Chapter Summaries

After leaving an event where Shen Yi had been overwhelmed by other alphas’ pheromones, Yuan Chen’s scent soothed him, and Professor Hu reassured Shen Yi that their reactions to each other were normal. The story then shifts to another day after a meeting, where Shen Yi asks Yuan Chen what he wants for lunch.

• Yuan Chen noticed Shen Yi looked pale and took him away from the event early despite Shen Yi’s concern about leaving before it ended.
• In the elevator, Shen Yi was drawn to Yuan Chen’s bergamot-scented pheromones, blurted out that Yuan Chen smelled nice, and apologized for feeling unwell.
• Shen Yi messaged Professor Hu and later learned that trusted people’s pheromones could soothe him after exposure to other alphas’ pheromones.
• Professor Hu offered to speak with Yuan Chen about protecting Shen Yi from future pheromone attacks, but Shen Yi said he could handle it himself.
• After a later meeting, Shen Yi drove Yuan Chen and suggested steak for lunch.

Shen Yi and Yuan Chen were mistaken for a couple during lunch, and Yuan Chen discussed settling Wang Zixuan’s lawsuit while keeping his transfer of a building to Shen Yi secret. Shen Yi offered to return the building, but Yuan Chen rejected the proposal.

• Yuan Chen and Shen Yi ordered a couples’ set menu after the waiter mistook them for a couple, though Shen Yi denied that they were together.
• Yuan Chen explained that their mingled pheromones had caused the misunderstanding and said Shen Yi’s pheromone practice was part of his contract.
• Yuan Chen said he planned to pay Wang Zixuan the full five-million settlement by the end of the week because they had acted improperly.
• Yuan Chen told Shen Yi that the building transfer had to remain secret, and Shen Yi offered to give the building back.
• Yuan Chen laughed at Shen Yi’s offer and rejected it.

Shen Yi overheard coworkers spreading rumors that he was Yuan Chen’s secret lover, then learned of a scandal involving a pharmaceutical company and a possible assault on an Omega. Yuan Chen recognized the company as theirs and said he already knew which director was responsible.

• Shen Yi and Lin Xiaofeng caught coworkers gossiping about Shen Yi’s designation and supposed relationship with Yuan Chen, and Lin sent the embarrassed employees back to work.
• Shen Yi left the smoking area after receiving a phone call and returned to the Ever-Busy Office, where the secretaries showed him news of a pharmaceutical director accused of drugging and assaulting an Omega.
• Shen Yi learned that the scandal was being linked to their company and forwarded the internal messages to Yuan Chen.
• Yuan Chen said the report had been written to target their company, then told Shen Yi he already knew who was responsible.

Shen Yi helped Yuan Chen expose Yuan Hao’s scandal through media contacts and evidence, leaving Yuan Hao facing public disgrace and a furious Chairman Yuan at an emergency board meeting.

• Yuan Chen decided to use Yuan Hao’s scandal against him, and Shen Yi suggested leaking information through his media connections.
• Shen Yi discreetly gave his university senior details about Yuan Hao, prompting the news outlet to investigate and publish reports.
• Yuan Hao’s past misconduct and evidence of his psychological manipulation of an Omega researcher came to light despite his attempts to bribe and threaten the media.
• Shen Yi learned that Yuan Chen had collected evidence in advance and that the company had paid the researcher a settlement to secure it.
• At an emergency board meeting, Chairman Yuan berated Yuan Hao for disgracing the company while Yuan Chen calmly drank tea.

The board punished Yuan Hao by suspending him and transferring him to the D City branch, while Yuan Chen left the meeting with Shen Yi. Yuan Hao attacked Yuan Chen in the corridor, and Shen Yi prepared to disobey Yuan Chen’s warning and enter the room where the brothers were fighting.

• Chairman Yuan proposed suspending Yuan Hao, reducing his salary, and transferring him indefinitely to the D City branch, and the directors approved the motion.
• Yuan Chen told Shen Yi that Yuan Hao had been transferred and planned to leave work on time.
• Yuan Hao confronted Yuan Chen in the corridor, grabbed his collar, and attacked him while releasing oppressive Alpha pheromones.
• Yuan Chen dragged Yuan Hao into an empty meeting room and warned Shen Yi not to come in.
• Shen Yi turned away security guards and, hearing the fight intensify, decided to open the meeting room door despite Yuan Chen’s warning.

Shen Yi entered the room as Yuan Chen and Yuan Hao faced off, but Yuan Hao attacked him after setting off a fire extinguisher. Yuan Chen knocked Yuan Hao unconscious and found Shen Yi in shock, then ordered the guards to clear the room and wait outside.

• Shen Yi entered the room and witnessed Yuan Chen calmly restraining an enraged Yuan Hao during their confrontation.
• Yuan Hao grabbed a fire extinguisher and sprayed it at Yuan Chen, filling the room with white powder as Shen Yi tried to stop him.
• Yuan Hao pinned Shen Yi against the wall and strangled him after accusing him of hiding his connection to the editor-in-chief.
• Yuan Chen knocked Yuan Hao unconscious and found Shen Yi unresponsive from the pheromone assault.
• Yuan Chen ordered the guards to remove Yuan Hao, open the windows, bring water, and wait outside with the door locked.

Yuan Chen soothed Shen Yi after Yuan Hao’s pheromone assault left him in shock, using an intense pheromone exchange to bring him around. Outside the room, Yuan Chen dealt with the fallout as news of the brothers’ fight spread and reached Chairman Yuan.

• After the security guard left, Yuan Chen released his pheromones to counter Yuan Hao’s lingering assault, but Shen Yi continued to convulse and struggle.
• When Shen Yi bit Yuan Chen’s thumb and showed no sign of recovering, Yuan Chen forced a pheromone exchange through a kiss until Shen Yi’s breathing steadied.
• Shen Yi regained consciousness, recognized Yuan Chen, and agreed to rest while Yuan Chen went outside.
• A crowd gathered after rumors of the brothers’ fight spread, and Chairman Yuan flew into a fury over Yuan Hao’s attack on Yuan Chen and Shen Yi.
• Yuan Chen calmly discussed the aftermath with a lawyer while the security team sealed off the scene.

After the confrontation at the company, Yuan Chen took the exhausted Shen Yi home and told him he could sue Yuan Hao if he chose. The chapter ended with Shen Yi going inside to rest while Yuan Chen remained behind in the car.

• Yuan Chen postponed discussing the lawsuit and ended the day's proceedings after Shen Yi regained consciousness.
• Yuan Chen helped Shen Yi to the parking lot and ordered the driver to take them to Laiyin Lakeside.
• Shen Yi fell asleep in the car as Yuan Chen's pheromones eased his anxiety, and Yuan Chen kept his head from hitting the window.
• Yuan Chen told Shen Yi that Professor Hu would prepare a medical report and Lawyer Hao would handle a possible case against Yuan Hao, but left the decision to Shen Yi.
• Yuan Chen warned Shen Yi not to take matters into his own hands again, and Shen Yi thanked him before going home to rest.
• Yuan Chen stayed in the black sedan with his eyes closed after Shen Yi went inside.

Shen Yi declined to press charges against Yuan Hao, and Yuan Chen told him that Yuan Hao would be transferred to D City in three days. After Shen Yi treated Yuan Chen’s injured hand, Yuan Chen photographed the bruises on Shen Yi’s neck as evidence, leaving their tense exchange unresolved.

• Shen Yi told Yuan Chen that he did not want to press charges against Yuan Hao.
• Yuan Chen said Yuan Hao would be transferred to D City in three days and reviewed the day’s schedule with Shen Yi.
• Shen Yi noticed Yuan Chen’s swollen thumb, treated it, and applied ointment to a scrape beneath his jaw.
• Yuan Chen exposed the bruises on Shen Yi’s neck and asked again why he would not press charges.
• Yuan Chen photographed Shen Yi’s neck as evidence, and Shen Yi dressed himself again.

Yuan Chen endured a long meeting despite Omega pheromones, then attended a checkup with Shen Yi, whose doctor said Yuan Chen’s pheromones had helped his condition. As Shen Yi asked whether he could use suppressants for his approaching heat period, Professor Hu angrily challenged him and Yuan Chen about refusing to take care of their bodies.

• Yuan Chen led a four-hour meeting without reacting to an Omega employee’s pheromones, while Shen Yi adjusted the purifiers and watched him closely.
• After the meeting, Shen Yi sent Secretary Chen upstairs and gave Yuan Chen painkillers for his headache.
• Yuan Chen and Shen Yi went to the hospital for their regular checkups, and Professor Hu described Yuan Chen as unhealthy but vigorous.
• Professor Hu told Shen Yi that Yuan Chen’s pheromones had helped him and advised him to keep relying on Yuan Chen as his heat period approached.
• Shen Yi asked whether he could use suppressants, and Professor Hu rebuked him and Yuan Chen for ignoring medical advice and avoiding intimacy.

After Professor Hu scolded them, Shen Yi told Yuan Chen he needed leave for his heat period and searched unsuccessfully for a suitable Alpha through a crude matching site. When Yuan Chen came to collect a forgotten contract, Shen Yi instead received a visit from his handsome celebrity neighbor Gu Qingheng, and the chapter ended with Yuan Chen entering Shen Yi’s apartment using the door code.

• Professor Hu shouted at Shen Yi and Yuan Chen for repeatedly seeking suppressants, and Yuan Chen asked Shen Yi when his heat period was and whether he had arranged a partner.
• Shen Yi said he would take leave around November fifth, promised to prepare his work in advance, and kept his partner arrangements private from Yuan Chen.
• Shen Yi browsed a partner-matching site, disliked its crude advertisements and recommendations, and decided to look for another way to handle his heat period.
• Yuan Chen called about a missing contract, and Shen Yi found it and agreed to bring it over before Yuan Chen said he would come collect it himself.
• Gu Qingheng, Shen Yi’s next-door neighbor, visited to retrieve a misdelivered package and learned that Shen Yi had recently differentiated from a beta.
• Yuan Chen entered Shen Yi’s apartment using the door code and found Shen Yi talking with Gu Qingheng.

Yuan Chen spent Shen Yi’s day off working at his apartment, and later Shen Yi found an Omega in heat collapsed outside his door. Gu Qingheng took the Omega away, leaving Shen Yi frightened of what his own approaching heat period might bring.

• Gu Qingheng left Shen Yi’s apartment after Yuan Chen arrived and questioned why Shen Yi had let another Alpha inside.
• Yuan Chen stayed to review a contract, while Shen Yi worked and ordered dinner for them.
• After returning home past midnight, Shen Yi found an unfamiliar Omega in heat outside his apartment and tried to call an ambulance.
• Gu Qingheng came out of the neighboring apartment, said the Omega had come looking for him, and carried him away.
• Shen Yi trembled as he realized his own heat period was approaching and feared he might end up in the same condition.

After an unsettling dream and a confusing physical response to becoming an Omega, Shen Yi accompanied Yuan Chen to a late-night business dinner with Director Fang. Yuan Chen endured a punishing drinking session in Shen Yi’s place, then collapsed into Shen Yi’s arms, his pheromones stirring an unexpected reaction.

• Shen Yi woke from an intimate dream and recognized that his body was reacting differently after becoming an Omega.
• At work, Yuan Chen noticed Shen Yi seemed different, but Shen Yi denied anything was wrong.
• Yuan Chen summoned Shen Yi to room 808, where Director Fang kept him at the table and pressured him to drink.
• Director Fang made suggestive remarks about male Omegas and demanded that Shen Yi drink three glasses of baijiu, but Yuan Chen drank them himself and continued drinking through the business meeting.
• After Director Fang left, Yuan Chen collapsed, and Shen Yi supported him while waiting for a designated driver.
• Yuan Chen’s pheromones spread as he slumped against Shen Yi, who inhaled the scent and felt his Omega body react.

Shen Yi struggled to get the drunken Yuan Chen home, but Yuan Chen’s pheromones and clingy behavior left Shen Yi shaken and exhausted. The next morning, Shen Yi acted as usual while dressing Yuan Chen and asked whether he remembered the night before.

• Shen Yi hauled the drunk Yuan Chen into his residence and tried to remove his jacket and tie so he could sleep comfortably.
• Yuan Chen grabbed Shen Yi, pulled him onto the sofa, and held him while his pheromones overwhelmed Shen Yi.
• Shen Yi escaped onto the floor and fled the residence, passing Gu Qingheng in the corridor; Gu Qingheng noticed Shen Yi’s strong pheromones.
• Shen Yi returned home with a flushed face and an unsettled body, then arrived early at Yuan Chen’s residence the next morning with grape juice.
• While tying Yuan Chen’s tie, Shen Yi asked whether Yuan Chen remembered what happened the night before.

Yuan Chen noticed Shen Yi struggling to control his pheromones and discovered him browsing a dating app for advice about his approaching heat period. Shen Yi deleted the app at Yuan Chen’s insistence, then fled the office to buy dinner.

• Yuan Chen questioned Shen Yi about his erratic pheromones and watched him leave the office embarrassed.
• Shen Yi spent the day suppressing his pheromones and grew increasingly tense and exhausted.
• After the other secretaries left, Shen Yi checked messages on a dating app and wondered if meeting an alpha might help him prepare for his heat period.
• Yuan Chen found Shen Yi with the app open, heard his explanation, and ordered him to delete it.
• Shen Yi deleted the app, agreed to look for a proper partner, and left to buy dinner.

At a gathering, Yuan Chen realized he did not want Xiao Jun to meet Shen Yi, though he could not deny the reason was jealousy. Later, Yuan Chen, Shen Yi, and Secretary Pang traveled to D Country to finalize a licensing agreement with Nuohe Pharmaceuticals.

• Yuan Chen’s friends told him that Xiao Jun admired Shen Yi and wanted an introduction.
• Yuan Chen messaged Shen Yi, then told his friends that Shen Yi was unavailable instead of introducing them.
• Yuan Chen admitted to himself that he did not want anyone else to see Shen Yi or lay a hand on him.
• Yuan Chen, Shen Yi, and Secretary Pang boarded a flight to D Country to sign the final agreement for Zemigla.
• Shen Yi reassured nervous Secretary Pang about her first business trip and noted that his limited German might make him rely on reading people’s expressions.

Yuan Chen traveled to the Heinrich family castle in Germany to negotiate a major partnership with Nuohe Pharmaceuticals, where the family’s interest in marriage and Shen Yi became increasingly clear. After the old duke’s butler proposed that Shen Yi provide him private hospitality, Yuan Chen rejected the demand and ordered Shen Yi to stay in his room for the rest of the visit.

• Yuan Chen met Karl von Heinrich and his son Leo, declined the implication that he might marry Leo, and was shown to his suite.
• Shen Yi noticed Yuan Chen had become unusually cold toward him, while Secretary Pang prepared to assist with the negotiations.
• Leo brought Yuan Chen and Shen Yi to meet the old duke, who questioned whether Shen Yi was Yuan Chen’s partner and appraised him with interest.
• The butler told Yuan Chen that the old duke wanted Shen Yi to provide private hospitality, and Yuan Chen angrily refused.
• Yuan Chen seized Shen Yi’s wrist, withdrew him from the negotiations and signing, and forbade him from leaving his room until the itinerary was over.

Yuan Chen kept Shen Yi away from Novo’s signing ceremony after an unsettling conversation with Duke von Heinrich, but the duke visited Shen Yi alone and pressured him to release his pheromones. Shen Yi recognized the encounter as harassment and suspected Yuan Chen had tried to protect him, but the duke’s demand left him weighing refusal against the business partnership at stake.

• Yuan Chen ordered Shen Yi to remain in his room while the rest of the entourage attended the signing ceremony, and Shen Yi agreed to stay on standby.
• As the signing began, Duke von Heinrich’s butler offered Shen Yi refreshments and then brought the duke to his room for tea.
• The duke commented on Shen Yi’s omega scent and questioned whether Shen Yi and Yuan Chen had a relationship, while Shen Yi insisted they were strictly colleagues.
• The duke offered Shen Yi a special herbal tea and demanded that he release his pheromones, with the butler invoking the companies’ partnership to pressure him.
• Shen Yi called the request sexual harassment and realized Yuan Chen had likely kept him away to protect him, but he hesitated to refuse because the signing was at stake.

Shen Yi’s pheromones spiraled out of control after Duke von Heinrich’s butler exposed him to a suspicious fragrance, leaving him stranded in a secluded guest room. Yuan Chen discovered Shen Yi’s plea for help and followed his scent to a hidden annex, where he was certain Shen Yi was waiting.

• Shen Yi refused Duke von Heinrich’s herbal tea but agreed to release his pheromones for ten minutes.
• After the ceremony, Shen Yi’s heat symptoms intensified, and he suspected the butler’s scented candle had forcibly triggered them.
• The butler left Shen Yi in a guest suite to fetch suppressants, and Shen Yi locked the door and messaged Yuan Chen for help.
• At dinner, Yuan Chen recognized Shen Yi’s jasmine scent in Duke von Heinrich’s wine and left to search for him.
• Yuan Chen found Shen Yi’s message and the strong pheromones in his suite, then searched the castle for him.
• Yuan Chen followed Shen Yi’s scent to a secluded annex and pushed open its heavy door.

Yuan Chen broke into Shen Yi’s room and found him overwhelmed by his heat, pleading for help and kissing him. Yuan Chen restrained Shen Yi with his tie and called Secretary Pang, leaving their encounter unresolved.

• Yuan Chen found untouched pheromone suppressants outside Shen Yi’s locked room and broke down the door.
• Yuan Chen saw Shen Yi in the throes of his heat and resisted the force of his pheromones.
• Shen Yi clung to Yuan Chen and begged for help, and Yuan Chen kissed him.
• Yuan Chen tied Shen Yi’s wrists with his tie when Shen Yi tried to remove his trousers.
• Yuan Chen picked up his phone and called Secretary Pang.