The villain had sweet pheromones

That night, Xu Wang sat in the passenger seat, holding the things in his arms.

Pei Yanchuan's sleeves were rolled up slightly, exposing his muscular forearms as he drove with both hands on the steering wheel.

Xu Wang looked down at the things he was holding. Elder Pei had given them to him during dinner.

First, Xu Wang picked up the three red booklets for a look and discovered that they were all property deeds. Each home was at least 300 square meters, and the largest was a detached villa.

Xu Wang marveled inwardly that the Pei Family really had been rich before its downfall $_$.

Xu Wang took a deep breath and picked up the little box beside him. It was no more than two palms in size. He carefully opened the lid and found a small ornament inside.

Pure gold wire traced out the words "Congratulations on your marriage" on the ornament.

"So beautiful!" Xu Wang marveled at the stunning red-and-gold color scheme before him.

Hearing Xu Wang's exclamation beside him, Pei Yanchuan could not help his lips curling upward.

Xu Wang did not take the ornament out. They were in the car, after all, and it would be bad if it got knocked against something.

Xu Wang carefully set the box aside. All he had left in his hands now were a solid black card and the silver card that had made Mu Tingting bleed.

"Hubby, how much money do you think is in here?" Xu Wang lifted the solid black card. There was no need to look closely to know it was a bank card.

"If it's from Grandpa, probably a few hundred million," Pei Yanchuan said calmly.

But his words made the card start to burn in Xu Wang's hand. How was this a card? It was a mountain of gold!

Xu Wang's eyes turned into money signs.

Xu Wang tossed Mu Tingting's card aside and turned to gaze reverently at the black card in his hand.

A few seconds later, Xu Wang solemnly put the black card away. With this card, even if the villain could not defy his fate, they could live comfortably for the rest of their lives. Right, what was the interest rate on savings in this world again? He would have to look into it sometime.

Time ticked by, and the two soon arrived at Pei Yanchuan's current residence.

Pei Yanchuan currently lived in a small detached villa with its own yard. The exterior was entirely white, and its design leaned toward a modern style.

Just as Pei Yanchuan drove up to the entrance, Xu Wang noticed that someone seemed to be crouching outside.

Xu Wang looked thoughtful. He suddenly remembered that the original novel had mentioned that, by the time Pei Yanchuan married the original owner of his body, the protagonist bottom, Zhong Ran, and the protagonist top, Leng Yifan, had already tumbled into bed together because of an "accident."

Xu Wang curled his lip. Calling it an accident was putting it nicely. Bluntly put, it was lust at first sight, with both parties willing.

Xu Wang turned his gaze toward the main villain beside him. Although the author had written the villain as the protagonist bottom's childhood friend, there had been no romantic storyline between them. Under the author's pen, Pei Yanchuan came across as exceedingly cold, ambitious, and vindictive.

The villain was like a tool for advancing the romance between the protagonist bottom and the protagonist top. Whenever the leads argued, the bottom would come to the villain. Once the top found out, he could not stand it and would wildly "torment" the bottom, while his malice toward the villain steadily increased. Just imagine: every time you argued with your partner, he went to his childhood friend to complain. Anyone would see that childhood friend as a romantic rival.

When Xu Wang read it, he always felt that the protagonist bottom was doing it on purpose, as though he were using the villain to provoke the protagonist top.

Although the villain sternly refused to talk to the protagonist bottom every time, the protagonist top, who loved jumping to conclusions, never saw it. Oh, no, that was not quite right. Even if he had seen it, he might have turned around and blamed the villain for bullying his precious darling.

As Xu Wang thought about it, a trace of pity unconsciously entered his gaze as he looked at Pei Yanchuan. Oh my, what kind of poor little thing was this?

Of course, Pei Yanchuan noticed Xu Wang's gaze too. He was a little bewildered, but although his lips parted, he had no idea what to say.

The black sedan soon stopped in front of the villa.

Its headlights shone directly onto the person crouching by the entrance.

Outside the villa, Zhong Ran narrowed his eyes against the glare.

"B-Brother Pei..." Zhong Ran blinked and stood up, trembling all over as he walked toward the car.

A flicker of irritation crossed Pei Yanchuan's eyes when he saw Zhong Ran. He hated seeing Zhong Ran more than anything. Nothing good ever came of it. Although he had rejected him very clearly every time, and had even said he never wanted to see him again, Zhong Ran acted as though he had heard nothing and kept coming to him, whether he had a reason or not.

As a child, Pei Yanchuan had struggled to survive under Pei Father, his stepmother, and their boy-girl twins.

The Zhong family lived next door to Pei Father's family. They also had two children: the older one, Zhong Yuan, was an alpha, and the younger one, Zhong Ran, was an omega.

Ever since he was little, Zhong Ran had liked running back and forth between the two households. Back then, Pei Yanchuan had a hard life in the Pei Family, and Zhong Ran would self-righteously drag the twins along to play with him every time.

He gave it a fine-sounding justification: "We can't leave any child out."

In any other setting, no one could say those words were wrong, but in the Pei Family, they were torture aimed at Pei Yanchuan alone.

What they called playing together meant ganging up to toy with Pei Yanchuan. After every game, he would be covered in mud. When he returned home, his stepmother would make snide remarks, and once Pei Father heard them, he would curse him out without bothering to find out what had happened.

Pei Yanchuan watched Zhong Ran approach the car without any change in his expression or any intention of getting out. He merely lowered the window slightly, intending to make himself clear and tell him to get lost.

But the moment a crack opened in the window, a smell Pei Yanchuan found repulsive drifted inside: the overpowering pheromones of an unfamiliar alpha. Thinking of Xu Wang beside him, Pei Yanchuan immediately closed the window without the slightest hesitation. No matter how Zhong Ran pounded on it, he had no intention of opening it.

Pei Yanchuan's expression grew uglier and uglier, and an icy aura radiated from him.

Suddenly, a sweet wine fragrance drifted from Pei Yanchuan. Xu Wang twitched his nose. It seemed to smell like lychee wine. When Xu Wang had lived alone in the village, his favorite drink had been his homemade lychee wine. It was sweet and delicious.

Pei Yanchuan seemed to realize that his emotions had gotten the better of him and hurriedly calmed himself, trying to reduce the release of his pheromones.

Xu Wang blinked in confusion. Why had that lovely scent suddenly faded?

Outside, Zhong Ran was still pounding on the car door. As he stared at the tightly shut door, a trace of annoyance flashed in his eyes, and he began pounding even harder.

Hearing the noise from inside the car, Xu Wang instinctively reached out to open the door, but before he could reach it, Pei Yanchuan caught his hand and shook his head at him.

Xu Wang looked baffled. This guy was practically slapping us in the face. Why not just beat his ass?

Looking at Xu Wang's puzzled expression, Pei Yanchuan pressed his lips together. He admitted that his possessiveness was acting up. He did not want Xu Wang to smell another alpha's pheromones.

Pei Yanchuan said nothing. He simply took out his phone and dialed a number with practiced ease.

Pei Yanchuan spoke coldly, as though discussing business.

From Pei Yanchuan's conversation, Xu Wang learned that the person on the other end was Zhong Ran's older brother, Zhong Yuan.