Ye Ci's face was pale when he walked into the restroom of the racetrack.
Cold sweat slid down my spine, wetting my waist, and the cold fabric stuck to my tailbone.
The highly aggressive scene moments ago triggered a pathological reaction in him.
—*Your mother…
—Little B-boy…
Even the rough timbre is very similar.
In late spring in the north, the water from the tap is still bone-chillingly cold.
Ye Ci didn't mind the cold. He scooped up water and splashed it over his face repeatedly until his facial skin became numb and itchy, and turned a bright pink like a spring peach. Only then did he force himself to stop.
"Ugh—" After washing his face, Ye Ci leaned on the edge of the ceramic washbasin and retched a few times.
He hadn't eaten anything that night, so he couldn't vomit anything, but he felt a lot more relaxed. He rinsed his mouth, wiped the water from his lips, and looked up at the mirror behind the sink.
There was no one else in the bathroom. In the mirror, the toilet cubicles behind Ye Ci were quietly open.
Ye Ci was silent for a moment, and suddenly repeated the lines he had said ten minutes ago.
"The three thousand..."
"For medical expenses."
"Then the three thousand will be used for medical expenses..."
Stuttering.
Chu Wenlin thought he was embarrassing, so he sent him to a stuttering correction center for a month, but he still couldn't speak coherently for more than three words, perhaps because his language barrier stemmed from a deeper problem, and those courses didn't touch the core of the problem. Fortunately, he had long been accustomed to this problem since childhood, and in order not to be laughed at, he usually spoke as briefly as possible, as if he was born cold and taciturn.
He almost embarrassed himself in front of that gangster just now, but fortunately he held his breath at the critical moment and covered it up.
Just seven words.
He couldn't even say seven words properly.
Reluctantly, Ye Ci tried to repeat it a few more times, but the more anxious he became, the more he stumbled. The only reward was that his face turned red and the corners of his eyes became moist.
At this time, footsteps were heard outside the bathroom.
Ye Ci pursed his lips slightly, fastened his hood, and said nothing.
The person who came was a tall alpha racer. When he entered the door, he glanced at Ye Ci unintentionally and recognized him as the boy who had just beaten someone up.
Ye Ci's face, which was so red from holding back his breath a moment ago, seamlessly turned into a small coffin lid, and his eyes glanced away indifferently.
The racer looked away, not intending to cause any trouble.
After leaving the racetrack, Ye Ci stood on the side of the road in a daze for a while.
As usual, he adjusted himself, cleared up his weak emotions, then took the money he had just earned to the market to buy some daily necessities and fruits, and rushed to the sanatorium where Ye Hongjun was.
It gets dark early in early spring. At just five o'clock, the street lights in the courtyard have gradually lit up. Half of the sky is still purple and red. The whole lake is filled with rosy clouds supporting the shadows of the lights. Swans are swimming gracefully on the water, and the scenery is pleasant.
Ye Hongjun's VIP ward is on the third floor.
When Ye Ci entered the room, she was sleeping. Her skin was cold and pale, like a smooth skeleton. The lingering and incurable illness had worn her down, as if even her bones had been worn thin and fine. Her face was pitifully narrow and sunk deeply into the soft pillow.
The nurse hired by Chu Wenlin at a high salary took good care of Ye Hongjun. Even though she was unable to take care of herself, she was still clean and decent. Her hospital gown exuded a citrus scent. A frail forearm stuck out from the wide cuffs of the gown, which was covered with pinholes.
Ye Ci stroked Ye Hongjun's forearm with his fingertips, and his nose bridge felt sore and painful.
She is currently receiving an imported injection, which costs more than 20,000 yuan per shot. Although it is difficult to cure the disease, it can prolong her life.
However, dedicated caregivers, nursing homes, life-saving injections...
It's all money.
Ye Ci had an account book, in which he recorded every penny Chu Wenlin spent on Ye Hongjun's treatment, intending to pay it back slowly in the future.
The speed at which the numbers were rising was so fast that Ye Ci gradually went from panic to numbness.
If Chu Wenlin still had a conscience, he should have given unconditional assistance to Ye Hongjun and her son.
He had failed them.
Chu Wenlin is Ye Ci's biological father and the eldest son of the third branch of the Chu family.
When he was young and dissolute, he swore to spend his life with Ye Hongjun, who came from a humble family, and even persuaded Ye Hongjun to give up her studies and elope with him. It was not until Ye Hongjun risked the world's condemnation to have a child before marriage that Chu Wenlin's illusions were gradually crushed by the crying of the baby and the pressure of poverty.
Marriage, equal status, family property... He seemed to be learning these words for the first time and regretted it. He was a rich young man with fine clothes and food, and he could not stand the hardship. He resolutely returned to his ancestral home and kowtowed to accept the punishment, begging his mother to cover up the scandal, and a year later, he followed the family's arrangement to marry a noble lady.
Ye Hongjun cried, made a fuss, begged, gritted her teeth, let go of her pride, and rolled around with the baby Ye Ci in her arms, but in the end, she was powerless to save the situation.
An omega who gave birth before marriage was synonymous with suffering. She raised Ye Ci in the slums. Due to her nature, she refused to learn her lesson no matter how many injuries she suffered, and she always retained the innocence of a girl. She had several boyfriends, both alpha and beta, but none of them lasted long, and they were always torn apart in an ugly way.
When Ye Ci was young, he tried to find his father's shadow among those various faces, but he couldn't find it. He took his mother's surname, so there was no clue in this regard.
As I grew older, my longing for my father faded.
The turning point happened a few months ago.
Old Master Chu, who had been holding on to the power of the Chu family and refused to let go, was hospitalized due to a sudden illness. He was saved, but several descendants of the Chu family received this dangerous signal, and the battle for the family property immediately became fierce.
Chu Wenlin is a mediocre person who is selfish and money-oriented. His eight-year-old son Chu Rui is also naughty and stupid. In addition, Chu Wenlin's mother, Mr. Chu's third wife, was just a dancer when she was young. Not only did she come from a humble background, but there were also rumors of her having an affair after marriage. Therefore, the third branch of the family has never been favored by Mr. Chu and is at an absolute disadvantage in the battle for the inheritance.
Chu Wenlin was not willing to just pick up the garbage that slipped through the teeth of his brothers and sisters. When he was desperate, he remembered his eldest son who was wandering outside and his life and death were unknown. He thought that the child might be valuable and could be exploited, so he investigated the whereabouts of the mother and son and came to their house for the first time.
"Mom... I, I ran a race today." Ye Ci found out a piece of good news and stuttered to tell Ye Hongjun, "I made quite a bit of money, enough... to treat your illness."
In front of his mother, Ye Ci completely took off his disguise.
He became obedient, his eyebrows and eyes were soft, his pupils were light, and he looked like someone who wanted to be teased and caressed.
She and Ye Hongjun are exactly the same.
However, in the slums, the mother and son, who were as soft as lambs, had the only fate of being exploited. Since Ye Hongjun was weak, he had to be strong.
No matter how soft you are, you have to pretend to be aggressive and raise a body of illusory thorns.
Ye Ci stayed in the ward for more than two hours, massaging Ye Hongjun's limbs to slow down muscle atrophy, and swept the floor. Unfortunately, Ye Hongjun was too weak and did not wake up.
He spoke haltingly for more than two hours, picking up pieces of news that were not bad, talking about school, classmates, how cool a motorcycle he saw at the racetrack was, and how beautiful the swans on the artificial lake in the sanatorium were.
He is not really a man of few words, but no one except his mother has the patience to listen to his long-winded stuttering.
Finally, he picked up the wilted sunflowers in the porcelain vase on Ye Hongjun's bedside and threw them into the trash can, replacing them with a sprig of scented lily that he had bought on the way here.
She often missed visits due to drowsiness, so Ye Ci would change the flowers every time he came.
Lilies are fresh and juicy.
She would know he was here.
…
After visiting Ye Hongjun, Ye Ci wandered around the street until eleven o'clock, and only returned to Chu's house after Chu Wenlin went to bed.
It would be good if you could look at that scumbag less.
The longing for father's love had been soaked by the long-term disappointment. After taking a sip, only the bitter taste like Coptis chinensis remained. Ye Ci had not called Chu Wenlin "Dad" for several months, and he would never do so in the future.
Chu Wenlin was quite dissatisfied with Ye Ci's late return, and he had a gloomy face when he woke up early in the morning.
Ye Ci turned a blind eye and went back to his bedroom to study English after breakfast. The gauze curtains were drawn, the door was locked, and the light was dim.
The Chu family mansion has dozens of rooms, as crowded as an ant nest. After Chu Wenlin recognized him, he sank into the deep holes of the Chu mansion like an ant, rarely releasing his presence.
The house was big enough, but the piglet-like screams of Ye Ci's "legitimate" younger brother Chu Rui could still penetrate the walls and reach his head.
A little bit of trivial unhappiness can create such noise.
The servants coaxed and persuaded, and the sound of their footsteps followed the shouts of the real young master, floating here and there in a mess.
Ye Ci pretended not to hear and continued reading the English text with difficulty.
There was no one in the bedroom, but he kept his voice very low, as if he was afraid that his funny words would be heard by the air.
In order to pay for Ye Hongjun's medical treatment, he dropped out of school and worked for a year and a half. His studies were severely neglected, especially his English. He had difficulty speaking, and the most taboo in learning English is not speaking. Before dropping out of school, his English was always a weak subject, and he relied on the other five subjects that had good grades to memorize.
Chu Wenlin gave him the chance to go back to school, and he should have cherished it and not wasted his time racing in a second-rate racing track, but...
There was the sound of a car outside the window.
Ye Ci walked to the window, opened the curtains a little, and peeked out.
From a distance, an unfamiliar car drove into the inner courtyard of the Chu residence and slowly parked.
The vertical waterfall-style grille on the front of the car and the platinum man on the hood are polished to a bright shine, and the body of the car is pure black, deep and precious.
Ye Ci frowned, feeling something was wrong.
The driver opened the back door, and the butler Tong Shu stood by with his hands hanging down. Chu Wenlin laughed loudly and strode towards him, showing the cordial manner of a businessman trying to make connections.
The visitor was distant and only nodded slightly. Chu Wenlin was tactful and quickly put away his excessive smile and greeted the visitor.
Ye Ci knew this person, Huo Tinglan, the patriarch of the Huo family whom Chu Wenlin tried desperately to curry favor with, and he was also an alpha who was 100% compatible with Ye Ci.
This match is so rare that it can be called a physiological destiny.
But Ye Ci only felt his scalp tingling.
He was originally an A-level alpha, but now he has become an omega because he has an extra so-called "secondary differentiation" compared to normal people.
Secondary differentiation is a relatively rare disease, mostly caused by pheromone secretion disorders during puberty. Patients generally start secondary differentiation three to four years after the initial differentiation, and the patient's true glandular gender is based on the results of the secondary differentiation.
Ye Ci never knew he had this problem. Before the second differentiation began, he always thought he was an alpha.
A while ago, he was adopted into the Chu family, and Chu Wenlin took him for a series of tests, including screening for various infectious diseases and glandular tests. The results also showed that he was an alpha... a healthy A-level alpha.
It turns out that just about two weeks ago he had a brief bout of pseudo-omega fever.
The fever only lasted for about an hour, the symptoms were not serious, and he was alone in his bedroom when he had the fever. Even he himself almost didn't realize that it was a false fever, let alone Chu Wenlin.
For Ye Ci, the secondary differentiation into an omega at this juncture is definitely not a good thing.
Chu Wenlin just wanted to add a bloodline to the third branch and have more people share the inheritance. An alpha boy is a more dominant gender when distributing the inheritance, and the only thing better than this is an omega with good looks. For Chu Wenlin, a beautiful omega offspring is a "good commodity" that can be sold at a high price.
Ye Ci is not stupid and can think this through clearly, so he does not plan to let Chu Wenlin know and wants to keep it a secret as long as possible.
However, the problem lies with the private hospital where Ye Ci had his physical examination.
Originally, his gland test had been completed, but for some reason the hospital was crazy and claimed that the previous gland test results were wrong and Ye Ci might not be a true alpha.
Chu Wenlin naturally didn't want to miss any possible opportunity, and took Ye Ci for another check-up. This time, the hospital recommended that they conduct a more accurate but more troublesome genetic test... After this ordeal, Ye Ci's omega identity was completely exposed.
What surprised Ye Ci even more was that before the overjoyed Chu Wenlin could "sell" him to various major families like a commodity in exchange for business resources, the new head of the Huo family took the initiative to propose marriage, and the timing could not have been more accurate.
It is no wonder that the Huo family is well-informed. That private hospital is one of the many businesses operated by the Huo family. Chu Wenlin's series of actions happened right under their noses. Suddenly, an omega with a 100% genetic match with Huo Tinglan appeared in the Chu family. It is hard for the Huo family not to know about it.
…
Ye Ci looked down through the gap in the curtains.
As an A+ level alpha, Huo Tinglan is nearly 1.9 meters tall.
The weather in spring is unpredictable, and the temperature at noon is much higher than that in the morning and evening. The floor tiles were gleaming white under the scorching sun, and it was hot just by looking at them, but Huo Tinglan wore a formal three-piece suit to show his importance to this meeting. The fabric of the suit, which is tens of thousands of yuan long, has a deep luster, and it should look elegant and noble when worn by a person, but his strong and sturdy figure reveals a wild and sexy masculine beast.
The A+ grade Alpha is indeed not much different from the beast in some aspects...
Suddenly, as if triggered by intuition, Huo Tinglan raised his eyelids and looked straight at the window of Ye Ci's bedroom on the second floor.
After a brief look, Ye Ci shrank back in horror, and the fingertips pinching the curtain turned white.
My stomach cramped.
His self-perception is still that of an alpha male.
Close contact with another top alpha... Ye Ci thought about that scene and all the pores in his body exploded with resistance.