One-way Passage

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Afterwards, he suddenly felt a little skeptical and couldn’t help asking, “You’re interested? Aren’t you scared of dad knowing?”

The smile on Yin Zejing’s face remained unchanging.
“Doesn’t matter.
I’m not that interested either, I mainly wanted to let you know that the photographer for today’s shoot is Duan Ning.”

Xia Wennan leaned backwards, reclining in his chair.
“Oh—” He remembered what Ming Qin had said the night of the Ming family dinner, but he didn’t expect that Ming Luchuan would actually follow through and invite Duan Ning to shoot a commercial for Ming Yan’s new product.

Well, compared to Li Xin, a complete no name to Xia Wennan, Duan Ning was someone of a little more interest to him, but that was all.
Nothing more.

“I don’t want to go,” said Xia Wennan.

Yin Zejing upped the ante.
“Ming Luchuan should also be going.
He’s probably gonna get dinner with Duan Ning tonight.”

Xia Wennan’s brow faintly furrowed as he looked at Yin Zejing.
He was somewhat annoyed, but not because he suspected that there was something going on between Ming Luchuan and Duan Ning—he was annoyed at Yin Zejing’s dubious manner of speaking.
Every time someone desperately tried to convince him that Ming Luchuan was having an affair with Duan Ning, whether he believed it or not, he was treated as if he was a complete moron who had been betrayed.

Yin Zejing drove to the photo studio, while Xia Wennan sat in the front passenger seat.
The vehicle was what Yin Zejing drove to work; a luxury car with an unobstrusive exterior.

“Is this your car?” Xia Wennan asked, even though he already knew the answer.

“It’s Qin ge’s, of course,” said Yin Zejing.
“He lent it to me for work.”

Xia Wennan asked him a question that had long been festering in his heart, “Won’t you feel uncomfortable, using his car?”

Yin Zejing’s hands were gripping the steering wheel, his gaze fixed ahead.
Upon hearing Xia Wennan’s question, he barked out a laugh.
“Nope.
We all take what we need, right? Doesn’t dating me make Qin ge happy?”

“Are you really an alpha?”

“Mm, that’s why I like omegas, especially powerful ones.
Pursuing omegas is in an alpha’s nature.”

“Are you trying to hint at something?”

Yin Zejing smiled and said, “Hint at what?”

Xia Wennan cut straight to the point.
“You’re implying that if Ming Luchuan were a normal alpha, he’d prefer omegas.
Come to speak of it, it’s really quite funny how you guys don’t seem to be optimistic about my relationship with Ming Luchuan.”

“You guys? Me and who else?”

“You and Ming Siyan,” Xia Wennan said.
In reality, he had another person in mind—He Yufeng—but since Yin Zejing didn’t know him, he didn’t bother to mention him.

Yin Zejing nodded.
“Isn’t that normal though?”

“How so?”

“Don’t conflate yourself with Ming Luchuan, view yourselves as separate individuals.
You should understand why we don’t want you two to be together then.”

Xia Wennan fell silent.

Yin Zejing steered the expensive car.
He waited for two cars to overtake him before continuing on his way and saying, “At the moment, Qin ge owns the majority of Ming Yan’s shares.
Ming Luchuan and Ming Siyan are both his sons, but their relationship is purely a competitive one—do you think that Ming Siyan genuinely cares about his big brother’s wellbeing? Now you, on the other hand… You invented pheromone perfumes, and you’re one of the best perfumers in the industry.
Ming Yan’s success and status today are entirely due to you.
The company can’t exist without you.”

Xia Wennan didn’t speak, staring intently at the road ahead of him.

“Right now, with the patent and technology for pheromone perfumes in his pocket, Ming Siyan is working with a new team to develop new pheromone perfumes, but his results have been far from ideal, and he’s hesitant to put them on the market.
The entirety of Ming Yan still resides on your shoulders.
Just think about it, wouldn’t Ming Siyan want you to abandon his brother?” Having said that, he turned to glance at Xia Wennan.
“Wennan, you can feel it.
We’re friends, I get you.”

“Ming Siyan told me that he was my best friend,” said Xia Wennan.

Yin Zejing laughed upon hearing this.
“He’s lying to you.
I know that you don’t actually believe him.
Look, Ming Siyan was just not clever enough, which is why Ming Luchuan succeeded in obtaining you and Ming Yan.”