Damn it, I'm surrounded by insane Alphas!

The car drove smoothly on the way back, but my mind was in turmoil at times.

The five male leads—Gu Chen, Fu Yanshen, Lu Lin, Cheng Ye, and now Wen Yiheng—have all appeared.

If they all gathered together...

Shi Ran shuddered violently; he simply couldn't bear to imagine that scene.

As he was thinking, Gu Chen suddenly spoke up, "Don't go to the company today, go home and rest."

"oh."

Just as Shi Ran breathed a sigh of relief, her mind suddenly exploded the next second.

Go home?! Lu Lin is still at home!

If Gu Chen insisted on escorting him upstairs, or even letting him sit inside...

Shi Ran immediately waved her hand, "I can go back by myself, Mr. Gu, you don't need to see me off."

Gu Chen glanced at him sideways: "You still look terrible."

"Really, there's no need to go to that trouble..."

Gu Chen said calmly, "I'm already sending it."

Gu Chen was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly spoke: "Shi Ran, what are you panicking about?"

Shi Ran's heart skipped a beat. "I'm not panicking. I'm just... I'm just embarrassed to keep bothering you..."

Gu Chen's curt, icy question struck Shi Ran: "Are you hiding someone in your house?"

Shi Ran, feeling as guilty as a Border Collie that had done something wrong, looked out the window, "What does Mr. Gu mean by this...?"

Gu Chen ignored him and simply sped up a bit.

It’s over.

Shi Ran quickly reached for her phone, thinking of sending a message to Lu Lin, telling him to get lost.

When I pressed the screen, the phone ran out of power and shut down!

He almost fainted as well.

Gu Chen parked the car and saw him holding his phone, his face pale. "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, my phone just died."

Even now, his voice is trembling.

"Go up and charge it."

Gu Chen unbuckled his seatbelt and got out of the car first.

Shi Ran followed behind him, and in the quiet stairwell, he could even hear his own heart pounding wildly.

Seeing that his fingers were twisted together in nervousness, Gu Chen assumed he hadn't recovered from the examination, so he reached out and patted his back. "Was it too painful during the examination?"

It doesn't hurt... I just ran into my ex-husband...

"No, I'm just being too sensitive."

Gu Chen had no idea what was going on, and seeing Shi Ran like this, his eyes softened a little.

"It's all over, everything's alright now."

This gentleness was like adding fuel to the fire for Shi Ran at that moment. He walked to his front door and, with trembling hands, tried to press the keypad.

Beep—Error!

Beep—Error!

Beep—Another error!

Gu Chen watched as he entered the wrong number three times in a row. "What? Don't you want me to come in?"

Shi Ran had no choice but to bite the bullet and enter the correct password.

He pushed the door open first, deliberately raising his voice: "President Gu! Please go back to the company! There are so many things waiting for you to handle!"

Hopefully, Lu Lin will understand his hint and quickly find a place to hide!

But Gu Chen seemed not to have understood his order to leave and naturally followed him in.

"No rush."

Shi Ran inwardly groaned: You're not worried, but I am!

Gu Chen loosened his tie and walked around as casually as if he were in his own home.

Shi Ran's heart rose and fell with his steps.

Gu Chen walked to the center of the living room and glanced at the cat tree.

Tangyuan, probably startled by the unfamiliar and powerful Alpha aura, jumped out of its nest and looked at Gu Chen warily.

For the first time ever, Gu Chen squatted down, seemingly wanting to touch it.

Shi Ran's heart jumped into her throat. Lu Lin had just held Tangyuan; could the cat have picked up his pheromones?!

Gu Chen's hand froze in mid-air, his nose twitched almost imperceptibly, and his brows furrowed again: "What's wrong with this cat..."

Shi Ran was so frightened that she almost stopped breathing.

Oh no! We're going to be found out!

Gu Chen continued, with a hint of disdain, "Does she look a bit clumsy?"

Shi Ran: "..."

He was momentarily at a loss for words, unsure whether to feel fortunate or speechless.

Gu Chen's gaze didn't linger on Tang Yuan for long before sweeping towards the bedroom. He had felt something was off about the bedroom when he came to pick her up earlier.

Shi Ran saw him walking towards the bedroom, and her heart almost stopped.

He rushed forward and blocked the bedroom door.

"President Gu!"

Shi Ran tilted her head back, looking somewhat pitiful, and her voice softened a few degrees, "Actually... today's checkup wasn't that painful."

Gu Chen paused as he was about to open the door, then looked down at the person beneath him.

Seeing that this tactic seemed to be working, Shi Ran immediately switched to full acting: "But whenever I feel wronged, the first person I think of is you..."

He knew Gu Chen was very susceptible to this.

After a few seconds, Gu Chen spoke calmly, "Is this something an assistant should say?"

"Um?"

Gu Chen shifted his gaze from his face and added in a calm tone.

"Aren't we boss and assistant? Isn't what you're saying a bit too ambiguous?"

This time, it was Shi Ran's turn to be stunned.

Damn it, what the hell are you pretending to be so high and mighty for?!

You're not the one who'll be sharing a bed with me in Bali!

It wasn't you who pulled me onto your lap to coax me!

You're not the one who's always available to pick up and drop off your car!

Shi Ran cursed inwardly, but outwardly appeared bewildered. "I'm sorry, Mr. Gu, I overstepped my bounds..."

Gu Chen was just teasing him; it was his own fault for pretending to have amnesia and putting on such a show.

However, he didn't have time to care about that right now; he was just more curious about what was hidden in the bedroom.

The next second, he pushed open the bedroom door.

"President Gu! No..."

Shi Ran was so frightened that she closed her eyes in despair.

Did this iconic scene come so suddenly?

The expected drama didn't seem to happen. He opened one eye shakily, and the bedroom was empty.

There was no sign of Lu Lin at all.

Gu Chen's eyes scanned the area like radar, but he found nothing unusual.

He turned to look at Shi Ran with a slight frown. "What's wrong?"

Shi Ran awkwardly made up a story, "I haven't tidied my bedroom...it's so embarrassing."

Gu Chen's tone was flat, "Back at home, what kind of person haven't I seen you like?"

Shi Ran felt a sudden tightness in his chest, a subtle, unsettling feeling washing over him.

They spent half an hour in this anxious and apprehensive manner, sometimes using all their acting skills to feign weakness and exhaustion, and finally persuaded the Buddha statue to leave.

Hearing the elevator descend, Shi Ran immediately rushed to find the charger, just as her phone was about to turn on...

Click.

The door behind me, which wasn't properly closed, was opened again.

Lu Lin stood in the doorway, staring at him with a dark expression. Shi Ran only cared about one question at that moment: "Lu Lin?! Where did you hide just now?"

Lu Lin was too lazy to explain. He had originally thought that Shi Ran was not feeling well after the physical examination, so he specially asked a friend who knew how to make soup to take him to the supermarket.

You have no idea how difficult it is to find someone among his group of cronies who can cook.

When I heard he was going to make soup for someone, I thought he had hit someone and sent them to the hospital, and now he was trying to curry favor with them.

When they heard he was pursuing an Omega, they teased him for a long time.

I had just returned from the supermarket with bags of groceries when I ran into Gu Chen's car in the underground parking garage.

He quickly ran upstairs and hid in the stairwell on the floor above.

As a result, he ended up squatting there for half an hour.

Half an hour...that's enough time for his mother to do it once.

Before Shi Ran could explain, Lu Lin strode in and hoisted him up by the waist.

"Hey! Lu Lin, let go of me!"

Lu Lin ignored his struggles, walked straight into the bedroom, and threw him onto the bed.

"Lu Lin, you..."

Shi Ran was so dizzy from the fall that she was about to get up when Lu Lin pressed her down on top of her.

Her burning lips pressed down on his with a punitive intent.

"Hmm..."

The kiss was filled with jealousy and anger, domineering yet deep.

Shi Ran was kissed until her limbs went weak, her consciousness blurred, and she was almost suffocating before being released.

Lu Lin pressed his forehead against his, breathing heavily, his eyes dark as he stared at his swollen lips.

"This is also a rental apartment. You haven't forgotten what you're supposed to do in a rental apartment, have you?"