Evil Love Appears chapter 3

As night fell, Fu Xiaoyu sat alone in the car for a while.

He had been using the most effective suppressants, which were powerful but came with severe side effects. Clinics usually wouldn’t prescribe such suppressants to Omegas with lower pheromone levels.

But even for an A-grade Omega like him, after receiving three injections in a day, he still felt dizzy and nauseous.

Because there was no one around, he finally relaxed slightly, unbuttoned two buttons of his shirt collar, and then lay on the steering wheel with his eyes closed.

It felt terrible.

Although the suppressants had dulled the sharp pain that should have been unbearable, his reproductive organs still felt burning, as if something was brewing, causing him to feel restless and agitated.

He had differentiated into an Omega just after turning fourteen, so this should be his hundred and thirtieth or so heat.

He hadn’t consciously kept an exact count of his heats, and every time he went through it, he was always alone. So he regarded it as something quite ordinary, not even willing to let it interfere with his work.

But in the past two years, he had often felt that the discomfort during his heats was gradually increasing. It was as if his own body was reminding him—

It’s time for an Alpha.

Fu Xiaoyu was twenty-five years old.

So far, he had never truly been in love.

The closest he had come to “love” was back in his sophomore year—

After downing half a bottle of whiskey, he finally mustered the courage to confess to his crush, Han Jiangque.

Unexpectedly, Han Jiangque, being an Alpha, was so startled that he disappeared for several days. When he returned, he said to Fu Xiaoyu, “I’m sorry, Fu Xiaoyu. I still love Wen Ke, even though he’s with someone else now. I can’t accept you, Fu Xiaoyu. I just can’t stop thinking about him… so I can’t be with you.”

Fu Xiaoyu never let Han Jiangque know that he had secretly felt sad and depressed for a long time.

He was afraid of embarrassment, afraid of rejection, so he pretended to be completely indifferent and continued to be friends with Han Jiangque, for one year, two years… six years.

Six years.

In truth, he had never completely given up.

In his idealized vision of love and marriage, Han Jiangque was the perfect choice.”

An S-class Wine-type pheromone Alpha, nearly perfect in appearance, and an exceptional family background.

He couldn’t think of anyone more suitable for him than Han Jiangque.

So, he carefully and cautiously nurtured this relationship, treating it like a long-term project.

After graduating, he and Han Jiangque returned to B City together to work. Even Han Jiangque’s father treated him like half of the family and entrusted him with managing the IM Group’s business in B City.

If love was a marathon, he had been running lap after lap with Han Jiangque, feeling like he could see the finish line any moment.

On his birthday, Fu Xiaoyu specially booked a flight from Germany to spend it with Han Jiangque. But on that very day, he encountered the biggest blow of his life—

Wen Ke, the seemingly ordinary E-class Omega, was embracing Han Jiangque in front of him.

On the night of his 25th birthday, Han Jiangque’s ex had returned.

Amidst silence, the phone rang abruptly.

Fu Xiaoyu lay on the steering wheel, and it took a while before he slowly picked up the phone and held it to his ear. “Hello?”

“Xiaoyu!” The person on the other end of the line sounded very anxious. “Why didn’t you answer my calls yesterday? I was so worried. What did you mean by sending me that message on WeChat? What do you mean Han Jiangque is with another Omega?”

“Dad…”

Fu Xiaoyu’s voice was weak, but he still managed to maintain a calm tone. “I explained it clearly on WeChat. He got back together with his first love.”

“Fu Xiaoyu! Are you just going to stand by and watch?” The male Omega’s voice on the phone suddenly became sharp.

“… ” Fu Xiaoyu didn’t respond immediately.

After a brief silence, a woman’s voice on the phone, very softly, said, “Fu Jing, don’t panic, don’t frighten the child.”

She probably took the phone from Fu Jing’s hand, her voice getting closer as she addressed Fu Xiaoyu, “Xiaoyu, take your time, what happened?”

“Yes,” Fu Xiaoyu straightened up.

The woman on the phone was an Alpha, his stepmother, the one who had supported him and his father for many years. So, no matter how tired he was, he had to respond properly. “A few months ago, Han Jiangque’s first love, Wen Ke, got divorced. Han Jiangque has never forgotten him all these years. Wen Ke is back now, and Han Jiangque… he won’t be with me.”

The Alpha woman didn’t speak immediately.

“Fu Xiaoyu! How can you be so useless!” Fu Jing’s voice roared in the background.

“Dad, I…” Fu Xiaoyu’s voice suddenly trembled violently for a moment, but he immediately suppressed it and spoke calmly, “I’m driving, I’ll hang up for now.”

In truth, he understood Fu Jing’s anger.

His Omega father was born in a small town, had only completed high school, and had to raise him.

Starting life in such dire circumstances, he had relied solely on his good looks and inserted himself into the long-distance relationship between an educated female Alpha professor and a former Omega.

Although he became an unsavory third party, he successfully married into an affluent middle-class family from then on.

Omegas had to rely on marriage to achieve social mobility—

This was almost Fu Jing’s entire belief, and Fu Xiaoyu had been raised with this education.

But at that moment, he really wanted to ask, why?

From childhood to adulthood, he had strictly followed the path of a good student.

He never had early romances, no eccentric hobbies, and served as class monitor and study committee member for ten years. Even when studying abroad, he earned a full scholarship with a 4.0 GPA.

So, isn’t life supposed to be like a race?

He was running so fast, running for so long, believing that as long as he persisted, he could reach the finish line with Han Jiangque.

But midway through the race, Wen Ke casually and almost recklessly walked onto the track from the sidelines, grabbed Han Jiangque’s hand, and then they left the track together, not caring about the finish line at all.

And he, from then on, was left alone on the long track, unable to even find an opponent—

He didn’t know how to win;

He lost sleep over it.

Fu Xiaoyu, with red eyes, pounded the steering wheel with his fist.

…

A “clang clang clang” sound suddenly rang out, and Fu Xiaoyu turned his head in confusion—

Someone was tapping on his car window with their knuckles.

He immediately recognized that it was Xu Jiale outside, because the person had a prominent Cartier gold bracelet on their wrist.

He rarely saw male Alphas wearing such accessories, so when he had discussed work with Xu Jiale at the basketball court just now, he had taken special notice of it.

Realizing it was Xu Jiale, Fu Xiaoyu quickly composed himself, took a deep breath, and then rolled down the car window.

“What are you—” he began to ask.

“Here.” Xu Jiale didn’t greet him, but bent down and handed over a paper cup.

Fu Xiaoyu instinctively reached out and took it. The paper cup was warm and emitted a lemony fragrance.

“Honey lemon, hot.”

Xu Jiale only said this one sentence before disappearing.

Fu Xiaoyu was a bit dazed and for a moment thought he might have hallucinated. After a few minutes, he started to think that Xu Jiale had left, so he closed the car window again, but then—

“Clang clang clang.”

Why was Xu Jiale knocking on his car window again?

Fu Xiaoyu, holding the paper cup, opened the door and stepped out of the car. “You—”

“Don’t drive during your heat. Take a taxi.”

Xu Jiale, dressed in a basketball jersey, stood by his car door, a cigarette in his mouth. In a matter-of-fact tone, he spoke.

For a moment, Fu Xiaoyu didn’t know what to say. In that instant, his thoughts were quite strange—

This person’s lifestyle is really unhealthy, isn’t it? And he’s even drinking regular cola.

“Why did you come back?” Fu Xiaoyu asked.

Xu Jiale closed the car door for him. For some reason, the two of them started walking side by side towards the parking lot as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

Xu Jiale, speaking with the cigarette in his mouth, sounded somewhat muffled. “I forgot to charge the car yesterday and realized it halfway. Fortunately, there’s a Tesla charging station here, so I came back to charge it and have hotpot. After that, I’ll come pick up the car.”

Fu Xiaoyu suddenly understood why Xu Jiale had disappeared a moment earlier; he had gone to charge his car.

Xu Jiale’s pheromones had a minty scent.

He was an A-level Alpha, and his scent was quite strong.

When the night breeze blew, Fu Xiaoyu took a gentle breath and then turned his head slightly.

In that moment, he felt that the scent of magnolia on him had also become stronger. It was probably his Omega instinct responding to the attraction of a high-level Alpha.

“Xu Jiale, about that questionnaire…”

Fu Xiaoyu suddenly wanted to discuss work again.

But Xu Jiale phone suddenly rang at this moment.

Xu Jiale lowered his head to check his phone and immediately answered, “Hello, baby?”

As he spoke, he cleanly tossed the half-smoked cigarette into the trash.

Fu Xiaoyu was surprised by the sudden change in his demeanor. From the corners of his eyes to his brows, there was a gentle glow—

Even though he was just answering a phone call and the person on the other end couldn’t see what he was doing, he immediately threw away the cigarette for the person on the phone. It was an instinctive reaction.

A taxi happened to pass by the parking lot gate, and Xu Jiale hailed one in front. Then he opened the car door for Fu Xiaoyu.

“Dad’s having hotpot today. What about you, what did you eat today?”

He answered the phone while gesturing for Fu Xiaoyu to get in the taxi. “Oh… steak, huh? Is it good?”

After Fu Xiaoyu got into the taxi, Xu Jiale didn’t follow. Instead, he simply closed the car door.

So, Fu Xiaoyu sat alone in the car as it slowly moved into the night, feeling a sudden and unexplainable sense of loneliness. He rarely had such emotions, perhaps because his heat hadn’t completely subsided yet.

Fu Xiaoyu turned his head and saw Xu Jiale still on the phone through the rearview mirror.

Xu Jiale remained focused on the taxi, seemingly memorizing something.

In the next moment, Fu Xiaoyu suddenly realized that Xu Jiale was memorizing the taxi’s license plate number.

It was a very small detail, almost unnoticeable.

Fu Xiaoyu had never seen any Alpha care for an Omega so effortlessly.