Pheromone Deficiency Syndrome chapter 41
Extraction Solution
Gu Jinyi spent a few days sorting out his own affairs.
He submitted his resignation letter to the studio and informed the current kindergarten where Chu Xiaonian was. This kindergarten was under the control of the Xie family. He didn’t specifically apply for a leave of absence; he just said he wanted to take Chu Xiaonian away for a while.
Several teachers at the kindergarten liked Chu Xiaonian very much. They reluctantly hugged Chu Xiaonian for a while and asked Gu Jinyi, “Are you going on vacation with Nian Nian, or is it a job transfer?”
These teachers were all young and attentive, and Gu Jinyi had always had a good relationship with them.
He smiled and said, “I want to take a break for a while.”
“When will you come back then?”
Gu Jinyi still smiled, “I don’t know either.”
After spending some time at the nursery, letting Chu Xiaonian say goodbye to his friends, Gu Jinyi left with him.
Chu Xiaonian and his good friends all cried with teary eyes, their fair faces turning red, their eyes filled with tears.
Gu Jinyi hugged him, feeling heartbroken.
In the face of adults’ decisions, children are always powerless. His love-hate relationship with Xie Huaizhou shouldn’t affect Chu Xiaonian, but he had to take Chu Xiaonian away.
He wiped Chu Xiaonian’s tears and said softly, “I’m sorry, Daddy wasn’t good.”
But Chu Xiaonian shook his head. He heard Daddy say yesterday that they were leaving Uncle Xie’s house to live on another planet.
He sniffled, his red eyes open, and asked Gu Jinyi with a bit of excitement, “Daddy, are we going to find Mommy?”
This sentence caught Gu Jinyi off guard.
When they first came to Baidi Star, Chu Xiaonian often cried because he missed Chu Miyun, but later, maybe seeing that he was at a loss about this issue, Chu Xiaonian slowly stopped asking.
But now, upon hearing that they were moving, his eyes lit up. Although there was much reluctance, his expression was full of anticipation.
This anticipation almost overwhelmed Gu Jinyi.
He couldn’t face the excitement in Chu Xiaonian’s eyes because he couldn’t give Chu Miyun back to him.
He lied to him that Mommy went far away, just like when he was a child, his mother lied to him that his father had passed away. This was just an unavoidable lie for adults.
He hugged Chu Xiaonian, letting him lean on his shoulder, not letting the child see the tears in his eyes.
If he could, he would rather exchange with Chu Miyun, let himself rest in peace, and let Chu Miyun live.
She still had a great life ahead of her, and such a lovely son, with ideals and careers she was fighting for.
And he was just a dried bone rescued from the brink of death by Chu Miyun, having nothing, and being insignificant.
But unfortunately, it was Chu Miyun who left, leaving him behind.
“Mommy can’t come back for now,” he looked out the window, his voice choked with emotion, “She still has many things to deal with. When you grow up a little more, I’ll tell you where Mommy went.”
Chu Xiaonian’s face, lying on Gu Jinyi’s shoulder, suddenly collapsed, and the tears that were still in his eyes burst out.
“Then where are we going?” Chu Xiaonian’s voice was very low, his mouth pouting, finally showing a look of grievance.
He had many familiar people on Baidi Star, and also many friends that he was reluctant to leave.
He had hoped that maybe he would get to his Mom.
But now this hope was shattered all of a sudden. He pouted, tears hanging on his eyelashes, and soon wetted Gu Jinyi’s shoulder.
Gu Jinyi closed his eyes, feeling helpless.
He heard Chu Xiaonian worryingly ask, “Daddy, since we’re moving away, what about Uncle Xie? won’t you miss him?”
Chu Xiaonian had also developed a bond with Xie Huaizhou. Thinking that he and his dad were leaving, leaving Uncle Xie alone made him feel a bit uncomfortable.
Gu Jinyi patted Chu Xiaonian’s head.
He didn’t answer that question.
The cunning of adults lies in their ability to evade when faced with unanswerable questions.
Would he miss Xie Huaizhou?
This question was absurd.
Because for the past six years, he had been thinking about this person every moment.
……
The news of Chu Xiaonian’s leave from kindergarten quickly reached Xie Huaizhou’s ears.
When the secretary reported this, Xie Ke was also in his office and asked strangely, “Is my -in-law taking Xiaonian on a trip?”
Xie Huaizhou’s gaze stopped at the last line of text on the screen, and his eyes didn’t move for a long time.
He knew this day would come, but when it really arrived, it was more heart-wrenching than he had imagined.
And Xie Ke kept asking him, rambling on, giving him a headache.
“He’s not going on a trip. He’s leaving me,” Xie Huaizhou replied coldly to Xie Ke’s question.
Xie Ke: “Huh?”
He thought he misheard, wasn’t his cousin just lovey-dovey with Gu Jinyi a few days ago?
When his cousin accompanied Gu Jinyi through his heat period, he was the one who helped with workload.
“Ge, what nonsense are you talking about? Don’t joke around,” Xie Ke frowned, “Don’t let Gu Jinyi hear you, he’ll definitely ignore you.”
But his words didn’t get a response.
Xie Huaizhou looked at him, with no hint of joking on his face, only a kind of subtle, invisible pain that had settled.
Those unfamiliar with Xie Huaizhou might not be able to tell that he was upset.
Xie Ke was stunned: “Could it be…what’s wrong with you and Gu Jinyi?”
The screen in front of Xie Huaizhou had turned into a pure black, reflecting his face.
It was a face that was unsettling, clearly handsome, but without a trace of gentleness.
He asked Xie Ke, “Do you remember, the year I graduated from the Empire, I went missing for half a year because of a spacecraft accident?”
Xie Ke was bewildered: “I remember.”
“That half year, I was with Gu Jinyi.”
He briefly recounted the things between him and Gu Jinyi to Xie Ke.
He had never said it before because he was afraid Xie Ke would let the cat out of the bag in front of Gu Jinyi.
But now Gu Jinyi was about to leave him.
Whether he spoke or not, he couldn’t keep him.
At first, Xie Ke could still listen calmly, but later he was shocked and spoke up.
He had never known what happened when his cousin disappeared, after all, he was from the Xie family, not the Shang family, and it wasn’t appropriate for him to meddle.
He was also very clever and never inquired.
Now, receiving so much information all of a sudden, Xie Ke didn’t know what to say, as if helping either party would be wrong.
He stammered, “Then, you, you…are you just letting him go?”
He asked in a low voice. In fact, he was quite inclined to stand by Gu Jinyi’s side. After all, Gu Jinyi was a good person and treated him well, and was a complete victim.
Xie Huaizhou asked coldly, “What should I do then, lock him up?”
When he asked this question, there was no hint of joking on his face, only eyes like thick ink that couldn’t be dispersed.
This didn’t look like a joke at all.
Xie Ke shivered and immediately stopped speaking.
Because his cousin could really do such a thing.
He didn’t dare ask more questions.
But he didn’t dare to leave either, sitting uneasily in the armchair.
Xie Huaizhou ignored him, his gaze shifting away from him and staring out the window, lost in thought.
He hadn’t said a word, and outside the window, the sunshine was bright, but the atmosphere in the office was as heavy as an impending storm.
He fiddled with the black bracelet on his wrist, the narrow band so fragile that he could break it with one hand, fragile and vulnerable.
But it was this fragile bracelet that locked away all the dark thoughts swirling in his mind.
When Gu Jinyi loved him, he always naively saw him as a good person, even though his background was so unclear.
Perhaps those in love are never clear-headed, carrying a sacrificial mentality, idealizing every moment of their beloved.
He also knew that Gu Jinyi liked gentle and considerate gentlemen, like him, without aggression or malice, able to live together in leisure on a remote planet.
Unfortunately, he was never that kind of person.
It was because Gu Jinyi loved him that he wore the guise of a gentle appearance, to beg for Gu Jinyi’s mercy.
Gu Jinyi’s love made him better, but it also made him worse.
He had endured for four years and had reached his limit long ago, and Chu Miyun’s death had nothing to do with him.
But even if Chu Miyun had not died unexpectedly, he was prepared to bring Gu Jinyi back to him.
The scene would probably be a thousand times uglier than it is now.
Xie Huaizhou thought for a moment, placing his thumb on the emblem of the bracelet, feeling the rough surface, which allowed him to clearly perceive the pattern above.
He heard Xie Ke hesitate and say softly, “Should I go talk to him… ge, don’t be too… too harsh on him.”
He looked at Xie Ke as if he were a fool, seriously doubting the authenticity of his diploma.
At this point, would he still be willing to do anything to Gu Jinyi?
He only went mad because Gu Jinyi didn’t love him.
But now, Gu Jinyi clearly loved him.
This was enough to make a monster willingly return to its cage.
Gu Jinyi handled everything smoothly, met with colleagues in the studio for the last time, and bid farewell to everyone appropriately.
Yan Lian somehow got the news and rushed over specially, asking him somewhat at a loss why, was it because of him?
Yan Lian assured him, “I won’t work here anymore, you don’t have to…”
But Gu Jinyi shook his head.
“It has nothing to do with you. Where I go and what I do are only related to my own decisions.”
He used a little force to remove Yan Lian’s hand from his wrist.
He didn’t miss the pain in Yan Lian’s eyes, but if he couldn’t give hope, then he shouldn’t give it.
After leaving the studio, he went straight to the Omega Information Essence Treatment Center to get the essence extract he had come for a week ago.
Xie Huaizhou had repeatedly instructed all the members of the Xie family not to allow any medical personnel to perform information extraction on him.
But he could only manage the private doctors and hospitals of the Xie family, not him.
Gu Jinyi waited in the lounge for a while, and the nurse brought him the extract.
A small vial of extract, but it cost him a lot of blood.
He held the small glass bottle in his hand, wondering who Xie Huaizhou’s illness was really tormenting.
While he was drawing blood, the young male nurse probably saw that he was too thin and indirectly suggested that alphas might not need so much essence extract.
“Besides, it’s difficult to cure pheromone deficiency syndrome.” The nurse’s eyes were somewhat sympathetic. “With pheromone deficiency syndrome, the patients who come here are mostly alphas who have lost their destined partners,” the nurse said, “and this alpha may have fallen in love with someone who doesn’t belong to him.”
Gu Jinyi didn’t know where this young man’s thoughts had drifted off to.
His expression remained calm as he waited until enough essence had been extracted before saying softly, “Thank you.”
He took the vial of extracted essence home. The next day, he placed this vial along with the “gift” that Xie Huaizhou had given him years ago in front of Xie Huaizhou.
Xie Huaizhou’s gifts were quite generous, including ownership of a small asteroid, a large sum of cash, jewelry, and real estate. It was enough to ensure a lifetime of wealth and security. Yet over the years, none of these items had ever been touched. He had only considered using them twice: once when Chu Miyun’s business faced crisis, and another when he felt desperate after Chu Miyun’s death and considered leaving the Chu family with Chu Xiaonian. However, no matter how dire his circumstances, he chose not to touch this wealth, opting instead for Chu Miyun’s salvation.
Now, this enormous fortune, along with its myriad of bureaucratic documents, remained securely locked away in the underground vaults of the interstellar bank.
Sitting across from Xie Huaizhou, with the clear sky outside and a vase of vibrant roses on the table, it felt like an ordinary and warm morning. Gu Jinyi returned the passcode to the vault, the pheromone extraction liquid, and the marriage contract that Xie Huaizhou had given him. The last item he took off was the wedding ring on his finger, gently placing it on the table, making a faint “clink” sound, like putting a period at the end of a sentence.