DDT - Chapter 135

Chapter 135: Interstellar ABO (20)

Looking at the label "Person to Acquire" marked on the video zone, Yi Shuhan had a vague guess in her heart, but she didn't dare to believe it.

For so many years, Yi Wen had followed behind her like a gentle older brother. Sometimes, when the family had troublesome matters that required Yi Shuhan to handle, she would rest assured letting Yi Wen resolve them for her, and Yi Wen had never disappointed her. Whether big or small, almost no errors ever occurred in the matters that passed through his hands. When her father had originally assigned Yi Wen to follow her, it was with the intention of grooming Yi Wen into a capable confidant for the next head of the family.

Yi Wen had never disappointed her father or her. In these later years, Yi Jun no longer intervened in the interactions between Yi Shuhan and Yi Wen. Yi Wen was someone Yi Jun had watched grow up and had personally cultivated. Yi Jun prided himself on seeing through Yi Wen's character thoroughly—warm, kind, respectful, thrifty, and yielding. Yi Wen had done very well in all aspects; he was never arrogant or rash, possessing a maturity far beyond his peers since childhood.

This was the young and promising Alpha of the Yi family, trusted for years by both the current head of the Yi family and Yi Shuhan. He was an Alpha with unlimited future prospects. As long as Yi Shuhan took over the position of family head, he would be the favorite in the eyes of the head of a super family in the Blue Star Alliance, beneath only one person and above ten thousand. He would have wealth, he would have power, he would inevitably have a life of glory, and he would inevitably have beautiful wives and concubines.

In any aristocratic family, for any person, such a prospect would only make them work even harder to complete their duties, striving to become more excellent and capable, so that the family head and clansmen would trust them more. Only in this way would they have the capital to stand firm before the family head and possess supreme voice and dominance within the family, second only to the head.

But now, this Alpha, Yi Wen, who appeared incomparably loyal to the family head and to Yi Shuhan, had actually done something to betray Yi Shuhan and Yi Jun. More importantly, he had betrayed the Yi family.

He could have chosen another master within the Yi family, and Yi Shuhan would only have felt that her own ability was insufficient to keep him. However, this incident had exceeded the scope of the Yi family. Yi Wen's actions indicated that he had defected to another aristocratic family. This was what Yi Shuhan could not tolerate the most. The Yi family had always been the core of the Alliance. The resources the Yi family could command in today's Alliance far exceeded many people's imaginations. As Yi Wen had followed the family head for many years, Yi Shuhan didn't believe he didn't understand this well enough.

By betraying the Yi family, what exactly could he obtain that the Yi family couldn't give him?

Although she already had some guesses in her heart, Yi Shuhan calmed herself down and opened the video zone labeled "Person to Acquire."

There were many, many small sub-partitions in the video zone. Perhaps for ease of management and concealment, many photos were also placed inside. Upon counting, there were roughly over six thousand videos and over seventy thousand photos.

Did he want to acquire many people? With so much recording material.

Clicking open a small sub-partition at random, familiar faces appeared on Yi Shuhan's massive operation screen. These faces looked somewhat immature. As long as Yi Shuhan hadn't gone blind, or hadn't suffered heavy trauma and lost her memory like Chi Junluo, she could be absolutely certain that the subject of these videos and photos was herself from seven or eight years ago.

Unknowingly, Yi Shuhan's face had already turned cold. She opened these videos simultaneously. The videos were displayed one by one on the huge screen, all of them her daily life. Her eating, her drinking water, her developing mecha in the research lab, her occasional visits to the mall—almost every move of hers had been recorded. The length of each recording was roughly four or five hours.

Perhaps she had been accustomed since childhood to the gaze of that Alpha subordinate always lingering on her. So, for so many years, with her level of Mental Power, she had actually never discovered that the Alpha Yi Wen had been using an intense gaze to mask the fact that he was secretly filming her.

A chill crept up Yi Shuhan's back. She closed the videos in this partition and carefully checked the notes on each small sub-partition. The earliest ones actually started secretly filming when she was eleven years old!

At that time, she was still so small, just an ordinary child, undeveloped and not yet grown. Yet, an Alpha who was already approaching his twenties and about to become an adult had actually set his unspeakable sights on her young self so early!

A wave of nausea surged to her head. Yi Shuhan shook her head. These videos and photos had recorded almost all of her unnutritious daily life.

Looking at herself as a child from more than ten years ago, Yi Shuhan simply couldn't see what kind of attraction such a child could have.

She quickly backed out. The subsequent partitions were labeled with some ghost-drawing talismans she couldn't quite understand. Clicking in, she found categorized and edited videos and photo albums.

A collection of eating, a collection of sleeping, a collection of researching mecha, a collection of spacing out, a collection of living and attending class at school, and some compilations of strange body parts.

There were hands, feet, her slender neck when she looked up, hair strands, mouth, and eyes.

Especially when she saw a giant photo densely stitched together entirely from her own eyes, and a video lasting six or seven hours spliced together from her blinking eyes, Yi Shuhan finally couldn't bear it and waved her hand, clearing all the open interfaces.

Looking at the empty operation screen interface, Yi Shuhan had to drink a couple of mouthfuls of iced juice to calm her nerves.

"Person to Acquire." The person Yi Wen wanted to acquire was her, Yi Shuhan.

She had also seen many people posting words about unrequited love and being liked on their accounts or in the plaza while browsing the Star Network.

Many people enjoyed the feeling of being liked by others or being pursued by those who liked them. Yi Shuhan always just looked and scrolled past. From childhood to adulthood, no one around her had ever said they liked her or pursued her; not even one person had given her a gift. It wasn't until she met her Chi Chi later that her world gradually gained more color and tone.

Because she never had experience, and she liked to devote herself entirely to various strange mecha researches, she actually failed to realize Chi Chi's deepening feelings for her year after year. She had also asked Yi Wen, whom she treated as a brother, and the answer she received was that Chi Chi was just an ordinary friend to her.

Yi Shuhan thought of the videos she had just seen and sneered in her heart. She had actually been so simply deceived for so many years by this subordinate sent merely to assist her!

Recalling many details she had ignored in the past, she was surprised to discover that for so many years, she had been influenced by Yi Wen imperceptibly.

It was Yi Wen who told her not to have too much contact with people outside. Yi Wen emphasized Yi Shuhan's identity as the eldest young miss of the Yi family and the Yi family heir time and time again with a worried tone.

Whenever someone wanted to interact with her or be friends with her, Yi Wen would appear in a timely manner, constantly emphasizing her "noble" status, and releasing the information he found: this Omega was a child of which family, that family had always wanted to climb up the social ladder to the Yi family but failed; or that Beta was obviously coming for Yi Shuhan's money, and Yi Wen would immediately display the contrast between that Beta's living expenses/pocket money and the pocket money she could command.

Yi Wen had always used rhetoric that was gentle and seemingly considerate of her and the Yi family to quietly influence Yi Shuhan's judgment of these people and things. Because Yi Wen was a member of the Yi family like her, and was her father's most trusted subordinate, even if Yi Shuhan occasionally had doubts, she chose to listen to Yi Wen's "suggestions" in order not to bring trouble to her family by associating with incorrect people.

As this happened many times, rumors gradually spread that she was indifferent and kept people a thousand miles away, or that she was too conceited and looked down on making friends. Over time, the "superfluous people" in Yi Wen's eyes no longer appeared around her. As for the occasional Beta or young Alpha who inevitably became attracted by Yi Shuhan's inadvertently revealed temperament or gradually outstanding appearance and wanted to confess or pursue her, they were all settled by Yi Wen before they could even approach Yi Shuhan.

Because she had no normal social interactions, and Yi Shuhan liked to coop herself up in the research lab fiddling with strange little gadgets, over time, no one was left around her. Her parents had their own responsibilities to bear and didn't have much time to accompany Yi Shuhan, so she became even more withdrawn.

This was, on the contrary, the result Yi Wen wanted to see.

If he wanted to obtain Yi Shuhan, he couldn't let others have the chance to approach Yi Shuhan. Originally in his plan, Yi Shuhan would always do the things she liked under his "protection." No one could get close to Yi Shuhan, and he would always be by Yi Shuhan's side, helping Yi Shuhan handle various family affairs. After long-term loneliness, Yi Shuhan would eventually take her dependence and habituation to him as her only salvation and love. He could then naturally possess her, obtain her, and occupy her body and mind.

Yi Wen understood Yi Jun's love for Yi Shuhan very well. The Yi family was powerful and didn't need to wrong the Omega children in the family to engage in any marriage alliances. Even if the branch families occasionally engaged in such things, the legitimate main family would absolutely not wrong their own precious child. As long as Yi Shuhan showed affection for him, as long as Yi Shuhan felt she had fallen in love with him, then the Yi family head would absolutely not obstruct their marriage. What's more, he was an excellent Alpha with both Double-S Class Mental Power and physique!

He calculated all of this comprehensively. Even if he had to wait another ten or fifteen years, he was willing. He watched helplessly as the beloved Omega became withdrawn little by little. He had also watched her suffer in loneliness at night. He had even boldly sneaked to her bedside, watching the weak Omega girl being tortured to tears by nightmares night after night.

He stood right by her side, a satisfied smile hanging on his face in the darkness. The Pheromones escaping from an aroused adult Alpha drifted around Yi Shuhan, who was immersed in nightmares, stimulating Yi Shuhan's body. Only when she woke up from the nightmare with a start would Yi Wen gently leave while Yi Shuhan's guard was at its lowest. At that time, the young Yi Shuhan couldn't yet distinguish the smell of Pheromones; she only knew she repeatedly had strange nightmares.

Yi Wen carefully plotted all of this, and these actions also achieved initial results. Yi Shuhan gradually approached him, told him some of her own matters, and spoke of some of her thoughts. As long as he disguised himself as an understanding older brother and helped answer questions and solve doubts as someone who had been there before, he could cheat Yi Shuhan out of her sense of identity and trust.

Later, Yi Shuhan would also tell him that she was very lonely. Yi Shuhan would say she felt this world only had herself left.

Yi Wen would appropriately close the distance between the two, yet not cross the bottom line. He would release a small amount of Pheromones to carefully wrap the air around Yi Shuhan, and then use a tone carrying loss and a bit of desolation, which he had rehearsed countless times at home, to sigh gently. Then, pretending to be profound, he would reveal the truth, "Someone like the Eldest Miss who bears heavy responsibilities is inherently different from ordinary people. People standing at the center of the vortex of power have always been an isolated island. They can only let the giant waves strike. If you withstand the monstrous waves, Eldest Miss will stand forever at the center of power, and no one can defeat you. But if you fail to withstand it, you can only be smashed to pieces in the vortex, and no one can save you."

Yi Shuhan was sensible and knew her father's well-intentioned efforts in insisting on placing her in the position of heir to the enormous Yi family, but she didn't like loneliness. She seemed to be always waiting for someone's arrival, but she didn't know who that person was.

She was afraid she would be swallowed up completely by the boundless loneliness before waiting for that person.

She turned her head wanting to speak, but Yi Wen seemed to have read her thoughts. He said that even if the Eldest Miss was an isolated island acting involuntarily, he, Yi Wen, would definitely split the wind and waves to accompany the Eldest Miss by her side forever, fighting the stormy seas together with her.

The Pheromones in the air became rich little by little. Yi Shuhan, who had already begun to enter adolescence, only felt her heartbeat accelerate slightly. At that time, she still didn't understand what was going on.

Yi Shuhan crossed her arms over her chest. Thinking back carefully, there was indeed a period of time when she interacted relatively closely with Yi Wen. She wasn't a fool; it was just that those days were too dark for her. Catching a glimpse of light with great difficulty, she had foolishly leaned in.

Thinking of that pile of recording materials taken like a crazy stalker, she only felt fortunate. Ultimately, she had escaped a disaster because of her Chi Chi.

If she had continued to be brainwashed by the traitor of the Yi family with wolfish ambitions, perhaps she would have already become a puppet without independent thought by now.

She was in no mood to flip through the contents of Yi Wen's terminal anymore. Presumably, there wouldn't be anything good in the terminal of such a perverted traitor.

After calming down for a while, Yi Shuhan still opened the communication correspondence records in the copied terminal.

The communication records saved in the terminal were completely different from the squeaky-clean state she had imagined. Although there was nothing suspicious on the surface, she still found communication records spanning four years hidden by Yi Wen in the bottom layer of a program called "Home Recipes." From the year 1321 until the current year 1325.

Initially, it was ordinary communication with the same person named Nim Derian. Yi Shuhan simply looked at the time; the frequency of communication wasn't high at first, sometimes even only once a month. Later, it gradually became frequent. It could be seen that the relationship between the two began to heat up. By this year, their contact could be said to have become extremely frequent. Someone who didn't know the inside story would definitely think this was the romantic evolution of two young people, from trying it out at the start to passionate love later. Unfortunately, Yi Shuhan happened to know that this person named Nim, bearing the surname of the Derian family, was one of the outstanding figures of the younger generation of the Derian family. He was the thirteenth child of the currently popular Admiral Torr Derian. Although Admiral Derian was a bit old, there was no sign of him retiring from the position of Derian family head. He could still run wild for at least another ten or eight years. Therefore, the battle for the successor of the Derian family was very fierce. As of this year, the heir to the Derian family had not yet been determined. There were about seven Alpha children who held an advantage in the competition for heir. These news weren't secrets; many gossipers on the Star Network were discussing the struggles of these aristocratic families. Netizens specially established relevant plazas to discuss the internal strife of the Derian family. Yi Shuhan would also look at these boring posts in her leisure time. Although she hadn't specifically researched it, her photographic memory still allowed her to remember the names of several Derian juniors fighting for succession.

So Yi Wen had mixed himself up with a succession candidate of the Derian family.

In the communications of the recent few months, besides Nim Derian's, there were also communication records with some names she didn't recognize. It looked like they were already hitting it off hot and heavy. Yi Shuhan did a simple search on the internal network; most of them were people inside the military, with ranks ranging from high to low.

Not much information could be seen. Yi Shuhan clicked open the communication records. Some were recorded videos, some were simply a few words. Most were arranging for drinks, and the address was Blue Star Haitian.

Hastily flipping through all the text messages, all the addresses were Blue Star Haitian, and all were Room SS01.

It seemed Yi Wen was quite alert. From the very beginning, he had kept all communication messages. This address should be the place they met and communicated. Hidden inside such an inconspicuous program, it was indeed almost impossible to discover. Yi Wen would also occasionally post gourmet food he made himself on the Star Network. Generally, no one would think much of seeing the "Home Recipes" in his terminal.

Next, Yi Shuhan checked the recent messages and organized them simply. Roughly starting from a year ago, the frequency of interaction rose in a straight line. Starting from half a year ago, people from the military successively began to contact him. There wasn't much useful information in the text data, but the not-too-many videos revealed information about Nim Derian trying every possible way to rope in Yi Wen.

Obviously, the people of the Derian family had succeeded.

Hearing the persuasive temptation of Nim in the video, where the cause of all events converged on Yi Shuhan, Yi Shuhan felt puzzlement as well as annoyance after listening.

There was also the anger of being used as a bargaining chip and betrayed by someone she trusted.

She had been too stupid, stepping step by step into the warm trap set by people with impure motives, and even implicating her family and the person she loved.

She always knew she was an Omega with exceptional natural talent and excellent Mental Power. She always knew she was the only daughter of the Yi family head, the apple of her father's eye, and also knew she was the heir her father strongly recommended. From the beginning, Yi Wen had appeared respectful and submissive, behaving appropriately and knowing when to advance or retreat, making her completely forget the discrimination and playful exploitation of Omegas by most Alphas in this era, which she had learned about since childhood.

Having no interaction with people from the outside world for a long time, she had gradually forgotten what kind of existence she, as an Omega—simply as an excellent Omega—was in the eyes of Alphas.

She was like a delicious meal always jumping around alive in front of the hungry wolf Yi Wen. She hadn't protected herself well; even the consciousness to protect herself in front of Yi Wen had almost been completely obliterated.

A few days ago, after being marked by her Chi Chi by a strange combination of circumstances, she now realized with hindsight that the indescribable feeling she had previously touched upon while beside Yi Wen was the highly aggressive Pheromones of an Alpha.

At this moment, Yi Shuhan was incomparably glad she was the Eldest Miss of the Yi main family. If she were marked, her father could very easily detect it. That was why Yi Wen, whose power was far inferior to her father's, had delayed making a move on her for so long.

Thinking of the marking, Yi Shuhan suddenly recalled some fragments of the confusing passion with Chi Chi a few days ago. Her cheeks burned vaguely. The pleasurable feeling at the moment of being marked was simply...

Sensing the strange restless sensation in her body again, Yi Shuhan hurriedly retracted her thoughts. Then her body stiffened slightly. She had already been marked, and she would definitely have to see her father and mother in a few days. Although she had been an adult for several years, she, who didn't have much experience in this kind of thing, still felt somewhat shy.

Immediately following that, she heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the one who marked her was the person she loved. And it was precisely because of Chi Chi's appearance that Yi Wen's plan was disrupted.

She had received too much shocking news today. Even Yi Shuhan, with her excellent Mental Power, felt a burst of mental exhaustion.

After finishing the last communication records and seeing the two words "Done it" sent by Yi Wen to Nim Derian a few days ago, on the day Chi Chi set off, Yi Shuhan applied an ice towel handed over by the robot assistant to her face to calm down.

Closing all interfaces and letting the operation screen enter a dormant state, Yi Shuhan realized it was already broad daylight outside. She went to the rest room to take a look at her Chi Chi again. Seeing Chi Chi breathing evenly and sleeping peacefully on her large bed, and feeling that Chi Chi was lying alive in her small base right in front of her, her heart felt a bit better.

Returning to the operation screen, she checked "Blue Star Haitian" again. It was the top clubhouse on the Main Star. Those qualified to enter were all children of major aristocratic families. Just having money wasn't enough; the family background and strength had to be substantial.

As an outstanding figure of the younger generation of the Yi family, Yi Wen naturally had that qualification. Following behind the Yi family head and the Yi family heir all year round, he didn't lack money either. He certainly knew how to enjoy himself.

She planned to wait and see if Yi Wen's terminal would receive any more meeting messages. It would be best to catch both groups of people together.

Now, mentally exhausted, she needed to rest well for a while.

Yi Shuhan lay on the operation screen and rested with her eyes closed. When she fell into a deep sleep, the robot assistant brought a small blanket from the old place and covered Yi Shuhan with it, then returned to the corner to stay quietly.

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