Noodles on stage

    In the office of the North/American branch, Su Tai was sitting on the sofa drinking tea. The secretary had just postponed the flight back to China at Su Tai’s order.

    “Boss, the changes have been made. I will return to China in the afternoon in six days. Is there anything else that needs to be arranged?”

    “No, by the way, help me buy a set of hiking equipment. I’m going to go hiking with Edward tomorrow.”

    “Okay.”

    In order to return home early and squeeze out working time, Su Tai was busy with all the work. He worked early and late to finalize a cooperation worth more than 100 million US dollars. When he woke up, he said he was not in a hurry and asked him to change his ticket. I don’t know what happened again.

    The maple leaves on the street are clustered like fire. In the past few days, he has called Xie Qiao less, and Xie Qiao has not called him more. The photos sent by the bodyguard are either him studying and attending classes, or sleeping and partying with friends. Han Zheng appears too frequently.

    He thought that Xie Qiao really couldn’t live without him. In fact, it would be good if he left for a while and got used to it. There is no such thing as one being inseparable from the other. He smiled to himself. He and Xie Qiao were brothers. He had watched Xie Qiao grow up. He just wanted to listen to some words. A young man’s heart is like a floating cloud, and it will not just fall on one person’s head.

    The cell phone on the table rang, and Su Tai picked it up.

    Before he could speak, the anger on the other side burst out, “Do you know what Xie Qiao has been doing recently?”

    “Go to school.”

    “Going to school? Atai, your good brother doesn’t just go to school. He’s investigating my people.” Su Kun breathed heavily and calmed down for a while before asking, “Do you know why he met those people?”

    Su Kun said it in a vague way. His person was nothing more than his lover. Su Tai didn’t want to talk about what he had or didn’t have. He thought about it for a while and realized that Xie Qiao’s investigation into the cause of Xie Renqing’s death had suspected Su Kun.

    “I don’t know.”

    “He asked if he had been to Su’s house.” Su Kun continued, “I asked Xiao Qian. Xie Qiao went to the reference room not long ago.”

    Su Tai took a sip of tea and didn’t react much, “Yeah. Are you monitoring him?”

    “You can guess what I’m doing to spy on him. Just take a guess and you’ll know the tricks a child uses to play house.” Although Su Kun is lustful and carefree, in terms of ability, he is the heir trained by the Su family. It is impossible to maintain the Su family’s huge business without some tricks.

    Su Tai smiled. Xie Qiao was too reckless. He asked so blatantly for fear that Su Kun wouldn’t know. Su Kun was generous to his lovers, giving money to others and many people were devoted to him. Xie Qiao’s doing this was no different from telling Su Kun directly.

    “Father, when he grows up, he will know sooner or later.” The tea in the cup was gone, and Su Tai put it down and returned to the hotel.

    Xie Qiao was not reckless on purpose, but did it deliberately to show off to Su Kun. He just wanted to make Su Kun nervous and reveal his flaws. Although the Su family was powerful, Su Kun had a scandal first. Just spreading rumors like this, plus the reputation of [former Hengling Chairman] in the media, was enough to make him uncomfortable.

    But now Su Tai is in power in Heng Ling. He always wants to come up with a peaceful solution so that Su Tai will be unscathed. Don’t let all the hard work in Heng Ling go to waste.

    It was already evening when he came out of a lover’s community in Sukun. Xie Qiao was alone, gathering his clothes in the wind. The weather forecast said it would snow in a few days, and the first snow in the mandala came early this year.

    There is a reminder on the mobile phone calendar [My brother will return to China today]

    Su Tai did not come back today, and all his patience in waiting day by day was in vain. Too many days had passed, and he couldn’t bear it anymore, so he called Su Tai’s phone number.

    “Brother.”

    “Hello.” There was an unfamiliar female voice on the other side.

    Xie Qiao’s clothes were blown open by the wind, and the cold wind blew in. He was covered in ice from head to toe. “Who are you?” His voice deepened and he asked with doubt.

    “Who are you?”

    “Don’t you have any notes on your phone?”

    The girl seemed to have moved her phone away, and replied two seconds later: “He made a note of Xie Qiao.”

    “I’m his brother, what is he doing?” Xie Qiao’s hand holding the phone froze in the cold wind.

    “He’s taking a shower…”

    Before the woman could say anything else, Xie Qiao hung up the phone. The longing for him for days overwhelmed him, and his remaining strength supported him in getting into the car.

    The winter in Mandala was too cold and the car couldn’t start. Xie Qiao tried two or three times and found that his fingers were stiff. This was a symptom of the medicine he took last time.

    That’s it again.

    That’s it again!

    Xie Qiao abandoned himself and leaned back on his chair. His mind was filled with the sweet voice of the woman just now. Just one voice broke his dream and brought him back to reality.

    The glands were restless and the pheromones in the car were getting thicker. Xie Qiao reluctantly drove to a nearby five-star hotel, checked in and entered the room. He fell to the ground. Fortunately, the carpet in the suite was still soft and he would not be injured.

    A few minutes later, the hotel used a robot to deliver inhibitors. Xie Qiao looked at the slender needle and shed tears without warning. He wanted an alpha pheromone and was going crazy.

    As the cold medicine entered his body, Xie Qiao opened his clothes uncomfortably and groaned. He hated the way his omega was stuck in estrus, and hated the way he could only feel comfortable when being fucked by an alpha.

    He tried it on his own for a long time, but found that it was of no use. Chen Gong said that his estrus period was more difficult than that of a normal omega. According to Su Tai’s original date of return, he should ask Su Tai for a mark during his estrus period, but he was now having sex with another omega. He imagined that he was the omega being caressed, imagining his rich licorice smell, imagining his love words, his kiss, his body, everything was just imagination.

    His body was burning, his heart was torn in two, and his soul was suffering.

    He called his brother over and over again, as if he was praying. If he said it many times, his wish would come true.

    “Aqiao.”

    Xie Qiao answered the phone in a daze, and the voice from the loudspeaker woke Xie Qiao, who was about to lose his mind. His beautiful eyes slowly opened with wetness, and his voice was hoarse, “Brother.”

    Three hours have passed. Did Su Tai come to him only after it was over?

    “What’s wrong with you?” Su Tai noticed something was wrong with his voice and kept mumbling about his brother, which made Su Tai panic.

    Omegas in estrus are the most sensitive. Hearing Su Tai’s concern, Xie Qiao’s eyes shed tears and his body was completely released, falling limply to the ground.

    “Brother.”

    Su Tai’s tone became anxious, calling Xie Qiao’s name over and over again, “Tell me where you are, tell brother, eh? Ah Qiao.”

    “I’m… in the hotel… I miss you so much, why don’t you come back.” The moment Xie Qiao fell into a coma, he said his last words, “Why should you look for someone else.”

    As soon as he finished speaking, Su Tai never woke him up again. The woman next to him was wearing a hotel bathrobe, “What happened?”

    “If it’s urgent, you leave first.”

    Su Tai called his secretary to book the next flight, got dressed and ran out to the airport.

    But the Pacific Ocean is so wide that it is impossible for Su Tai to reach him immediately.

    When the bodyguard found Xie Qiao in the hotel according to the location given by Su Tai, he was already unconscious and was sent directly to the emergency room.

    When Su Tai arrived, Xie Qiao was already awake, sitting silently and wearing a hospital gown in the VIP ward of the private hospital.

    He didn’t even change his clothes, threw his luggage to his assistant and ran to the hospital, “Aqiao.”

    Su Tai entered the ward, and the fresh smell of lily filled the room. Xie Qiao turned around when he heard his voice, “Brother.”

    The voice was cold, but her eyes would still light up when she saw him, but immediately darken again.

    “The doctor has already told me, didn’t I leave pheromones for you? Why is it still so serious? Do you know that it is dangerous for you to run out alone and enter the hotel during your heat? Do you know how worried I am?!” Su Tai became more and more anxious as he spoke, and he was filled with fear when he thought about what happened last night.

    “I… I’m sorry, I just…” Xie Qiao’s eyes were wet, and he didn’t dare to blink for fear of falling. Su Tai’s face was blurred, “I called you last night, and someone else answered the phone. I don’t know why, why I lost control of my emotions when I heard that woman’s voice. I’m sorry, brother, I made you worry.”

    He lowered his head like a kid who made a mistake, and what he said cut into Su Tai’s heart, “I shouldn’t have called you, but I missed you so much. You said you would return home early to take me to see a doctor, but then you postponed it again. I saw a note on the calendar on my phone for the day when you would come back… I missed you so much that I called you. I didn’t mean it.”

    Su Tai’s heart was clenched and grinding, and his breathing was uncomfortable. He touched Xie Qiao’s head. Xie Qiao wanted to hug him but stopped. Su Tai pulled him into his arms, and the comforting pheromones filled the whole room.

    “Stop crying, brother will never fail to answer your calls in the future.”

    I thought my child didn’t need me anymore, but it turns out that leaving her for even one more second wouldn’t do.

    He held Xie Qiao in his arms and had only been away for more than a month. He was so thin that he could feel his bones, which made Su Tai hurt. “Brother, I was really wrong. I always failed to do what I promised you, and always made you hurt.”

    Xie Qiao’s face rested on Su Tai’s shoulder, and his whole body was soaked in the rich soothing pheromones, making him as comfortable as cotton. The heat flowed through his body, like the warmth baked by the sun, “Brother, I’m a little sleepy.”

    Su Tai let go of Xie Qiao, put him on the bed and covered him with a quilt, “Go to sleep, brother will stay with you.”

    “Will you leave?”

    “Not leaving.”

    “Really?”

    “Really.”

    After receiving Su Tai’s promise, Xie Qiao held his hand and fell asleep. Su Tai did not leave until his breathing stabilized.

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