Chapter 67 He’s Not the Mistress

Chapter 67: He's Not the Other Man

Chen Su lied, denying it: "No."

Chen Su's voice trembled slightly, losing its clarity—too easy to tell over the phone. Chen Su knew this, but lying had become his habit that had built an impenetrable wall around him.

Even his lover was shut out.

"Chen Su, you can tell me anything." Zhao Jinzong paused. "Anything at all."

"It's nothing." Chen Su asked, "When will you be back?"

"In a couple of days."

"Mm, what time is it overseas?"

"Three in the morning."

"…………" Chen Su asked, "Zhao Jinzong, aren't you sleeping?"

"Just finished work."

"Get some rest. I'm about to sleep too." Chen Su lowered his voice, the faint crying in his voice now completely gone.

Zhao Jinzong paused. "Chen Su, you haven't replied to my message."

Chen Su then checked his phone and saw—there were unread messages from Zhao Jinzong.

"Mm, I'll be back in a couple of days."

"At home now?"

Zhao Jinzong's smartwatch could detect pheromones. When it detected pheromones, it would measure the concentration and send him a text. Ten minutes ago, he had received an alert about Sheng Beiqing's pheromones.

"Detected S4-level Alpha ambergris, concentration 8%"

Tonight, Zhao Jinzong had received the ambergris pheromone text, and a couple of days ago there had been jade tea and rosemary ones...

"Sorry, I only just saw it." Chen Su didn't want to mention Sheng Beiqing in front of Zhao Jinzong.

"I'm home. Uncle Wen sent me back, and I haven't gone out since." Chen Su emphasized, "I didn't sneak off to the experimental base."

"Mm." Zhao Jinzong's voice was tired and lazy. "Is it okay if we stay on the phone while we sleep?"

"Huh?" Chen Su was stunned for a few seconds. "Okay."

Chen Su and Zhao Jinzong rested with the call still connected. He heard the sound of Zhao Jinzong opening and closing a door—probably returning to his bedroom. After the noise faded, only the sound of each other's breathing remained on the phone.

Chen Su said, "Goodnight."

"Can you tell a story?"

"Huh?"

"I have a headache."

"Want to hear *Basic Chemistry*? The medical edition."

Zhao Jinzong laughed. "Chen Su—"

"... I didn't read many storybooks when I was a kid. This is all I can remember now."

"Alright."

"The connection between medicine and chemistry began in 1911, when Polish chemist Funk discovered vitamins, opening the study of nutrition and disease..."

"..."

Chen Su recited from the historical origins to the chemical essence of life without pause, as if reading from a book. The other end of the line was very quiet. After ten minutes of speaking, Chen Su slowed his pace and lowered his voice. Worried that Zhao Jinzong hadn't fallen asleep yet, he kept going for a full half hour before stopping.

He didn't hang up. Instead, he said softly, "Goodnight, Zhao Jinzong."

Chen Su fell asleep. The next morning when he woke up, there was an unread message from Zhao Jinzong on his phone.

"It's going to rain in the capital soon. Don't go out at night. Chen Su, be good."

Uncle Wen brought breakfast. Seeing Chen Su refreshed and in good spirits, he smiled and asked, "Good morning, Mr. Chen. You seem in a great mood—any good news?"

Chen Su let out a light laugh but didn't answer.

Uncle Wen dropped Chen Su off at the Drug Supervision Bureau. Chen Su got out of the car, clocked in at the office building, and ran into Ning Congnan. Ning was heading to Chen Su's No. 5 experimental base to deliver documents to Tanzhou. The two walked together toward the base. At the entrance of the No. 5 experimental base building, they saw Sheng Beiqing.

Ning Congnan was stunned at this man who had come back from the dead. Instinctively, he looked toward Chen Su.

Chen Su's jaw was tight, his expression blank. His eyes were shadowed by his lashes and hair, making his emotions unreadable. But when he spoke, his tone was cold with disgust: "Are you that free?"

The coldness in his words was even more intense than when he had seen his thesis—Chen Su had only been astonished at how incomplete and inferior the thesis was.

But now, Chen Su's tone toward Sheng Beiqing seemed to be visceral disgust.

Entirely unlike the rumors of them being deeply in love.

More like enemies!

"Honey, I came to bring you breakfast." Sheng Beiqing said with a smile. When his gaze fell on Ning Congnan, his eyes darkened. "And this is?"

Sheng Beiqing's look was piercing. Alphas had a strong possessiveness toward their partners, naturally generating hostility toward anyone around them.

Ning Congnan was about to explain.

"This is a serious experimental base. No non-professionals allowed."

Chen Su dropped this remark, brushed past Sheng Beiqing, and swiped his card to enter the base.

Ning Congnan caught a glimpse of a flash of stiffness and anger on Sheng Beiqing's face. Without saying another word, he hurriedly followed Chen Su's steps.

Once they reached the second floor, Ning Congnan finally asked, "Senior, aren't you... happy?"

Shouldn't Chen Su be happy that his husband had come back from the dead?

Chen Su glanced at Ning Congnan.

A chill went down Ning Congnan's spine: "………………" He seemed to have said something wrong.

Ning Congnan parted ways with Chen Su, but after delivering the documents, he returned to the lab to find him. "Senior, don't be angry. I was stupid and said the wrong thing."

Chen Su was arranging reagent bottles without even lifting his eyelids.

Ning Congnan said, "Senior, I'll treat you to dinner tonight to make up for it."

Chen Su: "Scram."

Ning Congnan was not upset but instead happy: "Oh... okay!" The fact that his senior was still yelling at him meant things weren't beyond repair.

Meng Suizhi asked, suspicious: "What's going on? This kid... is there something wrong with his head?"

Chen Su frowned: "Sheng Beiqing is downstairs just now."

Meng Suizhi choked before he could even take a sip of water: "Huh? Isn't he... how did he..."

Chen Su: "It's probably a secret mission. It has nothing to do with me."

Meng Suizhi was silent for a moment. "You don't like him."

Chen Su corrected: "To be exact, I loathe him."

"Did he cheat?"

"No." Three seconds later, Chen Su said: "Strictly speaking, I was the one who cheated."

From a legal standpoint, Chen Su couldn't really be considered a cheater. When he got together with Zhao Jinzong, he'd already updated his marital status.

Meng Suizhi pursed his lips. "Then General Director Zhao..."

Chen Su defended: "He's not the other man."

Meng Suizhi felt Chen Su was clearly more protective of Zhao Jinzong than he'd ever been of Sheng Beiqing, his ex-husband.

"Does General Director Zhao know about Sheng Beiqing's return?"

"Yeah."

"No wonder you have to suck up to General Director Zhao." Meng Suizhi finally understood, reminding him: "That won't be easy to smooth over."

"I'm going to file for divorce in the Alpha Federal Court."

That evening, Chen Su wrote the divorce application, hired a lawyer, drafted the contract, and hand-delivered it to Sheng Beiqing in the same city. He didn't want to wait a single second longer.

This action once again infuriated Sheng Beiqing.

When Sheng Beiqing saw the divorce papers, he flew into a rage and tore them up.

While he was out on a mission, Chen Su and Zhao Jinzong were going at it in the next room. He was so angry he threw things, but he held it together. He promised Chen Su that as long as Chen Su was willing to come back, he wouldn't say a word. But now, Chen Su wanted a divorce!

Was Chen Su that impatient? Did he not care about anything else and just had to be with Zhao Jinzong?

That was it... In the two years of their marriage, Chen Su had never once been allowed to stay overnight at the Chen residence.

Zhao Jinzong and Chen Su had only known each other for six months, and as soon as they got together, he moved right in.

If Sheng Beiqing had known earlier how devoted Chen Su was to Zhao Jinzong, that he could never win him over or take his place, he should have consummated the marriage long ago. Why did he have to be a gentleman for two whole years?

Well... it's not too late now.

Chen Su was still his spouse.

He still had a chance... still had a chance... Maybe if he was good in bed, he could make him submit...

Or maybe, if Chen Su slept with him just once, he'd be too ashamed to go back to Zhao Jinzong.

Sheng Beiqing felt like he was going crazy.

He'd gone crazy!

His husband cheated, and his family friend fought over him!

He couldn't be any crazier!

Sheng Beiqing swore he'd have Chen Su, no matter what!