A Fatal Attraction from Lawyer A - Chapter 39

“I was terrified! I just passed the CEO’s office and heard Young CEO Luo lose his temper so badly. I could hear it through the door. This is the first time I’ve heard Young CEO Luo tell Assistant Xu to scram. Young CEO Luo has never been like that, no matter how angry he was before.”

“Don’t even mention it. This morning, I brought coffee to Young CEO Luo. One moment he said it was too hot, the next it wasn’t cold enough, then it was too bitter. When I added creamer, he said it was too sweet.”

“…Am I not worse off? Young CEO Luo caught me binge-watching a drama yesterday. All my performance bonus this month is gone.”

“So, what is wrong with Young CEO Luo? He’s usually not like this. At least he never flares up over small things. I accidentally overheard that Young CEO Luo seemed to be angry because Assistant Xu arranged for him to have dinner with Miss Jiang from the Jiang Group tonight, and then Young CEO Luo started yelling.”

“Miss Jiang? Is that the blind date that Mr. Luo arranged for Young CEO Luo last year?”

“Yes, that’s her.”

“Assistant Xu wouldn’t dare arrange something like that casually, would he?”

“Nine times out of ten, Mr. Luo arranged it. How could Assistant Xu dare?”

The two secretaries didn’t dare slack off in the pantry for too long. Just as they were about to leave, they bumped right into Gu Yuxi face-to-face.

Meeting Gu Yuxi’s indifferent, expressionless gaze, their hearts skipped a beat.

“Arranged a blind date for Young CEO Luo?”

It was a calm, almost neutral question, yet the two felt an unbearable pressure, as if they were the ones who had arranged the blind date for Young CEO Luo.

Gu Yuxi looked at the two young secretaries. Seeing that they were speechless for a long time, he slightly reined in his emotions. He nodded and indicated he was leaving, then walked toward Luo Panzhi’s office.

Before hearing about the blind date, he had heard the secretaries discussing Luo Panzhi’s temper tantrum.

Luo Panzhi’s temper had indeed been irritable and anxious recently, just like when he first arrived, throwing fits almost daily. Although he hadn’t lost his temper at him, Gu Yuxi could feel that something was off. The main sign was that Luo Panzhi hadn’t been keen on cuddling and sleeping together these past few days.

In fact, he’d woken up several mornings to find the spot next to him empty.

He woke up early enough, but Luo Panzhi woke up even earlier. Normally, the guy would be eager to roll around with him in bed a few times, but these past few days had been abnormal. He didn’t demand anything from him and had even started giving him gentlemanly kisses on the cheek.

So, what was going on? Was it because Mr. Luo had arranged a blind date for him and he didn’t know how to tell him about it?

Or was it…

Was he hesitating about something?

Xu Wen, who had just left the CEO’s office, ran right into the approaching Gu Yuxi. He quickly waved his hand at him, then rushed up to Gu Yuxi, looking tense:

“Lawyer Gu, I advise you not to look for Young CEO Luo right now unless it’s an emergency. His temper is really bad, I mean really bad.”

Gu Yuxi saw the fear in Xu Wen’s tone: “What’s wrong with him?”

“Sigh. This morning, Mr. Luo sent me a message saying he arranged dinner for Young CEO Luo with the eldest daughter of the Jiang Group tonight. So I went to tell Young CEO Luo about it, but the moment I spoke, Young CEO Luo yelled at me.” Xu Wen rubbed the back of his head in distress: “I’ve never seen Young CEO Luo so fierce and volatile. He almost flipped the desk.”

“I see.” Gu Yuxi made a gesture to knock on the door.

Xu Wen quickly grabbed Gu Yuxi’s hand, shaking his head frantically, and whispered: “Lawyer Gu, I advise you not to go in. Only Mr. Luo can control Young CEO Luo’s temper right now.”

“It’s alright. You go back to work.” Gu Yuxi smiled warmly. After saying that, he raised his hand and knocked on Luo Panzhi’s door.

A moment after the knock, a volatile voice came from inside the CEO’s office.

“Didn’t I say not to disturb me?! Get out, all of you!!!!”

Hearing that voice, Xu Wen instinctively flinched, shrinking his neck. He looked worriedly at Gu Yuxi, seemingly thinking that this man was truly reckless, daring to provoke an enraged beast.

“It’s me, Gu Yuxi.” Gu Yuxi responded calmly.

Inside the CEO’s office: “…”

Xu Wen: “…?”

Two seconds later, from inside the CEO’s office: “Please come in.”

He was no longer the angry Young CEO Luo from moments ago; he was practically an intangible cultural heritage inheritor of ‘face-changing.’

Xu Wen: “???”

Gu Yuxi pushed the door open and quietly closed it behind him.

Xu Wen stared intently at the door, his expression serious: “…” The blatant favoritism is too much.

Meanwhile, inside the CEO’s office—

The moment Gu Yuxi stepped in, he saw scattered documents all over the floor, and Luo Panzhi leaning back in his chair, his shirt loose and his expression irritable.

The space was filled with an anxious Alpha pheromone scent. Perhaps because he was highly sensitive to Luo Panzhi’s pheromones, he could sense the frustration and anxiety Luo Panzhi was transmitting through his scent.

This made him feel that the pheromone lacked its usual tenderness and instead carried a hint of repulsion.

He suppressed the suspicion in his heart, bent down, and picked up the files by his feet: “What’s wrong? Why such a huge temper tantrum?”

Luo Panzhi’s expression softened slightly when he saw Gu Yuxi. Seeing him picking up the files he had thrown in his fit of anger, he said: “Don’t bother with those, just leave them.”

“So, are you really angry because Mr. Luo arranged for you to go on a blind date?” Gu Yuxi picked up all the documents. He walked to Luo Panzhi’s side, casually leaned against the desk, put the files down, and looked down at him: “Or is it because you didn’t know how to tell me you have to have dinner with another Omega tonight? If it’s about that, you could just tell me. It’s not a big deal.”

Luo Panzhi seemed surprised by Gu Yuxi’s response, and this answer immediately triggered the tendency for his suppressed irritability to erupt. His eyes darkened. He reached out and tugged Gu Yuxi into his arms.

“What did you say?” His deep voice held a hint of anger.

Gu Yuxi quickly put his hands on Luo Panzhi’s shoulders, pressing one knee against the space under Luo Panzhi’s chair. Feeling the man’s strength, he met the anger in Luo Panzhi’s eyes, confused: “Why are you angry at me? Did I arrange for you to go?”

“Aren’t you jealous? I’m going on a date with another Omega?” Hearing Gu Yuxi’s flippant words, an inexplicable frustration swept over Luo Panzhi’s rationality. He reached out and pinched Gu Yuxi’s waist, forcefully pulling him closer.

The hand pinching his waist showed no restraint. Gu Yuxi winced and frowned in pain. He met Luo Panzhi’s rhetorical question with a cold laugh: “Would my jealousy help? We haven’t made our relationship public. To outsiders, we have no relationship at all. Furthermore, Mr. Luo is forcing you to go. Can you refuse? If I said not to go, would you defy Mr. Luo for me?”

After speaking, his face hardened, and he tried to pull Luo Panzhi’s hand away.

Why was he throwing a fit at him for no reason? Wasn’t he allowed to be angry too?

Seeing Gu Yuxi trying to push his hands away, Luo Panzhi quickly wrapped both arms around Gu Yuxi’s waist, shifted forward slightly in his chair, and pressed his face against Gu Yuxi’s abdomen. He said nothing, just holding Gu Yuxi, refusing to let him go.

Gu Yuxi didn’t move, letting him hold him, but remained silent.

The two fell into a heavy silence.

This was the first time since they had been together that they had started arguing for no apparent reason.

Luo Panzhi seemed to realize his inability to control his temper. He looked up at Gu Yuxi, who was looking away with an expressionless face, feeling both distress and an uncontainable urge to be angry.

What was wrong with him?

Why was he acting unlike himself?

Why was he inexplicably losing his temper all the time?

The person he was holding right now was Gu Yuxi. Why couldn’t he suppress his anger even towards Gu Yuxi? In fact, these past few days, he felt restless and agitated whenever he got close to Gu Yuxi.

It was an instinctive rejection, and even…

Physical repulsion.

This is bad.

No, he had to let go of Gu Yuxi.

Gu Yuxi felt Luo Panzhi’s hands around his waist slowly loosening. His expression froze, and his eyes rippled.

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have lost my temper at you. I won’t go tonight. You go back to work. I need some alone time.” Luo Panzhi immediately released Gu Yuxi. He stood up and walked toward the lounge.

Bang! The lounge door was slammed shut with force.

Gu Yuxi looked at the forcefully closed door, as if unable to believe it. He was clearly standing inside the room, yet the door felt as if it had coldly and ruthlessly shut him out.

Just days ago, he was still enveloped by Luo Panzhi’s warmth, and today, all that warmth was withdrawn.

“…Luo Panzhi.”

What in the world is wrong with you?

He lowered his eyelids and laughed self-mockingly. Then, he turned and left the CEO’s office.

In the dimly lit lounge, Luo Panzhi leaned against the door. Hearing Gu Yuxi’s retreating footsteps, he could no longer support his body, which felt close to bursting from the heat of his rage. He slowly slid down the door to the floor.

Internal fear and emptiness swept over his rationality. A sudden burning sensation felt like a rope tightly strangling his neck. His heart pounded fiercely in his chest, the sound as loud as a drum.

He tilted his head back, pressing his hands tightly against his forehead to try and alleviate the pain. The veins on his neck bulged, but he couldn’t stop the cold sweat from dripping down his forehead.

“—If your susceptible period comes and there’s no Omega to soothe you, you will begin to reject Yuxi’s Alpha pheromones and even hurt him. This isn’t what you intend, but it’s the repulsion between Alphas determined by genetics.”

“—But aren’t he and I 100% compatible?”

“—Don’t forget, Yuxi is a secondary differentiated Alpha. That data is based on his compatibility with you when he exhibits Pseudo-Omega symptoms during a rise in pheromone concentration. Since his gender is now Alpha, the recorded data appears to be dual-Alpha compatibility. In reality, as an Alpha, he cannot possibly have compatibility with you.”

“—Then what should I do if my susceptible period comes?”

“—Youpan, if you love him, please keep your distance from him during your susceptible period, or you might lose control and accidentally hurt him.”

Luo Panzhi lifted his head and let out a choked laugh: “…Why?” The cold sweat sliding down his forehead gradually soaked the collar of his shirt. The beast inside his body, about to tear him apart, grew increasingly frantic.

So, what should he do?

What should he do about this pain?

“Panpan, I’m not angry. Please open the door.”

The lounge door was suddenly knocked, and Gu Yuxi’s voice came through. The voice was so gentle.

Didn’t he leave?

Luo Panzhi’s body, leaning against the door, instantly froze. It was as if he captured that Alpha Juliet pheromone scent, but his body instantly decomposed it into the pheromone scent Gu Yuxi had during his pseudo-heat—the Omega Juliet pheromone.

At this moment, the urge to possess and consume inside his body became even more frantic.

He wanted to possess. He wanted to penetrate.

But he couldn’t.

He buried his head between his arms, the muscles in his arms beneath his shirt tightening. He bit down hard on his teeth to endure, yet he couldn’t stop his lips from trembling. He silently begged Gu Yuxi to leave, warning himself not to open the door.

“Have you been upset these past few days because of this and didn’t know how to tell me? You could have just told me directly. You said you didn’t want to go, but Mr. Luo forced you. I trust you, and you don’t need to worry that I’ll be angry. I’d only be angry if you didn’t tell me.”

The voice outside the door was softer than usual. He was the one who was wrong. It was his fault, yet Gu Yuxi had come back to comfort him. Luo Panzhi’s eyes were completely red.

…Go away. Don’t be so gentle with him anymore.

“Panpan.”

Luo Panzhi couldn’t bear it anymore and bit down on his own arm, trembling all over from the pain.

“Baobao.”

Luo Panzhi gasped violently.

“Will you just hug me?”

This one sentence seemed to completely shatter Luo Panzhi’s sanity. He lifted his head, his eyes crimson, and against his own will, he choked out a reply toward the door: “…Scram.”

Baobao, please leave quickly. Do not come near him now.

Gu Yuxi didn’t seem to hear. He reached out to push the door open, but in the next second, he heard a hysterical roar:

“Gu Yuxi, I told you to scram! Didn’t you hear me!!!”

The roar, transmitted through the door, slammed heavily into the person outside.

Gu Yuxi’s outstretched hand froze in mid-air. His mind went blank instantly. He stared at the door in disbelief. The suppressed sadness could no longer be hidden, and his eyes welled up with moisture:

“…Luo Panzhi, what the hell is wrong with you?”