SDT 16

Chapter 16 I’m sure he wants to… 

After work, Lu Kongyun packed up and left the institute. When he left his desk, he turned around and took out the wristband from the drawer and put it on. Then he set up the wristband monitoring permission on his phone: On. 

He drove to Wax Apple Lane. This time the blackmailer did not come out to pick him up, and he went upstairs by himself. When he arrived at the door, he shifted the large reference book he was holding to his other arm, freeing one hand to knock on the door. After knocking a few times, the door opened. 

The blackmailer stood at the door, clutching the towel on his chest, staring at him closely, with no expression. 

Sure enough, something was wrong. The feeling he had about the blackmailer on the phone in the afternoon was not wrong. Lu Kongyun did not step into the room for a while, but stood at the door, examining the blackmailer. 

After a while, the blackmailer smiled: “Doctor Lu, we are so familiar with each other, why are you still so distant like last time?” 

Lu Kongyun looked at him and walked in slowly. 

The small room was damp, and some moisture was drifting out of the bathroom. The tips of the blackmailer’s hair were dripping with water, soaking his thin, light-colored, short-sleeved T-shirt. His shorts were also short, barely covering his legs. 

“Just got out of the shower,” the blackmailer said casually. “You got here quicker than I thought.” 

Lu Kongyun looked away, walked over to the table, and put down his large reference book. 

The blackmailer turned and headed for the bedroom. “Please sit down first.” 

As the blackmailer entered the bedroom, the sounds of drawers opening and wrapping paper could be heard from the room. 

Lu Kongyun glanced at the table. On it lay a package of food: porridge, pickles, and steamed buns. It looked like breakfast, but it was untouched. There was a note next to it. He picked it up and read it. It read: “Brother Xiaowen, eat something when you wake up. I’ll be back to the bureau. Call me if you need anything.” He looked at it for a moment, and the blackmailer came over to him, lowered his head, and read it with him. Lu Kongyun saw a dark red inhibitor patch on the back of his neck. 

“You don’t need to put this at home. I told you,” Lu Kongyun said. 

“Really? Who was that righteous paragon of morality who got me horny last time, forced me to take tranquilizers, and then snooped through my phone?” the blackmailer asked. “I don’t want to wake up to find you turning my house upside down again.” 

“You haven’t eaten the breakfast he bought you yet.” Lu Kongyun lifted the note. “Milk tea?” 

“Huh?” the blackmailer carefully examined the words on the note again. “Isn’t that steamed buns?” 

“I mean the milk tea-flavored Alpha,” Lu Kongyun said. 

The blackmailer was stunned for a moment, then laughed. “His name is Xu Jie, and milk tea… How can you call someone Alpha directly by the smell of pheromones? You’re shameless. You’re giving me diabetes. Do you have the same fetish as your father?” 

“… Stop the bullshit.” Lu Kongyun frowned, crumpled the note, and threw it away before sitting down. 

He said coldly, “Let’s get started. I postponed tonight’s video meeting.” 

The blackmailer sat beside him, his light-colored eyes fixed on his chest, then his cheeks, then his lips, then raised his head to look into Lu Kongyun’s eyes. 

He tapped the table with his fingertips, leaving damp marks: “It’s hard to summarize the smell of Dr. Lu’s pheromones. Or maybe it’s because I haven’t smelled them enough.” 

Lu Kongyun couldn’t say that he smelled them enough and he just didn’t remember. He looked up at the blackmailer from the information: “Pheromone is not perfume, I’m higher than him.” 

“Look.” After he said this stupid thing that made people suspect he had a ridiculous sense of superiority, he immediately pointed to a title: “This is a pheromone matching reagent, type IV. It is used to test the degree of pheromone matching between Alpha and Omega. Through professional instruments, the matching degree can be expressed in the form of a ratio.”

“Oh. I seem to have heard of this thing.” So the blackmailer also put his eyes on the information, “Some AOs will do it before marriage, like a new trendy premarital examination.” 

Lu Kongyun did not comment on this trendy behavior. Instead, he said: “This drug was mass-produced two years ago. It is the legal biochemical drug with the largest overseas export volume among the new drug types of M Country pharmaceutical companies in recent years. This drug regulatory approval number is in line with international standards. So I think the importance of screening all drugs with this approval number can be put on hold.” 

Lu Kongyun pointed to a relatively long paragraph of text, then opened his large reference book, searched and pointed to a string of characters: “This should be an experimental product of a targeted drug, used to inactivate a certain type of proliferating cells. The mark in the information means that the experimental process has reached the ‘third phase’, which means that it is currently under research and development and has not yet been put into production. But inactivated targeted drugs are very popular now, and you can pay more attention to this kind of mark that has reached the third phase or above.” 

The blackmailer did not speak, but just looked at him intently. 

Lu Kongyun: “Don’t you understand?” 

“…I do.” The blackmailer came back to his senses, his eyes softening, his lips curled up. He said, “It’s better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Doctor Lu is amazing.” 

Lu Kongyun: “So you really understand?” 

“Hmm…” The blackmailer looked at the information, leaning towards him and tapping on an entry. “So you should pay attention here, too. What does the previous one mean?” 

Lu Kongyun looked down at the entry, then opened the reference book. 

There was a moment of silence. Only the sound of turning pages remained. The blackmailer’s fingertips glided silently across the table. Under the veil-like shadow of the breakfast plastic bag, he gradually approached Lu Kongyun’s fingers holding the page edge, lifted them, and then moved away. 

“This is a chemical substance commonly used in the development of drugs that have been controversial in ABO ethics. This controversy was reported on TV many times recently. Well, this drug deserves more attention.” Lu Kongyun encouraged. “Not bad. You can do it.” 

Then he lowered his eyes to look at him. The blackmailer leaned too close, and the steaming water almost soaked his reference books. 

“Be careful with my book. It’s out of print,” he said. 

The blackmailer stepped back. After a few seconds, he reached out and touched Lu Kongyun’s belt buckle. Lu Kongyun looked at the hand that suddenly stretched out to him. 

“Belt,… nice,” the blackmailer commented. He lowered his hand. 

Lu Kongyun looked down at the metal belt buckle with the military insignia on it. A fingerprint mark, a symbol of warmth, was gradually fading. He replied, “It’s issued by the army. Don’t you have one too, but yours is a police badge.” 

The blackmailer looked a little surprised. 

Then he said, “Oh. Yes.” 

He bit his lip and looked into Lu Kongyun’s eyes again. 

He suddenly stood up and walked to the bathroom. 

“…” Lu Kongyun watched the blackmailer’s reckless back disappear through the small door. 

Then he looked down at his belt buckle again. After a few seconds, he adjusted the wristband’s strength. 

After a while, the blackmailer emerged and plopped down on the sofa, legs apart. He picked up a cigarette and a lighter from the coffee table, snapped them together anxiously several times, lit them, and puffed. 

“What’s wrong with you all of a sudden? Is there a pheromone imbalance?” Lu Kongyun shifted his gaze from the shadow between his legs to his face. 

The blackmailer let out a loud breath and said, “Doctor Lu, we’ve been seeing each other for a while now. I’m an okay person, right? I’m very honest. As long as you listen, I won’t make things difficult for you. Right?” 

“…” 

Lu Kongyun chuckled softly in response.

“Stop laughing! Come here,” the blackmailer ordered. 

Lu Kongyun walked over and sat beside him, a puff of pale blue smoke immediately lingering around his face. He fanned himself, “Drug addiction, tobacco addiction, you really don’t care about the quality of your life at all.” 

The blackmailer paused, then pressed the remaining cigarette to his lips and clamped it between his teeth. Then he glanced at Lu Kongyun sideways, “My quality of life isn’t focused on that right now.” 

His tone and eyes suggested a deeper meaning. 

“So you have to be obedient,” the blackmailer admonished him slowly, word by word. “Lu Kongyun, if you…be obedient, I won’t embarrass you again.” 

He moved closer, his eyes shifting, his pupils seemingly dilated. 

“You don’t have to explain this to me again.” Lu Kongyun used his index and middle fingers to remove the cigarette butt from between the blackmailer’s lips, weighing it for a moment before switching to his index and thumb to crush it into the ashtray. 

“I see you’re having a lot of fun. Okay, I’ll keep you company. I want to see what you really want.” 

“…” The blackmailer jumped up again and went to the bathroom. 

Lu Kongyun took out his phone and sent a message to Gao Yuting. 

Lu Kongyun: I’m with my rut target¹ right now. I’m wearing a wristband with pheromone level monitoring and alarm permissions enabled.

Gao Yuting: …Did you see the target again on the day you took off the bite-blocker? 

Gao Yuting: Thank you. Thank you for being so willing to take care of my business. Second Young Master 

Lu Kongyun looked at this sarcastic remark and typed a reply: I had to.

Gao Yuting: Is it for work again? 

Lu Kongyun: For some reason. In short, it was not voluntary. 

Gao Yuting: [Life is Hard Emoji] 

Gao Yuting: But if it’s just a normal meeting, you should be able to handle it. 

Lu Kongyun: Not necessarily. 

Lu Kongyun: I’m sure he’s deliberately seducing me. 

Gao Yuting: … 

Gao Yuting: Uh. Are you sure you can feel when someone is seducing you? This doesn’t quite fit my common sense. 

Lu Kongyun: Mm

Lu Kongyun typed: In fact, this person has always been there, and then deleted it. 

Lu Kongyun: In short, my rut target is not an ordinary person. And I will attend the training at the Central Military Academy in two days. To be on the safe side, I want to make an appointment for treatment tomorrow.  

Gao Yuting: Okay. Let me take a look at the monitoring data of your wristband first.

It’s very fast. Gao Yuting replied: I saw it. It’s okay, your level is stable at the moment. There were two high points within ten minutes just now, but they are all within the range, so there should be no problem. 

Lu Kongyun replied: Really? 

Gao Yuting: I will continue to look at the data. If there is a problem, I will prompt you. 

Lu Kongyun: Thank you.

1. Rut Target: The original Chinese term “易感对象” (yìgǎn duìxiàng) literally means the person someone becomes sensitive or reactive to during susceptibility period. ↩︎