlang. He could do nothing but apologize.
Shen Wenlang glanced at him, unable to conceal the disgust on his face, which made Gao Tu, who was already self-deprecating enough, even more panicked.
He nervously thought, could it be that he forgot to take the inhibitor pills today, so there was a smell?
That's not right. He had clearly already eaten in the morning, so the next meal should be at noon.
But his pheromones have become more and more unstable recently, and the symptoms of disorder have become more and more obvious. To be on the safe side, Gao Tu carefully took a step back before saying, "Two hours ago, Mr. Sheng Shaoyou of Shengfang Biology called your office landline."
Shen Wenlang watched Gao Tu quietly take a step back, looking as if he wished to be as far away from him as possible. His already unpleasant expression darkened even more, and he asked knowingly, "Why did Sheng Shaoyou call?"
"He didn't say. He just said to let him know when you're free and he'll call you back at your own time."
Shen Wenlang curled his lips sarcastically: "Isn't Sheng Shaoyou always very arrogant? Why is he so anxious when he can't contact Hua Yong for a few days? It seems that he has no future."
"Can't get in touch?" Gao Tu was stunned: "Isn't Secretary Hua on vacation?"
Shen Wenlang glanced at him coldly, and Gao Tu stopped talking awkwardly.
Shen Wenlang is not blind. Of course he knows that Hua Yong has a body that brings disaster to the country and the people. All the Betas and Alphas in the company who have seen him are very interested in this Secretary Hua. But seeing Gao Tu cares so much about Hua Yong, he is still unhappy. He curled his lips and asked, "Yes, do you miss him too when he is not around?"
Gao Tu didn't expect Shen Wenlang to ask this, and he didn't know how to answer so as not to touch the boss's minefield. He was silent for a long time before saying, "There should be a lot of people who miss Secretary Hua."
Damn, what does this mean? Does it mean that you also want to, but you just can't get a number? Shen Wenlang's face darkened even more.
"Boss Shen, Boss Sheng, where is it——" "Let him wait, it's best to make him anxious to death. He asked for 35 billion when we first met, as if all the money in the world was printed by them. That bastard is too crazy, someone should have dealt with him long ago."
Shen Wenlang said coldly: "You are not allowed to call back. If he calls again in the future, please reject them for me. Gao Tu, you are my secretary, not Sheng Shaoyou's mouthpiece, put yourself in your position correctly, and stop looking for trouble for me." With that, the tall and handsome S-level Alpha left the Beta secretary who was inexplicably blamed, gritted his teeth and walked away angrily.