I Was Scammed By A Snow Leopard cub - Chapter 17

Chapter 17 – A Gift

On the other hand, Xie Yingcheng’s mood was not very good.

There was still at least a month left in his susceptible period, but he suddenly lost control in the morning.

He seemed to scare Luo Yu, his expression was panic-stricken, but he was in a hurry to go to the hospital and had no time to take care of Luo Yu.

As a result, he ran into Duke Bradley again in the hospital.

“What a coincidence! Isn’t this Admiral Bourne? Oh, no, it seems that I can’t call you admiral now.”

Xie Yingcheng didn’t want to pay any attention to his sarcasm, but he had to stop and pretend to be nice to him. The sudden susceptibility phenomenon made him feel very uncomfortable, but Bradley saw it and delayed it for a long time.

When he finally arrived at the Information Department, Xie Yingcheng was barely able to stabilize himself after taking two shots of powerful blocking agents.

Not long after, Xie Yingcheng received another call from Wen Yan.

His voice was indignant: “Ah Cheng, are you in the military hospital? As soon as you resigned, that old guy Bradley became more and more aggressive and started to talk about your pheromones everywhere.”

Xie Yingcheng’s eyes darkened slightly: “Don’t worry about him for now. What happened to the batch of drugs that we secretly investigated before?”

When it comes to business, Wen Yan immediately becomes serious and solemn: “I found out where the money is going. It’s a very famous club on the main star, which only receives wealthy people and nobles. The boss behind it is still unknown, but the youngest son of the Bradley family is a frequent visitor there. I plan to go check it out tomorrow.”

Xie Yingcheng drove the hovercraft in another direction: “You continue to investigate the buyers behind the scenes, and I’ll go and investigate.”

Wen Yan hesitated and said, “Okay, but are your pheromones really okay? If Bradley hadn’t embarrassed you the day before yesterday, you wouldn’t have been exhausted and now you’re in the hospital… Alas, even though you’ve resigned, Bradley is very cautious and hasn’t let down his guard. If you alert the enemy, it will be more trouble than it’s worth.”

Xie Yingcheng sneered, “Didn’t he use my pheromones as an excuse? He spread the word that my pheromones were running wild and I had to stay at home to recuperate and couldn’t go out.”

Wen Yan was surprised: “Are you sure? Pheromone rampage is no small matter. The people in the control department are very difficult to deal with. If they judge the situation to be serious, you will never be able to return to work again.”

“I can handle it,” he answered briefly, seeming confident.

Wen Yan could only reluctantly believe him and asked about other things: “There have been so many things going on these days that I forgot about them. I didn’t have time to ask you yesterday. How is Xie Anxing now? Is he doing well at home? My mother just came back from a trip and keeps talking about him.”

Xie Yingcheng said, “I found someone to take care of him.” Without waiting for Wen Yan to ask further, Xie Yingcheng suddenly asked back, “What do omegas like?”

Wen Yan thought he had heard wrongly: “What did you say?”

Xie Yingcheng paused and said, “Forget it.” Then he hung up the phone.

Wen Yan, like him, has been in an army full of alphas for more than ten years. It would be better to ask Wen Qiu instead of asking him.

Just as the sky was getting dark, Xie Yingcheng came back with a paper bag in his hand.

Luo Yu and Tuantuan had just finished dinner and were playing together in the living room. Xie Yingcheng’s appearance made Luo Yu suddenly feel uncomfortable.

The accident that happened in the morning was still vivid in Luo Yu’s mind. Just when Luo Yu didn’t know how to start, Xie Yingcheng walked straight over and put the paper bag in front of him.

Tuantuan, who was lying on the carpet, tilted his head: “Meow?”

What is this? Is this something that Father gave to Tuantuan?

The cub’s eyes sparkled slightly, with anticipation in his eyes.

Luo Yu was also looking at the paper bag: “Admiral, what is this?”

“Gift.”

The omega could just consider it as an apology for scaring him this morning.

Luo Yu didn’t think twice and naturally pushed the paper bag to Tuantuan.

He thought to himself that Xie Yingcheng really loved his cubs, but he seldom expressed it in words.

Xie Yingcheng froze for a moment. He opened his lips to say something, but saw the cub carefully fiddling with the paper bag with its claws, with undisguised excitement in its eyes.

Xie Yingcheng: “…”

Never mind.

He took out his terminal, entered the amount, and transferred the money. The whole process is as smooth as flowing water.

The terminal rang and Luo Yu glanced at the message: “……?”

He looked puzzled: “…Admiral?”

Why transfer money to him again?

Is it because there is too much money and nowhere to spend it…?

Xie Yingcheng remained calm and said, “Buy a barrier agent.”

Barrier agent?

Luo Yu belatedly recalled what happened in the morning, and his whole body stiffened. It took him a long time to utter:

“Okay, okay.”

There was only half a meter between him and Xie Yingcheng, but they could hardly smell anything from each other. It must have been because they had each dealt with it.

Silence suddenly fell between the two of them, leaving only the sound of Tuantuan trying to tear open the paper bag with his teeth.

The cub tried to hold the ribbon with his canine teeth, but failed. He then tried to use his claws to cut open the package, but his nails had just been trimmed and were still round and smooth, so he failed as well.

The cub couldn’t open the paper bag and was so anxious that he stepped on Luo Yu, asking for help.

“Meow-woooo!”

Tuantuan can’t open the paper bag…! Is there anyone who can help the little one?

Luo Yu reacted and pulled with his fingertips, and the wrapped ribbon slipped off easily.

The cub meowed and ran into the room with the paper bag in its mouth.

The little cub has a happy back – this is a gift from his father! We must protect it well!

The cub ran away, leaving Luo Yu and Xie Yingcheng alone.

Luo Yu suddenly realized that the cub was not present, which was a good opportunity to ask Xie Yingcheng.

“Admiral, when we were playing games yesterday, was Tuantuan a little scared of his peers?”

Xie Yingcheng paused slightly, and turned around to leave, sitting down opposite Luo Yu: “Yes.”

“What is the reason?”

Xie Yingcheng raised his head and looked in the direction of the cub’s room, and said slowly: “He was bullied by his peers before.”

Luo Yu immediately reacted: “So this is also the reason why you make him take online classes and hire a tutor at home?”

Xie Yingcheng nodded slightly.

As if he didn’t want to say anything more about it, he suddenly knocked on the low table in front of the sofa.

“Did you put away the chessboard?”

Luo Yu choked: “Yes, I was afraid that Tuantuan would accidentally touch it when playing, so I put it back where I put it before.”

Xie Yingcheng did not feel angry or dissatisfied about this. He just said “hmm” and turned to walk to the other side of the first floor.

Subconsciously, Luo Yu stopped him: “It’s not good to drink when you are susceptible to sudden illness.”

Xie Yingcheng stopped.

Luo Yu was greatly embarrassed and racked his brains to find a plausible excuse for his sudden words.

“Uh, well, I…”

He seemed to hear Xie Yingcheng chuckle.

Then he turned around and walked slowly to the second floor: “Staying up late is not good.”

There was a rare hint of joy and relaxation in his voice.

“Go to bed early.”

Luo Yu returned to his room in a daze. After thinking carefully, he realized that he didn’t get much useful information from the brief conversation tonight.

He just knew that Tuantuan had been bullied before and was afraid to get along with people of his own age, but he didn’t ask anything else.

It’s too difficult to know anything from Xie Yingcheng.

As long as the Admiral didn’t want to say anything, Luo Yu wouldn’t be able to ask him anything, and the plan would fail in the preparation stage.

Luo Yu sighed, turned off the light and prepared to rest, but suddenly there was an urgent knock on the door.

He went to open the door curiously, but found Tuantuan holding a paper bag with tears in his eyes and a look of grief and indignation on his face.

Father’s gift is not for little kids!!

A silver watch fell out of the paper bag, obviously an adult model.

Unsure what was going on, Luo Yu picked it up and put it away, then immediately went to comfort the aggrieved little kid. While Tuantuan was sleeping soundly next to him, Luo Yu was thinking…

So the gift is for him?

He sent money and a watch as a gift, what does he mean?

He remembered that when they were chatting not long ago, Xie Yingcheng deliberately changed the subject and avoided talking about the details of the cub.

‘Does he think I talk too much?’

‘Now he is using money to keep me quiet. If I continue asking and annoying him, he might kill me to silence me, right…?’

Luo Yu pinched the baby’s paw pads and shuddered.

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The next day, Luo Yu discovered that the chess game that had lasted for two nights had been updated again.

The white piece seems unwilling to wait there any longer, and takes a step sideways, ready to launch an attack, putting the black piece in a dilemma.

‘If we move forward, we will have to face off head-on; if we retreat, all our previous efforts will be wasted and we will lose the hard-earned situation.’

For the first time, Luo Yu was in a dilemma.

After careful consideration, he decided to take the risk and stick to his original idea – to lure the enemy deeper into his territory.

Although he moved sideways and gave up the position he was occupying, Luo Yu had his own plans in mind.

This move was very clever. On the surface it was to avoid the enemy’s sharp edge, but in fact it was quietly stepping on the weak point of the opponent’s flank. If the opponent pursued relentlessly, there would be a chance to take advantage of it to cut off the main force in the rear in one fell swoop.

After playing chess, Luo Yu raised the corners of his lips in satisfaction and began to look forward to the coming of night.

Xie Yingcheng left early as usual. But today was a little different from the past. He changed out of his semi-permanent military uniform and appeared in casual clothes.

He wore a simple black shirt without a tie, and his silver-gray hair was half loose, adding a sense of laziness to his temperament.

Just when Luo Yu thought that today would pass as usual, when Wen Qiu left in the afternoon, he suddenly took Tuantuan away with him.

“In fact, my wife just returned from a trip to another star system. She was always thinking about the little guy, so she told Ying Cheng that she wanted to take him over to take care of him for a night. Xiao Luo has been working hard these past few days, so let’s take today as a day off and have a good rest.”

So Luo Yu suddenly had a whole night of free time, but he was at a loss as to what to do.

He felt very uncomfortable without a chubby little cub running around in the huge living room.

If this continues, after the seven-day employment period is over, it will probably take him a long time to adapt to living alone again.

Thinking of this, Luo Yu sighed.

Just when he didn’t know what to do, the terminal suddenly rang.

It was Pei Kong, whom he had arranged to meet a few days ago.

“A’Yu A’Yu! I’ve finished writing a new song! Are you free now? Do you want to come out and relax together?”