The Unmarried Omega Falls into Being a Wife - Chapter 28
On the day Gu Pei returned, Lin Xunye unusually woke up early and moved his night work to daytime.
When the car drove near the villa, Lin Xunye’s ears, sharper than even a cat’s, immediately caught a sound and he ran out to wait for Gu Pei.
The car door opened, and along with Gu Pei stepped down a little white kitten that Lin Xunye had seen before.
The kitten was pure white all over, and as soon as it saw Lin Xunye, it meowed, adorable enough to melt his heart.
No one can refuse a kitten, and Lin Xunye was no exception.
His already fast steps sped up even more.
He walked over, but didn’t snatch the kitten straight from Gu Pei’s hands. Instead, he asked, “Back from your trip?”
Although it was a meaningless question, Gu Pei felt a subtle sense that Lin Xunye had been waiting for him all along.
For a moment, Lin Xunye’s vague silhouette overlapped with the person from his dream.
Now, Gu Pei was more and more certain that Lin Xunye was that person.
But he didn’t understand why their dream selves had ended up that way he just couldn’t figure it out.
Gu Pei suddenly wanted to grab Lin Xunye’s shoulder and ask all the questions.
Receiving no answer, Lin Xunye looked at him oddly.
Gu Pei came back to his senses, placed the kitten into Lin Xunye’s arms, and looked at him with deep eyes: “Yeah, it went smoothly.”
“Heard from the assistant that you wanted to see me?”
Lin Xunye paused as he nodded, then thought better of it. They were legally married, so maybe it was fine to say that.
“Yeah, something like that.”
He gently held the kitten, then as if deliberately hiding something, said: “The kitten is troublesome, so I’ll hold it for you for a while, then give it back.”
Gu Pei, seeing the joy in Lin Xunye’s eyes when holding the kitten, didn’t spoil the moment but smiled and asked, “Want to go buy cat food together?”
Lin Xunye stroked the kitten’s fur twice, “No, just call someone to deliver it.”
Gu Pei tried to invite him out: “…”
“Okay,” Lin Xunye said, patting cat hair off himself with a helpless smile.
The reply was as expected.
Gu Pei returned at a perfect time, just as the meal was served steaming hot.
The housekeeper was in a great mood when she saw him come in: “Mr. Gu is back! The food is just ready, come eat.”
“The young master heard you came back early and got up waiting, I’ve never seen him get up this early before.”
The housekeeper had worked for Gu Pei for seven years, and their relationship was more than just employer-employee more like family.
Gu Pei’s eyes shifted and fixed on Lin Xunye.
Lin Xunye’s spine stiffened; his stroking hand sped up a few times. He wanted to deny it but the fact was clear.
Hearing it from the housekeeper made it feel so wrong.
Lin Xunye forced a laugh twice, kept stroking the kitten, as if trying to distract himself. He wanted to brush it off, but Gu Pei’s gaze stuck to him without breaking away.
No choice, Lin Xunye turned his head away, his ears flushed red spreading to his cheeks, shyly muttering, “Something like that.”
Logically, it was not wrong.
He wasn’t lying either.
Lin Xunye walked quickly holding the kitten, sat at the table and picked up his chopsticks to eat, showing no intention of waiting for Gu Pei.
Gu Pei took off his coat and handed it to the housekeeper, then sat across from Lin Xunye.
Watching the other burying his face almost in the bowl, he served a bowl of soup and put it in front of Lin Xunye.
“Heard from the assistant you wanted to talk to me?”
Lin Xunye swallowed the last bit of rice left in his mouth and for once spoke seriously: “I want to ask you for a favor. If you have time, if not, then never mind.”
He put down his chopsticks and stroked the kitten’s back waiting for Gu Pei’s answer.
He hoped Gu Pei would have time; otherwise, he’d have to think of something else.
Gu Pei didn’t answer immediately but asked, “Is it something important?”
Lin Xunye: “Very important.”
Gu Pei understood and made up his mind.
“Okay,” he said, “I can help, but you have to promise me something of equal benefit in return.”
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, Lin Xunye knew that well.
So he wasn’t opposed to Gu Pei’s condition.
The negotiation moved from the dining table to the study. Lin Xunye held the kitten, absentmindedly stroking it.
Gu Pei had been silent since coming in, sitting quietly, looking serious but gentle.
Lin Xunye frowned, thinking hard, suddenly recalling a term he saw in a short video before “husband-feeling.”
His face flushed instantly, mouth twitching.
The kitten seemed affected by his mood, struggled out of his arms and jumped behind Gu Pei’s legs to hide.
Gu Pei noticed Lin Xunye’s odd behavior.
At that moment, his gaze shifted from the contract on the table to Lin Xunye’s face, his blue eyes moving slightly like a deep, unfathomable pool.
Lin Xunye leaned on the sofa playing with his phone, unaware of the expression in Gu Pei’s eyes.
He was a bit bothered by what Gu Pei said at dinner earlier.
Ten minutes later, after finishing the meal, Lin Xunye was about to leave with the kitten when Gu Pei suddenly said, “The kitten’s food is complicated, it’s best to buy it offline.”
Lin Xunye liked online shopping and rarely bought things in physical stores.
He didn’t agree with Gu Pei: “There’s a full set of recommendations on that app, can’t I just pick online based on that?”
Gu Pei’s tone became firmer, not allowing refusal: “My suggestion is to buy in a physical store. After all, cats aren’t humans and can’t be simply described with words.”
Lin Xunye, having never raised a cat before, was half-doubting.
But after browsing shopping apps, he realized how tricky it was. As a newbie, he was completely lost.
Yet he didn’t want to admit changing his mind to Gu Pei.
So he opened the reviews on his phone, hoping to find something fitting his expectations.
He didn’t even know how old the kitten was, just that it was a pure white little kitten.
After some hectic busy work, Lin Xunye sat with his head propped on one hand, staring blankly at his phone.
Gu Pei stood in front of him, snatched the phone and skimmed it.
“Cat Care Encyclopedia”
“How to Choose Kitten Food”
“Essential Gear for Cat Owners”
“What are you doing?” Lin Xunye snatched back his phone, muttering “Damn,” then pinched a small tuft of cat fur.
Gu Pei shouldn’t be allergic to cat hair, right?
Then why did his face look so sour? Did the company go bankrupt?
He stuffed the cat fur into his pocket and leisurely watched Gu Pei.
He wanted to see what this guy was up to.
Two seconds later, Gu Pei picked up some fur stuck on Lin Xunye’s neck and put it into his own pocket: “Decided?”
“What?” Lin Xunye asked reflexively.
Gu Pei: “About the favor, and the cat food.”
Lin Xunye frowned, clearly unhappy with Gu Pei’s tone. He suddenly stood up and moved out of Gu Pei’s personal space.
“Whatever.”
At a nearby large supermarket, Lin Xunye held the kitten and walked to the pet section.
His silver hair was dazzling, and as soon as he entered, a sales assistant noticed him.
“Sir, are you here to buy pet supplies?”
Lin Xunye looked at her in surprise, then nodded, “What should a cat this size eat?”
He lifted the kitten with both hands to show the sales assistant, who immediately understood and recommended several types of cat food.
Some were the same ones Lin Xunye had seen online, including a highly-rated one, but he couldn’t decide.
He was afraid to feed the kitten badly.
The assistant enthusiastically continued recommending.
After listening to them, Lin Xunye turned, accidentally bumping into Gu Pei’s shoulder.
The kitten meowed, and Lin Xunye instinctively clicked his tongue, his fist nearly hitting Gu Pei’s face.
“Why are you standing so close?”
He checked the kitten for injuries.
Gu Pei stepped back and looked at Lin Xunye’s hand stroking the fur, a silly thought popping into his mind:
Such beautiful hands, whatever they do must be beautiful.
“Gu Pei? Say something.” Lin Xunye frowned, annoyed.
Gu Pei quickly came back to reality, apologized, then asked the assistant for the kitten’s usual cat food and took Lin Xunye to checkout.
Lin Xunye didn’t say a word the whole time.
His only involvement was the beginning when he forgot everything the assistant said.
Coming out of the supermarket, Lin Xunye’s face wasn’t good.
Gu Pei was definitely toying with him.
Otherwise, if he was holding the kitten now, he would punch Gu Pei twice to make him recognize the consequences of teasing him.
Before he could act, Gu Pei suddenly pulled a delicate cat carrier from the trunk, decorated with a lavender flower.
“You can put the cat here if you get tired…”
Gu Pei’s words stopped mid-sentence.
Lin Xunye glared at him, shoved the kitten back into his arms, and turned to walk away.
Gu Pei stared, the kitten’s big eyes staring back.
Lin Xunye walked down the street holding an unlit cigarette. Passing a small alley, he suddenly stopped.
He stood at the entrance listening. The faint noises mixed with a woman’s screams growing louder.
He vaguely heard his name in the screams, as if deliberately called to him.
The woman’s voice was familiar the omega woman of Lin Youjia, the one he had kindly warned before.
The alley was deep and stretched out of sight.
Lin Xunye stopped for a moment but didn’t enter.
He called the police, gave a brief description of the address, and emphasized that he was a passerby and not to call him back.
Feeling a bit suspicious, Lin Xunye added, “If needed, call me. I’ll assist at the station.”
The screams inside continued endlessly.
Unable to bear it, Lin Xunye hung up and picked up a stone, throwing it into the alley.
The stone rolled deep inside and then silence.
The screams diminished, and footsteps sounded.
Lin Xunye slipped into a shadow, coldly watching the black-clad bodyguards rush out.
The leader was the same guard who had forcibly taken Lin Xunye from the apartment to the Lin family.
Also coming out were the woman and Lin Youjia.
The woman’s makeup was delicate, her arm marked with fresh finger marks, expression timid, but after linking arms with Lin Youjia, she tilted her head high, as if receiving a blessing.
As expected, this was all a conspiracy.