Chapter 10

Su Tinghuai took him out of the garden before he even had time to say goodbye to Lu Heyun.

"Where is Gu Lin?"

Su Yu shook his head. He was about to speak, but with so many people in the hall, and after Su Tinghuai had just warned him to remember his identity, he swallowed the rest of his words.

"Next time you attend an occasion like this with him, stay close to him."

Of course, Su Yu knew that reminder was not out of concern for him. Su Tinghuai was simply afraid his identity would be exposed. After all, the real Su Hui was mute, yet Su Yu had just been talking to someone.

Su Yu nodded and looked up at the Alpha's back. Yet Su Tinghuai never spared him any attention, and he could not help feeling a little bitter.

"He found talking to business partners boring because he could not understand them, so I told him to take a walk around. Is there a problem?"

Gu Lin's low, indifferent voice suddenly sounded behind him. The man's tall figure blocked out a patch of light above his head, casting his entire body into shadow.

Standing so close together, he could also smell the faint scent of mint on the Alpha.

Su Yu raised his head slightly and met the man's black-and-gold eyes. His eyes were beautiful, but devoid of emotion, like two cold stars. The man looked down at him, his brows seeming to furrow yet not quite, his emotions impossible to read.

"There is no problem. It is simply not appropriate to leave an Omega alone."

"He had no objection."

"My younger brother is reserved by nature. How do you know he had no objection?"

Once the two Alphas' gazes met, neither gave way. Gu Lin had always been forceful, and Su Tinghuai was the same. For a moment, the atmosphere turned tense.

Naturally, Su Yu, standing to the side, chose to watch the show. He was just afraid he would not be able to stop himself from taking Su Tinghuai's side.

Fine. To let Gu Lin do his thing, he would try his best to restrain himself.

Gu Lin snorted coldly, the disdain in his eyes undisguised. "From the sound of it, you seem to know my Omega very well?"

"I am his older brother. Naturally, I know him well."

Even Su Yu could not help but complain inwardly when he heard that: He puts on quite a convincing act. I really want to know how he does it—lying without even needing a script.

"When my grandfather was still alive, he once asked me to learn about the Su family's young master for a time. Yet my wife seems rather different from the one in my impression."

At those words, Su Tinghuai's usual composed expression seemed to falter, but it quickly returned to normal. Without changing expression, he said, "Your contact with my younger brother was only through documents. Naturally, he would seem different."

Su Tinghuai was a smart man. Gu Lin knew he was playing dumb, and he could not be bothered wasting words on him. He directly took Su Yu away, adding deliberately before leaving, "The relationship between you two brothers does not seem as good as the outside world claims."

He left those words behind on purpose, making the Su family speculate. Some debts, he would put on the tab for now and settle another day when he was in the mood.

Yet Su Yu could not stop himself from looking back at Su Tinghuai, who stood where he was. He even wanted to turn back, but Gu Lin grabbed him and asked in a deep voice, "What are you trying to do?"

The man's gaze was intensely oppressive. Especially in the cramped stairwell, even the air seemed thin. Su Yu did not dare look up at him, yet he kept struggling.

Though his body was struggling, his heart was—

[No, no, no—don't let go. I don't want to go back.]